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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Porter’s blog repeatedly cites the work of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate science denial group. Porter’s Energy Blogs Climate models accurately predict global temperature rises, with observed warming tracking the forecasts.

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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. It is a big business.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Nigel Farage ’s Reform party received £135,000 this year from donors linked to climate science denial and fossil fuels, DeSmog can reveal. Latest official records show that all donations made to Reform UK so far this year are from individuals with ties to climate science denial or fossil fuel interests.

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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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E8 Cleantech Angels

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Jeff Thiel and James Kempf We are not yet reducing global greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to avert catastrophic levels of global warming. We have the technology now to ensure a livable world for future generations, and investing in that technology will be good for our economy and our health too. annual total returns.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Jeff Thiel and James Kempf We are not yet reducing global greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to avert catastrophic levels of global warming. We have the technology now to ensure a livable world for future generations, and investing in that technology will be good for our economy and our health too. annual total returns.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Jeff Thiel and James Kempf We are not yet reducing global greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to avert catastrophic levels of global warming. We have the technology now to ensure a livable world for future generations, and investing in that technology will be good for our economy and our health too. annual total returns.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

And energy providers the world over are rushing to slash their reliance on fossil fuels as the clean energy transition gathers pace. Between 2008 and 2017, fossil-fuel industry trade associations in the U.S. It is a big business. spent almost $1.4

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

West driven by increased heat and dry conditions linked to global warming from human carbon emissions. 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. Europe and Chile.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

But look for future updates and essays on this topic, such as the one digitally penned recently by Jarami Bond (named in 2017). And, if you want to consult those lists in their entirety, here are the links: 2016 , 2017 , 2018 and 2019. We know that animal agriculture is now recognized as a leading cause of global warming.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Duke's regulated utilities serve electricity to nearly 8 million people in six states and operate a 51-gigawatt generation fleet, one-third of it coal and nearly three-quarters fossil-fueled.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2022

Auto giant reiterates plan to invest more than $50bn globally through to 2026 to develop EVs and the batteries that power them. Ford also reiterated its recent investment plans to spend more than $50bn globally from 2022 through to 2026 to develop EVs and the batteries that power them.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2020

UK pension schemes will soon be required to publicly disclose the risks posed to their savers' investments by climate change and the net zero transition under new rules proposed by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) today. or 'well below' 2C by the end of the current century, the DWP said.

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Mr. Sustainability

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Back in 2015 it managed to generate 100 per cent of its electricity from renewable energy sources for 299 days, and in 2016, it ran for 271 days on everything but fossil fuels. And with just six weeks of 2017 left to go, it looks like that number is only going to increase.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2021

Leading oil majors have taken steps to reduce methane emissions in recent years, with the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative group of oil and gas giants reporting late last year that they had collectively cut methane emissions 22 per cent since 2017. Companies have also touted sizeable new investment programmes to detect and fix methane leaks.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 26, 2022

The finding sheds new light on a network of PR agencies, right-wing politicians and think-tanks working to drum up opposition to climate policies as part of a broader drive to cut regulation and boost production of fossil fuels. In 2017, Ryan praised the Conservative Party for cutting carbon emissions. Discretion is Key’.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

On the cost of energy transition, May said: “It is essential that low-carbon and green infrastructure is not simply seen as an upfront cost, but instead an investment that will deliver returns.”. ‘A The cost of wind power and solar power has plummeted over the past decade whilst creating thousands of jobs.”. A Unifying Issue’.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Fundamentally, to avoid putting a molecule of CO 2 into the air from the global energy system — for example switching from fossil fuels to wind or solar — is far easier than getting that molecule back out. C goal is greatly affected by how late fossil emissions peak and how steep they decline (IPCC 2018).

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Grist

JANUARY 12, 2023

Rising emissions posed a threat to Exxon’s business — selling fossil fuels — so the oil giant took the lead on understanding what was called the “CO2 problem.”. At the time, Exxon was pouring $900,000 a year into researching the effects of burning fossil fuels. Grist / Jessie Blaeser. Spencer Platt / Getty Images.

