Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The impact of climate change on our road network is climbing the list of national priorities. Across Europe, National Road Administrations (NRAs) are having to deal with more frequent and severe weather, greater sea level rises and increased stress on infrastructure leading to higher deterioration rates.

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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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Business Green

JANUARY 9, 2023

The report, titled The labour force in a changing climate: research and policy needs , explores how heat waves are leading to a reduction in the number of working hours in many countries, which is in turn resulting in reduced labour productivity. hours per worker between 2016 and 2019 as a result of warming. Dasgupta said.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

“I think it’s funny that humans have this enormous taboo about a biological function that’s ultimately going to help us survive climate change,” said Sarah Everts, the author of The Joy of Sweat. Worryingly, climate change is also driving up the moisture content of the air, especially in the tropics.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

The United States-based oil major’s willingness to publicly throw down the gauntlet to policy-makers underscores the stakes for the fossil fuel industry as the EU fleshes out its plans to slash carbon emissions, ahead of June’s European parliament elections. ADNOC is a major supplier of oil and gas to Europe.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The findings come at a crucial time for nature-friendly laws in Europe, which scientists say are critical to securing the bloc’s food supply and tackling both climate breakdown and biodiversity collapse. The first, the Nature Restoration Law, includes plans to restore 20 percent of degraded ecosystems in the EU.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

“We need more policy support than is available today. The report plots out the steps required to stay within 2 degrees of warming, finding that Western Europe and the U.S. ’s climate change board. An EU carbon credit in its Emissions Trading System is currently priced at just shy of €30 ($35).

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The growing frequency and severity of extreme weather events caused by climate change is set to send property insurance prices soaring over the next 20 years, Swiss Re has warned. Our work is also vital for policy makers with whom we share the aim of making economic growth insurable.".

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 2, 2021

Lawyers representing Grande-Synthe argued that the government was legally bound by the target, as well as its duties under the Paris Agreement, the European Convention on Human Rights, and French environmental law more broadly, and said current policies were not sufficient to meet them.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

and EU to drop their landmark climate change laws, spreads falsehoods about green policies, and fondly recalls an attempt to cancel a major climate conference. She also claims that, while serving in the Treasury, she attempted to cancel the 2021 COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. She adds that “the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

But now Europe is poised to enact laws that would not only recognise the harms of chemical-intensive agriculture, but also to ensure that synthetic pesticide and fertiliser use is significantly reduced. The battle over agrochemical regulation is not new. See Table.).

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Energy Central

MARCH 26, 2024

GLOBAL STATUS OF CCS 2023 SCALING UP THROUGH 2030 We have seen significant progress on CCS since last year’s 2022 Global Status of CCS report, spurred by government policies in North America and Europe set forward to catalyse all forms of climate change mitigation.

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Planet Pulse

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Notably, we are seeing a transformation in sustainable agriculture across Europe. This platform is helping European nations transform agricultural practices for greater sustainability and find solutions for the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2022

The research synopsis below comes from AGCI Program Director Emily Jack-Scott and a full list of AGCI’s updates covering recent climate change and clean energy pathways research is available online at [link]. Achieving and sustaining that level of action requires that people are not incapacitated by climate anxiety or despair.

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EDF + Business

JUNE 9, 2020

Methane: Europe’s missing link for effective energy decarbonization. About half of all internationally traded gas is consumed by Europe. Governments have a pivotal role in developing and implementing policy and regulation that achieve ambitious emission reduction outcomes. ” Download the policy recommendations.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 25, 2022

Enel Foundation’s Managing Director, Carlo Papa, outlines the main components of the commitment towards the understanding and tackling of Climate Change for his organisation. Interested in more content from Enel Foundation? Visit their content library here.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2021

Calls for action to address economic risks from worrying climate scenarios have come from natural scientists for decades - now economists are lending their voices, writes the University of Delaware's Dr James Rising. Does unmitigated climate change carry the risk of economic collapse? Natural scientists like James Hansen and E.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 12, 2023

The US-based organisation – which has links to a network of fossil fuel funded think tanks and advocacy groups – has opposed climate-friendly measures in Europe, such as the phase-out of petrol cars and green farming reforms, despite being removed from the lobby register over a year ago.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Why don’t more people choose to bank with climate-friendly retail banks that have clear environmental investment and loan policies? So why don’t more people choose to bank with climate-friendly retail banks that have clear environmental investment and loan policies? I share here the interim results for the first time.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2021

