DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 25, 2021

Central banks are continuing to help channel trillions of dollars into fossil fuels through policy decisions and direct financing, with overall sums rising in recent years, a new report has found. The report calls on governments to update the mandates of the banks to support the managed decline of fossil fuels.

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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. Oil and Gas Industry Groups.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

New campaign backed by Bill McKibben argues it is 'time for PR and ad agencies to come clean' over work for fossil fuel clients. Between 2008 and 2017 fossil fuel industry trade associations spent almost $1.4tr on public relations, advertising, and communications contractors, according to Clean Creatives.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 16, 2020

16 – Jeremy Grantham called the Japanese bubble of the 1980s, the tech bubble of the 2000s, and the housing bubble of 2008. ImpactAlpha, Jan. The British-born value investor has been warning of the risks of climate change long before it was fashionable.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 14, 2022

Canada’s oil and gas patch is partying like it’s 2008, though most Canadian drivers are not enjoying the festive mood. Commercial rents in downtown Calgary are on the rise, and long-thought dead fossil-fuel export projects have zombified. But what past instances lacked was a truealternative to fossil fuels.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

OGCI claims mobile carbon capture technologies aboard ships could help the global shipping sector reach its current climate target to cut emissions by 50 percent by 2050, from a 2008 baseline — a goal that has faced criticism from green groups for lacking ambition.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Agencies facing fresh calls to cut their ties with laggard fossil fuel firms, leaving many in the advertising and PR sector with difficult decisions to make. And energy providers the world over are rushing to slash their reliance on fossil fuels as the clean energy transition gathers pace. It is a big business.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 13, 2020

2020: Fossil fuels are dead, long live the sun Hunter Lovins Thu, 08/13/2020 – 00:15 We’re female entrepreneurs and environmentalists. In this strangest of all years, as the death toll mounts from a disease caused by human incursions into once intact ecosystems, we’re observing another death — the demise of fossil fuels.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 14, 2020

— and replacing it with equipment that won’t burn fossil fuels ever again. Vox : How to Drive Fossil Fuel out of the Economy Quickly. GTM : BP Aims to Build 50 GW of Renewables by 2030, Cut Fossil Fuel Output by 40%. GTM : New Jersey PSEG Seeks to Sell Merchant Fossil, Solar Fleet.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2022

trade associations from 2008 to 2018. fossil fuel trade associations spent $1.4 billion on advertising and PR between 2008 and 2017. This study shows the billions of dollars fossil fuel interests have spent to improve their image and standing in the policy arena.” . Their study aims to fill this gap.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Founded in 2008 as California’s first not-for-profit, community choice aggregation program, MCE today serves over 1 million residents and businesses in four San Francisco Bay area counties: Contra Costa; Marin; Napa; and Solano.

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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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Congress established tax subsidies for carbon capture in 2008, and has since increased the amount of the subsidies twice, most recently in 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act. The tax subsidies are being used to subsidize fossil fuel production. As of October, EPA had approved monitoring plans for 21 carbon capture projects.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

And energy providers the world over are rushing to slash their reliance on fossil fuels as the clean energy transition gathers pace. Between 2008 and 2017, fossil-fuel industry trade associations in the U.S. It is a big business. spent almost $1.4

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Jim had recently read Boiling Point , Ross’s 2004 book chronicling the fossil fuel industries’ strategy of denial and delay, which Gelbspan correctly labeled a crime against humanity. “I Imagine my surprise when I joined DeSmog in 2008 and learned that Ross had inspired its creation.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

Conservative MP Andrea Jenkyns has become a director of Net Zero Watch (NZW), a pressure group which denies climate science and campaigns for more fossil fuel extraction. NZW campaigns against renewable energy and for more fossil fuel extraction, often doing so alongside anti-green Conservative MPs in the Net Zero Scrutiny Group.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Major fossil fuel firms have committed tens of millions in finance to UK universities since 2022, DeSmog can reveal. Previous reporting from openDemocracy and the Guardian found that, between 2017 and December 2021, £89 million had been given to UK universities from some of the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 3, 2022

Because I had already seen gasoline prices approach that level when I was living in the Netherlands in 2008, and the roads were still packed with cars. It’s not because I love fossil fuels, it’s because I recognize the risk of needing supplies and not having them. That it will simply continue our addiction to fossil fuels?

