GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

supported $1.316 trillion in transactions for the fossil fuel industry. received $37 million in compensation for fossil fuel industry lobbying. The study analyzed litigation, transactional and lobbying work conducted from 2015 to 2019. Policy & Politics. Suffice to say, the jury is out. Corporate Strategy.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

This net zero scepticism has quickly entered the upper echelons of Westminster politics, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak saying that policies to achieve the UK’s legally binding climate targets shouldn’t “hassle” households and should be “proportionate and pragmatic”. It claims to have the support of 140 MPs and “key media”.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 30, 2024

They claimed that the climate emergency is simply “scaremongering”, that “net zero is doing enormous damage to the economy”, and that “the lights will go out” if we divest from fossil fuels. The UK government has given £20 billion more in support to fossil fuel producers than their renewable energy peers since 2015.

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The Verge: Energy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

It’s the first “Global Stocktake” of the progress nearly 200 countries have made since they adopted the Paris agreement in 2015. Notably, the report uses language that somehow still tries to include fossil fuels in a future with clean energy. It also calls for phasing out “unabated” fossil fuels. Carbon emissions?

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

Fossil fuel giants BP and Shell were given “ample opportunity” to privately influence proposals for taxing oil and gas companies that were later backed by the government, new documents reveal. Fossil fuel companies will survive while there is demand for what they produce.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Anger is building over the failure to secure much-needed commitments towards phasing out unabated fossil fuels and tackling near-term emissions as part of the final agreement brokered at COP27 over the weekend, with critics warning the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C target hangs by a thread after this year's summit.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 24, 2024

million since September 2015. While the GWPF is a registered charity, and is in theory bound by Charity Commission rules limiting “political activity”, Net Zero Watch is a private company. In total, the group has earned £2.8 Peiser told DeSmog that “this arrangement is known and accepted by the Charity Commission”.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 7, 2024

These comments, originally made by Moore and echoed by Birtles, have “absolutely no basis in fact”, according to Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The appointment comes as senior Conservative Party figures continue to embrace anti-climate politics. Last month, Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Clare Coutinho met with and praised fuel pricing lobbyist Howard Cox , a Reform UK candidate who wants to “scrap net zero” and claims that “man is not responsible for global warming”.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The access raises further questions about the closeness between Zahawi and the UAE, a fossil fuel state, how his role may facilitate the sale of the newspaper, and whether he will be involved in the running of the paper if the purchase is completed. The UAE-backed fund is a joint venture between U.S.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Net Zero Festival: Leading figures from IEA, Carbon Tracker and Ceres unite in calls for more ambitious government action to shift away from fossil fuels. Campanale was optimistic that if such board-level activity grows across the high-carbon sectors, the fossil fuel industry would start to feel the economic pressure.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

Of the 64 total board members at Omnicom Group , WPP , Interpublic Group (IPG), Publicis Groupe , Dentsu and Havas , 32 have significant experience in carbon-heavy sectors such as fossil fuels, fossil fuel financing, plastics, utilities, and aviation. Twenty-two are still serving in roles at such companies.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The world's decarbonisation efforts may have taken a massive step forward since the 2015 signing of the Paris Agreement, when the global economy was commonly thought to be on track for 3-4C of warming.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Overseas Development Institute warns fossil fuel emissions from plastic will rise three-fold by 2050 unless current trends are addressed. Phasing out the use of plastic in a number of industries could help the world curb demand for fossil fuels and more effectively confront the climate crisis, researchers have today advised.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2022

Lawyer and activist Farhana Yamin considers XR’s cultural, political, and business impact three years after it drove London to a standstill in 2019. The global political order had already been fraying at the edges thanks to creeping authoritarianism, populism, inequality, and post-Covid economic headwinds.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 19, 2021

The Oxford University Climate Justice Campaign, which includes students, alumni and academics, is making renewed calls for the institution to sever all ties with the fossil fuel industry, after publishing a report claiming the University had received £11 million from fossil fuel firms since 2015. “By False Debate’.

