DeSmogBlog

APRIL 13, 2021

Both cases argue that inaction by governments when it comes to limiting dangerous global warming risks basic rights such as health and life. Campaign group KlimaSeniorinnen and four individual women say they are particularly vulnerable because their health is at risk from heat waves exacerbated by climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2023

The Daily Telegraph’s chief interviewer and columnist Allison Pearson has joined the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , one of the UK’s principal climate science denial groups. This appointment adds to the influence of the GWPF in the press and potentially the amount of sway that it holds over the Conservative Party.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 13, 2021

Both cases argue that inaction by governments when it comes to limiting dangerous global warming risks basic rights such as health and life. Campaign group KlimaSeniorinnen and four individual women say they are particularly vulnerable because their health is at risk from heat waves exacerbated by climate change.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

The pandemic has sharpened this focus by highlighting the importance of metrics such as employee health and well-being, safety protocols, cybersecurity and business continuity, to name a few. While undoubtedly beneficial in theory, the pursuit of stakeholder capitalism comes with a number of practical challenges. Redefining fiduciary duty.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 8, 2022

Assembly Bill 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, requires CARB to develop and update every five years a scoping plan that describes the approach California will take to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. These include: Treating 2–2.5

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Grist

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Efforts like these took aim at pollutants like the group of chemicals known as aerosols, which include sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, and other compounds that are harmful to human health. The passage of clean air laws, which removed these aerosols from the atmosphere, ironically unleashed a trend of worsening floods.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

When fierce storms appear on the horizon, the children get especially anxious and the elderly worry, which has impacts on their health. Increasingly hotter global temperatures mean the sea ice, which would have formed a barrier to protect the island from storms, forms much later in the storm season and melts much sooner.

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Front And Centered

JULY 21, 2020

began extracting and burning natural resources at a prodigious rate since 1750, making our country responsible for contributing to about a quarter of global warming. Imagine the nightmare of this hitting us in the midst of a global health pandemic that is already overwhelming our healthcare system.

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Grist

JUNE 5, 2024

But climate modelers calculate that while they are there, they fend off as much as a third of greenhouse warming. Thanks to clean-air legislation intended to protect public health, aerosol emissions have been reduced in Europe and North America since the 1980s. Met Office. The climatic repercussions of this are not unexpected.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2022

"Our research reveals some alarming gaps between countries' stated levels of climate ambition and their lack of workable plans to realise the significant benefits from changing the way we produce, process, consume, and transport food," said Patty Fong, climate program director at the Global Alliance for the Future of Food.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

These seven members of the public serve on the Virginia State Water Control Board, an independent regulatory body tasked with administering the state’s water laws. The damage to the health and wellbeing of residents along the pipeline route is incalculable. The MVP has received over $2.5 He is a co-founder and Senior Advisor at 350.org,

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

By the second day, the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department and the county’s Air Pollution Control District had issued an air-quality warning, and local libraries and nonprofits urged residents to protect themselves from the harmful smoke and ash, offering free N95 respirator masks. According to Emily Williams, a Ph.D.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

A Public Campaign of Deception First, as the complaint notes, “Defendants have known about the potential warming effects of GHG emissions since as early as the 1950s.” Nuclear physicist Edward Teller warned the oil industry at an API event in 1959 that global warming might melt the polar ice caps and submerge coastal cities.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

As the planet heats up, allergy seasons are getting longer and the climate crisis is “violating” her “right to health” said Comparelli, a climate activist in her 20s with Fridays for Future Italy. Sometimes it’s so bad that she has to spend whole afternoons in bed with her windows closed. Above all, though, Comparelli is afraid.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 22, 2024

The world’s foremost climate science body, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has said that “immediate and deep emissions reductions” are needed “across all sectors” to limit global warming to 1.5C – the global target established by the 2015 Paris Agreement.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2019

Although SF6 is non-toxic, the gas is one of the most potent GHGs with a global warming potential of 23,900 and an atmospheric lifetime of 3,200 years. For comparison, carbon dioxide has a global warming potential of 1.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2019

Although SF6 is non-toxic, the gas is one of the most potent GHGs with a global warming potential of 23,900 and an atmospheric lifetime of 3,200 years. For comparison, carbon dioxide has a global warming potential of 1.

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2020

Penycook said he was "really pleased" to take on the role, adding that "our immediate focus is ensuring the national coronavirus effort succeeds but we cannot lose sight of climate breakdown and the collective response required this decade to avert runaway global warming". Tougher air laws and new clean air zones are needed now.".

