DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2023

From the Global Team American PR Firm Edelman Enabled Oil Baron Al Jaber’s Ascension to Lead COP28 Climate Conference By Cartie Werthman In 2023 we returned to our roots and investigated the ongoing relationship between the fossil fuel industry and advertising and public relations firms. Rewind time to 2007 to learn how it went down.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 4, 2021

Speirs, a 2007 Yale University graduate who grew up in Hawaii, told a career-focused audience that she had never wanted to start a company because she'd grown up watching the damage that failing startups wrought on her father and on her parents' marriage.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Writing in a blog post announcing the tech giant's "third decade of climate action", CEO Sundar Pichai said the company had used carbon offsets to achieve 'carbon neutral' status since 2007, but it had now moved to offset emissions released prior to 2007. "As This means that Google's lifetime net carbon footprint is now zero.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 23, 2024

The bill contained a provision “to promote the efficient exploration, production, storage, supply, marketing, pricing, and regulation of energy resources, including fossil fuels, no official of the Federal Government shall impose or enforce any restriction on the export of crude oil.” From 2004 through 2007, U.S. million BPD.

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Green Market Oracle

APRIL 27, 2020

The oil crash of 2020 is driving down prices and contributing to the demise of the fossil fuel industry. The fossil fuel industry was in trouble long before the start of the price war between Russia and OPEC. Market realities have been signalling the end of fossil fuels for many years. barrels of oil a day.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Transportation accounts for about two-fifths of California’s carbon emissions, and vehicles are harder to decarbonize than electricity generation or using fossil fuels for heating buildings. Hydrogen fueling has received about $156 million in CEC funding but has seen only 44 fueling stations deployed to date.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This shift has forced fossil fuel companies — and the organizations they fund — to alter their tactics to avoid regulation. The last of the big oil companies mostly gave up on funding extreme climate denial groups like Heartland around 2007, said Brulle. It almost seems quaint that they’re still running with this.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 21, 2021

natural gas prices to remain elevated between October and March -- the highest winter price since 2007-2008. Corbeau added that governments must anticipate more frequent extreme weather risks and the impact on variable renewable energy systems. Energy Information Administration expects U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Nor is it the only link between the fossil fuel industry and the Bolloré family’s global business interests, which encompass multi-billion-dollar logistics operations servicing major oil companies, including Shell. Further, these are far from being the Bolloré Group’s only connections to the fossil fuel sector.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

Multi-billion pound endowment to divest from fossil fuel companies and request evidence of net zero business plans right across its investment portfolio. per cent of the endowment is now in fossil fuel extractors, while OUem has increased its holdings in clean energy and green business assets. As such, just 0.6

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Guided by Fontaine, Mann set the record straight, testifying that he had received a certificate from the IPCC acknowledging his contributions towards the group’s receipt of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, which it shared with Al Gore. Many other scientists on the IPCC panel have also said they won the 2007 award, Mann testified.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 27, 2020

Coal is often called the dirtiest fossil fuel. Fossil fuels are composed of carbon and hydrogen. Consumption in 2019 was 35% below the 2007 level in OECD countries. Previous articles covered overall energy consumption , petroleum supply and demand, and natural gas. What is meant by that? They are hydrocarbons.

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Grist

AUGUST 12, 2021

For years, plaintiffs around the world have sought to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for their contributions to climate change — often seeking compensation for damages like economic losses from floods or wildfires. Left: A young boy in Kivalina, Alaska, watches workers fill sandbags for a sea wall in 2007.

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Clean Energy Canada

OCTOBER 8, 2020

A Bank of America analyst recently compared the investment opportunity to that of smartphones before 2007. Canada is among the top-10 global hydrogen producers , but most of this hydrogen is created using fossil fuels, making it part of the climate problem. VANCOUVER — Hydrogen is getting people talking.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The findings raise concerns over a potential pervasive conflict of interest on the boards at a time when the international insurance sector is under pressure to halt its support for the fossil fuel industry. “When insurers underwrite fossil fuels, they actually are underwriting climate change.”

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

The study shows a worldwide decline in coal-fired power generation with significant falls of 24 per cent in the EU and 16 per cent in the US in 2019, taking coal generation to around half the level seen in 2007 in both regions. To switch from coal into gas is just swapping one fossil fuel for another," Jones said.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

utilities in setting a net-zero carbon target for 2050, aiming to balance the emissions from its sizable fossil fuel-fired generation fleet and sprawling natural gas business with reductions to be gained by expanding its portfolio of renewable energy and energy efficiency. Southern Company has joined other major U.S.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2021

CO2 from forest fires have the same climate cost as that from burning fossil fuels, yet funding for forest protection lags far behind, writes Matthew Spencer of IDH - the Sustainable Trade Initiative. Similarly, the Climate Policy Initiative calculate that land use gets less than 0.5 per cent of all climate finance.

