DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Analysis by US environmental advocacy group, the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), studied the emissions from wood pellets transported from pine plantations in the southeastern United States to be used in a bioenergy, carbon capture and storage (BECCS) operation by Drax in Yorkshire. Drax has disputed these figures.

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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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Grist

MARCH 29, 2021

Shopify, the Canadian company that runs e-commerce sites, wants to take a more hands-on approach — by paying a Texas venture to pull carbon dioxide from the sky and store it underground. Climate scientists say the world must now do both to limit global warming to 1.5 Carbon Engineering.

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Business Green

APRIL 15, 2021

Major projects are inherently carbon intensive, and the data required for effective analytics is not easily obtained, as major projects span multiple organisations and each organisation has their own individual objectives and separate data strategies. billion tonnes of carbon every year. Neither are easy.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

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. A spokesperson for the AHDB informed DeSmog it did not plan to use social media influencers during the summit, and that any documents stating this were incorrect.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2019

The analysis details the wide ranging and severe impacts that climate change will have on the ocean and ocean-based economy and calls for a forward looking, cooperative and equitable global response. Even if action is taken to cut carbon emissions, the industry is still expected to suffer economic losses of up to 66%.

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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. Welch, 2019).

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GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

The Transform to Net Zero initiative launched Tuesday will see members of the coalition — which also include Danish shipping giant Maersk, Indian information technology company Wipro and Brazilian beauty company Natura & Co — collaborate on research, guidance and roadmaps to help businesses slash their carbon emissions in line with a 1.5

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 23, 2022

How Do Landscapers Negatively Impact the Environment. Harmful Carbon Emissions from Equipment and Vehicles . The current standard for machinery and equipment is gas powered, which releases carbon into the atmosphere when in use. Negative Impact on Ecosystem. Wasteful Use of Water. Switch to battery powered machines.

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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 of warming, while the 'sustainable development scenario' could cap warming at 1.8C

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Energy Innovation

MAY 25, 2022

Since human actions are at the root of climate change, the scholars argued, incorporating more about people into climate models is crucial for creating realistic climate forecasts and making informed decisions. Positive (+) feedbacks reinforce changes, while negative (-) feedbacks dampen them. Source: Moore et al. Public support.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2021

Shopify, the Canadian company that runs e-commerce sites, wants to take a more hands-on approach — by paying a Texas venture to pull carbon dioxide from the sky and store it underground. Climate scientists say the world must now do both to limit global warming to 1.5 Carbon Engineering.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

That is the stark consensus of the world's leading climate scientists in a landmark UN report today, which offers the clearest picture yet of both the scale of global warming already being experienced and the likely impacts of further temperature rises that are set to play out over the coming decades.

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Green Tech Challenge

JULY 10, 2019

Ocean acidification has negative effects on sea-life and the ecosystem. Aquaculture and Ocean Acidification When mixed with seawater, carbon dioxide produces an acid which corrodes calcium, making shell formation and bone growth particularly difficult. It would also inform localised ocean conservation activities, improving impact.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2022

To stand a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C by the end of the decade - a chance that is now wafer thin - global greenhouse gas emissions need to peak no later than 2025. Consequently, the question of how to spur lower carbon behaviour change among the wealthy represents a huge challenge for the net zero transition.

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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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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. Carbon accounting is a must for any becoming business today.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Yet as the global economy emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic, emissions are on the rise once again, presenting a monumental challenge over the next eight years if the world is to keep to the 1.5C global warming target countries signed up to in the Paris Agreement on the table.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

For decades, scientists have relied on a standard metric called GWP100, which measures the global warming potential of greenhouse gasses relative to carbon dioxide over a timeframe of 100 years. 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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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2022

Given methane represents one of the largest greenhouse gas contributors to global warming, understandably there are costly penalties for those who breach their mandated emissions volume. FID equipment burns a hydrogen flame to ionise organic compounds containing carbon to detect gasses in the atmosphere, including methane.

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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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Business Green

JULY 21, 2020

The Transform to Net Zero initiative launched today will see members of the coalition - which also include Danish shipping giant Maersk, Indian information technology company Wipro and Brazilian beauty company Natura & Co - collaborate on research, guidance and roadmaps to help businesses slash their carbon emissions in line with a 1.5C

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 27, 2022

A warming world doesn’t bode well for a sport that skates on frozen water. One study reported that the average carbon footprint per skier could be as much as 74kg CO 2e per trip. Yet there are ways resorts can mitigate their climatic impact, to help curb global warming and become more sustainable.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

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). Carbon in the atmosphere is 310 ppm. Carbon in the atmosphere is 310 ppm. Our reality.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

This technique of using statements that are technically true but omit crucial information and therefore are misleading, is called paltering — and it’s an old favorite of the fossil fuel industry. million to NCBA for research projects, including one initiative to “Inform audiences (i.e., In 2022, the Beef Checkoff granted $8.1

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree I am asking corporate leaders to support a minimum international carbon price and align their portfolios with the Paris Agreement. The public and private sector must work together to ensure a just and rapid transformation to a net zero global economy.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 22, 2020

The Transform to Net Zero initiative launched Tuesday will see members of the coalition — which also include Danish shipping giant Maersk, Indian information technology company Wipro and Brazilian beauty company Natura & Co — collaborate on research, guidance and roadmaps to help businesses slash their carbon emissions in line with a 1.5

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2023

By 2040, the latter is expected to double in Europe, and to account for almost a fifth of the global carbon budget worldwide. They added that, “while reusable packaging may be one of many potential solutions to explore further, we are concerned about the potential negative environmental consequences.”

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2022

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. Methane, the main component of natural gas, heats the planet at a much greater rate than carbon dioxide in the short term. I asked again on March 28.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

This conference is a global platform to discuss and learn about aims to provide a Renewable energy researchers, scientists, industrialists, policy makers, energy economists and academicians to exchange and share their experiences and research results about all aspects of Renewable Energy and Resources.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 10, 2023

The spread of false and misleading information about wind and solar energy is now one of the leading threats to the clean energy transition,” David Pomerantz, executive director of the U.S.-based Credit: YouTube “Carbon dioxide is the gas of life,” Mallett said in a phone interview.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

“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. National Academy of Sciences that explicitly warned of the risks human-induced global warming could pose to earth’s weather and “ecological balances,” the U.S.

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The nations of the world agreed in 2009 to hold global warming to 2 degrees Celsius (about 3.6 That’s not negativity or pessimism; that’s a cold, hard reading of the situation, much like an honest cancer diagnosis from a doctor. The business community is moving on carbon and clean tech. The so-called “1.5-degree

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The nations of the world agreed in 2009 to hold global warming to 2 degrees Celsius (about 3.6 That’s not negativity or pessimism; that’s a cold, hard reading of the situation, much like an honest cancer diagnosis from a doctor. The business community is moving on carbon and clean tech. The so-called “1.5-degree

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2022

To further inform the bill, Grijalva said they plan to hold a virtual forum to gather input from the fenceline community members they were meeting on this and other visits. “ Hurricane Ida gave me a taste of what global warming means, law or no law,” Lavigne said later by phone. “It’s as simple as that.”.

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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. You can see how climate denial content from Peterson and others has informed policy discussions,” Seiber said. That interview has since been viewed more than 1.1

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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. But it also had a textbook answer: putting a price on carbon. business and political history.

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