DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Photos I shot in 2022 for DeSmog capture damage from extreme weather events and the continued expansion of the fossil fuel industry — the dominant industry causing global warming. Travis and Nicole Dardar in front of their home in Cameron, Louisiana, near the Venture Global Calcasieu Pass LNG export facility.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2020

tonnes of methane gas to atmosphere that was detected at a nearby monitoring station installed by researchers from The University of Manchester. Elevated methane (CH4) concentrations in the air were measured at an atmospheric monitoring station near the Preston New Road (PNR) shale gas site over a one-week period in January 2019.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Tool aims to help policymakers assess whether companies and countries are winding down fossil fuel production in line with global climate goals. Much of the data is held confidentially by governments, hidden behind analyst paywalls, or reliant on uncertain estimates, according to Carbon Tracker and Global Energy Monitor.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2024

The UK government’s most senior climate minister has publicly celebrated a petrol campaigner who wants to “scrap net zero” and claims “man is not responsible for global warming”. Coutinho, who was photographed smiling with Cox, hailed his ‘PumpWatch’ campaign to monitor the price of petrol and diesel.

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Green Living Guy

MARCH 28, 2022

By now, everyone should be well aware of the factors that are fuelling the climate crisis, from our long-standing reliance on fossil fuels to mass deforestation. appeared first on Green Living Consultants, Companies, Electric Car Expert, Green Living, Electric Car News, New York, California, Florida, Missouri, Texas, Nevada.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

At just 11, I thought I could stop global warming, so I created a blog with articles urging people, "Save the polar bears." The fact is, polar bears were (and still are) drowning due to global problems. It’s much more powerful to ask, " How is racial bias at play here?". The tigers.matter, too! So, what can allies do?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Governments and energy companies should look beyond carbon dioxide and ensure their climate plans include drastic action to reduce the methane emissions from fossil fuel operations, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned today. And the benefits in terms of avoided near-term warming are huge.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The pair of California leaders were there to discuss the lawsuit the state had recently filed against Big Oil on behalf of the people of California to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for the effects of climate change. But California is the first fossil-fuel-producing state to do so. History in the making….

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 21, 2020

and other parts of the world because of global warming. Regions that were traditionally colder are warming up, and those that are warm are getting hotter. The data tracks down air conditioning usage via a measure known as cooling-degree days (CDD). Related: Global warming expected to exceed 1.5

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Duke Energy is the latest major utility to commit to a carbon-free future, with a plan to cut its emissions in half by 2030 and eliminate them completely by midcentury. utility, due to the company’s size. utility, due to the company’s size. The gas question. This reliance on natural gas aligns Duke with most U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 22, 2024

The BBC has produced dozens of films and articles for oil and gas companies, agricultural giants, fossil fuel states, and high-emission transport firms in recent years, DeSmog can reveal. Last year was the warmest year since global records began in 1850.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2021

And as the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) noted , emissions pathways that limit global warming to 2°C or below generally assume that some form of carbon dioxide removal, such as CCS, is necessary, alongside reducing emissions. oil major Chevron, in partnership with other fossil fuel giants.

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2022

Industry Voice: The buildings in which we live and the energy they consume play a fundamental role in the process of decarbonisation, according to Schroders. From the use of renewables such as solar power to the latest technologies, including heat pumps and smart meters, the homes of the coming decades will need to become net zero.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

An open-access Methane Map will be launched at COP28 in a bid to accelerate abatement of this greenhouse gas, considered second only to CO2 as a cause of global warming. Kayrros added that rapid cuts in methane emissions from fossil fuels could lead to a reduction of 0.1°C

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

When you’ve followed the evolving research of a leading clean energy expert and become a supporter of his vision for a global clean energy transition, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to crack open Mark Jacobson’s 2021 book release, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything.

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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2022

Two reports out this week have highlighted how developments across 2021 are set to catalyse policy and technological trends that could catalyse the retreat of fossil fuels across the global energy system. At times the fossil fuel economy can seem indefatigable.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

s investigative journalism arm, and the British Channel 4 News this summer exposing how the oil giant and lobby groups such as the American Petroleum Institute seed doubt about climate change and undermine legislation to stop global warming. This conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity. Document 1: 1959.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Contributed by Shuli Goodman, executive director of LF Energy . Global warming is dangerously close to spiraling out of control, a U.N. More than $100 trillion will need to be spent over the next three decades to decarbonize the bulk of the global economy and transform how we create products and services and live our lives. .

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Four years after the world’s governments signed the Paris Agreement, thousands of people are taking to the streets in school strikes and Extinction Rebellion protests calling for greater action to meet its target of keeping global warming as close to 1.5 Too many banks, pension funds and insurers are propping up fossil fuel giants.

