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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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

The voluntary carbon offset market is rocketing, with the Ecosystem Marketplace reporting an annual market value of ~$1 billion in 2021, which was an all-time high. This can make things difficult for business leaders like you, looking to reduce their carbon footprint through purchasing offsets. The rules of carbon offsetting.

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Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

Climate change and global warming are issues that define our times. What does this boy care about climate change? How much is to be invested for climate change? Environments and weather systems the world over are being altered, threatened and destroyed. 4400 crores* (5.6 1 = 1 Indian rupee.

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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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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The research synopsis below comes from AGCI’s John Katzenberger , and a full list of AGCI’s quarterly research updates covering recent climate change research on clean energy pathways is available online at [link]. describing a method used by the company Carbon Engineering, gives a range at $94-235 per tCO 2 (Keith 2018).

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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

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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda that calls for governments and industry to work together to find new solutions to climate change–driven food insecurity. Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period.

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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

JUNE 16, 2021

There are many urgent takeaways from the Climate Change Committee's stark UK climate preparedness assessment - here are the top five. Damaging climate impacts are inevitable, varied and here today. And that is assuming the world can move on to a 2C global warming pathway. Here are some of the top takeaways.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

It provides a steer on the solutions and services that policymakers have - nominally at least - pledged to support as part of their response to the climate crisis, and it provides a helpful summary of the various ways climate change will impact the ecosystems, infrastructure, and workers all businesses rely on.

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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

APRIL 4, 2022

Governments approve landmark report that warns window for action is fast closing to avoid catastrophic climate change, but affordable technologies exist across every sector to slash emissions this decade. The evidence also shows that these lifestyle changes can improve our health and wellbeing.". goal alive.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

Today's letter, which was coordinated by campaign group Mission2020, calls on IEA director Fatih Birol to ensure an energy scenario that shows how quickly emissions must fall to meet the Paris Agreement target of limiting global warming to 1.5C is "central" to the report. The letter argues that giving a robust 1.5C

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Green Tech Challenge

JULY 10, 2019

Ocean acidification has negative effects on sea-life and the ecosystem. We have written, here , that ocean acidification disrupts the growth and productive health of some sea life, the most vulnerable being shellfish larvae, and developing fish. They find themselves having to plan for the changes it is and will continue to bring about.

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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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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The remaining 20 percent represents investments outside of fossil fuels, in areas such as renewables, carbon capture and storage, and research into new green technologies. . The simple fact is that they are not reducing their polluting activities by the significant amount required to limit the worst impacts of global warming.”.

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Business Green

JANUARY 14, 2021

The update follows a turbulent year for the energy industry - and indeed the global economy as a whole - which has suffered severe disruption from the Covid-19 as enforced lockdown measures and industry shut-downs resulted in plummeting demand for energy. carbon budget for 2100 as soon as the early 2030s.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The final deal also included landmark references to the need to reform decision-making at the multilateral development banks and other financial institutions to better tackle climate change. The report notes that that 'nature-negative' financial flows are currently three to seven times larger than investments in nature-based solutions.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2021

I have great optimism about the future of capitalism and the future health of the economy - not in spite of the energy transition, but because of it.". It has reminded us how the biggest crises, whether medical or environmental, demand a global and ambitious response.". They ask us about it nearly every day.".

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

What is carbon accounting? Carbon accounting – also known as a carbon or greenhouse gas inventory – is the process of measuring the amount of carbon dioxide, or other greenhouse gases (GHG), an organization emits. The aim is to help the entity understand its climatic impact.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

It has been compared to the hugely influential Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change 15 years ago, which famously framed global warming as the greatest and most wide-ranging market failure ever seen.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

While virtually everyone agrees that anthropogenic methane emissions play a huge role in climate change, different approaches to measuring that impact can result in dramatically different narratives. This approach makes methane’s potency clear: A pound of methane warms the climate 30 times more than a pound of CO2.

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AGreenLiving

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.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Today the world's leading climate scientists delivered the clearest picture yet of the scale of the climate crisis that is already unfolding, as well as the likely impacts of further temperature rises over the course of century. That is why this year's United Nations climate conference in Glasgow is so important.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Suddenly business sustainability is about climate change, ending poverty, and achieving gender equality. Squandering finite resources, creating extravagant amounts of waste, and the excessive release of carbon emissions is causing our planet to belch at the seams. Carbon in our atmosphere is 280 parts per million (ppm).

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Nor does it refer to a topic that was of unequivocal scientific concern at the time: The “greenhouse effect,” or what is now known as climate change. He dubbed his project “ Dirty Pearls: exposing Shell’s hidden legacy of climate change accountability, 1970-1990.”

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

While Baby Boomers worry about rising inflation draining their retirement funds while they’re still aboveground, Gen Z is terrified that climate change means there will soon be no safe air to breathe nor water to drink. A carbon tax and a shift toward domestic production would have environmental upsides but could add to inflation.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

Language around climate solutions is particularly susceptible to this treatment, especially as polluting companies invest in strategies and tactics to present themselves as part of the solution to climate change when, clearly —as they continue to prioritize drilling for globe-warming fuels — they are not. Cleaner burning.”

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2022

I’m worried about the health impacts the plant might have on my family,” Nicole told me. million tons of carbon dioxide a year, two known carcinogens, and other emissions that are harmful to the environment, including particulates and oxides of nitrogen. One of many residences in Cameron Parish destroyed by Hurricane Laura.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

If designed well and properly adhered to, global treaties have a lot going for them. The Paris Agreement on climate change, signed into life in 2015, may not be perfect. COP talks each year are often fraught and progress remains far too slow, as today's IPCC report on escalating climate impacts will testify. "It

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Unfortunately, all kinds of positive (or negative?) Ice that survives for at least one year is called multi-year ice, sometimes perennial ice, which gives an indication of the health of the ice at the end of the melt season. Sea Ice extent is going down. feedback loops will cause this melting to possibly accelerate. Lot’s of Methane.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 10, 2023

Wind Concerns cites on its website the CO2 Coalition , the Global Warming Policy Foundation , the Heartland Institute and other groups that have spent years, at times with the funding of oil and gas companies and rightwing billionaires, attempting to discredit and undermine the scientific consensus on climate change.

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Like many people out there who are working on climate change, or are internalizing the news, I’ve struggled at times to stay optimistic and productive in the fight. I’ve thought about this as three distinct questions: What do we really know about climate change? (Catching up on re-posting my articles.

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Like many people out there who are working on climate change, or are internalizing the news, I've struggled at times to stay optimistic and productive in the fight. I’ve thought about this as three distinct questions: What do we really know about climate change? (Catching up on re-posting my articles. What Do We Know?

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Canadian climate science denier Jordan Peterson’s new right-wing project launched this week with claims that carbon emissions have “declined” and that the climate crisis is a “secular religion”. That can hardly be called denying climate science,” he said. At the conference, U.S.

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Grist

AUGUST 16, 2019

So it was more than a little surprising when, last year, the agency decided not to promote an alarming study (that two of its employees had contributed to) that showed climate change could lessen the nutritional value of rice — a crop the agency says the U.S. Mentions of climate change have disappeared from government websites.

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