DeSmogBlog

APRIL 13, 2023

Now, that memo — first reported by DeSmog and Dutch investigative journalism platform Follow The Money — features in a new court brief alleging that Shell, ExxonMobil, Chevron, and BP knowingly concealed the climate hazards of their fossil fuel products for decades. degrees Celsius. Conflicts would abound.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It is estimated that today’s policy ambitions and targets would likely lead to global warming of around 2.7C CCAG also proposes an alternative approach to carbon pricing – one which levies charges at the point of fossil fuel extraction, based on the amount of CO?

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Bradley testified that when Congress held hearings in 2010 pertaining to the hockey stick graph as well as the materials in the email hack, it was a way to “tangle us up in demands for documents,” and was “clearly aimed at making us three prominent scientists look as though we’d done something wrong.” On Monday, former Minnesota GOP Rep.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 3, 2021

As there are only about 10 years left before the door closes for limiting global warming to less than 1.5 While a Directive on the energy performance of buildings has been in place since 2002, recast in 2010 and revised in 2018, the results so far have been underwhelming”, says Gillett. The challenge, however, is huge. “75%

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Solar power is the "new king" of global electricity markets, with the International Energy Agency calling it the cheapest form of electricity in history in its annual centerpiece World Energy Outlook report. Just a decade ago, in its 2010 Outlook , the IEA called coal “the backbone of the global electricity system.”

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

A “sustainable development” conference taking place in London gave a platform to two prominent climate science deniers, who used the event to claim that coal-fired power is “clean” and call global warming a “religion”. In 2010 he led Tea Party crowds in the U.S. in a call and response chant of “Global warming is?”,

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Graham Stuart MP was listed as a keynote speaker on Tuesday at the four-day Global Investment in Sustainable Development conference in London, hosted by the CC Forum, a company which touts itself as the “green Davos”. in a call and response chant of “Global warming is?” in a call and response chant of “Global warming is?”,

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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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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

billion invested in fossil fuels firms, including oil and gas majors Chevron, Shell, and Equinor, as of June 2023. private equity firm KKR, also has a large fossil fuel portfolio , including 188 assets in oil, gas, and coal. DeSmog also revealed that Marshall Wace – Paul Marshall’s hedge fund – had £1.8

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Grist

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The first report, which the United Nations secretary-general called a “ code red for humanity ,” was released last summer and addressed the physical science of climate change , warning that global warming was “widespread, rapid, and intensifying.” Dan Kitwood / Getty Images.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Editor’s Note: This is part of a regular column, Gaslit , which navigates society’s dysfunctional relationship with fossil fuel disinformation. Recent extreme weather across the globe is showing us how rapidly the climate is changing in an increasingly warming world. Have a tip or idea? Get in touch.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Yet growth in global emissions has also slowed, and the authors of today's report maintain that mobilising the finance, scaling up the technologies, and incentivising behaviour changes needed to drive a "substantial reduction in overall fossil fuel use" remains eminently feasible and - crucially - affordable.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

It also contains supportive quotes from 13 MPs, including Steve Baker and Graham Stringer , both trustees of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), as well as Conservative peer Peter Lilley , a former GWPF trustee.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Fossil fuel use is a major contributor of GHGs and coal powered power plants especially harmful. Efforts to manage emissions demands major reductions in our use of fossil fuels. A 2019 study by the International Energy Agency (IEA) showed that fossil fuels accounted for almost 70 percent of global energy demand.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

In any case, why send wood pellets to Europe to substitute for coal, when North Americans burn more fossil fuels than Europeans do? 3 Its author is Duncan Brack, who was an adviser to Chris Huhne when he was Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change from 2010 to 2012. Brack’s report caused quite a stir.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

I was fortunate to interview Jacobson for an Energy Boom story in 2010 about the real cost comparison between coal and wind power. He focused on his training as an athlete to center himself and instinctively opened with, “So Dave, we’re developing science-based plans to eliminate global warming and air pollution, including the 2.5

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Fossil fuel use is a major contributor of GHGs and coal powered power plants in particular are incompatible with emissions reductions. Efforts to manage emissions demand that we see major reductions in our use of fossil fuels. A 2019 study by the International Energy Agency (IEA) showed that global energy demand grew 2.3

