DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

A board member of a new MP-backed ‘Net Zero Watch’ campaign group has said today that “global warming is not a problem”, defended burning fossil fuels, and said carbon dioxide’s “principal effect” is the growth of plants. Net Zero Watch and the Global Warming Policy Foundation did not respond to a request for comment. .

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

In its application, submitted in partnership with the Kenya Climate Change Working Group (KCCWG), WBA highlighted the importance of tackling short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs), in particular methane and black carbon, to achieve the Paris Agreement targets “to limit global warming to well below 2, preferably to 1.5°C,

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Investors call on major US polluters to clean up lobbying activities. Carbon intensive companies in the U.S. Cecilia Keating. Thu, 10/29/2020 - 00:10. degrees Celsius, noting that any advocacy inconsistent with climate goals presents a raft of regulatory, economic, reputational and legal risks for investors.

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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 23, 2023

Vehicle pollutants refer to the harmful substances emitted by automobiles and other vehicles during their operation. These pollutants contribute significantly to environmental degradation and pose serious health risks to both humans and ecosystems.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Those subsidies are taking the form of massive new tax credits for carbon capture and storage (CCS), which is a technology that companies use to grow their extraction of oil and gas while burying a fraction of their greenhouse gas emissions underground. “I Reaching “net-zero” entails stabilizing global temperature rise at 1.5

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 19, 2023

DSM Nutritional Products (UK) Limited operates equipment that requires an F-gas to function, and the company must submit data to SEPA every year under the Scottish Pollutant Release Inventory (SPRI). For some equipment automatic leakage detection systems may be required. SEPA reduced the civil penalty to £75,000 – which has been paid.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2022

World leaders aren’t doing enough to address pollution at its source, leaving nearly 9 million people each year to die from its effects. That’s the message delivered on Tuesday by public health experts from the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health, a high-profile panel of scientific experts. named for their diameter of just 2.5

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

New research for the first time links wildfire risks and impacts in western North America to carbon emissions traceable to the world’s largest fossil fuel and cement companies. Previous studies have quantified the share of increasing average temperatures, rising sea levels , and ocean acidification attributable to major industrial emitters.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 14, 2020

These affect natural habitats, produces acid rain and destroys the ozone layer because of global warming. Moreover, poor methods of managing waste lead to an increase in soil and water contamination and air pollution. Lessens Environmental Pollution. Most of them release wastewater causing water pollution.

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Green Living Guy

AUGUST 15, 2022

Global warming has driven an influx of extreme weather events and prompted city governments worldwide to seek sustainable solutions for greater climate resilience and public safety measures.

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Grist

MARCH 28, 2024

On Thursday, the climate-data sleuths at Carbon Mapper published a study in Science that shows the nation’s landfills emit that gas at levels at least 40 percent higher than previously reported to the Environmental Protection Agency. Sometimes Cusworth conducts aerial surveys of landfills and is relieved to find nothing.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Emma Howard Boyd's speech to the Committee on Climate Change's Adapting to 3C+ of global warming conference. Here in England, the Environment Agency has been criticised for saying we are helping the country prepare for 4 degrees of global warming. Today's conference feels like an appropriate place to address that. -.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

billion in subsidies for carbon capture and storage projects, and approximately $1.8 In addition to the added climate risk of a new pipeline exporting Canadian oil, with an anticipated drop in the global demand for oil, the project remains a substantial financial risk —one of the reasons Kinder Morgan abandoned it in the first place.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

The voluntary carbon offset market is rocketing, with the Ecosystem Marketplace reporting an annual market value of ~$1 billion in 2021, which was an all-time high. This can make things difficult for business leaders like you, looking to reduce their carbon footprint through purchasing offsets. The rules of carbon offsetting.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The carbon footprint of British pig farming has reduced by almost 40% over the last 20 years, according to a new study, using a new methodology, led by the Institute for Global Food Security (IGFS) at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland. for Global Warming Potential (commonly known as carbon footprint); 21.2%

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Green Living Guy

APRIL 11, 2022

When was the last time you bought something without hurting the global green cover? Global warming and climate change are threatening our planet. Your shopping habits can help reverse the universal harm.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Plesetsk Cosmodrome, a Russian spaceport located in Mirny: Plans being advanced to build a number of satellite launch sites in the UK are proceeding without due consideration for emissions of climate-warming gases and other impacts, according to the data collected by Stay in Cornwall. air pollution each year.

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Green Living Guy

MAY 27, 2022

Everyone is talking about climate change and global warming. Have you ever thought of what, among many other things, has the most damaging impact on the environment and contributes to global warming? It is these construction projects.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 7, 2022

New research led by the University of Washington calculates how much warming is already guaranteed by past emissions. While previous research has explored this question for carbon dioxide, the new work includes related emissions such as methane, nitrogen oxide and aerosols, like sulphur or soot. Nature Climate Change).

