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Del Birmingham

Packaging's role in Walmart's Project Gigaton | GreenBiz - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 17 Oct 17
     
    Earlier this year, around Earth Day, Walmart announced an ambitious plan to work with its supply chain to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by one gigaton. I decided to run the numbers to see what role source reduction, specifically in Walmart's packaging, could play.
Del Birmingham

California's Scoping Plan: Setting a Path for Climate Targets - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 29 Dec 17
     
    The state Air Resources Board (ARB) adopted the extensive 2017 version to outline California's climate policy path to 2030 and detail how it will fulfill its landmark legislative mandate to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Developing a strong roadmap is important not only here but across the country and beyond because of California's global leadership role as a climate policy incubator and best practice exporter.
Del Birmingham

How to avoid the 'climate apocalypse' in 2018 | GreenBiz - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 02 Jan 18
     
    The story that should dominate every end of year round up from every media outlet on the planet came last month in the form of two reports released at the U.N. climate summit in Bonn. The first confirmed atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide are at their highest levels in at least 800,000 years and possibly 3 million to 5 million years. As Emily Shuckburgh of the British Antarctic Survey said, the last time concentrations of greenhouse gas were as high as they are, sea levels were around 10 meters higher. Up to two meters of sea level rise this century is now entirely plausible. However, the second report was the real kicker. The Global Carbon Project predicted carbon emissions will rise this year after four years when flat emissions fuelled hopes global economic growth and carbon emissions had been decoupled
Del Birmingham

In New Ozone Alert, A Warning Of Harm to Plants and to People by Jim Robbins: Yale Envi... - 1 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 20 Oct 16
     
    Scientists are still trying to unravel the damaging effects of ground-level ozone on life on earth. But as the world warms, their concerns about the impact of this highly toxic, pollution-caused gas are growing.
Adriana Trujillo

A Recommended Methodology for Estimating and Reporting the Potential Greenhouse Gas Emi... - 1 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 21 Dec 16
     
    The World Resources Institute released a recommended methodology for measuring and disclosing the potential emissions from fossil fuel reserves held by coal, oil, and gas companies.
Del Birmingham

'Dodgy' greenhouse gas data threatens Paris accord - BBC News - 0 views

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BBC climate change emissions data errors omissions threaten Paris Accord

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  • Del Birmingham on 09 Aug 17
     
    Potent, climate-warming gases are being emitted into the atmosphere but are not being recorded in official inventories, a BBC investigation has found. Air monitors in Switzerland have detected large quantities of one gas coming from a location in Italy. However, the Italian submission to the UN records just a tiny amount of the substance being emitted. Levels of some emissions from India and China are so uncertain that experts say their records are plus or minus 100%.
Brett Rohring

Climate Panel Cites Near Certainty on Warming - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • An international panel of scientists has found with near certainty that human activity is the cause of most of the temperature increases of recent decades, and warns that sea levels could conceivably rise by more than three feet by the end of the century if emissions continue at a runaway pace.
  • “It is extremely likely that human influence on climate caused more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010,” the draft report says. “There is high confidence that this has warmed the ocean, melted snow and ice, raised global mean sea level and changed some climate extremes in the second half of the 20th century.”
  • The draft comes from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a body of several hundred scientists that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, along with Al Gore. Its summaries, published every five or six years, are considered the definitive assessment of the risks of climate change, and they influence the actions of governments around the world. Hundreds of billions of dollars are being spent on efforts to reduce greenhouse emissions, for instance, largely on the basis of the group’s findings.
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  • The 2007 report found “unequivocal” evidence of warming, but hedged a little on responsibility, saying the chances were at least 90 percent that human activities were the cause. The language in the new draft is stronger, saying the odds are at least 95 percent that humans are the principal cause.
  • On sea level, which is one of the biggest single worries about climate change, the new report goes well beyond the assessment published in 2007, which largely sidestepped the question of how much the ocean could rise this century.
  • Regarding the question of how much the planet could warm if carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere doubled, the previous report largely ruled out any number below 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit. The new draft says the rise could be as low as 2.7 degrees, essentially restoring a scientific consensus that prevailed from 1979 to 2007.
  • But the draft says only that the low number is possible, not that it is likely. Many climate scientists see only a remote chance that the warming will be that low, with the published evidence suggesting that an increase above 5 degrees Fahrenheit is more likely if carbon dioxide doubles.
  • The level of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, is up 41 percent since the Industrial Revolution, and if present trends continue it could double in a matter of decades.
Adriana Trujillo