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As long as pipelines, LNG terminals, ethane crackers, new gas plants and more are slipping through the cracks of weak policies, we’re headed towards a systemic financial reckoning that will make the meltdown of 2008 look like a picnic in comparison. Indeed, it’s why U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 10, 2023

Overview The newest Review shows the world remains heavily reliant on fossil fuels for energy needs, even as renewables like solar and wind continue rapid growth. While renewable power expanded at record rates, fossil fuels maintained an 82% share of total primary energy consumption. growth in 2021. growth in output.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

consulting and PR firm, with a long history of waging influence campaigns for fossil fuel corporations, is under scrutiny by a congressional committee as part of a broader investigation into the decades-long efforts by the oil industry and its allies to block action on the climate crisis. A powerful Washington, D.C.,

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 8, 2022

Conservative Way Forward’s honorary vice president, Sir Christopher Chope , was one of only five MPs to vote against the 2008 Climate Change Act. In 2018 he attended a GWPF event to mark ten years since the passing of the Act, during which the GWPF blamed it, along with “other anti-fossil-fuel policies”, for fuel poverty in the UK.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 16, 2020

Featured: ImpactAlpha Original Q&A with Jeremy Grantham: Hold fossil fuel companies to account and make them ‘pariahs.’ Jeremy Grantham called the Japanese bubble of the 1980s, the tech bubble of the 2000s, and the housing bubble of 2008. Greetings, Agents of Impact!

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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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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 21, 2022

On Wednesday, a group of more than 450 scientists called on advertising agencies to cut off their fossil fuel clients and to end their ties with an ongoing misinformation campaign that has time and again killed progress on addressing the climate crisis. And as this letter makes clear, they have had enough. ” Arena said.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 23, 2020

To rebuild the economy, the United States government so far seems to choose to deploy the same playbook it did in 2008: funding legacy companies in industries such as oil and gas. . Even without those policies — they soon expire — renewables are more than competitive against fossil fuels. Back to normal is not an option.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Meanwhile, according to Evans it also failed to appreciate the potential fall in costs for renewable energies as technologies improve, or to factor in the existing costs of both subsidising fossil fuels and maintaining fossil fuel production.

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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

JULY 28, 2020

UK Crown Dependency sets out plan to ban fossil fuel cars by 2040, grow renewable energy sources and improve building energy efficiency. The Isle of Man has mapped out its vision for a net-zero future, having tabled a Climate Change Bill at its parliament, Tynwald, accompanied by a detailed action plan for cutting emissions.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2022

Greenpeace claims government failed to assess full environmental impacts of Shell fossil fuel project in the North Sea. Evans said Greenpeace stood ready to fight all future approvals of new UK fossil fuel projects in the courts.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 24, 2022

The coal mining industry contributes significantly to global methane emissions and is responsible for around 33% of all fossil fuel related emissions of methane from 2008-2017. Methane emissions from coal mining.

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Green Market Oracle

APRIL 28, 2020

This modern day plague has also dealt a significant blow to the fossil fuel industry and thousands of extraction and production companies are expected to become insolvent due to the oil crash of 2020. Any decrement in fossil fuel infrastructure increases the likelihood that we can keep temperatures below critical thresholds.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2023

Lord David Frost – a Conservative peer and former Cabinet Office minister who was appointed in November – is also a GWPF director , along with Terence Mordaunt , who has donated £342,500 to the Conservative Party and its MPs since 2008 via First Corporate Consultants and First Corporate Shipping.

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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. Take, for example, the 2008 case of Native Village of Kivalina v. ExxonMobil Corp., Stuart-Smith explained.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 5, 2021

In fact, green energy has been more resilient against COVID-19 impacts than fossil fuels. They have experienced less supply chain disruptions than fossil fuels. Further, the wind and solar industries can create more jobs than their fossil counterparts. Lessons from the 2008 financial crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Editor’s Note: This is part of a regular column, Gaslit , which navigates society’s dysfunctional relationship with fossil fuel disinformation. Al Gore at the World Economic Forum in 2008. Davies noted that fossil fuel interests were conducting operations of their own. Have a tip or idea? Get in touch.

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