DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Despite being forced to resign last year after obstructing a police investigation into illegal logging , Salles was re-elected in September’s legislative elections. A spokesperson said the company had a “strict zero deforestation policy” as well as “strong commitments to action on climate change”. Climate Denial.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 6, 2020

Environmental activists are consequently sounding alarms on climate change , demanding halts to logging and coal use due to their exacerbation of wildfire conditions. The compelling issue here is climate change. As the driest continent on Earth, we’re at the forefront of accelerating global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

The Ministerial Meeting DeSmog has obtained the details of a meeting held on 23 February 2021 between Policy Exchange’s Energy and Environment Unit and Anne-Marie Trevelyan, who at the time was serving as Minister for Energy, Clean Growth and Climate Change at the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).

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Grist

AUGUST 24, 2021

On Saturday night, Central Park in New York City logged a record 1.94 Kerry Emanuel, a climate scientist at MIT, said it was difficult to pin any of the specific events on climate change. These events give us an occasion to talk about how climate change affects hurricanes and floods,” Emanuel said.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The frozen continent recently logged its warmest temperature to date, a whopping 65 degrees Fahrenheit. Related: NASA finds cavity the size of Manhattan underneath Antarctic glacier Scientists advise that unless global warming is reined in, the South Pole’s ice and snow will disintegrate and cause sea levels to rise drastically.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Although Scotland is more heavily forested than England or Wales, much of its woodlands have been lost to logging, urban sprawl and climate change. Reforestation has thereby become an important tool in combatting Earth’s climate emergency. Why has reforestation become important in recent years?

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

Many local people are furious at the damage done to their forests by logging corporations ripping out whole trees with Star-Wars machinery that first churns up and then compacts the soil. 3 Its author is Duncan Brack, who was an adviser to Chris Huhne when he was Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change from 2010 to 2012.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Then, on February 9, a Brazilian-run research station on nearby Seymour Island logged recorded a temperature of: 69.4 Between the 1950s and the early 2000s, the Antarctic Peninsula has warmed 5 degrees F, that is much faster than the rest of the world. The beat the station’s previous high record of 63.5 C) in March 2015.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 10, 2024

Although it doesn’t get enough attention, the two major parties — the Conservatives and Labour — have chosen climate change and, in particular, fossil fuel production in the North Sea as a clear political dividing line for the electorate. The UK is heading to the polls on July 4. The rules governing APPGs often inhibit public scrutiny.

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Green Living Guy

JULY 6, 2022

Forests are an essential part of the world’s ecosystem. Trees improve air quality and provide shelter to many different animal and insect species. Healthy forests also protect diverse plants, ranging from tall trees to climbing vines to low-growing ground cover.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

There are a lot of major oil companies that tend to fill headlines when talking about climate change – BP, Shell, Chevron – any of the ‘big six’ public oil companies. trillion market value makes it the most valuable company in the world, logging sales of oil and gas worth hundreds of billions of dollars a year.

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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. Prescribed-fire professionals ignite cultural burns. Into this destruction stepped John Muir.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

trillion market value makes it the most valuable company in the world, logging sales of oil and gas worth hundreds of billions of dollars a year. This is despite the International Energy Agency stating that new oil and gas fields are incompatible with the target to limit global warming to 1.5C. Powered by Pollution Aramco’s $2.3

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Grist

AUGUST 18, 2021

With fire as a theme, it offers a sideways view on climate change, continental scale shifts in biogeography, the sixth extinction, changes in ocean chemistry and sea level, and the character of the human presence on Earth. Like fire, the Pyrocene integrates its surroundings — geographic, historical, institutional, intellectual.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

He proposed establishing a world alliance for food security targeted at ending hunger and building a more sustainable food system to combat climate change, and demanded that richer nations deliver on their collective commitment to provide $100bn in climate finance a year to developing nations. global warming goal out of reach.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Deforestation and forest degradation are the second leading causes of global warming, responsible for about 15 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions. Put in place by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in 2005, it works by giving financial value to emission reductions from avoided deforestation. This is working.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

She facilitated a youth leadership camp focused on combating climate change. Cruz has logged more than 160 dives since the age of 10 and has been shooting underwater photographs since he was 12. He is concerned about the welfare of black people in an economy devastated by the climate crisis.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. C scenarios according to the IPCC Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C The results are annual averages across the first 30 years of simulation.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 12, 2020

Donald Trump is the world's most powerful advocate of the industry that is at the heart of the climate crisis. It is an irrefutable scientific fact that if we are to minimize global warming we must stop burning coal, oil and gas. The fossil fuel industry has known this for decades. At the same time the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2022

State Department puts it, is often supported by the same industries that are escalating climate change. In my new book, “ Global Burning: Rising Antidemocracy and the Climate Crisis ,” I lay out connections between these industries and the politicians who are both stalling action on climate change and diminishing democracy.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Biden's victory is seen as being of monumental importance for global efforts to avoid catastrophic levels global warming and will be widely regarded as vindication for a campaign that prioritised climate action as a central plank in its platform. — Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) November 7, 2020.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The opening of the refuge adds to the unprecedented amount of public land that this administration has made available for fossil fuel extraction, logging, mining and grazing. Trump is also purging scientists who refute his climate denial and replacing them with skeptics who cast doubt on the veracity of climate change.

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