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2020

Investors may have broadly welcomed the move, but climate campaign groups remain sceptical, to say the least, given Shell's net zero plans contain no pledges to halt exploration for new oil and gas, with the company maintaining that fossil fuels will continue to play a key role in the global economy beyond 2050.

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Green Tech Challenge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

The problem of global warming crosses geopolitical lines and boundaries, and thus must be addressed by humanity as a whole. The country's target is to achieve at least an 85% reduction, with the remaining 15% to be offset by planting trees and other sustainable investments.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

The latest findings follow in the wake of Project Drawdown's inaugural landmark report from 2017 , which first assessed the same 80-odd solutions. For an estimated initial investment of $23.4tr to $26.2tr, the world would reap $96.4tr to $143.5tr in savings, according to Project Drawdown.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2022

There is now a 50 per cent chance of average global warming temporarily reaching the critical 1.5C But that probability reached 10 per cent between 2017 and 2021, and has now increased to almost 50 per cent for the next five years in its latest assessment published yesterday.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The endorsement marks a reversal for the company, which came under fire in 2017 when Greenpeace revealed through a freedom of information request that the firm had lobbied against the introduction of a DRS in Scotland. Climate is definitely one of those conversations that we're currently having.".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Oil and gas giant sets sights on developing science-based climate targets, as hydrogen, nature based solutions, carbon capture, utility business, and electric vehicle infrastructure all earmarked for increased investment. global warming pathway set out in the Paris Agreement.

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Cleantech East

JUNE 25, 2019

Norwich Community Solar (NCS) was started as a Community Benefit Society by a small group of environmentally concerned residents in late 2017 and as members of Community Energy England (CEE), which represents similarly minded organisations, we are now part of a community of 228 in England and Wales (Figure 1). The need for community energy.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

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. In addition, several states have their own more demanding legislation in place, such as California’s and Massachusetts’ Global Warming Solutions Act.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 29, 2020

But look for future updates and essays on this topic, such as the one digitally penned recently by Jarami Bond (named in 2017). And, if you want to consult those lists in their entirety, here are the links: 2016 , 2017 , 2018 and 2019. We know that animal agriculture is now recognized as a leading cause of global warming.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Alternative jet fuels or so-called “Sustainable Aviation Fuels” (SAF) are liquid hydrocarbon fuels that can be used with existing aircraft in place of kerosene produced from fossil fuels. The argument is that blending these fuels with fossil fuels would thereby reduce emissions.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

IEA warns that methane emissions from the global energy sector fell only fractionally last year, despite projects to cut methane leaks providing hugely attractive returns on investment By rights methane emissions from the fossil fuel industry should be one of the easiest climate problems to fix. There is just no excuse.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Attempts to reform the treaty foundered last year, leaving controversial investment protections in place that allow investors to seek damages from governments if policies change. Legal experts fear the treaty could be used by fossil fuel companies to sue governments over decarbonisation policies that leave them out of pocket.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Diverting energy flows from fossil to renewable How to use biomass to power the world Let us begin with a simplified flow diagram of energy, also called a Sankey Diagram, of the energy need of the U.S. This will have tremendous implications for the Fossils (the oil and gas industry), as well as the car industry. I am assuming the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Nearly 25 years ago, oil major Shell predicted in an internal 1998 report that a class-action lawsuit would be brought against fossil fuel companies following “a series of violent storms.” Climate models predict that as oceans warm, hurricanes will become more intense, leading to more turbocharged storms like Maria and Irma.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

At the same time, the increasingly dire effects of global warming are bringing more Americans in line with much of the rest of the world in making carbon-emissions reduction a top policy priority. It’s also investing in Ørsted’s 1.1-gigawatt Xcel Energy. million customers in New Jersey and another 1.1

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 18, 2024

The ‘New Conservatives’ group of Tory MPs received a £50,000 donation in December from the investment fund behind GB News, DeSmog can reveal. Legatum partner Alan McCormick is the chair of GB News, while the investment firm has given tens of millions of pounds to the broadcaster.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

The approach proved itself when the 2017 Tubbs Fire burned 95 percent of the preserve and the 2019 Kincade Fire scorched 60 percent. Jessie Blaeser That slow progress follows unprecedented government investment in wildfire resilience. Although the forest was thriving before the fires in 2017 and 2019, we see few signs of regeneration.

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