DeSmogBlog

APRIL 30, 2020

Read time: 11 mins While fossil fuel companies defend against mounting climate liability lawsuits in court, their surrogates are working in parallel to target the attorneys, academics, and institutions supporting these lawsuits. Tags: ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) chris horner Energy Policy Advocates climate liability

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Social media influencers were paid to boost the UAE’s climate credentials in and around COP28 in what appears to be a coordinated PR effort by the oil-dependent host nation, DeSmog can reveal. Researchers identified at least five high-profile Instagram accounts which appeared to promote the UAE as a climate leader during the summit.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Clean transport advocates point out £30bn price tag for railway electrification is in the same ball park as budget for road building. The newspaper reported on Saturday that industry insiders had confirmed the strategy had been scrapped. BusinessGreen has contacted both the Treasury and the Department for Transport for comment.

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EDF + Business

AUGUST 24, 2023

Initiatives like the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market’s (IC-VCM) Core Carbon Principles (CCPs) and the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI) Claims Code of Practice have the potential to help the market make a major shift toward integrity and climate impact at a pivotal moment.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

The firm also announced this week that it is rolling out a brand-new look as a "visual statement of its recommitment to climate action", while also unveiling a new two-decade tree planting strategy. It uses satellite technology, geo-tagging, photographic evidence, and field visits to monitor the impact of its reforestation projects.

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2020

Yet just one in ten firms listed climate risk assessments as a priority, according to new survey results published today by earth science AI firm. The poll reveals that 60 per cent of companies in the UK are concerned that climate change will prove damaging for their business.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

Confirmed speakers include climate scientist Michael E Mann, former Energy and Climate Change Secretary Amber Rudd, Schroders' CEO Peter Harrison, Bank of America President (International) Bernard Mensah, Nomad Foods CEO Stefan Descheemaeker, NatWest CEO Alison Rose, Bertrand Piccard of the Solar Impulse Foundation, and many others.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The COP27 Presidency has today launched a new global plan that aims to mobilise state and non-state actors behind a shared set of climate adaptation goals for 2030 that span food and agriculture, water and nature, coasts and oceans, infrastructure, and human livelihoods. Seven times that amount will be needed annually until 2030.".

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2021

The Sun and Daily Mail both reported this morning that the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, is now mulling a 2040 phase out date for fossil fuel boilers complemented by a strategy where households would be "incentivised" to by a heat pump or hydrogen-ready boiler when their current heating system breaks down.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

As green groups slam the government's 'attack on nature', the opposition is this week seeking to make bolder climate action central to its offer to the country. This is a plan that will drive jobs, tackle the cost of living, and protect our homes for future generations by tackling the climate crisis.".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Top flight football coverage is the latest target of media giant Sky's efforts to curb its contribution to climate change, with the broadcaster announcing today that all Premier and English Football League matches shown live on Sky Sports this season will carry new green certifications.

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Business Green

MAY 26, 2022

On 10 May, Scotland's minister for zero carbon buildings, Patrick Harvie MSP, called on the UK government to rethink its " woefully inadequate " plans to insulate homes and tackle fuel poverty - central elements of the UK government's net zero strategy, which would eliminate 20.8 per cent of the UK's emissions if successful.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2022

As interest and scrutiny involving the use of carbon credits toward net zero goals intensifies, resources from Shopify, Frontier Climate, and Ecosystem Marketplace have some answers for corporate buyers. Want to learn more about how to accelerate your company's journey to a climate-positive future? 6-7, online.].

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 1, 2020

Kit Kennedy, senior director of the climate and clean energy program at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), spends her time promoting renewable and sustainable solutions to problems that face the public. Osuala also works on strategies to influence customer behavior while maintaining or lowering rates.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Firms with fewer than 250 employees - the traditional cut-off point for SMEs - may individually have a fraction of the climate impact of their corporate counterparts, but they together make up as much as 90 per cent of all businesses worldwide, according to the World Bank. A net zero emission economy cannot be built without them.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Nissan's strategy also included a raft of plans to scale up battery innovation, production, supply chains, and even recycling worldwide in order to drive down manufacturing costs, and ultimately push down the price tags for consumers. To deliver its new targets, Nissan said it would need to hire 3,000 more staff.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Nissan's strategy also included a raft of plans to scale up battery innovation, production, supply chains, and even recycling worldwide in order to drive down manufacturing costs, and ultimately push down the price tags for consumers. To deliver its new targets, Nissan said it would need to hire 3,000 more staff.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

It is important not to overstate the strength of arguments against climate action that have repeatedly falied to gain traction. None of this passes the sniff test, even before you consider the neo-climate denial it is built upon. And that's it. The public is not stupid.

