Carbon Capture
Mankind has already left its mark on the natural Earth in the industrial era, and many extreme weather events may be traced to this environmental damage. Along with developing technology for carbon capture and developing more Earth-friendly infrastructure, humans must also deal with the consequences of climate change now in the form of extreme weather events.
In pursuing historic climate change agenda, Biden may find surprising ally
President-elect Joe Biden has made no secret that tackling climate change will be one of his top priorities
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To Cut Emissions to Zero, U.S. Needs to Make Big Changes in Next 10 Years
If the United States wants to get serious about tackling climate change, the country will need to build a staggering amount of new energy infrastructure in just the next 10
Source: nytimes.comFederal carbon tax to increase to $170 per tonne by 2030 as Liberals unveil new climate plan
OTTAWA – The Liberals announced a new climate plan Friday that will see the carbon tax jump from $50 per tonne in 2022 to $170 per tonne by 2030
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Trudeau goes it alone with new climate plan, proposes carbon price hike
Four years ago, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appeared side by side with premiers as he announced a “pan-Canadian” climate plan
Source: nationalobserver.comCarbon capture a tool in climate fight, but at what cost?
Hydrocarbons producers see the technology as a means of justifying their use of natural gas to produce electricity or hydrogen
Source: news24.comOttawa to hike federal carbon tax to $170 a tonne by 2030
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today released the government's strategy to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 — and its centrepiece is a gradual hike in the federal carbon tax
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Green Recovery Policies Once In Lifetime Opportunity To Raise Climate Ambitions In Asia-Pacific
Bangkok (ESCAP news) – While much of the attention this year has been focused on protecting populations as well as the socio-economic impacts and recovery needed, high-level officials from
Source: scoop.co.nzHow Texas, other red states tried to jump start carbon storage a decade ago
WASHINGTON - The legislative session in Austin was nearing its end, and Texas Republicans and Democrats were coalescing around a bill encouraging the development of carbon storage facilities viewed as critical
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How Texas and other red states tried to jump start carbon storage a decade ago
WASHINGTON - The legislative session in Austin was nearing its end, and Texas Republicans and Democrats were coalescing around a bill encouraging the development of carbon storage facilities viewed as critical
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Biden faces competing strategies on climate
WASHINGTON - When Joe Biden takes office next month he will face a larger coalition seeking action on climate change than any president before him, a diverse group that ranges from
Source: mrt.comNorth American farmers profit as consumers pressure food business to go green
CHICAGO/WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Beer made from rice grown with less water, rye planted in the off-season and the sale of carbon credits to tech firms are just a
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Oilpatch unlikely to reduce pollution without more public money, bank report says
The oil and gas industry “likely won’t meaningfully reduce” its carbon pollution this decade without more government funding, according to a new Royal Bank of Canada report
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Tax credit, environmental concerns may spur next generation of carbon capture projects
Oil, power and other heavy industries are proposing to build nearly three dozencarbon capture projects across the country over the next several years as advancing climate change and a generous
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Net-zero pledges won't work just from the top-down
Company after company has announced plans to cut their greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2050. Occidental Petroleum Corp., Toronto-Dominion Bank, Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd
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Can planting trees make a city more equitable?
Specifically, they committed to planting and restoring 855 million of them by 2030 as part of the Trillion Trees Initiative, a global push to encourage reforestation to capture carbon and
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Remember Justin Trudeau's trip to the Aga Khan's private island? Joe Biden's new 'climate czar' John Kerry was there too
OTTAWA—The next U.S
Source: thestar.comClean energy-resistant Ford government announces plans to boost hydrogen power
The Ontario government announced plans to develop a hydrogen economy Thursday, touting the fuel as a way to kick-start the province’s economic recovery from COVID-19 while lowering
Source: nationalobserver.comThe Guardian view on Johnson's green jobs plan: the right way to start
Boris Johnson’s comfort zone is the future. He is weak at managing the day-to-day business of a government and bad at making hard choices quickly
Source: theguardian.comBoris Johnson to ban sales of petrol and diesel cars and vans by 2030
Boris Johnson has confirmed that sales of new petrol and diesel cars and vans will be phased out by 2030 - as part of his 10-point plan for a 'green
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U.K. to ban new gas cars by 2030 as leader touts "green industrial revolution"
London — Britain will ban the sale of new gasoline and diesel cars by 2030, a decade earlier than its previous commitment, the prime minister said Tuesday
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UK to ban gasoline car sales by 2030 as part of green plan
LONDON -- Britain will ban the sale of new gasoline and diesel cars by 2030, a decade earlier than its previous commitment, the prime minister said Tuesday
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Carbon capture: North East may see bumper green investment under PM's plan
Boris Johnson has unveiled a multibillion-pound green industrial plan that could see an emissions-busting project near Peterhead receive a huge cash injection
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UK to ban gasoline car sales by 2030 as part of green plan
LONDON (AP) — Britain will ban the sale of new gasoline and diesel cars by 2030, a decade earlier than its previous commitment, the prime minister said Tuesday
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UK to ban petrol car sales by 2030 as part of green plan
Britain will ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030, a decade earlier than its previous commitment, Boris Johnson has announced
Source: stuff.co.nzBoris Johnson announces 10-point green plan with 250,000 jobs
Boris Johnson has announced plans for the government’s self-styled green industrial revolution, bringing praise from environmental groups but also questions about the scale of new funding, and the
Source: theguardian.comThe US-commissioned National Climate Assessment of 2018 asserted that “Human-induced climate change has already increased the number and strength of some of these extreme events. Over the last 50 years, much of the U.S. has seen increases in prolonged periods of excessively high temperatures, heavy downpours, and in some regions, severe floods and droughts.”
And if we so choose to take a pragmatic angle, we can measure the increase in extreme weather events by dollar value rather than human cost. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Climatic Data Center recorded some 117 billion-dollar disasters in the years 2010 through 2019; compare this to the 59 recorded by the same agency between 2000 and 2009. The NOAA has additionally reported that, in the 14 growing seasons between 2005-2018, some 13 major droughts hit the country’s farmland for a cumulative cost of nearly $95 billion.
Again, disagreement on the exact relationship between a given extreme weather event cum disaster and the global effect of climate change is rife, but when seeing the images of a flooded Venice, a New Orleans destroyed by hurricane and infrastructure collapse, or a Puerto Rico trashed tip to tail by angry oceans, it’s essentially impossible to deny the reality of extreme weather caused by climate change.
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