GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Natura, which issues a regular environmental profit-and-loss statement , went carbon-neutral in 2007 and became the first public B Corporation in 2014. Logan Green has cited growing up with Southern California traffic and carpooling as a student in Zimbabwe for inspiring the launch of Zimride in 2007. million acres the 4.4

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The world's biggest firms driving the development of clean energy, electric vehicles, sustainable forestry, and other crucial green solutions continue to outperform the broader global market, "leaving fossil fuel companies in the dust", according to fresh investor research released today.

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Charged

AUGUST 25, 2021

For the fossil fuel industry, “one of the obvious problems to be solved is where to distribute fuels while the world is galloping towards a carbon-free future,” says L-Charge. The company tells us that gasoline sales have been declining steadily since 2007, and combined sales of diesel and gasoline peaked in 2017.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

As recently as July, Record wrote a column for The Telegraph claiming it was “debatable in detail” if fossil fuels cause dangerous levels of global warming. The peer also has fossil fuel interests, holding shares in oil and gas majors BP, Shell, and TotalEnergies each worth more than £100,000.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

This can produce hydrogen as well as liquid fuels, and traditional heat and power. Instead of burning fossil fuels, micro plants can be powered by low-grade waste biomass like waste wood. This helps to provide affordable, clean energy for the future.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Writing in a blog post announcing the tech giant's "third decade of climate action", CEO Sundar Pichai said the company had used carbon offsets to achieve 'carbon neutral' status since 2007, but it had now moved to offset emissions released prior to 2007. "As This means that Google's lifetime net carbon footprint is now zero.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

In the past, CT Group has lobbied for fossil fuel interests across the globe, working for the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association, and the mining giant BHP. Legatum’s Agenda Founded in 2007, the Legatum Institute claims to promote the “prosperity of individuals, families, communities and nations”.

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Clean Energy Canada

OCTOBER 8, 2020

A Bank of America analyst recently compared the investment opportunity to that of smartphones before 2007. Canada is among the top-10 global hydrogen producers , but most of this hydrogen is created using fossil fuels, making it part of the climate problem. VANCOUVER — Hydrogen is getting people talking.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Transportation accounts for about two-fifths of California’s carbon emissions, and vehicles are harder to decarbonize than electricity generation or using fossil fuels for heating buildings. Hydrogen fueling has received about $156 million in CEC funding but has seen only 44 fueling stations deployed to date.

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Fossil fuels Transportation Electric vehicle Natural gas 130

Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

Multi-billion pound endowment to divest from fossil fuel companies and request evidence of net zero business plans right across its investment portfolio. per cent of the endowment is now in fossil fuel extractors, while OUem has increased its holdings in clean energy and green business assets. As such, just 0.6

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Green Market Oracle

APRIL 27, 2020

The oil crash of 2020 is driving down prices and contributing to the demise of the fossil fuel industry. The fossil fuel industry was in trouble long before the start of the price war between Russia and OPEC. Market realities have been signalling the end of fossil fuels for many years. barrels of oil a day.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

In Colorado, fossil fuel interests are vigorously opposing legislative bills meant to clean up the state’s heavily polluted air. Instead, several have retained fossil fuel lobbyists to work on their behalf. Weld County also employs Capitol Solutions, a lobbying firm it shares with the Kiewit Corp.,

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Grist

AUGUST 12, 2021

For years, plaintiffs around the world have sought to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for their contributions to climate change — often seeking compensation for damages like economic losses from floods or wildfires. Left: A young boy in Kivalina, Alaska, watches workers fill sandbags for a sea wall in 2007.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 21, 2021

natural gas prices to remain elevated between October and March -- the highest winter price since 2007-2008. Corbeau added that governments must anticipate more frequent extreme weather risks and the impact on variable renewable energy systems. Energy Information Administration expects U.S.

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The Guardian: Energy

JUNE 7, 2024

The oil industry veteran, who was known as the Sun King when he ran the oil company between 1995 and 2007, said an important test for the UK’s political parties before next month’s general election was whether they have “serious plans for the country’s green energy transition”. Continue reading.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This shift has forced fossil fuel companies — and the organizations they fund — to alter their tactics to avoid regulation. The last of the big oil companies mostly gave up on funding extreme climate denial groups like Heartland around 2007, said Brulle. It almost seems quaint that they’re still running with this.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2021

