Grist

APRIL 27, 2022

The report, called the Global Land Outlook 2, comes from the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and follows a landmark UN report earlier this month that called for “rapid and deep” emissions cuts to avoid the worst effects of global warming. That is, if humanity can muster up the political will.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

A University of Victoria economics professor who has spent years questioning whether global warming is “a real thing” is doing research supported by hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding from the Canadian government. last November was potentially made 60 percent more likely due to global warming.

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GreenBiz

MAY 8, 2021

While some of these proposals are certainly inspired by the pandemic and the protests following George Floyd’s death, others are being driven by continued pressure from organizations such as CalPERS and the activist nonprofit As You Sow , which also publishes a Racial Justice Scorecard. Political lobbying: Walt Disney.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

But it was canceled without explanation by conference organizers several weeks before it was due to begin. On the first day of the convention, attendance at strategic session speeches and those of the related hydrogen conference were so low that event organizers removed unused seating. Keith Shoemaker of EQT Corp.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The UN’s expert climate science organization has criticised the “vested interests” obstructing efforts to cut emissions for the first time this week. The review, which focuses on adaptation, said that despite scientific certainty around human-caused climate change, “vested economic and political interests” were delaying efforts to tackle it.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 25, 2023

“I even took off my farm boots and wore high heels to come here today,” Camila Telles told the audience of political activists, business executives, and students at April’s Liberty Forum, an annual conservative gathering in Brazil sponsored by the Atlas Network. Some camps supported the reelection of populist strongman Jair Bolsonaro.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2023

While researching my book, I read through hundreds of pages of internal documents from the company, which revealed that Imperial Oil was studying the link between fossil fuels and global warming as early as the 1970s. They were instructed to stress the “many uncertainties” associated with stopping global warming.

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Grist

JANUARY 19, 2022

It’s been a wild start to 2022: Omicron cases are surging around the world, the oceans are hotter than ever , and a group of climate scientists are suggesting that the world’s leading global warming experts stop doing science. Scientific information is always viewed through a vortex of ideology, politics, and power.

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The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 14, 2021

The consequences of global warming and the abuse of Earth’s natural resources are becoming more apparent, and people are starting to take notice. Everyone from political leaders to everyday citizens is reevaluating their wasteful behaviors and making intentional changes to save the planet.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Clean Creatives is backed by the same organizations and individuals that helped trigger the fastest divestment movement in history, convincing thousands of investors to ditch fossil-fuel assets and arguably doing more damage to fossil-fuel companies' license to operate than any other campaign. "The For example, last year 20 U.K.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The report comes four months after the two organizations announced a lawsuit against the company alleging Eni used “lobbying and greenwashing” to push for more oil and gas production, despite having known about the risks fossil fuels posed over the past 53 years.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2023

The UK’s Climate Innovation Forum named global PR agency Weber Shandwick as its “ official communications partner ,” despite the agency recently holding or continuing to hold contracts with at least eight oil and gas companies, an oil financier, and an industry lobby group. degrees Celsius, compared to pre-industrial levels.”

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

The critically urgent transition to a just and science-based clean energy system continues to suffer at the hands of well-funded operatives and organizations working to undermine progress and prolong global dependency on fossil fuels.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

Rapid progress towards establishing net zero industry clusters can be facilitated by making best use of regional resources and organizations. Political will must be galvanized and renewed as we emerge from the fall-out of Covid-19, and energies refocused on climate change as soon as resource is available. Policy-driven benefits.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Instead of enjoying carefree childhood hobbies , they are protesting, litigating, organizing, and public speaking about the importance of policy-based climate solutions. Look up parent-centric climate organizations like Parents for Future , Climate Mama , Science Moms , Climate Action Families.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 8, 2020

With the new year already upon us, the need for efficient organizations battling the climate emergency is only growing. This year, consider donating to and volunteering with nonprofit organizations and charities that are transparent about how they use their funds and their time. but has recently expanded to the U.S.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Related: NYC Metronome clock now displays deadline for irreversible global warming The climate clock forms part of the backdrop in which the United Nations General Assembly began its meeting in New York on Monday. Organizers of the display aren’t impressed by the progress made since then. billion promised this year.

