DeSmogBlog

JULY 22, 2021

Former UK Energy Minister and original COP26 President Claire O’Neill has been cleared to take up a role at a business consultancy known for running “astroturf” campaigns for fossil fuel companies, despite warnings from the body that approves such appointments.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Green , James Bee , and Kevin Mak On 3 December 2023, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) unveiled the Singapore-Asia Taxonomy for Sustainable Finance (Taxonomy) at the United Nations COP28 climate conference in Dubai. signing of all the financing agreements) has been made prior to December 2021.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The system works by setting a limit on the total amount of greenhouse gases released by refineries, power plants and other large emitters, and requires polluters to obtain permits to cover their share. In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2020

Mobile giant plans to cut carbon across both its business and supply chain as well as ramping up renewable energy deals. To get there, it said it would switch third party landlords that support the O2 network over to using renewable energy, while "creating technical and energy transition solutions across its whole business where needed".

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 4, 2021

A decade of pressure on companies to report on and reduce their contribution to climate change has created something of a blueprint for investors to demand the same in terms of the separate but interconnected biodiversity crisis. “It is a positive step, but we have to see the detailed evidence in practice.”

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2021

A report published this morning by the select committee warns the UK's legally enshrined target to achieve net zero emissions will "hit a roadblock" unless urgent action is taken to improve the energy efficiency of the UK's homes, which are responsible for 19 per cent of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions and 30 per cent of energy use.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

COP27, which concluded earlier this month, saw many contentious climate issues such as loss and damage, water scarcity, fossil fuel taxation and just transition at the front and centre. The development of the ISO standards is an encouraging first step in addressing the challenges facing the governance and incentivisation of carbon removals.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 5, 2020

The data indicates that declines in coal use was the main factor that led to last year’s carbon emissions decrease, as both oil and natural gas usage levels remained unchanged. Related: Renewable energy surpasses fossil fuels in the UK Decarbonization and the move to expand renewable energy capacity have been important goals for the U.K.,

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Green Market Oracle

APRIL 20, 2020

Fossil fuels are a leading cause of climate change and research shows that ubiquitous spills and leaks are often far worse than reported. In May 2019, the US Coast Guard installed a containment system and in September 2018 a NOAA research vessel was spotted at a Taylor Energy production site in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2020

A new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change has warned that the sharp reductions in greenhouse gas emissions experienced this year as a result of the coronavirus crisis are likely to a "negligible" impact on temperatures. "We Study: China accounts for over 90 per cent of planned global coal power capacity.

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Business Green

JUNE 15, 2020

Researchers at the University's Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research analysed new CO2, ship age, and scrappage data covering the 11,000 vessels included in the EU's new emissions monitoring scheme for the study, which was published in the journal BMC Energy late last week.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 23, 2023

The magic formula for commercial viability of algae biofuels is a strain that can produce 15 grams of oil per square meter in an outdoor environment, and one Viridos strain had reached 10 grams. At the time, Exxon was investing in everything from solar and nuclear to lithium batteries and climate change research.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15. and globally by 2040. Company profile.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Think thin-film solar and biofuels, the two “big bad bets” that Shayle Kann, partner at Energy Impact Partners, identified in a 2020 Interchange conversation. billion according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance to $16 billion, according to PwC.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

All of a sudden sustainability is about climate change, ending poverty, and gender equality. Energy Star. Creating any product and delivering any service uses natural resources and energy, but some industries are more harmful than others. This detracts from public understanding of environmental issues. USDA Organic.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

IBM has spent the past decade advancing smart meter and digital grid technologies around the world, including playing a key role in designing the "Smart Grid Maturity Model" that helped guide investment strategies for hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 4, 2022

and Germany will continue to rapidly deploy renewable power and electric vehicles. Fossil fuel usage will plummet. If it was removed from the market today, the price of oil would skyrocket far past the previous record price set in 2008. But, in the real world so can American energy. The Power of U.S.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Between 2008 and 2019, the average amount of meat eaten each day per person in the UK fell from just under 104g to a little more than 86g, according to the UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

All of a sudden sustainability is about climate change, ending poverty, and gender equality. Energy Star. Creating any product and delivering any service uses natural resources and energy, but some industries are more harmful than others. This detracts from public understanding of environmental issues. USDA Organic.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

