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. This conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity. Document 1: 1959.

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Grist

MARCH 26, 2021

But even if global leaders acted to cut emissions at that breakneck pace — which none currently has — many of those catastrophic outcomes could still occur. The science of human-caused climate change is unequivocal, but the science of projecting how bad things will get, how quickly, is soaked in uncertainty.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Partner Insight: Vodafone's Nicki Lyons shares key insights from the recent Vodafone Business UK Customer Sustainability Summit on how businesses can harness technology to reach their decarbonisation goals Climate change has the potential to seriously disrupt our lives. Plus, today's ethics-conscious consumers won't accept inaction.

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Green Living Guy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Most Americans want to buy from companies that put environmental ethics first, but they also want those same businesses to invest in the most powerful and energy-intensive tools possible in the name of safety. Sustainability and security have one thing in common: They’re both necessary for businesses in the digital age.

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Grist

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Yet almost 30 years after that warning, during the hottest year on Earth in 125,000 years , people are still arguing that the science is unreliable, or that the threat is real but we shouldn’t do anything about climate change. climate conference in Dubai. And is there anything that can be done to bring them around to reality?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The ethical pensions campaign - founded by filmmaker and activist Richard Curtis - said the study, conducted by sustainability research house Route2, showed the nation's retirement savings are driving the climate crisis even more than anticipated and highlight the critical role of pensions in meeting the UK's net zero targets.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. Climate impacts 2. Climate action 4. From sunny day flooding caused by higher tides to a sewer system on the brink of total collapse, the city undeniably lives in a climate changed world.

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 5, 2020

By showing how the environment improves when business as usual is suspended, the coronavirus pandemic has sharpened awareness of potential for catastrophe if global warming persists at current levels. in recognition of the leading role the financial sector must play in the fight against climate change.

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

The firm said it expected to increase investment in "important emerging transition opportunities" such as zero emissions transport, hydrogen, carbon sequestration, nature-based solutions, and climate resilient infrastructure, and that it expects its coal-related lending exposures to "run off" by 2024.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 15, 2019

Continuing to innovate and develop products that help ClimeMET customers monitor their own environmental impact, focusing on products that allow people to see for themselves the effect of global warming in their own gardens year-over-year. Inspiring Businesses to Understand Climate Change and Be Eco-Friendly.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

The implications and ingenuity of the suit gave the people of Kivalina an international media platform to raise awareness of their ongoing fight to survive the perils of climate change. That impact carries over directly into the climate change context,” he concluded. Landmark Climate Change Lawsuit.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 15, 2020

Fink makes the case that climate change will fundamentally reshape the world and finance. Climate change has become a defining factor in companies’ long-term prospects. [A Investors are increasingly reckoning with these questions and recognizing that climate risk is investment risk.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The stark findings, compiled by researchers from the London School of Economics' Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, reveal that 95 out of 111 large publicly-listed industrial have so far failed to align their emissions with a pathway that would cap global warming at 2C or 'well under 2C'.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2022

Armed with the right technology and processes, brands can put an end to greenwashing for good, writes Compare Ethics CEO Abbey Morris. With global warming dangerously close to spiralling out of control, the sustainability agenda is more crucial than ever.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

The findings offer new insight into corporate actors’ responsibility for the climate impact of worsening wildfires and strengthen the rapidly growing scientific field known as attribution science , which quantifies the influence of climate change on extreme weather events and connects pollution sources to observed climate impacts.

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Business Green

JULY 12, 2020

Feedback urged investors to defund and divest from industrial meat and dairy companies in order to help keep global warming at a level below 1.5C. The group called out a disconnect between banks' and other investors' sustainability policies and commitments and their deep implication with the global livestock industry.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5 The battle against climate change is vital. However, in addition to improving practices, there is an opportunity for producers to rally around the idea that less and more sustainable meat options, which will be critical to limit global warming, can still be good for business.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

As we are learning, in climate change as in pandemics, the costs of a global crisis are bound to vastly exceed those of its prevention. We know that animal agriculture is now recognized as a leading cause of global warming. The time is now to flatten the climate change curve.

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Martin LaMonica

DECEMBER 30, 2015

The COP21 United Nations climate summit in December yielded the Paris Agreement, which includes pledges from nearly 200 countries to dramatically lower greenhouse gas emissions in the years ahead. Here in the US, the question was: could Congress and a subsequent president unravel or block Obama’s signature climate policies ?

