Grist

DECEMBER 20, 2024

A study published on Friday in the journal Cell Reports Sustainability estimates that billions of tons of carbon from fossil fuels coal, oil, and gas was stored in gadgets, building materials, and other long-lasting human-made items over a recent 25 year period, tucked away in what the researchers call the technosphere.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

billion on sports sponsorships, seeking to extend their social licence to boost production of fossil fuels even as the climate crisis intensifies, according to a new report. “If we are going to transition we need to stop fossil fuel companies trying to extend their social license through sponsoring sport.”

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2021

In the late 2000s, the fossil fuel conglomerate Woodside Energy petitioned to build a liquid natural gas processing plant 30 miles north of Broome, on a peninsula known in English as James Price Point, and to the Goolarabooloo as Walmadany. Broome residents attend a 2011 protest rally against the proposed natural gas plant.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 21, 2024

Global energy consumption reached a record peak of 620 Exjoules (EJ) in 2023, with fossil fuel consumption and energy sector emissions also hitting record highs, according to the Statistical Review of World Energy , published on 20 June by the Energy Institute, Kearney and KPMG.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 27, 2020

Exactly what Fink’s announcement will mean for BlackRock's fossil fuel investments remains to be seen. Since 2011, BlackRock claims to have channeled $5.5 In 2011, BlackRock was the only big asset manager offering a renewables-only equity fund. ” And it wasn’t an easy sell.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Fossil fuel representatives develop undergraduate courses. The authors came to that conclusion by conducting a first-ever review of dozens of existing academic and civil society investigations into fossil fuel infiltration of higher education, looking primarily at institutions in the U.S., UK, Canada, and Australia.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2024

A new campaign is calling on MPs to break the fossil fuel sector’s “chokehold” on politics in a critical election year. The message forms the name of the campaign by Climate Resistance, a new collective that aims “to push the fossil fuel lobby out of Westminster and stop polluters from bankrolling political parties”.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 18, 2020

The world still gets about 80% of its energy from fossil fuels today which generate the lions share of emissions. According to the EIA , in 2017, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from burning fossil fuels for energy were equal to about 76% of total U.S. We continue to burn fossil fuels at a prodigious rate.

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Charged

JANUARY 24, 2022

The company first exhibited an electric bus at Europe’s BusWorld trade show in 2011. 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

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 10, 2024

Although it doesn’t get enough attention, the two major parties — the Conservatives and Labour — have chosen climate change and, in particular, fossil fuel production in the North Sea as a clear political dividing line for the electorate. million in donations from big polluters and those with direct links to fossil fuel production.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Additionally, UPROSE has received support from Patagonia since 2011. who are told they ought to accept new jobs that rely on the extraction of fossil fuels and displacement. In this mutually beneficial relationship, Patagonia also provides financial support for UPROSE’s environmental work.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Hawaii also faces unusually high fuel costs because fossil fuels must be shipped there; solar-plus-storage beat incumbent power sooner there than on the mainland. Finn-Foley displayed the Energy Information Administration's projections for national solar deployment from 2011, 2012 and 2013.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The idea of “an energy transition that will dramatically reduce the use of fossil fuels and achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 is a fantasy”, wrote Blackmon on 16 August. Blackmon’s presence in the Telegraph is the latest example of fossil fuel lobbyists and critics of climate science afforded a mainstream media platform in the UK.

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Grist

MARCH 8, 2021

The study joins other research showing that the drastic fall in greenhouse gas emissions associated with the pandemic will have little impact on long-term climate goals, and may be followed by a swift rebound unless countries take rapid action to direct their economies away from fossil fuels. That is very worrisome.”.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

Of the 64 total board members at Omnicom Group , WPP , Interpublic Group (IPG), Publicis Groupe , Dentsu and Havas , 32 have significant experience in carbon-heavy sectors such as fossil fuels, fossil fuel financing, plastics, utilities, and aviation. Twenty-two are still serving in roles at such companies.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This ad, created by New York-based agency BBDO , barely mentions fossil fuels, even though it was paid for by one of the world’s biggest oil and gas companies. “In their perfect world they can still build all the fossil fuel infrastructure , extract all the oil and gas and just pay a small tax via CCS to reduce the emissions.”

