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In Their Own Words: The Dirty Dozen Documents of Big Oil’s Secret Climate Knowledge

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s investigative journalism arm, and the British Channel 4 News this summer exposing how the oil giant and lobby groups such as the American Petroleum Institute seed doubt about climate change and undermine legislation to stop global warming. I love how he calls greenhouse gas emissions from cars “pollution.” Document 1: 1959.

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The IPCC Synthesis Report: Ten key takeaways for business

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Near-term emissions reduction is key Emissions reduction this decade is set to "largely determine" whether global warming can be limited to 1.5C Sluggish progress on decarbonisation to date mean that greenhouse gas emissions need to be reduced by 43 per cent by 2030 and 60 per cent by 2035 on 2019 levels, according to the findings.

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Environmental Literacy: Altering Humanity’s Course

Green Technology

Some had no idea how pollution from human activities affected ecosystems. Everything in the news about global warming, pollution, and sea level rise, that’s one side of the story. Imagine if everybody possessed that level of environmental literacy. How about producing energy without pollution?

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Lost Decade: How Shell Downplayed Early Warnings Over Climate Change

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Climate Lawsuits Historical evidence of what oil majors knew about climate change is taking on new significance in the courtroom as lawyers seek to hold big polluters to account for the accelerating devastation caused by the climate crisis. based Center for International Environmental Law has reported.

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How Climate-Friendly is Liz Truss’s Cabinet?

DeSmogBlog

Rees-Mogg was also the first cabinet minister to endorse the campaign to reverse the UK’s ban on fracking, spearheaded by the backbench Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), the parliamentary wing of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).

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Climate Change: Where Are We Now?

Unsustainable

Photo Credit: REUTERS While some politicians and citizens continue to deny the existence of man-made global warming, the evidence supporting it continues to grow. The UCSUSA points out that “Consequences of global warming include drought, sea level rise, flooding, extreme weather, and species loss.