DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The UK organisers of the upcoming COP26 climate summit have come under fire for approving just two events that refer to fossil fuels, the primary driver of climate change, in a programme of public events happening alongside the main conference. In 2018, 89 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions came from fossil fuels and industry.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Nearly two thirds of social media posts put out by six major European fossil fuel and energy companies since the end of 2019 present a “green” image of the company, despite the majority of their business activity remaining in fossil fuels, reveals new analysis by Desmog.

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The Verge: Energy

JANUARY 16, 2024

In the past, content that falsely claimed that climate change was either not happening or not a result of humans burning fossil fuels dominated disinformation channels. This kind of “new denial” made up 70 percent of climate-denying content on YouTube in 2023, according to the report, compared to 35 percent in 2018.

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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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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2024

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world’s foremost climate science body, has stated that carbon dioxide “is responsible for most of global warming” since the late 19th century, which has increased the “severity and frequency of weather and climate extremes, like heat waves, heavy rains, and drought”.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

Truss writes that “we should cancel” the United Nations annual COP climate summit, and falsely claims that electric vehicles are worse for the environment than those powered by fossil fuels. “In The UK government has given £20 billion more in support to fossil fuel producers than renewables companies since 2015.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 8, 2022

But the parliamentary register of interests shows that Baker received £5,000 from Neil Record , a Tory Party donor and chairman of both the climate science-denying Global Warming Policy Forum and the Institute of Economic Affairs think tank, which has received funding from oil giant BP, and has a record of opposing government climate policies.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

A University of Victoria economics professor who has spent years questioning whether global warming is “a real thing” is doing research supported by hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding from the Canadian government. last November was potentially made 60 percent more likely due to global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The pair of California leaders were there to discuss the lawsuit the state had recently filed against Big Oil on behalf of the people of California to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for the effects of climate change. But California is the first fossil-fuel-producing state to do so. History in the making….

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 13, 2024

In 2018, Matthews posted an article on Twitter from the U.S. The party last year received £135,000 from donors who deny climate science or have business links to fossil fuels. Reform’s policy platform claims that “scientists disagree as to how much” humans have had an impact on global warming.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JULY 24, 2023

The Green Agenda is Causing Havoc’ Susan Hall has called for the UK’s net zero targets to be “delayed” and has supported new fossil fuel extraction through the overturning of the UK’s ban on fracking for shale gas. Spiked regularly publishes articles that deny climate science, and has received funding from fossil fuel interests.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2023

The Daily Telegraph’s chief interviewer and columnist Allison Pearson has joined the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , one of the UK’s principal climate science denial groups. These impacts are costly, with Morgan Stanley estimating that climate-related disasters cost the world $650 billion from 2016 to 2018.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 13, 2023

Now, that memo — first reported by DeSmog and Dutch investigative journalism platform Follow The Money — features in a new court brief alleging that Shell, ExxonMobil, Chevron, and BP knowingly concealed the climate hazards of their fossil fuel products for decades. Looks a bit like a scheme to defraud.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Another $70 million will go toward hydrogen refueling infrastructure, with $25 million more for “zero- and near-zero carbon fuel production and supply” to meet the need for alternatives to battery-powered vehicles in the decades to come. Jerry Brown in 2018. This week's announcement follows on Gov. and the Netherlands.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 14, 2022

The Conservative peer Charles Moore has stepped down as a trustee of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), which is working closely with backbench MPs to roll back climate policy. The GWPF updated its register later the next day.

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The Verge: Energy

MARCH 4, 2024

Methane pollution is responsible for around 30 percent of global warming that’s raising sea levels and causing more extreme weather disasters. Between 2012 and 2018, it discovered that US methane emissions were actually 60 percent higher than the Environmental Protection Agency’s estimates.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 4, 2022

But global warming is increasing sea surface temperatures, which can create a bleaching effect that threatens the survival of tropical coral reef ecosystems, adding to the global biodiversity crisis. 2018 : Ørsted began developing the ReCoral project.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

But the groups have unearthed a 1970 report by Eni’s Isvet research centre that warned of the “catastrophic” risk the build-up of carbon dioxide (CO2) caused by burning fossil fuels could pose to the climate. Methane is the clean energy of the future,” ran a 1986 promotion in Eni’s company magazine Ecos.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Cerulean, which specialises in floating wind power infrastructure and calls increased North Sea fossil fuel production “vital”, received public funding in January to back its plans to power drilling rigs with offshore wind turbines. Green Party Peer Natalie Bennett said: “We need fossil fuels to stay in the ground.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2021

billion in financing to the fossil fuel industry. At the same time, the country aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 26–28 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 (a target which some deem “insufficient” and doesn’t go far enough towards helping limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures). “The

