Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Coal-fired power plants, vehicle-clogged highways, and fossil-fuel spewing factories have contributed to the growing European air pollution dilemma. Industries, households and vehicles all emit dangerous mixtures of pollutant particulates that are harmful to human health. Air pollution.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Food systems are responsible for at least 15 percent of all global fossil fuel consumption, according to a major report launched ahead of the COP28 climate summit. Its authors found that even if governments delivered on their 2030 climate pledges, by 2037 food-related fossil fuel use alone would blow the remaining portion of the 1.5C

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The Verge: Energy

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

. | Photo by Jan Woitas/picture alliance via Getty Images The European Union saw a record drop in pollution from fossil fuel power plants last year, according to a new report. Fossil fuels dropped to their lowest point since reliable record-keeping started in 1990, making up less than a third of EU’s electricity generation in 2023.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 5, 2025

percent of the years global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels, the report adds. The Carbon Majors are keeping the world hooked on fossil fuels with no plans to slow production, former United Nations climate chief and Paris Agreement architect Christiana Figueres said in a response accompanying the report.

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The Guardian: Energy

MAY 12, 2024

Among world’s top 60 banks those in US are biggest fossil fuel financiers, while Barclays leads way in Europe The world’s big banks have handed nearly $7tn (£5.6tn) in funding to the fossil fuel industry since the Paris agreement to limit carbon emissions, according to research.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2024

Since then, the Conservative government has made a series of U-turns on its own net zero policies, attacked Labour’s green spending plans, and doubled down on its support for new fossil fuel projects, approving more than 100 new North Sea oil and gas licences. This comes as DeSmog and Democracy for Sale reveal that £6.8 percent (£1.8

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

According to Saudi Aramco’s podcast, the fossil fuel industry is innovating new climate solutions, and BP’s podcast proclaims more of the same. A 2016 Georgetown University study found that advertorials — also known as native advertising — are mistaken for “real” content by about two thirds of people.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 14, 2024

million from fossil fuel interests, climate science deniers, and highly polluting industries. Until April 2024, Farmer held shares in the fossil fuel giants Shell and BP, each worth more than £100,000. From the 2019 general election to the start of the 2024 election campaign, the Tories had accepted at least £8.4

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Nigel Farage ’s Reform party received £135,000 this year from donors linked to climate science denial and fossil fuels, DeSmog can reveal. Latest official records show that all donations made to Reform UK so far this year are from individuals with ties to climate science denial or fossil fuel interests.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

From the world’s biggest soccer championship to soccer training for kids , from major universities to music festivals and art galleries to — if you can name it, fossil fuel companies have probably sponsored it. TotalEnergies will sponsor the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 21, 2020

since 2016, when it was the largest annual purchaser, according to the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance. In 2016, companies acquired 1.54 Amazon contracts with oil and gas companies for some computing services that help transport and sell fossil fuels. gigawatts of renewables, compared to a record of 9.33

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GreenBiz

JULY 27, 2020

The announcement marks a major coup for the PCAF and is a landmark green move for Morgan Stanley, one of the world's largest and most recognizable private banking groups, which from 2016 to 2019 invested more than $91 billion n fossil fuels, according to the Rainforest Action Network. Pull Quote.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Bank bosses due to attend a green investment summit tomorrow head institutions which have provided over £700 billion of financing for the fossil fuel industry since the 2015 Paris Agreement, including £129 billion in 2020 alone. . billion in coal, oil and gas between 2016-2020. Concrete Commitments Needed’. billion in 2020.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

JPMorgan Chase is the world’s biggest financier of fossil fuels, according to environmental organisations. In 2020 the bank pledged to end fossil fuel loans for Arctic oil drilling and phase out loans for coal mining. Fossil Finance. JP Morgan declined to comment.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 21, 2021

The UK government gave over £150 million in tax breaks to fossil fuel companies in the space of three years, new research has found. A new paper out today reveals that tax credits for fossil fuel extractive companies to conduct research and development (R&D) increased by around £20 million year on year between 2014 and 2016.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

French environmental organizations Notre Affaire à Tous, Friends of the Earth France, and Oxfam France last week filed what they say is the world’s first climate lawsuit against a commercial bank, suing BNP Paribas over its continued funding of fossil fuels. They also say that the financial sector more broadly is on notice.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 24, 2022

HSBC has been accused of double standards after suspending an executive who said investors “need not worry” about climate change, while continuing to plough billions of pounds into fossil fuels. HSBC has financed £103 billion in fossil fuels since the Paris Agreement was ratified in 2016, including £43.8

