DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 2, 2023

He has often used his TalkTV platform to attack climate policies, claiming last August that the UK’s net zero targets are “plunging people into poverty”. Perry is the director of CAR26 , a pressure group which campaigns for more fossil fuel extraction and a Brexit-style referendum on net zero. CAR26 did not respond.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

VIDEO: IT business leaders visit Gridserve's state-of-the-art electric vehicle charging station in Braintree. But the supercharging station also reflects the challenge facing the IT, technology and other industries as they look to harness renewable electricity and reach net zero.

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Business Green

JUNE 3, 2021

VIDEO: Leading experts from Forum for the Future, Walgreens Boots Alliance, GSK Consumer Healthcare and Hansen and Ersbøll Agenda discuss the relationship between human health and the state of the planet's climate and natural world.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 19, 2023

states, representing nearly 40% of the U.S. And as Canada’s EV manufacturing capabilities grow, it will also ensure that the cars we make in Canada will be available to Canadians who want to buy them, instead of being all shipped off to states and countries with their own EV regulations in place. It’s a tried and tested policy.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

VIDEO: Carbon Limiting Technologies and Clean Growth Fund head chats to BusinessGreen editor-in-chief James Murray about scaling up clean tech and unlocking finance to deliver net zero. All the content on the Hub is fully editorially independent unless otherwise stated.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2020

VIDEO: International president of energy giant's digital arm joins BusinessGreen to discuss the challenges and opportunities of building a net zero global energy system. All the content on the Hub is fully editorially independent unless otherwise stated.

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Green Technology

APRIL 18, 2023

This session is incredibly important, not only because of the need to mitigate the effects of climate change, but also due to the various climate related legislature being passed at the state and national level requiring GHG emissions reporting. You will hear from such organizations as August Berres, First Note Finance inc., and many more.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

However you want to pronounce our name, we’ll be making sure we live up to it' The newly minted Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNeZ) has confirmed its full ministerial line up, as it welcomed a number of junior ministers to the new department's ranks. ESNZ, E.S.N.Z.,

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Business Green

OCTOBER 4, 2021

VIDEO: Former Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Amber Rudd speaks to Lucy Seigle about overcoming the political barriers to climate action. The Prime Minister Boris Johnson recently said the answer to the net zero challenge was "not so much technical as political".

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Business Green

JULY 14, 2020

VIDEO: Conservative MP and chair of the All Party Parliamentary Renewable and Sustainable Energy Group joins BusinessGreen editor-in-chief James Murray to discuss net zero, COP26, environmental taxes and delivering a green recovery from Covid-19. You can find out more about the Net Zero Festival and reserve your place here.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

One such artwork features a Toyota advert which has been re-designed to read 'Toyota's Beyond Zero means flogging gas guzzlers for decades to come' - a reference to the apparent contradiction between the auto giant's belated adoption of a net zero strategy and its continued investment in fossil fuelled SUVs.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2020

VIDEO: Green Alliance executive director joins BusinessGreen editor-in-chief James Murray to discuss net zero, COP26, Brexit, and delivering a green recovery from Covid-19. All the content on the Hub is fully editorially independent unless otherwise stated.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 27, 2022

The same day ExxonMobil announced its ambition to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, word spread that its mammoth plastics manufacturing complex near Corpus Christi, Texas, had begun production. “We The plant’s state air permit allows it to send more than 3.5 We are up and operating. 18 meeting.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2021

Building a reliable and comprehensive data infrastructure is crucial for net zero decision-making and accountability, writes TechUK's Susanne Baker. The Met Office for example is now producing two terrabytes of operational weather data every hour - the equivalent of streaming 640 high-definition video streams.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 17, 2021

This video is sponsored by Duke Energy Sustainable Solutions. Sarah Golden, Senior Energy Analyst & VERGE Energy Chair at GreenBiz, interviewed Robert Vary, Senior Vice President of Sales & Relationship Management at Duke Energy, during VERGE Net Zero (July 27-28, 2021).

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

We need clear national targets and policy guidelines from governments but to reach a net zero future we also need the ambition, flexibility, investment, creativity, problem-solving and financial market signals that are hallmarks of the private sector.". You can register for the world's first digital Net Zero Festival here.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2020

VIDEO: Head of energy and climate change at Britain's largest business body joins BusinessGreen deputy editor Michael Holder to discuss green recovery efforts, keeping net zero on track, and priority policy areas ahead of COP26. All the content on the Hub is fully editorially independent unless otherwise stated.

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Grist

MAY 30, 2022

A senior safety consultant has quit working with Shell after 11 years, accusing the fossil fuel producer in a bombshell public video of causing “extreme harms” to the environment. In an accompanying video, posted on LinkedIn, she said she had quit because of Shell’s “double-talk on climate.”.

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Business Green

APRIL 27, 2022

At launch of new UN net zero scrutiny group, António Guterres argues that ensuring credibility and environmental integrity of net zero pledges is 'essential' to tackling the climate crisis. The world is in a race against time," he said. "We We cannot afford slow movers, fake movers or any form of greenwashing.".

