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Reducing The Risk Of Investing In Electric Vehicles For Low-Income Consumers

Energy Innovation

In addition, 52 percent of those surveyed reported a negative effect on their quality of life. T The authors demonstrate that the net emissions impact of EV adoption is likely negative, as CO2 reductions from a transition to EVs would outstrip the increase in emissions due to increased consumption of electricity. Evidence from China.”

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Truss’s Chief of Staff Lobbied for Company Powering ‘Green’ North Sea Oil Rigs

DeSmogBlog

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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Hydrogen Hype Bubbles Over At German Gas Lobby Conference

DeSmogBlog

Echoing a trend seen among fossil fuel incumbents the world over, Germany’s pipeline operators are casting themselves as gatekeepers to climate solutions. It’s quite simple,” said Andreae, who served as a Green Party member of parliament from 2002-2019. But we’ll need molecules, and that is the deciding factor. “In

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How Shell Is Selling the Petrochemical Buildout as ‘Sustainable’

DeSmogBlog

For instance, the company’s just-published “ Energy Transition Progress report ” references chemicals right alongside “low carbon energy” and “renewable natural gas” as examples of the company’s stated commitment to lowering emissions. Shell agreed to fund their relocation in 2002 — but Hawkins’ family was one of the few who decided to stay.

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Left in the cold: Why UK homes are still hundreds of years off schedule for delivering net zero emissions

Business Green

Without a clear and ambitious government plan zero carbon home heating by 2050 remains a pipe dream, a new analysis from the UK Energy Research Centre warns. At present home heating - the bulk of which is provided by the fossil fuel gas grid - accounts for 13 per cent of UK emissions. per cent from 2018, UKERC said. "The

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Will There Be a Green Economic Recovery?

Sustainability Consulting

Three researchers at Oxford University looked at the link between firms’ environmental, social, and governance practices (ESG) and GDP between 2002-2017. Build carbon-capture-and-storage infrastructure around large industrial clusters ? There is new evidence in support of green economic recovery policies. They are: ?

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Climate Deniers and the Language of Climate Obstruction

DeSmogBlog

Sommers’ statement may be, in fact, one of the most literal examples of how fossil fuel companies are using language to perpetuate their climate denial and fend off action. Arena was one of six employees to resign in 2015 following revelations of the firm’s greenwashing work with fossil fuel lobbies and associations.