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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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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

Conservative MP Andrea Jenkyns has become a director of Net Zero Watch (NZW), a pressure group which denies climate science and campaigns for more fossil fuel extraction. NZW campaigns against renewable energy and for more fossil fuel extraction, often doing so alongside anti-green Conservative MPs in the Net Zero Scrutiny Group.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The idea of “an energy transition that will dramatically reduce the use of fossil fuels and achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 is a fantasy”, wrote Blackmon on 16 August. In 2015, Blackmon was hired by the Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation to campaign against fracking regulations.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

political will. This includes poor air quality due to proximity to polluting facilities such as fossil fuel power plants and refineries, which compounds the impacts of crises such as COVID-19. . This year’s COVID-19 crisis and racial justice movement have highlighted the systemic inequities in the U.S.

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

German, Italian and other companies have been scouring Africa for alternatives to Russian supplies in the wake of the February invasion of Ukraine, raising fears that new projects will lock Africa into long-term dependence on fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

and other fossil fuel companies are urging the European Union to relax targets to boost climate-friendly “green” hydrogen, hoping to win greater support for projects to manufacture the fuel using natural gas. ExxonMobil Corp. million tonnes of greenhouse gases during the same period.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

mandated by the 2015 Paris Agreement. Current government commitments submitted in 2015 are highly inadequate, which is why the upcoming five-year revision and upgrading of Paris pledges is so crucial. Moreover, by homing in on 2050 neglect these fossil fuel majors neglect their historic pollution footprint.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

These revelations quickly spurred calls for Congress to investigate Exxon’s and other fossil fuel companies’ efforts to obstruct climate action. For years, academics, journalists, and activists have been unearthing documents proving that the fossil fuel industry knew about the dangers of climate change since the late 1950s.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

While there, Jones edited a 1997 Fraser Institute book entitled Global Warming: The Science and the Politics , which contained essays by people like Willie Soon and Patrick Michaels , prominent spreaders of doubt about the foundations of climate science whose work has been funded by fossil fuel companies. government.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 4, 2023

He was also formerly an adviser to Consumer Choice Center – a US-based pressure group with links to the Koch fossil fuel empire that has come under fire for advocating against green reforms in the EU without being registered as a lobbying firm. Climate change will disproportionately affect young people.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak used his address at the COP28 climate summit in December to claim that “climate politics is close to breaking point”, while stating that the UK will meet its net zero targets, “but we’ll do it in a more pragmatic way, which doesn’t burden working people.”

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 3, 2023

Out of 81 climate-washing cases filed against companies since 2015, nearly two-thirds were brought in 2021 and 2022. PR and Ad Agencies Face “Real Risks” Other firms that service and enable fossil fuel clients could soon find themselves roped into these lawsuits, climate campaigners and experts say.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

On Wednesday, a group of more than 450 scientists called on advertising agencies to cut off their fossil fuel clients and to end their ties with an ongoing misinformation campaign that has time and again killed progress on addressing the climate crisis. And as this letter makes clear, they have had enough. ” Arena said.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

The GDP-based economic system in which fossil fuel, food and agricultural interests are driving up CO2-levels, deforestation, land clearing and over-fishing is no longer fit for purpose if atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases must be cut in as short a period as possible.”

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The move away from fossil fuel generation, meanwhile, has been slow, with its share falling only 3% between 2015 and 2021. With the global winds powering a shift to renewable energy, it’s high time for all political leaders to shed any outdated ideas about renewables. And both B.C.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Its Director General Tim Davie has said that while the BBC will cover debate on climate policy, human-caused climate change is not “politically controversial” and “the overwhelming consensus is that we, as humanity, are causing global warming”.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Secretary General António Guterres asked nations to arrive at the session with concrete commitments for phasing out fossil fuels, observing in his opening remarks that “humanity has opened the gates of hell.” government, for instance, has yet to make it to trial eight years after it was first filed in 2015. In the U.S.,

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 3, 2021

In 2015 at the United Nations Assembly, 17 Sustainable Development Goals were established. That is long term, patient capital that focuses on growth over dividends, is not always available to developing countries because of the perceived political and/or economic risks. By Kamogelo Motse, Researcher, Climate Council.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Last December, he authored a blog post entitled, “‘Renewable’ energy can’t replace fossil fuels,” which made the scientifically dubious claim that toxic chemicals contained in solar panels “are several orders of magnitude more hazardous than nuclear waste.”.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Overall, the report contends that investing in net zero projects promises to boost UK GDP by two per cent by the end of the decade, and by three per cent by 2050, through the creation of high value new industries and a shift towards cheaper, more secure energy supplies that reduce reliance on expensive fossil fuel imports.

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