DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2021

The findings raise concerns over a systemic conflict of interest at a time when the international financial sector is under increasing pressure to stop funding fossil fuels. Banks are increasingly saying they will decarbonise by 2050, yet a large number continue to finance fossil fuels, the primary source of carbon emissions.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 18, 2019

The substantial variability of climate change has contributed to detrimental effects in the economic, social, political and environmental sphere that will continue to persist long after we are gone. “Virtue Ethics” The Oxford Handbook Of Ethical Theory, David Copp, Oxford University Press, New York, 2006, pp. 4, 2008, pp.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

While California already has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent since their peak in 2004, many residents still suffer from high levels of air pollution — much of it produced by fossil fuels. And they have suffered collateral damage from the harmful pollutants produced by using fossil fuels. As the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Working closely with the community, Cole represented the residents in lawsuits fighting against major mining and fossil fuel companies, including the groundbreaking case Kivalina v. Cole argued that the law was not the ultimate weapon, but only one, and that the overarching goal is political empowerment toward systemic change.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 2, 2024

DeSmog has been pulling back the veil on climate misinformation and disinformation like this since 2006. Though the exact date of the vote is still to be decided, we know that private donations will fuel the contest. In 2019, the year of the last election, UK political parties received £113 million, a record figure.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

"Nearly every industry and sector, representatives from almost every business reached out to us, to tell us how, with the right support, they were willing to go further, faster, and to seize the benefits of net zero with both hands," he told an audience of movers and shakers from business, politics, academia, and the NGO community.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

It has called for new oil and gas projects to be accelerated, labelled the windfall tax on energy companies a “terrible idea”, and argued for a more generous fiscal environment for the UK’s fossil fuel producers. They provide further evidence that Number 10’s fossil fuel agenda is far from accidental.

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Grist

DECEMBER 18, 2023

percent of scientists would come to agree that burning fossil fuels had disrupted the Earth’s climate. Spreading lies about global warming like these can further social divisions and undermine public and political support for action to reduce emissions, according to the Climate Action Against Disinformation’s report.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Indeed, in one of its recent reports, Chatham House makes the case that such factors could, ultimately, displace people, disrupt markets, undermine political stability, and exacerbate conflict. It calls on countries to phase-down unabated coal power and phase-out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

Wood energy succored Homo sapiens and its ancestors for millions of years, the argument goes, and only during the last couple of centuries was it replaced with fossil fuels like coal. After they are cut they can be replanted, absorbing carbon once again as they mature. communities and destroyed U.S.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

While California already has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent since their peak in 2004, many residents still suffer from high levels of air pollution — much of it produced by fossil fuels. And they have suffered collateral damage from the harmful pollutants produced by using fossil fuels. As the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

The meat industry is increasingly viewed as a sector where greenhouse gas emissions cuts can and should be made, just like the fossil fuel industry Livestock accounts for a third of total global emissions of methane, a potent gas that traps heat about 80 times more effectively than carbon dioxide but breaks up more quickly in the atmosphere.

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Grist

OCTOBER 7, 2020

If you watched BBC blockbusters like Planet Earth (2006) or Blue Planet (2001), you would have been excused for thinking that nature was doing better than ever. Birds of paradise flaunted their plumage in New Guinea, wildebeest thumped across the Serengeti plains, and hermit crabs politely and delicately exchanged their outgrown shells.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. Air pollution: Fossil fuel combustion produces fine-particulate air pollution, which leads to the premature death of an estimated 14,400 people across Canada. November 2006. xii] [xiii]. April 5, 2019.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world’s leading climate science body, states it is “unequivocal” that human influence has caused “unprecedented” global warming. “Climate denial has no place in our politics,” Liberal Democrat climate and energy spokesperson, Wera Hobhouse MP, told DeSmog.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Sierra has been ranking the environmental performance of colleges since 2006. In May, the Cornell Board of Trustees announced a moratorium on fossil fuel investments, following more than a decade of student and faculty activism.

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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. billion metric tons of CO2 each year from fossil fuels.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

More carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel use is released into the environment, increasing from ~25 GtCO2 in 1999 to ~37 GtCO2 in 2019. Political Shifts: Earth Day Gains Momentum Despite Political Turbulence. This was no doubt a political win for Earth Day. struggled under these political constraints.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

More carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel use is released into the environment, increasing from ~25 GtCO2 in 1999 to ~37 GtCO2 in 2019. Political Shifts: Earth Day Gains Momentum Despite Political Turbulence. This was no doubt a political win for Earth Day. struggled under these political constraints.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

She says if world leaders are serious about combating the climate crisis they can "help us stop the fossil fuel industry and protect indigenous people in the Amazon, because those are the people who have been protecting the world’s rainforest for a very long time now." Media is ever reporting politics and celebrity gossip.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

The gathering comes as Rishi Sunak’s government – which is already off track to meet the UK’s climate commitments – pursues new fossil fuel extraction, and prominent figures in the right-wing media continue to cast doubt over net zero policy. It’s time to kick toxic fossil fuel interests out of politics once and for all.”

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

Following extensive negotiations, all eight of Sweden's political parties have agreed to a target that would see consumption emissions reach net zero by 2045, in line with the country's ambitious domestic climate target. The four packages of sanctions have hit hard and limited the Kremlin's political and economic options.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Like many other banks, HSBC has pledged to step away from its funding of fossil-fuels interests and other high-carbon industrial activities with a pledge to achieving net-zero financed emissions across its customer portfolio by 2050. (It It aims to reach net-zero for its own operations and supply chain by 2030.)

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

business and political history. Today, its successor EEI and its member companies continue to wage deceptive PR campaigns to fight renewable energy and bolster the continued consumption of fossil fuels. and global politics. politics for the past 100-plus years.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 26, 2020

Although the network took a hiatus in 2006 after executive director Damu Smith died , the network just announced that it’s making a comeback against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic and renewed calls to fight racial injustice. Policy & Politics. Environmental Justice. Equity & Inclusion. Sponsored Article.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 20, 2020

And the political will toward climate mitigation is growing rapidly in many places, even if the U.S. utility-scale solar PPA prices, 2006-2019. All else being equal, global solar growth figures will inevitably slow as we move steadily toward higher penetration, or at least that's the conventional wisdom. Figure 4: U.S.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

This paper explores how governments and private interests have hijacked public narratives to serve political or corporate agendas. This applies to the fossil fuel and other industries as well as political.parties and most notably, political leaders like Donald Trump. Media and politics are intimately intertwined.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Menendez asked Perry whether Trump had asked him to convey his “desire for assistance in investigating one of his political opponents or their family members, or unsubstantiated theories related to Ukraine’s involvement in the 2016 U.S. energy policy on behalf of the fossil fuel industry was a failure, however.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 26, 2020

Although the network took a hiatus in 2006 after executive director Damu Smith died , the network just announced that it’s making a comeback against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic and renewed calls to fight racial injustice.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The fossil fuels industries still receive various subsidies and incentives. Overall, since 2006, solar has pulled in more than $140 billion in private investment and grown by a whopping 10,000 percent, a number that’s slightly less shocking when one considers the size of the solar industry at the time.

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CleanTechnica

OCTOBER 22, 2020

As I wrote earlier today, New Jersey has a legal requirement to cut its greenhouse gas emissions 80% by 2050, based on 2006 levels.

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