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 18, 2022

While they cloak their demands for more fossil fuel extraction in concern for their constituents’ household bills, the MPs have strong ties to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s leading producer of climate science denial and misinformation. Global Warming Policy Foundation Links.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

This annual report looks at where we are compared to where we need to be in terms of GHGs (see previous reports 2012 , 2018 and 2019 ). Fossil fuel use is a major contributor of GHGs and coal powered power plants especially harmful. Efforts to manage emissions demands major reductions in our use of fossil fuels.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Some 29 per cent of firms have said they will align with the Paris Agreement targets by 2030, up from 24 per cent in mid-2018, the TPI highlighted. pledges having doubled since 2018. Today's TPI data shows it can be done - with 14 companies now aligned with a path to keep global warming below 2C.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

This annual report looks at where we are compared to where we need to be in terms of GHGs (see previous reports 2012 , 2018 and 2019 ). Fossil fuel use is a major contributor of GHGs and coal powered power plants in particular are incompatible with emissions reductions. billion tons of CO2e in 2018.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Truss has ties to other American fossil fuel-linked groups. in 2018 while chief secretary to the Treasury, Truss met with several Koch-funded libertarian think tanks and lobby groups with a history of climate science denial, including the Cato Institute , the American Enterprise Institute , and the Heritage Foundation.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

Climate Science Denial Groups Global Warming Policy Foundation / Net Zero Watch The opaquely-funded Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), based at 55 Tufton Street in Westminster, is the UK’s most prominent climate science denial group.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Craig Mackinlay, chair of the Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), recently hired Harry Wilkinson, head of policy at the anonymously-funded Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), to work for him in Parliament. The former civil servant and vocal Brexit supporter was a trustee of the Global Warming Policy Foundation from 2019-21.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 16, 2023

Even if we completely eliminated fossil fuel emissions today, global food system emissions would cause us to exceed our 1.5 degree warming targets , unless they are slowed down. Danone’s size as a major global dairy company provides a significant opportunity for impact. while reducing emissions per gallon of milk.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

And, if you want to consult those lists in their entirety, here are the links: 2016 , 2017 , 2018 and 2019. Jessica Artioli Centurião ( 2018 ). We know that animal agriculture is now recognized as a leading cause of global warming. John Bello (2018). Willemijn Brouwer (2018). Joseph Gale (2018).

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Sean Gallup/Getty Images Tens of thousands of negotiators, activists, and corporate execs have descended upon Dubai to wrangle over the future of fossil fuels. The future of fossil fuels Let’s start with some backstory on COP28. Greenhouse gas emissions come from extracting and burning fossil fuels, of course.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 3, 2021

As there are only about 10 years left before the door closes for limiting global warming to less than 1.5 While a Directive on the energy performance of buildings has been in place since 2002, recast in 2010 and revised in 2018, the results so far have been underwhelming”, says Gillett. The challenge, however, is huge. “75%

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

West driven by increased heat and dry conditions linked to global warming from human carbon emissions. Google addresses some of these technical challenges in a new white paper , released Monday as an update to a 2018 “ discussion paper ” looking into the potential for 24/7 carbon-free energy for its data center fleet.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

million, although that number has not increased singificantly from 2018. However, with women making up just 12 per cent of the UK's renewable energy workforce, the country lags far behind the global average, with women making up almost a third of the world's renewable energy jobs, IRENA said. Brazil also employed 1.16

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

However, it is no less dangerous to the planet than other fossil fuel pipelines. million in fines for environmental violations since beginning construction in 2018, and more fines are likely on the way. In 1988, he wrote The End of Nature, the first book for a common audience about global warming. energy sector.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

An annual greenhouse gas inventory released last week for 2018 — the latest available data — showed vehicle exhaust remains the state’s largest problem, but the sharpest year-over-year increase came in the residential sector. million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emitted in Connecticut in 2018 was up 2.7% metric tons.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Clearly, we need both of these in order to combat misinformation that can seriously halt developments we are making to limit global warming to 1.5C. Rejecting fossil fuel clients would open the door for Edelman to work more closely with creators and advocates, and ultimately better serve their clients," it said.

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