GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Amidst four concurrent crises — health, economic, race relations and climate — one stand-out 2020 development has been the rebound of major stock markets and, particularly, the growing performance and prominence of environment, social and governance (ESG) traded funds. A declining investment rationale for fossil fuels.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 12, 2020

But carbon is also moving constantly through the global economy, which historically has been powered by burning fossil fuels for energy. As a result, carbon dioxide (CO2) and other emissions have risen dramatically since the industrial revolution, presenting a daunting array of challenges for people, planet and prosperity.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2023

From the Global Team American PR Firm Edelman Enabled Oil Baron Al Jaber’s Ascension to Lead COP28 Climate Conference By Cartie Werthman In 2023 we returned to our roots and investigated the ongoing relationship between the fossil fuel industry and advertising and public relations firms. Here’s What Actually Happened.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Even with concerted efforts to curb climate change, it’s clear we are already living through the effects of a warming world. In 2007, we had, at the time, the largest solar array in North Carolina. Reducing energy usage and choosing renewable energy sources One of the biggest impacts on the climate is energy usage.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

is harnessing biology to clean water for planetary and human health. develops interactive bio-embellishments that create new possibilities for designers while eliminating microplastics and replacing fossil-fuel-based material at scale. Its co-founders are Tejus Mane , Matthew Bukovicky , and Aniket Khade.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Canada has not provided a transition pathway for its fossil fuel workers to move into other industries, and as global demand for oil and gas wanes, tens of thousands of workers could lose their jobs, say the authors of a new report. We do not deny that there needs to be change. degree Celsius (2.7

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2021

“Democrats often dismiss Republicans as being disinterested in addressing global climate change. Democrats say Republicans aren’t serious about climate change. But upon closer inspection, the opening salvo of the new House Republican agenda is a doubling-down on fossil fuels. That is simply not true.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

What really resonated with me was the fact that I would always have conversations with friends or family about climate change, and I would either be given one of two answers: that either it doesn’t exist, or that someday either technology or ‘they’ would solve the problem," Battochio says. . LinkedIn | Twitter.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

It’s an apt welcome to a place where the realities of everyday life seem to be in stark contrast to the green illusion marketed by the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries. Part of that strategy appears to be redefining its expanding petrochemical and plastics business as a solution to climate change. Shell Norco.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

But from the steep economic costs of that trade war to America’s withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement and the World Health Organization, America is losing its position as the world’s leading superpower and economy. change this picture? Nowhere is U.S.-China How can the U.S.

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Elemental Excelerator

APRIL 29, 2022

The last couple months have been a hard lesson about the danger and limitations of our old-school fossil fuel economy. As gas prices rise, we love that this bill will help people move around town with less impact on the climate and lower their cost of living in our community! Circular Economy.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

That is why we urge you to vote for Joe Biden, who is offering fact-based plans to protect our health, our economy and the environment. These facts have prompted Scientific American to call Trump's rejection of public health measures "catastrophic". His presidency will be defined by its repeated attacks against the health of Americans.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

But in the intervening decades, the region’s rivers were dammed or channeled and the fossil fuel era dawned across Appalachia. Among the other rare and threatened wild creatures living in the coal mining-impacted streams are a dozen different kinds of fish, 39 mollusks, and a wide array of crustaceans and snails, the study reports.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 25, 2021

The gas the cars they use to travel from the office, the emissions the bus they travel on, and the fossil fuels that are spent on employees going to and from the office are saved. There are an array of different possibilities and benefits of remote work. Decreasing Need for Dedicated Office Space.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 25, 2021

The gas the cars they use to travel from the office, the emissions the bus they travel on, and the fossil fuels that are spent on employees going to and from the office are saved. There are an array of different possibilities and benefits of remote work. Decreasing Need for Dedicated Office Space.

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Energy Innovation

JUNE 16, 2022

The Deeper Decarbonization Scenario shows California can rapidly cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions while creating jobs and improving public health. includes important new metrics to track the economic, environmental, and public health impacts of hundreds of climate policies. The updated California EPS–from model version 1.4.3

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

It’s a recurring theme that somehow the livestock sector and eating meat is detrimental to the environment, that it is a serious negative in terms of the climate change discussions,” Hsin Huang, Secretary General of the International Meat Secretariat (IMS) , told his audience. The Climate Impact of Meat.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

JBS , the world’s second-largest food company, also shared its plan to support regenerative agriculture practices, which are said to improve soil health and biodiversity. This means corporations are using the term to describe a vast array of different practices.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2022

The health and welfare of the millions of households who are worried about soaring energy bills, the UK's long term economic prospects, and the stability of the biosphere itself all depend on these climate sceptic talking points being consigned to the parallel universe in which they belong. per cent loss of GDP to a 0.5

