DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Meat emits around a third of global emissions of methane, and action to cut this greenhouse gas has been identified by the UN and world leaders as the quickest route to slowing global heating. Farming also relies on synthetic fertilisers that are both fossil-fuel-based and emit greenhouse gases, and drives deforestation.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

In addition to balancing out any remaining emissions that can’t be eliminated, scientists say carbon removal is the only way the world could eventually reverse global warming, by sucking more carbon out of the atmosphere than we’re putting in. How do we ensure forests are managed to minimize risk of fires?

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 10, 2022

In particular, we’re looking to fund the following solutions ( though this list is certainly not exhaustive ): Sustainable inputs: Synthetic fertilizer, which is created using fossil fuels and releases powerful nitrous oxide (NO2) into the atmosphere, accounts for 20% of all agricultural emissions, and 2.4% of global GHGs.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Other findings suggest that nearly 570 million people could face risks of increased flooding, bigger storms, and soil and water salinification that could result in them being permanently forced to leave their homes. At the same time, exposure to heatwaves has increased, with adults over 65 affected by 3.1

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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

degrees Celsius of global warming that has occurred to date. In the broadest sense, overshoot is a future where the world does not cut carbon quickly enough to limit global warming to 1.5 Global warming coming back down is not going to bring you that species back,” she said. Warming of 1.5

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2023

That’s about 95 percent of the amount needed to be removed annually to ensure global warming remains below 1.5 According to the study, keeping global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels not only requires reducing fossil fuel emissions but removing around 500 gigatons of atmospheric CO₂ by 2100.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

Figures show that the current average will increase from 15% of the global energy mix to 28% by 2050. This increase will push out alternative, fossil-fuel-powered energy sources, supporting a much-needed energy evolution as fossil-fuel reserves begin to deplete. Carbon offset program #3: Methane abatement.

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Green Market Oracle

JUNE 9, 2020

Sixty-five percent of Russia is covered by permafrost and this threatens fossil fuel infrastructure like pipelines. Thawing permafrost is one of three major warming related feedback loops that include fires and melting sea ice. These feedback loops exacerbate Arctic warming. Sea ice extent for May 2020 averaged 12.36

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

Many local people are furious at the damage done to their forests by logging corporations ripping out whole trees with Star-Wars machinery that first churns up and then compacts the soil. In any case, why send wood pellets to Europe to substitute for coal, when North Americans burn more fossil fuels than Europeans do?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

But she also stressed that "new investments and strong climate policy now need to support the green economy much more systematically and push fossil fuels out of the equation". It projected that to have a 50 per cent chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C, 1.7C

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. The hope is that limiting global warming to 1. Commonly known as soot, it is formed from wildfires and fossil fuel consumption and contributes to climate change. Biodiversity. Black carbon. Energy transition.

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Low Impact

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

If you simply want somewhere to grow your own food, or to work with your hands in the soil, there are other possible options, so it is worth asking: Is there already a community garden near you? While starting a community garden can be a very rewarding experience, it entails a lot of work.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 23, 2022

Some of the remaining nitrogen is then released as nitrous oxide, which is a greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming. Inorganic fertilizers also tend to lower soil pH making it more acidic, this causes the microorganisms in the soil to die, which leads to unhealthy soil and as a result unhealthy plants in the long run.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 25, 2022

The primary cause of greenhouse gas emissions is the burning of fossil fuels, which is occurring at a current rate at which the environment’s natural reuptake and stabilization cannot keep up. Traditionally, the ocean, soil, and forests have acted as carbon sinks, systems that absorb more carbon from the atmosphere than they release.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

So yeah, there's a little cheat that we did: we took away the hyper-object of global warming, which is so vast and timeless and slow-moving, and we put in a very concrete event, a comet. This risk increases steeply with rises in global temperature. It is entirely possible the worst case warming scenarios can be averted.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Meanwhile, global emissions are spiralling upwards again as the economy recovers and surging fossil fuel prices are driving fears that a new wave of high carbon infrastructure investment could yet be unleashed. in the current decade? pathway by 2030.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

As the Committee forms in the next couple of weeks, there are some major milestones ahead that will guide us in driving the future of environment policy, and challenging the government to make sure the air we breathe is clean, the water we drink is safe, and the soil we rely on to grow food is nurtured and free from contamination.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The CCC stressed that "this is a crucial 12 months" within a monumentally important decade for the climate if the world is to stand a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C, adding that "only concrete steps by 2030" would close the growing gap between delivery and ambition.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

global warming pathway could create close to 85 million additional jobs by the end of the decade. It also calls for policymakers and industry to draw up new global standards for monitoring and reporting on the state of soil health, soil carbon content, and pollinator health.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

That is the stark consensus of the world's leading climate scientists in a landmark UN report today, which offers the clearest picture yet of both the scale of global warming already being experienced and the likely impacts of further temperature rises that are set to play out over the coming decades.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

It says to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius, as outlined in the Paris Accords, we need to severely restrict the total, cumulative amount of greenhouse gases we release into the atmosphere moving forward. Data from IPCC and the Global Carbon Project. So, what does the Carbon Law say?

