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It's not totally unlike a comet

Business Green

The IPCC report is genuinely terrifying and Russia's attack on Ukraine has revealed the complacency contained in suggestions worst case climate scenarios can be definitively ruled out - the only good news is that the world knows what needs to be done and has the tools to do it. As the report makes clear, between 3.3 billion and 3.6

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The scandal of calling plantations 'forest restoration' is putting climate targets at risk

Business Green

As trees grow they remove carbon from the atmosphere. Spurred by the necessities of drastically cutting emissions and removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to meet climate targets, many countries, including Brazil, India and China, have committed large areas to forest restoration. above pre-industrial levels.

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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

Mr. Sustainability

And that is exactly where it hurts most: once there is no more multi-year ice, the Arctic is per very definition ice-free during summer and the unit is broken. Unfortunately, all kinds of positive (or negative?) This ‘active ingredient’ in natural gas, is up to 28 to 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas.

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How green hydrogen could completely reshape the global energy map

Business Green

At present, hydrogen made using fossil gas dominates the global hydrogen market, and as such oil and gas firms are exploring how carbon capture systems could be used to slash emissions from the sector. And the transition is not a fuel replacement but a shift to a new system with political, technical, environmental, and economic disruptions.".