DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

That sends a clear political message that the industry “is less powerful and trusted than before,” Nick Caleb, a climate and energy attorney with Breach Collective, told DeSmog. It may signal that fossil fuel companies do not have much of a future powering the state’s economy, Caleb said.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2023

According to the World Bank, agricultural development is one of the most powerful tools to end extreme poverty, boost shared prosperity, and feed a projected 9.7 The company’s first commercial vertical farm (JFC1) started production in 2018 with 5,000m 2 of growing space and the capacity to produce 150 tonnes per year of fresh produce.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

GHGs are caused directly and indirectly by human activity especially energy (73%). Other sources of GHGs are agriculture, forestry and land use (18%), waste (3%) and industry (5%). This annual report looks at where we are compared to where we need to be in terms of GHGs (see previous reports 2012 , 2018 and 2019 ).

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

As such, in 2022 81% of S&P 500 companies reported their own emissions (scope 1), and the emissions of the electricity they bought (scope 2). Although this level was not defined by the convention, the aim was to allow ecosystems and society to adapt naturally to climate change, which means slowing global warming down.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

This annual report looks at where we are compared to where we need to be in terms of GHGs (see previous reports 2012 , 2018 and 2019 ). GHGs are caused directly and indirectly by human activity especially energy (73%). Other sources of GHGs are agriculture, forestry and land use (18%), waste (3%) and industry (5%)*.

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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. Last year was the warmest year since global records began in 1850.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

degrees Celsius above preindustrial norms (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC], 2018), however, we are rapidly running out of time as we are already more than two thirds of the way there. An IPCC report (2018) indicates that all remaining gas and coal fired power plants need CCS technology. And we’re on the clock.

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Energy Innovation

APRIL 2, 2019

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. During this interval of rapid SLR, ocean levels rose an estimated 16 to 25 meters over about 500 years. During the 20 th century, coincident with global warming of about 0.6°C,

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

Across the 1,500 pages of the climate advisory body's latest UK climate risk assessment - which it carries out every five years - it sets out in stark detail the challenge to build in resilience and adaptation into UK infrastructure, and just how far behind government policy currently is on these issues.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

In 2015, nearly 200 countries agreed to “Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C C above pre-industrial levels , recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change”.

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The court rejected an appeal by French energy company Total, which had invested 300 million euros to convert a crude oil refinery into a biofuel plant that would use palm oil feedstock. Biofuels are still expected to play an important part in hitting ambitious climate targets; to keep global warming under 1.5°C

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CleanTX

MARCH 20, 2019

Joint effort focuses on developing technologies and management practices to accelerate reductions of methane emissions across the global oil and gas industry. We’ve made great progress driving down emissions across our own business, including meeting our industry-leading methane intensity target of 0.2

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Business Green

APRIL 24, 2020

While they're not immune to the forthcoming fiscal challenges, entrepreneurs developing solutions for addressing climate change - from agtech to decarbonization to clean energy and more - are among those proving to be the most resilient. Since mid-March, as the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic infected certain sectors of the U.S.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2020

The fashion industry has a pollution problem. If the industry continues on its current pathway, it could use more than a quarter of the carbon budget associated with a 2 degrees Celsius pathway by 2050, according to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. Put simply: "We need buildings and machines," Cavalli-Björkman said.

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Green Tech Challenge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

The problem of global warming crosses geopolitical lines and boundaries, and thus must be addressed by humanity as a whole. Singapore to Regulate E-Waste Last year, Greentech Challenge reported that global electronic waste was set to grow by a worrying 33% in 2017.

