Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Relative to its size, the skin of the world’s oceans – a thin sliver of surface water thinner than a human hair – has been capturing carbon at an astonishing scale – one and a half times that captured by annual growth in the Amazon rainforest, new research has … Continue reading Ocean’s ‘skin’ found pivotal in global carbon (..)

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Greenbuilding Law

MARCH 3, 2024

The complaint figuratively and literally has the New York State government coming for your cheeseburger when it alleges, “Beef has the highest total greenhouse gas emissions of any major food commodity, and beef production is linked to large-scale deforestation, especially in the Amazon rainforest, which further drives climate change by releasing greenhouse (..)

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Vermont Law

APRIL 13, 2020

Additionally, approximately 13% of the world’s net carbon dioxide. In addition to carbon sequestration, tropical rainforests help to regulate the global temperature by. stem from land cover change, such as deforestation, afforestation/reforestation, and wood harvesting. 20% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.

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Environment Blog

MARCH 25, 2020

megatons of carbon dioxide during the same period. A group of scientists, funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark, found that Bitcoin mining not only uses 31.3 Terawatt hours of electricity a year, but produces 17.3 Others, however, have predicted a figure closer to 5Twh.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 13, 2023

The report—prepared by Rainforest Action Network, BankTrack, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Reclaim Finance, the Sierra Club and Urgewald—examines commercial and investment bank financing, combining lending with underwriting debt and equity issuances. degrees Celsius (2.7 C above preindustrial levels.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 21, 2023

Photo: Guss B on Unsplash Earth Day is an opportunity to celebrate the awe-inspiring wonders on this planet — a place full of biodiversity hotspots, from lush rainforests to scenic mountain ranges, home to rich, endemic species. The ocean covers 70% of the Earth’s surface and is a major carbon sink.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 15, 2021

Trillion Spending Package -- Bloomberg: Democrats Propose Tax On Carbon-Intensive Imports In Budget Deal -- Utility Dive: U.S.

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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. Cutting this would help limit global warming by a huge half a degree.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

It would require standardized reporting of GHG emissions (primarily carbon dioxide and methane) by firms doing business in California with total annual revenues more than $1 billion. [19] The vote on it was 24-9. 26] About 8,000 facilities are required to report. [27] 20] See, e.g., Roshan Krishman et al., “The

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, with a global warming potential of approximately 28 times greater than carbon dioxide over a 100-year time horizon (IPCC, 2021). “Land-use change and carbon emissions in the Brazilian Amazon.” “Causes of Deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest.” Margulis, S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The IPCC said that the deep emissions reductions required by 2030 and 2040 “particularly” include methane, the top emission of natural gas production and combustion, which traps 80 times as much heat as carbon dioxide over short timescales. degree centigrade rise in global average temperatures.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Carbon dioxide output plunged during the COVID-19 lockdowns last year, but that was temporary and they have surged again since as economies have recovered. Nature-based solutions are projects such as preserving and restoring existing forests , peatlands, wetlands and other natural carbon sinks , and growing more trees.

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ESA

JULY 1, 2022

At stake was the ability to reduce carbon emissions as written in the ‘Clean Power Plan’ regulation under the auspices of the Clean Air Act that gives the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) power to regulate “the best system of reducing emissions.” New Colombian president pledges to protect rainforest – Associated Press.

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