Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

When you’ve followed the evolving research of a leading clean energy expert and become a supporter of his vision for a global clean energy transition, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to crack open Mark Jacobson’s 2021 book release, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything. Happy Earth Day 2021!

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 3, 2020

s National Oceanographic Centre, the costs of sea level rise alone could exceed $14 trillion a year by 2100. A UN report found that air pollution may reduce the GDP by more than 10 percent in some countries while halving GHG emissions could reduce premature deaths related to air pollution by 20 to 40 percent.

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GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

From companies looking to select cleaner manufacturing suppliers, to investors seeking to divest from polluting industries, to consumers making choices about which businesses to patronize, one thing is clear: a reliable way to measure where emissions are coming from is necessary," they wrote.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Secretary General António Guterres asked nations to arrive at the session with concrete commitments for phasing out fossil fuels, observing in his opening remarks that “humanity has opened the gates of hell.” But the event was overshadowed by the major polluters who didn’t attend. In the U.S., The Juliana v.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

The first page of Menlo Park, California’s 2030 Climate Action Plan shows a map predicting which parts of the city will be underwater by the end of the century, flooded by the rising waters of San Francisco Bay. Sea level rise is just one imminent threat for Silicon Valley.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

above pre-industrial levels, and is likely to be reach 1.5C - the optimal target set out in the Paris Agreement - within the next 20 years regardless of potential actions taken to slash greenhouse gas emissions in the meantime. The report concludes that the world's average surface land temperature currently stands at around 1.1C

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

In election results that have been hailed in some quarters as a ‘greenslide', Labor Party leader Antony Albanese has been confirmed as Australia's Prime Minster, immediately promising to ramp up the country's climate ambitions and transform it into a renewable energy superpower.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 30, 2024

It also adds to a growing body of evidence that decision-makers of the 1960s were concerned about potential climate change caused by the burning of fossil fuels, much earlier than previously thought. is continuing, as a Panel to consider a series of questions related to Environmental Pollution. Credit: Lyndon B.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Economic losses and damages are inevitable Loss and damage has been a hot topic for years in international climate negotiations, with last year's COP27 Conference seeing richer counties capitulate to calls from developing nations for a dedicated fund to help them cope with the impacts of climate-related floods, droughts, and sea level rise.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Extreme heat and storms, sea level rise, intense wildfires — climate change may threaten everyone, but many BIPOC communities are more vulnerable to climate impacts. This can include reducing harmful on-site emissions as well as off-site fleet electrification in high pollution areas.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

We now have less than seven years to cut emissions in half in order to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees C, the limit scientists say is necessary for averting some of the most dangerous climate impacts. 2022 saw flooding, drought and severe.

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

When I thought about being a lawyer, being a pilot advocating for awareness of forest clear-cutting, advocating for renewable energy through alternate energy projects, I had a realization—I enjoyed the education aspect of those jobs. Some had no idea how pollution from human activities affected ecosystems.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Taking immediate action to slash emissions towards net zero by 2050 could make a monumental difference to the level, frequency, and breadth of growing climate impacts, the scientists emphasise. We need immediate action on energy. Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree degree goal will fall quickly out of reach.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Barry Cinnamon is CEO of California's Cinnamon Energy Systems. In all likelihood it will get worse as we experience more extreme weather events and sea levels rise from melting ice sheets. In all likelihood it will get worse as we experience more extreme weather events and sea levels rise from melting ice sheets.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The situation, too, is only set to worsen as the planet warms, underscoring the urgent need to simultaneously drive down greenhouse gas emissions while also boosting preparedness for droughts, wildfires, storms, floods, coastal erosion, sea level rise, resource shortages and much, much more. The facts are undeniable. degrees.

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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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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

But significant barriers remain and more investment is still going into fossil fuels than into climate solutions despite three decades of climate warnings from scientists and civil society. We can't rely on risky, untested and downright dangerous removals technologies just because big polluters want us to stick to the status quo.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

It also described how the company provided guidance on behalf of the firm’s clients — which include CPRA and several fossil fuel companies — to Congress and federal agencies to influence legislation, including the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The company has a history of trying to steamroll opposition. Lennox Yearwood Jr.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2022

African green hydrogen plans, new coal-to-clean energy deals, and worsening climate impacts. And it pledged to halve the amount of single-use plastic in catering, in response to high expectations, particularly from athletes and consumers, to reduce plastic pollution. Michael Bloomberg announces $242m clean energy investment push.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Narrated in the upper-crust accent favoured by British documentary-makers of the era, Shell’s 1981 film Time for Energy assesses the scope for solar, wind, nuclear, and other sources of power to end the world’s dependence on finite reserves of oil. Now, five decades later, Shell continues to dawdle and delay.”

