DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

s investigative journalism arm, and the British Channel 4 News this summer exposing how the oil giant and lobby groups such as the American Petroleum Institute seed doubt about climate change and undermine legislation to stop global warming. View on DocumentCloud. How did you trip over this first?

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

The US Clean Investment Monitor published its annual report for 2023, which saw clean investment total $239bn, up 38% from 2022. Winners include manufacturing, up 133% from 2022, and emerging climate technologies that saw a whopping 10x jump to $4.3bn. Energy & industry. Happy Monday!  of dollars put to work.  

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Grist

JUNE 15, 2021

As the earth’s temperature warms, coastal populations around the world are wrestling with how to adapt to rising seas. As waves and tides hit the shorelines, the structure of the oyster bed absorbs the energy from those waves and traps sediment. That portion could increase to one-third by 2100 if current rates continue.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

In the first quarter of 2023, most of the state received rainfall exceeding historic averages, with some areas experiencing 200%, or even 300% of average levels. According to the US Drought Monitor , the state is currently drought-free, although some regions are still considered abnormally dry.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

In 2015, nearly 200 countries agreed to “Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C C above pre-industrial levels , recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change”.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

Queen attributes the issues that north Minneapolis faces today — the vacant homes, the poor access to medicine and food, the proximity to industrial pollution — to a lack of Black ownership and the political power that accompanies wealth. If you don't own anything, you're not changing nothing.".

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Their climate “advertorials” appeared in the op-ed page of the New York Times and were part of what scholars have called “the longest, regular (weekly) use of media to influence public and elite opinion in contemporary America.”. Controlling Climate Science. Big Oil also saw climate change coming.

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