DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

For a long time, the Heartland Institute has been heavily invested in disputing the scientific consensus on climate change — and not always tastefully. The billboard read: “I still believe in global warming. And there’s plenty of evidence about that consensus. These figures are, of course, not far from the iconic 97% consensus.

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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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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 10, 2022

Published today in the journal Nature Communications , the study sets out a fresh framework for corporate carbon performance management, which is aimed at better aligning companies with the Paris Agreement goals to limit global warming to 1.5C or 'well below' 2C.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 18, 2020

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. anthropogenic GHG emissions (based on global warming potential) and about 93% of total U.S. The 10 Biggest Carbon-dioxide Emitting Firms In The World (1965 to 2017) Saudi Aramco, 59.26

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Some of the companies targeted have recently announced net zero goals, but Climate Action 100+ makes clear that investors want to see targets that are also backed by credible and comprehensive decarbonisation and investment plans. global warming scenario.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2020

It follows the issuance of Barclays' first ever green bond in 2017, which was the first from a UK bank earmarked for funding domestic residential mortgage assets, and last year the bank pledged to increase its green bonds commitment to £4bn over time, as well as pledging to deliver £100bn green financing by 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 4, 2023

The International Energy Agency has stated that new oil and gas exploration is incompatible with the effort to limit global warming to 1.5C – the legally-binding limit set by the 2015 Paris Agreement. Consumer Choice Center was founded in 2017 by the libertarian advocacy group Students for Liberty.

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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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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

AUGUST 3, 2023

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak also confirmed the location of two new CCUS sites, re-committing the government to its £20 billion planned investment in the technology, which in theory involves harnessing the CO2 produced from burning fossil fuels. Policy Exchange received $30,000 from the oil and gas supermajor ExxonMobil in 2017.

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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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Business Green

JULY 11, 2021

By investing in forestry assets used to produce carbon offset credits, investors can benefit from growing demand for both compliance and voluntary credits, explains Gresham House's Olly Hughes. As much as 17 billion tonnes of CO2 must be removed from the air by 2050 if global warming is to be kept below 2C. per cent and 48.5

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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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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

More immediately, Duke’s new plan improves on its 2017 goal to cut its 2030 carbon emissions by 40 percent, driven by “sustained low natural gas prices and declining costs for renewables and storage,” Tuesday’s press release noted.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 26, 2022

NZW is the political arm of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s most prominent climate science denial group, which published a paper last month claiming there is “no evidence of a climate crisis”. In 2017, Ryan praised the Conservative Party for cutting carbon emissions. Discretion is Key’.

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Energy Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Since 1900, sea levels have increased 8 inches on average globally, and by 2100, sea levels will likely rise between 1 and 4 feet (Sweet et al. In 2017, hurricanes, severe storms, and flooding resulted in deaths, disrupted lives, and over $280 billion in damages (NOAA NCEI 2018). Communities around the U.S. Approximately 1.3

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Between 2008 and 2017, fossil-fuel industry trade associations in the U.S. It is a big business. spent almost $1.4 trillion on public relations, advertising and communications, according to Clean Creatives. Since the 1990s, the world's top five public oil companies alone — Exxon, BP, Chevron, Shell and ConocoPhillips — have spent over $3.6

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

billion invested in fossil fuels. billion invested in fossil fuels. Mordunat is a director at the Global Warming Policy Foundation and served as its chair from April 2017 to November 2019. Panther Securities The electoral register shows a further £20,000 from Panther Securities PLC, a property investment company.

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Mr. Sustainability

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

And with just six weeks of 2017 left to go, it looks like that number is only going to increase. It's also worthwhile to note that Costa Rica was one of the few countries which had the prescience to refrain from investing in fossil fuels in the first place.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 1, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), requires CARB to develop and update every five years a scoping plan that describes the approach California will take to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Endnotes. [1] at 150-51. [5]

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 24, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated at least once every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The report notes the latter data dates from 2017 as there is a lack of recent waste data, but updates in 2022 are not expected to see the target met, in part owing to the impact of the pandemic on collection, reuse, and recycling of clothing.

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Business Green

JUNE 13, 2021

And now Steve Baker MP, a new member of the climate sceptic Global Warming Policy Forum, is doing his utmost to make noise on the Conservative backbenches and get '#costofnetzero' trending on Twitter. Last month, there was a backlash in The Sun and The Daily Mail on the cost of replacing gas boilers with low carbon alternatives.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Four scenarios to limit global warming to 1.5°C. For both DAC1 and 2 these are large numbers of units, but the authors point to other massive production numbers such as the 73 million cars manufactured in 2017. Global warming of 1.5 C An IPCC Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5

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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

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The IEA stressed that slashing methane emissions was the "most impactful way" to limit near-term climate change, noting the potent greenhouse gas is responsible for 30 per cent of the rise in global temperatures to date.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Just one third of electric utility focus companies were found to have a coal phaseout plan consistent with holding global warming to below 2C, the Paris Agreement's upper limit. Howarth said the group's "failure of stewardship" was at risk of driving significant losses for investment portfolios and economies.

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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

APRIL 13, 2022

However, the bits of information that have come out about Costco's plans aren't very encouraging to shareholders, according to Thomas Peterson, a shareholder advocate with Green Century Capital Management, an impact investing fund. "As A lot of the more innovative solutions aren't in place. Costco's shifting supplier base is a challenge.

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Grist

JANUARY 12, 2023

The chart below shows how global warming projections modeled by Exxon scientists compared to the actual temperature that ensued. Harvard , Princeton , and other prominent universities are getting rid of investments in fossil fuels. Grist / Jessie Blaeser. Spencer Platt / Getty Images. Spencer Platt / Getty Images.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 11, 2020

The Kenya National Mangrove Ecosystem Management Plan (2017 – 2027) gives three root causes of mangrove exploitation, namely: poverty and economic development, ignorance and weak governance. These have in large part contributed to the present deforestation and degradation of mangrove forests. Source: GRID-Arendal. Photo by Rob Barnes.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

Neither was there any consideration of these climate threats and their implications in the Future Homes Standard consultation, the 2017 Industrial Strategy, Parliament's pioneering Climate Assembly initiative, or the doomed Green Homes Grant scheme. And that is assuming the world can move on to a 2C global warming pathway.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

OCTOBER 30, 2018

percent of the $85 billion in funding distributed to the startup community in 2017. It gets re-invested by bankers and investors, to fund the causes they believe will yield the highest returns regardless of the values behind them,” Lucas-Conwell says. . Yet, the VC database PitchBook reveals women-led startups only garnered 2.2

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

OCTOBER 30, 2018

percent of the $85 billion in funding distributed to the startup community in 2017. It gets re-invested by bankers and investors, to fund the causes they believe will yield the highest returns regardless of the values behind them,” Lucas-Conwell says. . Yet, the VC database PitchBook reveals women-led startups only garnered 2.2

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

It estimates the UK on average stumped up just over $2.8bn in annual climate finance in 2017-18, yet based on the country's cumulative CO2 emissions, national income, and population, a 'fair share' would equate to funding of around $5.8bn.

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2020

In November 2017 Shell's said it would aim to reduce the carbon intensity of the energy products it sells in half by 2050, which it said was based upon keeping temperatures below 2C of global warming by the end of the century. warming pathway. The company has already announced plans to double its green energy investment.

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