Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Randeep Somel explores an important issue pertaining to how climate targets will be reached. This November, world leaders, climate activists, and business executives have been gathering in Sharm El-Sheikh for COP27, the UN’s annual Climate Change Conference. Enabling solutions: Shrinking your digital carbon footprint.

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2024

Major new analysis from the Potsdam Institute warns climate impacts through to 2050 could do significantly more economic damage than previously expected How bad could it get? One of the biggest uncertainties surrounding climate change is precisely how severe climate impacts could prove to be.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Research by DeSmog shows that Porter has a track record of publicly casting doubt on established science on human-caused climate change. Porter’s blog repeatedly cites the work of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate science denial group.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Majority of risk experts and the general public in the UK view climate change as the number one threat facing society, ahead of future pandemics and economic instability.

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Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

Climate change and global warming are issues that define our times. It is incumbent upon all of us to alter our lifestyles to address this threat, and it is the responsibility of every government to do everything they can to reverse this trend, in spite of the temporary but necessary cost to quality of life.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

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 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial temperatures — the target named in the Paris Agreement that would prevent the most catastrophic impacts of climate change.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

MPs on Parliament's Work and Pensions Committee (WPC) have urged the government to lead a global push to align pension schemes with climate goals when it hosts world leaders in Glasgow next month for the COP26 UN climate summit.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Global mean surface temperatures reached 1.2C above the pre-industrial average in 2020, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned in its recent report that Earth could hit 1.5C Scientists believe that stabilising our warming world’s temperature at 1.5C in as little as a decade.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The data represent a tripling of global net zero ambition in just eight months since the green NGO launched the tracker, which highlights Germany ($3.7tn GDP), California ($2.8tn GDP), the UK ($2.6tr GDP), and Tokyo ($1.9tr GDP) as among the largest economies around the world which have net zero targets in place.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2022

New report from the Coalition for Negative Emissions argues urgent action is needed to expand carbon removals market - and businesses have a critical role to play. Most importantly, delivering net zero emissions through carbon offsets risks distracting from the need to slash emissions at source.

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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 1, 2021

The year 2020 will be remembered as a year in which humanity weathered a dangerous and fast-spreading disease, costing companies and governments billions in management and recovery. Positive and Negative Impacts of the Pandemic on the Environment. Effects on Ecological Factors. However, not all outcomes have been positive.

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2021

In 1988, when the changing climate was referred to as global warming , it seemed obvious that the main issue with a changing climate was that the planet was getting hotter. The losses will especially be felt in the southern states from California to Florida according to a study published in Climatic Change.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The documents, which were produced by the industry-funded Global Meat Alliance (GMA), emphasise the meat lobby’s desire to promote “our scientific evidence” at the summit, which will run from November 30 through to December 12. rise in temperature that risks tipping the world into irreversible climate breakdown.

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Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2020

$1bn 'Ambition Zero Carbon' aims for zero carbon emissions across global operations by 2025, and ensure entire value chain is carbon negative by 2030. AstraZeneca announced plans to develop propellants with near-zero Global Warming Potential (GWP) at the World Economic Forum this week.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

As we are learning, in climate change as in pandemics, the costs of a global crisis are bound to vastly exceed those of its prevention. We know that animal agriculture is now recognized as a leading cause of global warming. We can evolve business (and cities, governance and individuals) to be and do better.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Turning down a client contract to run a major PR campaign for an oil major that consistently has lobbied against climate action and has not even signaled its intention to be part of a future net-zero economy is one thing, but more clients from carbon-intensive industries do not fall quite so easily into the climate laggard category.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

New report warns climate change is putting humanity at greater risk from infectious diseases and food insecurity. The 2021 Lancet Countdown report has today warned the impacts of climate change pose increasing health risks and are exacerbating existing health and social inequalities. We have a choice.

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Business Green

JUNE 9, 2020

The government must now address the market for all the low carbon energy technologies of the future, including hydrogen and CCUS, argues Siemens UK & Ireland CEO Steve Scrimshaw. Of course, the pandemic means we're not dealing with 'business as usual' and it's right that the government's time is dedicated to this unprecedented issue.

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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. By better understanding and preparing for the coming changes, the UK can prosper, protecting its people, its economy, and its natural environment.

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Business Green

JUNE 13, 2021

The government is right. The way we heat our homes needs to change if we are to reach net zero. But getting those emissions down to zero is shaping up to be one of the most politically difficult parts of the government's decarbonisation agenda. He is right, though, to raise the issue of cost. Sticks without carrots won't work.