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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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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Google has been carbon-neutral on those measures since 2007, and has since shifted from buying power directly from existing wind and solar farms to financing the construction of new renewables, such as its 1,600 megawatts of wind and solar projects to be built in the U.S., Europe and Chile.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The revelations come as the Church faces renewed pressure to fully divest from fossil fuels after its biannual meeting earlier this month, where climate campaigners expressed frustration at the Church’s ongoing stakes in oil and gas. . Fossil Fuel Ties. Officials also have ties to banks that finance fossil fuels.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 2, 2021

As states and the federal government take steps to transition away from fossil fuel generation, it is important to pay attention to recent clean energy developments in states where energy legislation has historically been less proactive, and the traditional integrated utility monopoly model has held influence over the policymaking process.

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 16, 2022

Electricity is generated as power plants burn fossil fuels. Meeting your energy needs from electricity, rather than directly from fossil fuels, means you’re already halfway towards powering operations with renewables. This partnership was made from the business decision to fit solar panels throughout stores in 2007.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Section 16 of the Code states that no fossil-fueled power plants will be constructed in Negros Oriental. Leaving an indelible mark The Geo 24/7 facility is part of EDC’s response to the landmark Renewable Energy Code that the local givernment of Negros Oriental has released in 2021.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2022

The municipality, which is home to roughly 75,000 residents, was among the earliest adopters of a climate target, pledging to achieve carbon neutrality way back in 2007 - long before climate targets were fashionable, and well before Paris Agreement triggered a deluge of net zero goals from governments and companies around the world.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 13, 2021

The proportion of global power generation represented by VRE, such as wind and solar power, has been rising rapidly since 2007. A WWF analysis showed that solar PV with energy storage can play a significant role in meeting projected load in 2030, substituting for a large share of fossil fuels and hydropower.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 23, 2019

Since 2008, the carbon price has substantially reduced the consumption and demand for fossil fuels including: Reducing demand for gasoline by between7% and 17% by 2011. drivers to purchase more fuel-efficient vehicles. Between 2007 and 2013, the carbon price was found to have increased employment by 0.74% annually.

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Business Green

JUNE 17, 2020

In 2007, a paper in the journal Clinical Microbiology Reviews warned: " The presence of a large reservoir of SARS-CoV-like viruses in horseshoe bats, together with the culture of eating exotic animals in southern China, is a time bomb". Over 60 per cent of the energy we get from burning fossil fuels typically ends up as waste heat.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2021

Research reveals that just 19 policies have been introduced to tackle negative impacts of fast fashion since 2007 - compared to 689 to try and tackle obesity.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Edda Sif Pind Aradóttir, Carbfix's CEO, has been with Carbfix since its inception in 2007. For the US, a country whose transition to 100 percent renewable energy depends upon steady job creation to compensate for the fossil fuel-based jobs lost , this is only good news.

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Grist

MARCH 16, 2021

The project, which is one plank of a larger effort to protect and restore the Louisiana coast called the Louisiana Coastal Master Plan — a $50 billion plan created in 2007, two years after Hurricane Katrina walloped the state — will serve as a pilot for other parts of Louisiana experiencing severe land loss.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy study warns the 'climate footprint of Europe's big meat and dairy companies rival the fossil fuel giants'. The climate footprint of Europe's big meat and dairy companies rival the fossil fuel giants yet they continue to operate with impunity," she said.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2020

If adopted widely, it argues insect-based pet food could make a major dent in carbon emissions: one 2017 US study of pet cats and dogs suggested their diet constitutes about a quarter of the environment impacts from animal production in terms of land, water, and fossil fuel use.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 21, 2020

In 2007, it became the first carbon-neutral college in the U.S. It has since committed to becoming a fossil fuel-free campus by 2030. For the fourth year in a row The College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, ME, earned the top spot. The school was founded in 1969 to focus on on the relationship between humans and the environment.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The airline has been carbon neutral since 2007, however, the decision to go all-electric is not just an environmental decision, it is also good for business. The price of electricity is far more stable than the price of fossil fuels. The company expects the planes pay for themselves in the coming years. "If

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

All the way back in 2007 I wrote The Future is Solar. In recent years this has translated into a large expansion of fossil fuel consumption in these regions. They provide lots of qualitative responses like “solar is cheaper than nuclear power” and cite solar energy’s incredible growth rate.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

That includes a recommitment to reaching its 2030 goal of reducing carbon emissions below 50 percent of their 2007 levels, potentially ahead of schedule. States that have set 100 percent zero-carbon or renewable energy mandates can force utilities to forego new fossil fuel projects, as has happened recently in Virginia and New Mexico.

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