The Environmental Blog

MARCH 16, 2021

A new survey on climate change perception, which was put together by the Institute of Technology and Society Brazil and the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication in the United States, thrusts climate change into the spotlight, especially from the perspective of the younger generations.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The new research adds to the urgency of conversations about climate change, just weeks before leaders all over the world are expected to travel to Dubai to meet for the United Nation’s annual climate change conference, COP28. Hansen was the first to sound the alarm on climate change in 1988 in testimony to Congress.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 3, 2022

Scientists say a rise in global temperatures beyond 1.5°C C by the end of the century will cause catastrophic climate-changing events around the world. C by the end of the century if major climate action doesn’t happen. Sadly, temperatures are on pace to rise 2.7°

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The Verge: Energy

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Illustration by Hugo Herrera / The Verge An updated road map for combating climate change pours cold water on the idea that unproven technologies can play a major role in averting disaster. degrees Celsius — triggering more extreme weather and climate disasters and pushing the IEA to revise its global road map to address new realities.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 14, 2022

Jan Wurzbacher, co-founder and co-CEO of Climeworks: “We founded Climeworks with the vision to provide the world a tech that has the potential to reverse climate change. Accelerating the scale up of carbon removal capacity will play a crucial role in global efforts to keep global warming under 1.5°C,

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The violence of the atmospheric shifts, their deeply uneven impacts and the implications of mass extinctions that are expected at current emission levels, add up to much more than “climate change.” The term “global warming” stuck. And that term is rapidly being outrun by the speed of the changes.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Paul Marshall is the chairman and chief investment officer of Marshall Wace, a London-based hedge fund that he co-founded in 1997. Marshall Wace is now one of the world’s largest hedge funds – an investment vehicle that bets on rising and falling share prices – with around $63 billion (£51.9 billion) in assets under management.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Last month, Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Clare Coutinho met with and praised fuel pricing lobbyist Howard Cox , a Reform UK candidate who wants to “scrap net zero” and claims that “man is not responsible for global warming”. million in donations from fossil fuel interests and climate science deniers in 2022.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Over the past month and a half month, California lawmakers have enacted a pair of climate disclosure bills and endorsed a global call to end the fossil fuel era. In September, the state sued five oil majors and the chief industry lobby group to hold them accountable for climate change. We should divest.”

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Grist

MARCH 3, 2022

On Monday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a stark warning that time is running out to adapt to climate change. Global warming doesn’t only affect humans by changing the weather and melting the ice caps, the report warns. degrees Celsius (1.96 degrees Celsius (1.96

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Grist

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

By 2100, the likelihood of unusually intense fire seasons happening in a given year will have increased by 31 to 57 percent, depending on the rate of global climate change. The rise in the number and frequency of wildfires will exacerbate global warming by releasing the carbon stored in trees.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

Last year was one of the worst on record for climate change-related disasters, yet Canada’s federal government spent $18.6 It is 10 times what the government has invested in climate change adaptation since 2015. The pipeline has been called a ‘global warming machine.’

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Africa is responsible for just 3% of global carbon emissions. But global warming and other climate change impacts are negatively impacting these economies, particularly the resulting and increasingly extreme and unpredictable weather events. million, it’s still clearly under-invested.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Emma Howard Boyd's speech to the Committee on Climate Change's Adapting to 3C+ of global warming conference. Before I start my speech, I'd like to add my condolences to the Committee on Climate Change and everyone who knew Professor Dame Georgina Mace. billion today, to more than 5 billion by 2050.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

org founder Bill McKibben argues in my new book entitled The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy To Cover Up Climate Change. The main problem with a carbon tax from Imperial Oil’s perspective was that it would drastically harm the company’s sizable investments in Canada’s massive oil patch.

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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. The channel‘s co-owner, Paul Marshall, has £1.8

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Christopher Kemper

JUNE 20, 2020

CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION I have a deep love for the environment at all levels?—?not climate change is among the largest issue that our generation faces. About Climate Change In this world, all things are connected; as such, each and every thing has an impact on each and every thing else. my brand?—?is

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Companies have a part to play in ambitious climate action — not least because it increasingly makes strong economic sense, writes UN Global Compact CEO Sanda Ojiambo. Today, all business leaders must become climate leaders in their own spheres of influence and raise their voices with ours.

