DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Oil and gas has dominated discussions at past COPs, which have focused on the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the energy and transport sectors to tackle dangerous levels of global warming. The latter gets you a pink badge and coveted access to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) diplomatic process.

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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. This array of species and surfaces reduces fire intensity and promotes biodiversity. As authors Otis Parrish and Kent G.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2020

New report from independent advisory committee warns the government must approach net zero carbon target carefully, with joined-up policy interventions that do not inadvertently lead to higher emissions. People get very worked up about the money thing, and I really understand that," he acknowledged. "[But]

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 12, 2020

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. As the most prevalent of the greenhouse gases (GHGs), CO2 plays an outsize role in global climate change — for example, it accounted for 81 percent of U.S.

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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. degree-aligned oil and gas output pathway,” Newton said, referring to the 1.5 degree Celsius (2.7

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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. It came above all other economic policies, anything on migration, or culture stuff. It is a matter of political necessity." explained Tryl.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

Citi similarly pledged $1tr by 2030 to "finance and facilitate a wide array of climate solutions." Another report , published last week by the London-based nonprofit InfluenceMap, assessed the climate-related policies and practices of the world's 30 largest financial institutions. degrees Celsius.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Every four years, the federal government is required to gather up the leading research on how climate change is affecting Americans, boil it all down, and then publish a National Climate Assessment. closer to meeting its emissions targets under the global climate treaty known as the Paris Agreement. Here they are.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

” That apparent conservation activist was, in fact, an infamous climate change disinformation artist : Marc Morano, who’s done more than perhaps any other person to manufacture doubt about global warming. In other words, climate change. But at the local level, challenges are mounting.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2019

Yet children are not getting the facts about climate change in public schools. A growing number of American adults (75%) acknowledge that the climate is changing but this message not being disseminated to kids. Americans want their children to know the causes, consequences, and solutions to global warming.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

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. One, get back into that international climate change agreement. And you can do this in a smart way.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

However, in practice the interactions envisioned by the reticulate public sphere devolve into an anarchic array of endless permutations. Public spheres have traditionally been defined by their opposition to a state or a given policy perspective. However, this changes when the state exerts undue control over public opinion.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

As Mark Carney noted this morning, this is part of a global trend. Finally climate policy action is getting real," he said. But overall the Senate's Climate Hawks have mounted a genuinely successful rear-guard action in defence of the Bill and protected many of its core emissions-reducing elements.

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CleanTechnica

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

New polls show climate change is high on the list of concerns for voters. Carbon sequestration does not have to cost any more than nations have already spend on fighting the coronavirus. So why is the US not taking a leading role? George Carlin has the answer.

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