DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. Scientists say that unless swift action is taken, methane from agriculture alone will take us beyond a 1.5C

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2020

In this digital, mobile and social media age, we are constantly bombarded with new environmental, economic, social, geo-political and technical terminology that creates confusion, misguided actions and misinterpretation. The emergence of environmental buzzwords started out with global warming, then became climate change.

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Business Green

MAY 4, 2021

Limiting global warming to 1.5C warming involves two distinct questions. So scientifically speaking, humanity can still limit global warming to 1.5C But political action will determine whether it actually does. the extent to which non-CO2 greenhouse emissions such as methane are reduced. this century.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The climate crisis may have stayed near the top of the political and corporate agenda, net zero commitments have come thick and fast, and renewable and electric vehicle investment may have toppled records, but there is barely a country on the planet on track to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. in the current decade? pathway by 2030.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Research shows the world needs to cut global emissions 45% by 2030 to keep global warming under 1.5 C trajectory in half for carbon dioxide emissions and by almost 40% for methane. C trajectory in half for carbon dioxide emissions and by almost 40% for methane. degrees Celsius (2.7 That’s a start.

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Green Alliance argues UK has made 'little headway' on pledge made at COP26 to slash methane emisisons by 30 per cent by 2030. For example, soaring fossil gas prices mean that plugging methane leaks from oil and gas sites could deliver a significant boost in profits for fossil fuel firms.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

In island n ations that are losing their homes to sea-level rise, and in other highly vulnerable countries, there were bitter pills to swallow after global commitments to cut emissions fell far short of the goal to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7°F). Now, those promises must be acted upon. As a former senior U.N.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

global warming pathway are to be kept alive. In snap analysis published yesterday, the IEA said it had calculated the impacts of the net zero pledges and emissions targets announced in recent days, and concluded that if national climate pledges are delivered as promised, the planet could potentially limit warming to 1.8C

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

They reflect the interests, the conditions, the contradictions and the state of political will in the world today. They take important steps, but unfortunately the collective political will was not enough to overcome some deep contradictions. Of course global politics shape these summits, but the Prime Minister has hindered not helped.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

To meet Paris Agreement commitments of keeping global warming “ well below ” 2 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels, specialists in climate, public health, and other areas advise cutting herd numbers, particularly on intensive farms, and eating less animal protein, especially in richer countries.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

They study glaciers and global temperature changes, climate solutions and adaptation, the oceans and the human influence on global warming. Another ad features miniature power plants to promote “cleaner electricity” from natural gas, whose methane emissions are a major driver of rising global temperatures.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

IEA warns that methane emissions from the global energy sector fell only fractionally last year, despite projects to cut methane leaks providing hugely attractive returns on investment By rights methane emissions from the fossil fuel industry should be one of the easiest climate problems to fix. There is just no excuse.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

In addition, after the first text was criticised by NGOs for its omission of methane , a mention of the potent greenhouse gas has made it into the latest draft. The new text "invites" countries to "consider further actions" to reduce non-CO2 greenhouse gases this decade, with a specific mention of methane. without nature," she said. "It

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2022

And yet, so complete is their disconnect from the real world that these zombie arguments continue to stumble across the political landscape desperately looking for an issue, any issue, to attack. Soaring energy bills? Blame net zero. Boris Johnson's downfall? Net zero's fault. A decade of flat-lining productivity and anaemic wage growth?

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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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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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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

But now, with global warming knocking on our door, the case for mitigation and adaptation solutions is making more and more financial sense. Because of global warming, our natural environment is also hotter and drier than ever before, making fires caused by failed power lines more likely and extreme. million.

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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.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Researchers have even found that certain types of seaweed used as feed supplement for cattle can reduce methane emissions from cow farts. And because water nutrient pollution - unlike global warming - is largely a localised problem, a lot of work can be done at the local, regional or national level.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Yet it wasn’t until 1992, with the adoption of the United Nations Framework Convention on Change (UNFCCC) during the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit , that a global movement to inventory GHG emissions, and with that, carbon accounting, began. Plus we see these mounting regulations on a global level, far beyond the US and the EU.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

climate summit in Paris in 2015, officials agreed to limit global warming to 2 degrees C (3.6 That dynamic is playing out again at COP26 in Glasgow, with Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados declaring on Monday that 2 degrees C of warming would be a “ death sentence ” for island countries. At the U.N. over the past year.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In a move that environmental advocates cautiously celebrated, the pair agreed earlier this month to work together to try to triple renewable energy capacity globally by 2030. And during COP28, they’ll host a meeting to address methane pollution, an even more potent greenhouse gas than CO2. But (why is there always a but?!)

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

An ice-free Arctic might be a boon for the shipping industry in the short term, but comes at potential catastrophic cost to our economy in the form of environmental disaster and political upheaval. In fact, physics tells us that for every 1 degree Celsius of warming, our atmosphere can hold about seven percent more moisture.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Chris Venables, head of politics at Green Alliance, said: "While this report should set off alarm bells around the world, the worry is that politicians will yet again hit the snooze button. With the world on the brink of irreversible harm, every fraction of a degree of warming matters to limit the dangers of climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 29, 2021

The number of orphaned wells in oil and gas producing states nationwide continues to increase, as does the amount of planet warming methane emissions leaking from them. In fact, methane is up to 86 times more potent than carbon dioxide in the first 20 years after entering the atmosphere.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Nations which fail to come up with the goods in 2022 will have some explaining to do, both to their own citizens and the global political and business community. Scores of countries have also independently pledged to cut methane emissions by 30 per cent by 2030. The same goes for businesses.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The impacts of global warming are deeply regressive, disproportionately hurting our poorest and most vulnerable communities. Given the state of Congress today, and our more general state of political polarization, it may be hard to resist the eye-roll — but resisting it is more important than ever.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

In January, DeSmog revealed energy secretary Claire Coutinho had accepted thousands of pounds from Michael Hintze , one of the early backers of the UK’s main climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation. A member of the group’s board was also appointed to a parliamentary committee on climate change.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

US re-joins High Ambition Coalition, as snap analysis suggests commitments made in Glasgow could bring global warming trajectories down below 2C for the first time. warming pathway. Nick Mabey, co-founder and CEO of climate think tank E3G, said the HAC grouping "makes the political weather at COP".

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The impacts of global warming are deeply regressive, disproportionately hurting our poorest and most vulnerable communities. Given the state of Congress today, and our more general state of political polarization, it may be hard to resist the eye-roll — but resisting it is more important than ever.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 3, 2020

Once upon a time there were two political leaders who exacerbated the suffering of their citizens and ignored their pleas for help. Both men have dismissed calls for climate action while their people suffer from savage wildfires induced by global warming. Those two men are none other than U.S.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The impacts of global warming are deeply regressive, disproportionately hurting our poorest and most vulnerable communities. Given the state of Congress today, and our more general state of political polarization, it may be hard to resist the eye-roll — but resisting it is more important than ever.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

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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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

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.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Imagine you woke up in 2030 to find that Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia had done little to slow the global warming that cooked the Cascadia region this year. We have not kept pace with the scope of the crisis,” Oregon Global Warming Commission Chair Catherine Macdonald wrote to legislators that month.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The fossil fuel industry’s attempts at image control extend beyond its own brands to its products, especially methane, or as the industry likes to call it, natural gas. More than 60 percent of Americans (and 89 percent of Democrats) say that oil companies are “completely or mostly” responsible for global warming.

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