DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 19, 2023

Fossil fuel-linked groups spent around $4 million on Facebook and Instagram that spread false climate claims over the COP27 summit, a new report says. Our report shows Big Oil continues to invest millions in digital advertising to launder their image as ‘climate champions’, while also promoting the necessity of fossil fuels.”

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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Fossil fuels are everywhere at this COP except in the decisions being negotiated by governments,” Nikki Reisch, the director of climate and energy at the Center for International Environmental Law, wrote to DeSmog from Glasgow. Oil Majors Show up in Disguise.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Oil and gas has dominated discussions at past COPs, which have focused on the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the energy and transport sectors to tackle dangerous levels of global warming. Big companies which have previously accessed COP in this way include JBS, which came in with the Brazilian delegation for COP27 in Egypt.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

More than 1,700 oil, gas and coal lobbyists are registered attendees of this year’s international climate summit, currently underway in Baku, Azerbaijan, to try to persuade the world that the fossil fuel industry can be part of the climate solution. The PR companies that help them sell that message are not far behind.

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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. Video posted to social media on June 6, 2022 by Gidimt’en Checkpoint. 8 @rcmpgrcpolice trespassed today.

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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2021

Australian court cases, fossil fuel phase out alliances, and a vote of confidence in Gold Standards all feature in this week's latest round up of global green business news. Colombia to host hybrid Biodiversity PreCOP.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

DeSmog’s analysis shows that business attendees at this year’s biodiversity COP reached record levels, more than doubling compared to the previous summit two years ago, to reach a total of 1,261 delegates. They were followed by fossil fuel companies, which brought 40 representatives. What you see here are two COPs,” he said.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

A new China-US bilateral agreement to cooperate on emissions reductions – another of the apparent consolations to be drawn from a disappointing COP – seemed to include a major commitment to the “deployment and application of technology such as CCUS and DAC”, as market intelligence firm IDTech X noted. What can be done with the captured CO2?

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2022

In a speech in Glasgow to mark six months since the landmark UN Climate Summit, the COP26 President conceded the Kremlin's "illegal and brutal" war, rising inflation, and cost of living concerns had dominated the political and media agenda in 2022, but stressed that climate action must remain a top priority for governments around the world.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The Glasgow Climate Pact makes notable reference to ‘phase-out of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies’. No fossil fuel subsidies should be classed as ‘efficient’. The UK continues to hold the COP Presidency for the next year, until COP27 in Egypt. The UK has a duty to act on this in common with other countries.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Fossil fuels get named and shamed. For the first time in 25 years of UN climate talks, coal and fossil fuel subsidies have been singled out in an official document. Here, we've picked out 10 key takeaways for business leaders from the Glasgow Climate Pact and COP26 Summit: 1.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Overall the analysis of the delegates list by DeSmog shows that the total number of people representing the interests of agribusiness has more than doubled since 2022 to reach 340. This number is up from just 10 in 2022. Pesticide firms also turned out in high numbers this year, jumping by 30 percent compared to 2022.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

However, that number may be an undercount of total government subsidies, he said, given it doesn’t include tax credits, such as the $10 billion federal government carbon capture tax credit announced to coincide with the COP 28 summit. Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Climate negotiations at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, better known as COP, are over for another year. Combined with a series of climate disasters in 2022, the stakes (unlike the expectations) were high. This was the second key issue that COP tried to grapple with and, unfortunately, failed to make any headway on.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In the year following Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the UK imported £3.4 billion worth of fossil fuels from Saudi Arabia. DeSmog has today revealed that the US-based advertising giant McCann, part of the Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG), is putting itself forward to continue working for this fossil fuel giant.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2022

The document sets out G7 countries' ambition to deliver near-zero carbon electricity grids by 2035, citing the need to respond to climate scientists' calls for a drastic reduction in fossil fuel demand so as to stabilise global temperatures. We also have the G7's first coal phase-out goal and endorsement of the Glasgow Breakthroughs.".

