DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Nor is it the only link between the fossil fuel industry and the Bolloré family’s global business interests, which encompass multi-billion-dollar logistics operations servicing major oil companies, including Shell. Further, these are far from being the Bolloré Group’s only connections to the fossil fuel sector.

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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. Globally, the number of climate-change-related lawsuits has more than doubled since 2015.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Global investment needs to rapidly shift away from fossil fuels to green energy throughout the 2020s, but bets against that happening look increasingly risky. From 2011 to 2015, for example, the low carbon to fossil fuel supply investment ratio was 0.5:1. In order to cap global warming at 1.5C BNEF compared 1.5C

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

Kimberly-Clark said its new targets would see it cut its carbon, forest, and water footprint, as well as its use of virgin fossil fuel based plastics by 50 per cent within 10 years. This plan for 2030 is our most ambitious yet," said Tristram Wilkinson, President for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Kimberly-Clark. "We

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 3, 2021

In 2015 at the United Nations Assembly, 17 Sustainable Development Goals were established. In a recent study, the IE A found that in 2019 the number of people without electricity access was 770 million and 75% lived in sub-Saharan Africa. By Kamogelo Motse, Researcher, Climate Council.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

million people die as a result of air pollution every year, but governments are still spending more supporting fossil fuel projects than they are tackling dirty air. Countries should also end all new fossil fuel exploration and production, and shift fossil fuel subsidies into renewable energy.".

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Sean Gallup/Getty Images Tens of thousands of negotiators, activists, and corporate execs have descended upon Dubai to wrangle over the future of fossil fuels. The future of fossil fuels Let’s start with some backstory on COP28. Greenhouse gas emissions come from extracting and burning fossil fuels, of course.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Climate change investment had been increasing since 2015 when the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were introduced and the Paris Agreement adopted by nearly 200 countries. Latin American and the Caribbean and Africa had 150 and 100 projects, respectively.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2020

According to World Resources Institute it is 60 per cent more ambitious than its 2015 submission, and heralds a rapid expansion of renewables and cleaner transport on the island of three million. Yet even if you take the class of 2015 UN plans as rough endeavours, they pack a collective punch. But it was significant.

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Green Market Oracle

JUNE 29, 2020

C per decade due mostly to greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide (CO2) generated by the burning fossil fuels. degrees higher than the previous record set in 2015-16. Siberia, central and northwest Africa, western Australia and Mexico all saw a warmer-than-usual April, as did the Arctic Ocean and the coast of Alaska.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2022

When nations gathered in France in 2015, they initially were aiming to keep global temperatures “well below 2 degrees Celsius.” ‘We are at a crossroads’: New IPCC report says it’s fossil fuels or our future. And if it’s now meaningless — why is everyone still talking about it? Luckily for humanity, 1.5

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

In 2015, the world committed to cutting those to arrest global temperature rises at 1.5C. Some nations need financial support from wealthier nations - Indonesia, for example, could benefit from the sort of deal the US, EU, UK and others did with South Africa last year, to offer $8.5bn to hasten phase-out of coal.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In 2015 at the United Nations General Assembly, 17 Sustainable Development Goals were established. In a recent study the IEA found that in 2019 the number of people without electricity access was 770 million and that 75% of these people lived in sub-Saharan Africa. By Kamogelo Motse, Researcher, Climate Council.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Talks are on-going around how to strengthen national climate action plans in pursuit of 1.5C, how to increase flows of climate finance, whether the draft text should explicitly reference fossil fuels, and how to reform carbon markets. We cannot go weaker, we cannot go back from here," said Kerry. That language must stay.". "No

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

A rapid shift away from fossil fuels is also needed alongside a major ramp up in renewable electricity capacity - largely provided by wind and solar projects - which will form the backbone of the future energy system, while development of hydrogen, carbon capture and new modular nuclear technologies is also crucial, the report warned.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2021

As such, after a two per cent year-on-year decline in 2020, it said it expected total green bond issuance worldwide to grow around 38 per cent this year, once again following the average market growth curve seen 2015.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

Rwanda has become the first country in Africa to ramp up its national greenhouse gas reduction targets as part of its Paris Agreement commitments, yesterday submitting its plan to slash emissions by at least 16 per cent by 2030 compared with a business-as-usual baseline. Rwanda ramps up Paris Agreement pledge. — Patricia Espinosa C.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The proposed strengthening of the bloc's emissions target follows the REPowerEU plan, which was unveiled by the EU Commission earlier this year in a bid to rapidly reduce Europe's reliance on Russian fossil fuels by ramping up renewables, energy efficiency, heat pump installations, and hydrogen development.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

It has called for new oil and gas projects to be accelerated, labelled the windfall tax on energy companies a “terrible idea”, and argued for a more generous fiscal environment for the UK’s fossil fuel producers. They provide further evidence that Number 10’s fossil fuel agenda is far from accidental.

