The City Fix

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The past year registered record-shattering global temperatures. degrees C (2 degrees F) of global warming, compared to pre-industrial averages. People around the world are already witnessing epic heat waves, wildfires and drought at 1.1 With current policies putting the world on.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Let’s not make the same mistake with global warming. Air pollution, tall buildings, building materials, lack of green spaces and wind all contribute to trapping heat from the sun, traffic and industry and result in the creation of Urban Heat Islands (UHI). And temperatures will continue to rise.

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The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 14, 2021

Unfortunately, many politicians and citizens ignored their cries, believing global warming didn’t exist or wasn’t something they’d have to worry about in their lifetimes. Be that as it may, as temperatures rise in otherwise cool parts of the world, this virus can spread more quickly. Take dengue fever, for instance.

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Business Green

MAY 25, 2022

Methane is a blow torch that’s cooking the planet,' scientists warn, as new study argues near term action could play a critical role in curbing global warming. by 2035 and 2C by 2050.

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Grist

APRIL 19, 2024

Because their bodies cool themselves less efficiently than adults, children remain more susceptible to heat-related illness as they grow. A 2021 study found that 80 percent of parents agreed that the impact of global warming on their child’s health should be discussed during their routine visits.

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Green Living Guy

MARCH 30, 2022

Insulate Your Home Adequate insulation is an essential part of the heating and cooling your home efficiently. Conserving energy at home can help out your household’s monthly budget considerably. Here are some of the most effective ways that you can use less energy at home.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

HFCs are less harmful than CFCs, but they create another problem – they have a strong heat-trapping effect that is contributing to global warming. How HFCs keep rooms and food cool. It sounds almost miraculous – heat pumps use energy to take heat out of a cold place and dump it in a warm place. What can replace HFCs?

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Doing so would address a glaring omission in the 2015 Paris accord, which never actually mentions coal, oil, or natural gas despite being an international agreement to stop global warming. Coal of course is the most polluting fossil fuel, one reason why it’s hard to ignore in a climate agreement. degrees Celsius.

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TIME Ecocentric

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Small volcanic eruptions might be part of the reason why the pace of global warming hasn’t kept up with previous predictions, a new study published in Nature Nature Geoscience suggests. But unfortunately for us, the cooling effect is expected to be temporary—if we keep emitting greenhouse gases, the climate will keep warming.

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Rinexii

JANUARY 13, 2023

billion to improve public health and reduce pollution Green roofing and rooftop gardens, clean energy, and zero emission school buses will all help reduce emissions and help cool off urban areas. They help cool off urban areas through absorbing heat, and can also absorb water runoff.

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2020

As a self-avowed technophile, I'm more than willing - some might say too willing - to embrace the idea that technological ingenuity might be able to give Mother Nature an assist as humankind grapples with the physical risks of global warming. The potential upside: The planet's temperature could be cooled. Intriguing?

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Trucks powered by liquified natural gas (LNG) may be no better for the climate than diesel lorries and could be guilty of polluting the air far more than claimed by manufacturers, according to a new study from Transport & Environment (T&E). It found the latter emitted only 7.5 per cent less methane than the former.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

In just ten years, Jacobson has harnessed passion, determination and science to re-frame the way renewable energy is seen and, ultimately, accepted as a viable solution to climate change and air pollution. If this soup of pollution was hurting me after only a few minutes, I imagined the damage it caused people who lived in it.”

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 3, 2020

Unfortunately, contemporary ice-making and maintenance technologies consume large amounts of energy and produce refrigerant gases that cause pollution , making them environmentally harmful. HFCs heighten the greenhouse effect, while carbon dioxide similarly intensifies global warming.

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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2020

By any measure, 400 million tons is a significant chunk of heat-trapping gases that will get mixed into the atmosphere, fueling more global warming. In addition to carbon pollution, the fires are producing, well, regular air pollution. It’s a great example of a positive feedback of climate change,” Hughes said. “It

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The programme comes on top of IKEA's existing financing initiative designed to help its suppliers develop on-site clean energy for electricity, heating and cooling. It also claims to have become one of the first major companies to disclose its outdoor air pollution footprint across its value chain.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Greenhouse gas emissions from heating and cooling buildings continue to rise in Connecticut despite the state’s efforts to improve energy efficiency. Continuing to subsidize polluting fossil fuels defies logic,” said Shannon Laun, a staff attorney for the Conservation Law Foundation, in a statement. “If

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Econaur

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The hygiene levels demanded by COVID-19 simultaneously require a cleaner, more pollution-free environment – something that begins at home. Architecture has long been a contributor to global warming, with Ed Mazria, the founder of Arch2030, saying that buildings will account for 60% of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As a result, the industry accounts for roughly 8 percent of annual carbon dioxide emissions, as well as a toxic soup of air pollutants. Doing so is essential to limiting global warming to 1.5 Steelmakers worldwide are facing mounting pressure from government regulators and consumers to decarbonize operations.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. The hope is that limiting global warming to 1. Industrial chemicals, mainly used for cooling and refrigeration, which are potent greenhouse gases and contributing to climate change. Short-lived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs).

