Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

I’ve long viewed Jacobson’s life — and his collaboration with researchers, cultural icons, business leaders and political leaders — as a well-written movie script. Meeting of The Solutions Project and Sierra Club at Cornell University on April 20, 2013. Jacobson’s Early Story. Jacobson, Mark Ruffalo, and Josh Fox. © Jon Wank.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The first report, which the United Nations secretary-general called a “ code red for humanity ,” was released last summer and addressed the physical science of climate change , warning that global warming was “widespread, rapid, and intensifying.” Devastation from Typhoon Haiyan, which ripped through the Philippines in 2013.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

Albanese, a veteran politician who served as deputy prime minister under the last Labor government that was voted out in 2013, is to be sworn into office today. The country's national climate action plan under the Paris Agreement remained worryingly underpowered, aligned with as much as up to 4C of global warming, according to some experts.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Australia, for example, has already put out a statement this week stressing that its 2030 target is "fixed" and highlighting how it has a near-unique position as an industrialised economy with huge extractive industries and fossil fuel exports. Coal and fossil fuels: An increasingly risky investment bet.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. Nassos and Nikos Avlonas, 2013 The new edition is a practical guide to about moving towards a Sustainable Economy updated with practical case studies and supporting teaching material. Climate impacts 2. Justice 5.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

Boris Johnson ’s resignation honours list includes MPs and political advisors with ties to climate science denial and the oil and gas industry, DeSmog can reveal. Last August, Cox said : “I am now even more convinced man is not responsible for global warming.”

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2022

Between 2013 and 2017, United Arab Emirates-based investment manager Alan McCormick tweeted numerous articles by climate science deniers, including one calling on readers to “celebrate carbon dioxide”. In March 2015, McCormick tweeted a Wall Street Journal article headlined “The Political Assault on Climate Skeptics”. Jenkins Jr.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), any group working for a foreign country to conduct political activity or public relations in the U.S. political strategy group GMMB , to lobby for the UAE to host the newly created International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), an intergovernmental body. Under the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 10, 2022

Neil Record , a currency trader and chair of the Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF) , donated £5,000 to Baker in February for a “media and strategic campaign consultant”, understood to be Barker, to work on the Conservative Way Forward relaunch, according to parliament’s register of interests.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 24, 2021

The policy has been billed as a “transformative” partnership designed to put the industry on a net zero pathway, including a 50 percent cut in operational emissions by 2030, but has been criticised by campaigners for leaving the door open to further fossil fuel exploration.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 20, 2021

of scientists globally agree that burning fossil fuels such as oil, gas and coal is the main cause of climate change. The case for global action at the COP26 summit in Glasgow, where world leaders will meet to discuss the climate crisis , is strengthened by the study. The other three percent were of a contrary opinion.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Add to that a huge round of new licences for North Sea oil and gas extraction – and no further windfall taxes on energy companies making bumper profits – and it’s clear the former Shell manager has few qualms about going all-out for fossil fuels. Zahawi earned £1.3

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

Previous reports indicate that Tufton Street groups have received substantial funds from organisations that support climate science denial in the past decade, with some donations provided directly by fossil fuel firms. Every single one of its members was given the lowest transparency rating – E – by openDemocracy’s ‘ Who Funds You?

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

More carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel use is released into the environment, increasing from ~25 GtCO2 in 1999 to ~37 GtCO2 in 2019. kg/person in 2013. In the 1970s, 35 million tonnes of plastic was produced globally, mounting to 381 million tonnes in 2015. This was no doubt a political win for Earth Day.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

More carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel use is released into the environment, increasing from ~25 GtCO2 in 1999 to ~37 GtCO2 in 2019. kg/person in 2013. In the 1970s, 35 million tonnes of plastic was produced globally, mounting to 381 million tonnes in 2015. This was no doubt a political win for Earth Day.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

She launched her own chapter of Fridays for Future after she realized that the strong rains and long droughts that hurt her family’s crops could be attributed to global warming. Media is ever reporting politics and celebrity gossip. Hilda Nakabuye is from Kampala, Uganda. Howey Ou is from Guilin, China. Luisa-Marie said.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

The gathering comes as Rishi Sunak’s government – which is already off track to meet the UK’s climate commitments – pursues new fossil fuel extraction, and prominent figures in the right-wing media continue to cast doubt over net zero policy. It’s time to kick toxic fossil fuel interests out of politics once and for all.”

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 10, 2022

He repeats familiar talking points from public figures blocking climate action, including the Net Zero Scrutiny Group of MPs, who argue that the war in Ukraine means the UK should extract more fossil fuels and overturn its moratorium on fracking. Farage went further – arguing for coal extraction at the proposed mine in Cumbria.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Amid February’s record-breaking temperatures, climate is emerging as a battleground – and faultline – between the UK’s two biggest political parties in the run up to the next general election. Wrangling between the Tories and Labour has also opened the door for fringe political activists.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

After decades of political unrest, a relative emerging peace had emboldened the government to put its oil up for sale. Any internal disputes over resource sharing could spell disaster in Somalia, a politically fractured country recovering from decades of war. Credit: Twitter/Asair Firin. Final Frontier’. Credit: Liberty Petroleum.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

despite the disinformation coming from President Trump, the GOP and the fossil fuel industry. A poll from the Yale Program for Climate Communication showed that 70 percent of voters favor federal COVID-19 stimulus funding going to clean energy rather than fossil fuels. This includes support for the Green New Deal.

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