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The banned ads included a Facebook video showing SUVs roving across the landscape in unison, before joining a tarmacked road, with a voiceover saying: “One of nature’s true spectacles.” Wignall said the ASA’s ruling would not be enough to deter future SUV advertising, and called for an outright ban.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2020

VIDEO: Founder and CEO of UK's second largest energy supplier talks to Lucy Siegle about consumer behaviour change, new subscription models for home energy, and zero carbon aviation. Stephen Fitzpatrick founded OVO Energy in 2009 with a stated mission to make to make energy 'cheaper, greener and simpler' for everyone.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Rishi Sunak yesterday told world leaders the UK was 'totally committed to net zero', but speaking to the press the focus was on scrapping heat pump rules and China's rising emissions Something weird happened during Rishi Sunak's whistlestop trip to COP28 yesterday, and I'm not talking about the pattern on King Charles' tie.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 20, 2022

However, actions are uneven across the globe and there are outstanding questions and barriers that could hold back industry progress towards net zero by 2050, a new report from the operators’ association GSMA and Microsoft suggests. Sustainability is now fundamental in how operators design and implement mobile networks.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The summit’s official “blue zone” includes large corporate-style pavilions run by some of the world’s leading producers of oil, gas, and coal, including the United States, Australia, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Russia, United Arab Emirates, Germany, and Qatar. This includes £1.5 billion in 2020 alone, £66 million of which was coal mining.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Rishi Sunak yesterday told world leaders the UK was 'totally committed to net zero', but speaking to the press the focus was on scrapping heat pump rules and China's rising emissions Something weird happened during Rishi Sunak's whistlestop trip to COP28 yesterday, and I'm not talking about the pattern on King Charles' tie.

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Business Green

JUNE 1, 2020

As such, Helen Clarkson, CEO of The Climate Group, said targeting 100 per cent EV sales by 2030 was "critical for hitting the UK's net zero emissions goal and setting a powerful example of climate leadership to other countries as they prepare their coronavirus recovery plans and their climate pledges for next year's COP26 summit".

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 24, 2022

Climate science deniers have seized on the energy crisis fuelled by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to attack the UK’s net zero target, with several opponents of climate action tipped to join the cabinet of Boris Johnson’s likely successor, Liz Truss. CAR26 hosts videos of Catt’s media appearances on its YouTube channel.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The research was based on an Opinium survey of 3,000 UK adults, focus groups, and a randomised control trial (RCT) using videos of party conference speeches that saw over 4,200 people surveyed. Support rose further still, climbing by eight percentage points, when compared with those who saw no video at all.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

A series of videos published on Exxon’s YouTube page in 2023 promoted carbon capture and storage as a way to reduce carbon emissions from fossil fuel production — even though the technology largely has a two-decade record of failure at curbing CO2 pollution, and is mostly used by the oil industry to extract more oil. “It

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Just a week earlier, Louisiana state regulators approved a preliminary air permit for a proposed renewable diesel unit at a refinery run by the pipeline firm’s parent company, PBF Energy. However, state agencies didn’t release any public information until after the media made inquiries.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Mike Biddle, Executive Director for Net Zero at Innovate UK, said: “The innovations funded though this competition will help to deliver a greener, lower-emissions railway carrying increasingly higher proportions of the UK’s freight. Project title: Lead organisation: Project grant: ECML Net Zero Traction Decarbonisation Demonstration.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

Virtually all of the world’s largest companies now issue a sustainability report and set goals; more than 2,000 companies have set a science-based carbon target; and about one-third of Europe’s largest public companies have pledged to reach net zero by 2050. So what happened this year that built such momentum?

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

In April, for example, the fossil fuel giant released a five-part YouTube series hosted by ex-BBC presenter Dallas Campbell, which touted the net zero benefits of hydrogen and featured one-on-one interviews with two Shell executives. percent of total energy consumption in 2050. percent of total energy consumption in 2050.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2020

COP26 President Alok Sharma's video address for the COP26 Business Leaders Event, hosted by the Council for Sustainable Business in partnership with Defra. Unilever has committed to reach net zero emissions from all its products by 2039. And Arup has made a commitment to be a net zero organisation by 2030.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 29, 2022

New partnership to improve resilience and sustainability of data centres Microsoft bosses reveal role of data and innovation in the race to net zero Cryptocurrency mining and renewable energy: Friend or foe? On the other hand, industries, e.g. the video games and entertainment industry, data centres, travelling, etc.,

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Business Green

MAY 28, 2020

If we are to defeat Covid-19, achieve a global recovery, and avoid a future pandemic, then we must work together across borders," he said in a short video recorded for today's UN Financing for Development virtual meeting. Our national efforts will count for little unless they are fortified by international cooperation.".

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 25, 2022

Russia may have expressed opposition to fracking and covered protests against shale gas extraction on its state-run outlets, but it’s never been proven that the Kremlin has any ties, financial or otherwise, to the groups. Rasmussen, a supporter of fracking, declined to give evidence at the time, saying: “That is my interpretation.”.

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