DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2021

An urgent global phaseout of fossil fuels is needed, they say, reiterating calls for “transformative change,” which is “needed now more than ever to protect life on Earth and remain within as many planetary boundaries as possible.”. Not every data point was negative, however, and there were some signs of hope. percent to 23.2

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Across the European Union, the average quarterly wholesale electricity price rose by almost 20 euros per megawatt-hour between the fourth quarter of 2015 and the same period in 2018, according to European Commission data compiled by Bach. But over the same period, the share of renewable resources in gross electricity consumption rose from 28.8

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

mandated by the 2015 Paris Agreement. Current government commitments submitted in 2015 are highly inadequate, which is why the upcoming five-year revision and upgrading of Paris pledges is so crucial. Moreover, by homing in on 2050 neglect these fossil fuel majors neglect their historic pollution footprint.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2021

Group of 117 institutional investors file resolution urging bank to phase out fossil fuel financing in compliance with the Paris Agreement. As shareholders supporting this resolution, we recognise the imperative and urgency for establishing targets and a timeline towards emissions reductions.".

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Smith’s comments were made in the context of home heating costs within a wider discussion concerning carbon taxes and the affordability crisis. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a three-year “carbon price carve out” for home heating oil in October 2023. The most extreme reaction was from Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2023

have ties to polluting companies and organizations, including major fossil fuel companies, according to a new DeSmog analysis. Nearly one in five directors (19 percent) have current or past experience working in the fossil fuel industry. They’re actually propping up the expansion of the fossil fuel industry.”

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The resulting model estimated pollution exposure levels and the number of premature deaths with varying values of pollution control, socioeconomic trends and climate warming over the years 2015 to 2100. They published their findings on 24 October in the journal Nature Sustainability. Emerging markets like China and India contribute to?less

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 18, 2022

The UK government is not legally required to consider tax breaks to oil and gas companies or emissions from burning fossil fuels when regulating the North Sea sector, a court has ruled today, rejecting a complaint by climate campaigners. ‘Unacceptable’ Fossil Fuel Subsidies.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

But the groups have unearthed a 1970 report by Eni’s Isvet research centre that warned of the “catastrophic” risk the build-up of carbon dioxide (CO2) caused by burning fossil fuels could pose to the climate. Eni has set a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

He’s an ExxonMobil scientist in a company ad that also shows other scientists in a high-tech lab working to develop “low-carbon technologies.” To top it all off, the claim in the tagline promotes the perception that ExxonMobil, and fossil fuel companies more generally, are “part of the solution.” They cannot stop lying.

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2022

In the early 2010s, climate scientists were painting a grim picture of the future: If humans didn’t curb carbon dioxide emissions, the world was headed toward 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 Scientists now estimate that current emissions trajectories make a 4-degree scenario highly implausible, even as total carbon emissions continue to rise.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 6, 2020

The authors find that many (though not all) regions see net gains without considering any climate benefits, and all regions of the world see substantial net economic benefits when adding in the social cost of carbon at $100 per ton (see bold pink line in Figure 1). b, Benefits of coal-exit scenario for year 2050 in absolute terms.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

A timeline from coal to negative emissions at Drax – told by the engineers who were there. Today, however, sustainably-sourced compressed wood pellets have enabled the Yorkshire power station - once the country's largest single source of emissions - to rapidly decarbonise, with carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions 85 per cent lower than in 2013.

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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

Scientists are documenting changes that are “much more widespread” and “much more negative,” she said, than anticipated for the 1.09 It will gain increasing importance as the herculean difficulty of reducing emissions to net zero and removing vast stores of carbon from the atmosphere become clearer.”. Climeworks.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Already, politicians and major corporations, including oil and gas producers, are hard at work promoting the idea that the 2015 Paris Agreement’s goals can be met if the financial world coalesces around “net-zero” climate initiatives. special envoy on climate, has called humanity’s “last best chance” to curb the climate catastrophe.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

European law-makers are due to vote on a revised renewable energy directive next week, part of the EU’s Green New Deal to slash carbon emissions by 55 percent by 2030. Rakos has also come under fire from Laurence Tubiana, a former French diplomat and an architect of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, over his claims.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 19, 2021

government’s recently released hydrogen strategy—a thoughtful plan to create and use clean hydrogen—contains an implicit acknowledgement: the world is moving away from fossil fuels and toward low-carbon alternatives. isn’t the only jurisdiction to see clean hydrogen as the new natural gas. Where does this all leave B.C.’s

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Mosaic

APRIL 1, 2022

When homeowners choose these options, they can lessen their carbon footprint while also gaining a more reliable energy source. The adoption of clean energy can not only help to grow local and state economies, but it can also reduce the reliance on fossil fuels at home and abroad. Sadly, intense weather patterns are on the rise.

