DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

In this new lawsuit , it seeks to hold fossil fuel companies and their “misinformation agents” accountable for the unprecedented 2021 heat dome that saw temperatures in the county reach 116º Fahrenheit. The consulting firm has also served the fossil fuel industry.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 2, 2023

New Electoral Commission records released today show that the bulk of the fossil-fuel linked funds came from Christopher Harborne, who donated £500,000 in the final quarter of 2022 – the joint-largest donation registered by the party during this period. Centrax has now given more than £300,000 to the Conservatives since 2010.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

DeSmog analysed examples of more than 100 influencers being paid to promote fossil fuel firms worldwide since 2017, from the US to Malaysia, in campaigns that have reached billions of people. While there’s more knowledge in general around climate change and the harms of fossil fuels, I think that people have a lot of trust in creators.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Nearly two thirds of social media posts put out by six major European fossil fuel and energy companies since the end of 2019 present a “green” image of the company, despite the majority of their business activity remaining in fossil fuels, reveals new analysis by Desmog.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2022

“Investing in new fossil fuel infrastructure is moral and economic madness,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released part of its latest report on Monday. Such investments will soon be stranded assets, a blot on the landscape, and a blight on investment portfolios.”.

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Grist

JANUARY 28, 2025

Since 2010, according to the study, that disparity has doubled. And what’s turning the tap more open, making the warming pick up speed, is an increase in greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane which are both still rising, largely from the fossil fuel industry, he said. and the studys lead author.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Initially estimated in 2010 by an unnamed Twitter employee to be around 0.02g CO2-equivalent (CO2e), subsequent research by numerous climate experts appears to put the ecological impact of a single tweet to be 0.026g CO2e. A truly equal ‘town square’?

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 4, 2022

Fossil fuel connections should be ousted from our political system so we can get on with the urgent reconfiguration of the system we need,” he said. Peers also have stakes in lesser-known fossil fuel companies. The post Peers Urged to Sell Shares in Russian Fossil Fuel Companies appeared first on DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

Policy Exchange, one of Westminster’s most prominent think tanks, engaged in a high-level influencing campaign over the UK’s North Sea oil and gas policies while being funded by fossil fuel interests, DeSmog can reveal. Fossil fuel firms tout CCUS and hydrogen as green energy solutions, yet the reality is more complicated.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 12, 2020

Indianapolis cited an October report by Rocky Mountain Institute that found that clean energy portfolios declined in cost by 80 percent since 2010, are lower-cost than new gas plants and are projected to undercut the operating costs of existing gas plants within 10 to 20 years. Phasing out fossil fuels.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

But as analysis today from Ember shows, the UK's reliance on fossil gas for power generation is largely the cause of surging electricity bills, with soaring global fossil fuel gas costs accountable for 86 per cent of UK electricity price increases in recent months, it estimates.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 15, 2020

While companies have committed to using it, fossil fuels prices were declining and then tanked during the pandemic, driving virgin plastic prices well below recovered plastic. Since 2010, Procter & Gamble had a 13.5 To close the recycling loop, the recovered material needs to be used. Room for innovation.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

There are no easy paths to net zero but inherent fossil fuel bias in the UK system is just frittering away our carbon budget, distorting the renewables market, and inhibiting green investment, argues Laura Sandys CBE. Audit and address fossil fuel bias. Making fossil onerous. It is lose-lose.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 25, 2024

It also looks at the persistence of fossil fuels in its energy mix. On the other hand, DNV forecasts fossil fuels will still account for 40% of its energy mix in 2050. In 2010, wind made up only 1% of China’s electricity generation. Strong policy support is reflected by the rapid uptake of green technologies.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

A report released Wednesday gives that distinction to fossil fuel runoff from highways, parking lots, and other land-based infrastructure, mostly transportation related. The report was co-sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute, a fossil fuel industry trade group, in addition to federal agencies from the U.S.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 8, 2019

Here is a year by year summary of GMO's Green School Series from 2010 to 2018 which includes links to articles covering everything you need to know about sustainable academics, student eco-initiatives, green school buildings, and college rankings as well as a wide range of related information and resources.

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Charged

JANUARY 24, 2022

BYD launched its strategy for public transport electrification back in 2010, realizing the need for change in the way the world relied so heavily on fossil fuels,” said Isbrand Ho, General Manager, Commercial Vehicle Business Centre of BYD Europe. “At million in total.

