Business Green

APRIL 17, 2024

But what is less clear is how this global warming will translate into increased weather extremes and how these extremes will then impact hugely complex human infrastructure, agricultural systems, and the economies they underpin. However, the study remains beyond sobering.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Global wildlife populations fell 69% between 1970 and 2018, according to the World Wide Fund For Nature (formerly World Wildlife Fund) in its Living Planet Report. Africa recorded significant wildlife and biodiversity loss at 66%; Asia-Pacific noted a 55% loss. The role of businesses and consumers.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Insects fared better in the Amazonian region, Africa, Western Australia, and Eastern and Central Europe, while achieving less protected area coverage in North America and South and Southeast Asia. There are more than 200,000 protected areas around the globe , including marine protected areas.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

of global warming by 2100 at best. and upwards of 3C of warming. of global warming, which marks an improvement on 3C+ projections from a few years ago but would still blow a hole in the Paris Agreement's target of 1.5C of warming, just ahead of the US and Japan which are both on a 2.8C of warming.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

While unchecked global warming could knock 7.6 per cent off GDP, net zero could boost global GDP by 3.8 Climate change could cost the global economy $178tr over the next 50 years if left unchecked, amounting to a 7.6 per cent, according to Deloitte.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Food production, processing, packaging, and transportation all have an impact on global warming. According to a poll of 6,000 customers in North America, Europe, and Asia, 72% of respondents are already actively purchasing more environmentally friendly goods.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 4, 2019

Earth Science 2019 is a global platform to discuss and learn about ecology, geosciences and geology, geophysics, atmospheric sciences, extreme weather, global warming, pollution, and the effects of climate change on ecosystem. Scholars from all over the world will attend and present their respective scientific research.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Globally, jobs in the energy sector are projected to increase from 18 million today to 26 million in 2050 if the world cuts carbon to meet the well-below 2°C target set by the Paris Agreement , according to a model created by researchers in Canada and Europe. The new study was published earlier this summer in One Earth.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 23, 2019

In February hot temperatures sparked wildfires across western Europe and in April there were wildfires in Scotland, Norway and Sweden According to the Emergency Management Service of the EU agency Copernicus in the first three months of 2019, there were unprecedented number of wildfires in Europe that burned 74,482 hectares.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 31, 2020

“This research highlights a worrying gap between what is needed to stop global warming, and what actions are being taken by the utility sector,” said Galina Alova, study author and researcher at Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, in a statement. The remaining 15 percent prioritized either coal or natural gas.

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2022

The firm also said it would build new factories and facilities to meet US Green Building Council's LEED program standards, including recently-announced investments in the US, Europe and Asia. The impact of climate change is an urgent global threat," said Pat Gelsinger, chief executive officer.

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Grist

MARCH 3, 2022

Climate change is already having “widespread, pervasive impacts” on people everywhere in the world, a new report from the scientific panel says, due to the warming that has occurred so far — roughly 1.09 Global warming doesn’t only affect humans by changing the weather and melting the ice caps, the report warns.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 16, 2020

Despite the warning signs, progress to limit global warming remains slow and inadequate. Limiting global warming to 1.5°C As Greta Thunberg declared at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos in January 2020, “Our house is on fire.” How can solutions be scaled up to meet internationally agreed goals?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 17, 2022

In Europe, the report notes that the Danish Government has committed €5bn for CCS over 10 years and the Dutch Government has more than doubled the SDE++ program since its launch to €13bn. Government policy must be met with private capital to unlock the full potential of CCS and limit global warming to 1.5

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Business Green

JANUARY 25, 2021

Last year saw global behemoths such as Amazon, Facebook, and Ford join the scheme, among 370 companies that signed up over the course of the year at an average rate of 31 per month. Additionally, an increasing number of companies are setting targets aligned with limiting global warming to 1.5C aligned scope 1 and 2 targets.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Several speakers highlighted how a large cause for declining US emissions since the early 2000s has been switching from dirty coal to “clean” natural gas, and that such coal-to-gas switching could enable further emission reductions in Asia. carbon budget , which is necessary to avoid the worst of planetary warming.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

New analysis warns national climate targets for 2030 point to dangerous warming of 2.4C, as rush for LNG capacity risks further undermining chances of meeting goals of Paris Agreement. Projected global warming in 2100 based on national climate targets announced to date remains at a worryingly high 2.4C

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 12, 2020

Yet despite the warning signs, progress to limit global warming remains slow and inadequate. New for 2020 “Limiting global warming to 1.5°C From scorched landscapes to melting ice caps and polluted oceans, the impacts of climate change are clear and immediate. Can the disruption of covid-19 accelerate progress?

