Green Market Oracle

MARCH 18, 2020

The world still gets about 80% of its energy from fossil fuels today which generate the lions share of emissions. According to the EIA , in 2017, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from burning fossil fuels for energy were equal to about 76% of total U.S. billion metric tons of greenhouse gas pollution (MIT, 2012).

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2020

Rockefeller Brothers Fund announces that its investment portfolio has exceeded expectations and industry averages in the five years since it divested from fossil fuels. According to the study, the RBF posted an average annual net return of 7.76 per cent over the five-year period that ended in December last year.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Fossil fuels are everywhere at this COP except in the decisions being negotiated by governments,” Nikki Reisch, the director of climate and energy at the Center for International Environmental Law, wrote to DeSmog from Glasgow. Abuleif is Saudi Arabia’s chief negotiator at COP26, a position he has held since 2012.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

utilities in setting a net-zero carbon target for 2050, aiming to balance the emissions from its sizable fossil fuel-fired generation fleet and sprawling natural gas business with reductions to be gained by expanding its portfolio of renewable energy and energy efficiency. Counting on 'negative carbon' solutions.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Paris Agreement target, a number of prominent invitees represent companies with huge carbon footprints. HSBC, whose chief executive Ian Stuart is expected to attend, is the 13th biggest funder of fossil fuels in the world, according to the Rainforest Action Network. Also due to attend is John Holland-Kaye, CEO of Heathrow.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

In the past, CT Group has lobbied for fossil fuel interests across the globe, working for the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association, and the mining giant BHP. However, it’s known that the institute has received funding from fossil fuel interests.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Henrik Poulsen took over as CEO at Ørsted in 2012, when it was still known as Danish Oil and Natural Gas. Dong produced just short of 200,000 barrels a day in 2012. By 2025, Ørsted will be carbon-neutral. ” But it took much longer than the two and a half hours Looney had.

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Business Green

JANUARY 10, 2023

The UK is reaping more money from carbon taxes than it is spending on tackling domestic emissions – these funds should go towards reducing household dependency on gas, argue the NEF's Margaret Welsh and Alex Chapman. It was our addiction to fossil fuels that got us into this position.

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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2023

As such, it sets out how the UK could accelerate its transition away from fossil fuels, secure its energy supplies, and tackle the looming affordability, security, and sustainability 'trilemma' through a raft of new policies. Britain will continue to need to access fossil fuel supplies during the Net Zero transition.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The myth of the “long tailpipe”—the notion that EVs generate just as much carbon emissions as ICE vehicles do—has been debunked by dozens of scientific studies (see below for a partial list). However, it’s such an attractive argument to the anti-EV movement that it never seems to go away.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

“The Liberals announced key additional policies to help them achieve an increased climate target and build a sustainable economy, such as a 2035 clean electricity standard, a requirement for 50% of new cars to be zero-emission by 2030 (en route to 100% by 2035), capping oil and gas emissions, and eliminating fossil fuel subsidies.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

“Geologic hydrogen represents an exceptional chance to harvest clean hydrogen in a way that significantly scales back not just carbon footprints but also land and water usage, along with energy consumption,” Paul Harraka, Koloma’s chief business officer, highlighted. FAQs About Gold Hydrogen What is gold hydrogen?

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Business Green

MAY 28, 2020

University claims its plan, which promises to end all investments in fossil fuel companies by 2022 and fully decarbonise its investments by 2038, goes 'further than other fossil fuel divestment programmes'. The policy, it said, goes "further than other fossil fuel divestment programmes".

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2021

Offsets offer a carbon polluter (like the operator of a steel plant) an additional option to comply with government rules that limit carbon pollution. Carbon offsets have been enabled under international law in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and were first used internationally in 2001. WHAT ARE OFFSETS? HOW ARE OFFSETS USED?

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2023

Hoboken is making this claim against fossil fuel companies under the state-level equivalent of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, a federal law used successfully to prosecute organized crime groups such as the Mafia starting in the 1970s and later the tobacco industry. Credit: U.S.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 23, 2019

Carbon pricing is a regular feature of Canadian headlines, as parties and governments clash over the right to impose a price on pollution across Canada. Many of these discussions are centred around whether carbon pricing is genuinely effective at reducing emissions. The carbon price incentivized B.C.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2020

Founded in 2012, SaveMoneyCutCarbon provides an online marketplace for cost-effective solutions for homes and businesses seeking to reduce their bills and carbon footprint, as well as offering consultancy services, energy efficiency audits, and product installation services. Late last month a report led by 350.org

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

California is looking for ways to keep power flowing to customers amid wildfires without burning fossil fuels. Customers looking for economic multiday backup power usually have to turn to fossil fuels, like gas or diesel generators. The startup, founded in 2012, raised a CAD $3.4 Photo credit: e-Zinc).

