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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The two groups had previously unearthed a 1970 report by Eni’s Isvet research centre that warned of the “catastrophic” climate risk from the build-up of carbon dioxide (CO2) caused by burning fossil fuels. Among the atmospheric changes listed was “climatic modifications.”

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The Verge: Energy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

By pushing nations to slash their greenhouse gas emissions, the global accord strives to avoid climate change so extreme that life on Earth would struggle to adapt. The United Nations’ polite prose glosses over what is a truly damning report card for global climate efforts.” Carbon emissions?

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 16, 2021

A new survey on climate change perception, which was put together by the Institute of Technology and Society Brazil and the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication in the United States, thrusts climate change into the spotlight, especially from the perspective of the younger generations.

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Andrew Winston

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

They have developed an excellent framework on how companies should think about their political influence. Most companies rely on a dated model of engagement on policy with governments and civil society, compartmentalizing their political influence activities into an organizational silo, just as they used to do with their supply chains. (By

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Renew Economy

MAY 18, 2022

Climate change has figured little in the 2022 federal election campaign. The post A new climate politics: The 47th parliament must be a contest of ideas for a hotter, low-carbon Australia appeared first on RenewEconomy. But the need for sensible, long-term measures is now dire.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 14, 2024

When the Prime Minister uttered those words amid a passionate, seven-minute defence of the carbon price this week, he must have known he had just written his own headline. Canada’s price on pollution is an effective, elegantly designed climate policy that maximizes emissions reductions while minimizing potential downsides.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

A business lobby group that regularly meets with top elected officials and policymakers in British Columbia is now being led by someone who once argued that human-caused climate change is an “untested proposition.” The post Former Climate Change Denier Now Leading BC’s Top Business Lobby Group appeared first on DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

This net zero scepticism has quickly entered the upper echelons of Westminster politics, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak saying that policies to achieve the UK’s legally binding climate targets shouldn’t “hassle” households and should be “proportionate and pragmatic”.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Youth activists are spearheading a powerful political movement around addressing the climate crisis. For many people, this is a moment of both fear and hope — global carbon emissions continue to increase, at the same time as demands for global climate action grow louder. CNN : NYC Says Its 1.1

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

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

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

If Exxon had back then used its vast political and financial power to aggressively push for a national carbon tax to be adopted in major economies around the world, global emissions might have already peaked by now. That would have significantly changed incentives for everything,” he says in The Petroleum Papers. “It

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 28, 2023

The term “clean hydrogen” doesn’t have a specific official definition, but on the whole, it tends to refer to H2 that is produced in a way that doesn’t generate carbon emissions. That means that greenhouse gases are pumped into the atmosphere as a result of the production process, contributing to climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 19, 2022

Your answer could say a lot about your views on climate change, explains Genevieve Guenther. But a growing concern about the climate crisis caused her to switch gears — and her research — to climate communication. How did you go from being an English professor to a climate activist?

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Terra Infirma

JUNE 19, 2023

I try not to spread doom as doom is demotivating, but last night I tweeted on my political twitter feed about the heat wave currently underway in the North Sea, just a few miles from where I live. Ah, but many environmentalists cry, wasn’t the carbon footprint invented by BP to shift blame from the oil sector to individuals?

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

After decades of sowing doubt about climate change and its causes, the fossil fuel industry is now shifting to a new strategy: presenting itself as the source of solutions. This repositioning includes rebranding itself as a “carbon management industry.”. uses the captured carbon dioxide for enhanced oil recovery.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The carbon removal company Spiritus estimated that her journey of roughly 5,500 miles produced about 40 tons of carbon dioxide — about what is generated by charging nearly 5 million cell phones. The startup is among dozens, if not hundreds, of businesses trying to permanently remove climate-warming gases from the atmosphere.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The violence of the atmospheric shifts, their deeply uneven impacts and the implications of mass extinctions that are expected at current emission levels, add up to much more than “climate change.” Climate change” seemed to encompass more possibilities for derangements of the global ecosystem.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Industry trade associations in the United States that work on climate and energy issues spent more than $3 billion over 10 years on political activities, according to a new study that sheds light on trade associations’ role in influencing policies and obstructing climate action. billion on climate-related political activities.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

