DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 9, 2021

A panel of leading scientists convened by the United Nations issued a comprehensive report Monday that contains a stark warning for humanity: The climate crisis is here, some of its most destructive consequences are now inevitable, and only massive and speedy reductions in greenhouse gas emissions can limit the coming disaster.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Secretary General António Guterres asked nations to arrive at the session with concrete commitments for phasing out fossil fuels, observing in his opening remarks that “humanity has opened the gates of hell.” But the event was overshadowed by the major polluters who didn’t attend.

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GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

From companies looking to select cleaner manufacturing suppliers, to investors seeking to divest from polluting industries, to consumers making choices about which businesses to patronize, one thing is clear: a reliable way to measure where emissions are coming from is necessary," they wrote. But these things use a lot of electricity.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 3, 2020

This includes $160 trillion dollars worth of savings associated with climate action and massive risks associated with inaction. s National Oceanographic Centre, the costs of sea level rise alone could exceed $14 trillion a year by 2100. Reducing fossil fuel dependence in the U.S. According to the U.K.’s

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

The first page of Menlo Park, California’s 2030 Climate Action Plan shows a map predicting which parts of the city will be underwater by the end of the century, flooded by the rising waters of San Francisco Bay. Sea level rise is just one imminent threat for Silicon Valley. The science is clear and unambiguous.”.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Climate change is accelerating and intensifying across every region of the planet, bringing with it increases in rainfall, flooding, drought, heatwaves, and sea levels that are already having significant implications for economies around the world.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

In just ten years, Jacobson has harnessed passion, determination and science to re-frame the way renewable energy is seen and, ultimately, accepted as a viable solution to climate change and air pollution. If this soup of pollution was hurting me after only a few minutes, I imagined the damage it caused people who lived in it.”

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

He has long defended the scientific consensus on climate change, and having been a fervent critic of the outgoing Liberal-National coalition government's weak green policies over the past three years, he touted this weekend's election results as "an opportunity to end the climate wars in Australia".

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 30, 2024

This newly discovered document pinpoints the earliest-known moment that carbon-dioxide-induced climate change was brought to the attention of the highest levels of U.S. is continuing, as a Panel to consider a series of questions related to Environmental Pollution. government — the President.

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Grist

AUGUST 9, 2021

Accelerating melting of ice has poured trillions of tonnes of water into the oceans, where oxygen levels are falling – suffocating the seas – and acidity is rising. Sea level has already risen by nearly 8 inches, with more now irreversibly baked in. Sea level rising so fast? Oceans so acidic?

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

It provides a steer on the solutions and services that policymakers have - nominally at least - pledged to support as part of their response to the climate crisis, and it provides a helpful summary of the various ways climate change will impact the ecosystems, infrastructure, and workers all businesses rely on.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 21, 2021

The tide is turning against Louisiana’s proposed $2 billion Mississippi River sediment diversion project, that supporters say is needed to save the coast from rapid land loss due to subsidence, damage done by the oil and gas industry, extreme weather events, and sea level rise quickened by climate change.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Health CLIMATE IMPACTS Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe by Mario Alejandro Ariza, 2020 A deeply reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist examines the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City -- a watery harbinger for coastal cities worldwide.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Whether we say climate justice, climate equity, the intersection of climate change and people or the social impacts of climate change, one thing is clear: Business has a role to play in addressing the structural inequity that causes low-income populations and communities of color to bear the brunt of the climate crisis.

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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 4, 2021

Local governments are uniquely impacted by climate change. Climate change is a cruel phenomenon. Those least able to mitigate climate pollutants and adapt to the changing climate are those who will suffesSaasr the most. But climate change’s cruelty extends to American governance, too.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

degrees C, the limit scientists say is necessary for averting some of the most dangerous climate impacts. We now have less than seven years to cut emissions in half in order to keep global warming below 1.5 2022 saw flooding, drought and severe.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Today the world's leading climate scientists delivered the clearest picture yet of the scale of the climate crisis that is already unfolding, as well as the likely impacts of further temperature rises over the course of century. Global heating is affecting every region on Earth, with many of the changes becoming irreversible.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Thousands of the world's leading climate scientists, after over three years of work, today delivered yet another landmark report on the state of the climate and ecological emergency the world now faces. With fact upon fact, this report reveals how people and the planet are getting clobbered by climate change.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

World’s top scientists have sounded alarm over intensifying impacts of climate change, warning that nature protection must be at the heart of efforts to tackle the problem. Hoesung Lee, chair of the IPCC, said the findings were a "dire warning" about the consequences of inaction on climate change. "It

