Planet Pulse

JANUARY 11, 2024

In this week’s issue : We kick off our energy series with the top dog: fossil fuels Orange rivers in Alaska A river mystery in Colombia Feature Story: Energy: Fossil Fuels If you’re reading this then you owe gratitude to fossil fuels. But fossil fuel companies aren’t quite shaking in their boots yet.

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

French environmental organizations Notre Affaire à Tous, Friends of the Earth France, and Oxfam France last week filed what they say is the world’s first climate lawsuit against a commercial bank, suing BNP Paribas over its continued funding of fossil fuels. They also say that the financial sector more broadly is on notice.

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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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Fossil fuels Hydrogen Politics Europe 98

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

An in-depth article by the website Carbon Brief argues that the fuel is unlikely to be taken up universally, particularly as “the volume required to satisfy all the possible applications for low-carbon hydrogen would likely far exceed the amount available, even if production is significantly scaled up.”. Credit: Gaia Lamperti.

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Fossil fuels Hydrogen Europe Natural gas 98

GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

primary energy demand, according to the Department of Energy. At many of these facilities, fossil fuels, and especially natural gas, are the energy feedstock used for process heating applications. But what if the sun’s energy could take over the job much of the time and displace fossil fuels? in Lemoore.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2022

Electric vehicles (EVs) are set to become the most in-demand option for drivers across Europe within the next three years, with a rapid shift to electric mobility on roads now inevitable over the coming decade and beyond, a major new study of seven national auto markets has concluded.

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Fossil fuels Europe Electric vehicle Demand 91

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 24, 2023

The calls on councils, pension funds, and financial institutions to divest their holdings in fossil fuel assets comes in the same week that the IPCC warned that there is "a rapidly closing window of opportunity" for countries to act on climate change to secure a "liveable and sustainable future" for all.

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Fossil fuels Investment Climate change Demand 95

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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

That is according to a new report from the Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC), which reveals that buildings and construction accounted for more than 34 per cent of energy demand and around 37 per cent of energy and industrial process-related CO2 emissions in 2021.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The IEA has released its World Energy Outlook 2021 which details a global rebound in coal and oil use in 2021, as well as the second-largest annual increase in CO2 emissions in history. The world is not investing enough, the authors wrote, to meet future energy needs, which could lead to prolonged volatility in energy markets.

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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. However, such positive signs of progress are marred by the banks' ongoing support for fossil fuel infrastructure.

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Fossil fuels Energy Energy Investment 74

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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Fossil fuels Climate change Cooling Patents 52

Business Green

JUNE 1, 2021

Letter from 50 campaign groups urges government to heed recent advice of International Energy Agency that growing fossil fuel supply is incompatible with a 1.5C The court ruling was hailed by climate campaigners as a watershed moment that could potentialy pave the way for other climate litigation against major fossil fuel firms.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 20, 2021

Tue, 04/20/2021 - 02:11. The push to quickly transition carbon-intensive activities away from fossil fuels while meeting the world’s growing energy needs has put electricity producers and consumers squarely in the forefront of the emerging clean economy. And the era of fossil fuels is hardly over. Joel Makower.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 14, 2022

Commercial rents in downtown Calgary are on the rise, and long-thought dead fossil-fuel export projects have zombified. Previous high oil and gas price cycles have driven consumers to purchase more efficient cars and better insulate their homes, while the business community found ways to use less fossil fuel. And the U.S.

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Fossil fuels Government Demand Natural gas 52

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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GreenBiz

JANUARY 27, 2021

Wed, 01/27/2021 - 02:00. The key solutions today are biofuels, only displacing a mere fraction of fossil fuels-based jet fuel, and offsets. This isn't Amazon's first investment in biofuels. DHL Express is using Neste's sustainable aviation fuel at SFO. . Katie Fehrenbacher.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

HSBC, Barclays, Santander, NatWest, and Lloyds come under fire for continuing to fund fossil fuel expansion. Furthermore, 77 per cent of customers said that they had no idea that their banks were financing fossil fuel expansion.

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Fossil fuels Investment Global warming Carbon 41

Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The way we power our aircraft will be a big part of achieving that goal, and this exciting project to make aviation fuel from air and water shows how it might be done.". Zero Petroleum and the RAF launched Project MARTIN in June 2021, developing ZERO SynAvGas over five months with negative carbon technology company IGTL Technology.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Aviva has announced it intends to reach net zero emissions across its operations, supply chain, and investments by 2040, unveiling a number of new exclusion policies that will see the firm distance itself from the most carbon intensive fossil fuel companies.

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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

JULY 30, 2021

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. Across the year, fossil fuels supplied 37.7 Meanwhile, clean energy delivered 43.1

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

The pilot launched on the 1 st of December in 2021 and includes utility UK Power Networks (UKPN) and consumers and EV owners in Norfolk and Essex. The pilot includes consumers of UKPN with EVs responding to some 11 demand response and demand-side flexibility signals. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

None of this equates with actual action to reduce emissions or tackle inequality, but it’s clearly not fringe anymore (which fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil found out when activist investors forced it to take on sustainability-friendly board members). The Big Stories of 2021. To me, we’ve reached the end of the beginning.

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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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Fossil fuels Demand Climate change Investment 45

DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

Fossil fuel giants BP and Shell were given “ample opportunity” to privately influence proposals for taxing oil and gas companies that were later backed by the government, new documents reveal. Fossil fuel companies will survive while there is demand for what they produce.

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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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GreenBiz

MARCH 31, 2021

Wed, 03/31/2021 - 01:00. Those processes use a lot of energy and largely come from fossil fuels; one-third of U.S. A key route to industrial emissions reductions is electrification (replacing industrial fossil fuels with electric alternatives). How corporations can jump-start industrial electrification in the US.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2022

The study, published in the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) journal The Geographical Journal , highlights that global demand for sulphuric acid is set to rise significantly from ‘246 to 400 million tonnes’ by 2040 – a result of more intensive agriculture and the world moving away from fossil fuels.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The clean energy group announced the investment of £625 million ($800 million) days after an acquisition from Octopus Energy-owned Kraken Technologies of the advanced renewable energy management software provider Sennen. billion), a 60% increase since its previous investment round in December 2021. billion ($7.8 billion ($7.8

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 23, 2021

Budget 2021 recognizes Canada’s economic future relies less on fossil fuels and more on exports aligned with this net-zero world. The production of certain minerals could increase by nearly 500 per cent over the next three decades to meet growing demand for clean technologies, according to the World Bank Group.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The European Investment Bank (EIB) will stop backing fossil fuel energy projects in 2021, except those using carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology or offsets to cancel out their emissions. It's targeting €1 trillion of climate action and sustainability investments between 2021 and 2030.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 30, 2024

This potentially revolutionary method offers a glimpse into a future where clean energy could be derived directly from the Earth’s natural processes , reducing our reliance on fossil fuels and decreasing carbon footprints. Another significant hurdle is the economic investment required to pioneer this nascent field.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 26, 2021

This week, Clime Capital, a Singapore-based investment management company that manages funds from SEACEF, announced that it has invested in an innovative floating solar and storage project in Dong Nai Province, Vietnam, currently under development by Blueleaf Energy.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

A new standard has been established to outline what a credible net zero strategy looks like for the oil and gas sector, in a bid to help investors benchmark the climate plans of different fossil fuel firms and assess which are fit for inclusion in net zero portfolios.

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