Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

C present-day global warming relative to pre-industrial times. Due to its climate and indirect health impacts (methane is a precursor for ozone which is an air pollutant that damages human health and crops), methane mitigation has recently become a global policy priority.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 28, 2022

The aim is to convert the biomethane into usable energy either as heat, electrical power or as a replacement for fossil-derived gas fuels, including for use as a transport fuel. C rise already experienced in global temperatures. Reducing methane emissions to fight global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2021

Developing carbon capture and storage (CCS) capacity is a key feature of the UK’s strategy to reduce emissions and hit its climate targets. But, as the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis’ energy finance analyst Bruce Robertson told DeSmog, even they “haven’t been able to get it right”. . Gorgon is led by U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

s investigative journalism arm, and the British Channel 4 News this summer exposing how the oil giant and lobby groups such as the American Petroleum Institute seed doubt about climate change and undermine legislation to stop global warming. This conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2023

According to the World Bank, agricultural development is one of the most powerful tools to end extreme poverty, boost shared prosperity, and feed a projected 9.7 These challenges are of course exacerbated by climate change. The food and beverage sector is therefore seeking to lower climate risk in its supply chains.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

When you’ve followed the evolving research of a leading clean energy expert and become a supporter of his vision for a global clean energy transition, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to crack open Mark Jacobson’s 2021 book release, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything.

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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 1, 2021

Many economic sectors had slowed down or shuttered entirely due to lowered demand and health measures. While the global economic slowdown reduced major drivers of climate change around the world, the true picture of the pandemic’s effect on our planet’s resources and ecological health is somewhat more nuanced.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2022

That’s the message delivered on Tuesday by public health experts from the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health, a high-profile panel of scientific experts. There’s not a whole lot being done about it,” said Rachael Kupka, executive director of the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution and one of the report’s coauthors.

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The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 7, 2021

We’re all increasingly aware of the dramatic consequences of climate change and how humanity’s actions are directly having a visible, tangible effect on the health of our world. It Shows Responsibility and Humanity.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Four years after the world’s governments signed the Paris Agreement, thousands of people are taking to the streets in school strikes and Extinction Rebellion protests calling for greater action to meet its target of keeping global warming as close to 1.5 Impacts of climate change are all around. degrees as possible.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

All the top reaction from leading figures across business, politics, academia, think tanks and green groups to the CCC's latest assessment of the UK's preparedness for climate change. A detailed, effective action plan that prepares the UK for climate change is now essential and needed urgently.".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The global net zero transition risks being "delayed by decades" unless there is far greater collaboration between governments and businesses to accelerate the roll out of the key low carbon technologies required to deliver deep cuts in emissions before 2030, a major UN-backed report today warns.

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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2022

Two reports out this week have highlighted how developments across 2021 are set to catalyse policy and technological trends that could catalyse the retreat of fossil fuels across the global energy system. Hopes that energy-related emissions could peak in the next few years feel more fragile than ever.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2021

The research, which was carried out by staff from Defra and BEIS alongside academics from Cardiff and Bath Universities, focused on public awareness and perceptions of climate change and the net zero transition, and saw a representative sample of the UK public quizzed on a range of questions last autumn.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

While there’s reason to have hope for the future with multiple vaccines promising the end of the pandemic, we unfortunately have an arguably larger global crisis looming. Even during the past administration, state- and local-level climate pledges across the country continued to grow , with two-thirds of Americans (across party lines!)

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

By the second day, the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department and the county’s Air Pollution Control District had issued an air-quality warning, and local libraries and nonprofits urged residents to protect themselves from the harmful smoke and ash, offering free N95 respirator masks. According to Emily Williams, a Ph.D.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

India Gate, New Delhi: Residents of the city face pollution levels with a health impact estimated to be equivalent to smoking more than two packs of cigarettes a day (image credit: Amit kg / Shutterstock.com). However, these gases are not the only emissions that should be a cause for concern.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2021

This story is part of a collaboration between DeSmog and Public Health Watch. Castillo clarified that the “barbecue” was a ground flare at the $10 billion manufacturing complex — a joint venture between ExxonMobil and Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) known as Gulf Coast Growth Ventures (GCGV). Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 12, 2020

But carbon is also moving constantly through the global economy, which historically has been powered by burning fossil fuels for energy. As a result, carbon dioxide (CO2) and other emissions have risen dramatically since the industrial revolution, presenting a daunting array of challenges for people, planet and prosperity.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

