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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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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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

The UK register of lobbyists shows that since January, the influential CT Group has been representing the Legatum Institute , a think tank funded by the Dubai-based investment firm Legatum Group, which co-owns GB News. Neither the Legatum Group nor the Legatum Institute reveal details of their investments or donors.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 13, 2024

But behind the plant’s shiny facade is a worrying reality — experts say that CCS’s success in mitigating climate change is still unproven and could, in fact, harm regional decarbonization while continuing fossil fuel use. The campaign has worked. said Sisilia Dewi, 350.org That’s a problem.”

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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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Business Green

JANUARY 16, 2023

Solar and battery storage investment firm said the new fund would primarily invest in solar and energy storage assets in OECD countries. NextEnergy Capital has launched a new international solar fund, the London-based investment manager's fifth targeting the sector, it announced yesterday.

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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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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The problem is that despite this momentum, even sophisticated investors lack the breadth and depth of commitment to avoid the vast majority of speculative oil and gas investments. GEM estimates current global pipeline plans represent nearly $1 trillion in new investment. The writing, as they say, is on the wall for oil and gas.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 23, 2020

We are presented with a rare opportunity to invest in new innovations, rebuild our data and power infrastructures and supply chains to restore and strengthen the economy while healing the environment. Even without those policies — they soon expire — renewables are more than competitive against fossil fuels.

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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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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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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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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 5, 2021

The recovery packages stipulated in the course of overcoming the impacts of the corona crisis can be an opportunity to channel needed investments into sustainable, green sectors and build back better. In fact, green energy has been more resilient against COVID-19 impacts than fossil fuels. Lessons from the 2008 financial crisis.

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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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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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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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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 23, 2023

One by one, big oil firms have touted their investments in algae biofuels as the future of low-carbon transportation – and one by one, they have all dropped out. In its 12 years in the space, Exxon invested $350 million in algae biofuels, according to spokesperson Casey Norton.

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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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Business Green

MAY 4, 2021

As recently as 2018, the price was hovering around the €10 per tonne mark, but reforms to the ETS to tackle a long-running oversully of EUAs that developed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis as well as the EU's growing suite of net zero policies has turned EUAs into one of the world's best performing traded commodities.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2021

Despite growing focus on risk disclosure and green investing, few central banks have taken concrete actions to cut off support for fossil fuels, Positive Money claims. At the bottom of the table, meanwhile, are Saudi Arabia, Argentina, and Turkey, with the US and South Korea sitting around mid-table in joint 13th place.

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Business Green

APRIL 23, 2020

Group led by Transport & Environment urges EU to prioritise green investment in coronavirus response, as new report slams scale of British banks' interest in fossil fuels. That means eurobonds; green conditions on state aid; new regulations to give investment certainty to business.".

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2021

The rankings place Schneider Electric SE at the top, after the French digital energy and automation specialist last year earned 70 per cent of its revenue from "sustainable solutions" while directing 73 per cent of its investment towards these goals, according to Corporate Knights. campaign, to align their strategies with the Paris Agreement.

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

The rhetoric has been hugely welcome and has contrasted positively with the months and years following the financial crash of 2008, during which proposals for green stimulus packages struggled to secure meaningful traction and a wave of new fossil fuel investment locked in another decade of rising global emissions.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2022

The High Court has granted the environmental campaign group a hearing over its push for a Judicial Review of the Net Zero Strategy, which Friends of the Earth argues breaches the Climate Change Act 2008 for failing to quantify how or by when its policies would reduce emissions in line with binding goals.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2022

The current crisis is likely to see a rapid shift in much needed energy investments in rich countries, but sadly there is little evidence those countries will look outwards with their capital, writes Ed King of the European Climate Foundation. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is a worried man. "We degrees," he said.

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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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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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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Engage with industry experts, environmental organizations, and consultants with expertise in policy and oil and gas operations to understand the potential implications of the proposed policy on investments, fill knowledge gaps, and hone engagement strategies.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

That is the stark warning from the International Energy Agency (IEA), which today published sweeping proposals detailing how governments could help mobilise $1tr a year of investment in clean technologies and infrastructure over the next three years, averting a global depression and slashing greenhouse gas emissions in the process.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

Because our economies are still coupled with the burning of fossil fuels, this markedly reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Figure 2 Mean survey results of recovery policy archetypes (2008-2020) aggregated using relativity-adjusted scores. Clean R&D investment ranked more highly in high income countries.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 18, 2023

One of the Fraser Institute’s senior fellows recently authored an op-ed in the Calgary Sun arguing that net-zero is “the pathway to Canadian decline” and that alternatives to fossil fuels are “unstable and unreliable.” Shell has no immediate plans to move to a net-zero emissions portfolio over our investment horizon of 10-20 years.”.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Mining giant unveils strategy for 'climate neutral' growth over the next 10 years as it invests in developing zero carbon aluminium. Moreover, the firm's growth overall between now and 2030 "will be climate neutral", Rio Tinto said, underpinned by $1bn of climate-related spend over the next five years.

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Business Green

APRIL 2, 2020

In the short term, Covid-19 will have a serious and immediate impact on the levels of investment in new renewable energy projects. Once we emerge from this crisis the question will be to make sure that we don't embed fossil fuel and carbon into the emerging economy. Juliet Davenport is CEO of green energy supplier Good Energy.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Global greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation are on course for a dramatic seven per cent drop in 2020 due to plummeting economic activity caused by the coronavirus crisis, setting the scene for renewables to dominate the recovery at the expense of fossil fuels. per cent today.

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2020

However, the report also highlights how engineering a 'green recovery' backed by major investment in low carbon infrastructure could significantly increase the chances of the world meeting the 1.5C The study drew on data from 123 countries that together account for 99 per cent of fossil fuel emissions. goal within reach.

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Business Green

MAY 31, 2022

Slow UK growth in output and real wages over the past lost decade-and-a-half has meant these metrics are barely any better than they were prior to the 2008 financial crisis. Yet if real wages had grown at the same rate as they did before 2008, we would be on average almost £200 per week better off.

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