DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

s investigative journalism arm, and the British Channel 4 News this summer exposing how the oil giant and lobby groups such as the American Petroleum Institute seed doubt about climate change and undermine legislation to stop global warming. This document shows that the oil industry was informed of the science of global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 18, 2022

While they cloak their demands for more fossil fuel extraction in concern for their constituents’ household bills, the MPs have strong ties to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s leading producer of climate science denial and misinformation. Global Warming Policy Foundation Links.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

When you’ve followed the evolving research of a leading clean energy expert and become a supporter of his vision for a global clean energy transition, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to crack open Mark Jacobson’s 2021 book release, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2024

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world’s foremost climate science body, has stated that carbon dioxide “is responsible for most of global warming” since the late 19th century, which has increased the “severity and frequency of weather and climate extremes, like heat waves, heavy rains, and drought”.

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Grist

MAY 9, 2024

And because of its depth and northern latitude, the water here is about as cold as corals can tolerate, essentially protecting the Flower Garden Banks from global warming. Amy Wagner’s team drills a coral sample from the Flower Garden Banks in 2005. During the 1970s energy crisis, oil drilling boomed in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

of warming. (If If longer-term net-zero pledges are achieved, which is less certain at this point, global warming could be contained to 1.8C.) The International Energy Agency was clear in its landmark report earlier this year: phasing out coal power by 2040 is a key milestone on the path to net zero.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2021

At the same time, the country aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 26–28 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 (a target which some deem “insufficient” and doesn’t go far enough towards helping limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures). billion in financing to the fossil fuel industry.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

billion more days of heatwave exposure in 2020 compared to the baseline average between 1986 and 2005. At best the trends in emissions, renewable energy and tackling pollution have improved only very slightly. At the same time, exposure to heatwaves has increased, with adults over 65 affected by 3.1

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 23, 2021

It’s easy enough to imagine what the energy transition will look like in your city or neighbourhood: electric cars and buses rolling through the streets, more people walking and biking, solar panels covering every roof, perhaps a spinning wind turbine or two cresting a hill on the horizon. the EU, the U.K. C target, there’s even less time.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Today's cities only take up around three per cent of the planet's land surface but have a disproportionate impact on the environment, linked to as much as 60 per cent of GHG emissions as stated but also consuming three-quarters of primary energy - and these figures can only increase.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2021

Latest update from investor-backed Transition Pathways Initiative (TPI) reveals that 'credible' net zero targets have doubled over the past year, but warns the majority of energy, transport, industrial and materials and consumer goods companies are yet to establish climate plans in line with global climate goals.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The company, which specialises in the development of zero emission vans and buses, also announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the City of Charlotte, which sets out the company's intention to work with the City in support of its Strategic Energy Action Plan (SEAP). Mcdonalds serves up US renewable energy deals.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

As explained by Julio Friedmann, senior research scholar at Columbia University’s Center for Global Energy Policy, "We have to create an industry the size of the oil and gas industry that runs in reverse. Fifty years ago, climate models accurately predicted that greenhouse gases cause global warming (Hausfather et al, 2020).

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

The author of the article is, as director of the climate science website Carbon Brief, Leo Hickman, noted , a consultant for “companies operating in the energy sector.”. Many companies were aware of the potential effects of increasing greenhouse gas emissions and global temperatures on climate. I'd never heard of him, though.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

It is hard to imagine anything more ludicrously unsustainable than the chain of machinery which gobbles up trees in the southern USA, extrudes them as pellets, ships them across the Atlantic and converts them into electric energy so that Europeans can continue to enjoy a level of affluence unachievable for most people in the world.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Rodrigo Constantino, another founder, columnist at Gazeta do Povo , and president of the libertarian Instituto Liberal, has accused scientists of deceptively using the term “climate change”, rather than “global warming”, in order to blame all extreme weather events on the phenomenon.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 17, 2020

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. As the number of global internet users has grown, so too has demand for data center services, giving rise to concerns about growing data center energy use. households (U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

But the trend took off when Xcel Energy figured out it could retire coal plants, build clean power plants, and make more profits while keeping electricity costs down. NextEra Energy. Few companies have played as big a role in advancing the clean energy transition as NextEra Energy. Once it started taking off.it

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

For the first time, it proposed encompassing all the gases that cause global warming in a single indicator. “It was the most controversial and heated debate in the workshop,” recalls Rijsberman, now director of the Global Green Growth Institute. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. And they won.

