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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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 28, 2020

To work in solar, you need to be resilient, adaptable and committed to acting on climate science. We've dealt with the financial crisis of 2008, supply issues, government policy u-turns, Minimum Import Pricing, and now we're proving our salt in the midst of a global pandemic.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The inarguable benefits of supporting strong climate policies include: regulatory certainty and financial stability; enhanced reputation and brand value; new market opportunities; reduced product loss and increased revenue; resilient supply chains; and mitigated climate-related risks.

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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. should focus on supporting a clean, inclusive and resilient recovery building on the principles of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals".

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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 A greener, safer and more resilient future is a common goal in an all-too-divided world. degrees," he said. Impossible?

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Business Green

APRIL 2, 2020

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. The UK, along with other nations, could enter a recession which is sharper and harder than the 2008 financial crisis. Juliet Davenport is CEO of green energy supplier Good Energy.

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Business Green

APRIL 29, 2020

Global carbon emissions are set to drop a record eight per cent this year, with lockdowns on public and economic life introduced to tackle the coronavirus pandemic delivering an unprecedented blow to fossil fuel demand, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). of warming.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

In a way, we are seeing this crisis as an illustration of how expensive the failure to build resiliency can ultimately prove. The Corporate Sustainability Team will be working with our CEO and executive team to implement new initiatives as they relate to sustainability and operational resilience. When there is a will, there is a way!

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

Thousands of green projects are raring to go across Europe to help build resilient Covid-19 recovery, study suggests. There can therefore be no excuse for Member States not spending recovery and resilience funds on win-win green investment opportunities.".

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This strategy aims for net zero emissions by around 2050 and includes shorter-term goals of cutting emissions by at least 20% and aiming for a 30% reduction by 2030, relative to 2008 levels. Early Phase-Out of Coal-Fired Power Plants (CFPP) The Taxonomy also provides a hybrid framework to phase out CFPPs at both a facility and entity level.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

IEA Executive Director Dr Fatih Birol said the coronavirus crisis had presented governments with "a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reboot their economies and bring a wave of new employment opportunities while accelerating the shift to a more resilient and cleaner energy future".

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 23, 2020

These events, made visible by the COVID-19 virus, have shown us the fragility of systems pushed to their breaking point by design constraints to maximize return on investment in the absence of resiliency. Even without those policies — they soon expire — renewables are more than competitive against fossil fuels.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 23, 2020

These events, made visible by the COVID-19 virus, have shown us the fragility of systems pushed to their breaking point by design constraints to maximize return on investment in the absence of resiliency. Even without those policies — they soon expire — renewables are more than competitive against fossil fuels.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

How to value solar plus storage Adam Aston Tue, 11/03/2020 – 01:00 In the wake of California’s summer of wildfires, blackouts and planned outages, many consumers and businesses are clamoring for more resilient options. The crisis has turbocharged interest in systems that deliver power even when the grid is down.

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Business Green

APRIL 29, 2020

Investors get it too, which is why Oxford University confirmed this week it is not just divesting its endowment from fossil fuels, it will also be demanding that all the companies it invests in have credible net zero strategies. And the green news avalanche did not stop there. Some politicians did run with the idea.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

As such, he ruled the government had failed to meet its obligations under Climate Change Act 2008 (CCA) and ordered Ministers to update the plan and present it to Parliament by April 2023. 14 of the CCA 2008.". In my judgment it ought to have done so in order to comply with the language and statutory purposes of s.14

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Many communities are switching to clean energy in order to save money, now that the cost calculation is increasingly in favor of renewables over fossil fuels. Additional benefits include local job creation, cleaner air and electricity system resilience due to greater reliance on local energy resources.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2020

Digital technologies and renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, Birol further argued, are playing an increasingly important role in people's lives, and the current crisis highlights the need to innovate and build resilience into energy systems worldwide, with green technologies at the forefront of this effort.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 18, 2019

There is also a recognition that present-day delay in action would put the responsibility on the future generations, who will face greater vulnerability and exposure due to reduction in the climate-resilient pathways that we still have a chance to avail (IPCC “climate change report”, 33). 4, 2008, pp. 4, 2008, pp. Dees, John P.

