Renew Economy

JULY 13, 2022

Renewables achieved double-digit cost reductions in 2021, and saved tens of billions in fossil fuel costs, but IRENA warns of supply chain and commodities crises. The post New wind and solar saved $82bn in fossil fuel costs in 2021, but supply pressures loom appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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The Guardian: Energy

AUGUST 11, 2024

The analysis, commissioned by the University of New South Wales’ Australian Human Rights Institute, found Australia was the third biggest fossil fuel exporter on an energy basis in 2021, trailing only Russia and the US. Coal and gas exports expected to remain roughly at current level until at least 2035 with 4.5%

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 18, 2022

Despite global cries for an end to fossil fuel use, China’s coal production reached record levels last year. The government encouraged miners to ramp up production, working at maximum capacity to increase China’s economic growth.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2024

It was a sign of how much has changed since 2021, when the UK hosted the flagship COP26 UN climate summit with a promise to “irrefutably to turn the tide and to begin the fightback against climate change”. million has been given to pro-fossil fuel think tanks by Tory donors since the 2019 general election.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 15, 2021

Q1 2021: Amazon goes big, Ørsted is a fan of corporate procurement . Thu, 04/15/2021 - 01:45. Corporate renewable deals got off to a sleepy but respectable start in 2021, with the largest contracts from U.S. Here are three of my takeaways from the first three months of 2021. . Sarah Golden. last year. .

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

At many of these facilities, fossil fuels, and especially natural gas, are the energy feedstock used for process heating applications. But what if the sun’s energy could take over the job much of the time and displace fossil fuels? primary energy demand, according to the Department of Energy. in Lemoore.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

billion) in fossil fuel firms. This includes companies that specialise in extracting, refining, transporting and distributing fossil fuels. million) shareholding in the oil and gas supermajor Chevron, as well as stakes in Shell, Equinor, and 109 other fossil fuel companies. billion (£1.8 million (£466.1

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Major fossil fuel firms have committed tens of millions in finance to UK universities since 2022, DeSmog can reveal. Previous reporting from openDemocracy and the Guardian found that, between 2017 and December 2021, £89 million had been given to UK universities from some of the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies.

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The Guardian: Energy

OCTOBER 17, 2024

It details the havoc wrought on New York by 2021’s Hurricane Ida and 2012’s Hurricane Sandy , and other deadly climate events such as extreme heatwaves across the US this past summer. Continue reading.

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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

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

These include the controversial energy company Drax , the fossil fuel lobby group Offshore Energies UK , and the gas company Cadent. More than 500 scientists signed a letter in 2021 stating that it would take decades for the carbon emitted by burning wood to be balanced with the planting of new trees.

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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. Darren Woods, the CEO of Exxon, celebrates the potential of carbon capture to dramatically reduce global emissions. and Europe.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 1, 2021

Thu, 04/01/2021 - 00:45. Labor unions and trade associations have important roles to play in charting a just and sustainable transition from fossil fuels to renewables. The fossil-fuel economy has taken wealth from everyone to pay for gasoline and electricity and concentrated it in a relatively small number of corporate coffers.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 20, 2021

Tue, 04/20/2021 - 02:11. The push to quickly transition carbon-intensive activities away from fossil fuels while meeting the world’s growing energy needs has put electricity producers and consumers squarely in the forefront of the emerging clean economy. And the era of fossil fuels is hardly over. Joel Makower.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Over the past month and a half month, California lawmakers have enacted a pair of climate disclosure bills and endorsed a global call to end the fossil fuel era. Lena Gonzalez (D-Long Beach) introduced legislation requiring both funds to divest from the 200 largest fossil fuel companies by the 2030s — holdings worth about $15 billion.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Global advertising and public relations company WPP has more contracts with fossil fuel clients than any of its rivals, despite the group’s pledge to reach net zero emissions by 2030, according to a report by campaign group Clean Creatives. Omnicom followed with 39 contracts; Interpublic Group had 25; and Publicis Groupe had 11. “The

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 27, 2021

Wed, 01/27/2021 - 02:00. The key solutions today are biofuels, only displacing a mere fraction of fossil fuels-based jet fuel, and offsets. Last year, Neste delivered its first batch of sustainable aviation fuel via pipeline for airlines refueling at San Francisco International Airport to use. Katie Fehrenbacher.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 4, 2024

Reform has also received more than £500,000 since the last election from Jeremy Hosking, whose investment firm Hosking Partners had more than $134 million (around £108 million) invested in the energy sector at the close of 2021, two thirds of which was in the oil industry, along with millions in coal and gas.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this week fired a shot over the bow at Wall Street companies that promise to help investors avoid putting their money into fossil fuels and tobacco — but steer funds towards those companies anyway. On the other hand, there’s been political pushback from the fossil fuel industry’s backers.

