Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The UK's export credit agency could support up to 42,000 jobs around the UK by 2035 if it switches it support for overseas fossil fuel projects to renewables and clean energy infrastructure, according to a major new analysis from Vivid Economics.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 16, 2020

The fossil fuel industry has faced serious headwinds for several years, but the rise of renewables combined with the fall in consumption as a consequence of the global corona crisis is pushing it over the edge and into “terminal decline”. The fossil fuel industry has faced an oversupply problem, as well as a public relations problem.

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Several California municipalities are merging their climate deception litigation with the state’s climate case, to jointly pursue a super-sized lawsuit against the fossil fuel industry, according to recent court filings. municipalities suing the fossil fuel industry. Credit: Cpl. Sarah Wolff/U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2021

Read time: 11 mins In 2014, a company named Northwest Innovation Works ( NWIW ) proposed building a multi-billion-dollar petrochemical project in Kalama, Washington, a port town roughly 40 miles north of Portland, Oregon.

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2021

The "way back when" in this case seems to be around 2014. It feels almost quaint to remember way back when "80 by 50" — an 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 — was a bold goal for a company or government entity to make. It was seen by many as audacious, possibly unachievable, but still a necessary target.

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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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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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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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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 3, 2022

Then oil prices plummeted in 2014, and again in 2020. It’s not because I love fossil fuels, it’s because I recognize the risk of needing supplies and not having them. I know that many people who have opposed any additional fossil fuel development saw a different scenario unfolding. Why did I make such a prediction?

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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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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

However, coal was responsible for more carbon dioxide emissions than its fossil fuel counterparts. Fossil fuels are primarily composed of carbon and hydrogen. The net result was a global increase in coal consumption to the second-highest level on record, only 0.01% below the record level set in 2014.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 10, 2023

Overview The newest Review shows the world remains heavily reliant on fossil fuels for energy needs, even as renewables like solar and wind continue rapid growth. While renewable power expanded at record rates, fossil fuels maintained an 82% share of total primary energy consumption. growth in 2021.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

billion from 2014 to 2019 in ISO-New England. Local solar and storage also opens up access for people historically excluded from the clean energy conversation: low-income communities, which usually experience the worst health and environmental consequences from polluting fossil fuel power plants.

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Charged

AUGUST 22, 2022

However, as far as we know, no major championship has converted itself from fossil fuel to electrons—until now. Rallycross racing has been a thing for over 50 years, and the FIA-accredited World Rallycross (RX) championship has existed since 2014. Teslas have been shaking up the street racing subculture.

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Green Market Oracle

APRIL 27, 2020

The oil crash of 2020 is driving down prices and contributing to the demise of the fossil fuel industry. The fossil fuel industry was in trouble long before the start of the price war between Russia and OPEC. Market realities have been signalling the end of fossil fuels for many years. barrels of oil a day.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

consulting and PR firm, with a long history of waging influence campaigns for fossil fuel corporations, is under scrutiny by a congressional committee as part of a broader investigation into the decades-long efforts by the oil industry and its allies to block action on the climate crisis. A powerful Washington, D.C.,

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

As environment secretary between 2014 and 2016, Truss cut subsidies for solar farms, calling them “a blight on the landscape”, and claimed without evidence that they were harming food production. Truss has ties to other American fossil fuel-linked groups. During a trip to the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 8, 2022

He confirmed his support for the group in response to a DeSmog investigation in 2014. In 2018 he attended a GWPF event to mark ten years since the passing of the Act, during which the GWPF blamed it, along with “other anti-fossil-fuel policies”, for fuel poverty in the UK. Reliance on Fossil Fuels.

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 18, 2020

The energy sector has not been spared and fossil fuels have been hit particularly hard. While 20 percent of the clean energy and efficiency jobs could be lost up to 33 percent of the fossil fuel exploration and production workforce could lose their jobs. Fossil fuels are the leading cause of climate change.

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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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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

In Australia, a student filed a consumer complaint with Ad Standards against the financial services organization HSBC for claiming to support the protection of the Great Barrier Reef despite its links to fossil fuel operations. Between 1986, when the first climate lawsuit was filed, and 2014, approximately 800 cases were brought.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In June, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) warned BSEE that its inspection process didn’t detect when a fossil fuel company “may have manipulated or misreported” methane emissions data across four platforms in the Gulf of Mexico over a five year period.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2021

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. according to a 2014 study. It also asserted that fossil fuels need to be rapidly reduced by 2030, and completely phased out thereafter.

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Charged

MARCH 7, 2023

According to WRI, the first school bus repowers were performed in 2014, and several companies now offer conversions. However, a recent report from the World Resources Institute tells us that repowering existing school buses with electric drivetrains could be a lower-cost and greener option compared to buying a new electric bus.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Policies such as California's Advanced Clean Truck rule are forcing organizations in the state to phase in zero-emission trucks and phase out fossil fuel-based ones. Progressive cities, many in Europe, are building zones in downtown centers that are banning fossil-fuel vehicles and incentivizing zero-emission models.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

A pledge to reverse deforestation also seemed to be significant, and gained the support of around 100 countries, although some observers noted that a previous international agreement in 2014 “failed to slow deforestation in any way”, as Fotis Fotiadis, co-founder of Better Origin observed.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 14, 2022

Coal is the most polluting fossil fuel. Fossil fuels are primarily composed of carbon and hydrogen. Coal consumption in non-OECD countries rose to a new record, while global coal consumption fell just short of the previous record set in 2014. Today I delve into the data on coal production and consumption.

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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. Natural gas has been the fastest-growing fossil fuel in recent years, with a global 2.2% Global coal consumption has been on a downward trend since peaking in 2014.

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Grist

AUGUST 12, 2021

For years, plaintiffs around the world have sought to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for their contributions to climate change — often seeking compensation for damages like economic losses from floods or wildfires. In other words, “How much has an individual fossil fuel company contributed to climate change?”

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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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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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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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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

MARCH 25, 2022

In their latest attempt to use the Russian invasion of Ukraine to argue for more fossil fuel extraction, climate sceptics have revived an old claim that anti-fracking campaigns around the world have been bankrolled by the Kremlin. This claim is being amplified by mainstream conservative newspapers. RT and Climate Denial.

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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.

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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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