Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

The finance sector is increasingly reluctant to finance fossil fuel expansion, and ‘Big Ag’ could be next in the divestment campaign firing line, argues Charlotte Moore from SIGWATCH. Calls for financial institutions to divest from fossil fuels have become a cornerstone of NGO climate campaigning over the past decade.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

While the fuel is barely on the radar in the United States, around the world a green hydrogen rush is underway, and many companies, investors, governments and environmentalists believe it is an energy source that could help end the reign of fossil fuels and slow the world’s warming trajectory. "It In the U.S.,

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 26, 2021

The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. For example, as I will detail below, oil demand fell dramatically last year, but we already know that it has largely recovered in 2021. Since its release, I have been busy analyzing the data and creating graphics.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In the previous article Renewable Energy Grew At A Blistering Pace In 2021 , I highlighted the inability of renewable energy to keep up with overall energy demand: “But here is the challenge the world faces. exajoule global increase in renewable energy consumption, global energy demand increased by 31.3 Against the backdrop of the 5.1

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Nuclear Power Carbon Demand Fossil fuels 78

Business Green

JUNE 12, 2020

The report assesses the projects against likely oil demand under two scenarios from the International Energy Agency (IEA) that map out a decarbonisation path for the global energy industry that is compatible with the Paris Agreement. Funding fossil fuel development in this way isn't just hypocritical, it's a waste of public money too.".

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 2, 2022

Russia’s escalation of its war on Ukraine in February has contributed to a spike in energy prices and sparked efforts to move away from Russian fossil fuels across Europe. The analysis does not cover purchasing in 2022. No airline companies responded when asked by DeSmog whether they still source from Russia.

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Aviation Fossil fuels Europe Carbon 92

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

A vocal advocate of free-market economics, during her campaign Truss called solar farms on agricultural land “depressing” and on Sunday claimed “gas is a very important transition fuel” to help reach net zero. Truss has ties to other American fossil fuel-linked groups. During a trip to the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

The lonely well pad houses four natural gas wells that records show were initially drilled in 2011 but sat inactive for years after that. With a population of around 30,000, this county sits squarely in the center of the path the Marcellus Shale formation takes as it curves through the commonwealth.

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2021

Ecotricity founder Dale Vince said he was "delighted" to sell the charge point network to Gridserve following a decade of development, arguing the UK's fast expanding charging network was facing a critical turning point in the transition from fossil fuel to electric vehicles.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Additionally, UPROSE has received support from Patagonia since 2011. who are told they ought to accept new jobs that rely on the extraction of fossil fuels and displacement. In this mutually beneficial relationship, Patagonia also provides financial support for UPROSE’s environmental work.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 9, 2023

UK fossil fuel imports from authoritarian petrostates surged to £19.3 Petrostates are countries that are economically heavily dependent on fossil fuel production. billion on fossil fuel imports from the year beginning February 2022. billion on fossil fuel imports from the year beginning February 2022.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 23, 2019

Since 2008, the carbon price has substantially reduced the consumption and demand for fossil fuels including: Reducing demand for gasoline by between7% and 17% by 2011. drivers to purchase more fuel-efficient vehicles. Cutting diesel consumption by 3.3% The carbon price incentivized B.C.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 4, 2019

I look forward to tapping into that desire and building on the strong foundation that Bob has built as we meet society’s demand for cleaner, better energy," he added. Back in 2011, BP closed its solar manufacturing business, known as BP Solar, when it couldn't make a profit. Playing catch-up on renewables. That's OK.

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Carbon Carbon-neutral Fossil fuels Natural gas 129

R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

average annual growth from 2011-2021. Can Asia Pacific region continue to develop with renewables supplying the bulk of the new energy demand? Given the rapid growth of overall energy demand in the region, it appears highly unlikely that renewables alone can meet the demand. Where is nuclear power growing? China — 16.7%.

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Nuclear Power Solar Power Asia Demand 60

R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 11, 2021

Previous articles provided an overview of this year’s Review, an examination of the data on carbon emissions, and a look at oil supply and demand trends. The net impact of growing natural gas supplies and conversion of power plants has caused natural gas to become the fastest-growing fossil fuel. for oil and 0.9% In 2020, U.S.

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Natural gas Energy Monitor Carbon-negative Fossil fuels 78

Greentown Labs

AUGUST 19, 2021

The most recent spate of power crises are disheartening reruns of the significant grid outages that Texans experienced during cold spells in 2011 and 1989. The cold weather in February 2021 caused energy demand to skyrocket. Similarly, heat waves cause demand to spike every summer.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2021

billion tonnes of CO2 each year from 2016-19, compared to the 2011-15 period. The study shows Carbon emissions fell by around seven per cent last year compared to 2019 as a result of worldwide lockdown measures and a huge decline in industrial activity and energy demand, amounting to a cut of around 2.6 billion tonnes of CO2.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2008, Jacobson teamed up with student, Graeme Hoste, to assess whether California’s hourly demand for electricity could be satisfied with a combination of renewable power sources. This is where Jacobson’s story takes on a cinematic glow, which I wrote about for HuffPost in 2011. The Solutions Project.

