DeSmogBlog

JUNE 25, 2020

is suing the four largest investor-owned oil and gas companies — BP , Chevron, ExxonMobil , and Shell — for allegedly misleading consumers about climate change, including historically undermining climate science and even now using deceptive advertising about the companies’ role in leading solutions to the climate crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Right now, we are beginning to experience a world that climate scientists have long warned we were risking. Tags: oil bailout CARES Act Whiting Petroleum COVID-19 U.S. Read time: 6 mins This op-ed is a guest post by Julieta Biegner, U.S. Communications Officer at Global Witness. Federal Reserve

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

We run the risk of being demonized like that other fossil fuel out there called coal.”. Oil and gas companies have been feeling mounting pressure, as signs emerge that oil is losing favor, both with the public amid climate concerns and with some investors. The industry really is at a critical juncture,” Coleman said. “We

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 11, 2019

Read time: 4 mins Climate science deniers are becoming desperate as their numbers diminish in the face of incontrovertible evidence that human-caused global warming is putting our future at risk. Tags: climate science denial Heartland Institute cornwall alliance ross mckitrick frank luntz

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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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

More specifically, the company is charged with exaggerating the stringency of its financial safeguards in pricing risks from regulations restricting greenhouse gas emissions, according to the complaint filed last year in New York state court. .

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Chicago last week brought the newest lawsuit against Big Oil companies for spreading disinformation about the climate-warming hazards of burning fossil fuels — adding the third largest city in the U.S. BP is simultaneously reneging on its climate pledges and increasing its production of oil and gas. “At

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Read time: 9 mins The emissions from a new Anglo American underground mine project in Chile could be catastrophic for the host nation of the next UN climate talks, DeSmog can reveal. If it goes ahead, “they would be failing to consider the impact on the global climate system, and risking Chile's commitments for its protection.”.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2021

It is clear that unprecedented levels of investment will be needed to enable countries to both recover and transition to climate and nature-smart economies. Investors know that through these instruments, they can drive risk mitigation and management and are, hence, willing to accept a lower interest rate.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Tags: Imperial Oil ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) oil spills oil industry public relations

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2022

UK and US researchers have run the numbers on the huge costs of runaway climate change – and the myriad benefits of achieving net zero emissions. How much could climate change impacts cost the UK economy, and how much will it cost the UK to decarbonise and avoid the worst of these impacts? per cent by 2050 rising to 7.4

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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

MAY 26, 2022

The UK government's plan for achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 is at a serious risk of sinking before it's been fully launched. The real returns on achieving net zero plans are reduced emissions and energy bills, improvements in public health and wellbeing and increased resilience against climate change.

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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. The pandemic reinforced the fact that the risks of air pollution are real and personal, and that our health and our ability to fight respiratory diseases like COVID-19, depends on clean air. Air pollution is a financial and reputational risk.

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Terra Infirma

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

I suspect the woman had read some of the anti-wind power propaganda of the day, with all its talk of ‘blade flicker’ and other such nebulous health risks, and projected these fears onto some gusts of wind or the noise from a construction site.

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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. Among the “complex risks for the U.S.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2021

However, economists and green groups raised concerns that delaying the decarbonisation of home heating - widely seen as one of the most challenging tasks in the UK's net zero transition - risks piling further costs on the transition further down the line, as well as undermining climate targets.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 5, 2024

But let’s chit-chat about something that often tags along with investing: dividends. And in the spirit of keeping it real, let’s not forget — investing always comes with risks. Let’s talk risk—it’s like the roller coaster of investing. Let’s dig in. Diversify your investments.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

It’s used to gain a financial advantage that’s often short lived and can expose businesses to long-term financial risk. 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.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2023

World Economic Forum and Boston Consulting Group warn that despite growing demand for green products, supply chain risks pose a major threat to the net zero transition. Urgent action is therefore needed across the board to remove these bottlenecks, according to WEF's head of climate change, Antonia Gawel.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

A recent report from the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) has also called into question the effectiveness of carbon capture as a climate solution. Despite this negligible capture rate, and a growing volume of critical analysis, carbon capture remains a focal point of Canada’s climate plan.

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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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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. Among the “complex risks for the U.S.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 8, 2023

Canadians will spend 12% less on energy overall than they do today when they switch off fossil fuels to power their homes, vehicles and businesses with clean electricity, according to a report from the Canadian Climate Institute. Already, provinces with the cleanest grids typically pay the least for electricity.

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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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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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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

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 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. Some argued it would help curb inflation and rising levels of fuel poverty, while also helping business cope with surging energy costs.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

It’s used to gain a financial advantage that’s often short lived and can expose businesses to long-term financial risk. 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.

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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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AGreenLiving

MARCH 4, 2021

Until very recently, investor demands regarding environmental impact largely have focused on the climate crisis and greenhouse gas emissions. Most investors and companies still don’t put a price tag on natural capital, or the cost of losing it, and biodiversity becoming a top “theme” only means people have begun talking about it.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2021

Just how much it will cost the UK to reach net zero emissions by 2050 is the trillion-pound question at the epicentre of climate discourse at present. But the outcome of the COP26 Climate Summit could well be a crucial factor in how the costs of decarbonisation play out in the UK, he argued. Or is it a billion pound question?

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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

APRIL 25, 2022

But Andrew Simms, co-director of the New Weather Institute, argued that efforts to restrict greenwashing would not tackle the fundamental problems created by the promotion of products that run counter to climate goals. Promoting fossil fuel companies, SUVs and airlines in a climate emergency is like advertising cigarettes in a hospital.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

ICVCM stressed that CCP-Eligible programs must ensure project developers assess the risks of negative environmental and social impacts, articulate measures to mitigate these impacts, and report on progress. It's clear we are not acting fast enough to address the climate crisis," said Annette Nazareth, ICVCM chair. "We

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