DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2023

Elite law schools in the United States are disproportionately funneling their students into jobs serving fossil fuel clients, according to a new report published Thursday. law firms for their representation of fossil fuel clients. law firms (known as the Vault 100) according to their work for the fossil fuel industry.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As policymakers and leaders around the world prepare for pivotal climate discussions at COP28, the sector must seize the momentum to create more renewable energy, enabling other sectors to decarbonise, and shifting demand away from fossil fuels. Vicky Sins, Decarbonisation and Energy Transformation Lead, said: “We cannot keep 1.5

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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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Clean Energy Canada

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Canada’s energy sector: its future is often seen as foggy and facing inevitable decline. But the fossil fuel energy sector does not equal our entire energy sector. So finds Clean Energy Canada’s new report, The Fast Lane , modelled in collaboration with Navius Research. The picture could change.

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Business Green

AUGUST 23, 2022

Adverts promoting fossil fuel products and services have been banned in France, after a cornerstone of President Emmanuel Macron's green legislative agenda officially came into force yesterday. You will read everywhere that advertising for fossil fuels is now prohibited, but that's not true," the campaign group said in a statement.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 29, 2022

Those were the standout highlights from the latest report from energy market data analyst EnAppSys. Consequently, coal/lignite generation rose by 17%, marking the first year-on-year increase in output from these power sources since 2017. MWh during December. in 2020 to 33.8%

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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. Revolving Door’.

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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. They are taking our trees and destroying them.”. “It

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2021

Analysis of investments made by nine of the world's biggest development banks has found that they spent four times more on clean energy than fossil fuels in 2020. However, such positive signs of progress are marred by the banks' ongoing support for fossil fuel infrastructure.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Indigenous delegates said they had been amazed at the “wilful ignorance” they encountered when demanding global banks cease financing new fossil fuel projects on their ancestral lands in what is today North America. I had to give a fracking 101 lesson to this bank official. It’s appalling their level of ignorance.

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The Verge: Energy

APRIL 8, 2024

View of the solar eclipse from the Dudley Observatory on Monday, August 21st, 2017, in Schenectady, New York. Grid managers have had to find backup sources of energy to cope with the eclipse. Hydropower and gas are supposed to make up for most of the the shortfall in solar energy. Put simply: more gas, more pollution.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Swiss tech major Hitachi Energy has acquired eks Energy in a strategic move to add power and electronics and energy management software to their ever-growing portfolio. Hitachi Energy called the move part of its strategy to meet global demand for battery energy storage solutions.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

primary energy demand, according to the Department of Energy. At many of these facilities, fossil fuels, and especially natural gas, are the energy feedstock used for process heating applications. But what if the sun’s energy could take over the job much of the time and displace fossil fuels?

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 30, 2018

Fossil fuels, a vision of the future or something our children will see in history books? The energy markets, broadly taken to be fossil fuels and renewables, have seen significant changes over the past years. The extent of this growth however is partly offset by rapid gains in energy efficiency.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Renewable energy sources generated more electricity than fossil fuels in the U.K. Fossil fuels’ share of the electricity mix was 10 times larger than renewables’ a decade ago, Carbon Brief's data shows. The growth of renewable energy capacity in the U.K. Policy vacuum.

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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

JUNE 23, 2022

New large-scale fossil fuel projects have become mostly unworkable in the Pacific Northwest, with dozens canceled over the past decade due to fierce opposition from local communities. As Moore notes, the proposals came in waves, largely the result of whims in energy markets and changes in federal policy that allowed for more exports.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 18, 2020

The world still gets about 80% of its energy from fossil fuels today which generate the lions share of emissions. According to the EIA , in 2017, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from burning fossil fuels for energy were equal to about 76% of total U.S. dollars in fossil fuels.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 14, 2022

Commercial rents in downtown Calgary are on the rise, and long-thought dead fossil-fuel export projects have zombified. Previous high oil and gas price cycles have driven consumers to purchase more efficient cars and better insulate their homes, while the business community found ways to use less fossil fuel. And the U.S.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

