Energy Innovation

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The EPS allows users to model numerous policies that affect energy use and emissions including a renewable portfolio standard, fuel economy standards for vehicles, industry methane standards, incentives for clean energy technologies like we see in the Inflation Reduction Act, and accelerated R&D advancement of various technologies.

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Policy Energy Energy Pollution 52

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

An animal pharmaceutical representative body appears to have made a failed attempt to influence the United Nations by using what experts are calling distorted climate information to protect the livestock industry against calls to reduce food animal numbers and eat less animal protein. . Making Their Products Look Good”. A “Gross Omission”.

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Medicine Climate change Health Policy 98

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

According to the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), carbon offset programs can be grouped into the following broad categories: Renewable energy, energy efficiency, methane abatement, reforestation and conservation, fuel switching, and community projects. Carbon offset program #3: Methane abatement.

Carbon 148

Carbon Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Methane 148

AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health Oliver Camp Mon, 10/26/2020 – 01:30 On the recent World Food Day, the clarion call was clearer than ever: We must fix our food systems to improve human health, drive economic growth and save the planet from environmental collapse.

Health 28

Health Organic Sustainability Agriculture 28

Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2020

The emergence of environmental buzzwords started out with global warming, then became climate change. Global warming to climate change; climate change covers a broader term and now special interest groups can use it for any situation, as we have recently seen with the fires in Western Canada and now Australia.

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Global warming Carbon-neutral Waste Waste 99

DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

For more information, read our full investigation into the meat industry’s messaging on climate change. methane) from animal and land management and land-use change, which make the biggest warming contributions in the agricultural sector.”. This factsheet is part of DeSmog’s Agribusiness Database project.

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Agriculture Climate change Methane Soil 88

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The study found that an alternative method of quantifying the impact of methane emissions has led to a raft of industry-friendly findings that the livestock sector seems to be using to claim climate neutrality as they continue to pollute. That’s why some experts have proposed an alternative approach called GWP* for talking about methane.

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Methane Carbon-neutral Carbon-negative Agriculture 138

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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Sea level rise Ocean acidification Climate change Global warming 82

Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

those building the digital fabric to effectively inform and direct climate action. Along those same lines, Climate Intelligence (CI) is the historical, current, and predictive information on our natural and built systems to power insights for climate mitigation and adaptation. Insight Engines.

Building Energy Monitoring 59

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor 59

The Environmental Blog

APRIL 8, 2022

The latest threat to health and the environment is the disposal of electronic e-waste. It’s a global problem that is increasing the release of toxins, losing precious metals and wasting resources that could otherwise be part of a circular economy. Educational Awareness.

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Waste Waste Recycling Recycling 435

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

warming, we need to slash emissions dramatically – and at speed. 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. Animal production also emits 65 percent of global nitrous oxide emissions.

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Carbon-neutral Methane Agriculture Fossil fuels 97

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Dairy is a serious, but under-discussed source of planet-warming gases. Cows produce methane, a greenhouse gas that absorbs more atmospheric heat than carbon and is currently responsible for 25 percent of all global warming today. Livestock methane emissions are also rising in some of these countries.

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Methane Agriculture Africa Climate change 122

Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

Global temperatures have risen to 1.1C above pre-industrial levels after more than a century of burning fossil fuels and current policies are expected to lead to global warming of 2.8C Global emissions rose again last year and are not expected to peak until 2025 at the earliest. by 2100, the report warns.

Sustainability 72

Sustainability Fossil fuels Global warming Resilience 72

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Among these posts, 18 percent were publicly designated as advertisements as they appeared on Facebook Ad Library; the number of adverts analysed is likely higher overall but YouTube and Twitter do not publicly disclose this information.

Fossil fuels 98

Fossil fuels Carbon-neutral Carbon-negative Carbon 98

Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Although this level was not defined by the convention, the aim was to allow ecosystems and society to adapt naturally to climate change, which means slowing global warming down. In addition, several states have their own more demanding legislation in place, such as California’s and Massachusetts’ Global Warming Solutions Act.

Carbon 78

Carbon Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 78

Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Inclusive and green economies, prosperity, cleaner air and better health are possible for all if we respond to this crisis with solidarity and courage. In parallel, it must be used to inform and instigate a strong policy response to close the remaining ambition gap to keep the Paris Agreement objectives alive.".

Sea level rise 82

Sea level rise Climate change Fossil fuels Government 82

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2022

I’m worried about the health impacts the plant might have on my family,” Nicole told me. The reports show that the facility has released numerous chemicals, including benzene, a known human carcinogen, and methane. While natural gas burns cleaner than coal, the advantage of using it is negated by the methane emitted in its production.

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Natural gas Climate change Fossil fuels Seafood 98

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Nevertheless, lawyers are building cases on the oil industry’s own documents , seeking to echo the success of a previous generation of lawsuits against tobacco companies for covering up the health risks of smoking. This fast-evolving legal strategy has placed a premium on new archival research.

Climate change 98

Climate change Fossil fuels Pollution Carbon-negative 98

Michael Grossman

AUGUST 9, 2019

Do you want to know why issues like health care, taxes, mass shootings, and immigration rise to the top of voter concerns ? Everyone pays taxes; everyone has a family member who had a health scare, and pretty much every town and city in America has been impacted by gun violence. Climate Change Doesn’t Matter Until It Impacts Me.

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Climate change Fossil fuels Politics Policy 100

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

.” That apparent conservation activist was, in fact, an infamous climate change disinformation artist : Marc Morano, who’s done more than perhaps any other person to manufacture doubt about global warming. “Landowners are afraid to admit that they have land in the project.” In 2019, Ohioans weathered a $9.5

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Fossil fuels Energy Energy Construction 143