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Charged

MARCH 18, 2025

The city also experimented with hydrogen fuel cell buses during the 2010 Winter Olympics, but the project was discontinued due to high operational costs. In 2018, TransLink, the transit authority in Vancouver, piloted four battery-electric buses and two overhead chargers on one of the regions busiest transit routes.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 1, 2021

has made the case for why utilities, not customers, should be responsible for the cost of retiring fossil fuel assets. Securitization: One Tool for Early Fossil Fuel Retirement. Securitization is a cheaper way to retire fossil fuel plants early. Originally published at ILSR.org.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2022

According to the International Energy Agency, global electricity demand rose by more than 6% in 2021, the largest increase since the recovery from the financial crisis in 2010. To generate electricity, we require energy and 65% of this energy is currently coming from fossil fuels.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 1, 2022

The best way to benefit the bank accounts of Canadian families is to switch to technologies that reduce or avoid fossil fuels altogether. Insured losses due to extreme weather events totalled over $18 billion between 2010 and 2019, according to the Canadian Climate Institute. KEY FACTS. The total cost of recovering from B.C.’s

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2024

They were subpoenaed as part of a Congressional investigation into the fossil fuel industry’s decades of deceptive advertising, “Sponsored content advertising is a powerful way to reach a specific audience focused on specific issues,” BP states in the document. “We WPP did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The billionaire financier is a former party treasurer and raised an estimated £70 million for the Tories between 2006 and 2010. New licences were also awarded this week to fossil fuel giants Shell and Equinor. Spencer has publicly advocated for the fossil fuel industry. The Conservatives received £3.5

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 8, 2019

While the real costs of fossil fuels are increasing the costs of renewables are declining. The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) released a study the shows the cost of onshore wind power generation has dropped 23 percent since 2010, while solar electricity saw a decrease of 73 percent.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2024

The county argues oil companies’ “campaigns to deceive and mislead the public about the damaging nature of their fossil fuel products” delayed climate action for decades, robbing communities of precious time to mitigate the climate-driven disasters they now face.

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The Guardian: Energy

AUGUST 6, 2024

Our former environment correspondent had solar panels installed in 2010 and later added a heat pump.

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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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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

But it also underscores the difficulty in converting a fossil-fueled system to one that is reliant on increasing quantities of renewables. percent in 2010, but it's still much lower than is needed to achieve the decarbonized economy necessary to combat global climate change. percent of worldwide electricity.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

French oil giant Total knew that its fossil fuel extraction could contribute to global warming as early as 1971 but stayed silent about it until 1988, according to a new study. The company publicly accepted climate science in the 1990s but promoted “policy delay or policies peripheral to fossil fuel control”, the authors found.

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The Guardian: Energy

MAY 9, 2024

Just after I assumed the role of UN climate chief in 2010, I said to a room full of reporters that I didn’t believe a global agreement on climate would be possible in my lifetime. Continue reading.

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altenergymag

MAY 10, 2021

JinkoSolar began in 2006 as a wafer manufacturer before going public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2010. The value of its brand is intrinsically associated with achieving carbon neutrality through the gradual phasing out of fossil fuels and their replacement by renewable energy.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 21, 2020

One moment a speaker discussed the inevitability of a transition away from fossil fuels; in the next, another suggested the impossibility of bringing populations out of poverty without fossil fuels. In 2010, only 18 percent of all the cars sold in the world were SUVs. Credit: IRENA).

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Update from BloombergNEF reveals battery pack prices have plummeted from $1,100 per kWh in 2010 to $137 per kWh in 2020, powered by soaring EV sales, cheaper materials, and manufacturing and tech innovation.

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Business Green

MAY 14, 2020

Cutting fossil fuel subsidies and putting efficient price on CO2 would raise crucial revenue for Treasury, LSE research paper argues. It also cautions against imposing "any kind of 2010's style austerity".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

And in a surprise move, the text also includes a call for governments to "accelerate the phasing-out of coal and subsidies for fossil fuels". target", while highlighting how the specific naming of fossil fuels and the clear dates for strengthening NDCs represented something of a breakthrough.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2024

The complaint was made against advertisements paid for by Canada Action , a federally-registered non-profit organization that promotes resource development in Canada, particularly the fossil fuel sector. Canada Action further argued that, at its end use, gas emitted 50 percent less carbon than coal.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Compared to more volatile and increasingly more expensive fossil fuel sources, renewable energy power fits the institutional investors’ requirements. For the past seven years globally, more renewable power was added to the grid annually than fossil fuels and nuclear combined. Experts weigh in on the future.

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