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Nor does it refer to a topic that was of unequivocal scientific concern at the time: The “greenhouse effect,” or what is now known as climate change. This impressive history shows for just how long climate issues were known by Shell personnel,” said Ben Franta, senior research fellow in climate litigation at the University of Oxford.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

BusinessGreen rounds up all the reaction to the IPCC's latest sobering warning on the worsening climate crisis The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has this afternoon published a major report setting out why action to tackle greenhouse emissions is so critical and where efforts to tackle the crisis should be concentrated.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Credit: Julie Dermansky The diversion project lies at the intersection of two crises: the state’s alarming coastal land-loss rate and the essential threat of climate change. This makes it ripe for disaster capitalism, a phrase Naomi Klein coined in her book “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.”

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In all likelihood it will get worse as we experience more extreme weather events and sea levels rise from melting ice sheets. Humanity is facing an “all hands on deck” climate change emergency. No more fossil fuels. However, with rooftop solar in the equation at an average rate of $0.10/kWh,

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2022

And it pledged to halve the amount of single-use plastic in catering, in response to high expectations, particularly from athletes and consumers, to reduce plastic pollution. WMO raises alarm over latest climate records. Climate Overshoot Commission appointed. African countries team up for new green hydrogen initiative.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 2, 2021

Over the past few years, the term "climate risk" has risen to the fore , taking up residency inside the world's biggest banks and investors. Today, it is part of many companies’ toolkit as they seek to understand the impacts of climate change on their business and society. degrees Celsius. Flashing red lights. The implications?

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 12, 2020

Here are few examples of oil spills that illustrate the dangers of fossil fuels. The fossil fuel industry is driving feedback loops that include both melting permafrost and sea level rise. Melting permafrost is but one of the Arctic fedback loops caused by emissions from the fossil fuel industry.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 29, 2022

It was another busy year in the courts for climate-related cases. From challenges to fossil fuel and petrochemical expansion to climate lawsuits against Big Oil and national governments, there were notable victories for climate action and accountability in 2022. There were also some setbacks, for instance, the U.S.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2021

Over the past few years, the term "climate risk" has risen to the fore , taking up residency inside the world's biggest banks and investors. Today, it is part of many companies' toolkit as they seek to understand the impacts of climate change on their business and society. created by a range of hazards. Flashing red lights.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 2, 2021

Shell and the new era of climate risk Joel Makower Wed, 06/02/2021 – 02:11 Over the past few years, the term “climate risk” has risen to the fore , taking up residency inside the world’s biggest banks and investors. Fossil-fuel companies are likely seeing flashing red lights about now.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

US President Donald Trump's proposed budget for fiscal 2021 seeks to kill climate action and science. It includes opposition to pollution abatement, energy efficiency and renewable energy, while increasing support for fossil fuels. This budget is a continuation of what we have seen in his previous three budgets.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Add to that a huge round of new licences for North Sea oil and gas extraction – and no further windfall taxes on energy companies making bumper profits – and it’s clear the former Shell manager has few qualms about going all-out for fossil fuels. Kemi Badenoch – Trade Secretary. Zahawi earned £1.3

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

words by Henry Lewis Introduction As the clock continues ticking toward the collective future of the human species on planet Earth, there are still some among us who are either skeptics or out-right deniers of climate change. coal first and then later oil and natural gas?to According to Dr. Caleb A.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

But four hurricanes since 2005 and sea level rise — it really decimated this coastline.” He estimates that 70 metres of his property has been swallowed up by sea level rise since he moved there in 1998, with trees and wetlands washed away as the ocean advanced bit by bit with each passing year.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

When fossil fuel companies found out about the link between their product and climate change decades ago , they did everything they could to hide it. Today, denying the reality of climate change isn’t as easy, and it is certainly more controversial. They lied, manipulated, and deceived.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

trillion Build Back Better Act filled with social and climate program expansions — purports to take on climate change, but Thunberg dismissed the legislation in her comments during the opening session of the Youth4Climate event in Milan, Italy, on September 28. Climate Leadership?

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2023

The oil-rich states of the Persian Gulf, which constitute the region’s financial and geopolitical powerhouses, are also developing green hydrogen plants and wind and solar farms, with the aim of using renewable energy domestically in order to free up more of their fuel reserves for export. HH: Right, that’s the thing.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2021

DiNapoli, who is trustee of the third largest public pension plan in the US, confirmed the move as he this week also extended the list of fossil fuel firms the fund is to restrict investments in. New York State Comptroller Thomas P. Brazil announces $4bn 'sustainable' coal mining plan.

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