DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2024

Since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015, a small number of fossil fuel entities — just 57 corporate and state producers — have been responsible for 80 percent of planet-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Chinese coal alone accounts for 25 percent of global fossil fuel CO2 emissions. million barrels of oil.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Data shows the green economy grew by over $60 billion per year between 2013 and 2016. More here: Growth in US green economy dwarfs that of fossil fuel industry.

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The Guardian: Energy

APRIL 18, 2024

In China, 95% of coal-fired power plants were fitted with clean-up technologies by 2013. Despite regulations passed in 2015, fewer than 5% of these plants operate with modern systems to clean up air pollutants from their chimneys. Continue reading.

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The Verge: Energy

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

While a lot of government and corporate commitments to tackle climate change focus on carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels, methane is responsible for around 30 percent of global warming that has taken place so far. It’s just training AI to spot well pads, pump jacks, storage tanks, and other fossil fuel infrastructure instead.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

New research for the first time links wildfire risks and impacts in western North America to carbon emissions traceable to the world’s largest fossil fuel and cement companies. This research builds on over a decade of science tracing heat-trapping emissions and impacts on a global scale to particular fossil fuel operations.”

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2021

Net zero can be achieved, first and foremost, by cutting or eliminating greenhouse gas emissions and, secondarily, by offsetting any remaining emissions through such actions as planting trees, investing in renewable energy projects that replace fossil-fuel energy, or investing in novel carbon-removal technologies such as direct air capture.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

They include the Spectator magazine and groups based in and around Westminster’s Tufton Street , home to a network of opaquely funded, free market think tanks with a history of criticising climate action and pushing for more fossil fuel exploration. The CPS has supported the expansion of fossil fuel exploration.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 19, 2021

The Oxford University Climate Justice Campaign, which includes students, alumni and academics, is making renewed calls for the institution to sever all ties with the fossil fuel industry, after publishing a report claiming the University had received £11 million from fossil fuel firms since 2015. “By Fossil Fuel Ties.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Read time: 9 mins While carbon dioxide — deservedly — gets a bad rap when it comes to climate change, about 40 percent of global warming actually can be attributed to the powerful greenhouse gas methane, according to the 2013 IPCC report. However, they began increasing again in the last 10 years, spurring researchers to explore why.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 22, 2022

Luckily, summer is coming and with it less need for fossil fuels. Even after the 2013 – 2014 Ukraine crisis (Crimea annexation), when the European Union sought to reduce its dependency on Russian gas, things did not change much. And it seems as if the FSR is not afraid to call things by their true names.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2021

UK Export Finance must end fossil fuel lending and insurance as soon as feasible, and usher in a new era to better support low carbon exports, writes Bright Blue's Andrew Leming. But UKEF has not yet kicked the fossil fuel habit. Its energy lending policies have long been heavily oriented toward the fossil fuel sector.

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Charged

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Wireless charger manufacturer Resonant Link has been selected to participate in the Shell GameChanger Accelerator (GCxN), a collaboration between fossil fuel giant Shell and the US DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) that provides early-stage cleantech companies with resources to accelerate product commercialization.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 7, 2021

The last big IPCC assessment was released in 2013. Four RCPs were the focus of the future-looking climate modeling studies incorporated into the 2013 report. where there is a drastic reduction in global fossil fuel emissions and the world only heats up a little, to RCP 8.5, Why is this report such a big deal? Look around.

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2021

The export credit energy policies have long been heavily orientated towards the fossil fuel sector and it has faced growing calls from campaigner and exporters in recent years to ramp up investments in green energy and clean technologies and end all fossil fuel lending and insurance.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Transportation accounts for about two-fifths of California’s carbon emissions, and vehicles are harder to decarbonize than electricity generation or using fossil fuels for heating buildings. Hydrogen fueling has received about $156 million in CEC funding but has seen only 44 fueling stations deployed to date.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2020

The Sunday Times reported yesterday that Boris Johnson has called for a review of the use of loan guarantees provided to fossil fuel projects through UK Export Finance (UKEF), the government's overseas credit agency, amid fears of undermining the UK's global climate leadership aspirations ahead of COP26 next year.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

The data ranged from 2003 to 2013, allowing the researchers to conduct a longitudinal analysis–showing change over time–which can reveal a strong connection among the measures. At least they are recycling some of it and not using virgin materials because plastics are made from fossil fuel chemicals.”