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altenergymag

MAY 10, 2021

Global Renewable Energy market is expected to observe growth in the future due to rising emissions of greenhouse gases and carbon dioxide for a generation of energy after the utilization of fossil fuels.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The California Air Resources Board has approved an update to the state’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) that will make it more difficult for biofuel producers to generate regulatory credits, and seems likely to result in the largest share of credits going to support electricity for EV charging.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

These investors have bought “green-labelled” bonds issued by Eni, Italy ‘s largest – and the world’s 13th largest – fossil fuel company. As the activist group Reclaim Finance describes the scam : “the bond market has become a safe haven for easy access to fossil fuel finance.”

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GreenBiz

MARCH 3, 2021

Wed, 03/03/2021 - 07:26. The fossil fuels used to power the company's vehicle and airline fleets contribute to 92 percent of FedEx's carbon footprint, according to its most recent sustainability report. That fuel also accounts for 6 percent of its annual operating budget. FedEx pledges to be carbon neutral by 2040.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 18, 2025

The Tory leader, who has received recent donations from fossil fuel interests and climate science deniers, made her speech at the Havas Village in Kings Cross, London, and was introduced by H/Advisors CEO Neil Bennett. By abandoning net zero by 2050, Badenoch has sold out the interests of the British people to the fossil fuel industry.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 3, 2023

Even more unpopular is the province providing financial subsidies to fossil fuel companies to encourage more LNG exports, with nearly half disagreeing with this idea (47.5%) compared to 30.5% who would support fossil fuel subsidies. Among NDP and undecided voters, opposition is even higher.

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GreenBiz

JULY 30, 2020

The facility is under construction, with completion slated by mid-2021. Moving away from fossil fuels for this heat production was the first step and the first big obstacle for Diageo. . The biggest challenge was to maintain that process integrity, but also move on from traditional fossil fuels.".

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Norwegian state-owned oil and gas company Equinor, the North Sea’s largest fossil fuel producer, is positioning itself to play a key role in plans to turn Britain into a world leader in capturing carbon. Currently, this policy would lock the UK into using fossil fuel-based energy generation to well past 2050.”

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

A new report from InfluenceMap reveals the fossil fuel industry has been waging an international lobbying war to prevent cities and towns from requiring newly built homes and businesses to install climate-friendly heating and other appliances. So far, 26 U.S. So far, 26 U.S. Lobbying in the U.S. Of the 26 U.S.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 7, 2024

In this week’s edition of Smart Energy’s Power Playbook, Yusuf Latief reports on an investment update from the International Energy Agency (IEA) which has found that of the total $3 trillion expected to be invested in energy, the lion’s share will go into renewables and the power grid, surpassing fossil fuels.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

In the aftermath of BREXIT and in view of COP26 in Glasgow in November 2021, the UK has been focussing on decarbonisation in relation to its infrastructure and power offerings. With the Government having promised a £4 million investment into biomass in March 2021, will this energy source remain an important part of the UK’s energy mix?

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GreenBiz

MARCH 5, 2021

Fri, 03/05/2021 - 00:12. More than 100 billion tons of resources enter the economy every year — everything from metals, minerals and fossil fuels to organic materials from plants and animals. Each year, huge quantities of fossil fuels are used to produce clothes from synthetic fibers each year. David McGinty.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Policies such as California's Advanced Clean Truck rule are forcing organizations in the state to phase in zero-emission trucks and phase out fossil fuel-based ones. Progressive cities, many in Europe, are building zones in downtown centers that are banning fossil-fuel vehicles and incentivizing zero-emission models.

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2021

Tue, 05/11/2021 - 02:11. Is 'net zero' much ado about nothing? Joel Makower. It feels almost quaint to remember way back when "80 by 50" — an 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 — was a bold goal for a company or government entity to make. The "way back when" in this case seems to be around 2014.

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GreenBiz

JULY 26, 2021

Mon, 07/26/2021 - 02:00. . Then it passes that ethanol onto project partner India Glycols Limited, a petrochemical manufacturer that turns the ethanol into monoethylene glycol, a chemical normally made from fossil fuels. Lululemon, LanzaTech are reshaping carbon waste into fabric. Deonna Anderson. Courtesy of.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 31, 2021

Wed, 03/31/2021 - 01:00. Those processes use a lot of energy and largely come from fossil fuels; one-third of U.S. A key route to industrial emissions reductions is electrification (replacing industrial fossil fuels with electric alternatives). How corporations can jump-start industrial electrification in the US.

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GreenBiz

JULY 8, 2020

Regardless of the specifics, the airline industry is feeling the heat from its reliance on fossil fuel-based jet fuel and thus its relatively large emissions. By 2021, the retailer plans to have 70 planes in its in-house air fleet that move its one and two-day deliveries.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 14, 2025

During a more than four-year period from January 2017 through March 2021, the company said that it had captured a cumulative total of about 2.7 The agency noted in an email that the 2021 volume should be 260 kilotonnes and not 322 kilotonnes, and that it will correct the figure in the next edition. million tonnes of CO2 at the site.

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