GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

That means getting serious about advocating for a recovery plan that helps us build back better from the current pandemic, while tackling another global systemic threat: climate change. . The climate crisis is worsening, and it is playing out in real time as we grapple with COVID-19. that comes down to two basic steps. .

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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 database builds on the innovative work published by researcher Richard Heede of the Climate Accountability Institute (CAI) begun in 2013. The remaining 4 score only slightly higher at C-.

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Prof Lesley Hughes is a leading climate change scientist and member of the independent Climate Council and government advisory body the Climate Change Authority. Hughes said there is a “cognitive dissonance” between Labor’s stated commitment to addressing the problem and the pace at which it is moving.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 3, 2025

The new guidelines, central to the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), represent a major step in combating climate change by incentivizing technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Hydrogen can replace fossil fuels in combustion-heavy industries or power fuel cell vehicles without tailpipe emissions.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Putting That Into Perspective Total global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels and industry in 2023 were approximately 37 billion metric tons. Moreover, fossil fuel combustion as a whole contributed 87% of global emissions , with oil and natural gas responsible for about 60% of those emissions.

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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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DeSmogBlog

MAY 23, 2024

Over the last year, the governing Conservative Party has watered down its support for the UK’s flagship 2050 net zero emissions target, and has enacted policies to increase fossil fuel extraction. million from fossil fuel interests, £5.7 Since the December 2019 election, the Conservatives have received £2.35

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

Biodiversity loss and dangerous Climate Change potentiate each other in their disastrous consequences. But the scientists also see opportunities: conserving, managing and restoring ecosystems for example can mitigate climate change and enable adaptation to its impacts while also enhancing biodiversity.

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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. In May, former Green Party MP Caroline Lucas pulled out of the New Statesman’s energy and climate change conference over its sponsorship by the oil company Equinor.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 20, 2024

s leading anticancer groups has hired a network of lobbyists that also works on behalf of the fossil fuel industry, according to a new report. The American Cancer Society’s Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), the advocacy arm of the American Cancer Society, shares lobbyists with 21 fossil fuel companies across 10 states.

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GreenBiz

JULY 9, 2020

A new buzzword, climate-aligned finance, is RMI’s answer to the uneven responsibility put on the financial sector. Its goal is to integrate the financial sector’s attempts at going green, including green business investments, exclusionary policies for certain fossil fuels and the industry’s ESG policies, into one complete strategy. .

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

billion invested in fossil fuels firms – including oil and gas majors Chevron, Shell, and Equinor – as of June 2023. DeSmog can also now report that one of the largest shareholders in Marshall’s hedge fund has extensive fossil fuel investments. As revealed by DeSmog, Marshall Wace had £1.8

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 23, 2023

. | Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi / Bloomberg via Getty Images More than 130 companies, including Volvo Cars, Ikea, Unilever, Nestlé, and AstraZeneca, signed a letter calling on governments to adopt a global plan to phase out fossil fuels without carbon capture during upcoming international climate negotiations.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Loans and investment fuel growth. Put simply, a bank’s capital can flow towards fossil fuels or renewable energy, towards local business loans or financing environmentally damaging projects. Why don’t more people choose to bank with climate-friendly retail banks that have clear environmental investment and loan policies?

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 4, 2024

The firm is owned by Terence Mordaunt , a director and former chair of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s leading climate science denial group. Mordaunt himself told openDemocracy in 2019 that “no one has proved yet that CO2 is the culprit” of climate change. It’s plant food”.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

While these agencies largely put on climate-friendly faces, however, the majority of their clients are not aligned with keeping global temperature rise to 1.5 Of 38 automotive industry clients, none support policies that align with Paris goals. degrees Centigrade (3.6 Holder’s analysis found that just 8 percent of U.S.-based

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Grist

JANUARY 12, 2023

In the early 1980s, America’s biggest company knew more about climate change than basically anyone else. Rising emissions posed a threat to Exxon’s business — selling fossil fuels — so the oil giant took the lead on understanding what was called the “CO2 problem.”. Spencer Platt / Getty Images.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The UK government’s move to award £22 billion in subsidies to carbon capture projects followed a sharp increase in lobbying by the fossil fuel industry, DeSmog can reveal. Others engaging regularly with ministers on CCS policy include heavy manufacturing companies, CCS technology firms, lobby groups, and investment funds.

