DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

percent contribution to global human-induced emissions is a higher share than aviation. Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. rise in temperature that risks tipping the world into irreversible climate breakdown.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

ICVCM said the new Core Carbon Principles (CCPs) have been developed using input from hundreds of organisations throughout the voluntary carbon market and will set out fundamental principles for high-quality credits which deliver real, verifiable emissions reductions based on the latest science and best practices.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

Even more worrying is a fact David Wallace-Wells points out in his best-selling book Uninhabitable Earth : more than half of the carbon emitted in the atmosphere today was emitted in the past 30 years. Two years later we hit a monthly average of 411 parts per million (ppm), with a peak of 414ppm in May 2019. What would change?

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

But the solutions are there On the other hand, the report stresses there is still time to deliver a low-carbon, sustainable economy where climate-resilient development becomes the norm. However, it has not afforded the same "super-deduction" style relief for low-carbon electricity generators facing a windfall tax on profits.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Readers also sought glimmers of hope in this year; you were drawn to stories about COVID-19’s positive impact on air pollution and what the sustainability field can do to be more actively anti-racist and pro-diversity. Planes remain among the most polluting means of transport. Clean beauty and fashion are trendy.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Third, assembly members gave strong support for businesses to make low carbon products that use less energy and materials.". Broadly, members wanted the UK to quickly stop selling the most polluting vehicles on the roads - e.g SUVs - and a two to five per cent reduction in car use each decade.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

It will specifically explore systemic solutions to the climate crisis focusing on clean energy, electrified, transportation, the circular economy, carbon removal and sustainable food systems. Protein is being sourced from an increasingly long list of plants, synthesized from carbon dioxide sucked from the air, and extracted from insects.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Overall, it was more positives than negatives. Even the negatives — the politicization of ESG investing and reporting, the economic downturn, the energy crisis created by the Russian invasion of Ukraine — are temporal phenomena, part of the regular ebbs and flows of economics and policy. It's not just on-road vehicles.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

To me, this was a particularly silly question, as I recently finished writing an article on the future of fossil fuels and oil prices were actually negative for the first time in human history. O boy, was I triggered. We can make exactly the same things and do the same stuff with biomass, it does not have to be made from a fossil source. (6)

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 31, 2020

World Environment Day and Covid-19: Making Time for Nature (Published May 9) We are on the Cusp of the Collapse of Civilization (Published Jul 13) How Supply Chain Resilience Mitigates Against Risks from Pandemics and Climate Change (Published May 14) How the Coronavirus Helps Renewable Energy and Hurts Fossil Fuels (Published May 12) Fifty Shades (..)

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 31, 2020

World Environment Day and Covid-19: Making Time for Nature (Published May 9) We are on the Cusp of the Collapse of Civilization (Published Jul 13) How Supply Chain Resilience Mitigates Against Risks from Pandemics and Climate Change (Published May 14) How the Coronavirus Helps Renewable Energy and Hurts Fossil Fuels (Published May 12) Fifty Shades (..)

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