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

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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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

The conference, which is being held from 22 to 25 September in Liverpool, is one of the largest political gatherings in Europe and will feature set piece speeches from Labour’s newly-elected Cabinet ministers. These include the controversial energy company Drax , the fossil fuel lobby group Offshore Energies UK , and the gas company Cadent.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 4, 2024

Mordaunt himself told openDemocracy in 2019 that “no one has proved yet that CO2 is the culprit” of climate change. The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world’s top climate science body, has stated that it is “unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land”.

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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. billion invested in fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Italian oil major Eni knew of the climate impacts of fossil fuel extraction since 1970, according to a report by Greenpeace Italy and advocacy group ReCommon shared with DeSmog.

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Grist

APRIL 4, 2022

Nations have moved too slowly to curb climate change, and now must take swift and aggressive steps if they hope to avoid the worst impacts of global warming, the world’s top scientists warned on Monday. This week’s report focuses on mitigation — what we can do to halt climate change. degrees Celsius (2.7

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Slow-to-change investors and greenwashers in the business community will lose their cover to continue propping up the fossil fuel economy. Some previously untargeted companies, brands, institutional investors and geographies will be thrust into the limelight as central problems in the battle against climate change.

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Energy Central

APRIL 10, 2024

For years, the priority of many environmentalists has been to get the public to care about climate change via data and science — to agree that we do, indeed, have a problem that needs fixing. And it’s time for the climate community to reorient toward empathy, and approach people’s pressing.

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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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Grist

JULY 15, 2021

We talk so much about the supreme challenge of reducing emissions — something that already requires transitioning our entire economy away from the burning of fossil fuels, adapting to existing climate threats, and doing all that in a way that at the very least doesn’t add to the burdens of already marginalized communities.

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The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Australia’s climate minister says summit must aim to keep 1.5C goal alive so Pacific countries are not ‘swallowed by the seas’ The Australian climate change minister, Chris Bowen, has told nearly 200 countries at the Cop28 summit that the use of fossil fuels in energy systems must end. Continue reading.

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The Verge: Energy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

By pushing nations to slash their greenhouse gas emissions, the global accord strives to avoid climate change so extreme that life on Earth would struggle to adapt. Notably, the report uses language that somehow still tries to include fossil fuels in a future with clean energy. The planet has gotten about 1.2

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 1, 2022

This transformation happened within weeks – and demonstrates that divesting from fossil fuels can be a bold political move that raises the standard for corporate behaviour in those companies. Fossil Fuel Conflict. Climate breakdown and war have a cause in common – the fossil fuel economy.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Fossil fuel companies could be facing a Big Tobacco moment. This fall, Exxon Mobil went to court, facing charges that the oil giant lied to shareholders and to the public about the costs and consequences of climate change. But lawsuits aren’t the only venue for challenging the fossil fuel industry.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Companies often struggle with building community trust as they navigate between profit-making and authentically engaging on climate change and environmental justice matters. Private entities should think of themselves as community members and view local residents as political and economic partners. Marian Jones.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

C as soon as 2030, taking the world into a zone of dangerous climate change. At COP21, 25 nations agreed to create a fund capable of spending $30 billion of public money each year to research and create technologies required in the post-fossil-fuel world. To avoid the catastrophic climate changes that lie beyond 1.5°C

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2021

The environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion (XR) is planning a series of protests targeting the City of London to demand an end to investments in fossil fuels around the world. No New Fossil Fuel Investments’. The XR panel called on the media to play a positive role and “tell the truth” about climate change.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Now, in a new international report released on Monday, they argue the clock is also ticking on efforts to adapt to the devastating consequences of climate change. Meanwhile, climate change is amplifying human conflicts and causing widespread damage to people’s physical and mental health. David McNew / Getty Images.

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The Guardian: Energy

JUNE 26, 2024

Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast The sham of Australia’s climate change policy has been made clear in the past two weeks. How can Australia get to net zero by 2050 while approving projects that will run for decades beyond that date?

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The new research adds to the urgency of conversations about climate change, just weeks before leaders all over the world are expected to travel to Dubai to meet for the United Nation’s annual climate change conference, COP28. Hansen was the first to sound the alarm on climate change in 1988 in testimony to Congress.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

The event aims to bring together policymakers and liquified natural gas (LNG), natural gas, and hydrogen players to explore new avenues for fossil fuel expansion. Varello added that European countries are willing to pay more for shorter contracts to avoid political scrutiny. Keith Shoemaker of EQT Corp.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

Net-zero" became a key commitment during 2020 — goals that aim to eliminate, at least on paper, a company’s greenhouse gas emissions, water extractions, fossil-fuel use or deforestation activities by a given date. That’s changing. Given this, it was not surprising to see an uptick in corporate ambition on sustainability issues.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 7, 2020

It brings together national, state and regional government leaders, businesses and the broader climate sector to accelerate climate action. Last year, over 350 events took place throughout New York City as part of the official program, which brought together political announcements, business leadership events, and grassroots activity.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND – Only two of the 35 stalls lauding countries’ green credentials at the COP26 UN climate summit mention the need to cut fossil fuel production — the chief cause of the carbon emissions driving climate change. . degree C temperature limit is to be met.

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The Guardian: Energy

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Government challenged to explain claim that UK will need 25% of energy to come from fossil fuels in 2050 UK politics live – latest updates The UK government has “misrepresented” the Climate Change Committee (CCC) by wrongly claiming it said we would need a quarter of our energy to come from fossil fuels by 2050, scientists have said.

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Grist

AUGUST 9, 2022

They also confirmed that rising temperatures — driven by human consumption of fossil fuels — were partly to blame. In one sense, the climate change link seems obvious. But the connection between climate change and drought is not as straightforward as it seems. Since 1850, global temperatures have climbed 1.2

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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. million from climate deniers, polluters, and fossil fuel interests – who represent 92 percent of its funders. McMurdock does not appear to have spoken publicly about climate policy.

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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

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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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

While California already has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent since their peak in 2004, many residents still suffer from high levels of air pollution — much of it produced by fossil fuels. In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Industry trade associations in the United States that work on climate and energy issues spent more than $3 billion over 10 years on political activities, according to a new study that sheds light on trade associations’ role in influencing policies and obstructing climate action. billion on climate-related political activities.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 23, 2020

As the world celebrates the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, the former senator and secretary of state says a profound lack of leadership is causing the United States to fall behind on climate action and clean energy innovation. In this episode of Political Climate , we speak to Secretary Kerry about his outlook on combatting climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 13, 2023

The self-styled free market task force seems to be yet another dark money outfit in British politics – led by senior figures from US and UK free market think tanks who have been funded by fossil fuels, the Koch Brothers, climate change deniers, the tobacco industry and much more. And guess what?

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 26, 2020

Efforts to mitigate climate change stand to create new employment opportunities in a thriving, low-carbon economy. But they also stand to eliminate many unionized jobs, particularly in the fossil fuel industry. Political Climate is produced in partnership with the USC Schwarzenegger Institute.

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The Guardian: Energy

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In a speech to an Australian Pipelines and Gas Association Convention in Adelaide, the opposition’s climate change and energy spokesperson, Ted O’Brien, said that gas would be “here to stay” under the Coalition.

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