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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. Reform UK , formerly the Brexit Party, is a vocal critic of climate action, and last year called for a referendum on the UK’s net zero policies.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The self-styled PopCons included politicians critical of climate policies and science, including Lord Frost, who is a director of the climate science denial Global Warming Policy Foundation , as well as Conservative MP Lee Anderson and Reform party president Nigel Farage.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Finally, the climate crisis is worse than it’s ever been. For too long, climate change was viewed as a problem for the planet instead of a problem for people. They stem from the system we chose when we grabbed and relied on fossil fuels," McCarthy said. Policy & Politics. Pull Quote. Sponsored Article.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 12, 2024

Reform campaigns to “scrap all of net zero” and backs new fossil fuel extraction, including via fracking and opening new coal mines. Reform’s policies are in step with its donors. million from climate deniers, polluters, and fossil fuel interests – who represent 92 percent of its funders.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 21, 2024

ExxonMobil saw a “limited” role for carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects in fighting climate change, but still promoted the technology in its advertising campaigns, internal company documents show. While working at Exxon, Gulden led a team that maintained technology used to generate a portion of the Energy Outlook.

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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. It’s implicitly calling for a new consensus.”

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Acknowledging the cost-of-living crisis was a consequence of an over-reliance on fossil fuels, placing the UK economy and consumers at the mercy of international markets,Ms Fahnbulleh said, As a government, we are committed to deliver home grown green power. This is the only way to deliver energy, economic and climate security.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 29, 2024

Intense lobbying from the meat and dairy industry since 2020 has helped weaken and stall crucial climate policies in the European Union, according to a new report from InfluenceMap.

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The Verge: Energy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Demonstrators flood city streets ahead of a key United Nations climate summit with a clear message for Joe Biden: ‘end fossil fuels.’ Salmon have dwindled with rising temperatures , a consequence of burning fossil fuels. And this is the result of burning fossil fuels.

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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. However, her support for the policy has waned in more recent times.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In retrospect, it also turned out that ESG portfolios contained less financial risk because they had more accurately identified risks from climate change and considered other variables — such as resilience — for which no accepted risk methodology exists. A declining investment rationale for fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch ’s head of policy slammed the UK’s 2050 net zero emissions goal while working for a group that has been funded by BP, DeSmog can report. These include Badenoch’s head of policy Victoria Hewson, who used to work for the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA). think tank transparency index.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

The verdict appears to mark the first ocassion in history, when a judge has held a corporation liable for causing climate change. But the judge ruled that the resultant climate impacts endangered the human rights of the plaintiffs. 2 Shell is also responsible for emissions from customers (scope 3) and suppliers.

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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. climate talks due to open in Dubai in November.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 27, 2020

How can we grow some Black and brown-owned businesses that are working on the issue of climate change? It's not new for Apple's vice president of environment, policy and social initiatives to see racism and climate change as intertwined. She capped off her two-decade career with the U.S. Empowering communities.

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Grist

DECEMBER 18, 2024

As global temperatures rise from the burning of fossil fuels, researchers and policymakers have proposed solutions like installing renewable energy, replacing gasoline-powered cars with electric ones, and developing technology to suck carbon out of the air. Read Next Biofuels are a controversial climate solution.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 23, 2020

Entrepreneurial innovation, new investment and regulatory models must be promoted and accelerated to prepare for future pandemics, climate change and to restore the environment. Government policies that stimulated the growth of solar accounted for 60 percent of that price decline. Back to normal is not an option.

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GreenBiz

JULY 2, 2020

For Shalanda Baker, a professor of law and public policy at Northeastern University, thinking about a clean energy future means thinking about the daily, weekly and sometimes invisible ways that people in deprived communities can control their power supply. Figuring out mechanisms through policy to incentivize that targeting would be great.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2024

Fossil fuel interests spent millions of dollars in an effort to influence Colorado’s recent legislative session, a DeSmog analysis shows — and environmental advocates say the campaign helped to scuttle a raft of clean air bills. In Colorado, emissions from fossil fuel extraction and processing are a major contributor.

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