Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

To achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, countries will likely need to set hard limits on the extraction of fossil fuels in addition to supporting the deployment of clean energy. 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

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Business Green

APRIL 5, 2022

The research follows a a stark OECD report in February which underscored how plastic pollution has impacted almost every corner of the planet's oceans and land, with knock-on impacts on food systems, water resources, human health, and biodiversity given only a fraction of plastics produced each year are recycled or reused.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2019

A number of indigenous groups have called for emergency support to stop the governments of Ecuador and Peru from expanding new fossil fuel, mining, and large-scale industrial development in one of the critical headwaters regions of the Amazon River. billion metric tons of CO2 in the underground fossil fuel reserves.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

As DeSmog has reported , Jones Day’s clients have included major energy companies such as Chevron and Southern Company, as well as private equity firms with fossil fuel holdings, like Goldman Sachs and Carlyle Group. Boyd is calling on states to reform or leave these treaties.

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Business Green

MAY 4, 2022

Danish energy firm is aiming to achieve a 'net positive' impact on biodiversity across all of its new projects from 2030. Coral reefs harbour the highest biodiversity of any ecosystem globally, in addition to supporting the livelihoods and sustenance of over 500 million people worldwide.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2022

Chemicals are present in the deepest parts of the ocean and in all manner of marine biota, and concentrations of many of the most dangerous chemicals in the marine environment continue to rise. Much more research is needed to determine the damage that many chemicals inflict on the marine environment. A coordinated approach.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Nature markets are based on the sale of environmental ‘credits’ such as carbon credits, biodiversity units, nutrient credits, and natural flood management payments. It published its Nature Markets Framework in May and is working with the British Standards Institute to develop robust standards for green financing.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

As we navigate the intricacies of biomass conversion processes and their impacts on our planet, we encroach upon a dialogue pivotal for the present and future of energy consumption. Biomass energy harnesses organic matter, including wood, agricultural crops, and waste by-products, as fuel.

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Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We are thrilled to share that there are over 120 abstracts, talks, and presentations on the AGU schedule that leverage Planet data or tools. Researchers from WattTime estimated fossil fuel power plant CO2 emissions using proxy signals, like water vapor plumes, identified in PlanetScope data. SkySat image of Malé in the Maldives.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2021

As much as $8.1tr global investment in protecting, conserving and restoring the natural world is required over the next 30 years in order to tackle the interlinked climate, biodiversity and land degradation crises, with annual finance needing to triple by 2030, according to the UN-led study.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Major new reports warn governments are failing to seize the huge benefits that would flow from major green stimulus plans and fossil fuel subsidy reform. In contrast, setting fossil fuel prices that reflect their true cost would cut global carbon emissions by over a third, according to the IMF.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Climate targets were under threat from all sides with climate science deniers, politicians and media platforms exploiting the war in Ukraine and ensuing energy crisis to demand an increase in fossil fuel extraction. At the same time, it was a year in which the case for climate action could not have been clearer.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 1, 2021

C, in line with the Paris Agreement: no investment in new fossil fuel projects, and an end to petrol and diesel cars by 2035. But the vision it presents governments is fantastic in another sense of the word, too. Converting land to biofuel production can have a disastrous impact on both the climate and biodiversity.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2023

It estimates the trial could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 20 per cent in the first year alone compared to using conventional fertiliser, which is typically made from ammonia produced using fossil fuels and also releases nitrous oxide emissions when used.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 3, 2023

Weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine, DeSmog revealed with the Financial Times how UK power plant Drax was at the heart of lobbying efforts to dilute EU biodiversity rules that could limit its supply of wood. Last year, we mapped Canada’s hydrogen lobby and revealed how fossil fuel interests are pushing for blue hydrogen in Canada.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 18, 2019

Approximately twenty years after the publication of UNESCO’s Declaration on the Responsibilities of the Present Generations towards Future Generations, the need to protect the earth for the future generations has finally received a significant consideration in the field of ethics. 2. The Challenge of Climate Change.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

After decades of sowing doubt about climate change and its causes, the fossil fuel industry is now shifting to a new strategy: presenting itself as the source of solutions. But we believe that relying on the fossil fuel industry for “carbon management” will only further delay that transition.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Yet growth in global emissions has also slowed, and the authors of today's report maintain that mobilising the finance, scaling up the technologies, and incentivising behaviour changes needed to drive a "substantial reduction in overall fossil fuel use" remains eminently feasible and - crucially - affordable.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

CCAG also proposes an alternative approach to carbon pricing – one which levies charges at the point of fossil fuel extraction, based on the amount of CO? formed in any process in which it would be used as fuel.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The global recovery from the coronavirus crisis presents an "unmissable opportunity" to invest in nature, deliver net zero emissions by 2050, and reduce the risk of future pandemics, according to a new UN report which attempts to lay out a "comprehensive blueprint for addressing our triple planetary emergency".

