The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Prof Lesley Hughes is a leading climate change scientist and member of the independent Climate Council and government advisory body the Climate Change Authority.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

World leaders must bring in stricter criteria to exclude fossil fuel companies from decision-making, campaigners have urged, as talks at the crucial COP26 summit enter their fifth day. The UNFCCC, the EU and UK should ensure climate decision-making is protected from fossil fuel interests at the regional, national and local level. “The

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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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The Guardian: Energy

JULY 1, 2024

Dutton’s policy latches on to genuine concerns about power prices and disruption evident in the latest Guardian Essential report, but what are its real motivations? In 1959 the US government hatched a covert scheme to replace every single bird with a replicant surveillance drone to spy on its own citizens.

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The Guardian: Energy

JUNE 20, 2024

Landmark judgment says planning bodies must account for burning of extracted fuel when considering site proposals The climate impact of burning coal, oil and gas must be taken into account when deciding whether to approve projects, the supreme court in London has ruled. Continue reading.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

According to Saudi Aramco’s podcast, the fossil fuel industry is innovating new climate solutions, and BP’s podcast proclaims more of the same. Darren Woods, the CEO of Exxon, celebrates the potential of carbon capture to dramatically reduce global emissions. and Europe.

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The Guardian: Energy

AUGUST 8, 2024

UN says a global ‘backlash’ against climate action is being stoked by fossil fuel companies Fossil fuel companies are running “a massive mis- and disinformation campaign” so that countries will slow down the adoption of renewable energy and the speed with which they “transition away” from a carbon-intensive economy, the UN has said.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

Policy Exchange, one of Westminster’s most prominent think tanks, engaged in a high-level influencing campaign over the UK’s North Sea oil and gas policies while being funded by fossil fuel interests, DeSmog can reveal. Policy Exchange received $30,000 from the oil and gas supermajor ExxonMobil in 2017.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 13, 2023

The self-styled free market task force seems to be yet another dark money outfit in British politics – led by senior figures from US and UK free market think tanks who have been funded by fossil fuels, the Koch Brothers, climate change deniers, the tobacco industry and much more. I decided to take a look. And guess what?

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

Campaigners are increasingly taking out lawsuits against the funders of fossil fuels and other climate-harming activities,, according to a new report. Campaigners, including Oxfam France, had sued the bank for financing fossil fuels in the first-ever climate-related lawsuit against a commercial bank.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Industry trade associations in the United States that work on climate and energy issues spent more than $3 billion over 10 years on political activities, according to a new study that sheds light on trade associations’ role in influencing policies and obstructing climate action. billion on climate-related political activities.

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The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 10, 2023

goal alive so Pacific countries are not ‘swallowed by the seas’ The Australian climate change minister, Chris Bowen, has told nearly 200 countries at the Cop28 summit that the use of fossil fuels in energy systems must end. Australia’s climate minister says summit must aim to keep 1.5C

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 11, 2022

The New Scientist magazine has quietly dropped fossil fuel sponsorship of its science festival amid mounting pressure from climate campaigners. However, the New Scientist Live (NSL) festival, which runs in Manchester this weekend, has no fossil fuel sponsors or exhibitors listed on its website.

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

We must join them If Labour wants an energy transition in which working people don’t foot the bill, it has to address fossil fuel companies’ secret weapon against national climate laws: the energy charter treaty (ECT).

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Juliet Philips, senior policy advisor at the thinktank E3G, described it as “a bit of a red herring as a low-carbon solution”. DeSmog has mapped the sprawling network of fossil fuel companies, trade associations, PR firms and other organisations behind the push for hydrogen, which offers some clues. Political Access.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 19, 2023

Fossil fuel-linked groups spent around $4 million on Facebook and Instagram that spread false climate claims over the COP27 summit, a new report says. Our report shows Big Oil continues to invest millions in digital advertising to launder their image as ‘climate champions’, while also promoting the necessity of fossil fuels.”

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The UK organisers of the upcoming COP26 climate summit have come under fire for approving just two events that refer to fossil fuels, the primary driver of climate change, in a programme of public events happening alongside the main conference. In 2018, 89 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions came from fossil fuels and industry.

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Our biodiversity declining at an unprecedented rate, our precious national parks in decline, our rivers, lakes and seas awash with toxic sewage, blind to the opportunities of the energy transition – a fossil fuel government in a renewable age. Continue reading.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas are the source of just over 80% of the world’s energy. To avert catastrophic warming, the global community must rapidly reduce how much of these fuels it extracts and burns. target because it was already at its limit, given our projections of fossil fuel demand in the near future.

