DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

This net zero scepticism has quickly entered the upper echelons of Westminster politics, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak saying that policies to achieve the UK’s legally binding climate targets shouldn’t “hassle” households and should be “proportionate and pragmatic”.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 3, 2022

Climate change has worsened global inequality, with poorer countries less able to withstand and adapt to climate change’s effects. But new research suggests the reverse is also true: Not only is climate change contributing to greater inequality, but inequality is also fueling climate change.

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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.” Climate change” seemed to encompass more possibilities for derangements of the global ecosystem.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

That’s according to a newly reviewed 1993 document labeled “proprietary” that was written by the company’s Canadian subsidiary Imperial Oil, one of the top producers in a heavily polluting oil deposit known as the Alberta tar sands. We’d be headed down the backside,” environmental writer and 350.org Credit: TheKurgan , CC BY–SA 3.0.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Industry trade associations in the United States that work on climate and energy issues spent more than $3 billion over 10 years on political activities, according to a new study that sheds light on trade associations’ role in influencing policies and obstructing climate action. billion on climate-related political activities.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 27, 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]. Achieving and sustaining that level of action requires that people are not incapacitated by climate anxiety or despair.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2019

New data from King’s College London show 124 additional out-of-hospital cardiac arrests and 424 hospital admissions for stroke and asthma on higher pollution days. one of the most dangerous forms of pollution. one of the most dangerous forms of pollution. Head of NHS in England warns “this is a health emergency”.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Citing economics and competitive advantage, major firms argue against loosening government controls aimed at cutting carbon pollution.

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Energy Central

JUNE 2, 2022

What they don’t admit is that through these actions they are aiding and abetting pollution leading to 1 in 6. We, therefore, by necessity need to continue relying on fossil fuels being extracted, processed, transported, and burned.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2022

So conclude researchers at Utrecht University, who have developed a new water quality model they say will better appraise the current and future pollution status of rivers and streams globally. In addition to identifying hotspots of water quality issues, the model can help with attributing the source of pollution to particular sectors.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 30, 2020

This crisis has exposed preexisting racial disparities created by deep-seated social, economic and political factors. These same underlying issues make African Americans more vulnerable to health damage from pollution, as well as from heat waves, storms and other effects of climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 24, 2024

The GWPF’s director Benny Peiser has claimed that it would be “extraordinary anyone should think there is a climate crisis”, while the group has also expressed the view that carbon dioxide has been mis-characterised as pollution, when in fact it is a “benefit to the planet”. trillion, acknowledging “factual errors”.

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Clean Energy Canada

OCTOBER 17, 2020

When the federal government delivered its Throne Speech in late September, no words were minced: climate action would be a “cornerstone” of this government’s recovery. And it wasn’t just about climate change. election now a mere week away, climate action has made few headlines out west. It’s a political one.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Finally, the climate crisis is worse than it’s ever been. For too long, climate change was viewed as a problem for the planet instead of a problem for people. For too long, climate change was viewed as a problem for the planet instead of a problem for people. Policy & Politics. Pull Quote. Sponsored Article.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 13, 2021

Public equity asset managers drive what kinds of companies are valuable and thus have the capital to grow, to what industries retirement savings flow by default and what companies can achieve a scale that affords them outsized political and policy influence. ESG funds, including those focused on climate change mitigation, do not fare better.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Former Un Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has added his voice to calls for more funding for efforts to tackle air pollution, as a new report today highlighted the "urgent need" for the world to take action to improve global air quality. Outdoor air pollution is responsible for over four million deaths every year.

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Terra Infirma

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

This week, a tweet appeared on my timeline saying “Capitalism created climate change, only socialism can fix it!” Personally, I think the idea of trying to find someone or something to be blamed for climate change is a chimera. The post Whose fault is climate change? We are where we are.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The UK government should increase tax on things we want less of - such as pollution - and reduce tax on things we want more of - such as jobs - explains Eunomia's Chris Sherrington. Giving a clear steer as to the long-term direction of travel is a key principle for policy-makers in effectively using taxes to change behaviour.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2024

The GWPF’s director Benny Peiser has suggested it would be “extraordinary anyone should think there is a climate crisis”, while the group has also expressed the view that carbon dioxide has been mis-characterised as pollution, when in fact it is a “benefit to the planet”.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

