DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Records show that they began to plot ways to deceive the public and undermine policies, and in 1989 they created a coalition of American companies to fight policies and deny that climate change was real. And the company was monitoring all scientific research and policy activities, through a single collection point.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

s investigative journalism arm, and the British Channel 4 News this summer exposing how the oil giant and lobby groups such as the American Petroleum Institute seed doubt about climate change and undermine legislation to stop global warming. This document shows that the oil industry was informed of the science of global warming.

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

The shift away from fossil fuels among major financial firms and institutions worldwide continues to gain momentum, with Macquarie, the Asian Development Bank, and the Church of Scotland all strengthening their investment policies governing coal, oil and gas assets today.

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Business Green

JULY 12, 2020

Feedback urged investors to defund and divest from industrial meat and dairy companies in order to help keep global warming at a level below 1.5C. The group called out a disconnect between banks' and other investors' sustainability policies and commitments and their deep implication with the global livestock industry.

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Grist

MARCH 26, 2021

But for the past two years, a committee of 16 people with various expertise in the physical sciences, economics, policy, law, and ethics have been sitting with that discomfort as they met regularly to develop an American research agenda for this nascent and highly controversial field of science.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2021

But this gagging clause was just one in a whole list of serious ethical breaches that we uncovered. The SMG’s own “Group Ethics Policy” makes this clear, stating that the “SMG will not seek or accept donations, sponsorship or grants where acceptance of these funds would do material damage to the reputation, independence or integrity of SMG”.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Conservative donor Michael Hintze has resigned from the IEA – an influential free-market think tank criticised for inspiring Liz Truss’s ill-fated economic policies – days after joining the House of Lords. The group nevertheless says it accepts climate science and has backed solar farms and environmental reforms to farming.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. It is the first book in a series on Climate Risk Management, Policy and Governance. This is a companion piece to the the 25 books in The Green Market Oracle's well informed readers list. Climate impacts 2.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

” “Global warming could challenge the very fabric of the world’s ecological and economic systems,” Shell executive Ged Davis wrote in a contribution to a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published two years later.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

He added that this research “enables conversations — legal, moral, ethical — on who bears responsibility for global warming impacts, and specifically risks and impacts from wildfire activity.”

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Martin LaMonica

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Here in the US, the question was: could Congress and a subsequent president unravel or block Obama’s signature climate policies ? Given how much capital is already invested in our fossil fuel-dominated energy system, it will take decades to replace the energy infrastructure , even with climate-friendly policies.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The stark findings, compiled by researchers from the London School of Economics' Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, reveal that 95 out of 111 large publicly-listed industrial have so far failed to align their emissions with a pathway that would cap global warming at 2C or 'well under 2C'.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5 However, in addition to improving practices, there is an opportunity for producers to rally around the idea that less and more sustainable meat options, which will be critical to limit global warming, can still be good for business. In 2019, 690 million people or 8.9

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

New research published in Nature Climate Change in March, which was able to pinpoint the warming caused by livestock emissions for the first time, has added to the pressure. The Spectre of Dietary Change Ben Lilliston from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy believes that the industry shouldn’t be afraid of change.

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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." policy and engagement at BP. .

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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Yet as the global economy emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic, emissions are on the rise once again, presenting a monumental challenge over the next eight years if the world is to keep to the 1.5C global warming target countries signed up to in the Paris Agreement on the table. They are not inevitable.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

With climate change, things are just going beyond limits of adaptation,” said Fahad Saeed, a scientist with the global climate policy institute Climate Analytics, who is based in Islamabad. That’s not ethical.” Even in countries like Pakistan, where people are well-adapted to heat, sweltering temperatures are taking casualties.

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2020

In November 2017 Shell's said it would aim to reduce the carbon intensity of the energy products it sells in half by 2050, which it said was based upon keeping temperatures below 2C of global warming by the end of the century. warming pathway. But now, Shell has recalibrated that ambition and associated targets based upon a 1.5C

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 15, 2020

They are seeking to understand both the physical risks associated with climate change as well as the ways that climate policy will impact prices, costs, and demand across the entire economy. From Europe to Australia, South America to China, Florida to Oregon, investors are asking how they should modify their portfolios.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Public spheres have traditionally been defined by their opposition to a state or a given policy perspective. Public service ethics and societal responsibilities are luxuries that most media cannot afford. Nolte’s article is titled, “Scientists Prove Man-Made Global Warming Is a Hoax”. Ethical Journalism.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

Forest Service was founded in 1905 with fire suppression as a key policy. He supported the removal of the Miwok from their homelands in what became Yosemite National Park, and the government pursued a century-long policy of pushing them out of the area. Instead, he believed the land was improved by ethical and sustainable management.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5 However, in addition to improving practices, there is an opportunity for producers to rally around the idea that less and more sustainable meat options, which will be critical to limit global warming, can still be good for business. In 2019, 690 million people or 8.9

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AGreenLiving

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.” policy and engagement at BP.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Actually, we are the only party that will have a foreign policies that is based on our security and prosperity for our country. It needs to be said very clearly, and I’m so disappointed because I believed the Liberals in 2015 that they would go with science-based, evidence-based policies. Andrew Scheer: Your plan is failing.

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Business Green

APRIL 16, 2020

From safety to ethics and compliance. So, I hope you can easily see that the scale of action required of society, if it is to restrict global warming to under 1.5° In addition, consumption patterns within society must shift towards lower-carbon choices, encouraged by policies such as government-led carbon pricing mechanisms.

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