By the late 1970s, the petroleum industry had spent about two decades collecting information from their own scientists and outside experts and knew that burning fossil fuels would create catastrophic climate change. And the company was monitoring all scientific research and policy activities, through a single collection point.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 26, 2020

Joe Biden recently released a plan to address climate change on a trillion-dollar scale. We look at why Facebook is rejecting the conclusions of its fact-checkers on some articles about climate change. Recommended reading: Biden Campaign : Climate Plan. NYT : How Facebook Handles Climate Disinformation.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 20, 2021

You might not know that he’s also an army veteran, former Federal Chief Sustainability Officer under the Obama Administration, and a multi-hyphenate who’s dedicated his career to public service, renewable energy, and sustainability. Starting in renewable energy.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The system works by setting a limit on the total amount of greenhouse gases released by refineries, power plants and other large emitters, and requires polluters to obtain permits to cover their share. In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

C above pre-industrial levels , recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change”. It was at COP21, where the Paris Agreement , the most important climate pact to date, was enshrined. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. That paragraph, in article 2, paragraph 2.a.,

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

In that spirit, I recently sat down (well, at least one of us was sitting) with ChatGPT to discuss climate tech and corporate sustainability. ChatGPT: Artificial Intelligence can be considered as a climate technology in some cases, but it is not inherently a climate technology. Makower: Great.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021 Elsa Wenzel Mon, 01/11/2021 – 02:15 The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

The wastewater well sits on land that’s owned by ExxonMobil, was drilled by ConocoPhillips, and eventually wound up run by a tiny start-up called Black Elk Energy that specialized in wringing out the last dregs of oil from aging wells. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management staffer. Credit: Julie Dermansky. In the U.S.,

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

In the absence of thick multi-year ice, which can be up to five meters deep, any water that refreezes would take the form of much thinner, more navigable seasonable ice. As long as there is ice in a body of water, any surrounding heat energy is carried towards the ice to make it melt. Good news for boats, bad news for polar bears.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Introduction Climate Change. Food is basically a combination of energy, water and nutrients. Some plants and micro-organisms can make food ‘out of thin air’ by simply rearranging carbon, water and oxygen molecules using energy from the Sun. Added to this are notes and additions from Mr. Sustainability. Deforestation.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

A nascent but growing body of research suggests that these sorts of leaks make oil and gas wells significant contributors to climate change — especially if they’re not plugged. The mighty Chesapeake Energy, a publicly traded company with $8.5 Leaking wells also have the potential to poison sources of drinking water.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

A nascent but growing body of research suggests that these sorts of leaks make oil and gas wells significant contributors to climate change — especially if they’re not plugged. The mighty Chesapeake Energy, a publicly traded company with $8.5 Leaking wells also have the potential to poison sources of drinking water.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2021

The fossil fuel industry and its investors have financially benefited from tax policies and subsidies designed to reduce the emissions from oil, gas, and coal — sometimes without taking the action required to tackle climate change. NEW: @MittRomney leans in on carbon tax to spur clean energy technology breakthroughs.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 20, 2024

Last September, in an article titled “ Do Climate Commitment Act allowance prices get passed through to the pump? ” we established a fact-based, dependable baseline expectation for monitoring the price signal of the Climate Commitment Act (CCA) at the pump. 1] In 2023, the price increase was: 74 cents per gallon.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Their climate “advertorials” appeared in the op-ed page of the New York Times and were part of what scholars have called “the longest, regular (weekly) use of media to influence public and elite opinion in contemporary America.”. Controlling Climate Science. Big Oil also saw climate change coming.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

VERGE Energy Conference (VERGE 20) will take place on October 26-30, 2020. This online event can be attended from anywhere, The central theme at VERGE 20 will focus on how energy systems can be decarbonized, decentralized, digitized and democratized. Climate change is the most significant global threat we face today.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 18, 2024

Last September, in an article titled “ Do Climate Commitment Act allowance prices get passed through to the pump? ” we established a fact-based, dependable baseline expectation for monitoring the price signal of the Climate Commitment Act (CCA) at the pump. cents per gallon in July, 2023. day in added fuel costs.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 18, 2024

Last September, in an article titled “ Do Climate Commitment Act allowance prices get passed through to the pump? ” we established a fact-based, dependable baseline expectation for monitoring the price signal of the Climate Commitment Act (CCA) at the pump. cents per gallon in July, 2023. day in added fuel costs.

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