DeSmogBlog

JULY 24, 2023

‘The Green Agenda is Causing Havoc’ Susan Hall has called for the UK’s net zero targets to be “delayed” and has supported new fossil fuel extraction through the overturning of the UK’s ban on fracking for shale gas. Spiked regularly publishes articles that deny climate science, and has received funding from fossil fuel interests.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 24, 2021

It provides 100 percent renewable power to the City of Houston, and in 2015 it was the first power company in North America to receive certification from the Science-based Targets Initiative (SBTi) that its climate goals aligned with the two-degrees Celsius global warming limit. and Canada. Watch the full conversation below!

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 18, 2022

While they cloak their demands for more fossil fuel extraction in concern for their constituents’ household bills, the MPs have strong ties to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s leading producer of climate science denial and misinformation. Global Warming Policy Foundation Links.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In terms of greenhouse warming potential, this is equivalent to 143 tonnes CO2 using the default 100-year time horizon conversion factor (GWP100), the annual electricity demand of 166 UK homes, or 142 London-New York flights.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

That is the headline conclusion of a fresh analysis from the International Energy Agency (IEA) today, which offers a glimmer of hope that global emissions are closer than ever to an historic peak, even if the rapid decline in greenhouse gases required this decade to limit temperature increases to 1.5C remains a hugely challenging prospect.

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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2022

Two reports out this week have highlighted how developments across 2021 are set to catalyse policy and technological trends that could catalyse the retreat of fossil fuels across the global energy system. At times the fossil fuel economy can seem indefatigable.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2022

Clean energy investment has accelerated significantly since 2020, the report notes, climbing 12 per cent a year - a sharp increase on the two per cent a year increases seen in the first five years following the Paris Agreement in 2015. A massive surge in investment to accelerate clean energy transitions is the only lasting solution.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2021

And as the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) noted , emissions pathways that limit global warming to 2°C or below generally assume that some form of carbon dioxide removal, such as CCS, is necessary, alongside reducing emissions. oil major Chevron, in partnership with other fossil fuel giants.

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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. That set a goal of limiting global average temperatures to close to 1.5 Now, that 1.5-degree

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2022

BNEF estimates last year's global EV sales helped avoid 1.5 per cent of total oil demand. However, despite this progress overall demand for oil was actually still a touch higher last year than it was in 2015. There is still some way to go before EVs deliver promised steep reductions in oil demand.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 9, 2023

UK fossil fuel imports from authoritarian petrostates surged to £19.3 Petrostates are countries that are economically heavily dependent on fossil fuel production. billion on fossil fuel imports from the year beginning February 2022. billion on fossil fuel imports from the year beginning February 2022.

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 13, 2020

Recent studies from from the world’s top climate modeling groups suggest that high clouds that shade the Earth during the day may burn off as the world warms increasing global warming. These threats are not new, in 2015 it was clear that climate change was real and demanded urgent action.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2008, Jacobson teamed up with student, Graeme Hoste, to assess whether California’s hourly demand for electricity could be satisfied with a combination of renewable power sources. In 2015, Jacobson began work on WWS maps for individual countries, with Ukraine being the first. to 4 million deaths that occur worldwide, each year.”

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2020

That more than doubles the size of the global market share enjoyed by wind and solar during the same period five years ago, with the two technologies having provided 4.6 per cent of global electricity just before the Paris Agreement was brokered in late 2015. per cent of global electricity, according to Ember.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Prof Corinne Le Quéré, Royal Society Research Professor at UEA's School of Environmental Sciences and a contributor to the analysis, said "a lot of progress has been made in decarbonising global energy since the Paris Agreement was adopted in 2015, plus renewables is the only energy source that continued to grow during the pandemic".

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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

JANUARY 21, 2022

Rio Tinto's $2.4bn Jadar mining project would have made the Anglo Australian firm one of the world's top producers of lithium, which has found itself in increasing global demand as a key raw material for EV batteries and other clean tech products. As such, Guterres said that "the battle to keep the 1.5C

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

of global warming by 2100 at best. and upwards of 3C of warming. of global warming, which marks an improvement on 3C+ projections from a few years ago but would still blow a hole in the Paris Agreement's target of 1.5C per cent increase in global emissions from energy and industry over that same timeframe, it said.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Recent findings from the System Change Lab collaboration , similarly found that emissions reduction progress across six "climate critical" sectors were falling significantly short of a pathway which would stave off dangerous levels of global warming.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Nearly all the world's leading carmakers and electric utility companies are set to blow a hole in their individual carbon budgets for limiting global warming to 1.5C, with their continued overreliance on fossil fuels and sluggish rollout of green technologies putting both the climate and their businesses in danger.

