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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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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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

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

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

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

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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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 21, 2024

Under a newly proposed law, ads like these could be banned in the state of Pennsylvania. Troves of internal documents have revealed an industry-wide strategy to market unproven technologies, like carbon capture and algae biofuels, and unsubstantiated climate pledges in order to sidestep demands to phase out fossil fuels.

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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

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

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

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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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

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. Fossil fuels are not only poisoning our planet – they’re toxic for your brand,” he said.

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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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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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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2023

The Daily Telegraph’s chief interviewer and columnist Allison Pearson has joined the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , one of the UK’s principal climate science denial groups. This appointment adds to the influence of the GWPF in the press and potentially the amount of sway that it holds over the Conservative Party.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Weatherford, a lawyer from the corporate law firm Baker Hostetler, stated in opening arguments that Mann was so disliked that “even his own family won’t come to court to defend him.” Michele Bachmann, who once claimed that global warming is “all voodoo” and “a hoax,” was in court to support Steyn as he testified.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2022

But hidden on page 25 of the “Summary for Policymakers” was an even grimmer note: That even in the IPCC’s most optimistic models, the chances of holding global warming to less than 1.5 As of 2020, the planet had already warmed by 1.2 It doesn’t contradict the laws of chemistry and physics to get to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

billion invested in fossil fuels firms, including oil and gas majors Chevron, Shell, and Equinor, as of June 2023. private equity firm KKR, also has a large fossil fuel portfolio , including 188 assets in oil, gas, and coal. DeSmog also revealed that Marshall Wace – Paul Marshall’s hedge fund – had £1.8

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

But the groups have unearthed a 1970 report by Eni’s Isvet research centre that warned of the “catastrophic” risk the build-up of carbon dioxide (CO2) caused by burning fossil fuels could pose to the climate. Methane is the clean energy of the future,” ran a 1986 promotion in Eni’s company magazine Ecos.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It is estimated that today’s policy ambitions and targets would likely lead to global warming of around 2.7C CCAG also proposes an alternative approach to carbon pricing – one which levies charges at the point of fossil fuel extraction, based on the amount of CO?

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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

degrees Celsius of global warming that has occurred to date. In the broadest sense, overshoot is a future where the world does not cut carbon quickly enough to limit global warming to 1.5 Global warming coming back down is not going to bring you that species back,” she said. Warming of 1.5

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

These seven members of the public serve on the Virginia State Water Control Board, an independent regulatory body tasked with administering the state’s water laws. However, it is no less dangerous to the planet than other fossil fuel pipelines. The harm from the MVP will mirror its massive scale. . The MVP has received over $2.5

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2020

The proposals will signal an intent that pension schemes should report on the extent to which their portfolios are aligned with the Paris Agreement, which sets the goal of limiting average global warming to 1.5C or 'well below' 2C by the end of the current century, the DWP said.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2022

The movie is an allegory for climate change , showing how those with the power to do something about global warming willfully avoid taking action and how those with vested interests can mislead the public. But it also reflects science denial more broadly, including what the world has been seeing with COVID-19.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

“The activities proposed by Equinor Argentina will degrade an ecosystem that is already threatened by overfishing, global warming and pollution.”. The company’s stock immediately jumped by nearly 9 percent after the law was changed. When the law passed, the public reaction was immediate and intense. December 16, 2021.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The lawsuit, filed by environmental law charity ClientEarth, a minor shareholder in Shell, alleges the firm's 11 directors have breached their legal duties by failing to implement an energy transition strategy that aligns with the goals of the Paris Agreement. of global warming. above pre-industrial levels.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Continuing to subsidize polluting fossil fuels defies logic,” said Shannon Laun, a staff attorney for the Conservation Law Foundation, in a statement. “If Connecticut’s Global Warming Solutions Act calls for a 45% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, and 80% by 2050.

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