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 24, 2021

As one example, New Jersey Natural Gas is requesting rate recovery of millions of dollars of new gas infrastructure investments without any demonstration of how increased investment in the gas system will comport with New Jersey’s Global Warming Response Act.

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Front And Centered

MAY 17, 2019

More to work on: A bill to increase the State’s insufficient targets for emissions reductions to match the Paris Accords failed to advance for the second year in a row, leaving Washington state’s targets far below what’s necessary to avoid the worst harms from global warming. This policy was Front and Centered legislative priority. **We

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 23, 2020

Also,the composting process averts methane emissions that cause global warming, and it converts organic material into valuable fertilizer that can be used to enrich poor soil and improve plant growth. Reduce Food Waste: Globally, food waste accounts for roughly 8 percent of total anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In interviews afterward, Shatner made a plea for the planet as TV hosts tried to steer him toward topics lighter than death and global warming. There’s an irony here: In order to gain this more-than-sky-high perspective, astronauts and space tourists have had to take an incredibly polluting journey.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2021

Although reflecting the sun to slow global warming has been discussed for over half a century , precious few experiments have actually taken place. Solar geoengineering, after all, isn’t a true climate change “solution”; it doesn’t suck CO2 back out of the sky or reverse the long-term trajectory of warming.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Let’s not make the same mistake with global warming. Air pollution, tall buildings, building materials, lack of green spaces and wind all contribute to trapping heat from the sun, traffic and industry and result in the creation of Urban Heat Islands (UHI). And temperatures will continue to rise.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

Energy-efficiency buildings : The amount of energy wasted from buildings is reduced by using efficient heating, insulating, cooling, or lighting systems. The stoves have improved combustion, reducing household air pollution and the adverse health effects of this. New buildings can also be built using less carbon-intensive materials.

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Grist

JUNE 2, 2023

Rising temperatures could transform plankton and other tiny aquatic organisms into a huge source of carbon emissions, a little-known — and potentially catastrophic — climate tipping point that could accelerate global warming. The world has already warmed 1.2 degrees C, or about 2.7 degrees F) by 2100.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

That was the heat index, a measure of both heat and humidity that’s crucial because humidity curbs the body’s lifesaving ability to cool itself by sweating. degrees Celsius) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Saturday This is the kind of thing that happens with just a little over 1 degree Celsius of global warming today.

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Rinexii

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

She knows how much I care about the environment, and was excited to give me the cool thing she found. A few days ago, my neighbor came to me with a gift she found at a thrift store. It was a small blue plastic sphere sitting proudly in thick plastic packaging, with instructions that boldly proclaimed, “Join us in protecting the planet.”

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 22, 2020

We came up with dozens of cool products and hosted tastings in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. For one, Harvard University has documented that kelp plays a significant role in reducing global warming. .’ So, I started sending out 5-pound bags of frozen kelp to all my chef friends across the U.S.,”

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Grist

AUGUST 7, 2020

A father-daughter scientific collaboration was born that would produce, in a paper published Friday , the most-detailed picture of quarantine’s effect on global warming to date. If we are back to normal by then, the entire quarantine will have only reduced global warming 0.01 Industrial pollution had also fallen.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

New research published in Nature Climate Change in March, which was able to pinpoint the warming caused by livestock emissions for the first time, has added to the pressure. Place), to promote the idea that industrial animal agriculture could actually contribute to “cooling the climate”.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Recent findings from some peer-reviewed academic papers in agricultural journals sound like fodder for optimism: The United States cattle industry has helped to cool the climate almost every year since 1986. European dairy goats and sheep have caused no additional warming since 1990.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

The 2020s will have to involve some very big decisions about transport - the UK's most polluting sector. Unlike low-level cloud, which has a net-cooling effect, contrails contribute significantly to global warming, effectively boosting the aviation industry's share of greenhouse gas emissions to around 4.9

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2020

As the world's largest drinks producer, it has has been singled out as the most polluting brand in the world for two years running by the Break Free from Plastic campaign in its global audit of plastic waste. CCEP's announcement comes as Coca-Cola faces growing pressure to ramp up its green credentials.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. Heat Pumps for Sustainable Heating and Cooling (Green Energy and Technology) by Y. In this regard, heat pumps offer an energy-efficient alternative for heating and cooling. Climate impacts 2. Climate action 4.

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