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- Cookstoves with SIM cards are reviving a contested carbon creditImproved methodologies and monitoring technologies are helping cookstove projects recover from a series of damaging findings. The post Cookstoves with SIM cards are reviving a contested carbon credit appeared first on Trellis.
- Why Starbucks is giving away climate-tolerant coffee treesMore than half of the land used to grow Arabica beans for the world’s largest coffeehouse could be unusable by 2050. The post Why Starbucks is giving away climate-tolerant coffee trees appeared first on Trellis.
- Why General Motors lobbied against its own EV goalsTrump’s gutting of pro-EV regulations was backed by several large automakers. Here’s how other companies can learn from those experiences. The post Why General Motors lobbied against its own EV goals appeared first on Trellis.
- How climate standards are slowing down corporate decarbonizationMany standards have become bottlenecks rather than enablers. The post How climate standards are slowing down corporate decarbonization appeared first on Trellis.
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Category Archives: Green Warnings
Scientists ‘Virtually Certain’ Climate Change Boosts European Heat Waves
LONDON July 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As Germany and Spain sweated and London sweltered through its hottest July day on record this week, scientists said it is “virtually certain” that climate change is increasing the likelihood of such heat waves in Europe.
In real-time data analysis released on Friday, a team of international climate scientists from universities, meteorological services and research organizations said the kind of heat waves hitting Europe this week – defined as three-day periods of excessive heat – are becoming much more frequent in the region. Continue reading
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Climate change skeptics protested with Green march in New York
Manhattan’s flood of green protesters had climate-change skeptics seeing red Sunday on 21st of September 2014.
“Their love for the Earth is so real, they couldn’t even use a trash can,” tweeted a disgusted @chelsea_elisa, along with a photo of an overflowing trash can in Manhattan, after tens of thousands of marchers invaded the city on fleets of smog-producing buses.
Legions of demonstrators frustrated by international inaction on global warming descended on New York City on Sunday, marching through the heart of Manhattan with a message of alarm for world leaders set to gather this week at the United Nations for a summit meeting on climate change. Continue reading
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Green Solutions to Global Warming
There is much concern at the present time about the increasing addition of green house gases to the earth’s atmosphere. A prominent greenhouse gas is carbon dioxide. This gas is produced when fossil fuels are burnt to produce energy for driving our automobiles or for producing electricity in power plants. It is believed that increasing addition of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere will result in adverse changes to the earth’s climate such as global warming to the extent that many presently inhabited areas of our planet will become inhabitable. Continue reading
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