Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

One of the most obvious things to do in a crisis is to stop making it worse – stop financially supporting those activities that are highly damaging to the ocean – overfishing, pollution, extraction and dumping. The paper is being published on the eve of Ocean Day at COP on 4 November. Time is not on our side.

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Climate change Carbon-negative Biodiversity Carbon 264

LA CleanTech Incubator

JUNE 5, 2020

times more hazardous pollution than white people — regardless of income. Breathe 56 percent more pollution than they create. Are exposed to 50 percent higher rates of particulate pollution than the general population. Are more likely to live near highways, airports, refineries and other sources of hazardous air pollutants.

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Energy Energy Pollution Organic 145

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The UN Conference of the Parties (COP) climate summits convene world leaders and delegates and draws significant media attention. The question after that is for the UN and other stakeholders to determine if we need stricter rules for who is in the room and around the table at these COPs,” he said.

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Fossil fuels COP Pollution Organic 92

Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

Italian Minister for the Environment, Land and Sea Protection, Sergio Costa: "Whilst we have decided to postpone COP26, including the Pre-COP and ‘Youth for the Climate' event, we remain fully committed to meeting the challenge of climate change. Tackling climate change requires strong, global and ambitious action.

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Climate change Resilience Health COP 72

Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Carbon markets are set to be one of the key issues at the upcoming COP climate talks, with negotiators tasked with finalising the rules for Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, which aims to create a framework for countries and companies to meet their climate goals by trading carbon credits.

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Carbon Sustainability Government COP 49

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. JBS, the world’s most polluting meat company, will be out in “full force” in Dubai , according to the files. The North American Meat Institute will host a side event at the US COP pavilion on December 11, the summit’s Agriculture Day, for example.

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Agriculture Methane Climate change Government 141

Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2020

British diplomats, the UK COP presidency team and Ministers would have been in a whirl of frenetic influencing activity globally (we hope) to drive up ambition, and drive out those new nationally-determined contributions (NDCs) from all the parties to the Paris Agreement. But these are not normal times, and the COP has been delayed by a year.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

In Canada last month almost 200 countries at COP 15 agreed a set of landmark pledges that will resonate not just through 2023, but to the end of the decade and beyond to the middle of the 21st century. nJanuary is a time for new beginnings and new resolutions to drive self-improvement, and that applies to nations just as much as individuals.

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Biodiversity COP Carbon-neutral Government 40

Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2021

There are doubts over the industry's ability to manage health risks like water pollution , anger over disruptive industrial activity near to homes , and fears about the earthquakes caused by fracking. At that point, the government decided that shale gas was not worth supporting and announced a moratorium on fracking.

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Fossil fuels Methane Demand Government 91

AGreenLiving

JUNE 5, 2020

times more hazardous pollution than white people — regardless of income. Breathe 56 percent more pollution than they create. Are exposed to 50 percent higher rates of particulate pollution than the general population. Are more likely to live near highways, airports, refineries and other sources of hazardous air pollutants.

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Energy Energy Pollution Organic 36

Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

But within hours of it being signed the pollution-loving Australian government signalled it had no intention to strengthen its disgracefully weak 2030 emissions targets. Future COPs will re-open this debate and seek to extend it to gas and oil. If COPs did not exist you would have to invent them.

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Fossil fuels Government COP Policy 98

AGreenLiving

JUNE 5, 2020

times more hazardous pollution than white people — regardless of income. Breathe 56 percent more pollution than they create. Are exposed to 50 percent higher rates of particulate pollution than the general population. Are more likely to live near highways, airports, refineries and other sources of hazardous air pollutants.

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Energy Energy Pollution Organic 28

Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

COP talks each year are often fraught and progress remains far too slow, as today's IPCC report on escalating climate impacts will testify. As close observers of global climate diplomacy have long argued, if the COP process and the Paris Agreement did not exist you would have to invent them. The US left the treaty altogether briefly.

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Plastics Pollution Waste Waste 81

Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

Meanwhile, on the domestic front Tory backbench opposition to some of the key planks of the UK government's climate strategy continued to build, with The Sun reporting today that MPs in a WhatsApp group of northern MPs had responded angrily to polling suggesting that owners of polluting cars disproportionately backed the Conservatives.

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Government Climate change COP Fossil fuels 69

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Nobel showed how a lack of transparency has made it almost impossible for communities to hold such companies to account when projects fail, or understand the kinds of health or environmental risks they may pose. Proponents hailed it as one of the most important environmental projects undertaken by the oil and gas industry in recent Uu.S.

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Fossil fuels Carbon Agriculture Climate change 56

DeSmogBlog

JULY 19, 2023

Because there’s no indication that the companies responsible for 86% of the world’s carbon dioxide pollution took notice or broken stride at all. But you wouldn’t know it from the way the fossil fuel industry has responded. I would have thought we were already far past that point.

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Fossil fuels Global warming Energy Energy 65

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

The stoves have improved combustion, reducing household air pollution and the adverse health effects of this. REDD+ is a framework created by the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP) to guide offset projects focused on reforestation, forest management, conservation, and deforestation prevention.

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Carbon Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Methane 148

Grist

JUNE 21, 2023

And just earlier this month, Waffle House employees, under the banner of United Southern Service Workers, spoke out against their employer’s support of an environmentally destructive police-training facility in Atlanta, dubbed “Cop City.” Their efforts highlight both the power and risks of standing up to an employer.

