Rinexii

OCTOBER 22, 2021

2021 has shaped up to be rather a surprising year for the fossil fuel industry. After the sudden quarantine of vast swaths of the world through 2020, the shuttering of businesses, and the general loss of revenue, large fossil fuel giants are getting hammered from citizens, government, and even their own investors.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2024

A new campaign is calling on MPs to break the fossil fuel sector’s “chokehold” on politics in a critical election year. The message forms the name of the campaign by Climate Resistance, a new collective that aims “to push the fossil fuel lobby out of Westminster and stop polluters from bankrolling political parties”.

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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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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

million people worldwide working in the sector in 2019, up almost 500,000 from the year before, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Market leader Asia accounted for 63 per cent of the world's total renewable energy jobs in 2019, with China alone accounting for 38 per cent at 4.4 As many as 11.5 As many as 5.5

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2022

Latest projections show global energy investment set to rise eight per cent this year, driven by surging investment in clean energy infrastructure. The IEA's World Energy Investment 2022 report, published yesterday, predicts that global energy investment is to increase by eight per cent in 2022 to reach $2.4tr.

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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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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

With that broad context, let’s look at 8 fascinating developments in sustainability from 2019. Beginning in late 2018 and stretching into 2019, she created a global movement, spoke truth to power , and collected more than 10 million followers on social media. Sustainable investing advances. People are taking notice.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Brits want their pensions and investments to minimise climate impacts and support a sustainable economy; far more than those who only seek to maximise financial returns – reveals new survey by environmental lawyers ClientEarth, released on 30 October. Too many banks, pension funds and insurers are propping up fossil fuel giants.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

If such a mine were to go ahead, there's an opportunity to show the world what a net-zero-compliant fossil fuel industry could look like with a simple provision in its final planning approval. To limit global warming to 1.5C West Cumbria suffered a " once-in-a-thousand-year " flood in 2009. And then again in 2015.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Still, it warns that the industry's growth could be undermined by grid investment, which it calls “the weak link” in the transformation of the power market. Transmission network operators claim the rates proposed for the years 2021-2026 won’t attract sufficient investment. Grid operators in China, the U.S.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

World Benchmarking Alliance warns that the global oil and gas industry is on track to smash through the carbon budgets that would prevent global average temperature increases spiralling above 1.5C. The world's chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C If we want to meet the IEA's 1.5°C

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

To stand a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, As of 30 September 2021, 120 countries, representing just over half of global greenhouse gas emissions, had communicated new or updated NDCs. To have any chance of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, Climate change is no longer a future problem. per cent in 2020.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2020

per cent – sends a clear sign to bank that investors are increasingly displeased with its approach to fossil fuel investment. Shareholders at JP Morgan Chase have signalled a growing desire that the world's largest funder of fossil fuels curbs lending activities that exacerbate climate change.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Thereafter, as previous IPCC reports have indicated, global emissions must fall by 43 per cent by 2030, in addition to a reduction in methane emissions of around a third, from 2019 levels. Even if emissions are halved by 2030 and methane is cut by a third in the same timeframe, it is "almost inevitable" warming will rise above that 1.5C

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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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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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Business Green

AUGUST 21, 2020

The insurer has also pledged to ditch direct investments in oil and gas projects altogether by 2040, backed by a series of interim goals for to gradually phase them out over the next decade. At the end of June 2020, fossil fuel extraction and generation made up less than 0.1 per cent, and less than 1.5

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Plus all the top green business news from around the world this week, including global wind capacity forecasts, food system CO2 fears, and an IKEA second-hand store in Sweden. Russia eyes fossil fuel growth as it unveils 2030 climate goal. I believe natural gas to be an eco-friendly energy source" said Novak.

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Front And Centered

MAY 17, 2019

More to work on: A bill to increase the State’s insufficient targets for emissions reductions to match the Paris Accords failed to advance for the second year in a row, leaving Washington state’s targets far below what’s necessary to avoid the worst harms from global warming. This policy was Front and Centered legislative priority. **We

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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. Holly Beale (2019). My environmental work in Microsoft’s datacenter communities has certainly been disrupted by the global crisis. We know that animal agriculture is now recognized as a leading cause of global warming.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

The IEA's flagship World Energy Outlook series of reports has long steered major investment decisions made by governments, companies, and investors around the globe, and its upcoming special report "could be the most influential ever", according to the signatories to the letter. is "central" to the report. is "central" to the report.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

This is despite new polling showing that 57 percent of 2019 Conservative voters think that Sunak hasn’t gone far enough to tackle climate change, while only 9 percent think he has gone too far. The study also found that burning fossil fuels made heatwaves in China 50 times more likely.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

West driven by increased heat and dry conditions linked to global warming from human carbon emissions. An analysis of its 2019 electricity consumption indicates wide gaps from location to location. Europe and Chile.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

million people die as a result of air pollution every year, but governments are still spending more supporting fossil fuel projects than they are tackling dirty air. Projects tackling air pollution receive less than one per cent of global aid spending, a new report from Clean Air Fund has revealed.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

Between $92tr and $173tr of investment needed to drive net zero energy transition over next 30 years, major new report estimates. At present, however, global emissions are moving in the wrong direction, with global energy emissions in 2019 having ticket up 0.9

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2021

Figures published this morning reveal the oil and gas sector emitted 70 million tonnes of methane emissions in 2020, a figure that is broadly equivalent to the amount of energy-related CO2 emissions produced by the European Union but represents a 10 per cent drop from 2019 levels.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Emissions from coal and gas use are set to grow more in 2021 than they fell in 2020, but emissions from oil use remain below 2019 levels, the report revealed. The rebound in global fossil CO2 emissions in 2021 reflects a return towards the pre-Covid fossil-based economy. per cent compared to 2020, reaching 4.4

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

But progress across the aluminium and steel industries has been slow, and the TPI warned that overall the industrial sector is moving far too slowly to avert dangerous global warming. 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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Publishing its annual report for 2021 today, HSBC said it was targeting a 34 per cent reduction in absolute "on balance sheet" financed emissions by 2030 for the oil and gas sector against 2019 levels, which it said was in line with the net zero scenario assessments made by the International Energy Agency (IEA).

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

May, who was UK Prime Minister from 2016 to 2019, was speaking last night at an event hosted by the Conservative Environment Network (CEN), which represents more than 100 Tory MPs who back policies to cut emissions and protect nature. A Unifying Issue’. She was present for 12 indicative votes and voted positively in four.

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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. Duke serves about 7.4

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 2, 2021

Summary - 2021 will be the first year in which investments in European offshore wind will equal investments in oil and gas. The pressure on fossil companies to limit their CO? emissions is now called an 'investment risk'. Until the second half of 2019, institutional investors used a black list.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Today’s high energy prices are caused by a spike in the wholesale cost of gas, and have been made worse by a failure to invest more heavily in renewable energy and home insulation. Huge investment in renewables etc -> higher profits -> higher prices.”. Additional research by Christopher Deane.

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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2022

Two reports out this week have highlighted how developments across 2021 are set to catalyse policy and technological trends that could catalyse the retreat of fossil fuels across the global energy system. At times the fossil fuel economy can seem indefatigable. or $1.7tr," the report states.

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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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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

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Global greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation are on course for a dramatic seven per cent drop in 2020 due to plummeting economic activity caused by the coronavirus crisis, setting the scene for renewables to dominate the recovery at the expense of fossil fuels.

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