Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

ClientEarth’s Climate Snapshot 2019 finds that: Three in five people believe that financial institutions and banks should no longer invest in fossil fuels (59%) and that they should be legally accountable if they choose to do so (60%). Too many banks, pension funds and insurers are propping up fossil fuel giants.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2024

While serving as business secretary in September 2023, Badenoch also defended the decision by then prime minister Rishi Sunak to water down and delay a number of net zero policies, and argued that new fossil fuel licences were compatible with the UK’s climate targets. Record has given money to both the IEA and the GWPF.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The fossil fuel industry is among the biggest backers of CCS, just as the plastics industry is the biggest promoter of chemical recycling.

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The Verge: Energy

MARCH 26, 2024

Hydropower generation in the region fell by 11 percent during the 2022–2023 water year compared to the year prior, according to preliminary data from the Energy Information Administration’s Electricity Data Browser — its lowest point since 2001. To avoid energy shortfalls, utilities wind up relying on fossil fuels to make up the difference.

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Energy Central

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

per year in the 2001 to 2005 period. China had been added to the World Trade Organization in December 2001, ramping up its demand for all kinds of fossil fuels. Back in 2005, the world economy was “humming along.” ” World growth in energy consumption per capita was rising at 2.3%

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

That may seem an audacious notion from a company whose business model for well over a century has centered around bringing fossil fuels to market — and is banking on petroleum being a key, albeit declining, fuel for decades to come.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2021

What’s the single word that fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil’s flagship environmental reports to investors and the public tie most closely to climate change and global warming? While the new paper is hardly the first to draw parallels between the fossil fuel and tobacco industries, what sets it apart is how the research was done.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Despite this significant delegation at the summit, and its stated mission “to promote nature-loving, nature-friendly practices”, DeSmog can reveal the CPI has ties to the Hungarian fossil fuel industry, and has promoted some of the world’s best-known opponents of climate action.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

” The financial impact is also likely to put a crimp in public utilities’ investment plans, including efforts to replace polluting fossil fuel power plants with renewable energy. That crisis forced utility Pacific Gas & Electric into bankruptcy and led to then-Gov.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This research helped establish that burning fossil fuels has been the main driver of climate change, and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) included the hockey stick graph in its 2001 assessment report on climate science.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 19, 2022

This scope 1, 2, and 3 emission system first appeared in the 2001 Greenhouse Gas Protocol. To remember scope 1 emissions, think burn (these are the emissions from fossil fuels burnt directly). E.g. Using renewable energy reduces the demand for fossil fuels, which have risen in cost over the years.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The partnership with Quaise explores the possibility of utilizing deep geothermal energy, further reducing the power plant’s fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This is well aligned with NGM’s 2030 GHG reduction roadmap targets. The first is location. The second is economics.

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Grist

OCTOBER 7, 2020

If you watched BBC blockbusters like Planet Earth (2006) or Blue Planet (2001), you would have been excused for thinking that nature was doing better than ever. According to Attenborough, we need to rewild the oceans, divest from fossil fuels, convert our energy sources to renewables, go vegetarian, and change how we grow our food.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Modern, large-scale agriculture destroys soil and wildlife, and uses vast amounts of fossil fuel energy. We spread out / decentralise, and skim renewable resources from a renewed countryside – food, fibre, timber, renewable energy – rather than from centralised and concentrated sources like fossil fuels / plastics etc.

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 27, 2022

In 2001, the Greenhouse Gas Protocol sought to categorize corporate emissions – greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) – using three buckets, named: Scope 1, scope 2, and scope 3. Scope 1 2 3 Emissions Explained with Diagram (GHG Protocol). This could be from company-owned vehicles or onsite processes.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 26, 2021

The Brazilian Amazon has already become a net emitter of carbon, with more carbon emitted than absorbed in this part of the rainforest from 2001 to 2019. But increased logging and fossil fuel exploration are now threatening to turn the rainforest into a source of carbon.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Fossil fuel advertising bans - a move taken by both the French government and several European cities in recent years - are all very well, but proactive messaging about behaviour change offer greater potential to drive change, Shea argued.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 14, 2022

A business can then consider all the aspects of their business that produce carbon, including fossil fuels , land clearance and the production and consumption of food, manufactured goods, materials, wood, roads, buildings, transportation and other services. Your carbon footprint can then be managed once understood.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 14, 2025

Equinor has not captured 1 million tonnes of CO2 per year at the site since 2001, according to the data, provided by the Norwegian Environment Agency. While Equinor has signalled that it will need substantial subsidies to go forward with its CCS plans, the company continues to direct most of its investments into extracting more fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

Frank for NPR and Floodlight) Chevron’s bid to control the public discourse comes as efforts to combat climate change threaten the fossil fuel industry, especially in California. Chevron had acquired Texaco in 2001, which was responsible for the oil extraction.) and Brazil.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

