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Revealed: The Climate-Conflicted Directors Leading the World’s Top Banks

DeSmogBlog

The majority of directors at the world’s biggest banks have affiliations to polluting companies and organisations, a DeSmog investigation shows. There were also significant ties to banks and investment vehicles supporting polluting industries, as well as to thinktanks and lobbying groups with a history of campaigning against climate action.

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Regenerative Notes 6

Fairsnape

Also noted in respect of new books is “Design Studio Vol. The library, a free reference management tool that allows the user to manage bibliographical data and documents such as websites, videos, scientific articles, books and PDFs. Earthhour occurs on the 27th of March. March 9th 2021 24 Retweets 34 Likes. Zoom Regenerative.

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Regen Notes 4

Fairsnape

His new book ‘How To Avoid A Climate Disaster’ is receiving a lot of media coverage. Amidst the US November 2020 elections, legal rights were granted to the Little Wekiva River, Orange County, Florida as having a “right to exist, flow, to be protected against pollution, and to maintain a healthy ecosystem.”.

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How Fossil Fuels Are Saving Lives In Developing Countries

R-Squared Energy

Robert – About a decade ago I was researching a book chapter I was writing, and I learned something new. Every year, almost four million people die from household air pollution, which is mostly coming from cooking. You don’t need to develop vaccines to stop people dying from air pollution. What is not clean about LPG?

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Biomass Lobby Makes ‘False’ Claims to Sway EU Law-makers

DeSmogBlog

European law-makers are due to vote on a revised renewable energy directive next week, part of the EU’s Green New Deal to slash carbon emissions by 55 percent by 2030. They have sent MEPs a version marked with their corrections. non-profit tracking biomass, who authored the comments, told DeSmog.

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Yes, Investing in ESG Pays Off

Andrew Winston

Our economy relies entirely on inputs from the natural world, from the things we grow and dig up to the harder-to-measure benefits, such as providing a free dumping ground in the sky for pollution. Raising the price on carbon or other inputs drives different capital and investment decisions. Follow Andrew on Twitter.

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Direct Air Capture and Storage

Energy Innovation

Direct Air Capture (DAC) of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from the atmosphere is one set of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) strategies that may play a role in mitigating climate change, particularly in the mid to latter part of the 21 st century. C report provided four scenarios (P1-P4 in Figure 1) with increasing roles for negative emissions.