Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Agencies facing fresh calls to cut their ties with laggard fossil fuel firms, leaving many in the advertising and PR sector with difficult decisions to make. And energy providers the world over are rushing to slash their reliance on fossil fuels as the clean energy transition gathers pace. It is a big business.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Porter’s blog repeatedly cites the work of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate science denial group. Porter’s Energy Blogs Climate models accurately predict global temperature rises, with observed warming tracking the forecasts.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2023

As many commentators have noted, there is no silver bullet for tackling carbon emissions. So it stands to reason that, focusing decarbonisation efforts on just a handful of these carbon intensive sectors could make an outsized impact to the global transition to net zero.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Peterson is now planting doubt via his podcast and social media posts about the severity and urgency of global warming in the minds of younger generations. What’s the point of having policies if you’re not going to enforce them?” Climate change,’” he tweeted in June, is “the idiot socialist get-out-of-jail-free card.”

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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

Scientists are documenting changes that are “much more widespread” and “much more negative,” she said, than anticipated for the 1.09 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

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2021

And despite a dip in polluting activities due to the pandemic, concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rose to its highest level in 3.6 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said that global methane concentrations shot up by 14.67 Globally averaged, monthly mean atmospheric methane abundance.

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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. Eni has set a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Cerulean, which specialises in floating wind power infrastructure and calls increased North Sea fossil fuel production “vital”, received public funding in January to back its plans to power drilling rigs with offshore wind turbines. Green Party Peer Natalie Bennett said: “We need fossil fuels to stay in the ground.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Canadian conservative newspaper columnist Rex Murphy, who has referred to global warming as an “anti-Western ideology,” is also on board, with a course “on poetry and Paradise Lost.” based libertarian think tank founded in 1977 by fossil fuel billionaire Charles Koch that has long disputed the facts of climate change.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Yet growth in global emissions has also slowed, and the authors of today's report maintain that mobilising the finance, scaling up the technologies, and incentivising behaviour changes needed to drive a "substantial reduction in overall fossil fuel use" remains eminently feasible and - crucially - affordable.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2022

Between 2013 and 2017, United Arab Emirates-based investment manager Alan McCormick tweeted numerous articles by climate science deniers, including one calling on readers to “celebrate carbon dioxide”. Think-Tank Tied to Fossil Fuels. In May 2017, McCormick tweeted a climate sceptic WSJ editorial in which columnist Holman W.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The bill also creates a tax credit for carbon storage in buildings and their materials. Climate change is "no longer an issue that's off the table" for Republicans, said Sasha Mackler, director of think tank Bipartisan Policy Center's energy project, speaking Wednesday in New York. or even 2 degrees, this is on the list.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

And energy providers the world over are rushing to slash their reliance on fossil fuels as the clean energy transition gathers pace. Between 2008 and 2017, fossil-fuel industry trade associations in the U.S. It is a big business. spent almost $1.4

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2021

And despite a dip in polluting activities due to the pandemic, concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rose to its highest level in 3.6 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said that global methane concentrations shot up by 14.67 Globally averaged, monthly mean atmospheric methane abundance.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Conway, authors of the classic 2010 book Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming , have released a new book placing that doubt machine into a longer arc of U.S. Science historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. business and political history.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 10, 2023

Those who track the growing backlash against renewables see what’s happening in Alberta as the latest victory for an international movement aiming to halt the shift away from fossil fuels. based research and advocacy group Energy and Policy Institute, told DeSmog.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Concerns continue over indirect land use change (and its associated carbon losses), the sequestration opportunity costs of converting cultivated lands into biofuel feedstocks versus reforestation, and high demand for agricultural lands to meet the food security needs of a growing population. Source: Field et al.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Compiled by Dutch climate activist Vatan Hüzeir , and reviewed by DeSmog and Dutch investigative journalism platform Follow The Money , the documents show how Shell was actively supporting research that clearly underscored the dangers posed by burning its fossil fuel products from the mid-1970s — years earlier than previously thought.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2022

Just this week Ford and Volvo joined together with 26 other energy, transport and logistics operators in calling on the EU to ban sales of new fossil fuel cars and vans in Europe by 2035, alongside fresh mandatory EV charging infrastructure targets. The window for us to avoid the worst impacts of global warming is rapidly closing.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

