Scientific American

JUNE 17, 2025

And because roughly 60 percent of global textiles now contain plastic derived from fossil fuels, it is estimated that more than a third of the microplastics in the oceans today were shed from clothing. Some new regulations are meant to make the industry more accountable. million plastic microfibers per wash.

Upcycling

Law Columbia

JULY 15, 2025

transitioning from fossil fuels to renewables) too slowly or too quickly. Mitigation targets are to be as ambitious as possible, informed by a nation’s current and cumulative historical greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, its capacity to contribute to mitigation measures, and other national circumstances (e.g.

Climate Change

Vermont Law

APRIL 9, 2025

Among the most cited environmental effects of war include deforestation, soil erosion, and biodiversity loss. of global greenhouse gas emissionsdouble the amount coming from aviation and shipping. War fuels the climate crisis and gas (and other dirty fossil fuels) fuel war. In 2023, the DOD distributed 79.5

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

MAY 20, 2025

In these meetings, the leaders of states and provinces talk about what they are doing to reduce greenhouse gases and prepare for worsening climate disasters. States in Mexico, including Jalisco, Yucatn and Oaxaca, have developed sustainable supply chain certification programs to help reduce deforestation. In the U.S., Acre, Brazil.

Rainforest

Law Columbia

MARCH 19, 2025

corporations and institutional investors owe a fiduciary duty to maximize profits through economic activities that continue to produce, sell, and use fossil fuels (i.e. In addition, if profits can be maximized by deforestation or releasing methane or other greenhouse gases as well, then profits must again take precedence.

Law

Yale E360

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Does it finance coal or wind power, deforestation or ecological recovery? Whatever politicians promise, what matters is where investment goes.

Fossil Fuels

Real Climate

APRIL 6, 2023

The term “fossil fuels”, however, is mentioned 16 times. Nevertheless, the summary for policymakers states the need for “rapid and deep and, in most cases, immediate greenhouse gas emissions reductions in all sectors this decade” if we want global warming to keep below 1.5°C C or 2°C since preindustrial times (p.

Climate Change

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 11, 2021

But it also indicates that by swiftly and drastically cutting greenhouse gas emissions, the worst effects of climate change can be prevented, avoiding worst-case outcomes for water availability. “I And it shows that certain trends such as rising seas and shrinking ice sheets will continue even if carbon pollution were halted immediately.

Climate Change

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 16, 2021

The report stated unequivocally, for the first time, that climate change is occurring due to “human influence,” namely the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation. Natural influences, such as volcanic activity or sunlight intensity, account for a mere sliver of atmospheric warming. The report, while grim, does offer hope.

2021

Real Climate

AUGUST 13, 2021

The IPCC has introduced a new high-end risk scenario, stating that a global rise “approaching 2 m by 2100 and 5 m by 2150 under a very high greenhouse gas emissions scenario cannot be ruled out due to deep uncertainty in ice sheet processes.”. The IPCC gives more consideration to the large long-term sea-level rise beyond the year 2100.

Sea Level

Legal Planet

JULY 25, 2023

There should be a concerted effort to reach an international agreement for methane reduction, akin to the Kigali Amendment, which phases out another important greenhouse gas – hydrofluorocarbons — with emission reduction dates, enforcement, and funding and technical assistance to help countries meet the targets.

Deforestation

A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

The UN agency concluded global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are at the highest levels in human history and without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors limiting climate change to 1.5°C They set out the state of climate mitigation and impacts in a report released on Monday the 4th of April. It was sombre reading.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Generating and storing clean energy is a lifeline for the planet’s future; burning coal, oil, and gas fossil fuels causes 75% of greenhouse gas emissions. A fossil fuel energy grid extracts and expends finite resources. It is wasteful by design. Source: Hans Olav Lien/Wikimedia Commons.

Renewable Energy

A Greener Life

MARCH 25, 2022

Changing the way we produce and consume food could reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by 10.3 This has given a much-needed boost to the drive to wean the world off fossil fuels and transition to renewable energy. billion tonnes a year. Photo credit: FAO / Victor Sokolowicz. By Patty Fong. billion tonnes a year.

Deforestation

Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

Understanding Climate Change & Greenhouse Gas Emissions. The greenhouse effect is a popular name for the earth’s warming effect which occurs naturally when gasses in the atmosphere trap heat from the sun and prevent it from escaping back into space. Greenhouse Gas Emissions are Increasing. C according to projections.

Climate Change

Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

15 years later, one could say that if success may have been achieved, it’s hard to be triumphant, given how fast our carbon emissions are still rising : However, official pledges to slash greenhouse gases emissions are increasing, and thus, there is hope the world could collectively achieve limiting the temperature rise.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

AUGUST 13, 2021

The comprehensive report leaves no one in doubt that every corner of the Earth is now impacted by climate change , the change caused by the burning of fossil fuels and other human activities. Unprecedented. It finds that many of the changes observed in the climate are unprecedented in thousands if not hundreds of thousands of years.

