DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Almost 100 universities that have pledged to shed ties to the fossil fuel industry still bank with financial institutions that have collectively provided $419 billion (£345 billion) to polluting interests between 2016 and 2022. million in funding from fossil fuel companies since 2022.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2021

Developing carbon capture and storage (CCS) capacity is a key feature of the UK’s strategy to reduce emissions and hit its climate targets. A number of big polluters, including fossil fuel companies, support and are involved in the UK’s CCS plans. . oil major Chevron, in partnership with other fossil fuel giants.

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2021

The "way back when" in this case seems to be around 2014. Is net zero the same as carbon neutral? You can become carbon neutral simply by buying offsets — for a year’s worth of driving or air travel, for example. It was seen by many as audacious, possibly unachievable, but still a necessary target. Ah, yes: The good old days.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Kyoto Protocol agreed to use as a benchmark for their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and 2050, the year many countries set as their target for carbon net zero. The halfway mark has now passed between 1990, the year that countries who signed the U.N. … while a lot has changed, not much has changed. Think big but start small.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The transition to a cleaner energy system continued apace last year, according to new provisional data from the government suggesting renewables output surged last year, as energy efficiency gains continued and fossil fuel energy generation slipped. The decrease is the first since 2014, following four years of consecutive growth.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Previous articles discussed the trends in global carbon dioxide emissions , the overall highlights of the Review, the production and consumption of petroleum, and natural gas production and consumption. However, coal was responsible for more carbon dioxide emissions than its fossil fuel counterparts. times 117 pounds.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Icelandic company Carbfix has cracked the code on converting liquified CO2 into rock, leading the charge to capture and store excess carbon. Capturing carbon from the atmosphere is quickly becoming a popular venture. But Icelandic company Carbfix has been capturing and storing carbon in rocks for over a decade.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Thanks to converging forces — including supportive policies, dropping battery costs and aggressive climate goals — transportation leaders at large and small organizations are increasingly turning to new zero-emission and low-carbon options that decarbonize fleets and in some cases save money. Media Authorship. Anheuser-Busch. Anheuser-Busch.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 2, 2022

Ukrainian activists have criticised aviation companies for buying billions of pounds worth of jet fuel from Russia since Vladimir Putin’s 2014 annexation of Crimea. IAG – which also owns Spanish and Irish carriers Iberia and Aer Lingus – used 586 barrels of Russian jet fuel per day in 2021, spending the equivalent of £36,903 per day.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 10, 2023

The Statistical Review is instrumental in providing comprehensive data on global oil, gas, and coal production and consumption, as well as on carbon dioxide emissions and renewable energy statistics. While renewable power expanded at record rates, fossil fuels maintained an 82% share of total primary energy consumption.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 7, 2020

Greenhouse gas emissions are rising and our carbon budget* is dwindling. Between 2014 and 2016, global carbon emissions remained mostly flat, but emissions began to rise again in 2017. billion metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in 2019. degrees, we had 420 GtCO2 left in our carbon budget as of Jan.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

BIRMINGHAM, UK – The elite public relations firm Edelman – long criticised for working with the fossil fuel industry to distort climate science and slow climate action – is hosting an “international lounge” at the four-day Conservative party conference in Birmingham. Misinformation and Greenwashing.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Rich countries are forcing an agreement full of escape hatches: carbon markets, nature-based solutions and ‘net zero by the middle of the century’ are all ways for them to get out of making the real emissions cuts we need to prevent climate catastrophe.”. Carbon trading. Carbon capture.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The sad irony of these sponsorship deals has been highlighted today by advertising campaign Badvertising and think tank New Weather Sweden in a new report titled The Snow of Thieves - How High-Carbon Sponsors are Melting Winter Sports that has sparked fresh calls for an end to such contradictory sponsorship deals.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 14, 2022

Previous articles covered overall energy consumption , carbon dioxide emissions , petroleum supply and demand, and global natural gas trends. Coal is the most polluting fossil fuel. Fossil fuels are primarily composed of carbon and hydrogen. Today I delve into the data on coal production and consumption.

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Business Green

APRIL 5, 2022

The world's top climate scientists have updated their guidance on carbon removals technologies, arguing they are likely to prove essential to stablising global temperatures, but only if they are developed judiciously.