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2020

"There is a growing urgency in Europe and globally to identify solutions that address the negative consequences companies and institutions face due to climate change," said Reid Steadman, global head of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) indices at S&P Dow Jones Indices.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2020

We are entering socio-economic times of high risk and risk mitigation practices to mitigate the impact of human influenced climate change. The emergence of environmental buzzwords started out with global warming, then became climate change. Business is constantly changing to meet consumer demands.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Landmark IPCC report provides wave of stark warnings, but stresses that rapidly putting the global economy on course to net zero emissions by 2050 could hugely reduce the escalating impacts that will result from a warmer world. The report concludes that the world's average surface land temperature currently stands at around 1.1C

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

New report from PwC models a tiered carbon pricing framework proposed by the IMF earlier this year and finds it would broadly pay for itself, while slashing carbon emissions. Bob Moritz, global chairman of PwC, said setting an ICPF "could make a significant contribution to tackling global warming by accelerating emissions reductions".

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

But it is also a handbook for how businesses, governments, and investors can work together to avert the worst case scenarios faced by civilisation, setting out the levers that need to be pulled to secure a more liveable and prosperous future for humanity. Delivering on the Paris Agreement's goal of 1.5C

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

That is the top line conclusion of a new report published this morning by the Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI), which analyses nearly 170 companies working in carbon-intensive industrial sectors, including mining giant Rio Tinto, packaging company DS Smith, chemicals powerhouse BASF, cement manufacturer LaFarge Holcim, and steel major Tata Steel.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

As industry is one of the biggest drivers of global climate change and is entirely dependent on the earth’s resources for production, it is important for business leaders and employees to understand the Anthropocene, its implications, and what it means for the future of sustainability and industry. . The Holocene.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Carbon capture and sequestration have often been considered technologies of last resort. As emissions keep rising and global carbon budgets decline, it is becoming increasingly apparent that if we are to stave off the worst of climate change we must deploy and scale these desperate remedies as quickly as possible.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

There are many urgent takeaways from the Climate Change Committee's stark UK climate preparedness assessment - here are the top five. This needs to change," the CCC said. everyone), but most immediately for all levels of government and all sizes of business. Here are some of the top takeaways.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The current supply chain of biomass giant Drax “makes the impacts of climate change worse”, a new study has claimed. Currently bioenergy is classified as a renewable energy source by the UK government, under the premise that it uses trees which can be replanted to recapture carbon and is therefore considered carbon neutral.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

And, as the film's director Adam McKay explained in a recent podcast with Volts David Roberts , no metaphor is ever going to be exactly right, especially for something as complicated as climate change, but a comet that the world chooses to ignore is not the worst parallel for our current predicament. billion and 3.6 And it gets worse.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The news comes as the government begins issuing a new round of drilling licences, in a move slammed by climate campaigners. The International Energy Agency warned last year that there can be no new oil and gas projects if the world is to reach net zero emissions by mid-century to avoid catastrophic climate change.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As a result, the industry accounts for roughly 8 percent of annual carbon dioxide emissions, as well as a toxic soup of air pollutants. Steelmakers worldwide are facing mounting pressure from government regulators and consumers to decarbonize operations. Doing so is essential to limiting global warming to 1.5

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Greentown Labs

JULY 16, 2020

Leading climatetech innovation organizations launch multi-year initiative to accelerate the trillion-dollar carbon-to-value market. According to scientists, reducing greenhouse gas emissions alone will not be enough to keep global warming below an average of two degrees Celsius globally. Newswise — New York City, N.Y.,

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2022

Globally, zero emission capable vehicles made up 13 per cent of total vehicle sales during the final quarter of last year, or nine per cent if plug-in hybrids are excluded, according to the BNEF analysis, which was commissioned by the UK government. The window for us to avoid the worst impacts of global warming is rapidly closing.

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Business Green

JUNE 26, 2020

Plus all the top green business news from around the world this week, including Denmark's new climate law and the Australian mining sector's net zero pledge. IETA sets out net zero carbon trading vision. global warming ambition, as its members predicted EU prices would average €32 per tonne over the next decade.

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

Polls consistently show significant public concern over the climate crisis and a strong desire for action, but are the right questions being asked? If climate change is - among many, many other struggles - a battle for hearts and minds, then it is one that has in recent years seen momentum finally turning in a greener direction.

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