GreenTechMedia

JUNE 5, 2020

Most buildings run on multiple fuels. And they consume fossil fuels such as natural gas or propane to power furnaces, boilers, and water heaters. That persistent reliance on fossil fuels makes buildings one of the largest sources of planet-warming pollution. Heat pumps are the big one. Already, around 30 U.S.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

The business and reputational risks for companies that provide a platform for, or create, fossil fuel advertising are growing. It's a question that has moved up the agenda over the last few days, after multiple campaigns launched urging advertisers and media companies to cut ties with fossil fuel companies.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The meetings – which include in-person talks with the then Business and Energy Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng and his minister Greg Hands (now the Conservative Party chairman) – are revealed in research by Fossil Free Parliament (FFP), a group campaigning against fossil fuel influence on UK politics.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 4, 2022

What is considered comfortable now could have consequences in the future - especially if it means reverting back, even in the short term, to old, damaging, carbon-based energy tactics. While energy as a political and economic tool is far from a novel concept, it has once again been pushed to the fore. Striving for self-sufficiency.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Agencies facing fresh calls to cut their ties with laggard fossil fuel firms, leaving many in the advertising and PR sector with difficult decisions to make. And energy providers the world over are rushing to slash their reliance on fossil fuels as the clean energy transition gathers pace. It is a big business.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2023

A large donation to the Labour Party from wood-burning giant Drax has raised concerns among campaigners over the sway of big carbon emitters over Parliament. The payment from the former coal-fired power station was registered on September 12 last year, and published in December in the Electoral Commission register of political donations.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

The business and reputational risks for companies that provide a platform for, or create, fossil fuel advertising are growing. It's a question that has moved up the agenda over the last few days, after multiple campaigns launched urging advertisers and media companies to cut ties with fossil fuel companies.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 27, 2021

This article discusses measures the seafood industry can take in order to limit their negative impact on our world’s oceans. Reduce fossil fuel use. From litter and pollution to overfishing and habitat destruction, today’s unsustainable commercial fishing has a significant negative impact on the oceans’ ecosystems.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

“They are donating all of this electricity they paid highly for in subsidies to other countries, often with negative prices,” said Jussi Heikkinen, director of growth and development for the Americas at Wärtsilä, a Finnish company that manufactures battery storage and flexible gas power plants.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 10, 2022

Blue hydrogen has been marketed as a climate-friendly fuel since the production process aims to capture most of the associated carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. It adds: “Our innovative LCH [low carbon hydrogen] technology is ready to go and allows for high purity and clean hydrogen to be produced from natural gas at scale.”.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2023

The fossil fuel industry, pesticides, and industrial agriculture are inextricably linked,” explained Asha Sharma, PANNA organizing co-director and co-author of the report. Pesticide companies are complicit in the climate crisis, and further the agricultural sector’s dependency on fossil fuels.”.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Currently it claims to represent 452 cities, 22 regions, 1,101 businesses, 45 of the biggest investors, and 549 universities, arguing these 'real economy' actors join 120 countries and constitute the largest ever alliance committed to achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050 at the latest.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Mark Fullbrook, who ran Truss’s leadership campaign, launched a political consultancy – Fullbrook Strategies – in March , with clients including Cerulean Winds, official records show. Green Party Peer Natalie Bennett said: “We need fossil fuels to stay in the ground. Green’ Oil Rigs.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

In June this year, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged communications agencies to stop working for fossil fuel companies, saying PR campaigns run by “Mad Men fuelling the madness” were making the climate crisis harder to address.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 8, 2021

Without the proper procedures and policies, marinas and boatyards have a major negative impact on the environment, hurting their reputation, their business and the planet. Fossil-fuel and carbon discharge – Boat motors idling, buildings burning oil and gas are adding to our planet’s carbon footprint and driving dangerous climate change.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

Investment in clean energy from fossil fuel majors saw a marked uptick during the pandemic in 2020, research suggests. Well, there are a growing signs that some may be at least starting to quietly plot their future beyond fossil fuels.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The revised strategy "reflects the ongoing global energy transition", with obligations for operators to limit reliance on imports, boost efficiency of production, and harness their skills and infrastructure to support hydrogen production and carbon capture and storage projects, the Oil & Gas Authority (OGA) said.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 13, 2021

In fact in many states, the wholesale cost of electricity moves into negative prices in the middle of the day when rooftop solar system generation peaks. In the global context, Australia is a relative laggard in introducing climate policy which is creating increasing tension within political parties and.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 3, 2019

degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, reach carbon neutrality by 2050 and cut greenhouse gas emissions by 45 per cent from 2010 levels, by 2030. The key missing ingredient is a lack of political will he said: “Political will to put a price on carbon. Global average levels of carbon dioxide reached 407.8