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Grist

JANUARY 19, 2022

It’s been a wild start to 2022: Omicron cases are surging around the world, the oceans are hotter than ever , and a group of climate scientists are suggesting that the world’s leading global warming experts stop doing science. Scientific information is always viewed through a vortex of ideology, politics, and power.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 15, 2019

From tide clocks to barometers, rain gauges to hygrometers, ClimeMET provides its customers with everything they need to be able to monitor the weather. The ultimate goal was to provide ordinary people, whether they had a passion for gardening or for the high seas, with everything they needed to be able to easily monitor the weather.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Joining them in Colombia are delegates and observers from powerful industry groups, which represent the companies whose operations are actively depleting the natural world. They range from the pesticide and biotechnology trade group CropLife International , to the commodities giant Bunge.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

On Friday, at the United Nations’ climate conference, Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm announced her agency’s new “Earthshot Initiative” to bring the cost of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it securely below $100 per metric ton. We need governments to push the button of innovation here.”.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

GHGs are caused directly and indirectly by human activity especially energy (73%). Fossil fuel use is a major contributor of GHGs and coal powered power plants in particular are incompatible with emissions reductions. Efforts to manage emissions demand that we see major reductions in our use of fossil fuels.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

GHGs are caused directly and indirectly by human activity especially energy (73%). Fossil fuel use is a major contributor of GHGs and coal powered power plants especially harmful. Efforts to manage emissions demands major reductions in our use of fossil fuels. percent per year since 2010, to 2.6

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

But there’s a growing consensus that a resurgent nuclear industry can play a vital role in bringing our efforts to limit global warming back on track. Some commentators predict a golden age for nuclear, operating in tandem with renewables to accelerate the shift away from fossil fuels. SMRs provide the perfect catalyst.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Prospects for carbon capture received a boost in September when the International Energy Agency (IEA) said the emerging technology is “ critical ” to a clean-energy transition. CCUS could go a step further by using sequestered carbon as a feedstock for industrial processes or synthetic fuels. The answer is unclear.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 10, 2022

Minimizing waste through reducing, reusing, and recycling and being more energy efficient will also lower your costs. You will also help the environment by reducing global warming, mitigating the waste of finite materials, and reducing pollution. Use energy-efficient versions of devices to reduce energy consumption.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Coal-fired power plants in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (image credit: Asian Development Bank , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 ” The document from the Climate Crisis Advisory Group (CCAG)[1] sets out seven recommendations that it believes global leaders at COP26 must consider to make carbon pricing more effective. license ).

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Projects can range from local planting of trees to the funding of projects that empower families in developing countries to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels. This is followed by strategic greenhouse gas emission reduction initiatives, the implementation of renewable energy solutions, and then carbon offsetting.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2019

SF6 is used in GIS equipment to protect electrical power plants and distribution systems by insulating circuits and interrupting electric currents. Although SF6 is non-toxic, the gas is one of the most potent GHGs with a global warming potential of 23,900 and an atmospheric lifetime of 3,200 years.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2019

SF6 is used in GIS equipment to protect electrical power plants and distribution systems by insulating circuits and interrupting electric currents. Although SF6 is non-toxic, the gas is one of the most potent GHGs with a global warming potential of 23,900 and an atmospheric lifetime of 3,200 years.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Multinational auto manufacturer Honda Motor Company, headquartered in Tokyo, recently made the largest renewable clean energy purchase by any car maker. But it hopes to improve upon that, thanks to clinching the car industry’s largest renewable energy purchase. Honda’s VPPA purchase essentially “de-carbonizes” the electricity grid.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 31, 2021

Those processes use a lot of energy and largely come from fossil fuels; one-third of U.S. To achieve net-zero economy-wide emissions by 2050 and limit global warming, industrial emissions must drop while still meeting societal needs. Optimize electric energy efficiency. industrial electrification?

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

million people die as a result of air pollution every year, but governments are still spending more supporting fossil fuel projects than they are tackling dirty air. Projects tackling air pollution receive less than one per cent of global aid spending, a new report from Clean Air Fund has revealed.

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Econaur

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Presidents and prime minsters alike acknowledged that much greater action was needed to achieve the goal of limiting global warming. These gases are formed by various ways, including burning fossil fuels such as oil and gas, chopping down trees, producing cement, planting crops, and rearing animals.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The global net zero transition risks being "delayed by decades" unless there is far greater collaboration between governments and businesses to accelerate the roll out of the key low carbon technologies required to deliver deep cuts in emissions before 2030, a major UN-backed report today warns.

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