Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The Baltic Sea had the highest levels of microplastics in Europe, double the amount in the Mediterranean?. • The impact of the climate crisis on Europe’s seas was also measured. Microfibres are the type of microplastic that are most frequently eaten by marine species(2) and therefore of concern for ocean biodiversity.

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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.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2022

World leaders are missing the opportunity to achieve deep cuts in emissions by adopting circular economy strategies that reduce demand for resources, it warns, and it identifies a roadmap that it says could help them meet the target of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. But we can only do it by joining forces.

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Business Green

JUNE 20, 2022

Changing climate threatens both winter sports industry and water availability across Europe. If emissions are cut in line with the Paris Agreement, and global warming is constrained to 1.5-2C, Mountains at 2,500 metres, for example, would lose 76 days - almost three months of snow per year - if emissions remain high.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2022

It transpired that the reasonable-sounding request to harvest tree stumps was in fact an attempt to roll back EU legislation geared to protect ancient woodlands in Europe. The Global Warming Policy Foundation was another much-visited profile, along with the Net Zero Scrutiny Group and Institute of Economic Affairs.

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Fairsnape

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The airline industry is in the news again with Ryanair being told by the advertising watchdog to stop adverts that claim it to be the greenest airline in Europe, The airline industry has become a focus of both carbon ‘anger and angst’, along with a reawakening of the carbon offsetting debate. And a major contributor are emails.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 4, 2020

Forest dynamics being disrupted like this spells trouble for ecosystem equilibrium and biodiversity. ” Conservationists subsequently admonish that continuing with business as usual will only worsen the conditions that increase tree mortality rates and the accompanying biodiversity crisis. Science Via NPR and PNNL.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Prices of carbon allowances on Europe's emissions trading scheme (ETS) have surged more than 140 per cent over the past year alone , making it more expensive than ever for large power plants, industrial facilities and inter-European air travel to pollute. COP15: UN biodiversity summit meetings delayed over Omicron fears.

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Rinexii

JUNE 18, 2021

Plan A , a leading carbon emission and ESG management software company, launched a Europe-wide movement against greenwashing. degree global warming limit enshrined in the Paris Climate Agreement. We’re passionate about having an impact on our global climate change challenge. What Plan A is doing to help.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 12, 2021

” Methane is one of the most potent greenhouse gases contributing to global warming and a leading cause of climate change worldwide. within reach.” The steps we’re taking today are greasing the skids for rapid adoption and action by many stakeholders when the first satellites in our constellation are launched in 2023.”.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 28, 2021

Padraic Fogarty, Campaigns Officer at the Irish Wildlife Trust, told DeSmog: “It’s been really disappointing to see how RTÉ are ignoring the climate and biodiversity crisis. Activists are constantly told that ‘we need to bring people with us’ but this is impossible so long as media refuse to engage with the issue.”.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

In the letter Versey stressed that the company wanted to see firms step up action on biodiversity and human rights, as well as climate change. "We Our letter sets out clear expectations as to how they should do this, and what those plans must address across climate impact, biodiversity and human rights.".

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Producers claim their animal feed comes from responsible sources and their livestock use land unsuitable for other uses, all the while supporting biodiversity and capturing carbon from the atmosphere through holistic or other types of “regenerative” grazing.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

The report from the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) argues that contrary to popular opinion the CCUS sector already comprises a "vast portfolio of existing technologies that are economically viable". Italy prices largest ever sovereign green bond. Vestaire Collective announces $216m financing round.

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Grist

MAY 14, 2024

Russia, and Europe. Mutant DNA could potentially escape and contaminate wild species or other crops through cross-pollination, which could pose a threat to biodiversity or human health if the mutations are harmful in any way — a small possibility, but one that plant breeders developing genetically modified organisms , or GMOs, also face.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

In any case, why send wood pellets to Europe to substitute for coal, when North Americans burn more fossil fuels than Europeans do? Some debris from felling must be left on the forest floor to maintain soil condition and biodiversity. Carbon Foregone. Default Firewood. million tonnes, without counting anything burnt domestically.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Let’s not make the same mistake with global warming. In fact, in Europe and the United States, more people die of heat waves than from all other natural disasters combined. Yet extreme heat is progressively posing fatal danger for humanity, particularly for young children and elderly people.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Take a look at the " nine planetary boundaries ", the limits that scientists say humans must respect to keep the planet habitable, and you'll see we're already beyond the safe operating space for four of them: climate change; land-system change; biodiversity; and biogeochemical flows of phosphorus and nitrogen.