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EDF + Business

JULY 10, 2020

Getting a finished product from the factory to your door, has costs beyond the price tag. As companies get back on their feet, business leaders can integrate strategies for reducing air pollution into their already existing climate goals by focusing on pollution from the last mile of delivery.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

Oil and gas supermajors including Shell and BP are using UK influencers to push false solutions to the climate crisis and manufacture a more family friendly image, DeSmog can reveal. While there’s more knowledge in general around climate change and the harms of fossil fuels, I think that people have a lot of trust in creators.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

Let's hope the Chancellor is listening and ups the government's game next week - putting people, climate and nature front and centre of the government's recovery strategy.". However, Ed Matthew of the Climate Coalition offered a damning assessment of the Prime Minister's heavily-trailed speech.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Truss's first speech as PM touts vision for 'aspiration nation' characterised by tax cuts and business-led growth, but leaves out any mention of net zero, nature, or the climate crisis. Sounds like concerns about JRM's climate views have left her unable to fill it. — Natasha Clark (@NatashaC) September 6, 2022.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2022

The combination of escalating climate impacts and geopolitical tensions mean we are facing "the end of abundance, the end of insouciance, the end of assumptions". It was obvious as soon as the Energy Security Strategy was announced that it was badly underpowered and contained insufficient measures to bolster near term energy security.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

And there were conflicting reports over the price tag attached to the new support package. The outgoing PM's sole allusion to his government's climate efforts related to increasing ambitions for UK offshore wind and nuclear power capacity, as he talked up his efforts to provide "the short and long term solutions for our energy needs".

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

In what is a crucial year for climate action in 2021, there CCC has today given the government much food - but little time - for thought - here are its top takeaways. They seem to be placing all of their chips on the new Net Zero Strategy that is planned before COP26. That Strategy is going to have an awful lot to do.".

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Using the Philippines as an example of areas that are prone to natural disasters , the team’s design strategy was to create something that could withstand even the most extreme weather emergencies, from floods and superstorms to typhoons and earthquakes. The structure was inspired by the traditional Filipino Bahay-kubo houses.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The report also reveals which teams are most likely to have fans that are vegetarian, have an affinity for the outdoors, a particular stance on climate justice, and those most likely to follow Al Gore and Greta Thunberg. This drives revenue and is so critical to sustainability professionals charged with creating a data-driven strategy.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 17, 2021

But while Neom’s $500 billion price tag prompts questions about whether it will go ahead exactly as planned, the hydrogen effort doesn’t depend on the megacity’s overall success. presidential climate envoy John Kerry urged the domestic oil and gas industry to embrace hydrogen’s “huge opportunities.” Yet the focus remains on exports.

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2021

Yet without action to get to net zero emissions across every corner of the global economy, the planet's climate will continue to warm. Increasing process efficiency and the use of recycled materials, as well as buying more renewable power, provides companies with major climate gains at very low costs.".

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

But, as power demand surges in the coming decades, Aurora Energy Research argues that rather than ditching gas power altogether, thermal fossil fuel power assets may actually offer the most cost-effective route to ensuring firm and flexible power on the future grid - provided fossil facilties are transformed to limit their climate impact.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The plan is to be reviewed next Spring, but the government indicated the price freeze could stay in place for up to two years with the price tag expected to reach up to £150bn. As a result, domestic energy bills should stay at around current levels through this winter. The right thing to do.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 12, 2020

As the most prevalent of the greenhouse gases (GHGs), CO2 plays an outsize role in global climate change — for example, it accounted for 81 percent of U.S. GHG emissions are what directly contribute to global temperature rise and are therefore the ultimate target of any action to combat climate change. emissions in 2018.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

As the number of ESG and climate-themed funds has exploded in recent years, so too have concerns among investors and regulators about greenwashing and transparency.” – Daan Van Acker , Senior Analyst at InfluenceMap. All of a sudden sustainability is about climate change, ending poverty, and gender equality.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

How the climate crisis will crash the economy Joel Makower Mon, 09/14/2020 – 02:11 The chickens are coming home to roost. Even before all that, we’d been watching the real-world risks of climate change looming and growing across the United States and around the world. So many people and stories. financial system.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 17, 2021

But while Neom’s $500 billion price tag prompts questions about whether it will go ahead exactly as planned, the hydrogen effort doesn’t depend on the megacity’s overall success. presidential climate envoy John Kerry urged the domestic oil and gas industry to embrace hydrogen’s “huge opportunities.” Yet the focus remains on exports.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 31, 2022

Further, CATL presently has eight factories under construction at a price tag of over $14 billion, underscoring the investments China is making toward securing continued market control. This is where a dedicated national strategy will help. But there are other efforts underway in the U.S.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

If concerns about the impact of Brexit or climate change on our food supply weren't incentive enough for a rethink of how we produce, import and consume food, the reality of the situation we have found ourselves in recently almost certainly is. Food production is breaching planetary boundaries.

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