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GreenBiz

MAY 25, 2021

Banks always backed fossil fuels over green projects — until this year," reported Bloomberg. trillion into fossil fuel projects — almost three times more than total bonds and loans backing green projects since COP21 in 2015. The fossil-fuel industry just may be seeing the writing on the wall.

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Mixing biofuels with fossil fuels for vehicles to burn initially seemed like an easy way to cut down on the 22% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions that stem from the transport sector. Biofuels are still expected to play an important part in hitting ambitious climate targets; to keep global warming under 1.5°C

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Clearly, the firm faces an enormous challenge over the coming decades to cater to growing public demand for action against plastic waste, climate change and other environmental concerns. It is an output that would make Coca-Cola responsible for roughly a fifth of the world's annual PET bottle production.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

degrees Celsius) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Saturday This is the kind of thing that happens with just a little over 1 degree Celsius of global warming today. Now, imagine close to 3 degrees of warming. The Paris agreement aims to limit global warming to “ well below ” 2 degrees Celsius, preferably at 1.5

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

In August, the Sixth Assessment Report of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicted that average global temperatures could potentially breach the 1.5?C C limit set in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement ten years sooner than expected. billion tonnes in 2021, taking the total to 33 billion tonnes.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

Global temperatures have risen to 1.1C above pre-industrial levels after more than a century of burning fossil fuels and current policies are expected to lead to global warming of 2.8C by 2100, the report warns. As such, the world is on track to massively overshoot both the 1.5C

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Second, that inaction or delayed action on climate will create immense risks and costs,and populations across the world demand leaders to respond - and to respond now. In 2015, countries came together and formed the Paris Agreement. That report concluded that we have already reached average global warming of 1.1

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

For this reason, the hydrogen market today is dominated by steam reformation of natural gas, it’s essentially a fossil fuel. Despite the growing interest in renewable hydrogen, the cost has remained an impediment to widespread adoption and displacement of the fossil-fuel derived hydrogen that dominates the current market.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Such businesses better meet the demands of the regulatory environment while coming into alignment with investor, consumer, and employee preferences. Although this level was not defined by the convention, the aim was to allow ecosystems and society to adapt naturally to climate change, which means slowing global warming down.

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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. Since 1850, global temperatures have climbed 1.2 Scientists have a measure for how “thirsty” the atmosphere is, or how much water the sky absorbs: evaporative demand. degrees Celsius (2.2

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

Boom and Bust: Tracking the Global Coal Plant Pipeline , a new report from Global Energy Monitor, found that “China commissioned 76 percent of the world’s new coal plants in 2020, up from 64 percent in 2019, driving a 12.5 GW (gigawatt) increase in the global coal fleet in 2020.”. percent lower in 2020 than 2015. .

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

And so today's report's conclusion that while the scale of the challenge is monumental - the world must peak emissions by 2025, before halving them by 2030 - it also encouragingly makes clear that the world already has all of the tools it needs to achieve these aims, in order to keep the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C

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Grist

APRIL 24, 2024

” On Sunday, EarthDay.org and other campaigners organized a march in Ottawa, demanding a strong and ambitious global plastics treaty. The world was — and still is — producing more than 400 million metric tons of the material every year, almost entirely from fossil fuel feedstocks. degrees Celsius (2.7

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Analysis by E3G and Global Energy Monitor calculates pipeline for pre-construction coal plants has plummeted 76 per cent since 2015. Moreover, it claims a further 16 countries only have one new coal power plant each in development, putting them just "one project away from a future without coal".

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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. Global heating is affecting every region on Earth, with many of the changes becoming irreversible.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 25, 2021

“Banks always backed fossil fuels over green projects — until this year,” reported Bloomberg. trillion into fossil fuel projects — almost three times more than total bonds and loans backing green projects since COP21 in 2015. ” The fossil-fuel industry just may be seeing the writing on the wall.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Once again, we will (and we must ) transition from fossil fuels to into a zero-emission world. C stated in the Paris Agreement, according to the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming and Mercator Research Institute. It is a category of fuel oils with a tar-like consistency identified as a "worse case substance".

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