The third in a trilogy of reports published over the last eight months by the IPCC as part of its sixth assessment review, the document offers policymakers around the world a peer-reviewed roadmap for the policies, investments, and technologies scientists believe are required to avoid climate catastrophe. of global temperature rise by 2100.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The reason it’s considered a solution is that plants suck up carbon from the air while they grow. When we turn them into fuels and burn them, no new carbon is added to the atmosphere —the whole cycle is considered “carbon neutral.” But critics say biofuels’ carbon-neutrality is a mirage.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Direct Air Capture (DAC) of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from the atmosphere is one set of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) strategies that may play a role in mitigating climate change, particularly in the mid to latter part of the 21 st century. C report provided four scenarios (P1-P4 in Figure 1) with increasing roles for negative emissions.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

The third in a trilogy of reports over the past year or so, today's - dubbed Climate Change 2022: The Mitigation of Climate Change - was particularly highly anticipated due to its focus on solutions to the aforementioned crisis the world currently faces, in terms of technologies, policies, nature-based measures and finances. on the table.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

Influential agency urged by almost 70 leaders across business, finance, civil society, policy and research to give 1.5C The required scenario involves halving global emissions by 2030, they stressed, in line with the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recommendations. "In is "central" to the report.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2021

UK academic study outlines a series of positive 'tipping points' in key sectors that, if reached, would catalyse the global net zero transition. Limiting global warming to well below 2C now requires transformational change, and a dramatic acceleration of progress," he continued.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 28, 2020

Given the Paris Accord’s aspirations, the climate challenge facing humanity can be expressed in simple terms: halve annual carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions by 2030, halve them again by 2040, and again by 2050. Here we focus on some aspects of land-use and negative emission technologies (NET) dependent on the land. 2017, Faulk, 2019).

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2021

UK academic study outlines a series of positive 'tipping points' in key sectors that, if reached, would catalyse the global net zero transition. Limiting global warming to well below 2C now requires transformational change, and a dramatic acceleration of progress," he continued.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2020

Given "the vulnerability of the banking sector to climate-related financial risks" the letters argue it is crucial for the three banks to take "ambitious action" to phase out financing for fossil fuels, highlighting their support for the Paris Agreement and Principles for Responsible Banking.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Don’t agree on the assessment or the different pathways to get rid of fossil fuels? This is a review of an article from the Financial Times , which first appeared in February 2020 just before the fossil fuel industry had its worst year ever. Comment down below. The article was called ‘can the world kick its oil habit?’.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

This technique of using statements that are technically true but omit crucial information and therefore are misleading, is called paltering — and it’s an old favorite of the fossil fuel industry. He believes that Checkoff dollars are empowering groups like NCBA and NPPC to take policy positions that hurt small producers.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

We know that animal agriculture is now recognized as a leading cause of global warming. According to Project Drawdown, eating a plant-based diet is "the most important contribution every individual can make to reversing global warming." Sara Bogdan (formerly Lindenfeld) (2016). Willemijn Brouwer (2018).

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk. Global heating is affecting every region on Earth, with many of the changes becoming irreversible.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The 'domino effect' of net zero pledges from world leaders in recent months could prove hugely impactful on global warming trajectories, a new analysis suggests, but is its optimistic outlook justified? Back then, CAT's estimate for global average temperature rise by 2100 was 3.5C.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Alternative jet fuels or so-called “Sustainable Aviation Fuels” (SAF) are liquid hydrocarbon fuels that can be used with existing aircraft in place of kerosene produced from fossil fuels. The argument is that blending these fuels with fossil fuels would thereby reduce emissions.

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

"Our Accelerated Energy Transition Scenario - AET-2 - gives an indication of how energy demand, supply and pricing will change if policy and technology are rapidly deployed to cut greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Paris Agreement," explained Ann-Louise Hittle, vice president for macro oils at Wood Mackenzie. "If

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2023

Russia's war in Ukraine - which itself was completely unexpected by pretty much everyone this time last year, bar a handful of vindicated intelligence agents - could yet result in a stunning victory for Ukraine, a stinging defeat for tyrannical authoritarianism, and a step change in the pace of the West's transition away from fossil fuels.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2020

Almost half of all global coal plants are already set to run at a loss in 2020, warns think tank Carbon Tracker. Building new coal and propping up the existing fleet with stimulus money would be throwing good money after bad," said study co-author Matt Gray, Carbon Tracker's co-head of power and utilities.

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