Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has promised to prioritise low carbon investment in the UK's economic recovery plans , while similar statements from Business Secretary Alok Sharma further indicate the net zero agenda remains a core focus for the government as the country rebuilds from the pandemic. global warming pathway.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2021

Although reflecting the sun to slow global warming has been discussed for over half a century , precious few experiments have actually taken place. Solar geoengineering, after all, isn’t a true climate change “solution”; it doesn’t suck CO2 back out of the sky or reverse the long-term trajectory of warming.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

In the well-publicized book The Uninhabitable Earth , author David Wallace-Wells made the case that panic may be warranted , showing what warming of 3, 4, or more degrees Celsius could look like (and it’s not pretty). But companies also told CDP about an upside: trillions in potential markets for low-carbon tech.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Ridley wrote last year that global heating was “mostly beneficial”. Ridley is an advisor to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate denial group, which is based on Westminster’s Tufton Street. Eleven opinion writers were board members or academic advisors at the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2022

The movie is an allegory for climate change , showing how those with the power to do something about global warming willfully avoid taking action and how those with vested interests can mislead the public. But it also reflects science denial more broadly, including what the world has been seeing with COVID-19.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Several promising carbon reduction measures are combined which are technically viable and based on matured technology, although scaling of existing technologies and cooperation with key partners is required. It originates from Heerema’s ambition to become a carbon neutral offshore contractor. Why Do We Need Zero-Emission Vessels?

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

These included Shell-produced content such as the Time For Energy film, and a book called Energy published the same year. Harmful Wastes” Shell’s knowledge of the risks posed by the build-up of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) from burning fossil fuels can be traced to at least the early 1960s. Shell had other plans.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

More carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel use is released into the environment, increasing from ~25 GtCO2 in 1999 to ~37 GtCO2 in 2019. During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. billion hectares, rising to 4.92

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

More carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel use is released into the environment, increasing from ~25 GtCO2 in 1999 to ~37 GtCO2 in 2019. During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. billion hectares, rising to 4.92

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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). Brandon Lewis – Justice Secretary.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

The largest carbon capture and storage project in the world has been delayed indefinitely due to Covid-19 Summary - Exxon has postponed development of the ‘LaBarge Carbon Capture and Storage’ project in Wyoming due to Covid-19. It contains natural gas, helium, and carbon dioxide.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. Imagine you woke up in 2030 to find that Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia had done little to slow the global warming that cooked the Cascadia region this year.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Peterson is now planting doubt via his podcast and social media posts about the severity and urgency of global warming in the minds of younger generations. They include climate crisis deniers like Judith Curry , Steven Koonin , Richard Lindzen , Alex Epstein and Bjorn Lomborg. That interview has since been viewed more than 1.1

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The cabinet still contains four ministers (one of them promoted) who back in 2012 co-wrote a controversial book called Britannia Unchained, which takes a swipe at “government-subsidised green technology”. One said: “Clear evidence that the ice caps aren’t melting after all, to counter those doom-mongers and global warming fanatics”.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

In 2018 she joined Project 90 by 2030 , an NGO working to cut the country’s carbon emissions by 90 percent by 2030 and in 2019 she joined African Climate Alliance , a pan-African climate justice group. Since then, Bali has announced a law banning single-use plastic, thanks in part to Melati’s efforts.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

They will be joined by David Frost, a Conservative peer and a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , the UK’s most prominent climate science denial group. In 2021, Prins argued that “net zero agenda hands geopolitical control to China,” because green policies “attempt to defy the laws of thermodynamics.”

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Conway, authors of the classic 2010 book Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming , have released a new book placing that doubt machine into a longer arc of U.S. kilowatt output,” according to the book. business and political history.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

Utilities will be front and center in America's efforts to combat global warming, from drastically cutting their own carbon emissions to assisting other sectors, like transportation, in cutting theirs. Such slow growth in one of the country's sunniest states could be seen as a lost opportunity to reduce carbon emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In 2020, Lomborg published a book entitled “False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet”, following on from his 1998 text, “The Skeptical Environmentalist”. Problems of human imagination are not solved by more laws, they’re solved by more humans,” he said.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2022

In my new book, “ Global Burning: Rising Antidemocracy and the Climate Crisis ,” I lay out connections between these industries and the politicians who are both stalling action on climate change and diminishing democracy. for blocking efforts to tackle climate injustice linked to global warming. Trump withdrew the U.S.

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