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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Net Zero Watch said it hoped the new steps would be a “significant first move towards a complete reassessment of the unilateral net zero targets embedded in the Climate Change Act”, referring to the legally binding 2008 act that was passed with an overwhelming majority across political parties.

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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

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

JANUARY 7, 2022

Lord Peter Lilley , another signatory and NZSG member, is a former GWPF trustee and was one of only five MPs to oppose the UK’s Climate Change Act in 2008. ‘Politically-Motivated Climate Deniers’. The letter is the first time a list of members of the NZSG has been disclosed since the group was set up last summer.

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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. A few years later, I interviewed someone who attended the event and he said, ‘We all knew it was real, but it was too political to talk about on TV.’”. Have a tip or idea? Get in touch.

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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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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 5, 2021

The voices calling for a swift recovery and build back better from COVID are vast and from across the political spectrum. 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. Survive and Thrive!

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 24, 2023

With their unique platform and influence, investors remain highly credible messengers to make the economic case for addressing climate change; they can bridge the political divide and counteract polarization. Because ultimately, climate risk is financial risk. had $57 billion-dollar climate disasters in the past three years. No excuses.

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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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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

Political and business leaders have certainly talked a good game in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. When it comes to cutting emissions and rebuilding the economy after Covid, the prime minister really can have his cake and eat it," argued Chris Venables, head of politics at Green Alliance. The green recovery is not just talk.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

By far the most politically contentious aspect of the new emissions budgets involves Ireland’s livestock-dominated agriculture sector, which currently accounts for 37.5 After the painful financial crash of 2008/9, the political atmosphere in Ireland ahead of the lifting of quotas was febrile.

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Business Green

JUNE 17, 2020

Since 2008 there has been a clear agreement by governments that going beyond a 2C rise would cross the boundary between manageable and dangerous climate change. We now know that to have a reasonable chance of staying below 2C rise we must stop burning fossil fuels by the middle of the century. This should not be a surprise.

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AutoGrid

OCTOBER 27, 2022

In Europe, and markets all over the world, the variability of solar and wind is often mitigated by fossil fuel generation, usually peaker plants , which remain the most expensive and polluting on the system. Europe’s first VPP dates back to 2008 with an aggregation of nine hydroelectric plants totaling 8.6 MW of capacity.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2022

"As major economies pursue an 'all-of-the-above' strategy to replace Russian fossil fuels, short-term measures might create long-term fossil fuel dependence and close the window to 1.5 degrees," he said. There are signs some major economies are getting the message.

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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. From Hepburn et al. As such, Hanna et al.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Working closely with the community, Cole represented the residents in lawsuits fighting against major mining and fossil fuel companies, including the groundbreaking case Kivalina v. Cole argued that the law was not the ultimate weapon, but only one, and that the overarching goal is political empowerment toward systemic change.

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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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Mr. Sustainability

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

is captured from flue gas that is released when fossil fuels are burned. Last summer, Minister Eric Wiebes of Dutch Economic Affairs and Climate Policy wrote that since 2008 the government has paid out approximately € 4.5 So this could become a political target." Last summer, it became political.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 18, 2019

The substantial variability of climate change has contributed to detrimental effects in the economic, social, political and environmental sphere that will continue to persist long after we are gone. The London School Of Economics And Political Science, 2006, [link] Accessed 2 June 2019. 4, 2008, pp. 4, 2008, pp.

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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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

May also cited polling by the More In Common thinktank, which found concern about climate change was common across political and social groups. In 2018, May nominated two of the only five Conservative MPs who voted against the UK’s 2008 Climate Change Act for peerages – Peter Lilley and Andrew Tyrie.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 16, 2021

The developer has just declared it will not be appealing the decision, while its latest financial statement indicates the company, Banks Group, does not expect to get permission for any new mines, because of a lack of “political will”. Battle Not Yet Over’.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Sinclair campaigned against green taxes in senior roles at the TaxPayers’ Alliance pressure group from 2008 to 2013. In 2016, he blamed high energy prices on solar and wind power, saying on Twitter: “This is how UK climate policy works. Huge investment in renewables etc -> higher profits -> higher prices.”.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2021

The fossil fuel industry continues to use a long list of deceptive tactics to conceal environmental destruction that harms Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and low-income communities. That’s the top finding of a newly released NAACP report titled “Fossil Fuel Foolery.”

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

But the move to increase the tax burden on clean technologies only served to highlight the government's continued failure to prepare for the fiscal impact of the transition away from fossil fuels. "If Our current tax system is geared around fossil fuels and as we switch to cleaner alternatives those revenues will dry up.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Political public relations arguably holds its origins in the oil, gas and coal industries, but amid growing criticism it is now facing increasing pressure to forge a future path beyond fossil fuel marketing. Political public relations (PR) has its origins in the coal, oil and gas industry.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

While there is broad consensus that zero emission deep sea trade vessels must be commercialised by the end of this decade if the sector is to stand any chance of reaching its 2050 climate goal of halving emissions compared to 2008, the low carbon fuels and technology solutions required for shipping decarbonisation remain in their infancy.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

I’ve long viewed Jacobson’s life — and his collaboration with researchers, cultural icons, business leaders and political leaders — as a well-written movie script. The fossil fuel divestment movement led by Bill McKibben’s 350.org The fossil fuel divestment movement led by Bill McKibben’s 350.org

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Business Green

JUNE 3, 2020

In 2008 the digital telecoms giant became one of the first companies in the world to adopt a science-based emissions reduction target in line with keeping temperature increases below 2C, which it achieved four years early in 2016. BT has long been a corporate leader on climate action.

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Jigar Shah

JUNE 11, 2019

Prominent among these shifts is an increase in ride-sharing and public transit over car ownership, and an elevated political awareness of climate change. Over time, we joined political initiatives, raised money, passed legislation — we got stuff done. This might sound overwhelming.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2021

We know from opinion polls that citizens have woken up to the scale of the climate emergency and that it remains a political priority. One such example is Maersk, the world's largest shipping company, which has committed to net zero by 2050, with a 60 per cent relative reduction in CO2e by 2030, based on a 2008 baseline.

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Business Green

AUGUST 10, 2022

The claimants challenged measures taken by the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy under the Climate Change Act 2008, in relation to the government's Net Zero Strategy. Political significance.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

All that remains now in Europe is finding the political will. In the UK, meanwhile, government advisors on the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) have led growing calls for stimulus money to be invested in shovel-ready green projects, such as green home retrofits and electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2020

With the country having found a degree of political stability after more than three years of Brexit wrangling, there had been increasingly positive signals from the government that a raft of much-needed net zero policies were top priorities for 2020, as the Johnson administration looked to deliver on its considerable green manifesto promises.

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Jigar Shah

JUNE 11, 2019

Prominent among these shifts is an increase in ride-sharing and public transit over car ownership, and an elevated political awareness of climate change. like car ownership, reliance on fossil fuels, or skepticism of scientific discoveries?—?have Over time, we joined political initiatives, raised money, passed legislation?—?we

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

"The scheme risks being a huge exercise in greenwash, providing get out of jail free cards for polluting companies who wish to avoid the hard work of eliminating their own fossil fuel use," Greenpeace warned in a briefing note on the Carney-led Taskforce earlier this year.

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