As such, in 2022 81% of S&P 500 companies reported their own emissions (scope 1), and the emissions of the electricity they bought (scope 2). In addition, globally, over 22,000 companies disclosed environmental data – with a focus on business emissions – to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) in the same year.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

By the late 1970s, the petroleum industry had spent about two decades collecting information from their own scientists and outside experts and knew that burning fossil fuels would create catastrophic climate change. And how were humans causing this change? Catch up on part one. Document 7: 1981. Available at ClimateFiles.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In the first wave of venture green technology investing, firms sunk billions of dollars into companies whose success depended on replacing entire industrial ecosystems. Think thin-film solar and biofuels, the two “big bad bets” that Shayle Kann, partner at Energy Impact Partners, identified in a 2020 Interchange conversation.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 30, 2024

His work underpins our understanding of manmade climate change. was funded in part by the fossil fuel industry via a private foundation — and that in 1954 this foundation was informed of the potential impact of manmade carbon dioxide emissions on both the climate and human civilization.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2020

BRE announces most significant update to leading sustainable buildings standard in five years. Leading sustainable buildings standard BREEAM has been given its most significant update in five years, with a greater onus placed on climate change adaptation and mitigation measures, as well as the social value delivered by new developments.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

A new league table has highlighted how the global electric vehicle market is continuing to rapidly expand, with China seeing sales of zero emission models top three million units last year. The new analysis from electric vehicle subscription service Elmo confirms that China remains the largest EV market by sales, with nearly 3.4

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

On a recent episode of the Fox Business show “Mornings with Maria,” American Petroleum Institute CEO and President, Mike Sommers , said that “the most important environmental movement in the world is the American oil and gas industry.”. “A Some researchers have called this “fossil fuel solutionism.” . Learn how his work is shaping our future.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

An historic climate summit in Nairobi last week underscored the need for drastic changes in climate finance and clean energy development. Leaders sought to position the continent’s renewables potential and mineral resources as climate investment opportunities and get nations on the same page ahead of COP28.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Suddenly business sustainability is about climate change, ending poverty, and achieving gender equality. Without this ice cap, global warming will accelerate as less sun is reflected out into space. Great expanses of permafrost are projected to thaw, again accelerating the rate of climate change.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

And then there are the big picture climate threats that poorly managed land can rapidly amplify. As the World Resources Institute points out, "land is critically important - both as a source of greenhouse gas emissions and as a climate change solution". SDG 15 to the rescue?

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 12, 2020

But carbon is also moving constantly through the global economy, which historically has been powered by burning fossil fuels for energy. As a result, carbon dioxide (CO2) and other emissions have risen dramatically since the industrial revolution, presenting a daunting array of challenges for people, planet and prosperity.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

An ice-free Arctic might be a boon for the shipping industry in the short term, but comes at potential catastrophic cost to our economy in the form of environmental disaster and political upheaval. As long as there is ice in a body of water, any surrounding heat energy is carried towards the ice to make it melt.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Moreover, the people that depend on it are getting access to health, education, food security, and sustainable livelihoods. Deforestation and forest degradation are the second leading causes of global warming, responsible for about 15 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions. Rare wildlife is returning.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2022

Soon after taking office in January 2021, President Joe Biden mentioned Cancer Alley by name before signing executive actions meant to tackle climate change, create jobs, and restore scientific integrity to government agencies, a move that Grijalva praised on Saturday. Biden needs to do more to protect us from climate change.”

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

This blog reveals why we are addicted, and provides a possible methadone that is needed to transform the transportation, buildings and industry sector. This is a review of an article from the Financial Times , which first appeared in February 2020 just before the fossil fuel industry had its worst year ever. Comment down below.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

The video and anecdote raised a smile at a time when the world is facing its biggest collective health and economic crisis since at least the end of the Second World War. We have a framework for action - the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. The fear is that it won't.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 12, 2020

Donald Trump is the world's most powerful advocate of the industry that is at the heart of the climate crisis. It is an irrefutable scientific fact that if we are to minimize global warming we must stop burning coal, oil and gas. The fossil fuel industry has known this for decades.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2021

The data is an ominous sign that the world is badly off track in terms of reaching its climate goals. Human activity is driving climate change,” Colm Sweeney, assistant deputy director of the Global Monitoring Lab, a division within NOAA, said in a statement. Left: Trend from 2017-2021. Right: Trend from 1983-2021.

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