DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Veteran sustainable food and farming experts welcomed the strategy as one that just might have a genuine shot at transforming the agriculture sector and result in better public health, contribute to ending the vertiginous decline of biodiversity, and lower greenhouse gas pollution. Reforms Will Jeopardise Food Production’.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

Part of that strategy appears to be redefining its expanding petrochemical and plastics business as a solution to climate change. At Shell’s expanding Geismar Chemical Plant, just four miles away from the community of Geismar, the company has pending air permits for an array of additional emissions. “At

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

struggled to present of itself on climate at the COP26 conference in Glasgow. Among the other rare and threatened wild creatures living in the coal mining-impacted streams are a dozen different kinds of fish, 39 mollusks, and a wide array of crustaceans and snails, the study reports. The new research highlights how, even as the U.S.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2022

And yet, so complete is their disconnect from the real world that these zombie arguments continue to stumble across the political landscape desperately looking for an issue, any issue, to attack. Soaring energy bills? Blame net zero. Boris Johnson's downfall? Net zero's fault. A decade of flat-lining productivity and anaemic wage growth?

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AGreenLiving

JULY 19, 2021

Yosie Mon, 07/19/2021 – 02:00 In looking across the broad array of business, environmental, social, technological and political topics that cross my screen and engage me in daily conversation, there is a temptation to allocate a growing share of mind for pessimism. Reasons for cautious hope in a sea of gloom Terry F.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2023

However, new controllable visa schemes for those displaced by climate change to come to the UK would enable the government to help those most in need while protecting the integrity of the immigration system." It is a diplomatic opportunity for Global Britain," said Onward's Jack Richardson.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Committee on Climate Change CEO discusses infrastructure, airline bailouts, COP26 and making the best of a bad situation. Climate change and our collective response has once again - albeit understandably this time - found itself playing second fiddle to a more immediate crisis, the full ramifications of which remain far from clear.

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Andrew Winston

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

They saw how our two big existential challenges, climate change and inequality, along with multipliers like rising transparency and pressure from stakeholders, create emergencies. At one point, the effects of climate change were costing Unilever more than $300 million per year.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2022

Because of the high costs associated with reforming the NHS, the preferred solution is to increase privatisation of general and specialised health services and medication provision," the report suggests in one of its putative scenarios. Such reforms are envisaged against a dystopian backdrop.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Tory strategists themselves with the idea that the next election could be more like 1992 than 1997, but if the Party is to engineer one of the biggest polling recoveries in electoral history the government desperately needs some success stories and positive political momentum to carry it into a general election campaign next year.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

degree Fahrenheit) limit to global warming that an international panel of scientists says is required to avoid catastrophic climate change. But what we demand is a process that is led by government to show us and finance those changes. degree-aligned oil and gas output pathway,” Newton said, referring to the 1.5 In the U.S.,

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

Climate change is the most significant global threat we face today. How to Scale Regenerative Agriculture and Draw Down Carbon (Part 1) (Panel Discussion): Regenerative agriculture has the potential to draw down billions of tons of carbon dioxide while simultaneously restoring soil health.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The reserve is home to a vast array of rare and critically endangered animal species, including pangolins, sun bears, and - perhaps most famously - the Sumatran Tiger, of which there are less than 400 left in the wild. The big question for campaigners is how effective these policies are actually proving.

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Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

For example, DSM, a Dutch multinational corporation active in the fields of health, nutrition and materials, is investing heavily in bio-based ethylene as a replacement for fossil products including plastics. Let us look into the markets that should be on top of mind for the current leaders, shaping the geo-political landscape.

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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. ” called out a man in a black polo shirt.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Its decisions impact the air we breathe (indoors and outside), the water we drink, the food we eat, the health of the children we give birth to and raise, the cars and fuel we purchase, the beaches where we swim, the chemicals we consume (voluntarily or involuntarily) or the quality of nature that we enjoy. Bipartisan politics largely died.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Its decisions impact the air we breathe (indoors and outside), the water we drink, the food we eat, the health of the children we give birth to and raise, the cars and fuel we purchase, the beaches where we swim, the chemicals we consume (voluntarily or involuntarily) or the quality of nature that we enjoy. Bipartisan politics largely died.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

BIDEN: It [climate change] is the existential threat humanity faces, global warming. 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. How do you do it?

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

For the first time in its 175 year history Scientific American announced that it issuing a political endorsement. That is why we urge you to vote for Joe Biden, who is offering fact-based plans to protect our health, our economy and the environment. His presidency will be defined by its repeated attacks against the health of Americans.

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CleanTechnica

MARCH 4, 2020

Climate adaptation encompasses a wide array of actions that help people and nature cope with the present-day harms of climate disruption and minimize future harms. Ideally, adaptation allows us to move beyond just surviving the climate crisis to thriving in a fundamentally new world.

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