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2021

Fossil fuel financing declined by nine per cent in 2020 amid the economic downturn, but campaigners warn overall trend is 'one heading definitively in the wrong direction'. Despite this significant drop from 2019 to 2020, the overall trend of the last five years is one heading definitively in the wrong direction," the report states.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 12, 2022

Based in Lockerbie, MacRebur has been processing waste plastics otherwise destined for landfill or incineration since 2016. The resulting granules or flakes reduce the volume of bitumen (fossil fuel) in the asphalt mix, whilst enhancing the bitumen as an aggregate binder.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 13, 2022

A newly published report by Fossil Free California finds California’s pension fund managers are circulating divestment “misinformation” by exaggerating the costs involved in shedding their fossil fuel investments in documents prepared for state lawmakers. The two pension funds have estimated holdings of $7.4 billion and $4.1

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 25, 2021

Central banks are continuing to help channel trillions of dollars into fossil fuels through policy decisions and direct financing, with overall sums rising in recent years, a new report has found. The report calls on governments to update the mandates of the banks to support the managed decline of fossil fuels.

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Business Green

APRIL 18, 2021

Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change calls on banks to back their net zero pledges with moves to halt support for fossil fuels and activities that drive deforestation. With fossil fuel financing increasing since 2016, the time to act is now," she said. Net zero commitments must drive real change.".

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 22, 2021

Former UK Energy Minister and original COP26 President Claire O’Neill has been cleared to take up a role at a business consultancy known for running “astroturf” campaigns for fossil fuel companies, despite warnings from the body that approves such appointments. Oil and Gas Industry Groups.

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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

JUNE 11, 2024

The world’s 60 biggest banks funded fossil fuels to the tune of $6.9 “Financiers and investors of fossil fuels continue to light the flame of the climate crisis,” Tom BK Goldtooth, report co-author and executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network, said in a statement. billion, $396.3

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2020

Major study backed by 250 NGOs and environmental organisations claims financing for fossil fuels has risen every year since the Paris Agreement was signed. This makes it crystal clear that banks are failing miserably when it comes to responding to the urgency of the climate crisis.

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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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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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The Guardian: Energy

JULY 13, 2024

Campaigners welcome ‘seismic shift’ and urge museum bosses to review links with other fossil fuel sponsors The Science Museum has been forced to cut ties with oil giant Equinor over its sponsor’s environmental record, the Observer can reveal.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

And, if you want to consult those lists in their entirety, here are the links: 2016 , 2017 , 2018 and 2019. Sara Bogdan (formerly Lindenfeld) (2016). Jillian Lennartz (2016). I have joined RMI's Building Electrification program, which is focused on eliminating fossil fuels in buildings. Media Authorship.

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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2021

The world's first 'green steel' produced using hydrogen rather than fossil fuels has been delivered to its first customer Volvo, the consortium behind the pioneering project announced yesterday. Then, in July, SSAB Oxelösund rolled the first green steel produced using the HYBRIT technology.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The world's biggest firms driving the development of clean energy, electric vehicles, sustainable forestry, and other crucial green solutions continue to outperform the broader global market, "leaving fossil fuel companies in the dust", according to fresh investor research released today.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2022

New Climate Transparency report reveals fossil fuel production subsidies surged to highest levels on record in 2021. G20 government support for producing and consuming fossil fuels reached a record high in 2021, despite publiuc commitments to end inefficient fossil fuel subsidies and accelerate the clean energy transition.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Almost 100 universities that have pledged to shed ties to the fossil fuel industry still bank with financial institutions that have collectively provided $419 billion (£345 billion) to polluting interests between 2016 and 2022. million in funding from fossil fuel companies since 2022.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

It was the third time the international body reproached the Canadian federal and provincial governments for their treatment of Indigenous communities in relation to the construction of the two fossil fuel projects. The Maritimes got quiet, Wet’suwet’en got hot,” Howe said. There’s nothing to say that this list is not still active.”.

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altenergymag

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Founded in 2016 by John Failla, SED informs and supports commercial and industrial electric power customers as they navigate the transition to renewables and minimize consumption of fossil fuels. Diversified Communications announced the purchase of hosted buyer event and digital media business, Smart Energy Decisions (SED).

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Renew Economy

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Between 2016 and 2021, a group of just 12 Australian fossil fuel companies emitted more carbon pollution than 50% of the Pacific Islands’ total emissions over the same period. The post Carbon emissions from Australia’s ‘Dirty Dozen’ more than half Pacific Islands’ emissions appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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