GreenBiz

JULY 27, 2020

Morgan Stanley will measure CO2 impact of loans and investments. Mon, 07/27/2020 - 00:15. It comes as banks and financial institutions face growing pressure from campaigners, policymakers, regulations and investors to account for and take action against the sizeable climate risk in their investment portfolios. Michael Holder.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 4, 2024

Three-quarters of prizes at the UK’s top sustainable advertising awards went to agencies who work for the fossil fuel industry, a DeSmog analysis has revealed. billion investment in the UK’s green energy transition. Credit: Sam Whitham.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2023

Campaign group One for One warn fossil fuels should be viewed as the highest risk class of assets and urges government to tighten financial regulations to avert risk of a financial crash. The One for One rule will ensure that banks making high-risk fossil fuel investments shoulder that risk themselves," she added. "It

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Over the past decade, climate and environmental activists have pushed organizations to divest fossil fuel investments. The purpose of the divestment movement is to starve fossil fuel companies of the investments they need to develop new resources. However, I still use fossil fuels in my daily life.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 1, 2022

Banks, pension funds and investors are unshackling themselves from problematic investments in companies and states complicit in destruction in Ukraine – and they’re doing it fast. Fossil Fuel Conflict. Russian oil, gas and mining companies paid the Russian state £39 billion in taxes in 2020. This is just shy of the £41.7

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Business Green

JULY 30, 2021

Proportion of power derived from gas and coal in Britain fell to record low in 2020, official statistics confirm. Low demand for electricity during successive lockdowns saw renewables displace fossil fuels as the dominant source of power on Britain's grid for the first time ever in 2020, government data has confirmed.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 11, 2021

There’s a tiny flatline around 2020, but that’s because of the Covid lockdowns. We have to stop burning fossil fuels and leave them in the ground. It looks as though, in a corporate-dominated, growth economy, no fossil fuels are going to be left unburnt. trillion in subsidies for fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 8, 2021

Over €8 billion is being invested in hydrogen and “renewable gas” projects in southern Europe using EU Covid-19 recovery funds, thanks to extensive lobbying by the fossil fuel industry, a new report has found. . The over-emphasis on hydrogen as a result of lobbying could lock Europe into decades more of fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

Policy Exchange, one of Westminster’s most prominent think tanks, engaged in a high-level influencing campaign over the UK’s North Sea oil and gas policies while being funded by fossil fuel interests, DeSmog can reveal. Fossil fuel firms tout CCUS and hydrogen as green energy solutions, yet the reality is more complicated.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

above the pre-industrial average in 2020, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned in its recent report that Earth could hit 1.5C Fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas are the source of just over 80% of the world’s energy. Fossil Fuel Rationing. Global mean surface temperatures reached 1.2C

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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. HSBC, Credit Suisse, and Barclays finance TransCanada, campaigners say. and Canadian emissions.

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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. Moreover, 2020 was the first year in which the MDBs provided zero direct financing for coal projects, the group's preliminary analysis of the data suggests.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND – Only two of the 35 stalls lauding countries’ green credentials at the COP26 UN climate summit mention the need to cut fossil fuel production — the chief cause of the carbon emissions driving climate change. . We urge all leaders to put people and the planet over the profit of the fossil fuel industry.”.

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2020

Clean energy generated a historic 40 per cent of the bloc's electricity in the first half of 2020, according to green think tank Ember. Fossil fuels, on the other hand, suffered from the fall in electricity demand, with coal and gas generation plummeting 18 per cent overall to make up just over a third of bloc's overall electricity share.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 3, 2021

Annual figures show that renewable supply outpaced fossil fuels for the first time. 42% of all energy used across the country through 2020 came from wind, solar, tidal and hydro. Conversely, energy produced by fossil fuels fell to just 39.6%, marking the first time that clean energy has consistently outperformed legacy sources.

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Business Green

JULY 30, 2020

French oil giant concedes oil sands projects are becoming too expensive and warns that 'beyond 2030' peak oil demand beckons. As well as writing down fossil fuel assets, BP, Total and Shell, have also all recently unveiled net zero transition goals, as the firms embark on reshaping their business model for the future green economy.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2020

Rockefeller Brothers Fund announces that its investment portfolio has exceeded expectations and industry averages in the five years since it divested from fossil fuels. According to the study, the RBF posted an average annual net return of 7.76 per cent over the five-year period that ended in December last year.

