Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

By investing in this fund, customers can help address some of the global challenges we face in areas such as climate change, sustainable agriculture, pollution and renewable energy.". Scottish Widows said the relaunch of the fund was the latest step it had taken to achieve net zero by mid-century across its entire portfolio. "By

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Burning fossil fuels is not just driving climate change, it is also generating an air pollution crisis that is wiping trillions of dollars from the world economy every year. and ozone from fossil fuels is responsible for an estimated 7.7 Researchers estimate that toxic air produced by burning fossil fuels causes an estimated 4.5

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi announced the government would launch a review before the end of June aimed at tightening conditions for the export of coal-fired power plants. UN study: Europe's transport infrastructure at high risk from climate change. Switzerland confirms it is to submit new NDC ahead of COP26.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 19, 2024

Credit: Sarah Fish, PNASH Center, University of Washington As climate change accelerates, the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events such as megafires and heatwaves are on the rise. Along with children, outdoor workers are particularly vulnerable to the health impacts of increased air pollution from climate change.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Air pollution could soar this winter as gas boilers are cranked up at homes across the country by the UK's expanded army of home workers, the Energy and Climate Change Intelligence Unit (ECIU) has today warned. There's less awareness however of alternative ?sources sources of these harmful pollutants from within our homes.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Support for efforts to slash methane emissions over the next decade is growing, with around 150 governments now signed up to a global UN-backed pledge to tackle the potent climate pollutant, it was announced at COP27 in Egypt this afternoon.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

As industry is one of the biggest drivers of global climate change and is entirely dependent on the earth’s resources for production, it is important for business leaders and employees to understand the Anthropocene, its implications, and what it means for the future of sustainability and industry. . The Nine Planetary Boundaries.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 17, 2019

” Related: Climate change is a public health issue amounting to billions in medical costs According to the World Health Organization (WHO) , “Pollutants with the strongest evidence for public health concerns include particulate matter (PM), ozone (O3), nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and sulphur dioxide (SO2).”

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

Much of the sustainability literature focuses on the Global North and on issues salient to policy makers in developed countries, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and ozone depletion. The special focus will be Sustainability Lessons in the Global South: Priorities, Opportunities, and Risks.

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Sustainability Consulting

MARCH 31, 2021

Steiner argues that humanity has achieved many radical things like closing a giant hole in the ozone layer, ending nuclear proliferation and smallpox, but we have also taken the Earth to the brink. Today, the government pays people to protect trees and forests have regenerated. Here are a few examples.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The 90-year-old man, the oldest person to go to space, said humans can’t continue “burying our heads in the sand” about climate change, and that “we’re at a tipping point.”. climate conference in Poland they needed a “ reality check ” on climate change. Sending everyone into orbit clearly isn’t an option.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

That amendment, if passed, would have allowed manufacturers to negotiate lower tax bills with local governments, giving the already dominant petrochemical industry a way to permanently avoid paying property taxes. Because of those methane leaks, consuming more natural gas spurs ever-faster and more dramatic climate changes.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 14, 2022

Carbon Dioxide, CO 2, bears the most responsibility for anthropogenic climate change. According to a majority of scientists and studies, this would limit climate change and the harsh weather patterns and consequences associated with a warmer planet. This phenomenon is called climate feedback.

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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? In Scotland alone, around 9.5

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Sunrun

AUGUST 23, 2019

5 Many state and local governments that offer property and sales tax exemptions, too. The costs associated with climate change are growing and include rising health care costs, destruction of property, increased food prices and more. Federal and state incentives are available for going solar. Solar energy means healthier air.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

By the late 1970s, the petroleum industry had spent about two decades collecting information from their own scientists and outside experts and knew that burning fossil fuels would create catastrophic climate change. He leaves Exxon and joins the George Marshall Institute , one of the more notorious climate denial groups.