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Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 101

Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2021

Natural gas is, of course, a fossil fuel and so can't itself be carbon neutral. But here's the problem: that wind farm has been operating since 2011 and has already issued more than two million tonnes of these so-called 'carbon credits'.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

This science-based threshold — considered necessary to achieve emissions targets by 2050 — excluded all fossil fuels from being in the taxonomy. These demands “were essentially to adjust the technical screening criteria for gas investments to be included in the taxonomy.”. The frequency of these meetings increased to 2.86

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Instead, we suggest a new ratio for more accurately calculating fracked gas’s full impacts so that the fossil fuel industry can’t use RSG standards as a thin green veil for continuing its polluting practices. Credit: FracTracker Alliance, update to a periodic water supply and demand analysis for Ohio. What Is RSG?

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 26, 2021

million exams between 1999 and 2011. In 2018, AC and other cooling equipment hogged about 17% of the globe’s total electricity demand. Instead of more fossil fuel-powered AC, cooling through green energy could be a strong solution. Uh, maybe not. Via Science News Lead image Pexels.

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Cooling Fossil fuels Demand Energy 28

Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

But 36 per cent of fossil-fuel carbon emissions come from buildings , and even though most are unoccupied, the lights are still on and the heating or air conditioning is still running. So you're incentivizing your business as you move forward to reduce the amount of fossil fuels the business will use in the future.".

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Real Estate Fossil fuels Carbon Organic 68

Business Green

MARCH 24, 2022

New EV Infrastructure Strategy expected to emerge tomorrow, as trade body SMMT warns of growing gap between charging provision and soaring demand from EV owners. It is a proportion which needs to be close to one in every three cars by the end of the decade in order to enable the planned phase out of fossil fuel vehicles, according to SMMT.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

In recent months, we have seen game changing commitments from companies such as Microsoft to go carbon negative by 2030 and BP announcing a move away from fossil fuel extraction to grow their investments in renewables tenfold. Sustainability and regeneration have never been so high on the business agenda.

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Retail Plastics Carbon-negative Sustainability 68

Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In 1992 carbon emission hit a 20-year low due to three factors: A mild winter, reduced demand for gasoline and, most significantly, a drop in coal-fired electricity generation because of historically low natural gas prices. This growth was attributed to increased fossil fuels and cement use which accounted for 52 percent of the total growth.

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2023

Former Chancellor Philip Hammond accuses politicians of being "systematically dishonest " about the estimated £1tr cost of achieving net zero, as he fails to inform readers that his estimate neglects to include the huge savings that would come from slashing the UK's reliance on fossil fuels. Not all these policies are perfect.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

However, the 250-acre site that used to provide the UK headquarters for pharmaceuticals giant Pfizer laid relatively dormant since 2011, when the drugs company moved the majority of its operations. Turbine engines have been in development for decades," he said.

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Aviation Hydrogen Cooling Fossil fuels 73

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. State and federal policies could be reformed to better enable communities to meet local demand for renewable energy.” Another major motivator is climate change.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Fundamentally, to avoid putting a molecule of CO 2 into the air from the global energy system — for example switching from fossil fuels to wind or solar — is far easier than getting that molecule back out. CO 2 makes up less than one percent of the atmosphere by volume. One estimate by Keith et al. Socolow, R., Desmond, M.,

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2020

The UK Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) first opened to applicants in the non-domestic sector in 2011. The RHI data shows that so far across the scheme, both domestic and non-domestic, since 2011, the RHI has delivered approximately 59,000 heat pumps with the vast majority, around 57,000 in the domestic sector. Background.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

My personal favourite red tape challenge was the 2011 exercise that resulted in a government press release proudly trumpeting the fact Ministers had taken the brave decision to repeal legislation governing the treatment of pit ponies. That a large majority of the public supports the net zero transition and bolder climate action.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

Banks often provide finance and financial services to companies along these supply chains, indirectly contributing to deforestation and land-use change, which make up the second largest source of greenhouse gas emissions after the burning of fossil fuels.

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Biodiversity Agriculture Government Policy 70

Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

COP27, which concluded earlier this month, saw many contentious climate issues such as loss and damage, water scarcity, fossil fuel taxation and just transition at the front and centre. This led to a collapse in the New Zealand allowance price from $20 in May 2011 to $2 in May 2013. New net zero standards.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 6, 2021

Its work to date will produce lifetime customer energy savings of over 42 million MMBTUs and fossil fuel consumption cost savings of over $4.2 billion. . VEIC administers Efficiency Vermont , the nation’s first “efficiency utility”.

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Organic Policy Sustainability Energy 40

AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

While the fuel is barely on the radar in the United States, around the world a green hydrogen rush is underway, and many companies, investors, governments and environmentalists believe it is an energy source that could help end the reign of fossil fuels and slow the world’s warming trajectory. “Green hydrogen can do that.”

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Hydrogen Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 36

Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2021

More real estate owners, operators, developers and investment firms see the appeal of future-proofing properties from climate shocks such as floods and fires; from market shocks such as high prices for scarce fossil fuels; and from policy shocks such as any future laws requiring climate disclosures or that tax or penalize greenhouse gas emissions.

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