Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Now, in conjunction with accelerating climate change, El Niño means a wide array of exacerbated hazards may be coming down the pike. They’re going to actually have to affect the politics so that the special interests do not control — especially the fossil fuel industry — does not control the future.”

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Climate change Cooling Global warming COP 129

Renewable Energy World

JULY 28, 2021

While the outlook is less certain in some markets, such as Latin America, especially due to the temporary impact of Covid-19, and changes in political support in the utility-scale sector in countries such Mexico, deployments are still expected to increase. Government Policies and Regulations. For example, under the Paris Agreement, the U.S.

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Demand Fossil fuels Politics Technology 121

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The Argentine government, with the cooperation of an array of global institutions, has the country locked in an “oil and gas trap,” mortgaging the country’s future on fracking even as the financial risks continue to grow, the report warns. As investments in fossil fuel infrastructure continue to rise, so too do the risks.

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Fossil fuels Government Policy Investment 76

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

It’s an apt welcome to a place where the realities of everyday life seem to be in stark contrast to the green illusion marketed by the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries. James Parish, a region that has become a build-out hub for the petrochemical and fossil fuel industry. Town sign for Norco, Louisiana.

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Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Fossil fuels 93

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

But in the intervening decades, the region’s rivers were dammed or channeled and the fossil fuel era dawned across Appalachia. Among the other rare and threatened wild creatures living in the coal mining-impacted streams are a dozen different kinds of fish, 39 mollusks, and a wide array of crustaceans and snails, the study reports.

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Energy Monitor Fossil fuels Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 91

Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2022

And yet, so complete is their disconnect from the real world that these zombie arguments continue to stumble across the political landscape desperately looking for an issue, any issue, to attack. per cent gain, almost entirely as a result of higher fossil fuel prices. Soaring energy bills? Blame net zero. Net zero's fault.

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Fossil fuels Technology Energy Energy 101

Green Market Oracle

JULY 13, 2020

Haque anticipates civilization will end because of the confluence of climate change, mass extinction, ecological collapse, economic depressions, financial implosions, political upheavals, pandemics, plagues, floods, fires, and social breakdowns. Extinction is a political choice. to 12.6 ° F) by the end of the century.

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Climate change Fossil fuels Global warming Politics 98

GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

In looking across the broad array of business, environmental, social, technological and political topics that cross my screen and engage me in daily conversation, there is a temptation to allocate a growing share of mind for pessimism. Reasons for cautious hope in a sea of gloom. Mon, 07/19/2021 - 02:00. Innovation marches forward.

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Politics Innovation Fossil fuels Carbon-negative 466

Business Green

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Green business leaders will be hoping Sunak reaffirms his commitment to the UK's net zero target and provide markets with much-needed policy clarity to support the net zero transition following weeks of political turmoil, policy U-turns and economic upheaval.

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Policy Politics Government COP 69

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 21, 2022

Surrounded by an endless array of questionable information online, lots of people aren’t quite sure what to think or how to sort truth from falsehoods. But it needs to expand to compete with damage being done by the well-funded fossil fuel industry.”. So we focused on the group we thought was both vulnerable and reachable.”.

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Climate change Fossil fuels Politics Technology 94

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The fossil fuel industry has bought itself half a century,” said Jennifer Jacquet, an associate professor of environmental studies at New York University, and author of The Playbook: How to Deny Science, Sell Lies, and Make a Killing in the Corporate World. The industry often claims that green targets are “ political ”.

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Europe Sustainability Agriculture Biodiversity 93

Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2022

However, following claims from Truss last week that field-based solar arrays were a "depressing" sight in the British countryside, her rival Sunak today broadly echoed her stance, promising to "make sure that high quality farmland is kept in production and not used for housing, ‘rewilding' or large-scale solar farms".

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Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Agriculture 69

AGreenLiving

MARCH 4, 2021

In a discussion that tacked to the personal and political, Baker and Klee reviewed principles for renewable energy economics. Both leaders pointed toward community solar, in which a developer sets up an array in one place to serve customers in another, as a key future marketplace.

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Energy Energy Fossil fuels Policy 28

Business Green

MARCH 23, 2023

That is the hypothesis advanced in a new report published today by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The report also predicts disputes over what constitutes 'renewable energy' or 'green' investment.

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Law Packaging Europe Policy 40

Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

"They are choking our planet, based on their vested interests and historic investments in fossil fuels, when cheaper, renewable solutions provide green jobs, energy security, and greater price stability. But the truly dangerous radicals are the countries that are increasing the production of fossil fuels.

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Business Green

JANUARY 23, 2023

The frustration for Danker and many others is that the government has repeatedly stressed its commitment to green growth and has spent the last few years mulling a wide array of policies that would serve to mobilise much needed green investment. The PM set out less than a year ago what is needed to transform our economy," Danker said.

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Government Politics Policy Electric vehicle 73

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 15, 2021

This year’s Goldman honorees have claimed a wide array of environmental victories worldwide. over the past decade, reaching into the Permian basin of Texas and New Mexico, petrochemical manufacturers, oil refiners, and fossil fuel exporters began planning to expand their operations — particularly along the Gulf Coast.

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Fossil fuels Organic Pollution Plastics 98

AGreenLiving

JULY 19, 2021

Yosie Mon, 07/19/2021 – 02:00 In looking across the broad array of business, environmental, social, technological and political topics that cross my screen and engage me in daily conversation, there is a temptation to allocate a growing share of mind for pessimism. Reasons for cautious hope in a sea of gloom Terry F.

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Politics Innovation Fossil fuels Climate change 36

ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 15, 2024

Recent global conflicts, characterised by high and fluctuating oil and gas prices, have exposed the limitations of the current renewable energy market, where weather-dependent green energy sources must coexist with fossil fuels for heating and for stabilisation of the electricity grid.