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Sunrun

APRIL 27, 2018

3 So taking the solar leap now to power your home with clean, affordable and reliable energy, is a move that will help you and your family save thousands of dollars on electric bills in the near future. Between 2005 and 2015, around 60% of the analyzed sites were in the hot category, and nearly 15% were in a new category: extremely hot.4

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Business Green

MAY 4, 2021

The Summit saw President Biden pledge a 50-52 per cent reduction in US emissions from 2005 levels by 2030, while Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga promised a 46 per cent cut in emissions from 2013 levels by the end of the decade. warming by the end of the century above pre-industrial levels. temperature rise - a 0.2C

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

Meat from outside the United States can have a bigger environmental impact — it is not subject to the same environmental regulations and requires more energy to ship it to meatpacking plants in the United States — but it helps meatpackers cut costs. In 2005, the U.S. Whose Speech Are Checkoff Ads? It’s our words.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Chinese premier promises to increase CO2 cuts, forest cover, and renewable energy capacity, as scores of world leaders reassert backing for Paris Agreement at Climate Ambition Summit. billion kilowatts of solar and wind power by the same date. TacklingClimateChange. — Alok Sharma (@AlokSharma_RDG) December 12, 2020.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Dairy is a serious, but under-discussed source of planet-warming gases. Cows produce methane, a greenhouse gas that absorbs more atmospheric heat than carbon and is currently responsible for 25 percent of all global warming today. That’s a larger share of global emissions than aviation.

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Business Green

JUNE 17, 2022

Most notably, the conference completed the first technical dialogue of the Global Stocktake , a new process designed to review collective progress towards achieving the Paris Agreement's goal to limit global warming to 1.5C. Moreover, the fact such moves are in everyone's self-interest has become ever more painfully apparent.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The impacts of global warming are deeply regressive, disproportionately hurting our poorest and most vulnerable communities. But a stalled effort is also an opportunity to gather energy. This logic is profoundly applicable to the energy transition. trillion in net value (energy cost savings minus retrofit costs).

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 9, 2019

This debate was organized around five themes: Leadership in Canada and the world / Polarization, human rights and immigration / Indigenous issues / affordability and income security / environment and energy. -- Hon. No one remembers the Paul Martin plan in 2005. We recognize that transition to clean energy will not happen overnight.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The impacts of global warming are deeply regressive, disproportionately hurting our poorest and most vulnerable communities. But a stalled effort is also an opportunity to gather energy. This logic is profoundly applicable to the energy transition. trillion in net value (energy cost savings minus retrofit costs).

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 23, 2021

President Joe Biden has announced that the government will implement a plan to cut emissions by 50%, based on 2005 levels, by the end of the decade. Biden made the announcement while opening a global climate summit on Thursday, April 22. had committed to cutting emissions by 25%, based on 2005 levels, come 2025.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The impacts of global warming are deeply regressive, disproportionately hurting our poorest and most vulnerable communities. But a stalled effort is also an opportunity to gather energy. This logic is profoundly applicable to the energy transition. trillion in net value (energy cost savings minus retrofit costs).

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 6, 2020

In 2005 she became Germany's first female chancellor and in 2011 she launched an energy transition policy called energiewend which is moving the country away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy towards renewable sources of energy. In 2018, renewable energy generated an average of 40.4 Global warming is real.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Given the challenges of energy transition, Europe is optimally positioned to lead this movement by implementing political and economic policies that will incentivize oil and gas companies to leave fossil fuels behind and make the transition to deep geothermal. degrees Celsius of global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Her energy secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg this week announced that the UK’s zombie fracking industry would be resurrected, despite a much-awaited report saying that there was still “limited” understanding of the UK’s shale gas reserves and the impacts of extracting them, with earthquake forecasting remaining a “scientific challenge”.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

utilities pledging to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, with a long-range plan that invests nearly $8 billion in renewable energy and accelerates some coal plant closures — although it will retain much of its coal fleet through 2040. Ameren has joined the ranks of U.S. Ameren joins a growing list of U.S. GW by 2040. GW by 2040.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Under that 2015 agreement, more than 2oo countries agreed to take steps to keep global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius from pre-industrial levels and, to less than 1.5 The Kyoto Protocol went into effect in 2005. The Asia Pacific region saw carbon dioxide emissions increase by 50% since 2005, while emissions in the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

utilities are on track to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 80 percent by 2030 compared to a 2005 baseline, the target needed to prevent global warming beyond 1.5 Only a handful of utilities received grades above a "C" in Sierra Club's methodology, among them Puget Sound Energy and Great River Energy.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 18, 2019

As the federal government has acknowledged, even with all the federal and provincial climate change plans and policies in place, we aren’t yet on track to meet Canada’s Paris target of reducing emissions 30% below 2005 levels by 2030 (see the figure below, which shows we still have an emissions gap of 79Mt). How do we share the effort?

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