Sea Level

Physics World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Only rapid and drastic reductions in greenhouse gases over the coming decade can prevent such climate breakdown, the IPCC says, with every fraction of a degree of further heating likely to compound the accelerating effects. “A

Climate Change

Acoel

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Industrial food systems are responsible for one-third of greenhouse gas emissions and are a key driver of deforestation and biodiversity loss , threatening more than 85 percent of the 28,000 species at risk of extinction. Posted on December 23, 2022 by Smita Narula. Image by Charles Echer from Pixabay.

Climate Change

Circle of Blue

APRIL 12, 2023

We can’t acknowledge fossil energy as a sustainable source even if it is for the benefit of Africans because we are in an ongoing climate emergency.” — Dean Bhekumuzi Bhebhe, a member of Don’t Gas Africa, a civil society campaign against fossil fuel energy production.

2023

Enviromental Defense

JUNE 13, 2024

Ecojustice, Greenpeace Canada, Stand.earth, Environmental Defence Canada, Keepers of the Water, Leadnow, For Our Kids, and Change Course call on the five major Canadian banks to take responsibility for the impact of their investments in fossil fuels, which are exacerbating the climate crisis.

Fossil Fuels

ESA

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Methane is a greenhouse gas that has more heat-trapping power than CO2, although it also clears out of the atmosphere much faster than does CO2. The deforestation accord is especially encouraging because it has so many side benefits. Will countries agree to make serious new cuts in their carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning?

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Most of Indonesia’s greenhouse gas emissions come from the Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) and energy sectors. From 2000 to 2015, Indonesia lost an average of 498,000 hectares of forest annually, making it the world’s second-largest driver of deforestation after Brazil. The human rights complaint.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

But this announcement was seemingly at odds with another made just three days earlier, when coal minister Pralhad Joshi confirmed that India intends to increase production for the fossil fuel. Fossil fuels remain necessary”, Jairaj says. These updates mean India is well on its way to fulfilling its NDCs.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The petitioner in this case requests that the NPCC be updated according to the best available science and the IPCC’s sixth assessment report ( Climate Change 2021 ) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by the Brazilian government consistent with a 1.5 This financial instrument is essential to controlling deforestation in Amazonia.

Rainforest

Acoel

JANUARY 18, 2022

Most notably, thousands of corporations announced net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) pledges and hundreds of banks and other financial institutions committed to conform their lending to the requirements for a 2050 net-zero GHG world.

2030

Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Unfortunately, however, the region is also highly vulnerable to the damaging effects of the climate crisis, despite not being significant emitters of greenhouse gasses. Corruption is a widespread and deeply rooted phenomenon, especially in multimillion-dollar industries such as fossil fuels and extractivism.

Fossil Fuels

Manning Law

JUNE 8, 2020

And while greenhouse gas emissions may dip this year because of lockdowns, we should not celebrate. Keeping wild spaces wild, stopping deforestation and restoring degraded land to protect biodiversity, boost food production and store carbon. Ending fossil fuel subsidies and making renewable energy the future.

2020

Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

For example, the ongoing debate over the impact of certain pesticides in agriculture , greenhouse gas emissions are often a battle between the science and industry's attempts to muddy the science and government lobbying to roll back legislation (2). Typically used in conjunction with “greenhouse gas” but some emissions are not GHGs.

Government

HumanNature

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Before I make such a controversial claim, let’s get some facts straight… There is far too much carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are already causing severe climate change, and the worst is yet to come.

Fossil Fuels

Edouard Stenger

JUNE 13, 2023

Reduce methane emissions Methane essentially comes from the decay of vegetation, animals’ digestion and the exploitation of fossil fuels, methane is a greenhouse gas with a massive footprint, 80+ times more potent than carbon dioxide in the first 20 years.

Wind Power

Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2025

A major cause is economic activity which relies on the production, sale, and use of fossil fuels (i.e., Methane emissions and deforestation are other causes, and they are also most often associated directly with human economic activities. coal, oil, and gas) which emit carbon dioxide when burned.

Fossil Fuels

Global Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The thought-provoking film also highlights the renewables’ dependence on fossil fuels. Following Moore’s movie broadcasting, various climate experts signed a letter where they claim scientific and technological advancements made renewable energy alternatives more viable and cheaper to run than fossil fuels.

Renewable Energy

Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

According to the IPCC, this greenhouse gas is 86 times more potent than carbon dioxide over a twenty-year period (and 34 times more potent over a century). gigatons of CO2-equivalent per year, representing 8% of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Over a third of global food production , 1.3 This accounts for 4.4

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 8, 2025

These mandates can only be met with a combination of imports and counterproductive shuffling of vegetable oil out of food markets and into fuel markets, where it will be backfilled with increased imports in these markets. Who pays the price for larger mandates and who benefits? The cost of policies supporting bio-based diesel is considerable.

Biofuels

Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Unlike many other works of botany from that age and later, Sylva highlighted the growing problem of deforestation in England. We live in an age of dwindling fossil fuels and inaction on renewable energy. Due to mass deforestation in the industrial era, they were driven out of the lowland habitats and into the highlands of China.

Conservation

Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Fossil fuel subsidies could be ratcheted down. Vincent, Borneo, and Alaska, decades of displacement, deforestation, and warming have defined a harrowing Anthropogenic Epoch. climate change panel’s most recent report, which noted that a buildup of greenhouse gases is intensifying the water cycle. Christian Thorsberg.

2021