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

Most of this growing literature has not been accepted by private industry, nor has it been thoroughly evaluated to best inform government policymaking. EPA historically has identified "critical population sub-groups" in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards. Protecting at-risk populations. Pull Quote.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

The impact of poor air quality The release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere is well known to contribute to climate change, with carbon dioxide and methane being the subject of many global and national mitigation strategies that aim to break the vicious cycle of global warming. United Nations Environment Programme.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 3, 2020

Terrestrial radiation, which is supposed to be absorbed by the ozone layer, is also retained in the atmosphere. Related: New map exposes secrets of Antarctica’s green snow The Eos Bioreactor seeks to reduce the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to address climate change.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 25, 2022

Fluorinated gases are another, less prevalent type of GHG that are still significant as they have a long atmospheric lifetime and are attributed to ozone depletion. . When discussing and measuring emissions, carbon dioxide is the most common; however, CO2 is not the only greenhouse gas driving climate change that needs to be calculated.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The objective of the convention was to: “ Stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climatic system.” – UNFCCC , What is the United Nations Framework on Climate Change? ppm in 2020. C per century.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

In the fight against climate change, the $300-billion U.S. logging and woods products industry has positioned itself as a purveyor of “natural climate solutions.” In 2020, the CEOs of dozens of forestry businesses announced “an agreement of principles” stipulating that logged forests are beneficial for the climate.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

Northern Gas Networks (NGN) is bidding to host a two-year government-funded trial in Redcar, Teesside, to replace gas with ‘green’ hydrogen in around 2,000 homes. NGN staff have led volunteer litter-picks and the firm has paid for tours to a prototype of hydrogen-powered homes in Gateshead, which are run by NGN, Cadent and the UK government.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

As of April 2018, the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) region, which encompasses the Basin, was home to approximately 34,000 warehouses with 1.17 The District is targeting formal adoption of Proposed Rule 2305 at its May 1, 2020, Governing Board meeting. Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures. Endnotes. [1]

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

As of April 2018, the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) region, which encompasses the Basin, was home to approximately 34,000 warehouses with 1.17 The District is targeting formal adoption of Proposed Rule 2305 at its May 1, 2020, Governing Board meeting. Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures. Endnotes. [1]

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2021

With this in mind, this article presents the 20 best climate change and sustainability documentaries. These documentaries exhibit how video storytelling can be used to promote sustainability and climate action. Summarized below are 20 of the best climate change and sustainability documentaries.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The White House enjoyed a surprise breakthrough earlier this year when it secured bipartisan backing for the Kigali Amendment, which requires signatories to phase out HFCs alongside the ozone-destroying CFCs that were covered by the original Montral Protocol. Australia signs up to global pledge to cut methane emissions by 30 per cent.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Vatan Hüzeir , a climate activist and doctoral candidate in sociology at Rotterdam’s Erasmus University, unearthed the documents over five years of research , gathering thousands of pages of Shell-related material from archives, former employees, and other sources. “You have to ‘crack the shell,'” Hüzeir told DeSmog.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

Most of this growing literature has not been accepted by private industry, nor has it been thoroughly evaluated to best inform government policymaking. EPA historically has identified “critical population sub-groups” in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards. Protecting at-risk populations.

Pollution 28

Pollution Health Politics Policy 28

AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

Most of this growing literature has not been accepted by private industry, nor has it been thoroughly evaluated to best inform government policymaking. EPA historically has identified “critical population sub-groups” in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards. Protecting at-risk populations.

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Health Politics Pollution Policy 28

Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

While he’s on record that, as prime minister, he would eliminate the consumer-facing carbon price, more recently he expanded his “axe the tax” campaign to include other federal climate policies, including the clean fuel and clean electricity regulations.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

This is what serious international treaties, such as those covering “free trade”, and successful environmental treaties such as the Montreal accords (which sorted the Ozone problem) do. Once governments are forced by the majority to take climate that seriously, and not before, transformation will become possible.

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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? Fast forward to 1988 and a series of natural disasters?extreme

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Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

Why doesn’t the government regulate it as one? This slow-motion crisis, however, is largely manmade — and neither the federal government nor states are effectively cracking down on the major contributor. Research from Stanford and Princeton predicts that government agencies will have to double down on control efforts to keep up.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

More than $400bn in new finance and investment to increase renewables, access to electricity and clean cooking technologies were announced today by governments and businesses around the world at a crucial energy summit at the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York City today. Egypt considering bid to host COP27.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 21, 2020

Short-lived climate pollutants include black carbon or soot, methane, hydrofluorocarbons and tropospheric ozone, or what we think of as city smog. In addition to heating up the atmosphere, they dirty our air, make people sick and affect the ozone layer.


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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

It is time for the United States to not just catch up, but to lead on climate finance — for the country's own sake as well as for others'. Climate change is a global phenomenon with significant local implications. percent of the federal budget each year, supports international efforts to address climate change.

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