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. That is the strategy laid out in the “proprietary” 1993 document.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

The investigation was based on more than 200 documents uncovered and compiled by Dutch scholar and activist Vatan Hüzeir. One of those documents, an internal 1989 Shell scenarios report, discussed the potential for an unprecedented climate refugee crisis with global temperatures rising considerably beyond 1.5 degrees C (2.7

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2022

This is especially fitting as the conference is taking place seven years after the signing of the Paris Agreement – a legally binding international treaty that commits countries to limiting global warming to below 2 (and preferably below 1.5) degrees Celsius. Enabling solutions: Shrinking your digital carbon footprint.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

At the same time, food systems are also a major contributor to global warming, accounting for over a third of total emissions worldwide. Scientists and campaigners have raised major concerns about the lack of global action ahead of the COP28 summit, in a year of devastating impacts from climate-related weather events.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Photos I shot in 2022 for DeSmog capture damage from extreme weather events and the continued expansion of the fossil fuel industry — the dominant industry causing global warming. Industries reliant on methane gas continue to expand their footprint, despite bipartisan discussions about the need to develop climate solutions.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2021

What’s the single word that fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil’s flagship environmental reports to investors and the public tie most closely to climate change and global warming? Within this frame, the company is an innocent supplier, simply giving consumers what they demand. continues to grow.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 10, 2022

Neil Record , a currency trader and chair of the Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF) , donated £5,000 to Baker in February for a “media and strategic campaign consultant”, understood to be Barker, to work on the Conservative Way Forward relaunch, according to parliament’s register of interests.

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Grist

JULY 25, 2023

Climate Connections is a collaboration between Grist and the Associated Press that explores how a changing climate is accelerating the spread of infectious diseases around the world, and how mitigation efforts demand a collective, global response. Read more here. It began with a bike ride. For the past 30 years, the U.K.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 3, 2020

Reliability and projected performance of solar-only systems are well documented. These intuitively obvious capabilities will continue to be delayed as automakers strive to reconcile their miles-driven warranties with the extra demands of providing on-demand power to buildings. Timeframe: 5-10 years. Timeframe 1-2 years.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 18, 2022

The municipalities are seeking billions of dollars in compensation for damage caused by wildfires, flooding and other extreme weather events, and to meet the cost of building new infrastructure to prepare for the consequences of rising global temperatures. Those lawsuits are an affront to the first amendment,” the company claims.

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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. Solar and wind power are already cheaper alternatives to coal, oil, and gas in most of the world when it comes to meeting new electricity demand.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Climate targets were under threat from all sides with climate science deniers, politicians and media platforms exploiting the war in Ukraine and ensuing energy crisis to demand an increase in fossil fuel extraction. It was a tough year for the green transition. How the Bioenergy Industry Lobbies Against Woodland Protection. My personal take?

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2021

The challenge now isn't convincing people that global warming matters. The Budget documents explained that the new bank would offer local authorities cheap loans from this summer. Only by creating more net zero homes will we make the technology commonplace, and - crucially - something tenants and buyers demand and expect.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2023

The New Allies The list of NZSG allies released today includes individuals associated with the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s principal climate science denial group, which has extensive ties with the parliamentary caucus. NZWG’s policy demands track those of NZW, and Mackinlay has helped promote NZW reports.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 19, 2022

The lawsuits claim Exxon even misrepresented evidence even from its own scientists about global warming. Exxon claims that this infringes on its first amendment rights and that it will use rule 202 to demand justice from its accusers. “The

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 10, 2022

“Climate deniers” became the catch-all phrase to refer to those opposed to addressing the crisis and an unbelievable amount of time and resources were dedicated to simply conveying the reality that global warming was not only real, but a major threat to society as we know it. From Denial to Greenwash.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

” The document from the Climate Crisis Advisory Group (CCAG)[1] sets out seven recommendations that it believes global leaders at COP26 must consider to make carbon pricing more effective. It is estimated that today’s policy ambitions and targets would likely lead to global warming of around 2.7C beyond CO?)