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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”. At no point does the industry acknowledge the serious and public health and environmental harms of livestock, which are also the leading cause of biodiversity loss worldwide.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2023

The fast food chain, alongside a number packaging producers and trade associations, wrote to European policymakers at the end of April, demanding a pause to the legislation, which would champion reusable packaging in Europe. The call follows mounting pressure from industry over the past year. Recording on file at DeSmog.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

We believe that the share of natural gas in the global energy mix will only increase. We believe this to apply not only to Europe, but globally too.". The paper published in the journal Science reveals that while reducing fossil fuel use is essential for the world to stand a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

This array of species and surfaces reduces fire intensity and promotes biodiversity. These critics argue that thinning is a ploy to increase commercial logging and that severe wildfires are critical for forest health and biodiversity. Prescribed-fire professionals ignite cultural burns.

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2022

It is an admirable target, and among the most ambitious in the world for an aviation industry the size of the UK's, where air travel is worth around £22bn a year to the economy, and Heathrow Airport is among the busiest in Europe, if not the world. are likely to be determined within the next eight years.

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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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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

That figure could rise further with more dangerous levels of global warming." For example, regenerative agricultural practices typically reduce carbon emissions, as well as improving soil health, biodiversity, and water management.

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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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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. It reveals the behind-the-scenes action that takes place to convert the rhetoric of climate change into the action on the ground that actually reduces the GHG emissions and global warming. Climate impacts 2.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2023

In the UK, and other parts of Europe, EVs are the fastest growing segment of the car market, with numerous countries committed to phasing out fossil fuel vehicle sales altogether within the next decade. In China, EV sales and exports are soaring, while in Norway they already dominate the auto market.

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2022

But as the country reflects on the wildfires and travel chaos caused by yesterday's stifling heat, the candidates are facing growing calls from colleagues and green groups alike to explain precisely how they envisage the ambitious decarbonisation and biodiversity targets being met.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Burning coal is the most polluting way to generate electricity and probably the best way to quickly destroy the world (global warming, anyone?). How biorefineries transform ‘waste’ into all the building blocks of chemical industry The best example I found on transformation in the chemical industry is Chemport Europe.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It was the first time the majority of nations formally recognized the need to control greenhouse gas emissions , which cause global warming that drives climate change. That agreement set the goal of limiting global warming to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 F), and preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

On the domestic front, Lula talked up the huge economic and jobs potential for Brazil from clean technologies such as renewable energy, green hydrogen, and biofuels, as well as sustainable regenerative farming practices that can support rather than damage forests and biodiversity. global warming goal out of reach.

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Business Green

AUGUST 23, 2022

Left unchecked, rising inequality and poverty will lead to worsening social and geopolitical tensions, creating vastly more dysfunctional societies and volatile economies that make it far more difficult to tackle existential threats such as the climate and biodiversity crises.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

A small metal platform at the top, 48 metres above the floor of a peatland rainforest reserve, provides a unique, 360-degree vantage point to witness one of the most biodiverse, carbon-rich habitats left on Earth. Compare that to the hundreds operating across North America, and similar numbers across Europe. Sanders says. "We

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Deforestation and forest degradation are the second leading causes of global warming, responsible for about 15 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions. It addresses not just climate, but also biodiversity, livelihoods, the rights of indigenous peoples, and effective funding. The results are encouraging. Empathy helps.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Rees-Mogg was also the first cabinet minister to endorse the campaign to reverse the UK’s ban on fracking, spearheaded by the backbench Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), the parliamentary wing of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2020

We urge our friends in Europe to use American's vast supply and achieve true energy security.". Her call to arms echoed that from the Business for Nature coalition, which today urged governments around the world to take a series of policy actions to mitigate climate change, promote sustainable growth and halt the decline of biodiversity.

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