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Grist

APRIL 4, 2022

Greenhouse gas emissions must peak within the next three years, and in the next eight, the world must push fossil fuels aside, rapidly scaling up the use of clean energy like wind and solar. The authors’ top recommendation: Immediately move away from fossil fuels and replace them with renewable technologies.

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Impact Alpha

DECEMBER 20, 2019

21 – The failure of the COP25 global climate conference in Madrid left climate-finance practitioners seeking a path forward in the absence of effective political and policy leadership. “The “Those kind of The post Decapitalizing the fossil fuel industry (podcast) appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, Dec.

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The Guardian: Energy

JUNE 26, 2024

Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast The sham of Australia’s climate change policy has been made clear in the past two weeks. How can Australia get to net zero by 2050 while approving projects that will run for decades beyond that date?

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Business Green

JUNE 3, 2024

Starmer insists energy policy reforms under a Labour government would bring down bills and reduce the country’s dependency on imported fossil fuels

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND – Only two of the 35 stalls lauding countries’ green credentials at the COP26 UN climate summit mention the need to cut fossil fuel production — the chief cause of the carbon emissions driving climate change. . We urge all leaders to put people and the planet over the profit of the fossil fuel industry.”.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

In strongly worded address to UN General Assembly, Antonio Guterres aims latest stinging criticism at fossil fuel firms and 'their enablers' in the PR and investment industries. And yet climate action is being put on the back burner - despite overwhelming public support around the world.".

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Grist

JULY 15, 2021

We talk so much about the supreme challenge of reducing emissions — something that already requires transitioning our entire economy away from the burning of fossil fuels, adapting to existing climate threats, and doing all that in a way that at the very least doesn’t add to the burdens of already marginalized communities.

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Terra Infirma

AUGUST 30, 2022

And is it not simply digging us deeper into the fossil fuel-shaped hole, making us even more vulnerable to the next crisis? We often hear people from the right of politics ask “can we afford net zero?” We need policy changes and fast, diverting cash and legislation away from high carbon into low carbon schemes.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

“We should not forget that without fossil fuels, Putin would not have the leverage or the finances to have attacked Ukraine,” said UK’s Octopus Energy CEO Greg Jackson. What’s the role of fossil fuels in the future? “Maybe there isn’t one,” said Jackon.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Last week's Autumn Statement made clear that our government has chosen to pursue devastating austerity cuts in the name of political ideology, not economic necessity. For every £100 invested in oil and gas infrastructure, fossil fuel companies will be able to claim £91.40 in tax relief. in return.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2024

A new campaign is calling on MPs to break the fossil fuel sector’s “chokehold” on politics in a critical election year. Lawmakers returning to work today (Monday) were greeted with smoke flares and a demand to “Stop Polluting Politics” from a banner hung off London’s Westminster Bridge. million in 2022.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Net Zero Festival: Leading figures from IEA, Carbon Tracker and Ceres unite in calls for more ambitious government action to shift away from fossil fuels. Campanale was optimistic that if such board-level activity grows across the high-carbon sectors, the fossil fuel industry would start to feel the economic pressure.

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Renew Economy

AUGUST 18, 2024

Windlab CEO says fossil fuel driven wedge politics is one of biggest issues holding back Australia's shift to renewables. The post “Gas Trojan horse:” Coalition nuclear push slammed as fossil wedge aimed at renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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The Guardian: Energy

MARCH 12, 2024

UK, Germany, Netherlands, Norway and Denmark have failed to align oil and gas policies with Paris pledges, say campaigners None of the big oil and gas producers surrounding the North Sea plan to stop drilling soon enough to meet the 1.5C (2.7F) global heating target, a report has found.

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2023

The government is widely expected to unveil a wave of decarbonisation and energy policies on Thursday as part of a package that had been badged as 'Green Day' by Whitehall insiders. Tom Burke, a co-founder of the E3G thinktank, told the Guardian : "This is Fawlty Towers politics - don't mention the environment!

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 4, 2022

Doug Parr, policy director for Greenpeace UK, told DeSmog: “We’ve long known that the oil and gas industry has strong connections right at the top of politics and this appears to extend to the Russian industry as well. Peers also have stakes in lesser-known fossil fuel companies. Financial Interests.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2021

These include fossil fuel giants like BP, Shell, and Total; tech giants like Microsoft and Apple; retailers like Amazon and Walmart; financers like HSBC, Bank of America, and BlackRock; airlines like United and Delta; and food, livestock, and meat-producing and agriculture corporations like JBS, Nestlé, and Cargill. Secretary-General.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) was founded by Margaret Thatcher’s former Chancellor Nigel Lawson in 2009 in order to combat what it describes as “extremely damaging and harmful policies” designed to mitigate climate change. million to right-wing political parties in just over two decades, including £7.2

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