GreenBiz

JANUARY 3, 2022

The Insight Report, Coal, Deforestation, Zero-Emission Vehicles: A Closer Look at Six Key Commitments from the COP26 Climate Conference examines six commitments made by nations around the world to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions, reduce global warming and avert potential disaster.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Food systems are responsible for at least 15 percent of all global fossil fuel consumption, according to a major report launched ahead of the COP28 climate summit. carbon budget, an estimate of the maximum amount of carbon dioxide emissions that can be emitted before tipping the planet into dangerous levels of global heating.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2024

Since then, the Conservative government has made a series of U-turns on its own net zero policies, attacked Labour’s green spending plans, and doubled down on its support for new fossil fuel projects, approving more than 100 new North Sea oil and gas licences. This comes as DeSmog and Democracy for Sale reveal that £6.8 percent (£1.8

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Financial Times: Energy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

But the decline in oil, gas and coal will not be steep enough to limit global warming to 1.5C

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Jim Conca

JUNE 27, 2018

But adjusting our energy mix to increase non-fossil fuels in order to combat global warming was not part of the good news. The All Energy Forum at the American Nuclear Society’s annual meeting in Philadelphia wrapped up with some good news. We're still going in the wrong direction.

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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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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. Hosking previously told DeSmog: “I do not have millions in fossil fuels; it is the clients of Hosking Partners who are the beneficiaries of these investments.”

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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. Coca-Cola appropriately is the longtime ally of the poster child for climate change, the polar bear. The tigers.matter, too!

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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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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. Rees-Mogg also has a long record of opposing climate policies.

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The beginning of the end for fossil fuels? This text is a step forward on our path towards phasing out fossil fuels, but is not the historic decision we hoped for.” More than 100 countries came to the table pushing for an official agreement to “phase out fossil fuels.”

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Green Living Guy

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The post Looking to Reduce Your Dependence On Fossil Fuels? In our single-use, planned obsolescence society, it’s far too easy to want to take the more wasteful route in favor of the little extra added convenience it gives us. However, with […]. Three Tips to Try Today appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

It says to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius, as outlined in the Paris Accords, we need to severely restrict the total, cumulative amount of greenhouse gases we release into the atmosphere moving forward. Data from IPCC and the Global Carbon Project. So, what does the Carbon Law say?

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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. degrees Fahrenheit) of warming. degrees C and potentially past 2 degrees C of warming. degrees Celsius (2.7

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Financial Times: Energy

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Summit president Sultan al-Jaber’s plans to reduce climate goals’ gap ‘not good enough’, warns energy agency’s chief

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Grist

MAY 16, 2023

While a century of fire suppression and other land management choices contribute to the severity, climate change is a key factor fueling these fires, roughly doubling the acreage burned over the last 40 years. It’s hard to draw a direct line between global warming and wildfires. We just don’t know yet.”

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 31, 2020

A new study of 3,000 power companies across the globe has found that only a handful have been cutting their fossil fuel capacity over the last two decades. Much of the new renewable capacity being built around the world is being offset by new coal and gas capacity, leaving the global generation mix more or less how it was in 2000.

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Renew Economy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

A 'climate trigger' could be the most powerful step Australia can take towards tackling global warming. The post Explainer: How the “climate trigger” could be the answer to Australia’s fossil fuel problem appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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U.S. Green Technology

MARCH 16, 2022

Using electricity burns fossil fuels which contribute to global warming. In 2020, the average person consumed about 10,715 kilowatt-hours of electricity. It can also run up your utility bills. So, here are some ways you reduce your energy consumption this spring.

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Financial Times: Energy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Governments need to step up clean energy supply to avoid shortages and price jumps, agency warns

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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. The post ‘They’re Destroying Our Coastline’: Activists at the Americas Energy Summit Protest Fossil Fuel Expansion appeared first on DeSmog.

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Financial Times: Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Civil action seeks damages to help mitigate costs of global warming caused by 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. By abandoning net zero by 2050, Badenoch has sold out the interests of the British people to the fossil fuel industry.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

These investors have bought “green-labelled” bonds issued by Eni, Italy ‘s largest – and the world’s 13th largest – fossil fuel company. As the activist group Reclaim Finance describes the scam : “the bond market has become a safe haven for easy access to fossil fuel finance.”

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GreenBiz

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. greenhouse gas emissions come from industry. Start with heat.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 18, 2023

Environmental groups, faculty associations and others seeking to slow climate change are pushing California to cut its investments in fossil fuels. billion invested in fossil fuel companies that are driving the climate crisis. They’ve had little success. State pension funds have an estimated $14.8 and the world.

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GreenBiz

MAY 16, 2020

It is gradual, and it derives largely from the familiar and widespread practice of burning fossil fuels. And it manifests as natural phenomena like heat waves, droughts, fires, storms and floods; we need experts, assessing global data and long-term trends, to tell us if what is happening is truly unusual.

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Grist

APRIL 4, 2025

Heat pumps are essential for ditching fossil fuels. A common refrigerant called R-410A pumps through their innards so they can warm and cool homes and offices and anything else. A common refrigerant called R-410A pumps through their innards so they can warm and cool homes and offices and anything else.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 5, 2022

The report examines the sources of global emissions, explains developments in emissions reduction and mitigation efforts and assesses the impact of national climate pledges. One of the report’s key findings is that limiting global warming will require major transitions in the energy sector. C is beyond reach.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The world's top diplomat used a speech today at the UN headquarters in New York City to deliver a characteristically stark warning of the impending climate and biodiversity crises facing the world, noting global warming risks "hurtling past" the 1.5C We need a renewables revolution, not a self-destructive fossil fuel resurgence."

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BloombergNEF

MARCH 13, 2025

Getting on track to limit global warming to 1.5C hinges on investment in low-carbon energy supply averaging four times that in fossil fuels this decade.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

For so many of those allies to have links to fossil fuels, climate denial and delay shows that Johnson always has been and always will be willing to take a wrecking ball to our planet if his own career depends on it.” Last August, Cox said : “I am now even more convinced man is not responsible for global warming.”

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

A global coalition of NGOs has this week written to many of the world's largest banks, including HSBC, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America, urging them to restrict their financing of fossil fuel projects in order to align with the recently strengthened membership criteria of the UN-backed Race to Zero campaign.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2022

“Investing in new fossil fuel infrastructure is moral and economic madness,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released part of its latest report on Monday. Such investments will soon be stranded assets, a blot on the landscape, and a blight on investment portfolios.”.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2023

Individuals and entities linked to climate denial, fossil fuels and high pollution industries donated more than £3.5 However, rather than strengthen the commitment to the government’s legally binding climate targets, the policies are expected to entrench the role of fossil fuels in the UK’s energy system.

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Financial Times: Energy

MAY 8, 2024

Three-centuries-old institution rebuffs call to declare fossil fuel companies culpable for global warming

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