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 23, 2023

. | Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi / Bloomberg via Getty Images More than 130 companies, including Volvo Cars, Ikea, Unilever, Nestlé, and AstraZeneca, signed a letter calling on governments to adopt a global plan to phase out fossil fuels without carbon capture during upcoming international climate negotiations.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 15, 2021

To learn more about this project, visit our Carbon Mapper page. . In addition, the Carbon Mapper consortium announced its plan to deploy a ground-breaking hyperspectral satellite constellation with the ability to pinpoint, quantify and track point-source methane and CO 2 emissions. To read the press release in full, click here.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Hintze, a Conservative peer and hedge fund manager, was one of the early funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , founded by the late Conservative chancellor Nigel Lawson. DeSmog has previously revealed that the Conservative Party received £3.5

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The Verge: Energy

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A rendering of MethaneSat | Image courtesy of Google Google announced a partnership with the nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) today to map methane pollution and oil and gas infrastructure from space. Meanwhile, Google is using AI to map oil and gas infrastructure to create a global map of pollution sources.

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GreenBiz

MAY 16, 2020

At one such event in 2014, speaker Christopher Monckton surveyed the room and declared that everyone there agreed that humanity’s "emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases have contributed to the measured global warming since 1950." His point was to make it clear that "we are not climate change deniers."

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The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 21, 2022

With problems like global warming and pollution becoming a bigger threat with every passing day, sustainability is the need of the hour. Light pollution is quickly proving itself to be much bigger of a threat than researchers could have anticipated. Loss Of the Night. Recycle Coach.

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The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 20, 2022

Ocean acidification occurs when atmospheric carbon dioxide increases. This excess carbon dioxide is absorbed by the ocean, where it undergoes a chemical reaction that ultimately raises the acidity level of the ocean. Reduce your carbon footprint. Why Is Ocean Acidification Happening? So what is causing ocean acidification?

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2021

Developing carbon capture and storage (CCS) capacity is a key feature of the UK’s strategy to reduce emissions and hit its climate targets. A number of big polluters, including fossil fuel companies, support and are involved in the UK’s CCS plans. . To do so requires wells to inject carbon into the chosen repositories.

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Econaur

APRIL 3, 2020

Reference: Pollutant Formation in Combustion Processes, Grzegorz Wielgosi?ski, It will take another 8-10 days minimum in open natural environment to get to a form where the plantation can absorb anything out of it.Improperly disposed organic waste is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions, at almost 1500 Tg CO2 / year.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Carbon intensive companies in the US are facing growing pressure to clean up their lobbying acitivity, with a host of institutional investors today issuing an urgent call to 47 of the largest greenhouse gas emitters to disclose how their corporate advocacy aligns with the most ambitious climate goals of the Paris Agreement.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Now, a new report shows that fossil fuel production by 2030 is set to exceed the level that would be compatible with limiting warming to 1.5°C percent of global annual CO2 emissions, Achakulwisut said. When it comes to reducing overall global carbon emissions, she noted, CCS is not making a dent.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

But when Canadians went searching on Google for additional information about accusations of “greenwashing,” one of the top results they may have encountered was sponsored content from the Pathways Alliance claiming that the country’s biggest polluters “are working to reduce carbon emissions from oil sands.” (In

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

” The biopolymers are combined with graphene, a variant of carbon (or allotrope , to be precise) whose modern rediscovery and isolation at the University of Manchester in 2004 led to a Nobel Prize. In addition, some bioplastics produce methane gas when they decompose, a compound with a global warming potential 25 times that of CO2.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Limiting average global warming to 1.5 These ratios were then mapped onto existing global average water temperature data so that the team could fill the holes we have at the beginning of the industrial period, when humans began releasing large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. degrees Celsius, or 2.7

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Recent research published in Global Environmental Change has revealed that only 1% of people cause half of all aviation pollution globally. According to the study, regular “super emitters” are polluting the environment at the expense of millions of people who do not fly. Continued here:Â .

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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. In 1971, Eni set up a new company in Rome to study pollution problems called Tecneco.

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Grist

APRIL 27, 2022

The report, called the Global Land Outlook 2, comes from the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and follows a landmark UN report earlier this month that called for “rapid and deep” emissions cuts to avoid the worst effects of global warming. degrees Celsius.

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Grist

MARCH 20, 2023

The newest publication is an attempt to distill everything the panel has said since August 2021, when it began releasing its sixth assessment of global warming. There’s no new research in this latest report, but it injects new urgency into scientists’ and activists’ calls for rapid, systemic action from global decision-makers.

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