After decades of sowing doubt about climate change and its causes, the fossil fuel industry is now shifting to a new strategy: presenting itself as the source of solutions. Another shows that spending the same amount of money on clean energy to replace fossil fuels is more effective at reducing emissions, air pollution and other costs.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Losing land at an alarming rate , Louisiana is one of the states most threatened by the impacts of climate change in the U.S. Bernard Parishes has run into a buzzsaw of opposition , as local fishing communities worry that the diversions will pour polluted Mississippi River water into the bay.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Climate action is high on the agenda, as the recent speech from the throne reiterated. “We We have the raw materials and skilled workforce to produce the clean products that the world will need to cut pollution and create a green economy,” said the prime minister’s statement following the speech.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 14, 2024

Canada’s price on pollution is an effective, elegantly designed climate policy that maximizes emissions reductions while minimizing potential downsides. The carbon price – or carbon tax, depending on where you sit in Parliament – was always going to be challenging to communicate and was always going to have political enemies.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 15, 2020

Read the original: Climate change has led to more temperature inversions and the rise of ‘super pollution events’ This is why the air was unsafe to breathe and reeked of “hospital waste” in a Pennsylvania community in late December.

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Business Green

MAY 31, 2020

Our cities are becoming 'smarter' and producing more and more data - we must harness this data to fight the causes and impacts of climate change, argues C40 Cities's Rachel Huxley. The effects of climate change are being felt in cities around the world.

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Sustainability Consulting

JULY 21, 2021

Everyone loves a good TED Talk, here’s one of our favorites: Educating and empowering women and girls is one of the most important things we can do to confront carbon pollution and could result in a reduction of 80 tons of CO2 equivalent emissions says Omani scientist, activist, and athlete Rumaithat Al Busaidi in her compelling TED Talk.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Not only did we introduce the world's first climate protection bill - the 2008 Climate Change Act - which has been replicated by countries such as the Netherlands , Sweden and Ireland; we were also the first major economy to legislate for achieving ‘net zero' emissions by 2050.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

On this episode of Political Climate , we speak to Lyft’s director of sustainability, Sam Arons, about this bold new strategy. Lyft's announcement also speaks to how companies are looking to play a bigger role in the fight against climate change, in an era of increasing public pressure for greater corporate responsibility.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Mann was speaking last week about his latest book, The New Climate War , which argues that forces that have for decades sought to oppose climate action have now revised their strategies for a world in which the impacts of climate change are "no longer subtle". All we need is the political will to scale that up.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 13, 2022

In practice, this means that money will go towards meeting only the most basic of environmental standards instead of ring-fencing funds to reward landowners who want to take a more ambitious and large-scale approach to producing environmental and climate goods on their land.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2022

Fluctuating temperatures and extreme weather events are creating an ever-increasing cocktail of risk for companies, including volatile commodity and energy prices, stranded assets, increased political and litigation risks and distinct new demands. These factors influence how business is conducted and, consequently, how lawyers must practice.

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2021

That value can give companies the incentive to deploy the technology at the global scale necessary to slow climate change. That keeps the carbon dioxide from reaching the atmosphere, where it can contribute to climate change. Carbon capture technology itself isn't new. Lauren Lutzke/University of Southern California.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The pair of California leaders were there to discuss the lawsuit the state had recently filed against Big Oil on behalf of the people of California to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for the effects of climate change. But California is the first fossil-fuel-producing state to do so.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2024

A senior figure at the influential Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) think tank contributed to a new documentary that spread numerous myths about climate change. According to the website Skeptical Science, which debunks climate misinformation, Climate The Movie contains more than two dozen myths about climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The world’s leading climate scientists warned of the “irreversible” impacts of global warming in the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), describing the window of opportunity to act as “brief and rapidly closing”. thereby limiting climate action.

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Andrew Winston

APRIL 16, 2019

[I've been watching, with some joy, the rise of the youth climate movement. A month ago, a couple million kids took to the streets to protest inaction on climate change which, as they see it, threatens their entire future. Dianne Feinstein of California about her support for climate policies. Unfortunately, they're right.

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Defend Our Future

JANUARY 27, 2021

“President Biden is putting climate progress front and center with bold and decisive executive actions that will begin his administration’s efforts to reduce climate pollution and put us on track to ensuring cleaner, healthier communities. The Defend Our Future Team. ###. Connect with us on Facebook , Twitter and Instagram.

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