DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

DeSmog analysed examples of more than 100 influencers being paid to promote fossil fuel firms worldwide since 2017, from the US to Malaysia, in campaigns that have reached billions of people. While there’s more knowledge in general around climate change and the harms of fossil fuels, I think that people have a lot of trust in creators.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

French environmental organizations Notre Affaire à Tous, Friends of the Earth France, and Oxfam France last week filed what they say is the world’s first climate lawsuit against a commercial bank, suing BNP Paribas over its continued funding of fossil fuels. They also say that the financial sector more broadly is on notice.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

Policy Exchange, one of Westminster’s most prominent think tanks, engaged in a high-level influencing campaign over the UK’s North Sea oil and gas policies while being funded by fossil fuel interests, DeSmog can reveal. Fossil fuel firms tout CCUS and hydrogen as green energy solutions, yet the reality is more complicated.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Bank bosses due to attend a green investment summit tomorrow head institutions which have provided over £700 billion of financing for the fossil fuel industry since the 2015 Paris Agreement, including £129 billion in 2020 alone. . billion in coal, oil and gas between 2016-2020. Concrete Commitments Needed’. billion in 2020.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

JPMorgan Chase is the world’s biggest financier of fossil fuels, according to environmental organisations. In 2020 the bank pledged to end fossil fuel loans for Arctic oil drilling and phase out loans for coal mining. Fossil Finance. JP Morgan declined to comment.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 24, 2022

HSBC has been accused of double standards after suspending an executive who said investors “need not worry” about climate change, while continuing to plough billions of pounds into fossil fuels. HSBC has financed £103 billion in fossil fuels since the Paris Agreement was ratified in 2016, including £43.8

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 13, 2022

A newly published report by Fossil Free California finds California’s pension fund managers are circulating divestment “misinformation” by exaggerating the costs involved in shedding their fossil fuel investments in documents prepared for state lawmakers. The two pension funds have estimated holdings of $7.4 billion and $4.1

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Data shows the green economy grew by over $60 billion per year between 2013 and 2016.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 21, 2021

The UK government gave over £150 million in tax breaks to fossil fuel companies in the space of three years, new research has found. A new paper out today reveals that tax credits for fossil fuel extractive companies to conduct research and development (R&D) increased by around £20 million year on year between 2014 and 2016.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 25, 2021

Central banks are continuing to help channel trillions of dollars into fossil fuels through policy decisions and direct financing, with overall sums rising in recent years, a new report has found. The report calls on governments to update the mandates of the banks to support the managed decline of fossil fuels.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2022

New Climate Transparency report reveals fossil fuel production subsidies surged to highest levels on record in 2021. G20 government support for producing and consuming fossil fuels reached a record high in 2021, despite publiuc commitments to end inefficient fossil fuel subsidies and accelerate the clean energy transition.

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Business Green

APRIL 18, 2021

Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change calls on banks to back their net zero pledges with moves to halt support for fossil fuels and activities that drive deforestation. With fossil fuel financing increasing since 2016, the time to act is now," she said. Net zero commitments must drive real change.".

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 22, 2021

Former UK Energy Minister and original COP26 President Claire O’Neill has been cleared to take up a role at a business consultancy known for running “astroturf” campaigns for fossil fuel companies, despite warnings from the body that approves such appointments. Oil and Gas Industry Groups.

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Business Green

JANUARY 3, 2023

Imperial College London analysis for 2022 points to record breaking year for green energy, but stresses need to 'break our addiction to fossil fuels'. As a result, he stressed the need for the UK to "beak our addiction to fossil fuels once and for all" in order to lower costs and secure energy supplies. "If

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Business Green

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The world should not develop any new sources of fossil fuels if it is stand a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C that allow for new sources of fossil fuels to be exploited. But while the IEA report found that new sources of oil and gas were incompatible with its own assessment of the pathway needed for a 1.5C

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

HSBC, Barclays, Santander, NatWest, and Lloyds come under fire for continuing to fund fossil fuel expansion. Furthermore, 77 per cent of customers said that they had no idea that their banks were financing fossil fuel expansion.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2020

Major study backed by 250 NGOs and environmental organisations claims financing for fossil fuels has risen every year since the Paris Agreement was signed. This makes it crystal clear that banks are failing miserably when it comes to responding to the urgency of the climate crisis.