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2021

It was poised to be one of the first outdoor experiments into what is known as “solar geoengineering”: the process of spraying particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect sunlight and, ideally, counter the skyrocketing temperatures caused by climate change. SCoPEx was no exception. I lose sleep over it,” he said.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

In our previous Green Business Bureau article, titled Carbon Offsets Vs Carbon Credits: Addressing The Issues (The 5 Rules of Carbon Offsetting) , we discuss the rules that ensure offsets deliver the GHG emission reductions promised, and do so ethically. Carbon offset example: The Climate Trut’s Anaerobic Digester.

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Unsustainable

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

By now, we are all familiar with climate change. Yet, some claim it a hoax and deny actual changes happening to our planet. With all the changes that are happening rapidly to our environment and the very recent fires in Australia and floods in Asia, the so-called deception turned into reality. What do we make of this?

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

By the late 1970s, the petroleum industry had spent about two decades collecting information from their own scientists and outside experts and knew that burning fossil fuels would create catastrophic climate change. He leaves Exxon and joins the George Marshall Institute , one of the more notorious climate denial groups.

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 20, 2019

Her first 2 articles are on The Ethics Of Using Cotton and Do You Know What Happens Every Time You Use A Plastic Water Bottle? vi I think this reason alone is enough to warrant the use of recycled paper more extensively. Please visit her Blog, Ana Writes , where all Guest Bloggers are welcome. Enjoyed this article?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

But there is another form of climate-related 'tipping point' that is rather more positive in nature. The tipping points that mark the point at which clean tech deployment rates become exponential are in many ways the last best hope against averting runaway climate change. Time is incredibly short.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Some corners of the corporate world have already embraced this reality, with the wave of net zero emissions pledges unleashed by companies over the last 18 months evidence of a private sector that is increasingly reckoning with the need to ensure that business better protects the ecosystems that support human life and the global economy.

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2020

In November 2017 Shell's said it would aim to reduce the carbon intensity of the energy products it sells in half by 2050, which it said was based upon keeping temperatures below 2C of global warming by the end of the century. warming pathway. And so it is with Shell's ambitions in relation to climate change.".

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Business Green

APRIL 16, 2020

Instead, today's agenda is determined by the fact I have something significant to speak to you about in relation to Shell and its plans to respond to climate change. *. From safety to ethics and compliance. Well, when it comes to climate change, society's attitude is shifting fast. It is something else entirely.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5 The battle against climate change is vital. However, in addition to improving practices, there is an opportunity for producers to rally around the idea that less and more sustainable meat options, which will be critical to limit global warming, can still be good for business.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

New research published in Nature Climate Change in March, which was able to pinpoint the warming caused by livestock emissions for the first time, has added to the pressure. It found that without decisive action, emissions from the food system alone will push the planet over 1.5C They’re all getting bigger.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 29, 2020

As we are learning, in climate change as in pandemics, the costs of a global crisis are bound to vastly exceed those of its prevention. We know that animal agriculture is now recognized as a leading cause of global warming. The time is now to flatten the climate change curve.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Here are all the references to climate change from the Canadian federal leaders English Language debate that took place on October 7, 2019. They spend your money to buy a seat at the UN Security Council, and also, they are giving your money to other countries to fight climate change in Asia and build roads in Africa.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

Living in rural areas during this period of catastrophic fires driven in no small part by climate change has forced many people — myself included — to look at tree cutting, and forests, differently. Instead, he believed the land was improved by ethical and sustainable management. A legacy of resource exploitation by the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

” “Global warming could challenge the very fabric of the world’s ecological and economic systems,” Shell executive Ged Davis wrote in a contribution to a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published two years later.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Alongside his involvement in the IEA, Hintze is a long-time supporter and one of the few known funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), which dismisses climate change and opposes measures to cut emissions. In the midst of COP27, climate change deniers are being shoehorned into positions of power,” she said.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 3, 2024

The Epoch Times claims on its website that its reporters are “guided by the highest code of conduct and ethics”. Many of these adverts have explicitly questioned the contribution of carbon dioxide (CO2) to climate change. The Epoch Times spent at least $1.5 Experts question mainstream narrative.”

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Public service ethics and societal responsibilities are luxuries that most media cannot afford. Transnational public sphere An analysis of climate change coverage by Ivanova and her colleagues revealed that there is evidence for a transnational public sphere in the Western world particularly Europe and North America (Ivanova, 2014, p 219).

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