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Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2021

The survey, carried out in partnership with market research firm BVA, found that although most respondents are more worried about Covid-19 than climate change, 72 per cent of Europeans and Americans, and 84 per cent of Chinese people, believe their choices and actions can contribute to the fight against global warming.

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Business Green

JUNE 26, 2020

Plus all the top green business news from around the world this week, including Denmark's new climate law and the Australian mining sector's net zero pledge. global warming ambition, as its members predicted EU prices would average €32 per tonne over the next decade. Denmark agrees 'landmark' climate action law.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 2, 2023

In his spare time, Walker presents “The Lois and Andre Show”, a fringe YouTube series with Lois Perry, who has said that she does not believe in man-made global warming. We should allow people who are the victims of someone breaking the law to resolve it, so if you glue yourself to the M25, a lorry can run you over,” he said.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Oil, gas, and mining concessions pose major threats to global biodiversity and Indigenous lands, and global warming impacts such as drought and forest fires are major drivers of the biodiversity crisis. They’ve shown over and over again their interest is not in our health or our environment.”

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

India Gate, New Delhi: Residents of the city face pollution levels with a health impact estimated to be equivalent to smoking more than two packs of cigarettes a day (image credit: Amit kg / Shutterstock.com). Air pollution does not just cause health problems, it also presents a significant social and economic burden.

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Front And Centered

MAY 17, 2019

Like in the HEAL Act, a task force will be formed to further explore creating a state office dedicated to equity, and the decision-making body includes the people most impacted in all areas of government, such as environment, health care, employment and education. . This policy was Front and Centered legislative priority. **We

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2020

As with all countries signed up to the Paris Agreement, the UK is expected to prepare and communicate a new, more ambitious 2030 climate goal by the close of this year, as current pledges under the treaty are not strong enough to keep the world within 2C global warming limits, let alone 1.5C.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Climate disavowal was already happening in pre-pandemic life, but the additional stressors associated with our country’s present situation — joblessness, food insecurity, political conflict, pandemic health concerns, social isolation — make it even harder to think about environmental responsibilities.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

“Continuing to subsidize polluting fossil fuels defies logic,” said Shannon Laun, a staff attorney for the Conservation Law Foundation, in a statement. “If Connecticut’s Global Warming Solutions Act calls for a 45% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, and 80% by 2050.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 16, 2022

Originally, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Bledsoe and Brian McCall.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Near-term emissions reduction is key Emissions reduction this decade is set to "largely determine" whether global warming can be limited to 1.5C Later this year, the UK is set to publish its third ever National Adaptation Programme which is designed to set out the "climate risks and opportunities" of 2C of global warming.

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Earlier this month, France’s constitutional court upheld a law cutting palm oil from the country’s list of approved biofuels and eliminating associated tax exemptions. Biofuels are still expected to play an important part in hitting ambitious climate targets; to keep global warming under 1.5°C C by 2100, at least 26.3%

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Aclima (Series B | $67M | $160M): hyperlocal air quality and greenhouse gas measurement to reduce emissions and protect public health. But now, with global warming knocking on our door, the case for mitigation and adaptation solutions is making more and more financial sense. Insight Engines.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

But according to a new briefing paper from the Center for International Environmental Law, even if all the planned DAC projects in the world get built and operate at full capacity, they would be capable of removing just 4.7 percent of current global energy sector emissions. million metric tons of CO2 in 2030, equivalent to a mere 0.01

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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

But we’re overdue for more from the governments that we, as tax-payers, voters, and (generally) law-abiding citizens, have contracted to manage our societies. So why are people in America producing so much more global warming-driving CO 2 per person than the French, the British, and the Germans? I know my people.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 22, 2021

The pandemic has sharpened this focus by highlighting the importance of metrics such as employee health and well-being, safety protocols, cybersecurity and business continuity, to name a few. While undoubtedly beneficial in theory, the pursuit of stakeholder capitalism comes with a number of practical challenges.

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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

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The Financial Review reported that the pledge includes $1bn in financial investments and $500m in philanthropic and advocacy work in support of efforts to limit global warming to 1.5C. The move comes on top of about $1bn the couple have previously invested in climate-related ventures and initiatives.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

Nature magazine chimed in, saying that we’re hitting “ climate tipping points ” and the bank HSBC estimated trillions of dollars in potential health costs. Senate to pass common-sense gun laws. People are taking notice. We also saw more data on the economic costs of a changing climate. degrees Celsius.

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