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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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Grist

JULY 5, 2023

In this piece, experts explain why they see elections as the most important space for individuals to get involved — and how focusing on this type of action can even help us leave behind guilt over personal carbon footprints. The vision “We want to be in the business of creating more environmental voters. on Jul 5, 2023.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

On the plus side, the pact reaffirmed the central importance of 1.5C (our best chance to avoid the worst impacts of climate change), mentions coal and fossil fuels for the first time, and calls for countries to “revisit and strengthen” 2030 climate pledges by the end of 2022 instead of waiting another five years. of warming.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Iowa’s most populous city passed a resolution last month calling for a transition to 100% carbon-free electricity community-wide by 2035. In 2014, Minneapolis used the expiration of its franchise agreement with Xcel Energy to press the utility on clean energy. Cities are starting to see that they have a seat at the table.”.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 6, 2020

And the problem has been getting worse: Direct industrial emissions rose by 65 percent from 1990 to 2014. By phase two (2035-2050), technologies such as carbon capture and storage, carbon capture and utilization, and new cement chemistries are ready to join the effort.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

World Benchmarking Alliance warns that the global oil and gas industry is on track to smash through the carbon budgets that would prevent global average temperature increases spiralling above 1.5C. Total Energies - are set to use up 13 per cent of the sector's carbon budget. The world's chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C

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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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Nigel Farage ’s Reform party received £135,000 this year from donors linked to climate science denial and fossil fuels, DeSmog can reveal. Latest official records show that all donations made to Reform UK so far this year are from individuals with ties to climate science denial or fossil fuel interests.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

China is now the world's second largest economy and the largest carbon emitter. Their coal powered economic growth has unleashed a carbon bomb. Overall the country's carbon output tripled between 2000 and 2018, and its CO2 emissions now represents almost one third of the global total.

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Energy Innovation

APRIL 27, 2020

The industrial sector was responsible for 33 percent of global anthropogenic emissions in 2014, and industrial emissions are only projected to rise – direct industrial emissions rose 65 percent from 1990 to 2014. Key technologies include energy and material efficiency , carbon capture, electrification, and zero-carbon hydrogen.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I think the bottom line message in this study is there’s a lot of emissions in the shallow waters that are currently unmeasured,” said Riley Duren, the CEO of Carbon Mapper and coauthor of the nonprofit’s 2022 study of offshore methane emissions. years between 1992 and 2014 because of off-gas, according to a 2015 report commissioned by BSEE.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Paul-Frederik Bach, a former transmission system operator executive, started tracking European wholesale electricity prices on his blog in 2014. If carbon taxes on fossil-fueled generation had been built in from the start, Europe’s energy systems would already be fully renewable, he said.

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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

APRIL 26, 2021

There is a generation of Millennials around the globe who have written off fossil fuels,” Chris Romer, co-founder of Project Canary, told the oil and gas industry trade publication Rigzone this month. “We “And then we’re going to create a carbon offset by plugging and abandoning that well, so it never leaks methane again.”

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Grist

AUGUST 12, 2021

According to the IPCC, scientists have gotten much better at this over the past decade, and can now more rigorously pin extreme heat, heavy precipitation, dry spells, and hurricanes on big carbon emitters. In other words, “How much has an individual fossil fuel company contributed to climate change?” Stuart-Smith explained.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 13, 2022

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. Global carbon dioxide emissions rebounded from 2020 levels, growing by 5.9% Natural gas has been the fastest-growing fossil fuel in recent years, with a global 2.2%

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

While California already has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent since their peak in 2004, many residents still suffer from high levels of air pollution — much of it produced by fossil fuels. And they have suffered collateral damage from the harmful pollutants produced by using fossil fuels. As the U.S.

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Greentown Labs

JULY 16, 2020

Leading climatetech innovation organizations launch multi-year initiative to accelerate the trillion-dollar carbon-to-value market. More than 100 gigatons of carbon, in the form of carbon dioxide, must be removed from the atmosphere by 2050. Newswise — New York City, N.Y., and Somerville, Mass., July 16, 2020.

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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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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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GreenBiz

MAY 16, 2020

It is gradual, and it derives largely from the familiar and widespread practice of burning fossil fuels. There is no need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and no point in attempting to do so," as one recent Heartland document succinctly put it. It is something we all contribute to and cannot just blame on enemy evildoers.

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