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 14, 2020

Whether as a defense against global pandemics or as part of a wider climate strategy companies are exploring ways of improving their supply chain resilience. Now more than ever companies need to increase their efforts to build more resilience into their supply chains so that they can quickly respond to changing demands and disruptions.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Castillo clarified that the “barbecue” was a ground flare at the $10 billion manufacturing complex — a joint venture between ExxonMobil and Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) known as Gulf Coast Growth Ventures (GCGV). The industry claims ground flares can be cleaner than tower flares. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 12, 2020

But carbon is also moving constantly through the global economy, which historically has been powered by burning fossil fuels for energy. As a result, carbon dioxide (CO2) and other emissions have risen dramatically since the industrial revolution, presenting a daunting array of challenges for people, planet and prosperity.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

And so today's report's conclusion that while the scale of the challenge is monumental - the world must peak emissions by 2025, before halving them by 2030 - it also encouragingly makes clear that the world already has all of the tools it needs to achieve these aims, in order to keep the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2020

For example, unregulated tree planting rolled out en masse in a bid to meet the government's manifesto pledges and reduce carbon emissions could inadvertently exacerbate global warming, the report suggests, highlighting how trees planted on peatland risk drying out carbon-rich soil and releasing more greenhouse gas than they capture.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In interviews afterward, Shatner made a plea for the planet as TV hosts tried to steer him toward topics lighter than death and global warming. In 2018, the former NASA astronaut Mae Jemison, the first Black woman in space, told delegates at the U.N. It’s immeasurably small when you think in terms of the universe.”.

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

As changing weather patterns driven by global warming have extended California’s wildfire season and increased the intensity and size of the infernos burning across the state, residents who don’t take precautions do so at their own peril. Enforcing the use of masks requires monitoring by the state, for example.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

An ice-free Arctic might be a boon for the shipping industry in the short term, but comes at potential catastrophic cost to our economy in the form of environmental disaster and political upheaval. As long as there is ice in a body of water, any surrounding heat energy is carried towards the ice to make it melt.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 29, 2021

In his spare time, David Levy, owner of Petrotechnologies, a company that makes specialty parts for the oil and gas industry, monitors the fossil fuel industry across southwest Louisiana from the sky. Canals cut by the oil and gas industry in the Atchafalaya Basin that are no longer used. Credit: Julie Dermanksy.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

In addition, 74 per cent of the poor are directly affected by land degradation globally and over 80 per cent of the human diet is provided by plants, with just three cereal crops - rice, maize and wheat - providing 60 per cent of humanity's energy intake. SDG 15 to the rescue?

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The law’s current implementation also offers no assurances that the new jobs promised for oil and gas industry workers will materialize, although it is a stated goal of the law. State regulators controlled by the oil and gas industry helped create this crisis,” said Biven when I met her in January 2022. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

On a recent episode of the Fox Business show “Mornings with Maria,” American Petroleum Institute CEO and President, Mike Sommers , said that “the most important environmental movement in the world is the American oil and gas industry.”. “A Some researchers have called this “fossil fuel solutionism.” . Learn how his work is shaping our future.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

This blog reveals why we are addicted, and provides a possible methadone that is needed to transform the transportation, buildings and industry sector. This is a review of an article from the Financial Times , which first appeared in February 2020 just before the fossil fuel industry had its worst year ever. Comment down below.

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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 China has gotten a lot of positive press for its investments in wind, solar, and electric vehicles. In 2018, annual emissions in the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 1, 2022

The chair of a campaign by backbench Tory MPs against climate action runs a parliamentary group with a lobbyist who has an undeclared interest in the continued use of fossil fuel-powered vehicles, DeSmog can reveal. Mr Cox’s personal business interests are clearly skewing the climate sceptic, anti-electric car stance of the group.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

The past decade has been a wild ride for America's massive electricity sector. Cheap wind and solar have turned the industry's conventional economic wisdom on its head. NextEra Energy: America's renewables behemoth. NextEra Energy: America's renewables behemoth. Today, no U.S. Today, no U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

Unless you have good governance, any progress towards goals on healthcare, education, infrastructure, clean energy is going to be fragmentary, short-lived and quite volatile - Matthew Jenkins, Transparency International. Power corrupts. The hope is that the plea to "recover better" can gain traction. The fear is that it won't.

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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. 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial averages.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The Heritage Foundation is an ultra-conservative group that authored the controversial Project 2025 blueprint for a second Donald Trump term, which proposes replacing green investment with the further deregulation of the oil and gas industry. As revealed by DeSmog, key Trump ally Robert Wilkie – who served as U.S.

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