OCTOBER 12, 2020

In the decade following the dot-com bubble and including the Great Recession (1/1/2001-12/31/2010) the return to the S&P 500 was only 1.6%. To date the lack of US federal decarbonization policies and ongoing subsidies to fossil fuels have been a drag on the prosperity and growth of companies with promising decarbonization innovations.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

OCTOBER 12, 2020

In the decade following the dot-com bubble and including the Great Recession (1/1/2001-12/31/2010) the return to the S&P 500 was only 1.6%. To date the lack of US federal decarbonization policies and ongoing subsidies to fossil fuels have been a drag on the prosperity and growth of companies with promising decarbonization innovations.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

OCTOBER 17, 2020

In the decade following the dot-com bubble and including the Great Recession (1/1/2001-12/31/2010) the return to the S&P 500 was only 1.6%. To date the lack of US federal decarbonization policies and ongoing subsidies to fossil fuels have been a drag on the prosperity and growth of companies with promising decarbonization innovations.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

When the mill closed in 2001, Turner convinced the timber company, Sierra Pacific Industries, to keep the biomass plant going. “It Jim Turner in the American Renewable Power plant in Loyalton, California. Photo by Nathanael Johnson. It wasn’t some magnanimous thing,” he said. “It It just had to be done. I wanted to live here.”.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company has since whipsawed between its wholesale-energy legacy of fossil fuels and greener horizons. Mason, who was raised in Queens, is one of the few senior Black executives in banking, at Citi since 2001 in a slate of leadership roles including CEO of Citi Private Bank.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

In May, the Cornell Board of Trustees announced a moratorium on fossil fuel investments, following more than a decade of student and faculty activism. Cornell University Score 82.14 | Ithaca, New York In March 2020, Cornell saw 100 percent of its campus power needs met by solar, hydropower, and other renewable energy projects.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

Between 2001 and 2019, the U.S. Researchers fear that over the next two decades, severe wildfires could turn huge swaths of forests into scrubland and destroy critical habitat. The implications extend nationwide. ranked third globally in forest cover lost to fires. God never made an ugly landscape,” he wrote in 1897.

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 11, 2022

The 2001 GHG Protocol’s guidelines were the first to categorize business GHGs as scope 1 emissions, scope 2 emissions, and scope 3 emissions. These are fossil fuels burnt on site. Stationary combustion : These are the emissions released from the direct burning of fossil fuels to power heat sources (e.g.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 14, 2020

That may seem an audacious notion from a company whose business model for well over a century has centered around bringing fossil fuels to market — and is banking on petroleum being a key, albeit declining, fuel for decades to come.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 15, 2022

While Fournier sees directors of fossil fuel firms as first in line for this kind of shareholder action, she says any company is at risk, “especially if they claim that they have a specific climate-related strategy… but are not acting in line with what the science requires”. Chances of Success?

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Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2022

Dhawan is speaking to BusinessGreen to mark the 20th anniversary of the ICMM, which was set up by more than two dozen major miners in 2001 to help establish best environmental practices for the mining sector. "And where there are resources, numbers two and three will help companies extract them well.". And in mining, it's a similar story.".

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Working closely with the community, Cole represented the residents in lawsuits fighting against major mining and fossil fuel companies, including the groundbreaking case Kivalina v. In 2001, Cole met Colleen Swan, a citizen of Kivalina, during an environmental workshop in Kotzebue, Alaska, following a presentation he gave.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 26, 2024

I led on the creation of a successful energy franchise within the investment bank, raising >$1 billion in new equity for various ASX listed energy companies from 2001 to 2011. I developed my finance skills on the job and at night school, resulting in my earning a finance diploma. We love it here.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Conducted by the World Resources Institute (WRI), the analysis shows that just seven commodities - cattle, oil palm, soy, cocoa, rubber, coffee, and plantation wood fibre - accounted for 26 per cent of global tree cover loss from 2001 to 2015. million hectares from 2001 to 2015, principally in Indonesia and Malaysia.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

A new report from consumer watchdog group Public Citizen details how 111 known members of the Chamber — including major polluters and banks that back fossil fuels — have violated state and federal laws at least 15,896 times since 2000, totaling more than $156 billion in fines and penalties.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Several weeks earlier, the foundation had also published a report containing the bombshell warning that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuels could have considerable long-term consequences for “ civilization.” Alongside dozens of other newly obtained documents, the memo shows that 1950s L.A. ’s smog problem.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Regardless of whether you care about jobs, industrial competitiveness, resilience, social equity, or simply not breaking the planet, the answer entails accelerating our movement away from fossil fuels and toward a combination of efficiency and renewables. In 2001’s Whitman v. Massachusetts v.

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