Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

While IRENA has not looked into the latest statistics for institutional investors, the organization acknowledged an overall positive trend for renewable energy investment. Compared to more volatile and increasingly more expensive fossil fuel sources, renewable energy power fits the institutional investors’ requirements.

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Fossil fuels Investment Policy Energy 112

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2023

While fossil fuel firms claim that shifting to renewable energy would mean significantly shrinking their labor force, the survey by True Transition — a worker advocacy and public policy collaborative — found that fossil fuel firms have laid off workers and decreased their pay while raking in profits.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 19, 2022

She also founded End Climate Silence , an organization focused on strengthening climate change reporting and ending fossil fuel advertising in the media. My son was born in 2010, which means his life is going to play out over the 21st century. How did all of this lead to the organization you started — End Climate Silence?

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 13, 2022

It is a primary data source for numerous companies, government agencies, and non-government organizations. Fossil fuels accounted for 82% of primary energy use last year, essentially the same as in 2020, but down from 83% in 2019 and 85% five years ago. For perspective, in 2010 that number was 380 TWh. Natural Gas.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

The pad is owned by a fossil fuel operator that’s come under fire in recent years for purchasing tens of thousands of low-producing oil and gas wells without a clear business motive and for making unrealistic budget projections that minimize the true cost of plugging , critics say. “The

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

The first 11 months of 2020 were the hottest on record in the Northern Hemisphere, Europe experienced its warmest autumn ever, and the Arctic sea ice coverage was 16% lower than the 1981-2010 average. Reduce emissions and divest from fossil fuels. Keep the global temperature rise below 1.5°C Climate Action in Practice.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

It’s an apt welcome to a place where the realities of everyday life seem to be in stark contrast to the green illusion marketed by the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries. James Parish, a region that has become a build-out hub for the petrochemical and fossil fuel industry. Town sign for Norco, Louisiana.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Greenpeace Italy and Re:Common have alleged in their climate lawsuit — Italy’s first — that despite knowing at least as early as 1970 that burning fossil fuels posed a serious climate risk, Eni went on to promote “natural” –- or methane – gas as a safe energy source for decades. the spokesperson stated.

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Law Fossil fuels Methane Politics 86

R-Squared Energy

JULY 26, 2021

It is a primary data source for numerous companies, government agencies and non-government organizations. Cumulatively, fossil fuels — shown below in shades of gray — still accounted for 83.1% Natural gas has been the fastest-growing fossil fuel in recent years, with a global 2.9% share of all energy consumption.

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Natural gas Nuclear Power Energy Energy 88

Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

The first 11 months of 2020 were the hottest on record in the Northern Hemisphere, Europe experienced its warmest autumn ever, and the Arctic sea ice coverage was 16% lower than the 1981-2010 average. Reduce emissions and divest from fossil fuels. Keep the global temperature rise below 1.5°C Climate Action in Practice.

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Climate change Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Resilience 78

AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Denmark set the same goal — phase out new fossil fuel vehicle sales in 2030 — and world-leader Norway plans to make the switch in 2025. Electric vehicles will begin to cost the same as their fossil fuel counterparts between 2025 and 2029, depending on the vehicle type. isn’t the only one.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

But in the intervening decades, the region’s rivers were dammed or channeled and the fossil fuel era dawned across Appalachia. Mountaintop removal mine site above Route 23 in Pike County, Kentucky, in 2010. But at the moment, fossil fuel projects still have powerful friends in the U.S. Mountaintop Mining.

Energy Monitor 96

Energy Monitor Fossil fuels Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 96

Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A CSR strategy is implemented by an organization to: minimize harm, practice fair business, be responsible along a global supply chain, exercise philanthropy and create a self-oriented human resource management system. Examples include deforestation and burning fossil fuels. This is not sustainable.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

When thinking about carbon offsets, organizations must choose certified and vetted options, as certification bodies enforce the rules of carbon offsetting, to maximize the effectiveness of offset schemes. Native Energy offers a wide range of projects for organizations wanting to reduce their carbon footprint.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 3, 2019

degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, reach carbon neutrality by 2050 and cut greenhouse gas emissions by 45 per cent from 2010 levels, by 2030. Political will to stop subsidies on fossil fuels”, or to shift taxation from income to carbon, “taxing pollution instead of people.” And the fossil fuel industry is not alone.

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Grist

MARCH 2, 2021

Companies are legally required to “plug” wells that they’re no longer using to extract oil and gas by pouring concrete into all their openings and cracks; this prevents them from leaking fossil fuels or harmful pollutants into the air and water sources nearby. By 2020, they had doubled.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

In the summer of 2022, faced with a very real opportunity to confront the fossil fuel industry, potentially forcing the facility to halt oil train shipments entirely, the city instead chose to strike a compromise that allows the oil facility to continue to operate. You’re in the driver’s seat.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

This organization launched a research programme dedicated to studying the phenomenon of global change. percent in 2010 (a record for that time) as developed economies (China, USA, India, the Russia, and the European Union) resumed their emissions growth after a brief respite during the 2008-2009 Global Financial Crisis (GFC).

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 16, 2019

Experiential learning opportunities with state and federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, and advocacy groups. MASTER OF ENERGY REGULATION AND LAW (MERL) Fossil fuel dependency. Related Comprehensive Green School Information and Resources 2010 - 2018 Subscribe in a reader A warming planet. Smart-grid technology.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

These documents, along with other findings, also demonstrate how multiple industries have employed this strategy to deny the health and environmental hazards of asbestos , lead , plastics , toxic chemicals , CFCs , and carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels. This study ( Samet et al., The science has also grown.

