Business Green

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Analysis from Oil Change International warns COP hosts UAE, Azerbaijan, and Brazil are all planning to expand fossil fuel production

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The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 4, 2023

UAE-hosted summit admitted at least 2,456 people affiliated with oil and gas industries, analysis finds See all our Cop 28 coverage At least 2,456 fossil fuel lobbyists have been granted access to the Cop28 climate negotiations, according to an analysis.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

However, AVEVA has boasted on its website that its software has also been used to help fossil fuel companies to extract more oil and gas. AVEVA has also worked for some of the world’s largest and highest-emitting fossil fuel companies, including: Shell , ExxonMobil , BP , Chevron , and the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc).

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Energy Central

DECEMBER 13, 2023

As the world convenes at COP 28 in the UAE, culminating in a historic agreement to transition away from fossil fuels, the role of electricity grids in the energy transition has never been more pivotal.

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The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The group includes former UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon, the former president of Ireland Mary Robinson, the former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres and the prominent climate scientist Johan Rockström.

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The Guardian: Energy

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

UN climate chief says ‘torrents, not trickles’ of public and private finance needed to meet global challenge Governments must not try to pick loopholes in the global agreement to “transition away” from fossil fuels reached last December, the UN’s climate chief has said, as he called for “torrents” of cash for poorer countries to tackle the crisis.

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Terra Infirma

DECEMBER 11, 2023

While we in the West derided COP President’s Sultan Al Jaber’s outburst about going back to living in caves, in the Middle East that ain’t too far from the truth. The post Cop out? If/when the oil economy fades, so will the wealth and power of the region. Hard truths in Dubai… appeared first on Terra Infirma.

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The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 10, 2023

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. Australia’s climate minister says summit must aim to keep 1.5C

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 8, 2023

  Maybe it was the offer of warm sun in December, but this year’s COP drew 100K attendees, almost double the size of COP15 in Paris. Climate tech played its biggest role ever at COP this year. The oil & gas COP. This was the COP of the climate and O&G juxtaposition. The greenwashing was unavoidable.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2023

Alice Harrison, fossil fuels campaign leader at Global Witness, said in a statement. But fossil fuel companies are working hard to keep skin in the game, and sadly the UN is rolling out the red carpet to them. But Al Jaber is the only COP president who was a fossil fuel CEO at the time of his appointment.

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The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Cop meetings have proven to be greenwashing conferences that legitimise countries’ failures to ensure a livable world and future and have also allowed authoritarian regimes like Azerbaijan and the two previous hosts – the United Arab Emirates and Egypt – to continue violating human rights.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Leaked documents suggest COP28 Presidency has used bilateral meetings with foreign governments to promote new fossil fuel deals with state-owned oil and gas giant

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Energy Central

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Success, or another COP Flop? It is being hailed as the “beginning of the end” of the fossil fuel era. After a marathon overtime session, the United Nations Climate Change Conference - COP28 - concluded. Sadly, that is a delusional statement.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The findings underscore concerns over the role of the fossil fuel industry at the negotiations, known as COP27, which have become a focal point for deals to exploit African natural gas. These talks are supposed to be about moving us away from fossil fuels, phasing them out,” Sabido told DeSmog. Social license.

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The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We look closely at the text for the truth of the matter The decision text from Cop28 has been greeted as “historic”, for being the first ever call by nations for a “transition away” from fossil fuels, and as “weak and ineffectual” and containing a “litany of loopholes” for the fossil fuel industry.

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Energy Central

DECEMBER 15, 2023

At this year’s COP, the 28th meeting of the world’s nations and parties interested in addressing climate change, the fossil fuel industry had a prominent seat at the table. Considering the final COP-issued statement, the fossil fuel industry, particularly oil and gas, saved itself for another.

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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. Presided over by Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber , the head of Abu Dhabi’s state oil company, Adnoc, it is the most industry-influenced COP yet. and Europe.