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

The 12 organisations which make up the Partners for Inclusive Green Economy have identified 10 core principles they argue should inform national and international recovery efforts, with a strong focus on tackling climate change, biodiversity loss, sustainable development, and inequalities.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

G20 agrees to submit enhanced Paris Agreement plans ahead of COP26, but fails to agree coal power and fossil fuel subsidy phase outs. Under the Paris Agreement, signatories are expected to ramp up their national climate pledges every five years in order to help limit temperature rise to 1.5C goal without the leadership of the G20.

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Business Green

JUNE 15, 2022

Members of the campaign must commit, at a minimum, to halting deforestation and "phasing down and out" all fossil fuels, by restricting the development, financing, and facilitating of new fossil fuel assets. warming trajectory.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 9, 2021

“We now have a much clearer picture of the past, present, and future climate, which is essential for understanding where we are headed, what can be done, and how we can prepare.” ” One central finding of the new analysis is that the Paris accord’s goal of limiting global temperature rise to no more than 1.5°C

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

But in the intervening decades, the region’s rivers were dammed or channeled and the fossil fuel era dawned across Appalachia. struggled to present of itself on climate at the COP26 conference in Glasgow. For one thing, central Appalachia is stunningly high in biodiversity. Mountaintop Mining.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 8, 2024

Investing in BVCM presents a compelling business case for companies seeking to unlock various opportunities while mitigating future risks and safeguarding long-term value. Companies should prioritize actions that can credibly and quantifiably reduce emissions, while continuing essential policy advocacy efforts.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 1, 2022

Tip #3: Minimize fossil fuel usage by data centers. And the majority of this power is generated by the burning of fossil fuels. Effects include erosion, sinkholes, loss of biodiversity, plus contamination of soil, groundwater, and service water. Many data centers used by companies require a massive amount of power.

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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? But this doesn’t include the fossil carbon emitted in the form of methane through the mining and distribution of fossil fuels, which globally is more than the volume of methane emitted by livestock.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 28, 2020

Ultimately the scale of NET deployment needed is reduced to near zero if policies are adopted that aggressively drive the reduction of fossil fuel emissions while simultaneously ramping up efficiency and clean energy technologies such as wind and solar. GtCO 2 removed per year – up to about a quarter of present day annual emissions.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

However, ESG funds lawyer at Linklaters, Julia Vergauwen, noted that the European Commission has delayed its decision with regard to classifying its TSC for more controversial industries - such as fossil fuel gas and nuclear - and their role in the climate transition.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2022

It concluded that all of the popular schemes were failing to adequately address environmental harms, such as rising waste levels, 'fast fashion' resource use, and use the industry's reliance on fossil fuels. The fashion sector, however, appears to be particularly under the microscope at present.

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Business Green

APRIL 3, 2023

The escalating climate threats more companies are dealing with are also putting the spotlight on other massive, interconnected economic risks—biodiversity loss, water pollution and scarcity, deforestation--that threaten to undermine business operations and supply chains. The bet that new fossil fuel investments are a viable runway.

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GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

The present moment presents an extraordinary opportunity for public engagement around a different agenda for the future. On balance, this presents more good news than bad, but this development will prove highly disruptive as even fewer young people will finance the pensions of the retired. Innovation marches forward.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This string of new infrastructure will enable the country to buy enough liquefied natural gas (LNG) from producers such as Qatar and the United States to cover up to a third of its present-day needs, officials say. It’s fossil fuel madness.”. We need to restrict this fossil fuel lock-in – at all costs.”.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

DeSmog recently reported how HealthforAnimals, a Belgium-based organization representing some of the world’s biggest animal pharmaceutical companies, presented “misleading” information to back their current business models. Agriculture’s role in fuelling the climate and biodiversity crisis has become increasingly apparent in recent years.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

BASF’s wine tasting is just one example of many such pandemic-style lobbying efforts by the European agriculture industry since the EU has attempted to pass sweeping new policies to combat climate change through measures included in its “Green Deal,” first presented in December 2019.

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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2020

Too many major power companies are still blocking rather than embracing the transition away from fossil fuels, writes Forum for the Future's Will Dawson. Yet the World Benchmarking Alliance's latest look at the fifty most influential power companies shows that most of the sector is planning to increase use of fossil fuels.

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