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Health Pollution Fossil fuels Medicine 107

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. This philosophy led Cole to structure CRPE so that community organizers were in the lead and lawyers would be accountable to the organizers.

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Law Climate change Fossil fuels Global warming 100

Grist

APRIL 5, 2021

When fracking took off around 2010, Townsend-Small shifted her focus to a new and growing problem: methane leaks from oil and gas activity. Natural gas, which is primarily composed of methane, was pitched as a fuel that could transition the U.S. That needs to be investigated further,” she said.

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Methane Natural gas Fossil fuels Carbon 102

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

BusinessGreen takes a tour around Riverford Organic Farms to explore how the veg box firm is contending with worsening climate impacts. Overall, soil degradation was calculated in 2010 to cost the UK £1.2bn every year. Riverford Organic Farms founder Guy Singh-Watson | Credit: Riverford.

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Resilience Agriculture Soil Organic 68

Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

degree C above preindustrial norms (World Meteorological Organization [WMO], 2017). The WRI warned that we need to stop burning coal (Yang & Cui, 2012) and the IPCC synthesis report (2014) said that we must stop using fossil fuels. The IPCC has warned us not to allow temperatures to surpass 1.5 billion tons. Lindgren, K.,

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Carbon Carbon-negative Climate change Building Energy Monitoring 52

Earth Gratitude

MAY 4, 2016

I drive about 15% of what I did in 2010 (when the BP Oil Spill erupted), and “fill up” about once a month. I have driven the same car for the last 16 years ensuring there is one less car in the landfills · I purchase food from local farmer’s markets, mostly organic? Most Americans are using 1.6 Most Americans are using 1.6

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

According to a 2010 study on managing soils to mitigate climate change, soils used for agriculture contain 25 to 75 percent less soil organic carbon “than their counterparts in undisturbed or natural ecosystems.” . For example, while Brazilian meat giant JBS reported emissions of 7.14 gigatonnes (Gt) of CO2e and sequester 8.1

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Agriculture Climate change Methane Soil 95

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

We must be laser-focused on phasing out fossil fuel emissions, while phasing up viable, affordable zero carbon alternatives,” Al-Jaber said at a pre-COP 28 event in Bonn in June. The statement was widely interpreted as a pitch for carbon capture. In times when EOR was not profitable, CO2 was simply vented into the atmosphere.

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Carbon Fossil fuels Technology Government 139

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The hearing comes alongside a new report by Greenpeace Italy and ReCommon, which describes how Eni’s technical consultants in the case have deep ties to the fossil fuel industry and climate deniers. Campaigners in Italy and across Africa have criticized the plan, saying it will promote fossil fuel exploitation and “false solutions.”

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Climate change Fossil fuels Global warming Africa 135

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 16, 2020

In 42 states, more people are included in clean energy than in the fossil fuel industry. The self-organizing, all-volunteer effort has more than 25 active state teams and organized more than 100 grassroots events, which collectively have raised more than $2.6 million on behalf of the Biden campaign. .

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

This technique of using statements that are technically true but omit crucial information and therefore are misleading, is called paltering — and it’s an old favorite of the fossil fuel industry. Instead, they are required to contract with “ industry-governed organizations ” — private trade associations — to promote products.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 28, 2021

He urged state and federal officials to stop permitting LNG terminals and other massive fossil fuel projects in the Gulf Coast’s “hurricane alley.”. The methane is the biggest contributor” to climate change, along with CO2, Honoré said, describing two greenhouse pollutants from fossil fuel operations.

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Fossil fuels Natural gas Climate change Methane 98

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

“It’s also important to remember that CCS is controversial among some environmentalists who regard it as technology that perpetuates fossil fuel exploration and detracts from efforts to eliminate it,” a post by the global bank ING explains. Currently, the hydrogen fuel market is small. I’d like my life back.”

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Carbon Building Energy Monitoring Fossil fuels Hydrogen 98

GreenBiz

APRIL 28, 2021

And, since 2010, many renewable energy sources have become nearly price competitive with their more carbon-intensive alternatives: the cost of offshore wind power has fallen 29 percent; onshore wind by 39 percent; solar power, as much as 82 percent. To this end, the SEC is currently reviewing its 2010 guidance on climate-related disclosures.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Barbara got involved with the local Sierra Club chapter, and Don became executive director of the Forest Issues Group — a watchdog organization that tries to stop companies from logging and destroying habitat. In 2010, they attended their first of many task-force meetings in a packed government building.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Creating better businesses with B Corp Certification and beyond B Corp Certification presents a set of guiding principles that support organizations to minimize their impact on the environment and society. B Analytics aggregates data from B Corps and other impact-focused organizations to provide comparative analysis and best practices.

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Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Organic 78

Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

Wood energy succored Homo sapiens and its ancestors for millions of years, the argument goes, and only during the last couple of centuries was it replaced with fossil fuels like coal. Smith had arranged a meeting in Britton’s Neck with Reverend Woodberry, a community organizer who had been dubbed “the EJ pastor.”

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Logging Carbon-neutral Climate change Biodiversity 94

Business Green

AUGUST 20, 2021

This is what is happening now in the energy system, shifting in front of our eyes, from a fossil-fueled system to one powered by renewables.". That's essentially the model of Global Forest Watch , run by the World Resources Institute and more than 60 other organizations. New patterns of operating. Palm oil and burgers.

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