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

These come from deforestation, changes in soil carbon, methane emissions, emissions from fertilisers, manure, farm machinery, and animal feed production. A separate analysis from Oxford University’s Our World in Data project found that transitioning to a global vegan diet could save 6.6 gigatonnes (Gt) of CO2e and sequester 8.1

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

We need the animal agriculture equivalent of ‘keep it in the ground’ for fossil fuels,” she adds. “It’s In its comment to DeSmog, the AHDB spokesperson also used GWP* to claim that “methane from UK livestock since 1990 has not caused global warming”. It’s really about production at the end of the day.”

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Grist

AUGUST 2, 2019

The heat is drying out deeper into the soil, which means the duff layers lower down are much more susceptible to burning,” said Carly Phillips , a scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center on Cape Cod who studies carbon cycling in northern ecosystems. It’s having an effect belowground, too. Peat, Smith pointed out, is the precursor to coal.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 28, 2020

Ultimately the scale of NET deployment needed is reduced to near zero if policies are adopted that aggressively drive the reduction of fossil fuel emissions while simultaneously ramping up efficiency and clean energy technologies such as wind and solar. GtCO 2 for afforestation and reforestation, 0.5–2

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

A good indication is the accelerating pace corporate commitments to 100% renewable energy (through the group RE100 ), setting science-based targets (more than 740 companies now), and pursuing the most aggressive carbon reductions in order to hold global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Electric transportation is expanding.

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 16, 2021

Soiled tissues and face masks should be disposed of in garbage bins, while medical wastes used by patients and hospital workers must be sterilized before being incinerated, based on the World Health Organization’s ( WHO’s ) health guidelines. Plastics Manufacturing Processes Contribute to Global Warming.

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Green Living Guy

JULY 14, 2021

The eco-conscious movement swept through the agricultural industry decades before rooftop solar panels, and electric vehicles hit the market. Rachel Carson wrote the infamous book, Silent Spring, exposing the adverse ecological impacts of dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT). The popular insecticide decreased the sustainability of U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 30, 2021

Fossil fuel companies lied for decades about climate change, and humanity is paying the price. The crime in question is the fossil fuel industry’s 40 years of lying about climate change. Their aim was “to reposition global warming as theory, not fact,” one planning document stated. By Mark Hertsgaard.

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Grist

AUGUST 9, 2022

They also confirmed that rising temperatures — driven by human consumption of fossil fuels — were partly to blame. Since 1850, global temperatures have climbed 1.2 As the world gets hotter, soils are getting drier; it takes more and more precipitation to water the same crops and fill the same reservoirs.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 30, 2021

It has disproportionately affected already marginalized communities around the world, from farmers in coastal Bangladesh, where the fast-rising seas are salting the soil and slashing rice yields, to low-income residents of Houston, Chicago and other cities, whose neighborhoods suffer higher temperatures than prosperous areas across town.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Wastewater from overburdened urban septic systems and air pollution from burning fossil fuels contribute to nitrogen pollution, but often runoff of the synthetic fertilizers used in industrialized agriculture is the primary culprit. Seaweed's potential as a solution to this crisis is two-fold, scientists and environmentalists say.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2019

The effects include water scarcity, desertification, soil erosion, declining crop yields and wildfire damage, with the prospect that these will only worsen unless urgent action is taken. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from all sectors is essential if global warming is to be kept to well below 2ºC, if not 1.5ºC, said the authors.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

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. In this context, the meat industry is increasingly viewed as a sector where greenhouse gas emissions cuts can and should be made, just like the fossil fuel industry.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 27, 2022

Flattening forests to clear slopes, causing erosion and uprooting wildlife, and using fossil fuel-hungry snow cannons and piste bashers name a few of the environmentally damaging activities associated with ski resorts. Yet, there’s another way to feed these fossil fuel-hungry hoists, and that is, by using energy from renewable sources.

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Low Impact

APRIL 30, 2021

Sustainable funerals do not: Release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, contributing to global warming. An alternative, burning fossil fuels, results in high emissions of greenhouse gases. Globally, cremation emits over 6.8 Allow poisonous substances to enter our ecosystems and pollute the environment.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

This means that every time we do something in the forest, we ask, ‘What is in the best interest of animals, plants, soil, water, air, and humans?’ But thinning without fire rarely brings additional ecological benefits, such as regeneration of fire-resilient trees and plants and promoting soil health.

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