Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 20, 2022

research project involving scientists from across the UK and partners across Europe aims to assess the risk that climate change poses to UK peatlands and create the capability to better manage these important ecosystems. A five-year, £3.7m

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GreenBiz

APRIL 9, 2021

Is the golf industry doing enough to combat climate change? Sports leagues are seeing the impacts and the surge of climate-responsible athletes using their platforms to promote positive environmental and social impact — it’s something for the history books. Aubrey McCormick. Fri, 04/09/2021 - 02:00. In the U.S., So, what’s next?

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The Environmental Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Climate change is a global problem that we all need to be aware of and active in ensuring its stop. There are many companies out there dedicated to fighting climate change. Greenpeace is fighting climate change and influencing companies to make a better impact on the environment. 2) The Carbon Trust.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Indeed, pressure for more action is building ahead of this November’s UN climate change conference – or COP26 summit – which the UK Government will be hosting. If net zero policies are to achieve their goals, they must work effectively in rural, as well as urban, locations.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee has written to Alok Sharma MP, President for COP26, citing recent evidence gathered as part of the Committee’s ongoing inquiry into nature-based solutions for climate change. Any carbon benefits that are claimed must be rigorous in their accounting.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

Biodiversity loss and dangerous Climate Change potentiate each other in their disastrous consequences. Warming temperatures and associated changes to precipitation reduce agricultural productivity as well as moving species outside their habitable range, in some cases driving them to extinction.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 1, 2024

evoZero Cement is a cutting-edge material designed to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by incorporating innovative production processes. Several forward-thinking cities are interested in utilizing this sustainable cement to reduce their carbon footprint and promote eco-friendly construction practices. Who is Making evoZero Cement?

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 13, 2024

Businesses across the UK environmental services industry have seemingly expressed concern at the credibility and transparency of carbon credit offsetting schemes. The UK has made good progress, but it is no surprise that people feel policies on net zero and circular economy are not strong enough. “We

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Terra Infirma

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

I sometimes think about this when following the political discourse on tackling climate change. But climate change isn’t a race against other countries – it’s not like a bike race where a competitor can break away from the peloton, establish an unassailable lead, then soft pedal over the line, arms aloft.

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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 20, 2020

last year and record rainfall in the American Midwest — have led some to wonder if climate change may be behind the increase in natural disasters. So — is climate change really making the weather more extreme? How Climate Change Causes More Extreme Weather. Handling Weather Events Caused by Climate Change.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

And the economic impacts of climate change on B.C. The incoming government also faces massive new bills to replace infrastructure damaged by fire and floods while also reinforcing existing infrastructure to keep up with increasingly wild swings in our climate. While a climate-induced economic cloud hangs over B.C.’s

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

VICTORIA —Mark Zacharias, executive director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the announcement by Premier David Eby about changes to the provincial consumer carbon price: “B.C. was a leader in putting carbon pricing in place in 2008. The costs of climate change aren’t theoretical.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Conservatives in more right-leaning countries are fighting climate change, too.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

Biodiversity loss and dangerous Climate Change potentiate each other in their disastrous consequences. Warming temperatures and associated changes to precipitation reduce agricultural productivity as well as moving species outside their habitable range, in some cases driving them to extinction.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

DECEMBER 27, 2022

state is coping with the growing climate crisis. These were Carbon Emissions, the Adoption of Green Technology, Landfill Usage, Recycling and Green Policies. Overall, the top five best states concerning climate resilience are California, Maine, New York, Vermont and Massachusetts.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 12, 2024

But it also saw the election of five MPs from Reform UK , a climate science denial party led by right-wing populist Nigel Farage. Reform’s policies are in step with its donors. million from climate deniers, polluters, and fossil fuel interests – who represent 92 percent of its funders.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

Internal BP emails show that its UK executives were reassured by a controversial oil industry group that they could “shape [the] internal thinking” of a 2018 report on carbon taxes produced by the right-wing think tank Policy Exchange. The emails were among hundreds of documents released by a powerful committee of U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 29, 2024

Intense lobbying from the meat and dairy industry since 2020 has helped weaken and stall crucial climate policies in the European Union, according to a new report from InfluenceMap.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 30, 2024

At 9:30 am on March 12, 1963, in Room 1-B of Manhattan’s Rockefeller Institute , six experts gathered to discuss the implications of a newly identified atmospheric phenomenon: the rising level of carbon dioxide (CO2) caused by the burning of fossil fuels. Ordway, Jr., in the foreword to the group’s 1962 Annual Report. Government.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2020

Measuring tree growth is important in enabling scientists to estimate the contribution of trees to climate change mitigation as a result of their ability to absorb and store carbon from the atmosphere. It is the first of its kind in the UK.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The Future of Carbon Policy Forum Is where you want to be on January 4th at Amazon’s Seattle Campus On Thursday, January 4th – just four days prior to the start of the 2024 legislative session in Olympia – we’ll gather at Amazon’s Day 1 Building in Seattle to preview a critical year for carbon policy and clean energy innovation.