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Organic Fossil fuels Carbon-neutral Demand 83

Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

They also all stressed that they wanted to do more to tackle biodiversity loss and water pollution, and a number of candidates floated new policy proposals. Badenoch is yet to provide an example of policies that could "bankrupt" the UK in pursuit of net zero.

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Climate change Government Policy Biodiversity 61

Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

“First study of its kind” to track how plastic bottle pollution moves through the open ocean. Scientific monitoring devices were launched into the ocean on 8 June, World Ocean Day, in a bid to increase understanding about how plastic pollution behaves in the ocean.

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Plastics Pollution Health COP 147

Grist

MAY 15, 2024

“For me, intellectually, that always felt like a little bit of a cop-out,” said Jesse Nichols, a video producer at Grist. She wondered if they could study these monkeys, compared with a control group born the next year, to learn more about the effects of early exposure to air pollution.

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Climate change Health Biodiversity Carbon 67

The City Fix

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

2020 brought tremendous disruption to the global transportation sector. As the world coped with a pandemic, millions began working from home and millions more lost their jobs. Logistics networks were broken and then reshaped. All while the planet experienced the. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Transportation Logistics COP Climate change 91

Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Dozens of countries have said they will not back any global pact on nature and its various provisions around pollution and nature protection without agreement on a new international financing commitment. As such, it is impossible to underestimate the importance of money to the Montreal talks.

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Biodiversity Asia Policy Government 36

Business Green

DECEMBER 18, 2022

While energy decarbonisation has always been the key focus for the climate COPs, the biodiversity COPs have been very clear that their priority has been land use and how humans are driving nature's devastating depletion. At the heart of the debate on nature and land is the food system.

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Sustainability COP Biodiversity Retail 40

Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Political will to stop subsidies on fossil fuels”, or to shift taxation from income to carbon, “taxing pollution instead of people.” One is the path of surrender, where we have sleepwalked past the point of no return, jeopardizing the health and safety of everyone on this planet. The other option is the path of hope.

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Carbon-neutral Fossil fuels Carbon-negative Climate change 80

Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

It is vital the UK's COP Presidency shows the world we are listening to the voices of those most impacted by climate change and that we will lead global action to address their concerns, from loss and damage, to access to finance," she said.

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Resilience Climate change Nuclear Power Health 64

Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

As such, Guterres reiterated his call for coal to have "no place in COVID-19 recovery plans", arguing there was a compelling economic, health, and environmental case for governments to "choose the clean energy route". We can invest in fossil fuels, whose markets are volatile and whose emissions lead to lethal air pollution.

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Fossil fuels Government Resilience COP 101

Grist

JANUARY 17, 2021

Scientists have said human activities are driving the sixth mass extinction of life on Earth, and agricultural production, mining, and pollution are threatening the healthy functioning of life-sustaining ecosystems crucial to human civilization. So as co-host of the next Climate Cop, the U.K. As part of the HAC announcement , the U.K.

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Biodiversity Agriculture Climate change COP 142

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said on Saturday at the COP27 session titled “Global Fertilizer Challenge: Announcing New Funding for Fertilizer Efficiency and Soil Health.”. These agribusiness interests have had a notable presence at previous UN COP summits, and COP27 is no exception. Vilsack said the U.S.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The findings highlight how human-induced climate change, alongside deforestation, pollution and land use change, is hampering nature's ability to provide services essential to human life, such as coastal protection, food supply or climate regulation through the capture and storage of carbon from the atmosphere. The facts are undeniable.

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Climate change Global warming Resilience Sea level rise 68

Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Unchecked carbon pollution is forcing the world's most vulnerable on a frog march to destruction - now. The world's biggest polluters are guilty of arson of our only home. As COP president throughout 2022 the UK government has a vital role in leading global efforts to tackle climate change. The facts are undeniable.

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Climate change Resilience Fossil fuels Government 67

Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Soil erosion, wildfires, floods, monocultures, and pollution can all pose a serious threat to life and the viability of the economies and communities that are dependent on the land. There is much more understanding now of how companies and their supply chains are dependent on the health of nature to be successful," Cartwright argues.

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Biodiversity Climate change Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability 81

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 18, 2022

But we need them to be cleaner in order to ensure community health and safety and to get industrial emissions on a 1.5 Our compensation package provides staff with financial security through a living wage and health insurance. From steel and cement to paper, glass and more, these globally traded goods are essential to modern life.

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Organic Policy Climate change Health 40

Grist

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The vision “We’re taking on this audacious project to remake the world in a way that is built on a sustainable infrastructure, a more fair infrastructure, that will usher in health equity and help people thrive. For advocates on the ground at COP fighting for certain outcomes, the agreements generated are just the beginning.

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COP Fossil fuels Health Climate change 82

Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

As such, the COP Presidency should presumably welcome mounting calls for a new era of public-private cooperation on the financial packages that can help developing and emerging economies wean themselves off fossil fuels.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Inclusive and green economies, prosperity, cleaner air and better health are possible for all if we respond to this crisis with solidarity and courage. Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree That is why this year's United Nations climate conference in Glasgow is so important. The solutions are clear.

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Sea level rise Climate change Fossil fuels Government 82

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2024

Campaigners and climate scientists had hoped the summit – which was billed as a “Food COP” due to its focus on farming – would see governments agree to ambitious action to transform food systems in line with the goals of the Paris climate agreement. Burr added that COPs provided an opportunity for U.S.

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