DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

The Transition Deal echoed the fossil fuel lobby by emphasising the importance of hydrogen power and carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) to the green transition. At the time of the report’s release, National Grid fully owned National Grid Gas, which logged revenues in excess of £1.3 billion in 2021/22.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Reports this week also suggested at least three of Brazil's most forest-covered states are working on plans to sell what would amount to hundreds of millions of CO2 credits on global voluntary carbon markets, in order to help finance the preservation of their carbon-rich forests. global warming goal out of reach.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2021

At the same time, the country aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 26–28 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 (a target which some deem “insufficient” and doesn’t go far enough towards helping limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures). Buckley contrasted this with the situation in Australia.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Research shows the world needs to cut global emissions 45% by 2030 to keep global warming under 1.5 C trajectory in half for carbon dioxide emissions and by almost 40% for methane. C trajectory in half for carbon dioxide emissions and by almost 40% for methane. degrees Celsius (2.7 That’s a start.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 19, 2019

Almost one quarter (800,000km² of Brazil’s original 4m km²) of Amazon forest has been lost to development including logging, agriculture, and mining. The Economist reports that the situation in the Brazilian Amazon is fast approaching irreversible tipping points and this has global implications. Subscribe in a reader

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Despite being forced to resign last year after obstructing a police investigation into illegal logging , Salles was re-elected in September’s legislative elections. IMIL has been a prominent source of climate misinformation in Brazil, allowing it to downplay the vital role the Amazon plays as a carbon sink regulating the Earth’s climate.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Yet, there are countless stories of policy changes, local cleanup efforts, impactful corporate action and innovations all aimed at decreasing carbon, conserving trees, protecting wildlife and so much more. There’s the issue with methane release, a greenhouse gas that’s more damaging than carbon dioxide. It stores more than 1.5

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Unsustainable

APRIL 11, 2020

Extensive logging of the trees in the past three or so decades has been a major contributor to the current situation in which a healthy mangrove ecosystem in Kenya is in danger. Gazi and Makongeni villages have in place a carbon offset project, the first of its kind in the world to successfully trade mangrove carbon credits.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2022

Both contribute to climate change and deforestation in a fragile region considered crucial for keeping carbon out of the atmosphere. for blocking efforts to tackle climate injustice linked to global warming. Bolsonaro , Morrison and Trump are all openly skeptical of climate science. Brazil, Australia and the U.S.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Biden's victory is seen as being of monumental importance for global efforts to avoid catastrophic levels global warming and will be widely regarded as vindication for a campaign that prioritised climate action as a central plank in its platform. — Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) November 7, 2020.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Concerns continue over indirect land use change (and its associated carbon losses), the sequestration opportunity costs of converting cultivated lands into biofuel feedstocks versus reforestation, and high demand for agricultural lands to meet the food security needs of a growing population. Source: Field et al.

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Grist

JULY 11, 2023

Although the event was exceedingly abnormal — a 1-in-1,000-year event in today’s climate, according to some estimates — researchers say that without global warming it would have been at least 150 times rarer and several degrees cooler. Earlier this month, Earth logged its seven hottest days ever.

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 13, 2020

Recent studies from from the world’s top climate modeling groups suggest that high clouds that shade the Earth during the day may burn off as the world warms increasing global warming. The coronavirus shutdown caused CO2 emissions to decrease by a global average of 17 percent in April, but they are surging again.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Although Scotland is more heavily forested than England or Wales, much of its woodlands have been lost to logging, urban sprawl and climate change. Planting trees encourages the absorption of carbon dioxide, one of the key greenhouse gases responsible for global warming.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

These critics argue that thinning is a ploy to increase commercial logging and that severe wildfires are critical for forest health and biodiversity. The revenue from saleable logs helped offset restoration costs. But some environmentalists consider thinning a ploy to commercially log forests. Forests store carbon.

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Green Tech Challenge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

The problem of global warming crosses geopolitical lines and boundaries, and thus must be addressed by humanity as a whole. Sweden’s Pledge to be Carbon-Neutral Despite uncertainties in global leadership, Sweden promised to honour the Paris Agreement made by the United Nations and cut all its greenhouse gas emissions by 2045.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Oliver Griffith explains how a Wildlife Works Carbon forest conservation project is helping to both protect the environment while also sustaining local livelihoods in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Operational since 2011, it has attracted substantial private sector resources through the sale of carbon credits.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

In 2018 she joined Project 90 by 2030 , an NGO working to cut the country’s carbon emissions by 90 percent by 2030 and in 2019 she joined African Climate Alliance , a pan-African climate justice group. Cruz has logged more than 160 dives since the age of 10 and has been shooting underwater photographs since he was 12.

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