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

A timeline from coal to negative emissions at Drax – told by the engineers who were there. Today, however, sustainably-sourced compressed wood pellets have enabled the Yorkshire power station - once the country's largest single source of emissions - to rapidly decarbonise, with carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions 85 per cent lower than in 2013.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

” With more than $6 trillion of investments under management and influence in boardrooms of nearly 1,800 companies, what BlackRock says carries big weight across the corporate and political world. Peabody’s annual report points glumly at the negative sentiments of sections of the financial community.

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Terra Infirma

AUGUST 23, 2021

I tweeted about this (on my political Twitter account) and was quite surprised at the negative reaction to the view that our personal choices have (carbon) consequences. Even the idea of a personal carbon footprint is apparently a nefarious attempt by Big Oil to shift blame away from themselves and on to the individual.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2024

His areas of expertise include providing advice on greenwashing claims, sanctions risk, sustainability due diligence compliance, voluntary carbon markets, product labelling, and mandatory sustainability reporting, among others. Political uncertainty represents a significant obstacle to the net zero transition.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

For instance, the company’s just-published “ Energy Transition Progress report ” references chemicals right alongside “low carbon energy” and “renewable natural gas” as examples of the company’s stated commitment to lowering emissions. Town sign for Norco, Louisiana. Shell US did not respond to a request for comment from DeSmog. Shell Norco.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

org, finds that the hidden costs associated with the Vaca Muerta — negative health impacts, carbon pollution, environmental damages from oil and gas spills, and economic risks of stranded assets — could reach as high as $5.6 As investments in fossil fuel infrastructure continue to rise, so too do the risks.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Fresh analysis backed by 40 major energy, finance, and industry companies - including Shell, BP, Volvo, and ArcelorMittal - explores actions required this decade to deliver an emissions-free economy by mid-century that is not overly reliant on carbon offsets.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2022

Policy documents released yesterday offer a glimpse into how big a role the government envisages for technologies such as carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS), direct air capture (DAC), and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) in supporting its Net Zero Strategy.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2022

It is in no way limited to political opponents and environmental activists whose jobs inherently require a degree of performative hostility towards government ministers. This time there is none of that. There is just cold fury, cut with a sadness deeper than any mine. This anger is also widely held. We should be getting clean.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

And energy providers the world over are rushing to slash their reliance on fossil fuels as the clean energy transition gathers pace. Between 2008 and 2017, fossil-fuel industry trade associations in the U.S. It is a big business. spent almost $1.4

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2021

Will well-intentioned critiques of demonstrably inadequate net zero strategies catalyse more ambitious decarbonisation plans or will they inadvertently undermine a trend that has helped successfully push climate issues up the corporate and political agenda? It's that simple.

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Since the BRT statement there’s been a surge in aggressive carbon-reduction goals, up from just a handful of organizations a decade ago, to two-thirds of Fortune Global 500 companies with significant commitments today. There’s been little corporate pushback on politically motivated attacks on ESG and DEI.

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2021

We have limited time to move from a system where around 80 per cent of our primary energy supply comes from fossil fuels, to one where low-carbon technologies dominate. Reaching the UK's target of net zero emissions by 2050 will require a complete transformation of the energy system.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

There is a very real risk that without the clear diplomatic focus of a new treaty to work towards - something the talks have had pretty much uninterrupted since their inception - the COP process could lose much of its political power and its media pull.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Ahead of tomorrow's Net Zero Festival, Toby Hill explores how carbon offset standards are evolving in a bid to assure clients and campaigners that promised carbon savings can be delivered. To find out more about the role of carbon offsets in the net zero transition, sign up now for a free pass to tomorrow's Net Zero Festival.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

It meant that anyone continuing to bet on a high carbon future was tacitly accusing governments of either being incapable of delivering on their stated goal or engaged in a global conspiracy to deceive the public about their true intentions. Of course, it's not quite that simple.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

Just Transition Jobs Tracker details how around one in five UK jobs are likely to be affected either positively or negatively by the net zero transition, further cranking up pressure on government to deliver coherent transition plan. It found that approximately 6.3

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Spurred on by that support and held to account by national and international media outlets - many of which will be watching how this unfolds more closely as a result of all the political drama - the government has sprung into action to rectify the accusations made on the fate of COP26. A Strong Office for Environmental Protection.

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