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 14, 2022

A GHG inventory is a document that lists the quantities of GHG emissions from an entity – an organization – during a given period – usually a year. This translation is based on the global warming potential (GWP) of a given GHG. Global Warming Potential (GWP) Measurement Standards.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The new International Aviation Climate Ambition Coalition will bring together countries that want the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) to adopt an "ambitious long-term aspirational goal that is compatible with net zero global emissions by 2050", according to documents seen by Reuters.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

For the first time, it proposed encompassing all the gases that cause global warming in a single indicator. “It was the most controversial and heated debate in the workshop,” recalls Rijsberman, now director of the Global Green Growth Institute. degree limit as the main demand. And so they fought.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Time for Energy is part of a collection of 201 company documents, official correspondence, reports, academic studies, and other materials that cast new light on what Shell knew about climate change — and what it chose to tell the public. ” Documents from the collection can be viewed at Climate Files , a project of the U.S.-based

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Kantar, a data analytics firm, recently published a report documenting that environmental conscientiousness is shifting consumption choices, particularly on sales of meat and single-use plastic items. Kantar asserted, “Our study shows there is high demand for eco-friendly products that are competitively priced and readily available.”

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 16, 2021

For comparison, the Fort McMurray fire of 2016 was up to six times more likely as a result of global warming. While a decline in fossil fuel use is well-documented, crops will increasingly be impacted as well, by droughts or unexpected snowstorms. Climate change threatens many important industries.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2021

The planet's extreme situation demands a much more aggressive approach, argue Imagine's Paul Polman, Agder Energi's Steffen Syvertsen, and Bjørn K Haugland from Skift Business Climate Leaders. The Paris Agreement is the framework for a future world in which global warming remains below a level we can tolerate.

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Grist

JULY 20, 2023

Climate Connections is a collaboration between Grist and the Associated Press that explores how a changing climate is accelerating the spread of infectious diseases around the world, and how mitigation efforts demand a collective, global response. Read more here.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The report confirms global temperatures are currently 1.1C A separate report from IPPC scientists last summer warned that global warming is on track to far exceed 2C this century, unless rapid and deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions occur in the coming decades. If global warming transiently exceeds 1.5C

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

IPG’s policy document does not define what is meant by “controversial”. This is despite the International Energy Agency stating that new oil and gas fields are incompatible with the target to limit global warming to 1.5C.

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Grist

APRIL 24, 2024

” On Sunday, EarthDay.org and other campaigners organized a march in Ottawa, demanding a strong and ambitious global plastics treaty. Under a very optimistic scenario, it could include global, legally binding plastic production caps for all U.N. To limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2008, Jacobson teamed up with student, Graeme Hoste, to assess whether California’s hourly demand for electricity could be satisfied with a combination of renewable power sources. Geothermal would provide constant power, with wind and solar contributing intermittent power. to 4 million deaths that occur worldwide, each year.”

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 3, 2020

That was followed by the growing popularity of ice hockey from the 1880s onward, which increased the demand for more rink construction. HFCs heighten the greenhouse effect, while carbon dioxide similarly intensifies global warming. Carbon dioxide is a better alternative, though its use still contributes to global warming.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Such businesses better meet the demands of the regulatory environment while coming into alignment with investor, consumer, and employee preferences. Although this level was not defined by the convention, the aim was to allow ecosystems and society to adapt naturally to climate change, which means slowing global warming down.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2021

As such, it estimates the sector could create demand for new specialist insurance policies and services worth $1.3bn, rising to $2-4bn under 'blue sky scenarios' where the sector delivers at the upper end of expectations.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 16, 2020

At one such event in 2014, speaker Christopher Monckton surveyed the room and declared that everyone there agreed that humanity’s “emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases have contributed to the measured global warming since 1950.” ” His point was to make it clear that “we are not climate change deniers.”

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

So yeah, there's a little cheat that we did: we took away the hyper-object of global warming, which is so vast and timeless and slow-moving, and we put in a very concrete event, a comet. This risk increases steeply with rises in global temperature. As McKay put it: "No allegory is a perfect fit. billion and 3.6

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Conway, authors of the classic 2010 book Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming , have released a new book placing that doubt machine into a longer arc of U.S. business and political history. The Wall Street Journal mocked it as Al Gore’s “favorite tax.”

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Communities on the front line of climate change understand very starkly that keeping global warming within 1.5C COP26 insiders hit back at the criticism, telling The Sun that the meaning of the slogan was completely clear to the Summit's participants. could quite literally be a matter of life or death," they said.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Leaked documents show that an adviser to the Saudi oil ministry demanded that “phrases like ‘the need for urgent and accelerated mitigation actions at all scales’ should be eliminated from the report.”. Other countries also sent fossil fuel influenced delegations, including the UAE, Iraq, Kazakhstan, and Russia. “For

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