New campaign backed by Bill McKibben argues it is 'time for PR and ad agencies to come clean' over work for fossil fuel clients. Between 2008 and 2017 fossil fuel industry trade associations spent almost $1.4tr on public relations, advertising, and communications contractors, according to Clean Creatives.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2023

The UK government announced the allocation of nearly £2 billion in funding on 21 March, which it says will be used to provide energy efficiency upgrades to more than 115,000 homes across England. billion, which will be used to fund energy-saving measures ranging from loft insulation to new windows. An additional £1.1

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Governments and energy companies should look beyond carbon dioxide and ensure their climate plans include drastic action to reduce the methane emissions from fossil fuel operations, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned today. And the benefits in terms of avoided near-term warming are huge.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The bank, currently Europe's second largest financier of fossil fuels, has committed to reaching net-zero across its supply chain and operations by 2030, before reaching net-zero across its customer portfolio 20 years later. That's just science, not finance.".

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 30, 2018

The main trends in human energy needs are population growth, an economic population shift towards the middle classes and energy efficiency. Population growth will plateau after 2030-2040, causing energy demand to stabilize and decline afterwards. causing major disruptions for the oil and gas majors.

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GreenBiz

JULY 2, 2020

A truly clean energy system runs on a clean conscience. For Shalanda Baker, a professor of law and public policy at Northeastern University, thinking about a clean energy future means thinking about the daily, weekly and sometimes invisible ways that people in deprived communities can control their power supply. Alec Appelbaum.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Several California municipalities are merging their climate deception litigation with the state’s climate case, to jointly pursue a super-sized lawsuit against the fossil fuel industry, according to recent court filings. municipalities suing the fossil fuel industry. Credit: Bob Dass , CC BY 2.0

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Two capital markets days in the space of a week have offered a forensic look at wind turbine supplier Siemens Gamesa and its new parent company, Siemens Energy. This month's IPO will see Siemens Energy floating 55 percent of its shares. It's expected to be one of the largest IPOs of the year, let alone the energy sector.

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2020

However, with traditional internal combustion engine car sales set to take an even bigger hit this year, the long-term trend towards electrification of transport is projected to accelerate in the years following the pandemic, according to the influential green energy analyst. million barrels a day by 2040.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Agencies facing fresh calls to cut their ties with laggard fossil fuel firms, leaving many in the advertising and PR sector with difficult decisions to make. And energy providers the world over are rushing to slash their reliance on fossil fuels as the clean energy transition gathers pace.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

There’s a lot of energy underneath homes — if reasonably priced technology can be scaled up to tap its potential. Dandelion Energy hasn’t gotten nearly to that scale yet. On Wednesday, Dandelion raised a $30 million Series B round led by Bill Gates-founded Breakthrough Energy Ventures to expand on those ambitions.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Kathryn Porter was introduced as an “energy consultant at Watt-Logic” by business presenter Sean Farrington on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, which has an audience of around six million, on Monday morning (June 19).

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 2, 2020

Through media briefs, we aim to provide journalists with useful factual and contextual information related to Canada’s clean energy transition. As Canada navigates the clean energy transition, cleaner technologies and solutions are attracting attention. Hydrogen has made headlines globally as a vital component of future energy systems.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 15, 2023

A “granfluencer” known as “our Filipino grandma” is among an army of US-based influencers being used by fossil fuel giants to promote major polluters to younger audiences, DeSmog can reveal. No energy transition can be successful if people are not aware of the alternatives available to them.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The state of California has jumped into the ring in the fight to hold some of the world’s biggest fossil fuel producers accountable for their role in driving the worsening climate crisis. These [companies] have been playing us for fools,” California Gov. Supreme Court earlier this year.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Google on Monday pledged that by 2030 it will run its entire business on carbon-free energy — every hour of every day of the year. It reached its 100 percent renewable energy goal in 2017, and last year got 61 percent of its global hourly electricity needs from wind, solar and other carbon-free sources. Europe and Chile.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in her Pennsylvania hometown, she will be facing off against some of the most powerful fossil fuel interests in the United States. Department of Energy blamed on falling productivity and export bottlenecks. eastern seaboard, which could reverse the decline.

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