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 12, 2020

Here are few examples of oil spills that illustrate the dangers of fossil fuels. The fossil fuel industry is driving feedback loops that include both melting permafrost and sea level rise. Melting permafrost is but one of the Arctic fedback loops caused by emissions from the fossil fuel industry.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 2, 2021

The implications of this court-ordered corporate climate goal go well beyond the energy sector. As Scientific American noted : "For the first time in history, a court … ordered a private company, rather than a government, to curb its planet-warming pollution.". Fossil-fuel companies are likely seeing flashing red lights about now.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. We already have the practical, clean-energy solutions to make a real impact and help stop the destruction from extreme weather events from getting ever-worse. Heat Pumps for Sustainable Heating and Cooling (Green Energy and Technology) by Y.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 29, 2022

From challenges to fossil fuel and petrochemical expansion to climate lawsuits against Big Oil and national governments, there were notable victories for climate action and accountability in 2022. Climate Liability Lawsuits Against Fossil Fuel Companies Make Key Advances. Supreme Court’s limitation of the U.S.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2021

The implications of this court-ordered corporate climate goal go well beyond the energy sector. As Scientific American noted : "For the first time in history, a court … ordered a private company, rather than a government, to curb its planet-warming pollution.". Shell vowed to appeal, which could take years. Flashing red lights.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

It includes opposition to pollution abatement, energy efficiency and renewable energy, while increasing support for fossil fuels. Here is a breakdown of how this budget impacts the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy, the Department of the Interior, and Climate Adaptation Science Centers.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 2, 2021

The implications of this court-ordered corporate climate goal go well beyond the energy sector. As Scientific American noted : “For the first time in history, a court … ordered a private company, rather than a government, to curb its planet-warming pollution.” degrees Celsius. Shell vowed to appeal, which could take years.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Her energy secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg this week announced that the UK’s zombie fracking industry would be resurrected, despite a much-awaited report saying that there was still “limited” understanding of the UK’s shale gas reserves and the impacts of extracting them, with earthquake forecasting remaining a “scientific challenge”.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

But four hurricanes since 2005 and sea level rise — it really decimated this coastline.” He estimates that 70 metres of his property has been swallowed up by sea level rise since he moved there in 1998, with trees and wetlands washed away as the ocean advanced bit by bit with each passing year. Hiatt said.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

However, critics say that funding in both proposals will let the fossil fuel industry off the hook and allow it to create new infrastructure that is incompatible with meaningful climate action. Kornell Davis checking out the damages to Saint Paul Missionary Baptist Church in Ironton. Climate Leadership?

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

When fossil fuel companies found out about the link between their product and climate change decades ago , they did everything they could to hide it. But that doesn’t mean climate deniers — fossil fuel companies, lobbyists, and their allies opposed to climate action — have moved past the lies. Department of Energy.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

A Few Relevant Data Points With the advent of the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century, humans began their dependence on the burning of fossil fuels?coal The UCSUSA points out that “Consequences of global warming include drought, sea level rise, flooding, extreme weather, and species loss.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2023

As a backdrop to the United Nations climate conference in Dubai, it’s a fitting venue for a planet-wide shift that scientists say needs to happen: The region has extensive deposits of oil and gas, but also immense, untapped potential for renewable energy. Our conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2021

DiNapoli, who is trustee of the third largest public pension plan in the US, confirmed the move as he this week also extended the list of fossil fuel firms the fund is to restrict investments in. New York State Comptroller Thomas P. Campaigners urge Indonesia to extend palm oil plantation license moratorium.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 10, 2022

He repeats familiar talking points from public figures blocking climate action, including the Net Zero Scrutiny Group of MPs, who argue that the war in Ukraine means the UK should extract more fossil fuels and overturn its moratorium on fracking. Farage went further – arguing for coal extraction at the proposed mine in Cumbria.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 24, 2023

Louisiana Democratic Party leaders are accused of funneling thousands of dollars from utility companies to the campaign of a fossil fuel–friendly candidate who ran for reelection on the state’s utility regulatory committee. Entergy, Cleco, and CenterPoint Energy did not respond to requests for comment for this story.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 24, 2020

The wanton burning of fossil fuels, new agricultural methods, chemical manufacturing and production processes have all contributed to unprecedented pollution that are poisoning our air and our water. The disinformation efforts of fossil fuel companies include denying children access to a science based education.

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