DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Research by DeSmog shows that Porter has a track record of publicly casting doubt on established science on human-caused climate change. The BBC regularly covers climate change and the dangers of climate misinformation. She also spoke at a webinar run by GWPF’s campaign arm Net Zero Watch last June.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Are lawyers and accountants doing enough on climate change? Joel Makower Tue, 10/13/2020 – 01:40 When it comes to the climate crisis, it’s not just what you make and sell, it’s what you do, and for whom you do it. Lawyers aren’t the only service-sector firms targeted for their climate ties.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Are lawyers and accountants doing enough on climate change? Joel Makower Tue, 10/13/2020 – 01:40 When it comes to the climate crisis, it’s not just what you make and sell, it’s what you do, and for whom you do it. Lawyers aren’t the only service-sector firms targeted for their climate ties.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2021

Group of 117 institutional investors file resolution urging bank to phase out fossil fuel financing in compliance with the Paris Agreement. As shareholders supporting this resolution, we recognise the imperative and urgency for establishing targets and a timeline towards emissions reductions.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

For a high profile seat at the UN table, CEOs must offer ambitious climate commitments with clear action plans and targets, writes environmental lawyer and activist Farhana Yamin. mandated by the 2015 Paris Agreement. Moreover, by homing in on 2050 neglect these fossil fuel majors neglect their historic pollution footprint.

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Mosaic

APRIL 1, 2022

Clean energy solutions can not only help homeowners save money (and the planet) — they also provide more resilient systems to withstand the elements of climate change. When homeowners choose these options, they can lessen their carbon footprint while also gaining a more reliable energy source.

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Mosaic

APRIL 1, 2022

Clean energy solutions can not only help homeowners save money (and the planet) — they also provide more resilient systems to withstand the elements of climate change. When homeowners choose these options, they can lessen their carbon footprint while also gaining a more reliable energy source.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

He’s an ExxonMobil scientist in a company ad that also shows other scientists in a high-tech lab working to develop “low-carbon technologies.” The tagline reads “Advancing Climate Solutions.” A young man goes up a mountain to study the terrain and collect data on his laptop, while epic, orchestral violins play in the background.

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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

In February, on the eve of the release of a major new report on the effects of climate change by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, several of its authors met with reporters virtually to present their findings. A sort of climate boomerang. It was a critical message that was easy to miss.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 19, 2021

government’s recently released hydrogen strategy—a thoughtful plan to create and use clean hydrogen—contains an implicit acknowledgement: the world is moving away from fossil fuels and toward low-carbon alternatives. isn’t the only jurisdiction to see clean hydrogen as the new natural gas. Where does this all leave B.C.’s

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2022

In the early 2010s, climate scientists were painting a grim picture of the future: If humans didn’t curb carbon dioxide emissions, the world was headed toward 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 Scientists now estimate that current emissions trajectories make a 4-degree scenario highly implausible, even as total carbon emissions continue to rise.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

European law-makers are due to vote on a revised renewable energy directive next week, part of the EU’s Green New Deal to slash carbon emissions by 55 percent by 2030. Rakos has also come under fire from Laurence Tubiana, a former French diplomat and an architect of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, over his claims.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 19, 2022

It seems everyone in the EU is doing something to fight climate change; a 2021 Eurobarometer survey showed that 96% of Europeans have taken at least one action to tackle climate change. Research done in the US found that 42% of energy-related carbon emissions came from household machines, including cars.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

LSE's Josh Burke sets out the risks of prematurely incorporating carbon removal technologies into carbon markets. COP27, which concluded earlier this month, saw many contentious climate issues such as loss and damage, water scarcity, fossil fuel taxation and just transition at the front and centre.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Advocates of this approach reckon it would help catalyse investments in clean technologies and ensure investors are more cognisant of the complex and escalating risks associated with high carbon assets. An alternative approach could include setting minimum mandatory climate standards for ESG products, requiring banks to adopt 1.5C

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 11, 2023

Records show that the company has lobbied during the past three years on California’s climate strategy, toxicity provisions, low carbon fuel standards, as well as its oil and gas production policies. Veolia was hired by the city in February 2015 to help address the problem.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

