DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Further research by DeSmog has shown that Eni’s company magazine Ecos made repeated references to climate change during the late 1980s and 1990s — while running advertising campaigns promoting natural gas, which is mostly comprised of planet-warming methane, as a “clean” fuel. ‘Friend Methane! ‘Friend Methane!

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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The policy briefing document was released in early January by Belgium-based organization, HealthforAnimals (HfA), which represents some of the world’s biggest and best known animal pharmaceutical companies, including Zoetis, Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health, Merck Animal Health, Elanco Animal Health, IDEXX, and Ceva Santé Animale.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

But insiders remain optimistic ambitious agreement can still be reached, as updated Climate Action Tracker analysis projects slight global CO2 reduction from recent global methane, coal, transport and forest pledges. warming pathway by nine per cent. gigatonnes global warming pathway.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 14, 2022

You’ll understand what products and processes emit g reenhouse gases (GHGs), including the carbon-containing gases carbon dioxide and methane. 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. GHG Emission Inventory .

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2023

including municipalities, states, and one fishermen’s trade association are currently suing major fossil fuel producers seeking to recover climate-related costs and hold the companies liable for their documented misrepresentations around climate change. Joseph Davis, via DVIDSHUB , CC BY 2.0 More than two dozen communities across the U.S.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Plus 40 nations prep methane plans for COP27, Germany touts cheap transport tickets, and Saudi Arabia launches electric vehicle brand. COP27: 40 countries planning to unveil methane reduction plans. off global warming by 2050, as methane's warming potential is 84 times greater than carbon dioxide over 20-year timescale.

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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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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The study shows how the G20 is responsible for around 75 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, meaning that were G20 nations to align their official national climate action plans - or Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) in the UN jargon - with a 1.5C pathway, then global warming this century could be limited to 1.7C.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

global warming pathway are to be kept alive. In snap analysis published yesterday, the IEA said it had calculated the impacts of the net zero pledges and emissions targets announced in recent days, and concluded that if national climate pledges are delivered as promised, the planet could potentially limit warming to 1.8C

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

warming, we need to slash emissions dramatically – and at speed. Methane, a greenhouse gas which is belched out in high volumes by cattle, has been identified by the UN and world leaders as the quickest route to cut global heating. Animal production also emits 65 percent of global nitrous oxide emissions.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 22, 2020

Related: Eating seaweed could reduce cows’ methane production Why is kelp a good idea for food sustainability? For one, Harvard University has documented that kelp plays a significant role in reducing global warming. That is attributed to kelp’s rapid growth rate, typically about 2 feet per day.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

It is well documented and well remembered by the investment community. But now, with global warming knocking on our door, the case for mitigation and adaptation solutions is making more and more financial sense. (More on the CI landscape and market opportunity below.) Why Climate Intelligence? million.

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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. “We

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

Diverse compounds are emitted by everything from motor vehicles to power plants, and include both greenhouse gases and short-lived climate pollutants – which are known to fuel global warming – as well as a host of volatile organic compounds that can lead to short- and long-term health problems in humans. World Bank. United Nations.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

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. In addition, several states have their own more demanding legislation in place, such as California’s and Massachusetts’ Global Warming Solutions Act.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Oil and gas has dominated discussions at past COPs, which have focused on the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the energy and transport sectors to tackle dangerous levels of global warming. This year will be different. The COP28 host United Arab Emirates is using its presidency to firmly press the need for food transformation.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 29, 2021

Now, Levy is focusing his flights on surveying orphaned well sites to document the severity of the situation. The number of orphaned wells in oil and gas producing states nationwide continues to increase, as does the amount of planet warming methane emissions leaking from them. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As such, the document stresses that the world needs to deliver "accelerated action in this critical decade". Scores of countries have also independently pledged to cut methane emissions by 30 per cent by 2030. So, in order to stand a chance of keeping "1.5

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Newly-discovered Shell documents dating back decades could help strengthen lawsuits aiming to hold the oil major to account for climate damages, climate attorneys say. And a 1998 report spells out Shell’s reasons for leaving the Global Climate Coalition , a now defunct lobby group that worked to undermine climate science.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

The third in a trilogy of reports published over the last eight months by the IPCC as part of its sixth assessment review, the document offers policymakers around the world a peer-reviewed roadmap for the policies, investments, and technologies scientists believe are required to avoid climate catastrophe. The science.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

billion package to cap orphaned oil and gas wells as a move to tackle “super-polluting methane emissions,” saying it will combat the climate crisis and create jobs. So Biven is determined to make sure her “Methane Memo,” which lays out a plan to safeguard the funds, makes its way to him. Methane Without Measure.

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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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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

It is the biggest LaBarge, as the gas operation is known, would have become one of the world’s foremost examples of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), a technology most climate-modeling experts view as essential to slowing down global warming and, eventually, reversing it. Construction was set to begin over the summer.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The documents released by the committee show the lengths that the industry has gone to defend its public image. The fossil fuel industry’s attempts at image control extend beyond its own brands to its products, especially methane, or as the industry likes to call it, natural gas.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Imagine you woke up in 2030 to find that Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia had done little to slow the global warming that cooked the Cascadia region this year. We have not kept pace with the scope of the crisis,” Oregon Global Warming Commission Chair Catherine Macdonald wrote to legislators that month.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

.” That apparent conservation activist was, in fact, an infamous climate change disinformation artist : Marc Morano, who’s done more than perhaps any other person to manufacture doubt about global warming. Certain names also pop up over and over—many of them tied to a 2012 anti-wind confab in Washington, DC.

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