CALGARY — Alberta Ecotrust Foundation , Calgary Climate Hub and Clean Energy Canada announced today that a recent poll shows 63 percent of Calgarians believe Calgary’s future as a vibrant city is at risk if we do not become a leader in addressing climate change.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Now, in a new international report released on Monday, they argue the clock is also ticking on efforts to adapt to the devastating consequences of climate change. Meanwhile, climate change is amplifying human conflicts and causing widespread damage to people’s physical and mental health. David McNew / Getty Images.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Low carbon solutions with the potential to make an impact on the quest for net zero will be showcased during an online event on 3 March, during Scottish Apprenticeship Week (1-5 March). This is an imaginative and well-designed initiative that meets an important national objective for climate change.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

New polling commissioned by The Climate Coalition shows 18-24 year olds most likely to delay or not have children due to fears surrounding climate change. The research, which was conducted with OnePoll polling, found that 18-24 year old were the most likely to delay or not have children because of climate change concerns.

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Terra Infirma

AUGUST 23, 2021

Almost every point was to lobby somebody else to take action – personal change was dismissed as messing about with metal straws. I tweeted about this (on my political Twitter account) and was quite surprised at the negative reaction to the view that our personal choices have (carbon) consequences. Hold on a sec.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

As the debate on which form of carbon pricing would best suit a post-Brexit United Kingdom continues, notions of reliability and assurance have come to the fore, particularly with regards to which type of price signal investors are most likely to trust and put their money behind. While a long-term carbon price signal - i.e

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Shadow business secretary Ed Miliband has labelled Rishi Sunak a “climate delayer” after the UK chancellor said almost nothing about climate change in his speech at the Conservative Party conference today. The post UK Chancellor Criticised for ‘Silence’ on Climate Change in Party Conference Speech appeared first on DeSmog.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2022

VIDEO: Second in series of films exploring London's path to net zero by 2030 looks at how the city can adapt to growing climate change impacts. Whether or not the world achieves net zero emissions by 2050, the carbon already pumped into the atmosphere means the climate continue to change.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 2, 2021

The Council of State issued a first ruling in November 2020, which stated that France’s national and EU climate goals are binding. This was unusual because French political tradition normally considers long-term commitments to be “soft law”. The cities of Paris and Grenoble also added arguments to support the case. million signatories.

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 1, 2024

Mars Materials is disrupting this market with a captured-carbon-based acrylonitrile that serves as a drop-in replacement for the traditional chemical. “We And Mars Materials’ process is the only commercially validated, carbon-negative approach for acrylonitrile production.” and fast-growing acrylamide market.

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Clean Energy Canada

OCTOBER 17, 2020

When the federal government delivered its Throne Speech in late September, no words were minced: climate action would be a “cornerstone” of this government’s recovery. And it wasn’t just about climate change. election now a mere week away, climate action has made few headlines out west. It’s a political one.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Buying Clean ” means integrating climate considerations, such as the “embodied carbon” emissions associated with construction materials, into decisions about public procurement and infrastructure spending. Not only does this make good economic sense, but it is also a political win-win. It needs a “Buy Clean” strategy.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Many parts of the Northern Hemisphere - from the USA and Europe to India, Pakistan, and China - have in recent months suffered from the devastating impacts of record-breaking extreme weather events, which were made far more likely to occur due to climate change. Doing nothing on climate change today puts our children's future at risk.

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Terra Infirma

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

This week, a tweet appeared on my timeline saying “Capitalism created climate change, only socialism can fix it!” A recently presented ‘proof’ for this is the fact that BP popularised the idea of the carbon footprint, which some see as an attempt to shift the blame from Big Oil onto Joe Public.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 30, 2021

As leaders reflect on the outcomes of COP26 and the huge increase in public and business engagement, we could potentially see a fair amount of movement on carbon ambitions during the coming 12 months. Delivering on the summit outcome means that political will needs to remain strong. Eyes will be on the US and China. in sight.

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Business Green

JUNE 20, 2021

Businesses of all types have potential exposure to litigation for climate change-related harm - it is critical they understand this rapidly evolving landscape, argue White & Case's Mark Clarke and Gwen Wackwitz. In recent years, the number and scope of climate change-related actions has increased dramatically.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2021

But less well-covered is Scotland's reliance on carbon emissions for its growth. The combination of a colder climate, poor housing stock and many homes being off the gas grid all contribute to this carbon reliance. These former extraction sites are well-suited to safely store captured carbon deep beneath the North Sea.

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