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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. Though hard to predict, most outlooks expect energy demand to rise by about 30% by 2030.

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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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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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Business Green

MAY 19, 2020

Sales of all cars set for bumpy road in 2020, but as costs fall electric vehicles sales expected to continue growing after Covid-19. Sales of electric passenger vehicles are set to fall 18 per cent in 2020 to a total of 1.7 In its latest forecast today, BNEF said fossil fuel car sales likely already peaked in 2017.

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 7, 2020

The fossil fuel divestment movement has come a long way and this increasingly includes mainstream institutions. Banks, insurance companies and investors are all making the case that fossil fuels are dying. The city of New York is divesting roughly $5 billion in city workers’ pension funds from fossil fuel companies.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The think tanks said the record-breaking subsidies were prompted by turmoil in global energy markets that sent fossil fuel prices soaring and prompted governments to intervene to stop households and businesses facing five-fold increases in energy costs.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Over 600 businesses including Unilever, Netflix, and Volvo Cars have signed an open letter urging world leaders to strengthen short and long term climate targets, end support for fossil fuels, and ramp up climate finance ahead of crunch talks at the G20 and COP26 summits this autumn.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 13, 2020

2020: Fossil fuels are dead, long live the sun Hunter Lovins Thu, 08/13/2020 – 00:15 We’re female entrepreneurs and environmentalists. While businesses, community organizations, utilities and government agencies move away from dependence on fossil-fueled power generation, you can make that same shift, too.

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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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GreenBiz

APRIL 23, 2021

This activity is partly the result of a $140 million investment Plenty announced last year , just one of a slew of similar deals in the indoor ag sector. Consumer demand is fueling investment in CEA," Ceaser explained by email. The facility will supply 100 grocery stores when production begins later this year.

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Business Green

AUGUST 4, 2020

BP announces pivot to become 'integrated energy company' as it pledges to cut oil and gas production by 40 per cent and ramp up clean energy and technology investment after suffering record loss in the second quarter of 2020. By 2025, more than a fifth of capital would be invested in "transition" businesses by 2025, it added.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 28, 2021

The deployment of renewables has reached the point where balancing the electric grid requires shifting the supply of intermittent energy sources and demand on a MW-to-GW scale. The widespread use of grid storage can save utilities and their customers large amounts of money by evening out demand across time. Source: IEA, IHS Markit.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

Investment in clean energy from fossil fuel majors saw a marked uptick during the pandemic in 2020, research suggests. The fall in prices further compounded and accelerated wider trends that are serving to dampen long term demand projections for oil and gas industry. This rapid growth needs to be placed in context.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 30, 2018

Population growth will plateau after 2030-2040, causing energy demand to stabilize and decline afterwards. The current overcapacity in the oil markets will ensure a lasting shift in fossil markets. Renewables are already ridiculously cheap, with the cheapest forms of solar energy already at less than half the price of fossil fuels.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 24, 2020

In ACORE's new analysis, Expectations for Renewable Energy Finance in 2020-2023 , both investors and developers reported confidence in the continued growth of the renewable energy sector over the next three years. In 2018, ACORE launched $1T 2030: The American Renewable Investment Goal , an effort to secure $1 trillion in U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In the early months of COVID-19, for example, electricity demand dropped , as many businesses closed and factories either halted or drastically scaled back their operations. While electricity demand has faltered during the global pandemic, the share of wind and solar generation has continued to increase. In the U.S.,

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2021

Electric vehicle market goes from strength to strength even despite Covid-19 pandemic, with UK sales making up more than one in ten new car registrations in 2020.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 22, 2021

For Europe, 2020 represented a historic year for renewable energy sources. In the European Union, the rate of electricity generation from renewable energy sources amounted to 38%, ahead of fossil fuels (37%), and nuclear energy (25%). gowo, in turn, is the largest such investment on the Polish onshore wind energy market.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 24, 2023

It’s not a question of ‘if,’ it’s just a matter of ‘how soon’” With renewables now the cheapest power source, solar and wind energy are loosening fossil fuels’ grip on the global economy. Demand for coal, oil, and gas is expected to peak this decade, according to the IEA’s new Outlook. degrees of global warming this century.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Tue, 11/03/2020 - 01:00. Solar plus storage also helps the wider grid and environment by letting consumers shift the time when they consume solar power: by storing solar energy when it’s abundant during the day, and using it at night, in place of power generated from fossil fuels. How to value solar plus storage. Adam Aston.

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