Grist

MARCH 20, 2023

degrees Celsius (2 degrees Fahrenheit) since preindustrial times, and that this warming has “ unequivocally ” been caused by human activities , primarily burning fossil fuels. report from October found that countries’ climate policies and planned fossil fuel projects would cause nearly 3 degrees C (5.4 degrees C (2.7

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 9, 2021

” One central finding of the new analysis is that the Paris accord’s goal of limiting global temperature rise to no more than 1.5°C C above pre-industrial levels is in serious danger as policymakers fail to take the necessary steps to curb greenhouse gas emissions. .”

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

These revelations quickly spurred calls for Congress to investigate Exxon’s and other fossil fuel companies’ efforts to obstruct climate action. For years, academics, journalists, and activists have been unearthing documents proving that the fossil fuel industry knew about the dangers of climate change since the late 1950s.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

My work documents the ongoing trend of science denial becoming increasingly woven into right-wing rhetoric by steadfast Trump supporters , the impacts of extreme weather fueled by climate change, and the actions taken by climate advocates fighting for environmental justice and against pollution from the fossil fuel industry.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Compiled by Dutch climate activist Vatan Hüzeir , and reviewed by DeSmog and Dutch investigative journalism platform Follow The Money , the documents show how Shell was actively supporting research that clearly underscored the dangers posed by burning its fossil fuel products from the mid-1970s — years earlier than previously thought.

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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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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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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. Climate action is a legal duty! In the U.S.,

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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. Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree That is why this year's United Nations climate conference in Glasgow is so important.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

In just ten years, Jacobson has harnessed passion, determination and science to re-frame the way renewable energy is seen and, ultimately, accepted as a viable solution to climate change and air pollution. If this soup of pollution was hurting me after only a few minutes, I imagined the damage it caused people who lived in it.”

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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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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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Add to that a huge round of new licences for North Sea oil and gas extraction – and no further windfall taxes on energy companies making bumper profits – and it’s clear the former Shell manager has few qualms about going all-out for fossil fuels. Kemi Badenoch – Trade Secretary. Zahawi earned £1.3

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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

AUGUST 13, 2021

Italy's health ministry issued "red" alert extreme heat warnings in several regions, with the heat wave expected to spread north and impact a number of cities in the coming days.The heat wave has also exacerbated the spread of wildfires across southern Italy, with Sicily, Calabria, and Puglia the worst-hit regions.

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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.

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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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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Health CLIMATE IMPACTS Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe by Mario Alejandro Ariza, 2020 A deeply reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist examines the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City -- a watery harbinger for coastal cities worldwide. Climate impacts 2.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

But as sea levels rise and the islands continue to subside, the costs of fortifying and maintaining the structures may exceed the value of the land and agricultural production behind them, says Alf Brandt, counsel to the State Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon. Fossil fuels, you might say, are an aged form of blue carbon.

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