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Green Living Guy

MARCH 15, 2021

It can feel hopeless as if the issue is constantly mired by politics. There is broad consensus within the scientific community that the climate is changing and that humans are the primary cause of this. Despite this, it seems like society never makes any necessary improvements to avert this problem.

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Green Living Guy

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

If you feel your government or political leaders will take necessary strides to sustain the. We believe ourselves lucky as the inhabitants of the solar system’s only planet capable of sustaining life. But we are continuing to only take from our environment. Ever thought about giving back to the planet?

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

Coordinated with Clean Creatives, a climate campaign meant to pressure the advertising industry, and the nonprofit Union of Concerned Scientists, the letter was organized and signed by a group of leading scientists including Jason Box, Astrid Caldas, Peter Gleick, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Michael Mann, Kate Marvel, and Katharine Wilkinson.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

This is “due to the sector’s role in driving global warming, and the seismic risks that climate change and the energy transition present to the industry,” he explained. The reverse is also true: litigation brought by outside organizations against oil and gas companies can influence shareholders and, in turn, increase pressure. “We

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Energy Innovation

MAY 25, 2022

The model also demonstrates how support for policy or technology adoption accelerates when learning leads to cost reductions, or dampen when political, legal, or cultural winds shift. Politics in modeling. When initial IAM results were presented, non-governmental organizations and some scientists criticized the reliance on NETs.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

That sends a clear political message that the industry “is less powerful and trusted than before,” Nick Caleb, a climate and energy attorney with Breach Collective, told DeSmog. 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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Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2021

The inauguration of Joe Biden as president is the dawn of a new political era; for the first time, the stars are aligning for the clean energy sector to unleash its full potential. He's integrating climate experts across all departments in "the largest team ever assembled inside the White House to tackle global warming.".

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 8, 2020

With the new year already upon us, the need for efficient organizations battling the climate emergency is only growing. This year, consider donating to and volunteering with nonprofit organizations and charities that are transparent about how they use their funds and their time. but has recently expanded to the U.S.

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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). Yet they had little to offer in terms of the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

“Climate litigation is a formidable tool to put pressure on the State and ask to strengthen its efforts in the climate fight,” said Marica Di Pierri, spokesperson for A Sud, the organization bringing the lawsuit. “As That’s why we have decided to [bring] the first Italian climate lawsuit.”.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Cole argued that the law was not the ultimate weapon, but only one, and that the overarching goal is political empowerment toward systemic change. This philosophy led Cole to structure CRPE so that community organizers were in the lead and lawyers would be accountable to the organizers. Credit: Laura Mangan.

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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 The Energy Transitions Commission , a coalition of businesses and nongovernmental organizations, calculated that if the commitments made at COP26 are delivered, it will cut the gap between today and the 1.5

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The Assembly is a network of social, environmental, and political groups that have banded together to oppose offshore oil drilling along Argentina’s Atlantic coast. The activities proposed by Equinor Argentina will degrade an ecosystem that is already threatened by overfishing, global warming and pollution.”.

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Greentown Labs

JULY 16, 2020

Leading climatetech innovation organizations launch multi-year initiative to accelerate the trillion-dollar carbon-to-value market. According to scientists, reducing greenhouse gas emissions alone will not be enough to keep global warming below an average of two degrees Celsius globally. Newswise — New York City, N.Y.,

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Collated and published each year before the international negotiations of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), The Lancet ’s Countdown strongly emphasizes that tackling climate change would be a significant global health opportunity.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

A “high ambition” coalition of nations such as France, Tuvalu, Ethiopia, and Ireland backed by climate scientists, climate and civil society organizations , and the UN Secretary General , are calling for commitments to phase out coal, oil, and gas. A new Global Witness analysis further substantiates this point.

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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. To date, insurance and financial organizations have relied upon predictive risk models based on historical trends. We believe this represents the biggest opportunity of our generation?—?to

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

While some of these proposals are certainly inspired by the pandemic and the protests following George Floyd's death, others are being driven by continued pressure from organizations such as CalPERS and the activist nonprofit As You Sow , which also publishes a Racial Justice Scorecard. Political lobbying: Walt Disney.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 12, 2023

Freund said that it was important for policymakers to interact with lobbyists in “any healthy democracy”, but that “wherever there could be an influence of money on politics, the bare minimum is to make it transparent and give voters the possibility to hold decision makers accountable.”

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