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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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

and EU to drop their landmark climate change laws, spreads falsehoods about green policies, and fondly recalls an attempt to cancel a major climate conference. The UK government has given £20 billion more in support to fossil fuel producers than renewables companies since 2015.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Bank bosses due to attend a green investment summit tomorrow head institutions which have provided over £700 billion of financing for the fossil fuel industry since the 2015 Paris Agreement, including £129 billion in 2020 alone. . JPMorgan financed £230 billion in fossil fuels between 2016 and 2020. billion in 2020.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 14, 2025

The gulf between Equinors public claims and Sleipners actual performance underscores concerns among climate advocates that the oil industry is hyping the potential of carbon capture as a climate solution to deflect pressure to cut production of fossil fuels. In August, chief executive Anders Opedal announced up to $6.7

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Fossil fuel companies could be facing a Big Tobacco moment. And that’s just one of several legal cases seeking to hold oil and gas firms responsible for their contribution to global warming. But lawsuits aren’t the only venue for challenging the fossil fuel industry.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 30, 2024

In 2022 the Charity Commission, the UK’s independent charity regulator, launched a case into the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), set up by the (now late) Conservative peer Nigel Lawson in 2009. However, the GWPF has received funding from individuals and groups with fossil fuel interests.

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Grist

JANUARY 12, 2023

Rising emissions posed a threat to Exxon’s business — selling fossil fuels — so the oil giant took the lead on understanding what was called the “CO2 problem.”. At the time, Exxon was pouring $900,000 a year into researching the effects of burning fossil fuels. Grist / Jessie Blaeser.

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Grist

AUGUST 12, 2021

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s sixth assessment report , released on Monday, contained some of the group’s strongest language yet affirming the link between human activity and global warming. In other words, “How much has an individual fossil fuel company contributed to climate change?”

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 18, 2022

This story was originally published by The Guardian , and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now , a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate crisis. A number accuse the company and other fossil fuel firms of breaching consumer protection laws by propagating misinformation about climate science.

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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

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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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2024

Neil Record , a millionaire Tory donor and founder of the investment firm Record Financial Group, is chair of Net Zero Watch (NZW), the campaign arm of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). The IEA has opposed state-led climate policies and has advocated for more fossil fuel extraction.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

City leaders touted the new law , which is intended to tightly restrict future use of natural gas-powered heating and cooling in new construction, as an important part of the city’s plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 6, 2024

Since 2015, Stringer has been a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation , a group founded to contradict established climate science and advocate against policies to limit greenhouse gas emissions. But it can’t do both,” said Jolyon Maugham, director of the Good Law Project.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Hintze, a Conservative peer and hedge fund manager, was one of the early funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , founded by the late Conservative chancellor Nigel Lawson. However, a 2023 court case found that the government’s plans only added up to 95 percent of the reductions needed to meet its net zero targets.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2023

McDonald’s is at the forefront of a campaign against new laws to reduce packaging waste in the EU, in what has been described by some insiders as the largest-scale lobbying effort they have ever witnessed in the European Parliament. The European Parliament is expected to vote on the law in the next 12 months.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 24, 2024

The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) filed its latest accounts on 18 January, showing an income of £280,000 for the year ending 30 September 2023, a drop of £110,000 from the previous year. The UK’s most prominent climate science denial group has seen its income drop to the lowest level since 2016, DeSmog can reveal.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

In the past, CT Group has lobbied for fossil fuel interests across the globe, working for the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association, and the mining giant BHP. global warming target established by the 2015 Paris Agreement. This raises a number of interesting political questions.”

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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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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2024

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world’s foremost climate science body, has stated that carbon dioxide “is responsible for most of global warming” since the late 19th century, which has increased the “severity and frequency of weather and climate extremes, like heat waves, heavy rains, and drought”.

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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”. Cox also posted a photo of himself on Monday shaking hands with Conservative MP Jonathan Gullis, an officer on the Fair Fuel APPG.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2023

Hoboken is making this claim against fossil fuel companies under the state-level equivalent of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, a federal law used successfully to prosecute organized crime groups such as the Mafia starting in the 1970s and later the tobacco industry. Credit: U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Another $70 million will go toward hydrogen refueling infrastructure, with $25 million more for “zero- and near-zero carbon fuel production and supply” to meet the need for alternatives to battery-powered vehicles in the decades to come. This week's announcement follows on Gov. and the Netherlands. and the Netherlands.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

To stand a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, As of 30 September 2021, 120 countries, representing just over half of global greenhouse gas emissions, had communicated new or updated NDCs. To have any chance of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, Climate change is no longer a future problem.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

” “Global warming could challenge the very fabric of the world’s ecological and economic systems,” Shell executive Ged Davis wrote in a contribution to a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published two years later. a worldwide low fossil fuel strategy) or curative (i.e.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

(check all that apply) All International UK Sign Up The IEA, which strongly advocates more fossil fuel extraction, received funding from the oil giant BP every year from 1967 to at least 2018. The IEA said that the last government’s commitment to “max out” the UK’s fossil fuel reserves was a “welcome step”.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

While there, Jones edited a 1997 Fraser Institute book entitled Global Warming: The Science and the Politics , which contained essays by people like Willie Soon and Patrick Michaels , prominent spreaders of doubt about the foundations of climate science whose work has been funded by fossil fuel companies. government.

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Rinexii

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Colorado was built on a foundation of love for the wilderness, so it’s no surprise that it is one of the first states out there to take a good hard look at the fossil fuel industries place in their state. This new law is thought to be the first of its kind for the US. This may not be the end of law changes.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

Conservative MP Andrea Jenkyns has become a director of Net Zero Watch (NZW), a pressure group which denies climate science and campaigns for more fossil fuel extraction. NZW campaigns against renewable energy and for more fossil fuel extraction, often doing so alongside anti-green Conservative MPs in the Net Zero Scrutiny Group.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Olszynski, chair in energy, resources and sustainability at the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Law, doesn’t buy the premier’s take. Writing in the Globe and Mail, West Coast Environmental Law Association lawyers Anna Johnston and Andrew Gage objected to arguments that the emissions cap was neither necessary nor constitutional.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The government has pledged to stop direct financing of overseas fossil fuels projects, bowing to years of pressure from campaigners who have argued the UK's continued financing of oil and gas projects threatens global climate goals and undermines its reputation as a climate leader.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

Rishi Sunak has confirmed that a fossil fuel-funded think tank helped to draft his government’s laws targeting climate protests. Sunak’s statement yesterday appears to confirm openDemocracy’s allegation that sections of the 2022 law were ‘directly inspired’ by Policy Exchange’s report. million to the party since 2014.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 23, 2020

“In order to combat the climate crisis and meet our clean energy goals, we must transition away from fossil fuels and change the way gas utilities do business in our state,” Healey said in a statement. Progress on emissions from heating lags power sector.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

With the start of the 28th annual United Nations climate summit, COP28, just two weeks away, a battle is brewing over the role of fossil fuels as nations try to stem the tide of climate change. Now, a new report shows that fossil fuel production by 2030 is set to exceed the level that would be compatible with limiting warming to 1.5°C

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Given the challenges of energy transition, Europe is optimally positioned to lead this movement by implementing political and economic policies that will incentivize oil and gas companies to leave fossil fuels behind and make the transition to deep geothermal. He founded his law firm in Berlin in 1992. degrees Celsius.

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