DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 25, 2021

Central banks are continuing to help channel trillions of dollars into fossil fuels through policy decisions and direct financing, with overall sums rising in recent years, a new report has found. The report calls on governments to update the mandates of the banks to support the managed decline of fossil fuels.

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Terra Infirma

AUGUST 30, 2022

This in turn led to the 2008 financial crash when the cost of living (determined by the cost of oil/gas) surge burst the sub-prime mortgage bubble and brought the banking sector to its knees. And is it not simply digging us deeper into the fossil fuel-shaped hole, making us even more vulnerable to the next crisis? Image: [link].

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 22, 2021

Former UK Energy Minister and original COP26 President Claire O’Neill has been cleared to take up a role at a business consultancy known for running “astroturf” campaigns for fossil fuel companies, despite warnings from the body that approves such appointments. Oil and Gas Industry Groups.

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The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Stung by the 2008 oil price spike, Uruguay now produces up to 98% of its electricity from renewables. It was the 2000s, and fossil fuel prices were rising worldwide. Can other countries follow suit? Uruguay imports its oil, so it had a problem. Demand for energy in the country had grown by 8.4%

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

New campaign backed by Bill McKibben argues it is 'time for PR and ad agencies to come clean' over work for fossil fuel clients. Between 2008 and 2017 fossil fuel industry trade associations spent almost $1.4tr on public relations, advertising, and communications contractors, according to Clean Creatives.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 16, 2020

16 – Jeremy Grantham called the Japanese bubble of the 1980s, the tech bubble of the 2000s, and the housing bubble of 2008. ImpactAlpha, Jan. The British-born value investor has been warning of the risks of climate change long before it was fashionable.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 14, 2022

Canada’s oil and gas patch is partying like it’s 2008, though most Canadian drivers are not enjoying the festive mood. Commercial rents in downtown Calgary are on the rise, and long-thought dead fossil-fuel export projects have zombified. But what past instances lacked was a truealternative to fossil fuels.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 8, 2024

In his speech during the inauguration ceremony, Mayor Jan Neusiedl recalled the history of geothermal in Grünwald: “In 2008, when there was no public discussion about renewable heat, the municipality of Grünwald decided to invest in geothermal energy. Federal funding for the project had also been announced earlier this year.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

OGCI claims mobile carbon capture technologies aboard ships could help the global shipping sector reach its current climate target to cut emissions by 50 percent by 2050, from a 2008 baseline — a goal that has faced criticism from green groups for lacking ambition.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Agencies facing fresh calls to cut their ties with laggard fossil fuel firms, leaving many in the advertising and PR sector with difficult decisions to make. And energy providers the world over are rushing to slash their reliance on fossil fuels as the clean energy transition gathers pace. It is a big business.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Political public relations arguably holds its origins in the oil, gas and coal industries, but amid growing criticism it is now facing increasing pressure to forge a future path beyond fossil fuel marketing. Campaigners have pointed out that fossil fuel firms spend more on marketing than on clean energy.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In total, Record has donated over £510,000 to the Conservative Party and its MPs since 2008, and has also given money to the GWPF. 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.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 13, 2020

2020: Fossil fuels are dead, long live the sun Hunter Lovins Thu, 08/13/2020 – 00:15 We’re female entrepreneurs and environmentalists. In this strangest of all years, as the death toll mounts from a disease caused by human incursions into once intact ecosystems, we’re observing another death — the demise of fossil fuels.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2024

In addition, diesel engines burn fossil fuels releasing carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas (GHG), as well as other pollutants, such as nitrogen oxides (NOx). Green’ ammonia is made using green hydrogen, created by electrolysis from renewable energy, so no fossil fuels are required.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 14, 2020

— and replacing it with equipment that won’t burn fossil fuels ever again. Vox : How to Drive Fossil Fuel out of the Economy Quickly. GTM : BP Aims to Build 50 GW of Renewables by 2030, Cut Fossil Fuel Output by 40%. GTM : New Jersey PSEG Seeks to Sell Merchant Fossil, Solar Fleet.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Founded in 2008 as California’s first not-for-profit, community choice aggregation program, MCE today serves over 1 million residents and businesses in four San Francisco Bay area counties: Contra Costa; Marin; Napa; and Solano.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2022

trade associations from 2008 to 2018. fossil fuel trade associations spent $1.4 billion on advertising and PR between 2008 and 2017. This study shows the billions of dollars fossil fuel interests have spent to improve their image and standing in the policy arena.” . Their study aims to fill this gap.