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Mosaic

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The Earth’s climate is changing. 97 percent of climate scientists agree that global warming trends are clear and “extremely likely” due to human activities, most prominently the rising emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the burning of fossil fuels. According to the IPCC , limiting global warming to 1.5°C

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GreenBiz

MAY 16, 2020

Risk, doubt, and the burden of proof in the climate debate. Excerpted from " Industrial-Strength Denial: Eight Stories of Corporations Defending the Indefensible, from the Slave Trade to Climate Change " by Barbara Freese, published by the University of California Press. Barbara Freese. Sat, 05/16/2020 - 14:20.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA) has today published new outlining how organisations can adapt to a changing climate, from both a strategic and practical perspective. Adaptation planning takes time, so actions are needed now to avoid ‘lock-in' to high levels of risk in 2050 and beyond.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

California is becoming a poster child for the risks utilities face from climate change, from power lines starting wildfires to heat waves forcing increasingly renewable-powered grids to the brink of system collapse. “We can scan the entire grid every day if we want,” den Bakker said.

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GreenBiz

MAY 8, 2021

From how businesses chose to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic to the escalating outcry over racial justice to the increasing urgency around climate change, there is much for companies to answer for this year. Here’s what I found: Demand for climate disclosure is up — and up.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Partner Content: In this exclusive Q&A with Shopify's Head of Sustainability, Stacy Kauk, reveals why reversing climate change cannot happen without support for the burgeoning carbon removal sector BusinessGreen : Shopify is a big advocate of carbon removal - where does the potential lie for this nascent sector?

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

To avoid the worst consequences of global warming, report after report has stressed the importance of cutting emissions. The new report recommends five specific areas in which to invest. More climate-resilient infrastructure adds about 3 percent to upfront costs but provides $4 in benefits for every $1 of cost.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

What is climate change and why should we be concerned about it. Climate change refers to a broad array of environmental degradation that is predicted to result from increasing levels of atmospheric CO2, including global warming , alterations in precipitation, sea level changes, and more extreme weather events.

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Business Green

MAY 3, 2022

At the same time, emissions have rocketed, with global annual CO2 emissions rising to 36.3 Based on the global carbon budget of 400 billion tonnes between 2020 and 2050, identified by the IPCC in its 2021 Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), the new OECM research calculates carbon budgets for the highest emitting industries. Paris target.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Energy storage can help mitigate climate change, but it is still on low levels and needs to triple by 2050 to keep global warming below 2°C. Reforming our energy system is one of the most important measures to mitigate climate change. Globally, only 3% of power capacity is being stored.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Investment will monitor, report, and verify collective climate actions in support of the Global Methane Pledge. Methane is a major contributor to climate change, and if we can’t measure it, we can’t manage it. Planet and NASA JPL are building the first two satellites, which are set to launch in 2023. within reach.”

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Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 6, 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]. Among the projections: climate impacts worsen nearly 60 percent of infectious diseases. Source: Mora et al.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The IEA was established to help safeguard global energy supplies after the 1970s oil crisis. Now, shoring up energy systems means bringing renewables online to prevent more extreme climate change — especially as climate-fueled disasters like heatwaves and storms increasingly threaten power grids across the world.

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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. is beyond reach.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 11, 2024

While Anderson has contradicted the scientific consensus on net zero and fossil fuels, Reform’s leadership has gone further, explicitly rejecting the climate science on global warming. Reform’s manifesto falsely claims that “scientists disagree as to how much” humans have had an impact on global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

This time, Heartland is frantically spinning the results of a survey it commissioned in its latest attempt to dispute the robust scientific consensus on climate change. To be clear, climate experts overwhelmingly agree that climate change is happening and that humans are primarily responsible.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

UNEP Adaptation Gap report shows the world is still hundreds of billions of dollars short of what is needed to finance climate adaptation. According to climate scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), climate risks intensify significantly with every tenth of a degree on the thermometer.

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Business Green

JULY 14, 2021

Led by Accounting for Sustainability, the Net Zero Statement of Support marks first time a number of funds have pledged to bring investments in line with 1.5C The pension fund chairs who are signing our Net Zero Statement of Support are committing to address the risks of climate change and invest in a resilient, sustainable future.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

A “sustainable development” conference taking place in London gave a platform to two prominent climate science deniers, who used the event to claim that coal-fired power is “clean” and call global warming a “religion”. The scientific body has also described the link between human activity and climate change as “ unequivocal ”.

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