DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

and EU to drop their landmark climate change laws, spreads falsehoods about green policies, and fondly recalls an attempt to cancel a major climate conference. She also claims that, while serving in the Treasury, she attempted to cancel the 2021 COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. She adds that “the U.S. is beyond reach.

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The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 4, 2023

As the Cop28 climate summit meets in Dubai, a secret Saudi Arabian plan to get poorer countries ‘hooked on its harmful products’ has emerged. Damian Carrington reports Delegates from every country in the world are meeting at the Cop28 climate talks in Dubai, hosted by the United Arab Emirates.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 4, 2021

Until very recently, investor demands regarding environmental impact largely have focused on the climate crisis and greenhouse gas emissions. That said, huge as it sounds, that $7 trillion represents only a fraction of the more than $100 trillion in global assets under management. 5 risk by likelihood and No. 4 risk by impact.

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Grist

APRIL 19, 2024

The reality of climate change came home for Dr. Samantha Ahdoot one summer day in 2011 when her son was 9 years old. She is the lead author of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ newly updated policy statement on climate change, which appeared earlier this year. There was a heat wave.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

UN declares virtual talks have set the stage for the adoption of an ambitious post-2020 global biodiversity framework next year. Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary of the UN's Convention on Biological Diversity, said the latest round of talks had delivered encouraging progress.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 26, 2021

Britain can do much more to help to save species from extinction and protect nature worldwide, peers have said as countries prepare for talks aimed at halting global biodiversity losses.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The files relate how the world’s largest meat company, JBS , is planning to come out in “full force” at the summit, along with other big industry hitters such as the Global Dairy Platform and the North American Meat Institute. percent contribution to global human-induced emissions is a higher share than aviation.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

In addition, some bioplastics produce methane gas when they decompose, a compound with a global warming potential 25 times that of CO2. Birgit Liodden, founder of The Ocean Opportunity Lab, said: “Toraphene has the potential to create a critical turning point in tackling the global plastic pollution crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

As world leaders meet in Dubai for the COP28 climate negotiations, federal and provincial governments in Canada are preparing to give an estimated $15.3 billion in new subsidies to oil and gas companies, and other heavy emitters, for expanding the production of fossil fuels, according to climate experts.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Scottish government funded advisory group Zero Waste Scotland is hosting a free virtual event , on Tuesday 5 October, which will see experts come together to discuss a vital topic they insist is missing from the climate change conversation: Consumption. We Need To Talk About Consumption” takes place Tuesday 5th October, from 9am – 5pm.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

We’re dealing on a global level with a kind of recolonization where we’re talking about the use of natural resources in developing countries,” Norm Sacuta, director of communications for the Petroleum Technology Research Centre, said at a Carbon Capture Canada conference last week.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Rishi Sunak yesterday told world leaders the UK was 'totally committed to net zero', but speaking to the press the focus was on scrapping heat pump rules and China's rising emissions Something weird happened during Rishi Sunak's whistlestop trip to COP28 yesterday, and I'm not talking about the pattern on King Charles' tie.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Esteemed professor and author Cees Buisman, whose renowned book explores how the growth of humanity depends on the growth of our consciousness, has been announced as a BlueNote speaker at global water technology event, BlueTech Forum (6-8 June 2022, Vancouver). More information is available at www.bluetechforum.com.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The findings of the UN’s climate science body the IPCC show that the long-term goals of the Paris Agreement cannot be met without climate action on food. This place is about solutions to face the climate crisis but the companies are appropriating it to do lobbying. This number is up from just 10 in 2022.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 21, 2021

Explore 2021 is all about building connections across sectors and geographies to find solutions to pressing global challenges, and this year you will hear straight from the leaders and organizations reimagining how we drive economic growth, improve human livelihoods, and steward the environment.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2022

Environment minister from small island state pips COP26 President Alok Sharma and UNFCCC's Ovais Sarmad to influential post, where he will take up the reins from Patricia Espinosa. Sharma congratulated Stiell on the appointment, stating that the Grenadian would "do a great job".

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

After Portugal experienced massive wildfires and extreme heat waves this summer, six children and youth from the nation appeared in the European Court of Human Rights Wednesday for a landmark lawsuit against 32 European nations charged with violating their human rights due to the impacts of climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Agriculture, which is responsible for over one third of the world’s emissions, will be under the spotlight at the upcoming COP28 global climate summit in Dubai. Often valid concepts in and of themselves, the problem lies in how they are touted as enviro-friendly actions while companies fail to cut their contribution to global heating.

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Green Living Guy

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The one word that people around the globe are talking about today is sustainability. With the effects of climate change and global warming becoming more eminent, everyone is becoming more conscious about the effects of their actions on the environment. The post CBD: Is It Eco-Friendly?

