DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

At new and expanding facilities, from northern Europe to Pennsylvania and Louisiana , Shell is suggesting that more chemical and plastics manufacturing can help usher in environmental solutions , sustainability , and even diversity. We’re in a moment of realizing that the chemical industry is key to the energy transition. Shell Norco.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2020

Researchers at the University of Birmingham and University of Oxford have secured £207,000 funding from the Natural Environment Research Council to investigate the impacts of COVID-19 related public health measures upon air and noise quality in Oxford. PM10); all are known to be a risk to human health.

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Green Technology

JUNE 21, 2023

Green Technology’s Leadership Awards aim to recognize and honor individuals, organizations, and institutions that have made significant contributions to advancing sustainability efforts and reducing carbon footprints in various sectors. The kinetic nature of the building enables a more verdant and calming environment.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Commissioned by the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy, a group of 14 heads of government [3], ‘The expected impacts of climate change on the ocean economy’ assesses global to local climate impacts on three of the largest sources of ocean-based revenue and jobs – coral reef tourism, wild capture fisheries and marine aquaculture.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 3, 2020

By 1843, a Punch magazine article featured the first artificial ice rink, “not of frozen water but of a slush of chemicals including hog’s lard and melted sulphur, which smelled abominably.” HFCs heighten the greenhouse effect, while carbon dioxide similarly intensifies global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

With this Global North-financed fast-food expansion comes a host of environmental, social, and health concerns in regions often unprepared to field them. It also means undermining the health of developing countries. It includes the local franchisees of KFC and Texas Chicken (known by its original name, Church’s Chicken, in the U.S.)

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Compiled by a multidisciplinary group of experts – including engineers, ecologists, medics, and air quality analysts – the document provides a detailed rundown on topics such as what happens to tyres when we drive, what kind of particles are produced, where they end up, and the implications for health and the environment.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Non-profit organisation’s report describes actions that would gear the buildings and construction sector towards a net zero future, through elimination of embodied carbon emissions. WorldGBC’s vision to fully decarbonise the sector requires eliminating both operational and embodied carbon emissions.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The Drax power plant in North Yorkshire is the UK’s biggest single-point source of carbon dioxide emissions, and is fed by a constant supply of wood pellets shipped to the UK on enormous vessels, mostly form North America. Birds and plants, and forests’ important carbon stores, are being damaged by this industry.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Ad giants such as WPP , Omnicom and Interpublic Group (IPG) score highly on the rankings used to gauge a company’s sustainability performance — so they’re attractive to green fund investors. MSCI ranks all five as ‘ESG Leaders’ for carbon emissions. It scores WPP, Publicis and IPG as AA. Omnicom and Dentsu score as BBB.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Ad giants such as WPP , Omnicom and Interpublic Group (IPG) score highly on the rankings used to gauge a company’s sustainability performance — so they’re attractive to green fund investors. MSCI ranks all five as ‘ESG Leaders’ for carbon emissions. It scores WPP, Publicis and IPG as AA. Omnicom and Dentsu score as BBB.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

The argument goes that the companies that create and host fossil fuel company adverts are deliberately countering trends that should be eroding the public acceptability and influence of fossil fuel firms, while actively promoting the sale of high carbon products and activities. The biggest threat to our future is climate change," they write.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

The argument goes that the companies that create and host fossil fuel company adverts are deliberately countering trends that should be eroding the public acceptability and influence of fossil fuel firms, while actively promoting the sale of high carbon products and activities. The biggest threat to our future is climate change," they write.

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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. This effect is explained clearly in this article by Discover Magazine. Sea Ice extent is going down.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Many schools including the schools on this list have demonstrated that they are both resourcefulness innovative in their efforts to achieve their sustainability objectives. Schools give us a glimpse into what carbon neutrality looks like. The university boasts a robust branch of Engineers for a Sustainable World.

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Asking whether you “believe” in climate science is not the right question: I focus on why I believe we should act on it , because it’s smart risk management and it’s good for the economy and our health. (A I’d point my mom, friends, and older kids to a long article by Wallace-Wells in New York magazine that lays out his basic findings.

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Asking whether you “believe” in climate science is not the right question: I focus on why I believe we should act on it , because it’s smart risk management and it’s good for the economy and our health. (A I’d point my mom, friends, and older kids to a long article by Wallace-Wells in New York magazine that lays out his basic findings.

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