DeSmogBlog

MARCH 25, 2022

These include articles plugging the work of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), which is currently working with the Net Zero Scrutiny Group to use Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to demand more fossil fuel extraction. It concludes that “the theory supporting global warming has taken a significant blow”.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2020

The emergence of environmental buzzwords started out with global warming, then became climate change. Global warming to climate change; climate change covers a broader term and now special interest groups can use it for any situation, as we have recently seen with the fires in Western Canada and now Australia.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 5, 2022

Utilities worldwide are arguably facing the most demanding and far-reaching changes in their operations, with multiple pressures, both top-down from governments and bottom-up from grassroots consumers in addition to their own responsibilities as modern-day businesses. A reference value is 0.5%kg/year, Electricity 4.0 Electricity 4.0

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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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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Sky News reported yesterday that it has seen emails that show Ministers agreed to remove a specific reference to the temperature goals contained in the Paris Agreement from the trade deal. The trade deal is expected to include a reference to the Paris Agreement, which Australia is a signatory to.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 17, 2021

Hydrogen has several unique advantages as a climate solution, particularly in sectors that are the most difficult to decarbonize, often referred to as the “toughest third” of emissions. BloombergNEF estimates that clean hydrogen could meet up to a quarter of the world’s energy demand by 2050.

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Econaur

APRIL 3, 2020

Reference: Pollutant Formation in Combustion Processes, Grzegorz Wielgosi?ski, It will take another 8-10 days minimum in open natural environment to get to a form where the plantation can absorb anything out of it.Improperly disposed organic waste is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions, at almost 1500 Tg CO2 / year.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2023

Furthermore, agriculture, forestry, and land use change are responsible for about 25% of the greenhouse gas emissions that are driving global warming, and agriculture uses about 70% of fresh water supplies. However, it has been estimated that around 768 million people were hungry in 2021.

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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 1, 2021

Many economic sectors had slowed down or shuttered entirely due to lowered demand and health measures. Researchers further found that with current inventories, PPE bodysuits and gloves have a high potential for global warming, and the metal strips used in facemasks have a potentially high risk to human health. References.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 14, 2022

But there are other GHGs that contribute significantly to human-induced global warming such as methane (CH 4 ), nitrous oxide (N 2 0), refrigerant gasses (HFCs, PFCs, and CFCs), sulfur hexafluoride (SF 6 ), water vapor (H 2 0), and ozone (O 3 ). This translation is based on the global warming potential (GWP) of a given GHG.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Typically, the talk is about demand side interventions, like you can get schools or, or individuals to give up meat,” she says. But I’m a little worried that some of this [meat] production is so baked into subsidies and policy, that even with decreased demand, this apparatus will just keep flowing. “We

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

of warming. (If If longer-term net-zero pledges are achieved, which is less certain at this point, global warming could be contained to 1.8C.) On top of this, 46 countries signed up to the Global Coal to Clean Power Transition Statement to phase out coal in the 2030s (for rich countries) and 2040s (for developing ones).

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2022

As a result of that one-two punch, new fossil fuel projects may find themselves fighting against the tides, facing not just cheaper competition but also the drive to slash demand for their products to combat climate change. To limit warming to 1.5 C, global coal use must drop 95 percent by 2050, the IPCC said.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

A Public Campaign of Deception First, as the complaint notes, “Defendants have known about the potential warming effects of GHG emissions since as early as the 1950s.” Nuclear physicist Edward Teller warned the oil industry at an API event in 1959 that global warming might melt the polar ice caps and submerge coastal cities.

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Business Green

JUNE 28, 2021

The OGTC has officially stripped out all reference to fossil fuels from its name, announcing this morning it has rebranded as the Net Zero Technology Centre, just seven months after its decision to retire its original name, the Oil and Gas Technology Centre. There is no silver bullet when it comes to the technology required," she said. "We

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Grist

JULY 27, 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. auris was first spreading in the U.S.,

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In recent years, the biggest agricultural polluters and food corporations have embraced this term, which refers to a wide range of farming techniques that improve the environment. Nature-based solutions refer to anything that involves the use of the natural world to absorb carbon and remove harmful emissions from the atmosphere.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