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Rishi Sunak yesterday told world leaders the UK was 'totally committed to net zero', but speaking to the press the focus was on scrapping heat pump rules and China's rising emissions Something weird happened during Rishi Sunak's whistlestop trip to COP28 yesterday, and I'm not talking about the pattern on King Charles' tie.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Rather, a consistent theme of the congress was the idea that international commitments to achieve net zero by 2050, or to attain even modest Paris Agreement targets, were unrealistic, arbitrary, or threatened global energy stability and security. Smith tours the Saudi exhibit at WPC 2023.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2023

As the world increasingly turns toward natural climate solutions like reforestation and grassland restoration to sequester carbon, it may be overlooking a crucial ally: animals. That’s about 95 percent of the amount needed to be removed annually to ensure global warming remains below 1.5 gigatons of CO₂ annually, the researchers found.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Interviewer Thomas Kolster, the author of the book “Goodvertising: Creative advertising that cares”, opens with a softball: “Yannick, advertising and climate can seem like quite an oxymoron. So why do you care about the climate?” billion) — to take over the company’s global strategic media buying in 2024.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

With time rapidly running out at the UN climate talks, ministers from UK, Canada, and the EU argue G20 statement of intent on climate this week 'must be a baseline not a ceiling' for COP27 deal. warming limit goal.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Stanley Johnson among group of high profile campaigners calling for government to set a legally-binding nature protection target ahead of pivotal COP15 UN nature talks. The Prime Minister pledged to protect and manage 30 per cent of land and sea for nature by 2030 at a climate summit in January alongside several dozen other nations.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 23, 2021

Climate campaigners have called on the UK government to step up its action ahead of the COP26 UN summit set to take place in Glasgow in November, which they say is in “serious jeopardy”. They held banners with the phrase “The climate needs you” and giant alarm clocks to emphasise the urgency of tackling climate change.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Scores of financial firms, banks, and institutional investors representing more than $24tr in assets worldwide have today called on world leaders to adopt an ambitious global nature treaty that establishes clear guidelines for the financial sector to ensure biodiversity loss is reversed.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 29, 2024

Jason Li, Global President of Huawei’s Electric Power Digitalisation Business Unit, now in its third year, opened the proceedings. Christina Shim of IBM talks about AI and energy transition. Image: World Energy Congress. We have to take both challenges.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2023

and The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change. On Thursday, March 30, Dembicki addressed a senate committee on energy, the environment and natural resources. My name is Geoff Dembicki, and I’m an investigative climate change journalist. So Imperial decided to sabotage climate solutions.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Exxon figured out a solution that could have helped achieve “stabilization” of the climate emergency back in the early 1990s, and then came up with a communication strategy to make sure that solution wouldn’t happen. We’d be headed down the backside,” environmental writer and 350.org Credit: TheKurgan , CC BY–SA 3.0.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

But when it comes to climate change, adults have left the next generation with more questions than answers. Growing up, I thought my parents knew what to do about everything, including caring for the environment. Now, more than 30 years later, the critical moment is upon us to confront global climate change. Our own kids.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 6, 2023

Oil sands producers plan to spend billions of dollars on emissions-reducing technologies so that they can boost production and sell more of their climate-warming products overseas, an industry lobby group explained to Canada’s federal government on multiple occasions. “As It’s incompatible with Canada’s climate goals.”

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2022

Calls are growing for nations to sign an historic global treaty to tackle plastic pollution at a UN Environment Assembly conference due to take place in Nairobi this Spring. Discussions about a global pact to cut plastic pollution are expected to dominate the agenda of a UN Environment Assembly 5.2 conference in April.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In a landmark speech delivered this evening at an event hosted by the Conservative Environment Network (CEN), the former Prime Minister claimed net zero "pessimists" on the right of the Party are out of step with the views of the public, including Conservative voters. The environment doesn't divide people in this country.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Global deforestation and the UK's contribution to it cannot be tackled without bold and ambitious action," the report states. The government should also embed considerations about deforestation, biodiversity, and other key environment protections into the trade deals it brokers with other countries post-Brexit, according to the report.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 28, 2022

The source for author Jordan Peterson’s recent claim that climate change cannot be modelled was a climate science denier who received money from a libertarian think tank funded by oil companies. million followers citing a book called “Hot Talk, Cold Science: Global Warming’s Unfinished Debate” by S Fred Singer.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

A board member of a new MP-backed ‘Net Zero Watch’ campaign group has said today that “global warming is not a problem”, defended burning fossil fuels, and said carbon dioxide’s “principal effect” is the growth of plants. It comes during the COP26 UN climate summit in Glasgow.

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