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 6, 2021

The rest of those emissions are absorbed by intact forests along with additional emissions from fossil fuel combustion, making forests a net carbon sink. Figure 2: Modeled past and future carbon dynamics of structurally intact old-growth tropical forests in Africa and Amazonia. But why in the Amazon and not in Africa?

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

In 2015, two brilliant entrepreneurs, Andrea Sreshta and Anna Stork, amazed the world by pitching LuminAID on Shark Tank. During humanitarian crises in Haiti and areas of Africa, LuminAID lanterns were used by nongovernmental organizations and displaced people. By Maria Ava.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

And Coca-Cola's aim to reduce Scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas emissions by a quarter by 2030 compared to a 2015 baseline is a major step change from its previous targets, as it is clear, promises absolute cuts, and has been validated by the Science Based Target initiative, she argues. "Do Do I feel pressure? I feel very positive pressure.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

In 2015, countries came together and formed the Paris Agreement. Internationally, the coal power pipeline has reduced over 75 percent since 2015. It calls on countries to phase-down unabated coal power and phase-out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies. And around the world, markets are on the move.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2022

For context, 100GW is more than the UK's entire current electricity capacity, which stands at around 75GW from both clean and fossil fuel sources. The International Renewable Energy Agency's (IRENA) headquarters opened there in 2015. By that time, Masdar is going to be the biggest renewable energy company in the entire world.".

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The hearing comes alongside a new report by Greenpeace Italy and ReCommon, which describes how Eni’s technical consultants in the case have deep ties to the fossil fuel industry and climate deniers. Campaigners in Italy and across Africa have criticized the plan, saying it will promote fossil fuel exploitation and “false solutions.”

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Meanwhile, key decisions over controversial Cumbrian coal mines and North Sea oil and gas projects are also likely to be made before the end of 2021, providing a clear test of how serious the government is about the transition away from fossil fuels. But huge challenges await.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Monica Weiss attended her first fossil-fuel divestment protest on a frigid February day in 2015. There were also successful precedents, says Weiss, pointing to the decisions TRS made to jettison investments in South Africa in the mid-1990s, and firearms in the 2010s. We understood that,” Weiss says.

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Charged

DECEMBER 18, 2023

According to a recent study by the World Resources Institute , only a single one of these projects is currently on track to meet the goals set by the 2015 Paris Agreement: light-duty electric vehicle sales. His government (like most others, to be fair) heavily subsidizes fossil fuels, and offers few electric vehicle incentives.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Already, politicians and major corporations, including oil and gas producers, are hard at work promoting the idea that the 2015 Paris Agreement’s goals can be met if the financial world coalesces around “net-zero” climate initiatives. special envoy on climate, has called humanity’s “last best chance” to curb the climate catastrophe.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2020

The new policy would see the institution end support for the most polluting fossil fuel projects, including the production of oil and coal, and channel almost a third of its spending towards climate-related projects.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk. This report must sound a death knell for coal and fossil fuels, before they destroy our planet.

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Grist

AUGUST 9, 2022

They also confirmed that rising temperatures — driven by human consumption of fossil fuels — were partly to blame. In a paper published in 2015, Williams, Cook, and others found that skyrocketing temperatures, brought on by human-caused global warming, had made the drought 15 to 20 percent more intense. degrees Celsius (2.2

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The announcement will deal a further blow to the global coal sector, which has already seen a 76 per cent cut in the number of new coal plants planned globally over the last six years, equating to the cancellation of around 1GW of new coal plants since the Paris Agreement in 2015.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

That may seem an audacious notion from a company whose business model for well over a century has centered around bringing fossil fuels to market — and is banking on petroleum being a key, albeit declining, fuel for decades to come.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

It was also the fifth anniversary (though delayed by a year due to Covid-19) of the historic Paris Agreement, executed in 2015, making it a milestone year in which countries were mandated to revisit and update their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). So, what happened? Did COP26 deliver what it hoped to achieve?

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

Gordon Brown and David Cameron attended the 2009 and 2015 summits, but otherwise it's left to ministers and officials. For the UK it could mean anything from cutting all overseas support to fossil fuels, ramping up aid in vulnerable regions and investing in new technology and military hardware to meet a warming planet.

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Business Green

JULY 30, 2021

Indonesia, one of the world's most prolific thermal coal producers, has submitted an updated climate plan to the United Nations that suggests it intends to rely on the fossil fuel for power well beyond mid-century. South Africa calls for global climate adaptation target. Indonesia submits updated 2030 climate plan.

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