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

It contributes directly to the ENGIE Group’s purpose, “to act to accelerate the transition towards a carbon-neutral economy, through reduced energy consumption and more environmentally friendly solutions”.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The oil companies “concealed and misrepresented the dangers of fossil fuels; disseminated false and misleading information about the existence, causes, and effects of climate change; and aggressively promoted the ever-increasing use of their products at ever-greater volumes,” the complaint states. Credit: Julie Dermansky ©2012.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

National Grid ESO data reveals a number of fresh records, as zero carbon power sources made up more than half of Britain's power for extended periods of the year. The electricity grid achieved its lowest ever carbon intensity month in February 2022, which delivered an average of 126g CO2/kWh over the period, the data reveals.

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The Verge: Energy

MARCH 4, 2024

Between 2012 and 2018, it discovered that US methane emissions were actually 60 percent higher than the Environmental Protection Agency’s estimates. Carbon dioxide, on the other hand, lingers in the atmosphere and traps heat for centuries. The group has documented massive amounts of leaking methane already.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Now the air pollution from burning fossil fuels alone is estimated to kill more than tobacco smoke. Earlier this year the world’s biggest cross country ski race, the Vassaloppet, held in Sweden, was sponsored by fossil fuel company Preem and car maker Volvo.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 15, 2022

The pivot to renewable energy away from fossil fuels will help slash global carbon emissions — but it’s likely to put significant strain on the grid, writes Emily Newton. The most popular forms of renewable energy cannot flexibly increase or decrease production to meet demand like fossil fuel-fired power plants can.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Porter states in her Twitter bio that she works with “businesses with projects across the electricity, gas and oil industries”, though these professional links to fossil fuel interests were not identified on the Today programme. In more recent blog posts, Porter has defended fossil fuel companies and criticised renewable energy.

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The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 21, 2022

According to the research conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) , biodiesel emits 11 percent less carbon monoxide and 10 percent less particulate matter than diesel. Also, Car Talk reported that a study conducted by the Department of Energy and Agriculture proved biodiesel reduced net carbon dioxide emissions by 78 percent.

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Grist

AUGUST 30, 2022

That’s even if everyone stopped burning fossil fuels today. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a panel of the world’s top scientists, projected a two- to five-inch rise by 2100, depending on how much more carbon gets pumped into the atmosphere. Greenland’s melting ice sheet will raise global sea levels by at least 10.6

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2022

The project is expected to save almost 120,000 tonnes of carbon emissions over its lifetime. Ambition Community Energy is a community interest company set up by Bristol-based charity Ambition Lawrence Weston, which was established in 2012 by a group of residents who wanted to enhance the area and restore a range of local services.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

This annual report looks at where we are compared to where we need to be in terms of GHGs (see previous reports 2012 , 2018 and 2019 ). Fossil fuel use is a major contributor of GHGs and coal powered power plants especially harmful. Efforts to manage emissions demands major reductions in our use of fossil fuels.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

In any case, why send wood pellets to Europe to substitute for coal, when North Americans burn more fossil fuels than Europeans do? Burning wood for energy emits more carbon on a per-unit-of-energy basis than burning coal. Burning trees to reduce our carbon footprint is oxymoronic.” Carbon Debt.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Carbon capture and sequestration have often been considered technologies of last resort. As emissions keep rising and global carbon budgets decline, it is becoming increasingly apparent that if we are to stave off the worst of climate change we must deploy and scale these desperate remedies as quickly as possible. Welch, 2019).

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GreenBiz

MAY 29, 2020

The call for a more resilient, circular and low-carbon economic model has garnered support from a growing number of businesses and governments over the past few years, and appears today more relevant than ever. Fri, 05/29/2020 - 01:00.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2022

Ministers this week announced they were seeking applications for the latest round of the long-running Energy Entrepreneurs Fund, which aims to support clean tech start-ups in England and Wales who are working to find innovative ways of cutting the UK's reliance on expensive, carbon intensive, and nature depleting fossil fuels.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

We were pleased to see the government re-commit to using Canada’s clean energy advantages to make the low-carbon goods that will ensure the economy can compete and thrive in the energy transition. Requiring oil and gas companies to reduce methane emissions by at least 75% below 2012 levels by 2030.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Emissions include carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O) and (commonly measured through what is known as carbon dioxide equivalents or CO2e). This annual report looks at where we are compared to where we need to be in terms of GHGs (see previous reports 2012 , 2018 and 2019 ). billion tons of CO2e in 2018.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2023

The oil and gas industry searched for a market for the fossil fuel, using it as a main ingredient in synthetic fertilizers , amping up plastic production , and, beginning in 2016 , exporting it overseas. In 2012, the Bayou Corne salt dome collapsed, creating a sinkhole more than 300 feet across. Why risk a cavern collapse?”

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Located in the Gansu Province, this colossal wind energy project is a shining example of how a country can harness its vast natural resources to address its growing energy demands while simultaneously reducing its carbon footprint. Since September 2012, the wind farm has been operational.

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