It also retains references to tackling emissions from fossil fuels, albeit with caveats. WWF's global deputy lead Vanessa Perez-Cirera welcomed a new reference to nature's key role in achieving the Paris Agreement temperature goal. The science is clear, there is no viable route to limiting global warming to 1.5C

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Four scenarios to limit global warming to 1.5°C. C by 2100 pushing global temperature over 2°C. On top of the massive amount of expected pollution from the sorbents needed, DAC at scale would use one quarter of the total global energy demand by 2100. References. Global warming of 1.5

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2022

Renewable power is set to dominate European power generation this decade, but significantly more policy momentum is required to boost wind, solar and hydro’s share of primary demand, analysis finds.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 23, 2021

Even the International Energy Agency has concluded that, to keep global warming to less than 2 C, oil supply will need to peak in 2022 and gas in 2025 before declining indefinitely. This uniquely Canadian opportunity is sometimes referred to as the “mines to mobility” supply chain. C target, there’s even less time.

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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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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

We know that animal agriculture is now recognized as a leading cause of global warming. According to Project Drawdown, eating a plant-based diet is "the most important contribution every individual can make to reversing global warming."

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 16, 2022

Originally, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Bledsoe and Brian McCall.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JULY 6, 2021

This long time horizon and aggressive target reflects the Hewlett Foundation’s sense of urgency: the opportunity to make a difference in solving global warming is now. <The Refer to Hewlett/POE in the subject line. The position is based in Menlo Park, California. No phone inquiries please.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

The main drivers of change are the demand for food, water, and natural resources, in the face of severe biodiversity loss and changes in ecosystem services. References Rockström, J., We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe, warns UN An IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Here are all the references to climate change from the Canadian federal leaders English Language debate that took place on October 7, 2019. Elizabeth May: To avoid catastrophic levels of global warming, we must double our current target, we must listen to science. Andrew Scheer: Your plan is failing.

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Anger is building over the failure to secure much-needed commitments towards phasing out unabated fossil fuels and tackling near-term emissions as part of the final agreement brokered at COP27 over the weekend, with critics warning the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C are hanging by the thinnest of threads.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Dubbed the Glasgow Climate Pact, the agreement crucially puts pressure on countries to come foward next year with updated climate plans, promises more funding for climate adaptation, and for the first time ever includes explicit references to the need to drive down coal and phase out fossil fuel subsidies. Right now, at 1.2

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 31, 2020

Scientists across the world agree that carbon removal coupled with strategies such as emissions reduction and carbon offsetting are necessary to keep global warming within manageable limits. Buyers can cancel CORCs so they cannot be resold, and reference them in sustainability reporting or when creating carbon-neutral products.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 11, 2020

Additional threats include conversion of mangrove areas to other land uses, pollution, rising infrastructure and development leading to human encroachment and increasing demand for mangrove resources. Urban areas such as Tudor Creek in Mombasa have lost nearly 80% of the vegetation cover through harvesting of fuel wood. Source: GRID-Arendal.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Some corners of the corporate world have already embraced this reality, with the wave of net zero emissions pledges unleashed by companies over the last 18 months evidence of a private sector that is increasingly reckoning with the need to ensure that business better protects the ecosystems that support human life and the global economy.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Nor did they appear at the same time, nor has the same language always been used to refer to them, as will be seen below. We have to go back to the last century to find the first references to 2°C. In it, they identify “two absolute temperature targets for committed warming.” degree limit as the main demand.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

Yesterday's communiqué agrees to "phase-out and rationalise, over the medium term, inefficient fossil fuel subsidies", and makes no direct reference to coal power, instead calling for investment in carbon capture and similar technologies to abate the emissions of fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Weather refers to day to day or short term conditions, such as rain or wind, while climate is prevailing weather patterns or conditions of an area averaged over long periods of time. He was basically demanding that they start to talk about climate change on TV,” Davies said. The backlash [from deniers] was intense.

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GreenBiz

MAY 25, 2021

Within 48 hours of the IEA report, the G7 countries vowed to stop new financing for overseas coal projects and to make "accelerated efforts" to limit global warming to 1.5 For reference, a petawatt-hour is equal to 1 million megawatt-hours.). They're aligning a sizable chunk of their investments with that reality.

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