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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. The new Prime Minister should be prepared to answer questions about the xourt's decision on a global stage at COP27 Climate Summit this autumn.

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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. she tells BusinessGreen. "So

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AGreenLiving

MAY 5, 2020

And if the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis is anything to go by, we are likely to soon see a sharp rebound in emissions as economic conditions improve. “Resulting from premature deaths and economic trauma around the world, the historic decline in global emissions is absolutely nothing to cheer,” Birol said. The rest is here:Â .

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2020

That sets the current downturn apart from the last global financial crisis in 2008, and indeed and many of the recessions in recent history. "It Equally, with oil prices having hit record lows and likely to stay low for the foreseeable, perhaps now may be an opportunity to levy carbon taxes on fossil fuels, he suggested.

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Cleantech East

JUNE 25, 2019

The founding of new community organisations from 2008-2018. One can see the perversity of this situation in terms of the leading position in the EU , the UK holds in subsidising fossil fuels despite its decarbonisation rhetoric and signing of the Paris climate change agreement to limit global warming to 1.5ºC! What we offer.

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Energy Energy Global warming Resilience 71

AGreenLiving

JUNE 29, 2020

In a way, we are seeing this crisis as an illustration of how expensive the failure to build resiliency can ultimately prove. The Corporate Sustainability Team will be working with our CEO and executive team to implement new initiatives as they relate to sustainability and operational resilience. When there is a will, there is a way!

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Sustainability Health Carbon-negative Innovation 28

Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Whether governments use their economic recovery plans to support decarbonisation and long-term economic resilience is now the single biggest question at the top of the climate agenda. I think the biggest risk that sits before the global mission on net zero is the risk of fossil fuel lock-in," warns Stark. "If

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Business Green

JULY 8, 2020

Fears by some that we might have reached ‘peak net zero', and that we were in for a rerun of post-2008 when climate mitigation fell off the radar in tough times, appear to have been dispelled. And there will always be concerns about displacing jobs in incumbent fossil fuel-based parts of the economy. At least for now.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2022

The call comes in a report today by Parliament's Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee which outlines a litany of failures from both the government and the energy regulator, Ofgem, to avoid or cushion the impacts of surging fossil fuel prices on consumers and energy suppliers over the past year.

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Business Green

MARCH 19, 2021

Ratings agencies took a reputational hit for failing to anticipate the 2008 Financial Crisis," said Dr Patrycja Klusak, affiliated researcher at Cambridge's Bennett Institute for Public Policy and lecturer at UEA, who led the study. "It AIA pledges to end coal investment by 2028.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2021

While reticent to predict a date when the company will phase out fossil fuel vehicles altogether, Ghosh anticipates the tipping point when EVs will become dominant will come "very soon" as battery costs decline and bans on sales of fossil fuel vehicles multiply across different regions.

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Business Green

JULY 14, 2020

New Energy Policy Tracker reveals support for fossil fuel industries has outstripped support for clean energy across the G20, but is there time to change course? This has resulted in some so-called conditional fossil fuel policies that nevertheless lock in dangerous emissions for decades to come. So does the EU.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

While the transition will inevitably be complex and difficult, it is essential to building a more resilient economy that benefits more people.". "The world is moving to net zero, and BlackRock believes that our clients are best served by being at the forefront of that transition," Fink wrote.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Our global political economy, built on fossil fuels for the last century, is in a state of flux. Now that unfortunately happened amidst the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, just a year after hundreds of IPCC contributors were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. And frankly many decided climate action could wait for the future.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

Spokespeople for the states’ oil and gas industry regulators — the Texas Railroad Commission and the New Mexico Oil Conservation Division — said that fossil fuel companies plug the majority of wells themselves and that state agencies only get involved in rare cases when operators disappear.

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 14, 2020

From the head of the International Energy Agency who said recently that “governments have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reboot their economies… while accelerating the shift to a more resilient and cleaner energy future.” After the 2008 recession, the Obama-era U.S. To House Democrats in the U.S. Cost effectiveness of stimulus.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

Spokespeople for the states’ oil and gas industry regulators — the Texas Railroad Commission and the New Mexico Oil Conservation Division — said that fossil fuel companies plug the majority of wells themselves and that state agencies only get involved in rare cases when operators disappear.

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