Even more worrying is a fact David Wallace-Wells points out in his best-selling book Uninhabitable Earth : more than half of the carbon emitted in the atmosphere today was emitted in the past 30 years. They argued that, given the scale and urgency of climate change, no clean energy option should be off the table.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2022

However, despite this progress overall demand for oil was actually still a touch higher last year than it was in 2015. Much of the wider industry can see the general direction of the car market, and can see no reason to waste any time in pushing fossil fuels out the way in order to get there. per cent of total oil demand.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Climate campaigners, however, see the new piers and pipelines as ominous signs that the gas lobby has finally achieved a long-standing goal to lock Germany into the $100 billion global LNG market – threatening to keep Europe’s biggest economy hooked on fossil fuels for decades to come. “A It’s fossil fuel madness.”.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

BASF’s wine tasting is just one example of many such pandemic-style lobbying efforts by the European agriculture industry since the EU has attempted to pass sweeping new policies to combat climate change through measures included in its “Green Deal,” first presented in December 2019.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2021

His interest in the course had been piqued by a curious lecture he had attended towards the end of his bachelor's degree that explained there was a connection between oil and climate change. Fast forward a couple decades and the world looks very different.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

What is carbon accounting? Carbon accounting – also known as a carbon or greenhouse gas inventory – is the process of measuring the amount of carbon dioxide, or other greenhouse gases (GHG), an organization emits. The aim is to help the entity understand its climatic impact.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Climate change is already negatively impacting the health of Canadians, impacts that will become more severe in relation to the extent of warming that occurs. The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. xii] [xiii].

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Yet while that very broad assessment certainly remains true, today's intervention from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was always going to be a little different. This report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a litany of broken climate promises. And it is damning.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 6, 2020

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. A mix of climate and non-climate factors, as well as market and non-market drivers, are key to charting out a speedy and equitable transition.

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 6, 2021

The research synopsis below comes from AGCI Program Director Emily Jack-Scott and a full list of AGCI’s quarterly research updates covering recent climate change research on clean energy pathways is available online at [link]. But how long can tropical forests remain one of Earth’s greatest carbon sinks?

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

On Sunday, COP26, the 26th United Nations climate change summit, will kick off in Glasgow, Scotland, in what John Kerry, the U.S. special envoy on climate, has called humanity’s “last best chance” to curb the climate catastrophe. There’s no question that climate change is here — and accelerating.

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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. NCBA did not respond to a request for comment.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 18, 2022

The UK government is not legally required to consider tax breaks to oil and gas companies or emissions from burning fossil fuels when regulating the North Sea sector, a court has ruled today, rejecting a complaint by climate campaigners. ‘Unacceptable’ Fossil Fuel Subsidies.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

Sommers’ statement may be, in fact, one of the most literal examples of how fossil fuel companies are using language to perpetuate their climate denial and fend off action. Arena was one of six employees to resign in 2015 following revelations of the firm’s greenwashing work with fossil fuel lobbies and associations.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Today the world's leading climate scientists delivered the clearest picture yet of the scale of the climate crisis that is already unfolding, as well as the likely impacts of further temperature rises over the course of century. Global heating is affecting every region on Earth, with many of the changes becoming irreversible.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

As trees grow they remove carbon from the atmosphere. Spurred by the necessities of drastically cutting emissions and removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to meet climate targets, many countries, including Brazil, India and China, have committed large areas to forest restoration. above pre-industrial levels.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Despite the region’s shrinking wetlands, the government continues to permit new LNG export facilities on the Gulf Coast , and is encouraging hydrogen and carbon capture sequestration developments , though they too will lead to further land loss. The company has a history of trying to steamroll opposition.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Monica Weiss attended her first fossil-fuel divestment protest on a frigid February day in 2015. Subsequently, two independent reports suggested that the funds would “face high potential risk for economic disruption from the transition to a low carbon global economy” if they continued to invest in fossil fuel.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 9, 2023

To name a few, the most common standards are: ISO 9001:2015 – Used for general organizational Quality Management Systems (QMS). ISO 14001:2015 – A set of standards under the ISO 14000 series. ISO 45001:2015 – An international standard for health and safety in the workplace.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The Paris Agreement on climate change, signed into life in 2015, may not be perfect. COP talks each year are often fraught and progress remains far too slow, as today's IPCC report on escalating climate impacts will testify. If designed well and properly adhered to, global treaties have a lot going for them.

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