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Technology Carbon-neutral Energy Energy 52

Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Lending high-level economic and political credence to that growing public clamour for action, the work of Chris Stark and his small team at the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) in driving the issue up the agenda should not be forgotten. Suddenly, barely days into 2020, a new paradigm began to take shape. That's the biggest risk.".

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Carbon-negative Politics Climate change Government 76

GreenBiz

APRIL 27, 2021

Proponents of electric vehicles forthrightly acknowledge the many technological, management, political and consumer challenges that lie ahead. Is the current array of electricity generators and distributors prepared for this challenge? The answer is no. Are electric vehicles the next chapter in the U.S. culture war?

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Electric vehicle Electricity Politics Transportation 438

Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

For all the evidence the Paris Agreement has catalysed an era-defining array of clean tech innovations and a remarkable shift in public opinion, there have been baseless arguments that the entire COP process is an exercise in futility. It is the UN's process and is owned by all parties. It is one of the few (only?)

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COP Climate change Government Policy 101

GreenBiz

MARCH 15, 2021

These programs can include an array of services, from on-campus EV chargers, access to carpooling programs, financial incentives for buying bikes, e-bikes and EVs, and — for the lucky few — rides to and from work in electric buses.

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Sustainability Biotech Transportation Medicine 496

Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

Frustration with the banking industry is gaining currency - in particular, the sector's role in financing fossil fuels. The funding was dominated by four US banks - Bank of America, Citi, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo - which together accounted for a quarter of all fossil-fuel financing since 2015.

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Fossil fuels Policy Global warming Natural gas 51

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Canada has not provided a transition pathway for its fossil fuel workers to move into other industries, and as global demand for oil and gas wanes, tens of thousands of workers could lose their jobs, say the authors of a new report. ” Canada is not alone in this task of tackling a Just Transition for fossil fuel workers.

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Fossil fuels Policy Natural gas Government 89

GreenTechMedia

MARCH 20, 2020

In fact, many are still requesting that FERC reconsider the order and planning lawsuits to challenge it, or simply awaiting November’s election, which could shift political power in Washington D.C. in ways that could lead to FERC's order being overturned. The silver lining in PJM's compliance plan.

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Nuclear Power Fossil fuels Natural gas Demand 170

Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Tory strategists themselves with the idea that the next election could be more like 1992 than 1997, but if the Party is to engineer one of the biggest polling recoveries in electoral history the government desperately needs some success stories and positive political momentum to carry it into a general election campaign next year.

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Politics Government Policy Climate change 36

Energy Innovation

MARCH 16, 2022

Countries across Europe are already deep into a generational shift away from fossil fuels and toward greater efficiency, electrification, and integration of renewables. As RECs continue to grow in number and size, they will have greater political power.

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Energy Energy Policy Europe 96

AGreenLiving

APRIL 27, 2021

Proponents of electric vehicles forthrightly acknowledge the many technological, management, political and consumer challenges that lie ahead. Is the current array of electricity generators and distributors prepared for this challenge? The answer is no. Are electric vehicles the next chapter in the U.S. culture war?

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Electric vehicle Electricity Politics Transportation 28

AGreenLiving

MARCH 15, 2021

These programs can include an array of services, from on-campus EV chargers, access to carpooling programs, financial incentives for buying bikes, e-bikes and EVs, and — for the lucky few — rides to and from work in electric buses.

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Sustainability Biotech Transportation Medicine 28

Business Green

JUNE 19, 2020

Grasp the fossil fuel nettle and use your leverage. The low oil price provides a unique opportunity to finally tackle fossil fuel subsidies without a huge impact on living costs. But the big question now is: will the overall focus of recovery packages is shift towards low carbon industries? billion tonnes.

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Government Packaging Carbon Policy 59

DeSmogBlog

MAY 24, 2022

While Russia dropped missiles on Kyiv and laid siege to the port of Mariupol in late February, the oil and gas industry took advantage of the war in Ukraine to spread misinformation about the causes of the energy crisis in order to apply political pressure and pursue a longstanding wish list of policy changes, according to new research.

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Policy Fossil fuels Energy Energy 95

Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

cities are drafting plans and testing out developing zero emission zones in downtown areas, banning fossil-fuel-burning vehicles and developing progressive pricing signals. Investing in a Clean & Equitable Future (Panel Discussion): Every two minutes, a new solar array is installed in the United States.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor 52

Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

With the ‘old’, I refer to the fossil-fuel based, centralized energy industries that are reliant on conservative economic models. According to Carbon Trackers , we are talking about a value of between 14-129 trillion dollars for fossil fuel assets alone and revenue streams of trillions of dollars annually. Let me explain.

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Energy Energy Fossil fuels Investment 78

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

“If you were a fossil fuel project, you would have been shut down long ago.” For fossil fuel ideologues, sowing misinformation about wind and solar power is proving to be an effective stall tactic. “Hear this message: We’re here to save the whales!”

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Fossil fuels Energy Energy Construction 142

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The efforts of Indigenous peoples in North America have helped block or delay a long list of major fossil fuel projects over the past decade, successfully leading to the avoidance of a massive amount of greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report. The numbers don’t lie. November, 2016. Credit: Becker1999. (CC CC BY 2.0).

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Fossil fuels Construction Government Organic 98

Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2021

And businesses felt little pressure to respond to early COPs, shackled for years by US-led doubts that human greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels were the main driver of climate change, and by the reluctance of many nations to make a wrenching economic shift away from fossil fuels.

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COP Climate change Policy Fossil fuels 65