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The Verge: Energy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Unlike fossil fuels, hydrogen fuel doesn’t create planet heating carbon dioxide pollution when burned. The UK passed a Climate Change Act in 2008 that set it on a path to ditch coal on the way to reaching a target of net zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050.

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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

JUNE 13, 2024

But behind the plant’s shiny facade is a worrying reality — experts say that CCS’s success in mitigating climate change is still unproven and could, in fact, harm regional decarbonization while continuing fossil fuel use. The campaign has worked. said Sisilia Dewi, 350.org That’s a problem.”

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

And energy providers the world over are rushing to slash their reliance on fossil fuels as the clean energy transition gathers pace. Between 2008 and 2017, fossil-fuel industry trade associations in the U.S. It is a big business. spent almost $1.4

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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. However, it’s known that the institute has received funding from fossil fuel interests.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Congress established tax subsidies for carbon capture in 2008, and has since increased the amount of the subsidies twice, most recently in 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act. The tax subsidies are being used to subsidize fossil fuel production. As of October, EPA had approved monitoring plans for 21 carbon capture projects.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 3, 2022

Because I had already seen gasoline prices approach that level when I was living in the Netherlands in 2008, and the roads were still packed with cars. It’s not because I love fossil fuels, it’s because I recognize the risk of needing supplies and not having them. That it will simply continue our addiction to fossil fuels?

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As long as pipelines, LNG terminals, ethane crackers, new gas plants and more are slipping through the cracks of weak policies, we’re headed towards a systemic financial reckoning that will make the meltdown of 2008 look like a picnic in comparison. Indeed, it’s why U.S.

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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2023

For our broad categories (natural sources, agriculture and waste, and fossil fuels), we used U.S. The report presents a number of top-down estimates, so we chose the median value for the decade of 2008-2017. Fossil Fuels. Fossil fuels come from ancient carbon, buried underground for millions of years.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

Conservative MP Andrea Jenkyns has become a director of Net Zero Watch (NZW), a pressure group which denies climate science and campaigns for more fossil fuel extraction. NZW campaigns against renewable energy and for more fossil fuel extraction, often doing so alongside anti-green Conservative MPs in the Net Zero Scrutiny Group.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

was a leader in putting carbon pricing in place in 2008. A family that adopts a few common clean energy solutions —including EVs and heat pumps—could knock $800 off their monthly energy bills, compared to one that is largely reliant on fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Jim had recently read Boiling Point , Ross’s 2004 book chronicling the fossil fuel industries’ strategy of denial and delay, which Gelbspan correctly labeled a crime against humanity. “I Imagine my surprise when I joined DeSmog in 2008 and learned that Ross had inspired its creation.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The Conservative Party leadership candidate told The Telegraph on Saturday that he would repeal the Climate Change Act, first introduced in 2008, to remove what he called its “Soviet-style” carbon budgets. UK households were the worst hit in western Europe, due to our reliance on gas to heat homes and produce electricity.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 16, 2020

Featured: ImpactAlpha Original Q&A with Jeremy Grantham: Hold fossil fuel companies to account and make them ‘pariahs.’ Jeremy Grantham called the Japanese bubble of the 1980s, the tech bubble of the 2000s, and the housing bubble of 2008. Greetings, Agents of Impact!

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 10, 2023

Overview The newest Review shows the world remains heavily reliant on fossil fuels for energy needs, even as renewables like solar and wind continue rapid growth. While renewable power expanded at record rates, fossil fuels maintained an 82% share of total primary energy consumption. growth in 2021. growth in output.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

consulting and PR firm, with a long history of waging influence campaigns for fossil fuel corporations, is under scrutiny by a congressional committee as part of a broader investigation into the decades-long efforts by the oil industry and its allies to block action on the climate crisis. A powerful Washington, D.C.,

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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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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

On Wednesday, a group of more than 450 scientists called on advertising agencies to cut off their fossil fuel clients and to end their ties with an ongoing misinformation campaign that has time and again killed progress on addressing the climate crisis. And as this letter makes clear, they have had enough. ” Arena said.

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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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GreenBiz

JUNE 23, 2020

To rebuild the economy, the United States government so far seems to choose to deploy the same playbook it did in 2008: funding legacy companies in industries such as oil and gas. . Even without those policies — they soon expire — renewables are more than competitive against fossil fuels. Back to normal is not an option.

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