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Leading Think Tank Met With Minister Over North Sea Energy While Funded by Fossil Fuel Interests

DeSmogBlog

The Transition Deal echoed the fossil fuel lobby by emphasising the importance of hydrogen power and carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) to the green transition. The International Energy Agency has stated that new oil and gas exploration is incompatible with net zero.

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Why We Need Carbon Capture and Sequestration

Green Market Oracle

As emissions keep rising and global carbon budgets decline, it is becoming increasingly apparent that if we are to stave off the worst of climate change we must deploy and scale these desperate remedies as quickly as possible. An IPCC report (2018) indicates that all remaining gas and coal fired power plants need CCS technology.

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Global Coal Use is Falling But Not Fast Enough to Tackle Climate Change

DeSmogBlog

Despite drops in energy usage during the pandemic, coal power use only declined by four percent in 2020, according to a new report. While coal used for power generation dropped 20 percent in both the U.S. GW (gigawatt) increase in the global coal fleet in 2020.”. electricity consumption was 2.5 degrees.” .

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What Is Carbon Accounting? Standards, Frameworks, Developments and Challenges

Green Business Bureau

As such, in 2022 81% of S&P 500 companies reported their own emissions (scope 1), and the emissions of the electricity they bought (scope 2). In addition, globally, over 22,000 companies disclosed environmental data – with a focus on business emissions – to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) in the same year.

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1.5 and 2°C: A Journey Through the Temperature Target That Haunts the World

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In 2015, nearly 200 countries agreed to “Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C C above pre-industrial levels , recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change”.

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