ClientEarth has filed a legal challenge against Belgium's central bank, accusing it of breaching legal obligations to consider environmental protection when buying corporate bonds in a landmark case that could help 'green' the monetary policy of a number of European nations.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 30, 2021

Foundations , celebrity philanthropists and tech giants alike have announced plans this year, with grand sums of money attached, to combat climate change. Since its inception, the focus has been on trying to build strong international policies in favor of green transport. and in Europe. Liz Morrison.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Methane is a major contributor to climate change, and if we can’t measure it, we can’t manage it. ” Methane is one of the most potent greenhouse gases contributing to global warming and a leading cause of climate change worldwide. within reach.”

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2024

“The journey has been marked by unprecedented challenges in the energy and renewables sector, first with the 2022 energy crisis, and later complicated by geopolitical events in Eastern Europe. This includes the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change , which helped create the University’s Zero Carbon Goal.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2020

The coronavirus crisis demonstrates the "critical need" for Europe to strengthen the resilience of its economy against climate and environmental threats, the European Commission said today, as it set the ball rolling towards finalising a new Sustainable Finance Strategy for the continent in 2020.

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Planet Pulse

JANUARY 18, 2022

Originally created in 1962, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is a cornerstone of the European Union (EU) which consists of a system of subsidies designed to support the European agricultural sector. The policy looks to strengthen the EU agricultural economy and improve productivity across 174 million agricultural hectares.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2022

Leading shareholders claim successful engagement with bank has secured new commitments to phase down fossil fuel financing and tighten lending policies. and update the scope of its oil, gas and thermal coal policies by the end of this year. and update the scope of its oil, gas and thermal coal policies by the end of this year.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

A new analysis released on 15 September by Environmental Defense Fund Europe (EDF Europe), based on data from the Waze for Cities Programme, appears to show that traffic congestion is currently increasing in London and it is now worse than 2019 levels outside the city centre. The analysis examines data from May 2020 onwards.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

From its outset the initiative has advocated for hydrogen ‘corridors’ as providing an economical means to bridge the substantial variation of hydrogen producers and end users throughout the regions of Europe. Join Enlit Europe in Paris. Based on data from TSOs’ real world projects, the current costs are calculated at €1.8

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 7, 2024

million to national groups denying climate change is a crisis, according to federal tax data reviewed by DeSmog. organization called the Atlas Network that for years has backed efforts in Canada and globally to vilify climate protesters as dangerous extremists. They in turn belong to a U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The self-styled PopCons included politicians critical of climate policies and science, including Lord Frost, who is a director of the climate science denial Global Warming Policy Foundation , as well as Conservative MP Lee Anderson and Reform party president Nigel Farage.

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2021

Delivering the UK's heat pump installation target requires urgent policy action and a clear strategy, explains Laura Bishop of the Ground-Source Heat Pump Association. But as the Climate Change Committee (CCC) has pointed out, it is not possible to deliver our low carbon future simply by wishing it. So what needs to be done?

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Business Green

AUGUST 20, 2020

Manure is also rich in nitrogen, it points out, but intensive farming models which separate livestock from crops - for example, the reliance on soy from South America as feed for cattle in Europe - make it impractical to use natural manure as a primary source of nitrogen, leading to greater reliance on synthetic products.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The report also suggested that climate change is already having an impact on food prices by causing extreme weather and warned that the UK's supplies could increasingly be put at risk and made more expensive by these extremes. That's how much extra households are paying for food this year due to gas prices and climate change.".

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

Statement from world leaders show climate action is firmly still on the international agenda, but how that plays out remains to be seen, writes ECIU's Richard Black. That means investing in industries and infrastructure that can turn the tide on climate change.". Steely determination. Well: that may be a step too far.

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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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

This story is part of Covering Climate Now , a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. . While the European Union’s leaders stand by that sentiment, a lot has changed since then.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2023

According to the research, Europe is leading the charge in the development of clean hydrogen, with Germany home to 25 of the total already operational projects (equal to 27%); the U.S. In its recent report to the UK Parliament, the Climate Change Committee noted that the UK has lost its global leadership position on climate action.

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