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We Need a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty to Stop Violence Against African Women and Our Continent

DeSmogBlog

COP27 has just ended and while the agreement to develop a loss and damage fund is a real victory for vulnerable nations already devastated by climate change impacts, UN climate talks once again failed to address the root cause of these impacts: fossil fuel production. For women, fossil fuel impacts are even more devastating.

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Exxon’s models predicting climate change were spot on — 40 years ago

Grist

Rising emissions posed a threat to Exxon’s business — selling fossil fuels — so the oil giant took the lead on understanding what was called the “CO2 problem.”. At the time, Exxon was pouring $900,000 a year into researching the effects of burning fossil fuels.

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In Rochdale By-Election, Climate Policy is Also on the Ballot

DeSmogBlog

In the past weeks, the Labour Party has dramatically scaled back its £28 billion green investment plans, while the Conservative government has committed to annual licensing rounds in the North Sea in a new oil and gas bill. Galloway has also called for more fossil fuel extraction.

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Biographite and the changing battery market

Smart Energy International

In September 2023, New Zealand-based battery material developer CarbonScape announced an $18 million investment, signalling the company’s plans to commercialise its biographite production in Europe and the US, enabling cleaner lithium-ion batteries for EVs and grid-scale energy storage. They hired me as an energy analyst. We love it here.

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'Time to pull the plug': Is pressure on coal-investing banks starting to deliver results?

Business Green

In his capacity as trustee for the charity he founded in 2003, the Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), Hohn has co-written letters to each of the banks calling on them to both disclose their exposure to coal risk and to "significantly increase the applied risk-weighting of these coal loans".

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The top 25 most sustainable fleets

GreenBiz

Policies such as California's Advanced Clean Truck rule are forcing organizations in the state to phase in zero-emission trucks and phase out fossil fuel-based ones. Progressive cities, many in Europe, are building zones in downtown centers that are banning fossil-fuel vehicles and incentivizing zero-emission models.

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Texas Crisis Drives First Public Power Bankruptcy, With More Fallout Expected

GreenTechMedia

But that "scarcity pricing," designed to encourage power plant owners to invest in ways that will ensure they’re able to capitalize on such high power prices to secure adequate supply during times of peak grid demand, had no effect on increasing electricity output from power plants that were physically unable to operate.