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Mosaic

APRIL 1, 2022

When homeowners choose these options, they can lessen their carbon footprint while also gaining a more reliable energy source. The adoption of clean energy can not only help to grow local and state economies, but it can also reduce the reliance on fossil fuels at home and abroad. Sadly, intense weather patterns are on the rise.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

Even more worrying is a fact David Wallace-Wells points out in his best-selling book Uninhabitable Earth : more than half of the carbon emitted in the atmosphere today was emitted in the past 30 years. So why did these eminent scientists decide to come to Paris in 2015? The problem is this confuses the means with the end.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

As trees grow they remove carbon from the atmosphere. Spurred by the necessities of drastically cutting emissions and removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to meet climate targets, many countries, including Brazil, India and China, have committed large areas to forest restoration. above pre-industrial levels.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Published to mark the fifth anniversary of the global climate treaty that was brokered in the French capital at the 2015 COP21 Summit, the report offers companies a strategic framework for how to reach net zero emissions by 2050 or sooner across their core businesses, value chains, and wider economies, according to CISL.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 11, 2023

Records show that the company has lobbied during the past three years on California’s climate strategy, toxicity provisions, low carbon fuel standards, as well as its oil and gas production policies. Veolia was hired by the city in February 2015 to help address the problem.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The Paris Summit in 2015 was a genuine turning point in the world's response to the climate crisis that will define the century one way or another, and as such it should be remembered by historians as an event of global import. In some ways this is an absurd contention.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

“I am here to sound the alarm alongside my German colleagues: This is destruction masked as economic development, and we will do everything we can to protect our homes and to stop it,” said Anne Rolfes, director of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade , a New Orleans nonprofit working with communities affected by the fossil fuel industry.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 19, 2022

In 2015 US President Barack Obama created the Social and Behavioral Sciences Team (or “ nudge-unit ”) to bring insights from the behavioural sciences to federal policies. Research done in the US found that 42% of energy-related carbon emissions came from household machines, including cars. Putting people at the centre.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2020

That's the message from several recent reports focusing on the role of service-sector companies in addressing - positively or negatively — climate change. supported $1.316tr in transactions for the fossil fuel industry. received $37m in compensation for fossil fuel industry lobbying.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Climate campaigners, however, see the new piers and pipelines as ominous signs that the gas lobby has finally achieved a long-standing goal to lock Germany into the $100 billion global LNG market – threatening to keep Europe’s biggest economy hooked on fossil fuels for decades to come. “A It’s fossil fuel madness.”.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Advocates of this approach reckon it would help catalyse investments in clean technologies and ensure investors are more cognisant of the complex and escalating risks associated with high carbon assets. An alternative approach could include setting minimum mandatory climate standards for ESG products, requiring banks to adopt 1.5C

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk. Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree We need immediate action on energy.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Indeed, the ingredients for negativity are all too abundant: a persistent, shapeshifting virus; political stalemates that thwart climate action; growing social and economic inequality; terrifying ecological indicators; pushback by the anti-science crowd and their media enablers.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2022

However, despite this progress overall demand for oil was actually still a touch higher last year than it was in 2015. Much of the wider industry can see the general direction of the car market, and can see no reason to waste any time in pushing fossil fuels out the way in order to get there. per cent of total oil demand.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The use of these chemicals also damages the environment in other ways; much of the fertilizer used in the world today is the product of methane gas, a fossil fuel, while the wide-scale use of pesticides has been linked to the damage of ecosystems and vital populations of pollinators.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Climate change investment had been increasing since 2015 when the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were introduced and the Paris Agreement adopted by nearly 200 countries. Last year also saw a strong acceleration in renewable energy, as a number of governments placed climate action at the heart of their post-Covid recovery plans.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

A group of exciting start-ups are exploring whether the world's trash mountains could become a valuable source of low carbon hydrogen fuels. One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is "clean hydrogen" made from trash. It concluded this approach could be a cost-effective way to actually achieve negative emissions.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2020

Over the next ten years, carbon reduction efforts will be a central element of Capgemini's work with its clients, which include some of the world's largest automotive, telecommunications, consumer goods and retail companies. The company's carbon reduction prerogramme, which is currently being validated, is now aligned with a 1.5

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Mixing biofuels with fossil fuels for vehicles to burn initially seemed like an easy way to cut down on the 22% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions that stem from the transport sector. This severe deforestation has undermined biofuels’ sustainability credentials, as these tropical forests are key absorbers of carbon dioxide.

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