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Business Green

AUGUST 28, 2020

The move comes amid growing criticism of UKEF - the government's overseas finance and credit agency - over its role in supporting fossil fuel projects abroad.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Meanwhile, according to Evans it also failed to appreciate the potential fall in costs for renewable energies as technologies improve, or to factor in the existing costs of both subsidising fossil fuels and maintaining fossil fuel production.

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Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2020

Comic Relief, which banned fossil fuel investments last year, has joined more than 30 charities that have signed the Funder Commitment on Climate Change. The commitment builds on Comic Relief's ban on fossil fuel investments, which was adopted last year.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

They stem from the system we chose when we grabbed and relied on fossil fuels," McCarthy said. Then EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy speaks to the National Press Club on climate change and power plants in September 2013. For too long, climate change was viewed as a problem for the planet instead of a problem for people.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The findings raise concerns over a potential pervasive conflict of interest on the boards at a time when the international insurance sector is under pressure to halt its support for the fossil fuel industry. “When insurers underwrite fossil fuels, they actually are underwriting climate change.”

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2022

Letter to PM argues accelerating shift away from fossil fuels can help curb surging bills and cut fuel poverty. When energy bills surged in 2013, the Warm Front programme to insulate low-income homes was abolished and the Energy Company Obligation (ECO) was cut in half," it states.

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Alternative Energy News

MARCH 8, 2015

Energy Inventions | Wind Power | Wind Turbines Back in 2013 Google purchased a company called Makani, creators of the Energy Kite. Their goal is to make wind energy pricing competitive with fossil fuels, and they believe a new approach is needed. “Makani’s energy […].

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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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2023

“The CCC’s report could hardly have been more damning – tearing the government to shreds over its abysmal progress on tackling the climate emergency, and its utterly misleading arguments that fossil fuel expansion is somehow necessary before reaching net zero,” Green Party MP Caroline Lucas told DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

Inner South London Assistant Coroner Philip Barlow ruled in December last year that air pollution exposure contributed to nine-year-old Ella Kissi-Debrah’s death in February 2013. Fossil fuels are killing us’. He said the overriding message of Ella’s case was that “fossil fuels are killing us”.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2023

Individuals and entities linked to climate denial, fossil fuels and high pollution industries donated more than £3.5 However, rather than strengthen the commitment to the government’s legally binding climate targets, the policies are expected to entrench the role of fossil fuels in the UK’s energy system.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Plus, they’d already demonstrated their reliability in analyses of carbon isotopes (used to track fossil-fuel burning), and are found in the mixed layer of the ocean — the best place for the temperature analysis to occur.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Long Island could become a hot spot for replacing old fossil-fueled power plants with batteries. That contract lasts from 2013 to 2028, with some potential offramps. The geography of the island constrains access to electricity; it relies on a fleet of aging oil- and gas-fired power plants to meet peak demand.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2022

Two separate analyses published this week have detailed how households and businesses around the country are currently paying the price for political decisions taken in the wake of the last surge to energy bills in 2013 that ultimately served to undermine the UK's energy security.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 14, 2020

The "ultimate end goal" is undoing Mexico's 2013 energy market reform, which opened up the country's energy sector to private investment, Gaylord wrote in an email. “Within the electricity sector, this means bolstering state utility CFE.". AMLO focused on the energy sector as soon as he came to power.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Skyven Technologies, founded in 2013, is a company with a unique proposition for companies in the industrial sector — a way to save money through decarbonizing. The only cost to the customer is a newly lowered fuel cost amount, he said. Startup tackles decarbonizing industrial heat processes. Myisha Majumder. Wed, 09/16/2020 - 01:30.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Report predicts global coal use will tick up again this year, but hopes remain that renewables boom could soon start to curb fossil fuel demand. Annual global coal demand is set to surpass eight billion tonnes for the first time this year, eclipsing the previous record set in 2013. per cent in 2022.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

According to the charity National Energy Action another two million UK households could be plunged into fuel poverty by then, bringing the total to six million by the end of the year. When it was launched in 2013, loft and cavity wall insulation rates collapsed by 92 per cent and 74 per cent respectively compared with 2012.

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The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 21, 2022

A renewable, biodegradable alternative fuel, biodiesel, unlike the regular one, is made from a combination of modified vegetable oils and diesel fuel. billion gallons in 2013. Currently, biodiesel is blended at a rate of 5 percent or less into almost all diesel fuel sold across the United States.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 6, 2022

million from a Kurdish oil company while serving as an MP, has advised fossil fuel companies in Nigeria and Canada, and recently defended “struggling” producers in the North Sea. Nadhim Zahawi, the UK’s new chancellor of the exchequer, earned £1.3

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