GreenBiz

APRIL 20, 2021

The push to quickly transition carbon-intensive activities away from fossil fuels while meeting the world’s growing energy needs has put electricity producers and consumers squarely in the forefront of the emerging clean economy. And the era of fossil fuels is hardly over. Subscribe here. Are we up to the challenge?

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Denmark set the same goal — phase out new fossil fuel vehicle sales in 2030 — and world-leader Norway plans to make the switch in 2025. Electric vehicles will begin to cost the same as their fossil fuel counterparts between 2025 and 2029, depending on the vehicle type. Policy & Politics. isn't the only one.

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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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The conference, which is being held from 22 to 25 September in Liverpool, is one of the largest political gatherings in Europe and will feature set piece speeches from Labour’s newly-elected Cabinet ministers. These include the controversial energy company Drax , the fossil fuel lobby group Offshore Energies UK , and the gas company Cadent.

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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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The Guardian: Energy

JULY 26, 2024

Their politicians write cheques to save trees in tropical forests and politely pressure other countries to protect the environment, too. When they turn on the kettle in the morning or charge their phone at night, Norwegians plug into an electricity grid that runs almost entirely on renewables.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Nigel Farage ’s Reform party received £135,000 this year from donors linked to climate science denial and fossil fuels, DeSmog can reveal. Latest official records show that all donations made to Reform UK so far this year are from individuals with ties to climate science denial or fossil fuel interests.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

Turning taxpayer dollars into stranded fossil fuel assets is no way to fuel a real economic recovery. Even if many fossil fuel companies struggled financially for years before the pandemic, they are getting billions in federal aid. Policy & Politics. Policy & Politics. Contributors. Maria Mendiluce.

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The Guardian: Energy

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Britain joins France, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands in withdrawing from charter it says ‘penalises’ shift to net zero The UK is pulling out of a treaty that lets fossil fuel firms sue governments over their climate policies.

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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

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

JUNE 4, 2024

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.” No political party should be taking any money from fossil fuel interests whatsoever,” Caroline Lucas, until recently the Green Party MP for Brighton Pavilion, told DeSmog.

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Fossil fuel companies … wouldn’t be able to operate without money, and that money is coming primarily from Wall Street,” Alicé Nascimento, environmental campaigns director at New York Communities for Change, said hours before she was arrested.

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Energy Central

APRIL 10, 2024

For years, the priority of many environmentalists has been to get the public to care about climate change via data and science — to agree that we do, indeed, have a problem that needs fixing. But to truly connect with people, we need to understand what they care about.

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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

JANUARY 22, 2024

Former Cop26 president criticises the government’s push to ‘max out’ the North Sea Alok Sharma has said the government’s oil and gas bill going through the Commons will not cut household energy costs or create jobs and instead will break the UK’s promise to phase out fossil fuels.

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The Guardian: Energy

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Scope of oil and gas influence underscores concerns technology will prolong demand for planet-heating natural gas The UK government’s move to award £22bn in subsidies to carbon capture projects followed a sharp increase in lobbying by the fossil fuel industry, it can be revealed.

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Doubts about whether heat pumps work well in subzero conditions shown to be unfounded, say researchers Heat pumps are more than twice as efficient as fossil fuel heating systems in cold temperatures, research shows.

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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. Varello added that European countries are willing to pay more for shorter contracts to avoid political scrutiny. Keith Shoemaker of EQT Corp.

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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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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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The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Fossil fuel companies, political short-termism and apathy are thwarting action to avert global heating • You can order your own version of this cartoon Continue reading.

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U.S. Green Technology

APRIL 6, 2023

Solar energy has been the subject of political discussion and advancement for many years, but now the sector is ready to make a statement on its own. The future appears to be getting a little brighter as solar power plants all around the world compete with fossil fuels on pricing without government subsidies. There remain.

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Financial Times: Energy

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Political risk stymies region’s wind and solar potential while fossil fuels deliver reliable returns

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 7, 2020

Vice : How Solar Power Could Slay the Fossil Fuel Empire by 2030. Political Climate is produced in partnership with the USC Schwarzenegger Institute. Recommended reading: Rethinking Humanity. This episode is brought to you with support from Lyft.

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The Guardian: Energy

MAY 2, 2024

Exclusive: Decision to grant licences condemned by critics as a stunt that shows Tories are ‘playing politics with climate’ Fossil fuel companies will be allowed to explore for oil and gas under offshore wind-power sites for the first time, the government will announce on Friday, in a move which campaigners say is further proof that ministers are abandoning (..)

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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). Eleven countries have already pledged to exit the disastrous international charter treaty.

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Renew Economy

MAY 29, 2024

C is political. Sadly, our current government seems set on a sleight of hand rather than cutting fossil fuel and industry emissions. The only pathway we have left to limit warming to 1.5°C The post Australia’s Net Zero target is being lost in accounting tricks, offsets and more gas appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Uncontracted supplies of the fossil fuel had also been diverted to the domestic market. The Greens will move a disallowance vote in the Senate next Monday, saying the code with its $12 a gigajoule price cap had benefited big gas users.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this week fired a shot over the bow at Wall Street companies that promise to help investors avoid putting their money into fossil fuels and tobacco — but steer funds towards those companies anyway. On the other hand, there’s been political pushback from the fossil fuel industry’s backers.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 12, 2020

Phasing out fossil fuels. Cities and counties are advocating to retire uneconomic fossil fuel power plants by enabling or expanding securitization legislation. The shift to lower-cost generation allows utilities to both make more money and lower rates for their customers while phasing out fossil fuel power plants.

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The Guardian: Energy

MAY 30, 2024

Researchers say world has enough fossil fuel projects planned to meet demand forecasts to 2050 if net zero is reached The world has enough fossil fuel projects planned to meet global energy demand forecasts to 2050 and governments should stop issuing new oil, gas and coal licences, according to a large study aimed at political leaders.

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The Guardian: Energy

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Now, as the country gears up to host the biodiversity Cop16, she is calling for a just transition away from fossil fuels She is one of the biggest opponents of fossil fuel on the world stage – but Susana Muhamad’s political career was sparked in the halls of an oil company.

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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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The Guardian: Energy

JUNE 26, 2024

How can Australia get to net zero by 2050 while approving projects that will run for decades beyond that date? 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.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

Net-zero" became a key commitment during 2020 — goals that aim to eliminate, at least on paper, a company’s greenhouse gas emissions, water extractions, fossil-fuel use or deforestation activities by a given date. Given this, it was not surprising to see an uptick in corporate ambition on sustainability issues.

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The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Much-trumpeted legislation on new drilling will achieve nothing, but PM is hoping to put Labour on the spot UK politics live – latest updates Just over three weeks from now, King Charles will make the keynote address at the crucial Cop28 climate summit in Dubai, urging heads of government from around the world to act decisively on the climate emergency (..)

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