Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Fossil fuels get named and shamed. For the first time in 25 years of UN climate talks, coal and fossil fuel subsidies have been singled out in an official document. Here, we've picked out 10 key takeaways for business leaders from the Glasgow Climate Pact and COP26 Summit: 1.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Climate funding has been committed … The Paris Agreement committed wealthier nations to provide US$100bn in climate finance funding every year until 2025, extending commitments from 2009. These commitments were an integral part of a worldwide effort to keep global temperature increases to below 1.5C It's not too late for optimism.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2022

For context, 100GW is more than the UK's entire current electricity capacity, which stands at around 75GW from both clean and fossil fuel sources. By that time, Masdar is going to be the biggest renewable energy company in the entire world.".

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 20, 2019

But from 2009 to 2013 droughts occurred in Yunnan every winter, bringing water shortages and turning farmland barren for millions of residents. And natural land processes – such as soil formation, nutrient cycles and water cycles – absorb around a third of greenhouse gases emitted by burning fossil fuels and industrial processes.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The summit also sought to highlight Africa as a destination for climate investments, rather than viewing the continent as predominantly a victim of droughts, famines, and floods. More domestic refining and processing of the raw materials for batteries and other critical mineral deposits located in Africa.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Two-thirds of the directors who run the Conservative Party’s multi-million-pound endowment fund have interests in fossil fuel firms or polluting industries, DeSmog can reveal. Financial interests of its directors include Shell, BP, consultancies that work for fossil fuel giants and petrostates, and the construction multinational JCB.

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Grist

AUGUST 9, 2022

They also confirmed that rising temperatures — driven by human consumption of fossil fuels — were partly to blame. A sign on a farm trailer reading “Food grows where water flows,” hangs over dry, cracked mud on a farm near Buttonwillow, California in 2009. In one sense, the climate change link seems obvious. degrees Celsius (2.2

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

Gordon Brown and David Cameron attended the 2009 and 2015 summits, but otherwise it's left to ministers and officials. For the UK it could mean anything from cutting all overseas support to fossil fuels, ramping up aid in vulnerable regions and investing in new technology and military hardware to meet a warming planet.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Compiled by Dutch climate activist Vatan Hüzeir , and reviewed by DeSmog and Dutch investigative journalism platform Follow The Money , the documents show how Shell was actively supporting research that clearly underscored the dangers posed by burning its fossil fuel products from the mid-1970s — years earlier than previously thought.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Wealthy countries promised in 2009 to contribute $100 billion a year by 2020 to help developing nations, a goal that has not been reached. Major fossil fuel producers such as Saudi Arabia , Russia and Australia seem unwilling to strengthen their commitments. The U.S. ,

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 2, 2020

Fossil fuels are the primary source of climate change causing greenhouse gas emissions and airborne particulate matter so any reduction in the burning of hydrocarbons benefits the planet. That is five times the rate of decline we saw in the great recession of 2009. Hundreds if not thousands of oil companies are going bankrupt.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2022

In 2009 richer nations collectively promised to mobilise $100bn a year in climate finance for developing nations, but have consistently failed to meet this goal.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2022

People have gotten so excited about taking on climate change by planting trees everywhere — with plans underway to grow a forest across the whole width of Africa , cover a third of India in forests, and plant 1 trillion trees around the world by 2030 — that the world is approaching a seed shortage.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

When factoring in the costs of fossil fuels in terms of air pollution, human health, and climate change externalities, the payback from cleaner energy sources would be higher still, with IRENA estimating every dollar spent on the energy transition promises to deliver added benefits valued at between $2 and $5.50.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

In a 1982 memo, Fisher also outlined plans for think tanks in Argentina, India, South Africa, and Sri Lanka, noting in each place a local businessman or politician that wanted to start an institute. Wade often depicts those who would deny the continent its current fossil fuel boom as out-of-touch elitists.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Since September alone, China has pledged to reach carbon neutrality by 2060, and Japan, South Korea, South Africa, and Canada have also set their sights on net zero by 2050. China's 2060 pledge appeared to trigger a tipping point that saw Japan, South Korea, South Africa, and others follow in the space of just weeks, he explains.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Like many other banks, HSBC has pledged to step away from its funding of fossil-fuels interests and other high-carbon industrial activities with a pledge to achieving net-zero financed emissions across its customer portfolio by 2050. (It It aims to reach net-zero for its own operations and supply chain by 2030.) LinkedIn | Twitter.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Global energy shortages and a recent spike in oil prices to a three-year high above $80 a barrel, have dimmed hopes that governments will announce bold new plans to rapidly ditch fossil fuels at the October 31st to November 12th summit. is closing fast. As such Peters argues that a better way of talking about the 1.5C per cent from 8.2

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 8, 2023

Modern Braking Systems: Deny the Science Even After Supporting It We now know that the oil industry was well aware of the impacts of fossil fuels on the climate and then actively worked to sow doubt surrounding the validity of that science. Excerpt from Bomb Trains: How Industry Greed and Regulatory Failure Put the Public at Risk.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 10, 2020

Last week, one of the world’s seven fossil fuel “supermajors” — Britsh Petroleum, whose legacy dates back to the early days of the oil age — announced, in essence, that the time had come to wind down its core business.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2021

And businesses felt little pressure to respond to early COPs, shackled for years by US-led doubts that human greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels were the main driver of climate change, and by the reluctance of many nations to make a wrenching economic shift away from fossil fuels.

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