Obama to sign order cutting U.S. government greenhouse gas emissions | Reuters - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 24 Mar 15
     
    President Barack Obama will today order government agencies to reduce their carbon emissions by 40% over the next decade. That won't put a big dent in total U.S. emissions, but could give clean-tech startups and energy providers an important boost. "We can drive substantial reductions across the entire federal footprint and ... leverage both innovation and investment in the private sector," said White House senior adviser Brian Deese.
Brett Rohring

Are 90 Companies Responsible For Nearly Two-Thirds Of Global Warming? - 0 views

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  • A new study from the Colorado-based Climate Accountability Institute suggests that 90 companies are responsible for almost two-thirds of global greenhouse gas emissions since the start of the Industrial Revolution.
  • The top 90 emitters include 50 investor-owned energy companies like BP, ExxonMobil and Shell, along with 31 state-owned companies and some nation-states themselves. 83 of the 90 are coal, oil and gas producers and the remaining seven are cement manufacturers.
  • Based on studies published during the past several years, the IPCC found that in order to have at least a 66 percent chance of limiting global warming to, or below, 3.6°F above pre-industrial levels, no more than 1 trillion tonnes of carbon can be released into the atmosphere from the beginning of the industrial era through the end of this century.
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  • The IPCC report estimates that we’ve already used 531 billion tonnes of that budget as of 2011 by burning fossil fuels for energy as well as by clearing forests for farming and myriad other uses. That means we’re on the wrong side of the carbon budget, with 469 billion tonnes left.
  • "It increases the accountability for fossil fuel burning," climate scientist Michael Mann told the Guardian. "You can't burn fossil fuels without the rest of the world knowing about it."
Brett Rohring

Ford and Microsoft invest in $1 billion bond for climate projects | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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  • Ford and Microsoft were among investors in a $1 billion green bond launched last week to support "climate smart" investments in emerging markets.
  • Proceeds of IFC green bonds are used for private sector investments in renewable energy, energy efficiency and other areas that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, such as installing solar and wind power capacity and providing financing for technology that helps produce energy more efficiently.
  • IFC said in a statement that the bond transaction, jointly led by BofA Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Crédit Agricole CIB and SEB, was heavily oversubscribed and sized to address the demand from "an increasing number of investors interested in climate-related opportunities."
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  • It marks the second $1 billion green bond transaction this year from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), an Aaa/AAA rated global development institution and member of the World Bank Group.
  • Bond issues are seen as an increasingly important way to raise funds for green projects, with the green bond market now estimated at $346 billion after doubling over 2012.
Adriana Trujillo

How Carnegie uses sugarcane to make greener textiles | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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  • BioBased Xorel
  • create the world's first bio-based interior textile that doesn't compromise performance, value or aesthetics.
  • In 1981, Carnegie introduced a polyethylene (PE) textile under the brand name Xorel that, at the time, was one of the few healthier alternatives to vinyl (PVC) for interior panels, wall coverings and upholstery. Thirty years later, that product has received an eco-friendly update with the launch of BioBased Xorel, an interior textile made from plants.
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  • BioBased Xorel
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  • BioBased Xorel is comprised of 60-85 percent polyethylene sourced from sugarcane instead of fossil fuels
  • but our goal is to source the polyethylene for the entire product line from plants in three years.  
  • We achieved this while keeping the price, aesthetics and performance exactly the same
  • Using a rapidly renewable material reduces our company's dependence on the planet's finite fossil fuels resources
  • sugarcane uses 60 percent less energy and generates 40 percent less greenhouse gas emissions when compared to making petrochemical ethylene
  • sugarcane plant naturally captures carbon dioxide
  • PE takes 2.5 tons of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere
  • Sugarcane has a much higher yield per acre than corn
  • doesn't require genetic modification
  • Cradle to Cradle certified program
  • Adriana Trujillo on 22 Aug 13
     
    Carnegie has been on a seven-year journey to create the world's first bio-based interior textile that doesn't compromise performance, value or aesthetics.
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