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Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

With the ‘old’, I refer to the fossil-fuel based, centralized energy industries that are reliant on conservative economic models. According to Carbon Trackers , we are talking about a value of between 14-129 trillion dollars for fossil fuel assets alone and revenue streams of trillions of dollars annually. Let me explain.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 19, 2021

Yosie Mon, 07/19/2021 – 02:00 In looking across the broad array of business, environmental, social, technological and political topics that cross my screen and engage me in daily conversation, there is a temptation to allocate a growing share of mind for pessimism. Reasons for cautious hope in a sea of gloom Terry F.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

BIDEN: It [climate change] is the existential threat humanity faces, global warming. BIDEN: It [climate change] is the existential threat humanity faces, global warming. I went out to tech -- you have a facility where you have one of the largest, largest solar panel arrays in the world.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2020

But these groups have been joined by a wide array of mainstream businesses, with a host of Blue Chips across Europe calling on politicians to place the net zero mission at the heart of their stimulus packages.

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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2022

The UK solar industry has rubbished claims from Tory leadership candidates Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak that solar farms pose a threat to farmland, pointing out that climate change poses by far the bigger risk to food security and therefore further underscores the need to decarbonise energy sources.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Veteran sustainable food and farming experts welcomed the strategy as one that just might have a genuine shot at transforming the agriculture sector and result in better public health, contribute to ending the vertiginous decline of biodiversity, and lower greenhouse gas pollution.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

In a statement, Biden said Senate Democrats had "sided with American families over special interests, voting to lower the cost of prescription drugs, health insurance, and everyday energy costs and reduce the deficit, while making the wealthiest corporations finally pay their fair share".

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 24, 2022

But those quakes themselves are just one sign of an oceanic problem confronting Texas: what to do with the billions of barrels of toxic wastewater, mixed with salable fossil fuels, that the oil and gas drilling industry pumps out each year? The most powerful among them was a 4.5 Water, Water, Everywhere — But Not Enough to Drink.

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Business Green

JULY 10, 2020

It concludes that through ambitious clean energy investment, these countries can become important drivers of Europe's green recovery and climate efforts. Emerald envisions the transformation of the maritime landscape from fossil fuel production to a clean renewable energy source.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Committee on Climate Change CEO discusses infrastructure, airline bailouts, COP26 and making the best of a bad situation. Climate change and our collective response has once again - albeit understandably this time - found itself playing second fiddle to a more immediate crisis, the full ramifications of which remain far from clear.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2022

"According to the United Nations, over 160 firms with $70tr in assets are committed to decarbonise the global economy, which means phasing out fossil fuels by 2050," he said. He urged "all countries to revisit and strengthen their NDCs to deliver on the Glasgow Climate Pact by the 23 September deadline".

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

But that ethos created an unintended outcome: An expanding body of research shows that the West’s overgrown forests are fueling unnaturally severe wildfires that can cause irreparable ecological damage and massive economic loss. This array of species and surfaces reduces fire intensity and promotes biodiversity.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Yosie Mon, 09/21/2020 – 00:30 Amidst four concurrent crises — health, economic, race relations and climate — one stand-out 2020 development has been the rebound of major stock markets and, particularly, the growing performance and prominence of environment, social and governance (ESG) traded funds. ESG investors were not unwise.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 12, 2020

But carbon is also moving constantly through the global economy, which historically has been powered by burning fossil fuels for energy. As a result, carbon dioxide (CO2) and other emissions have risen dramatically since the industrial revolution, presenting a daunting array of challenges for people, planet and prosperity.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2022

Seventy-five investors with $4.7tr of assets under management (AUM) this week sent a letter to the commissioners at the US Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) to call on them to ensure new climate change disclosure rules are as wide-ranging and robust as possible. Saudi Arabia inks deal for 1GW of new renewables projects.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2021

More real estate owners, operators, developers and investment firms see the appeal of future-proofing properties from climate shocks such as floods and fires; from market shocks such as high prices for scarce fossil fuels; and from policy shocks such as any future laws requiring climate disclosures or that tax or penalize greenhouse gas emissions.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

But it is profoundly consistent with Conservative values, to want to leave the world a better place for the next generation and to care deeply about the impact of manmade climate change. Shapps is also making many of the right noises, repeatedly arguing that the cheapest electricity system is one without fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

Those levels are more than 400 times the protective health limits designated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for toxic Superfund sites and uranium mills, where fuel for nuclear bombs was once assembled. The oil and gas industry produces an extraordinary amount of waste. Page 152 of Texas RRC FOIA Nov 2020, 859 Page.

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