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. It is crucial to develop national policies to reduce food waste.

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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. The time for debate is over," he said. "We The data bears that out.

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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 of warming.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 17, 2019

With a national average of 232 people/km2, Vietnam has the highest population density in Southeast Asia after Singapore. The Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN) Index ranks Vietnam as the 89 th least ready to adapt to climate change. Government Crafted many Policies to Combat Climate Change.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The researchers set out to estimate how much of the world’s fossil fuel reserves must remain in the ground in order to limit global warming to 1.5 This means that global oil and gas production must decline 3 percent on average every year until 2050. “I degrees Celsius (2.7

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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. Links between food systems, forests and biodiversity.

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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

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Business Green

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Thanks in part to strengthening government policies around the world, CCS is increasingly commercially competitive across the full value chain, from capture technologies through to storage," he explained. "We 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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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 16, 2020

Despite the warning signs, progress to limit global warming remains slow and inadequate. Now, as the world grapples with the disruption of covid-19—a crisis that at once threatens climate action and reinforces the need for collective efforts—businesses and governments are realising that they can’t simply return to normal.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

global warming scenario. The benchmark is underpinned by eight core indicators, covering company ambition, targets, decarbonisation strategy, governance, capital alignment, climate policy support, just transition, and reporting, with more details on the process expected in the coming months, said Climate Action 100+.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The documents, which were produced by the industry-funded Global Meat Alliance (GMA), emphasise the meat lobby’s desire to promote “our scientific evidence” at the summit, which will run from November 30 through to December 12. It also states that it will hold regular meetings with the Australian government before the summit.

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Biofuels are still expected to play an important part in hitting ambitious climate targets; to keep global warming under 1.5°C Yearly forest fires have spewed plumes of smog across Southeast Asia and put populations of already-endangered species at risk—and there is every indication the fires are getting worse.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

million people now work in renewable energy worldwide, but IRENA warns strong policy action essential to sustain growth in the wake of Covid-19. 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 As many as 11.5 million jobs last year.

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 9, 2019

Diffenbaugh and Marshall Burke The study states that the per capita gross domestic product (GDP) for the poorest countries has depreciated by 17-31%, widening the GDP gap between wealthier and poorer nations by 25% more than in a world without global warming.

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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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Green Market Oracle

JULY 12, 2020

Some of the topics that will be covered during Sustainability Week 2020 include: Scaling action on sustainability amid covid-19 / Can bold policies save the world? / Yet despite the warning signs, progress to limit global warming remains slow and inadequate. New for 2020 “Limiting global warming to 1.5°C

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

So yeah, there's a little cheat that we did: we took away the hyper-object of global warming, which is so vast and timeless and slow-moving, and we put in a very concrete event, a comet. This risk increases steeply with rises in global temperature. As McKay put it: "No allegory is a perfect fit.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The world is not remotely on track to limit global warming to 1.5C G20 countries have a critical role in driving action, the report notes, calculating that actions taken by these major economies alone could cap global warming at 1.7C, the lion's share of emissions reduction required to avoid catastrophic levels of warming.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This would mean a doubling of the urban environment and equivalent to 70 million people moving to cities every year for the next three decades, with close to 90 per cent of this increase taking place in Asia and Africa.

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Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

Climate change and global warming are issues that define our times. It is incumbent upon all of us to alter our lifestyles to address this threat, and it is the responsibility of every government to do everything they can to reverse this trend, in spite of the temporary but necessary cost to quality of life.

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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. Numerous policy barriers and technical uncertainties remain, but the simple priority is clear.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

Government and corporate ambitions on climate and sustainability grow. People can debate whether policy proposals like these are unrealistic , but the scale of the thinking is welcome, and it’s pushing the debate. The alternative protein trend is also global, with Hong Kong-based Omni Pork offering vegan substitutes across Asia.

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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 Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Center estimates that governments spent about $120m in 2019 trying to clean Caribbean beaches, with limited success. million metric tons from 2.2

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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. Though policy choices could reduce this figure, and I would add that it includes investments with long term benefits.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

But demand for polluting fossil fuel-derived plastics could peak by 2035 if business and government works together to create a more sustainable plastic supply chain, report finds. of pre-industrial levels," he said.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

Flanders moves to ban gas boilers, GFANZ launches new Asia-Pacific network, and New Zealand steps up efforts to tackle agricultural emissions. China tops EV market league table, as global demand continues to surge. GFANZ launches new Asia-Pacific Network. Flanders pulls forward ban on new gas boilers.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

Boom and Bust: Tracking the Global Coal Plant Pipeline , a new report from Global Energy Monitor, found that “China commissioned 76 percent of the world’s new coal plants in 2020, up from 64 percent in 2019, driving a 12.5 GW (gigawatt) increase in the global coal fleet in 2020.”.

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 15, 2022

An interactive map created by Columbia University researchers showcases where extreme WB temperatures have been recorded, with most of those close or above WB 35ºC occurring in South Asia or the Middle East. Extreme heat is perhaps the most obvious impact to expect from global warming.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. It is the first book in a series on Climate Risk Management, Policy and Governance. This is a companion piece to the the 25 books in The Green Market Oracle's well informed readers list. Climate impacts 2.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

warming between 2030 and 2052. They posit that if people understood the magnitude of the crises, changes in politics and policies might match the gravity of the threat. Compiled by WWF, the report analyses 24 "deforestation fronts" across 29 countries in Asia, Latin America, and Africa.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

It is by now well recognised that nature-based climate solutions can provide more than a third of the carbon reductions needed to keep global warming below 2C, the target agreed at the Paris climate talks. Avoided deforestation is a the mos impactful nature-based solution for achieving the Paris Agreement targets.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 9, 2019

They spend your money to buy a seat at the UN Security Council, and also, they are giving your money to other countries to fight climate change in Asia and build roads in Africa. Actually, we are the only party that will have a foreign policies that is based on our security and prosperity for our country. Jagmeet Singh: Thank you.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Clutch of major reports this week underscore urgent need for investment and policy support for CCUS technologies if the world is to stick to a 1.5C global warming pathway. Action from governments will be essential for establishing a sustainable and viable market for CCUS," explained Dr Fatih Birol, executive director of the IEA.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Following on from COP27, the Government must not only progress our own climate change agenda but continue to promote and strengthen that coordinated global action. That means new and additional finance for developing countries and climate vulnerable communities not just for loss and damage, but for adaptation and mitigation too.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The dust has barely settled on the Conservative Party leadership race and the new UK government has already begun confirming many climate campaigners’ worst fears about the direction Liz Truss intends to take the country in. The government will now simply be covering them through general taxation – a fairer approach, many would argue.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The transition of oil and gas to deep geothermal is one that requires radical transformation of paradigms, business models, and policies. His law firm focuses on business law, German and Polish geothermal law and has clients from Asia and Europe who invest in Germany or Poland. degrees Celsius of global warming.

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Grist

AUGUST 16, 2019

Here’s the gist of the research: Rice may not be super flavorful by itself, but for millions of people, particularly in Southeast Asia, it’s an important source of both protein and calories. Mentions of climate change have disappeared from government websites. is a “major exporter” of. And in July, the USDA gave its D.C.-based

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