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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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Under growing pressure to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, developers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are turning to questionable claims about “carbon neutrality,” “net-zero,” or “green LNG,” in order to pass muster with governments, investors, and society, who are becoming increasingly anxious about the climate crisis. While the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

billion invested in fossil fuels firms, including oil and gas majors Chevron, Shell, and Equinor, as of June 2023. private equity firm KKR, also has a large fossil fuel portfolio , including 188 assets in oil, gas, and coal. DeSmog also revealed that Marshall Wace – Paul Marshall’s hedge fund – had £1.8

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Climate change Fossil fuels Global warming Carbon-neutral 83

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

Both EQT and Chesapeake will seek certification from outside providers, including a business called Project Canary, which touts its ability to collect data on methane emissions and pollutants from oil and gas wells and offers a certification it calls TrustWell. But meanwhile, the industry’s methane emissions have continued to rapidly rise.

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Fossil fuels Carbon Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 98

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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Cast your mind back to 2014. 2014 was also the year of peak frack - the year that Westminster went mad for fracking and all it could bring to the UK energy system. Well, with a whopping 392 mentions last year, hydrogen received more Parliamentary attention in 2020 than fracking in 2014. A different time. But we are anti-hype.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In this Low Carbon Prosperity Institute (LCPI) analysis, we explore scenarios of carbon reduction investment performance based on the revenue allocation described in Initiative 1631. The measure is intended, but not required, to reduce carbon emissions in 2035 to 25% below 1990 levels, consistent with the state’s legislated target.

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Business Green

JANUARY 16, 2023

COP28 President hints at UAE's priorities for Summit in maiden speech, as core principles for controversial plan to use voluntary carbon markets to bankroll energy transition are unveiled. As long as the world still uses hydrocarbons, we must ensure they are the least carbon intensive possible," he said.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

regulators are looking for ways to force fossil fuel companies to foot the bill — and Colorado is supposed to have the answer. That’s according to a new report published Thursday by the Carbon Tracker Initiative, an energy-focused think tank. Published in partnership with The Guardian. This dynamic is widespread across the U.S.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Summary - Freaked out scientists and gleeful captains of fossil-fuel tankers are now sailing through climate history in the melting polar region. The Arctic is rich in natural resources like fossil fuel and already under significant climate stress, warming more than twice as fast as the rest of the planet.

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Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Climate change 78

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

Sewell, a 48-year-old businessman based in Midland, Texas, founded 7S Oil and Gas LLC in 2014. In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. Then William “Gilligan” Sewell came along.

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Methane Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 97

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

On my lastest flight surveying fossil fuel industry sites in southwest Louisiana at the end of September, I photographed liquified natural gas (LNG) export facilities, signs of drought, fire-scarred stretches of marsh, and a salt dome site at risk of collapsing. He said no, but the fires are worrisome.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

Sewell, a 48-year-old businessman based in Midland, Texas, founded 7S Oil and Gas LLC in 2014. In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. Then William “Gilligan” Sewell came along.

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Methane Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 84

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

This technique of using statements that are technically true but omit crucial information and therefore are misleading, is called paltering — and it’s an old favorite of the fossil fuel industry. In fact, it’s not the only tactic the NCBA has borrowed from Big Oil. The NCBA has also faced legal scrutiny over its use of Checkoff funds.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

An organization run by former Obama-era Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, with the backing of the AFL-CIO, a federation of 56 labor unions, has created a policy “blueprint” to build a nationwide pipeline network capable of carrying a gigaton of captured carbon dioxide (CO2). Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data from 2019.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) was high on the agenda at New York Climate Week last week, where critics of the technology raised concerns it would be used to extend the life of the fossil fuel industry. The data showed us that their carbon capture plans are not working at scale.” What CCS Projects Promise.

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Fossil fuels Carbon Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 145

GreenBiz

APRIL 15, 2021

That’s equivalent to roughly 10 years’ worth of China’s annual emissions as of 2014 — an amount that far surpasses the 90 billion ton avoidance potential of Drawdown’s top-ranked solution, refrigerant management. Carbon removal. From classrooms to boardrooms. 47 — Bioplastics. 47 — Bioplastics. 36 — Alternative Cement.

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Grist

MARCH 4, 2022

Carbon emissions from tropical deforestation this century are far higher than previously thought, doubling in just two decades and continuing to accelerate, according to a study. When trees are cut down, they release the carbon they store into the atmosphere. Deforestation and forest carbon loss are accelerating.

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Fossil fuels Carbon Global warming Methane 81

Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

The largest carbon capture and storage project in the world has been delayed indefinitely due to Covid-19 Summary - Exxon has postponed development of the ‘LaBarge Carbon Capture and Storage’ project in Wyoming due to Covid-19. It contains natural gas, helium, and carbon dioxide.

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Carbon-negative Carbon Fossil fuels Technology 78

Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

A Few Relevant Data Points With the advent of the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century, humans began their dependence on the burning of fossil fuels?coal Between just 1987 and 2014 it was about the same mass: 743 billion tons. The severity of those impacts is tied directly to the amount of carbon dioxide we release.”

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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. Jacob Rees-Mogg – Business and Energy Secretary. Kemi Badenoch – Trade Secretary.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Last February, ExxonMobil announced it would further expand its only active carbon capture and storage (CCS) operation in the United States, located at a gas processing facility in LaBarge, Wyoming. ” But the vast majority of that captured CO2 is used to pump out more fossil fuel from oilfields or released back into the atmosphere.

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Carbon Fossil fuels Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 98

GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Drawing on that mandate, Ardern declared a "climate emergency" and set the wheels in motion for New Zealand’s public sector to become carbon neutral by 2025. She passed a Zero Carbon Bill during her first term that mandates net-zero emissions by 2050 and campaigned on tougher action this term. . percent of its GDP.

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Business Green

AUGUST 6, 2021

Costa Rica mulls ban on fossil fuel exploration. Costa Rica's government is considering plans to permanently ban fossil fuel exploration and extraction, in a move that would represrent an historic breakthrough in the run up to the COP26 Climate Summit.

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Electricity Fossil fuels Climate change Resilience 79

DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2021

Campaigners say the trend towards private ownership in the North Sea is potentially “catastrophic” for the UK’s plans for an equitable transition towards low carbon industries. So who are these new North Sea players? Using data from the newly-launched interactive database Who Owns the North Sea?

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Fossil fuels Climate change Government Policy 98

Business Green

AUGUST 14, 2020

The Trump administration stepped up its pre-election effort to roll back environmental regulations this week, confirming plans to axe methane emissions standards for the oil and gas industry and signalling further such moves are on the cards ahead of polling day in November. Deutsche Bank strengthens fossil fuel lending policies.

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Methane Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 62