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The Verge: Energy

JUNE 19, 2024

It creates incentives for successfully deploying those technologies, and tasks the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) with creating a “timely” pathway for licensing small reactors at brownfields and former fossil fuel generator sites. Other groups are concerned about health and environmental risks with nuclear energy.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 3, 2021

Annual figures show that renewable supply outpaced fossil fuels for the first time. Conversely, energy produced by fossil fuels fell to just 39.6%, marking the first time that clean energy has consistently outperformed legacy sources.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2024

Cox is running to be London Mayor in May for Nigel Farage’s right-wing party Reform UK, which calls for the UK’s net zero policies to be “scrapped”, and is funded by climate science deniers and fossil fuel interests. He runs the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Fair Fuel with anti-net zero Tory MP Craig Mackinlay.

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Business Green

JUNE 12, 2020

When some UK government institutions are acting decisively to prevent climate change, yet at the same time, UKEF are helping finance projects that rely on continued fossil fuel growth, it may create the perception that the right hand doesn't know what the left is doing," said Carbon Tracker's Head of Oil and Gas Andrew Grant. "At

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2021

Ecotricity founder Dale Vince said he was "delighted" to sell the charge point network to Gridserve following a decade of development, arguing the UK's fast expanding charging network was facing a critical turning point in the transition from fossil fuel to electric vehicles.

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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

MARCH 9, 2020

Research by Greener Journey's argues an additional five million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions having been generated since the fuel duty freeze first took place in 2011.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

The lonely well pad houses four natural gas wells that records show were initially drilled in 2011 but sat inactive for years after that. With a population of around 30,000, this county sits squarely in the center of the path the Marcellus Shale formation takes as it curves through the commonwealth.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 23, 2020

Increased fossil fuel consumption made up most of this growth, with every category of fossil fuels showing increased consumption over the decade.”. Japan also posted substantial growth of 33% as it continued to bounce back from the 2011 Fukushima accident. That shouldn’t be considered a knock on renewable energy.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 2, 2022

Russia’s escalation of its war on Ukraine in February has contributed to a spike in energy prices and sparked efforts to move away from Russian fossil fuels across Europe. The analysis does not cover purchasing in 2022. No airline companies responded when asked by DeSmog whether they still source from Russia.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 22, 2025

Together, these initiatives embody the shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy in a region historically linked with coal mining and thermal power. Developed and refined since 2011, eMERALD converts captured CO into methanol using green hydrogen.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Shareholder and market pressures are pushing some companies to diversify from fossil fuels, in order to stay dominant in a changing energy landscape. In 2011, 2012 and 2013, climate-related shareholder proposals to U.S. Shareholder pressure building. companies numbered in the 30s, Crooks said.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 13, 2024

DeSmog has also today released a new report , mapping the extensive ties between Tufton Street think tanks, the fossil fuel industry, right-wing media outlets, and the Conservative Party. million since the 2019 general election from fossil fuel interests, climate science deniers, and highly polluting industries.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Global investment needs to rapidly shift away from fossil fuels to green energy throughout the 2020s, but bets against that happening look increasingly risky. From 2011 to 2015, for example, the low carbon to fossil fuel supply investment ratio was 0.5:1. In order to cap global warming at 1.5C BNEF compared 1.5C

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

The finance sector is increasingly reluctant to finance fossil fuel expansion, and ‘Big Ag’ could be next in the divestment campaign firing line, argues Charlotte Moore from SIGWATCH. Calls for financial institutions to divest from fossil fuels have become a cornerstone of NGO climate campaigning over the past decade.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

In 2011, shortly after her election as an MP, Truss – who once worked as a commercial manager for Shell – set up the Free Enterprise Group, which has been described as the “parliamentary wing” of the IEA. Truss has ties to other American fossil fuel-linked groups. During a trip to the U.S.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

Combined generation from coal and gas-fired plants amounted to 102.7TWh in the UK in 2020, the data shows - the lowest figure on record and less than half the 230.5TWh produced by these two power sources in 2011.

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Business Green

JANUARY 9, 2023

The study from innovation charity Nesta, which was released late last week, highlights how the 74 per cent of homes continue to use gas boilers with the number of households heated by gas central heating falling by just four per cent between 2011 and 2021. The vast majority of homes in England and Wales rely on fossil fuels for their heating.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Mann continued to challenge witnesses who sought to cast doubt on his research showing that global temperatures rose sharply during the 20th century — a key finding in establishing the connection between the burning of fossil fuels and climate change. A key part of this strategy was last week’s testimony of Abraham J. Cherry Picking?

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Porter wrote articles in 2011 supporting economic “austerity” and urging then Prime Minister David Cameron, who went on to “ cut the green crap ”, not to be “timid” about cuts to government spending. BP did not respond to multiple requests for comment on whether the company still donates to the group. Let Them Eat Carbon’.

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