DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

These companies are stepping up their game because the exposure they are facing is stepping up,” says Jennifer Jacquet, Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Miami. “It In its comment to DeSmog, the AHDB spokesperson also used GWP* to claim that “methane from UK livestock since 1990 has not caused global warming”.

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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. The Lancet Via EurekAlert Image via Shutterstock.

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Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 6, 2022

More frequent and more intense storms create land runoff that can overwhelm water treatment facilities, contaminating drinking water with hazardous waste or soils with intestinal parasites. Furthermore, elevated CO 2 concentrations can result in greater uptake and concentration of soil toxins (such as arsenic or cadmium) in rice.

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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.

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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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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2022

According to the report, the figure falls drastically short of the levels required to halt biodiversity loss, limit global warming to 1.5C, and achieve land degradation neutrality, with estimates suggesting $384bn is required annually by 2025 and $484bn is needed by 2030.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

People can debate whether policy proposals like these are unrealistic , but the scale of the thinking is welcome, and it’s pushing the debate. There’s a growing realization that climate change itself, and the policies that are coming to tackle it, represent a profound financial risk and a permanent shift in valuations.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

In Europe, coastal communities from the Iberian Peninsula to the northern British Isles used seaweed to enrich infertile agricultural soils at least as far back as Roman times, researchers have found. As with climate change, government policy is needed to move things along. Farmers in Ireland have used seaweed for centuries," he said.

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Grist

AUGUST 9, 2022

As the world gets hotter, soils are getting drier; it takes more and more precipitation to water the same crops and fill the same reservoirs. This complexity has resulted in conflicting messages about the role of human-caused global warming in the droughts that have ravaged the American West and the rest of the world.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

When Pathways to Dairy Net Zero (P2DNZ) made its debut ahead of the United Nations Food Systems Summit in 2021, it looked like the kind of group that could meet an important but largely neglected area of global climate response. Dairy is a serious, but under-discussed source of planet-warming gases.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. It is the first book in a series on Climate Risk Management, Policy and Governance. This is a companion piece to the the 25 books in The Green Market Oracle's well informed readers list. Climate impacts 2.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

New research published in Nature Climate Change in March, which was able to pinpoint the warming caused by livestock emissions for the first time, has added to the pressure. The Spectre of Dietary Change Ben Lilliston from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy believes that the industry shouldn’t be afraid of change.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

Climate change isn’t a 'side of desk' activity, yet corporate efforts to bolster resilience are failing to keep pace with worsening climate impacts - BusinessGreen Intelligence's latest trend report explores how firms should respond to escalating climate risks "The wolf is at the door," warns Greenpeace UK's head of politics, Rebecca Newsom.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

This conference is a global platform to discuss and learn about aims to provide a Renewable energy researchers, scientists, industrialists, policy makers, energy economists and academicians to exchange and share their experiences and research results about all aspects of Renewable Energy and Resources.

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Business Green

AUGUST 23, 2022

Other proposals include significantly more progressive taxation, a shift in global trade policies, adequate pensions for all, genuine gender equality, stronger workers rights, more eco-friendly farming techniques, the exploitation of abundant renewable energy reserves, and the widespread electrification of the global economy.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

The joint-largest donation to the Conservatives during this period was made by Graham Edwards, a board member at the influential Centre for Policy Studies (CPS). It’s time to kick toxic fossil fuel interests out of politics once and for all,” Caroline Lucas, Green Party MP for Brighton Pavilion, told DeSmog.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The 'domino effect' of net zero pledges from world leaders in recent months could prove hugely impactful on global warming trajectories, a new analysis suggests, but is its optimistic outlook justified? Back then, CAT's estimate for global average temperature rise by 2100 was 3.5C. It is hugely encouraging news.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Political pressure over biofuel requirements have escalated in recent months as profit margins for oil revenues have plummeted and the cost of biofuel credits (also known as RINs) have risen. (To In switchgrass scenarios planted on croplands or pasturelands, gains in NECB reflect increases in soil carbon stocks.

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Grist

OCTOBER 20, 2019

William Moomaw has had a distinguished career as a physical chemist and environmental scientist, helping found the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at Tufts University’s Fletcher School and serving as lead author on five reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. billion tons. Biologist] E.O.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

Not limiting her advocacy to her own hometown, she also spoke against Trump's immigration policies. She launched her own chapter of Fridays for Future after she realized that the strong rains and long droughts that hurt her family’s crops could be attributed to global warming. Hilda Nakabuye is from Kampala, Uganda.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

As Mark Carney noted this morning, this is part of a global trend. Finally climate policy action is getting real," he said. Tax credits for wind and solar developers have long been the primary policy mechanisms for driving the rapid expansion of the US renewables industry. of global warming by 2050.

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