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 7, 2024

Banks are also making more money from loans and underwriting to clean energy than to fossil fuels. China Leads the World to Clean Economy Tipping Points The year in clean tech started with the amazing news that the world had spent more than $1 trillion on green tech, which topped investment in fossil fuels for the first time.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Farming also relies on synthetic fertilisers that are both fossil-fuel-based and emit greenhouse gases, and drives deforestation. The phrases laid out below will also be in the back pockets of lobbyists, who doubled in number year on year in 2022 as an analysis by DeSmog revealed , and are expected to show up in force in 2023.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 24, 2022

Narendra Modi’s clarion call for becoming ‘AatmaNirbhar’ in energy sector, DISTRIBUTECH India 2022, together with POWERGEN India and Indian Utility Week, India’s leading Energy Business Platforms, will be organised from 12th-14th October 2022 in New Delhi, India.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

On the plus side, the pact reaffirmed the central importance of 1.5C (our best chance to avoid the worst impacts of climate change), mentions coal and fossil fuels for the first time, and calls for countries to “revisit and strengthen” 2030 climate pledges by the end of 2022 instead of waiting another five years. of warming.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Having officially taken the reins of the COP Presidency in Glasgow, Alok Sharma and his diplomatic team are now tasked with steering global climate discussions over the next year ahead of COP27 in Egypt, and the CCC today urged the UK to lead by example with ambitious climate efforts at home. of warming by the end of the century.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 22, 2024

AI as an ally of energy transition DNV forecasts $12tn into grid and renewables in US and Canada by 2050 Looking ahead to 2024, we anticipate: Concrete policy commitments for clean energy deployment In 2024, countries will promulgate specific plans and targets to accelerate policy momentum and achieve the ambitious targets set at COP 28.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Dubbed the Glasgow Climate Pact, the agreement crucially puts pressure on countries to come foward next year with updated climate plans, promises more funding for climate adaptation, and for the first time ever includes explicit references to the need to drive down coal and phase out fossil fuel subsidies. Phase out coal.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2024

“It’s really a huge scam,” concluded Molly Anderson, a member of the International Panel of Experts on Food (IPES Food), who co-authored an earlier report on regenerative agriculture in 2022. “It’s It’s something that’s being used by corporations to justify their greenhouse gas emissions.”

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Business Green

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Even in the context of an eventful past five years, it is fair to say 2022 was another rollercoaster. And then, somewhere along the way, 2022 also found time for two major UN COP summits - one on climate change, the other on biodiversity - both of which proved momentous in different ways.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This implies a reduction in fossil fuel-related infrastructure, notably a halt in new exploration and early retirement of the most polluting fields. Even before fossil fuels are consumed, their production and distribution are major sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

The Narrative of Fossil Nationalism Noting that “the same kind of rhetoric” was on display during the COP 27 climate summit in Egypt in 2022, King said related strategies include linking fossil fuel use to “human flourishing” and “human freedom” and ensuring that such language seems to emanate from citizen or grassroots entities.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2021

The BoE should now reach out to those companies that have already secured loans through the programme to remind them the government expects all listed companies and large asset owners to publish climate-related risk disclosures by 2022, as part of its Green Finance Strategy, he said. warming, and in line with the Paris Agreement.".

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 22, 2024

It offers energy companies, real estate investors, owners, and construction companies the means to electrify heating with geothermal heat pumps and replace fossil fuel and combustion-based alternatives. ? In 2022, QHeat started applying for patents for their technology based on coaxial flow.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This is the first COP where participants found themselves face-to-face with the reality of breaching the 1.5 The final wording of the COP28 agreement – which required consensus among all nations and the chair – codified a commitment to transition away from fossil fuels in energy systems. But all was not lost.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The Glasgow Climate Pact is clear: we are moving away from fossil fuels. Starting with the final texts agreed at the summit, the Glasgow Climate Pact requests all nations to resubmit emissions reduction pledges in 2022 and, crucially, requires these pledges to be more ambitious and in line with the targets set in the Paris Agreement.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2021

See you back here in 2022. The North Sea was a major talking point this year as campaigners stepped up pressure on Boris Johnson’s “build back better” government to put a stop to any new fossil fuel projects. We’ll be taking a break over the festive period, and hope you are able to rest up too. North Sea: Murky Waters.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

It’s hard to square that with her public messaging for the past couple of weeks that they suspected Minister Guilbeault would announce something during COP,” said Olszynski in an interview with DeSmog. billion) in 2022 — into decarbonization. billion ($47.95

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

This includes a £450 million (over three years) Boiler Upgrade Scheme, which will be issued as grants of £5000-£6000 per household “to help overcome the current differential between heat pumps and boilers”, which will be available from April 2022. This is hardly the COP figure the Prime Minister wants to read.”.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

Here are the 6 big themes I drew from the last year, and 6 things to look out for in 2022]. None of this equates with actual action to reduce emissions or tackle inequality, but it’s clearly not fringe anymore (which fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil found out when activist investors forced it to take on sustainability-friendly board members).

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Fossil fuel companies' daily profits have averaged $2.8bn over the last 50 years, with Oxfam estimating that less than 18 days of those profits would fund the entire UN humanitarian appeal for 2022 of $49bn. We cannot fix the climate crisis without fixing the systemic inequalities in our food and energy systems.

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