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Elemental Excelerator

JANUARY 23, 2024

And while Canada’s coast faces countless climate threats, Elemental Policy Lab Fellow Na’im Merchant said it also could become important for climate resiliency as an unparalleled resource for ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) methods. We’ve emitted close to 1.5

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Renew Economy

JANUARY 16, 2023

Carbon market participants have discovered what the federal government's efforts to fight climate change will mean for them. The post Carbon market reform might not be perfect policy, but it will be effective appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The new research adds to the urgency of conversations about climate change, just weeks before leaders all over the world are expected to travel to Dubai to meet for the United Nation’s annual climate change conference, COP28. Hansen was the first to sound the alarm on climate change in 1988 in testimony to Congress.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Soil acts as a carbon ‘sink’, locking in GHGs that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere. Upgrading UK soils, particularly farmland and degraded peatlands, could radically improve their ability to store carbon. The potential of soil to sequester carbon is huge and should be fully maximised.”.

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U.S. Green Technology

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Many people measure their carbon footprints and adopt emission-reduction techniques to fight climate change, and environmental engineers are following consumer trends by developing eco-friendly technologies. The post Green Government Policies Save Lives appeared first on U.S. One of the. Green Technology.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

As understanding of the climate crisis increases and the harm to ourselves, the environment, business, industry, and the economy that will follow, so a desire to not only reduce carbon but to be seen reducing carbon increases. In both cases, carbon offsetting removes CO 2 from the environment.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Many people don’t understand key terms experts use to talk about climate change, according to a recent study from researchers affiliated with the United Nations Foundation and the University of Southern California. Everyone has heard the advice “know your audience.” Mitigation, oh God I hate this word,” one person said.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 3, 2024

Exploring the world of carbon capture technology opens up a pathway to understanding how advanced science is being utilized to combat the pressing issue of climate change. Post-combustion capture The core principle of carbon capture technology is simple yet incredibly sophisticated.

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Forbes Green Tech

MARCH 25, 2021

Despite President Biden’s gargantuan spending proposal for addressing climate change, his plan sidesteps putting in place a policy that would price carbon at its social cost. The odds that his overall program will succeed, without carbon being priced at something near its social cost, are low.

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Solar Power World

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Oregon has been fairly progressive on addressing climate change. Setting 2040 as the deadline for this transition, Oregon joins New York for the quickest timeline to 100% carbon-free energy in the country. This year, it became the eighth state to commit to 100% clean or renewable electricity.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 16, 2023

“Other brands need to send similarly clear signals to their suppliers,” Gary Cook, global climate policy director for the nonprofit Stand.earth that published the report , said in a press release. Stand.earth’s new report, however, puts Apple’s broader climate initiatives in perspective by scrutinizing several tech companies at once.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 3, 2022

Climate change has worsened global inequality, with poorer countries less able to withstand and adapt to climate change’s effects. But new research suggests the reverse is also true: Not only is climate change contributing to greater inequality, but inequality is also fueling climate change.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2021

ClientEarth has filed a legal challenge against Belgium's central bank, accusing it of breaching legal obligations to consider environmental protection when buying corporate bonds in a landmark case that could help 'green' the monetary policy of a number of European nations.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found multiple Safe Drinking Water Act violations at the nation’s first carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) storage project, PoliticoPro’s E&E News reported today. The company started injecting carbon in Illinois at the end of April 2017, making the site a little over seven years old.

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Grist

APRIL 21, 2023

Common wisdom says that the average person doesn’t care about climate change because they think its effects will unfold in the far-off future or in faraway places. This point is repeated ad infinitum in tips about how to talk about the climate crisis, in books, articles, and guides for public officials. One problem?

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 2, 2021

A senior Drax executive is stepping down from her position on the Climate Change Committee early after questions were raised over a “glaring” conflict of interest. The conflict of interest has long been glaring, but in recent years became blinding,” said Phil Macdonald of energy thinktank Ember. Drax Transition.

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