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

As such, the crop yield potential for maize has decreased by six per cent, for wheat by three per cent, and for rice by nearly two per cent, compared to 1981-2010 levels. Higher temperatures have shortened the time in which plants reach maturity, causing lower yields.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Fresh analysis published this afternoon by the United Nations climate body the UNFCCC calculates the combined impact of 48 revised national emission reduction plans published in 2020, which together account for just under a third of global emissions. per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 compared to 2010.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Ruth Porter, who will be Truss’s senior special advisor and ran her election campaign, was communications director from 2010 to 2013 at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), an influential anti-regulation think tank with a record of opposing climate policies. BP-Funded Think Tank. Let Them Eat Carbon’.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

Energy Information Administration (EIA) predicts that there will be a sharp increase in the amount of renewable energy generated between 2010 and 2050. Figures show that the current average will increase from 15% of the global energy mix to 28% by 2050. Carbon offset program #3: Methane abatement.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

That is the headline conclusion of a fresh analysis from the International Energy Agency (IEA) today, which offers a glimmer of hope that global emissions are closer than ever to an historic peak, even if the rapid decline in greenhouse gases required this decade to limit temperature increases to 1.5C remains a hugely challenging prospect.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2019

Although SF6 is non-toxic, the gas is one of the most potent GHGs with a global warming potential of 23,900 and an atmospheric lifetime of 3,200 years. For comparison, carbon dioxide has a global warming potential of 1.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2019

Although SF6 is non-toxic, the gas is one of the most potent GHGs with a global warming potential of 23,900 and an atmospheric lifetime of 3,200 years. For comparison, carbon dioxide has a global warming potential of 1.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2020

The findings build on research published last month by Carbon Tracker warning that investors in new coal power plants worldwide risk being left with hundreds of billions-worth of stranded assets as fossil fuel generators get increasingly outcompeted by ever-cheaper renewables.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

alive", it states that "rapid, deep and sustained" reductions in carbon emissions are needed, and crucially it quantifies those reductions, putting on the record that emissions need to fall 45 per cent by 2030 relative to 2010 levels, before then achieving net zero around mid-century, "as well as deep reductions in other greenhouse gases".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

global warming pathway are to be kept alive. In snap analysis published yesterday, the IEA said it had calculated the impacts of the net zero pledges and emissions targets announced in recent days, and concluded that if national climate pledges are delivered as promised, the planet could potentially limit warming to 1.8C

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

Supported by the French agency for ecological transition ADEME, the GAYA project aims to help deliver on French legal targets for a 50 per cent reduction in the quantity of waste going to landfill by 2025 compared with 2010 and a 30 per cent reduction in fossil fuel consumption in 2030 compared with 2012.

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2020

Investors may have broadly welcomed the move, but climate campaign groups remain sceptical, to say the least, given Shell's net zero plans contain no pledges to halt exploration for new oil and gas, with the company maintaining that fossil fuels will continue to play a key role in the global economy beyond 2050. warming pathway.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2022

Climate Action 100+'s report was published on the same day as an annual audit of the banking sector's financing of fossil fuels has revealed the world's 60 largest fossil bans poured $742bn into coal, oil, and gas projects last year. temperature goal.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Jeff Thiel and James Kempf We are not yet reducing global greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to avert catastrophic levels of global warming. 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%. That’s a grim and undisputable fact.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Jeff Thiel and James Kempf We are not yet reducing global greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to avert catastrophic levels of global warming. 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%. That’s a grim and undisputable fact.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Jeff Thiel and James Kempf We are not yet reducing global greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to avert catastrophic levels of global warming. 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%. That’s a grim and undisputable fact.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

More than a decade ago the International Energy Agency estimated that over 200 power plants need to be fitted with carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technology by 2030, in order to prevent temperature rises of over 3°C (International Energy Agency [IEA], 2010). Special Report - Global Warming of 1.5°C billion tons.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2022

To limit global warming to a peak of 1.5C, which the impacts we are experiencing at 1.35°C °C warming (based on an average of the last 10 years) make clear is a higher than desirable goal. The challenge. gigatons of CO2 annually (GtCO2/year).

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Business Green

DECEMBER 10, 2020

gigatonnes of CO2 equivalent (GtCO 2 e) - a further increase following several years when global emissions flatlined in the wake of the Paris Agreement. The result means global greenhouse gas emissions have grown an average of 1.4 According to UNEP this dip in emissions only translates to a 0.01C reduction in global warming by 2050.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Concerning the meat industry’s argument that some pastures cannot be used for other forms of agriculture, University of Oxford researcher Marco Springmann argues that “if everybody were to make the argument that ‘our pastures are the best and should be used for grazing’, then there would be no way to limit global warming.”

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