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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2021

The world's first 'green steel' produced using hydrogen rather than fossil fuels has been delivered to its first customer Volvo, the consortium behind the pioneering project announced yesterday. Then, in July, SSAB Oxelösund rolled the first green steel produced using the HYBRIT technology.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The world's biggest firms driving the development of clean energy, electric vehicles, sustainable forestry, and other crucial green solutions continue to outperform the broader global market, "leaving fossil fuel companies in the dust", according to fresh investor research released today.

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Renew Economy

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Between 2016 and 2021, a group of just 12 Australian fossil fuel companies emitted more carbon pollution than 50% of the Pacific Islands’ total emissions over the same period. The post Carbon emissions from Australia’s ‘Dirty Dozen’ more than half Pacific Islands’ emissions appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

It was the third time the international body reproached the Canadian federal and provincial governments for their treatment of Indigenous communities in relation to the construction of the two fossil fuel projects. The Maritimes got quiet, Wet’suwet’en got hot,” Howe said. There’s nothing to say that this list is not still active.”.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Renewable energy is on the rise and the sun is setting on fossil fuels. Led by renewable energy the green economy now provides many more jobs than the fossil fuel industry. The report also says transitioning away from fossil fuels towards renewables makes good economic sense. green economy provided nearly 9.5

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altenergymag

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Founded in 2016 by John Failla, SED informs and supports commercial and industrial electric power customers as they navigate the transition to renewables and minimize consumption of fossil fuels. Diversified Communications announced the purchase of hosted buyer event and digital media business, Smart Energy Decisions (SED).

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altenergymag

MAY 28, 2020

The growing dependency to use renewable sources of energy over fossil fuels is expected to drive the solar chargers market in the future. The solar chargers are eco-friendly and do not emit any toxic materials to the environment as they are harnessed directly from the sun

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2024

Since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015, a small number of fossil fuel entities — just 57 corporate and state producers — have been responsible for 80 percent of planet-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Chinese coal alone accounts for 25 percent of global fossil fuel CO2 emissions. million barrels of oil.

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Business Green

APRIL 18, 2021

Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change calls on banks to back their net zero pledges with moves to halt support for fossil fuels and activities that drive deforestation. With fossil fuel financing increasing since 2016, the time to act is now," she said. Net zero commitments must drive real change.".

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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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AGreenLiving

MARCH 25, 2021

Despite climate-conscious PR, they are still putting their money toward financing fossil fuel projects, according to the new Banking on Climate Chaos report. Many of those banks are making 2050 commitments to align with the Paris Agreement when they need to act now on fossil fuels. The bank directed $51.3

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 12, 2022

Based in Lockerbie, MacRebur has been processing waste plastics otherwise destined for landfill or incineration since 2016. The resulting granules or flakes reduce the volume of bitumen (fossil fuel) in the asphalt mix, whilst enhancing the bitumen as an aggregate binder.

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Eco-Business

APRIL 17, 2023

The amount of capital top banks provided to fossil fuel companies has dropped for the first time since 2016. But this is because of record fossil fuel projects not effective green finance policies, a new study finds.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 21, 2020

since 2016, when it was the largest annual purchaser, according to the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance. In 2016, companies acquired 1.54 Amazon contracts with oil and gas companies for some computing services that help transport and sell fossil fuels. gigawatts of renewables, compared to a record of 9.33

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 13, 2020

2020: Fossil fuels are dead, long live the sun Hunter Lovins Thu, 08/13/2020 – 00:15 We’re female entrepreneurs and environmentalists. In this strangest of all years, as the death toll mounts from a disease caused by human incursions into once intact ecosystems, we’re observing another death — the demise of fossil fuels.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Data shows the green economy grew by over $60 billion per year between 2013 and 2016. More here: Growth in US green economy dwarfs that of fossil fuel industry.

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Business Green

JANUARY 23, 2023

Many banks claim that they continue to provide financing for fossil fuel clients in order to help those clients in their climate transition," said Adele Shraiman from Sierra Club's Fossil-Free Finance campaign.

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Climate-KIC

DECEMBER 26, 2016

It is game over for fossil fuel-powered cars and only a matter of time before electric cars overtake traditional vehicles in the global market. The post These 12 Powerful Stories Show How Electric Cars Gained Traction in 2016 appeared first on Climate-KIC.

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Green Living Guy

AUGUST 6, 2023

Ocean Temperature Rise: The Impact of Fossil Fuel Emissions The rising sea surface temperatures are, in part, driven by the El Niño weather phenomenon. The year 2016, which also witnessed record-breaking temperatures, coincided with an El Niño event.

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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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