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Recent extreme weather across the globe is showing us how rapidly the climate is changing in an increasingly warming world. Heatwaves are scorching Europe, the United States, North Africa, Siberia, and some parts of the Middle East and China. The world was silent because it was in global south. Have a tip or idea? Get in touch.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 2, 2023

Given the global warming potential of methane, its use in this process would reduce the direct emissions from slurry lagoons and tanks, significantly reducing the carbon footprint of an average dairy farm.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Market leader Asia accounted for 63 per cent of the world's total renewable energy jobs in 2019, with China alone accounting for 38 per cent at 4.4 Market leader Asia accounted for 63 per cent of the world's total renewable energy jobs in 2019, with China alone accounting for 38 per cent at 4.4 In Europe, which had 1.3

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2021

Participants held up banners criticising Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak for being "missing in action" in the fight against carbon emissions and global warming while others held giant alarm clocks to show that time is running out to stop the advancing climate crisis.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Take the record-breaking temperatures that swept over Europe last summer, sending the thermostat soaring above 100 degrees F across the continent, resulting in more than 61,000 deaths. And more heat will come, bringing parts of Mexico’s coasts and more of South Asia into the danger zone.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In its comment to DeSmog, the AHDB spokesperson also used GWP* to claim that “methane from UK livestock since 1990 has not caused global warming”. Livestock experts with a focus on the Global South have repeatedly stressed the importance of including a range of perspectives in discussions of livestock pollution.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

That is equivalent to all the gas used in Europe's power sector and more than enough to ease today's market tightness. "At For example, it shows that significant emissions were confirmed in Texas and parts of Central Asia, with Turkmenistan alone responsible for one-third of large emissions events seen by satellites in 2021.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Between 1969 and 2019, global seaweed production increased to 35.8 Asia dominates the market with 97.4 The birth of what is essentially a new industry (outside of Asia anyway) doesn't happen overnight, and investors don't always have a lot of patience. million metric tons from 2.2 Then there's the issue of money.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

All in all, whichever pathway is taken, monumental changes are needed to the global energy system over the next decade in order to avert the most catastrophic levels of global warming. At present, around 83 per cent of primary energy is currently fossil fuels, while wind and solar PV account for just 1.3

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2020

The A-list firms hail from 22 countries around the world, although the list is heavily weighted towards Europe, North America and Asia. At the COP25 global UN climate change summit last month, for example, 117 companies pledged to align their business with 1.5C

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

The list of extreme, tragic, and very costly weather events this year — record heat in Europe, hail in June in Mexico , record floods in Nebraska , endless Australian bush fires , and epic destruction from storms in Mozambique and the Bahamas – was shocking. But it’s now not an annual story; it’s permanent. degrees Celsius.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Concerning the meat industry’s argument that some pastures cannot be used for other forms of agriculture, University of Oxford researcher Marco Springmann argues that “if everybody were to make the argument that ‘our pastures are the best and should be used for grazing’, then there would be no way to limit global warming.”

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Business Green

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The huge economic and human costs of global warming have been hammered home in a new report by the charity this week, which highlights the extent of the damage caused by how climate-related floods, windstorms, tropical cyclones and fires in 2020. It is vital that 2021 ushers in a new era of activity to turn this tide. "In

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

The performance was driven by significant growth in Asia where 141GW of new capacity was added in China alone, helping to take Asia's total renewables capacity to 1.63TW of capacity.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2021

After coal-fired power generation fell in both 2019 and 2020, it is now expected to jump by nine per cent during the current calendar year to reach an all-time high of 10,350 terawatt-hours worldwide, posing a serious threat to the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C, the IEA warned.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Vietnam is a dynamic, emerging economy at the heart of South East Asia," he added. But she also stressed that the EU welcomed "global clean tech race" that was now underway. "It Europe was the first continent to set out a path towards climate neutrality. A global clean tech race has started.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

That report concluded that we have already reached average global warming of 1.1 And they could see the effects of our warming world around them. Last year we saw devastating floods across Asia and Europe. degrees, that human activity is unequivocally to blame, and that we were on track to breach the 1.5

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Leaders of the world's biggest economies have today signalled their continued support for an ambitious outcome from the tense on-going climate negotiations at the COP27 Summit, emphasising their support for capping global warming at 1.5C, ramping up climate finance, cutting back on coal power, and phasing out fossil fuel subsidies.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

With the Northern sea routes available all year, costs for transporting goods (especially from Asia to Europe and the U.S.) Just to give an example, for journeys between Europe and Asia, the Northern Sea Route can already be two to three weeks faster than the Suez Canal. This leads to even more another feedback loop!

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