The findings raise concerns over a systemic conflict of interest at a time when the international financial sector is under increasing pressure to stop funding fossil fuels. Banks are increasingly saying they will decarbonise by 2050, yet a large number continue to finance fossil fuels, the primary source of carbon emissions.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The island of Fuerteventura, in particular, is spearheading this initiative with the support of IR Maxoinversiones, a company that has been pivotal in the region’s fuel transport and distribution sector since 2007. This initiative marks a significant step toward reducing reliance on imported fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Nor is it the only link between the fossil fuel industry and the Bolloré family’s global business interests, which encompass multi-billion-dollar logistics operations servicing major oil companies, including Shell. Further, these are far from being the Bolloré Group’s only connections to the fossil fuel sector.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

utilities in setting a net-zero carbon target for 2050, aiming to balance the emissions from its sizable fossil fuel-fired generation fleet and sprawling natural gas business with reductions to be gained by expanding its portfolio of renewable energy and energy efficiency. Southern Company has joined other major U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

The study shows a worldwide decline in coal-fired power generation with significant falls of 24 per cent in the EU and 16 per cent in the US in 2019, taking coal generation to around half the level seen in 2007 in both regions. To switch from coal into gas is just swapping one fossil fuel for another," Jones said.

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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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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Google has been carbon-neutral on those measures since 2007, and has since shifted from buying power directly from existing wind and solar farms to financing the construction of new renewables, such as its 1,600 megawatts of wind and solar projects to be built in the U.S., Europe and Chile.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

From the report, this reflects “the sum of carbon dioxide emissions from energy, carbon dioxide emissions from flaring, methane emissions, in carbon dioxide equivalent, associated with the production, transportation and distribution of fossil fuels, and carbon dioxide emissions from industrial processes.” ROBERT RAPIER To be fair, U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 27, 2020

Coal is often called the dirtiest fossil fuel. Fossil fuels are composed of carbon and hydrogen. Consumption in 2019 was 35% below the 2007 level in OECD countries. Previous articles covered overall energy consumption , petroleum supply and demand, and natural gas. What is meant by that? They are hydrocarbons.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Guided by Fontaine, Mann set the record straight, testifying that he had received a certificate from the IPCC acknowledging his contributions towards the group’s receipt of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, which it shared with Al Gore. Many other scientists on the IPCC panel have also said they won the 2007 award, Mann testified.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The findings raise concerns over a potential pervasive conflict of interest on the boards at a time when the international insurance sector is under pressure to halt its support for the fossil fuel industry. “When insurers underwrite fossil fuels, they actually are underwriting climate change.”

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2021

CO2 from forest fires have the same climate cost as that from burning fossil fuels, yet funding for forest protection lags far behind, writes Matthew Spencer of IDH - the Sustainable Trade Initiative. Similarly, the Climate Policy Initiative calculate that land use gets less than 0.5 per cent of all climate finance.

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 16, 2022

Electricity is generated as power plants burn fossil fuels. Meeting your energy needs from electricity, rather than directly from fossil fuels, means you’re already halfway towards powering operations with renewables. This partnership was made from the business decision to fit solar panels throughout stores in 2007.

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Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 148

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

She also called on highly profitable fossil fuel companies to offer a crisis contribution, because, as she says, ‘profits must be shared and channelled to those who need it the most.’. Making up for the loss of Russian fossil fuel supply is a mammoth task. Electricity generated by fuel, Denmark, 1971-2007.

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Grist

MARCH 16, 2021

The project, which is one plank of a larger effort to protect and restore the Louisiana coast called the Louisiana Coastal Master Plan — a $50 billion plan created in 2007, two years after Hurricane Katrina walloped the state — will serve as a pilot for other parts of Louisiana experiencing severe land loss.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 2, 2021

As states and the federal government take steps to transition away from fossil fuel generation, it is important to pay attention to recent clean energy developments in states where energy legislation has historically been less proactive, and the traditional integrated utility monopoly model has held influence over the policymaking process.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2023

Last week, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak taunted the Labour Party about its decision not to invest in new North Sea oil and gas, accusing the party of protecting “Russian jobs” and claiming that Labour’s plan would endanger UK energy security by supposedly entrenching the UK’s reliance on imported fossil fuels.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 13, 2021

The proportion of global power generation represented by VRE, such as wind and solar power, has been rising rapidly since 2007. A WWF analysis showed that solar PV with energy storage can play a significant role in meeting projected load in 2030, substituting for a large share of fossil fuels and hydropower.

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Solar Energy Monitor Hydropower Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 117

Green Business Bureau

JULY 8, 2021

Water pollution – Garbage, wood waste, fuels and other non-biodegradable products are being dumped into waterways for convenience polluting our water systems and oceans. Since 2007, over 900 tons of shrink-wrap have been recycled, which shows that there has been a movement towards sustainability amongst marinas and boat owners.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

Rishi Sunak has confirmed that a fossil fuel-funded think tank helped to draft his government’s laws targeting climate protests. million from fossil fuel interests, high-polluters and climate science deniers last year alone. Meanwhile, DeSmog revealed in March that the Conservative Party received £3.5

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