DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2021

The new study from the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme and Environmental Change Institute, Filling the evidentiary gap in climate litigation, finds that many lawsuits have not used the latest advances in attribution science as evidence. The power of climate litigation is increasingly clear”, said lead author Rupert Stuart-Smith.

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2022

“It is easy to set ambitious climate targets for 30, 40 or even 50 years in the future — but it is much harder to enact policies today that shift energy systems towards a more sustainable future,” they wrote. C, whereas weak action will see temperature continue to rise to 1.7, The difference between 1.5 While the 1.5-degree

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Isle de Jean Charles sits about 80 miles southwest of New Orleans, where sea-level rise and coastal erosion are intensified by oil and gas canals and climate change, and it took a major hit from Hurricane Ida. Isle de Jean Charles on Aug. 22, 2021, before Ida arrived.

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GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

There are real indications that this COVID-19 pandemic has actually accelerated the shift toward more sustainable technologies and as much as anything else, I would say there has been a very dramatic change in attitudes," Gore told me at the beginning of our chat, prerecorded before the Climate TRACE announcement. .

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Grist

MARCH 22, 2021

College students fighting to get their schools to stop investing in fossil fuels have stumbled on a new idea that could bring fresh attention to their cause: Those investments might be illegal. They also write that Harvard’s fossil fuel investments threaten its own physical property by exacerbating flooding and sea-level rise.

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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.” A two-week hearing on the case before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg, Germany concluded on Monday.

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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. Reducing fossil fuel dependence in the U.S. The economic merits of renewable energy already provide far more jobs than the fossil fuel industry. According to the U.K.’s Because it's coming."

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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

JUNE 21, 2021

The tide is turning against Louisiana’s proposed $2 billion Mississippi River sediment diversion project, that supporters say is needed to save the coast from rapid land loss due to subsidence, damage done by the oil and gas industry, extreme weather events, and sea level rise quickened by climate change.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The Paris Agreement indicates that wealthier nations should pay an increasing amount to less wealthy countries to assist with climate-related investments like flood defense from sea level rise, clean energy development, or the use of energy efficiency retrofits. These are: Article 6.2,

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2022

Currently, society is continuing to subsidise the combustion of fossil fuels at a direct and indirect cost the IMF estimates to have been $5.9tr in 2020.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 30, 2023

  🧪 EcoBean , a Warsaw, Poland-based sustainable chemicals from coffee beans developer, raised $7M in funding from the FENG program.  The report simultaneously warns that investment in fossil fuels must be cut in half, and includes criticism of governments that have rolled back climate policies in recent months.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

But the solutions are there On the other hand, the report stresses there is still time to deliver a low-carbon, sustainable economy where climate-resilient development becomes the norm. And the private sector is playing a starring role in this collective failure, as the actors that make the real economy work.

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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. Achieving this not only addresses the climate crisis writ large, but it also improves local environments and economies to be more sustainable for everyone.

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Andrew Winston

AUGUST 7, 2019

Most of those new billion will be in the middle class economically, as the percentage of citizens in dire poverty continues to drop (a rare sustainability win). Many highly populated coastal areas will be in consistent trouble, as sea levels rise. By 2030, we are very likely to already be at or approaching the 1.5

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Andrew Winston

AUGUST 7, 2019

Most of those new billion will be in the middle class economically, as the percentage of citizens in dire poverty continues to drop (a rare sustainability win). Many highly populated coastal areas will be in consistent trouble, as sea levels rise. By 2030, we are very likely to already be at or approaching the 1.5

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Over the past 12 months, nature-based solutions have gained huge traction in international policy, not least because of their potential to reduce trade-offs and promote synergies between environmental and societal concerns and among the Sustainable Development Goals.

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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. This report must sound a death knell for coal and fossil fuels, before they destroy our planet.

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Everything in the news about global warming, pollution, and sea level rise, that’s one side of the story. We have to move off the destructive path of using fossil fuels and natural resources that damage landscapes irreparably, toward a future that can flourish using environmental resources judiciously.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

Emerging climate technologies (ECT) – clean hydrogen, carbon management, and sustainable aviation fuels – experienced the highest Q4 growth at $4.3B, a 10X jump relative to Q4’22. Total 2023 investment was up 133% compared to the prior year. Energy & industry.   Equity.

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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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Grist

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Arctic ice levels are both a primary indicator of rising global temperatures and a key determinant of how bad climate change might get. Serious ice loss means sea levels rise, more heat is absorbed by the ocean and planet, and weather and ocean currents could change. Stopping Arctic melt is key,” Field says.

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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.

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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. Some countries are already achieving sustained emissions reductions, but action is not yet at the scale or speed we need.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2022

French and sustainable cuisine in the spotlight during the Games. The organising committee said it would work with NGOs and commercial partners to slash the impact of the estimated 13 million meals that will be served during Paris 2024 and showcase the best of sustainable food. WMO raises alarm over latest climate records.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Climate crisis is forcing countries to review both their security strategies and their military sustainability, writes University of Oxford lecturer Timothy Clack. In the Arctic, melting sea ice is amplifying strategic competition as the accessibility of resources improves, particularly mineral and fossil fuel deposits.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Sustainability and business 3. Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. It addresses the position of humans in the global (eco)system, and interprets and applies sustainability as a multi- and inter-disciplinary concept. These books are organized in the following six categories: 1.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

"By restoring degraded ecosystems and effectively and equitably conserving 30 to 50 per cent of Earth's land, freshwater and ocean habitats, society can benefit from nature's capacity to absorb and store carbon, and we can accelerate progress towards sustainable development, but adequate finance and political support are essential.".

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GreenBiz

JUNE 2, 2021

At minimum, it serves as a five-alarm warning to companies both inside and outside the fossil-fuel industry that their net-zero-by-mid-century decarbonization commitments simply may not be enough. Fossil-fuel companies are likely seeing flashing red lights about now. degrees Celsius. "The That’s huge, in and of itself.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2021

At minimum, it serves as a five-alarm warning to companies both inside and outside the fossil fuel industry that their net-zero-by-mid-century decarbonisation commitments simply may not be enough. Fossil fuel companies are likely seeing flashing red lights about now. That's huge, in and of itself. Flashing red lights.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 2, 2021

At minimum, it serves as a five-alarm warning to companies both inside and outside the fossil-fuel industry that their net-zero-by-mid-century decarbonization commitments simply may not be enough. Fossil-fuel companies are likely seeing flashing red lights about now. degrees Celsius. . That’s huge, in and of itself.

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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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2023

The oil-rich states of the Persian Gulf, which constitute the region’s financial and geopolitical powerhouses, are also developing green hydrogen plants and wind and solar farms, with the aim of using renewable energy domestically in order to free up more of their fuel reserves for export. HH: Right, that’s the thing.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 23, 2021

has built systems of transportation, heating, cooling, manufacturing and agriculture that rely primarily on fossil fuels. The greenhouse gas emissions those fossil fuels release when burned have raised global temperature by about 1.1°C The Conversation , CC BY-ND. Over many decades, the U.S. The infrastructure bill.

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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. Brazil announces $4bn 'sustainable' coal mining plan. New York State Comptroller Thomas P. US Senate passes $1tr infrastructure bill.

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