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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

After another full year of global warming events, from droughts to floods, the 196 countries represented in Sharm El-Sheikh failed to achieve even the basics: changing the Glasgow agreement to incorporate measures for combating climate change and reducing fossil fuel use.

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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. These attendees come to COPs as “observers” to the talks, with the hope of influencing discussions from the outside.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2022

We see clearly the dangers of energy systems powered by foreign fossil fuels," Sharma said. "We In short, we see that climate security is energy security and that we must break our dependency on fossil fuels.". We see the benefits of low cost, homegrown renewables, the price of which cannot be manipulated from afar. "We

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Anger is building over the failure to secure much-needed commitments towards phasing out unabated fossil fuels and tackling near-term emissions as part of the final agreement brokered at COP27 over the weekend, with critics warning the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C are hanging by the thinnest of threads.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The International Emissions Trading Association (IETA), a business lobby comprised of some of the world’s largest fossil fuel producers and greenhouse gas emitters, is hosting a series of events in its COP29 BusinessHub pavilion, sponsored by oil and gas giants including Chevron, ExxonMobil, SOCAR, and TotalEnergies.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

There is now a path to expected global warming of under 2°C, but only if all the ambition in new mid-century Net Zero targets is delivered, alongside national 2030 emissions targets. The Glasgow Climate Pact makes notable reference to ‘phase-out of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies’. The UK’s international role.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Even in the most optimistic scenario considered in this report, the chance of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is only 14 percent, and the various scenarios leave open a large possibility that global warming exceeds 2 degrees Celsius or even 3 degrees Celsius,” the report noted. degrees C, or 4.5

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Graham Stuart MP was listed as a keynote speaker on Tuesday at the four-day Global Investment in Sustainable Development conference in London, hosted by the CC Forum, a company which touts itself as the “green Davos”. in a call and response chant of “Global warming is?” in a call and response chant of “Global warming is?”,

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Agriculture used to play second fiddle to energy when it came to global warming, considered as a nice-to-have. But as global heating continues apace, emissions associated with food are rising fast. After last year’s COP, meat industry bosses left the summit galvanised for what’s to come and vowed to “keep pushing”.

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

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. So what else do we know about this fossil fuel behemoth?

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Meat emits around a third of global emissions of methane, and action to cut this greenhouse gas has been identified by the UN and world leaders as the quickest route to slowing global heating. Farming also relies on synthetic fertilisers that are both fossil-fuel-based and emit greenhouse gases, and drives deforestation.

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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. (If

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 19, 2023

This story was originally published by The Energy Mix Weekender , and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate crisis. But you wouldn’t know it from the way the fossil fuel industry has responded.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Sean Gallup/Getty Images Tens of thousands of negotiators, activists, and corporate execs have descended upon Dubai to wrangle over the future of fossil fuels. The future of fossil fuels Let’s start with some backstory on COP28. Greenhouse gas emissions come from extracting and burning fossil fuels, of course.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

For context, it has taken the world more than a century to warm a little more than 1 degree C, according to NASA. degrees C target was initially established as a target in Paris in 2015 after a push by developing nations at a previous COP, to bring attention to the fact that global warming does not impact all nations equally.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

G20 agrees to submit enhanced Paris Agreement plans ahead of COP26, but fails to agree coal power and fossil fuel subsidy phase outs. Under the Paris Agreement, signatories are expected to ramp up their national climate pledges every five years in order to help limit temperature rise to 1.5C

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

And so today's report's conclusion that while the scale of the challenge is monumental - the world must peak emissions by 2025, before halving them by 2030 - it also encouragingly makes clear that the world already has all of the tools it needs to achieve these aims, in order to keep the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The UN estimates that the use of coal, which is the single largest contributor to global warming, needs to fall 79 per cent worldwide by 2030 compared to 2019 levels in order for Paris Agreement targets to be met.

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Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2022

It added it has previously been involved in partnerships with the World Economic Forum, UN High Level Climate Change Champions, successive COP presidencies, SBTi (Science Based Targets Initiative), CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project), Breakthrough Energy Catalyst, and First Movers Coalition.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The first full negotiating texts are still not expected until later this evening, or potentially even tomorrow, according to Egypt's COP Presidency. But we are hoping that everyone will rise to the occasion by the end of COP, and realise that while the national interest is very important, something greater than that is at stake.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. The hope is that limiting global warming to 1. Commonly known as soot, it is formed from wildfires and fossil fuel consumption and contributes to climate change. Conference of the Parties (COP).

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The CCC stressed that "this is a crucial 12 months" within a monumentally important decade for the climate if the world is to stand a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C, adding that "only concrete steps by 2030" would close the growing gap between delivery and ambition. of warming by the end of the century.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

global warming pathway are to be kept alive. In snap analysis published yesterday, the IEA said it had calculated the impacts of the net zero pledges and emissions targets announced in recent days, and concluded that if national climate pledges are delivered as promised, the planet could potentially limit warming to 1.8C

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

An 'ambitious' new 2030 emissions reduction target, a 2030 phase out date for fossil fuel vehicles, and a major home energy retrofit programme are all on the Climate Coalition's short list, along with a raft of wider proposals designed to accelerate emissions reductions efforts over the coming decade. Lots more clean energy.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk. Global heating is affecting every region on Earth, with many of the changes becoming irreversible.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The report confirms global temperatures are currently 1.1C A separate report from IPPC scientists last summer warned that global warming is on track to far exceed 2C this century, unless rapid and deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions occur in the coming decades. If global warming transiently exceeds 1.5C

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Although this level was not defined by the convention, the aim was to allow ecosystems and society to adapt naturally to climate change, which means slowing global warming down. Since the convention’s establishment, the countries involved meet annually during the Conference of the Parties (COP). C) within reach.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Documents released this morning strongly suggest significant dividing lines remain on a raft of key issues, including climate finance and adaptation funding, loss and damage, carbon markets, language around the phasing down of fossil fuels, and much more besides.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

Although Labor has refused to back a phase out of coal use or block the opening of new coal mines in Australia - which remains one of the world's biggest exporters of the carbon-intensive fossil fuel - the party has promised to adopt more ambitious emissions targets and turn the nation into a global renewable energy 'superpower'.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Its profile has grown over the past year as governments, particularly in Europe, have looked to find ways to boost their energy independence and curb soaring energy bills in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent fossil fuel supply crunch. of global warming.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

As current events make all too clear, our continued reliance on fossil fuels makes the global economy and energy security vulnerable to geopolitical shocks and crises. Instead of slowing down the decarbonisation of the global economy, now is the time to accelerate the energy transition to a renewable energy future.".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Fresh analysis published this afternoon by the United Nations climate body the UNFCCC calculates the combined impact of 48 revised national emission reduction plans published in 2020, which together account for just under a third of global emissions. We need concrete plans to phase out fossil fuels as fast as possible.".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Meanwhile, global emissions are spiralling upwards again as the economy recovers and surging fossil fuel prices are driving fears that a new wave of high carbon infrastructure investment could yet be unleashed. in the current decade? pathway by 2030. This is where the ETC's six-pronged action plan comes in. "We

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

Figures show that the current average will increase from 15% of the global energy mix to 28% by 2050. This increase will push out alternative, fossil-fuel-powered energy sources, supporting a much-needed energy evolution as fossil-fuel reserves begin to deplete. Carbon offset program #3: Methane abatement.

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