DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

They study glaciers and global temperature changes, climate solutions and adaptation, the oceans and the human influence on global warming. Another ad features miniature power plants to promote “cleaner electricity” from natural gas, whose methane emissions are a major driver of rising global temperatures.

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Doing so would address a glaring omission in the 2015 Paris accord, which never actually mentions coal, oil, or natural gas despite being an international agreement to stop global warming. More than 100 countries came to the table pushing for an official agreement to “phase out fossil fuels.”

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Further research by DeSmog has shown that Eni’s company magazine Ecos made repeated references to climate change during the late 1980s and 1990s — while running advertising campaigns promoting natural gas, which is mostly comprised of planet-warming methane, as a “clean” fuel. ‘Friend Methane! ‘Friend Methane!

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

For this reason, the hydrogen market today is dominated by steam reformation of natural gas, it’s essentially a fossil fuel. A commercial product, the Silyzer 200, followed in 2015 with a rated capacity of around 1.25 The challenge is global warming, part of the solution is a gigawatt-scale factory. 

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 22, 2024

In recent months, the BBC has created content for a number of oil and gas companies, including the French fossil fuel company Engie, which owns a number of coal-fired power plants and relies heavily on gas for its energy production.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

Motivated by New York Governor Cuomo’s willingness to consider banning hydrofracking, Jacobson worked through the night to layer New York’s pollution, human health, morbidity and global warming data into a cohesive model. In 2015, Jacobson began work on WWS maps for individual countries, with Ukraine being the first.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2021

And as the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) noted , emissions pathways that limit global warming to 2°C or below generally assume that some form of carbon dioxide removal, such as CCS, is necessary, alongside reducing emissions.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Temperature changes stemming from global warming have adversely affected the Arctic. Their emergence highlights the UN’s warning that the period from 2015 to 2019 registered the most glacier loss of any five-year timespan. Similarly, Arctic sea ice has declined every month, “and it is getting thinner.” Continued here:Â .

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. The hope is that limiting global warming to 1. In 2015, developed countries committed to coming up with $100 billion per year by 2020 to tackle climate change in developing countries. Mitigation. Paris Agreement.

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Martin LaMonica

DECEMBER 30, 2015

2015, the year that was: environment and energy. Our academics also explained why energy innovation is so slow , what to do about earthquakes linked to oil and gas drilling, why Tesla’s home batteries are such a big deal and how rooftop solar is disrupting the power grid. Why is oil and gas activity causing earthquakes?

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2021

New liquefied natural gas (LNG) and oil export facilities are springing up, as well as petrochemical plants like the GCGV ethane cracker. Despite warnings from climate scientists, this buildout reflects movement away from the 2015 Paris agreement’s goal of limiting greenhouse emissions to keep warming to below 2°C.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

per cent stake in the Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America, a 20 per cent stake in oil sands operator Inter Pipeline in Canada, and a 49 per cent stake worth $10bn in Abu Dhabi National Oil Company's gas infrastructure, the investigation found. Since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015, the bank has financed $118.bn

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Unsustainable

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Methane is a component of natural gas. Hence, most of it comes from natural gas industries and agriculture. Some people still deny that greenhouse gases are culpable for climate change and global warming. The Paris Agreement was signed in 2015.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

CARB accounts for avoided methane emissions when calculating the CI of renewable natural gas (RNG), which is considered a replacement for petroleum-based diesel due to RNGs predominant use in mid- and heavy-duty engines. RNG produced via the anaerobic digestion of animal manure (e.g.,

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Recent findings from the System Change Lab collaboration , similarly found that emissions reduction progress across six "climate critical" sectors were falling significantly short of a pathway which would stave off dangerous levels of global warming.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

C stated in the Paris Agreement, according to the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming and Mercator Research Institute. But it is not just about carbon emissions… According to most estimates however, international shipping worldwide is responsible for ‘only’ 2-3% of all global greenhouse gas emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Provenance: Inside Climate News featured this document in a 2015 story titled, “ Exxon’s Own Research Confirmed Fossil Fuels’ Role in Global Warming Decades Ago.” Provenance: Inside Climate News featured this document in a 2015 story titled, “ Exxon’s Own Research Confirmed Fossil Fuels’ Role in Global Warming Decades Ago.”

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It was the first time the majority of nations formally recognized the need to control greenhouse gas emissions , which cause global warming that drives climate change. That treaty has since been updated, including in 2015 when nations signed the Paris climate agreement. F), and preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The biggest international deal yet to tackle climate change came out of COP21 in 2015, when countries brokered the landmark Paris Agreement. That set a goal of limiting global average temperatures to close to 1.5 Greenhouse gas emissions come from extracting and burning fossil fuels, of course. Now, that 1.5-degree

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Porter’s blog repeatedly cites the work of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate science denial group. Porter’s Energy Blogs Climate models accurately predict global temperature rises, with observed warming tracking the forecasts.