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Energy Transition

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The debate over the UAE’s chairmanship (and in particular, the chairman himself) has been louder than talk of the topics on the table at this year’s COP. How is the UAE positioning.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

Truss writes that “we should cancel” the United Nations annual COP climate summit, and falsely claims that electric vehicles are worse for the environment than those powered by fossil fuels. “In The UK government has given £20 billion more in support to fossil fuel producers than renewables companies since 2015.

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Financial Times: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Leaders need to talk about the trillions of dollars of incentives behind our energy consumption

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Energy Central

DECEMBER 13, 2023

"The United Nations climate conference known as COP28 ended early this morning with a first-ever agreement calling on nations to transition away from fossil fuels, the main cause of climate change. COP28 president Sultan al-Jaber called the plan a "historic package to accelerate climate action."

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Adnoc intends to increase its oil production by more than any other fossil fuel firm in the world, according to data from the Global Oil and Gas Exit List (Gogel). Why choose a company which works so closely with the oil industry to work at COP? This year’s COP summit has already been marred by controversy.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Ahead of the COP27 UN climate summit, hundreds of scientists are calling on the PR firm in charge of the event’s communications, Hill+Knowlton, to cut ties with its fossil fuel industry clients, which include major oil companies Aramco, ExxonMobil, and Shell as well as an industry coalition called the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative.

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Eco-Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In an open letter to the UN, a group of concerned climate-watchers called for stronger transparency and disclosure rules to clamp down on fossil fuel lobbying and host nations that do not support a clean energy transition.

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POWER Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Negotiators from nearly every country in the world closed COP28 with a decision that—for the first time—formally recognizes the necessity of moving away from fossil fuels to achieve the Paris […] The post COP28 Concludes with Landmark Decision to Shift Away from Fossil Fuels appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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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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Low Impact

AUGUST 11, 2021

We have to stop burning fossil fuels and leave them in the ground. It looks as though, in a corporate-dominated, growth economy, no fossil fuels are going to be left unburnt. Recently, Bloomberg NEF and Bloomberg Philanthropies produced a report on the scale and impact of global fossil fuel subsidies.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Yet 636 lobbyists for the fossil fuel industry are conspicuously present at this year’s crucial COP27 climate talks, according to an analysis of the delegates to COP27, compiled jointly by the NGOs Global Witness, Corporate Accountability, and Corporate Europe Observatory. So much for the “African COP.”

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

But the UN chief once again reserved his fiercest criticism for "the bottomless greed of the fossil fuel industry and its enablers", as he took aim at the hundreds of billions of pounds of profits enjoyed by oil and gas companies in the wake of soaring energy prices sparked by Russia's war in Ukraine. "I No more baby steps.

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Financial Times: Energy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Former US vice-president calls for overhaul of COP process to abolish single-country veto

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The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Exclusive: Sultan Al Jaber says Adnoc has to meet demand for fossil fuels, and hails ‘unprecedented’ Cop deal The president of the Cop28 climate summit will continue with his oil company’s record investment in oil and gas production , despite coordinating a global deal to “transition away” from fossil fuels.

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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

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. . We urge all leaders to put people and the planet over the profit of the fossil fuel industry.”.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The UK organisers of the upcoming COP26 climate summit have come under fire for approving just two events that refer to fossil fuels, the primary driver of climate change, in a programme of public events happening alongside the main conference. In 2018, 89 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions came from fossil fuels and industry.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2023

. - by Stuart Stone ( @sstone26 ) COP28: Hopes of fossil fuel 'phase out' hit by revelations of Saudi plan to boost oil demand Investigations reveal how Saudi Arabia is working on controversial plan to 'hook' developing economies on oil and gas. -

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 9, 2023

UK fossil fuel imports from authoritarian petrostates surged to £19.3 Petrostates are countries that are economically heavily dependent on fossil fuel production. billion on fossil fuel imports from the year beginning February 2022. billion on fossil fuel imports from the year beginning February 2022.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Natasha Lutz, a researcher on climate change at the University of Oxford noted that “many of the nations who will be contributing to this fund have not yet pledged to phase-out fossil fuels; a step needed to prevent further climate damages from occurring.” ”

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