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Business Green

MAY 4, 2021

Moreover, under CAT's 'optimistic scenario' - which assumes full implementation of net zero targets set by countries that have set or are considering such goals - global warming could be limited to as low as 2C, for the first time bringing the world's decarbonisation trajectory within the threshold target of the Paris Agreement.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Mitch Landrieu at Smoothie King Center during the ”Power of Community” Katrina 10 event in 2015. And among her list of fossil fuel industry clients are companies, including natural gas producer Venture Global, poised to seek permits for projects along the Gulf Coast where orphan wells will need to be cleaned up first.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

This COP was unlike the previous 25 iterations, in that it took place during a global pandemic. degree Celsius warming trajectory. degrees Celsius, not enough to avoid the worst impacts of global warming. So, what happened? Did COP26 deliver what it hoped to achieve? One aim of the conference was to 'keep 1.5

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Grist

JANUARY 21, 2025

In 2015, oil and gas companies were active on Twitter during international negotiations over the Paris Agreement to limit global warming, promoting the incorrect notion that Americans did not support taking action on climate change. The tweet shown here by Chevron alleges that natural gas benefits the environment.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

I think we’re at the point in the global warming story where anyone with an eye to history might want to ask, 'Do I really want to be trying to profit off the wreckage of the planet?'" Despite one of the most bullish stock runs in decades, the share prices of many major oil companies are falling short of expectations.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

The funding was dominated by four US banks - Bank of America, Citi, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo - which together accounted for a quarter of all fossil-fuel financing since 2015. The report also cited Royal Bank of Canada, Barclays in Europe, and MUFG, Japan's largest bank, as the biggest fossil-fuel funders in their respective countries.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The UAE derives roughly 40 percent of its income from oil and gas, while its overall climate action has been rated as “critically insufficient” by the Climate Action Tracker, an independent scientific project that measures government policies against the 2015 Paris Agreement.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 14, 2025

Three of the four people she named have worked for the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UKs principal climate science denial group, or its campaign arm Net Zero Watch. They include Andrew Montford , director of Net Zero Watch, and consultant Kathryn Porter , who has links to the oil and gas industry.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The world and its oil addiction An overview of global oil consumption The world runs on oil (1). The dark, often viscous liquid is the single biggest contributor to the world’s energy mix, at 34 per cent of consumption, followed by coal at 27 per cent and natural gas at 24 per cent. They consume approximately 14.5%

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

It certainly began inauspiciously, with recordings released early in the event catching one of the organisers canvassing potential investors in natural gas , of which the country has enormous reserves.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Under that 2015 agreement, more than 2oo countries agreed to take steps to keep global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius from pre-industrial levels and, to less than 1.5 an even larger driver in reducing coal consumption was the shale gas boom, which created enormous supplies of cheap natural gas.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

It contains natural gas, helium, and carbon dioxide. It is the biggest LaBarge, as the gas operation is known, would have become one of the world’s foremost examples of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), a technology most climate-modeling experts view as essential to slowing down global warming and, eventually, reversing it.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

Photo Credit: REUTERS While some politicians and citizens continue to deny the existence of man-made global warming, the evidence supporting it continues to grow. coal first and then later oil and natural gas?to Featured Photo: Harrison (coal-fired) Power Station, Haywood, West Virginia.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Peterson is now planting doubt via his podcast and social media posts about the severity and urgency of global warming in the minds of younger generations. In testimony to Congress in 2015 she claimed incorrectly that recent data “calls into question the conclusion that humans are the dominant cause of recent climate change.”

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

At the same time, climate change has begun directly impacting utilities — from hurricanes that have forced billions in recovery and grid-hardening costs for utilities like NextEra’s Florida Power & Light and Texas’s Oncor, to the wildfires that drove Pacific Gas & Electric into bankruptcy. Today, no U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

.” That apparent conservation activist was, in fact, an infamous climate change disinformation artist : Marc Morano, who’s done more than perhaps any other person to manufacture doubt about global warming. Residents packed public meetings and staged beachfront rallies. “I’m all for green energy, believe me.

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Sustainability Consulting

MAY 5, 2021

With the world’s focus on cutting CO2 emissions to slow global warming, cutting methane emissions is often overlooked. But with more potential to warm the planet in the short-term, it’s time to tackle methane gas emissions.

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