DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Bank bosses due to attend a green investment summit tomorrow head institutions which have provided over £700 billion of financing for the fossil fuel industry since the 2015 Paris Agreement, including £129 billion in 2020 alone. . JPMorgan financed £230 billion in fossil fuels between 2016 and 2020. billion in 2020.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Net Zero Festival: Leading figures from IEA, Carbon Tracker and Ceres unite in calls for more ambitious government action to shift away from fossil fuels. Campanale was optimistic that if such board-level activity grows across the high-carbon sectors, the fossil fuel industry would start to feel the economic pressure.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

New campaign backed by Bill McKibben argues it is 'time for PR and ad agencies to come clean' over work for fossil fuel clients. Between 2008 and 2017 fossil fuel industry trade associations spent almost $1.4tr on public relations, advertising, and communications contractors, according to Clean Creatives.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

and EU to drop their landmark climate change laws, spreads falsehoods about green policies, and fondly recalls an attempt to cancel a major climate conference. She also claims that, while serving in the Treasury, she attempted to cancel the 2021 COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2022

“Investing in new fossil fuel infrastructure is moral and economic madness,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released part of its latest report on Monday. It is what science tells us will result from our current energy policies.”.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2023

The founder and honorary president of the Global Warming Policy Foundation has announced he will be retiring from parliament. Lawson claimed that “global warming is not a problem” as recently as 2021, in an article written for the Spectator magazine during the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. GWPF Record.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2024

The county argues oil companies’ “campaigns to deceive and mislead the public about the damaging nature of their fossil fuel products” delayed climate action for decades, robbing communities of precious time to mitigate the climate-driven disasters they now face.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Fossil fuels are everywhere at this COP except in the decisions being negotiated by governments,” Nikki Reisch, the director of climate and energy at the Center for International Environmental Law, wrote to DeSmog from Glasgow. in reach — Alok Sharma (@AlokSharma_RDG) October 23, 2021. Oil Majors Show up in Disguise.

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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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DeSmogBlog

MAY 7, 2024

These comments, originally made by Moore and echoed by Birtles, have “absolutely no basis in fact”, according to Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. GB News was approached for comment.

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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. To achieve net-zero economy-wide emissions by 2050 and limit global warming, industrial emissions must drop while still meeting societal needs. greenhouse gas emissions come from industry.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Hintze, a Conservative peer and hedge fund manager, was one of the early funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , founded by the late Conservative chancellor Nigel Lawson. Steve has never discussed environmental policy with him. Steve is fully committed to the government’s net zero aims.”

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

There is growing confidence that clean technologies could start to squeeze the dominance of fossil fuels across the global economy, and potentially sooner than previously thought Whisper it, but is the dominance of fossil fuels across the global economy finally starting to wane?

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

It’s part of their systematic attempt to influence the climate policy discussion,” Chris Russill, a Carleton University journalism professor and academic director of the climate communication centre Re:Climate, told DeSmog. Voters interested in climate policy,” Russill said. People search for this stuff for a variety of reasons.

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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

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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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

On the plus side, the pact reaffirmed the central importance of 1.5C (our best chance to avoid the worst impacts of climate change), mentions coal and fossil fuels for the first time, and calls for countries to “revisit and strengthen” 2030 climate pledges by the end of 2022 instead of waiting another five years. of warming. (If

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Grist

MARCH 20, 2023

The newest publication is an attempt to distill everything the panel has said since August 2021, when it began releasing its sixth assessment of global warming. There’s no new research in this latest report, but it injects new urgency into scientists’ and activists’ calls for rapid, systemic action from global decision-makers.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

This story originally appeared in AGU’s Eos Magazine and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. In contrast, if we don’t limit global warming to below 2°C, 5 million fewer energy jobs will be created. Calls for just transitions.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

New and updated climate commitments fall far short of what is needed to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, leaving the world on track for a global temperature rise of at least 2.7°C C this century, according to the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) latest Emissions Gap Report 2021: The Heat Is On. The clock is ticking loudly.”.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

To achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, countries will likely need to set hard limits on the extraction of fossil fuels in addition to supporting the deployment of clean energy. The researchers set out to estimate how much of the world’s fossil fuel reserves must remain in the ground in order to limit global warming to 1.5

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 12, 2023

The US-based organisation – which has links to a network of fossil fuel funded think tanks and advocacy groups – has opposed climate-friendly measures in Europe, such as the phase-out of petrol cars and green farming reforms, despite being removed from the lobby register over a year ago.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

The Business Council of British Columbia, whose more than 250 members include ConocoPhillips, Shell and the pipeline builder Enbridge, last month appointed Laura Jones as its president and CEO, calling her “a nationally recognized leader in public policy.” million in funding from the Charles G. Last year, D’Avignon met with B.C.’s government.

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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. 3, 2021, pp. 7, 2021, pp. ” Energy Policy, vol. 2, 2021, pp. 2, 2021, pp.

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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. The GWPF has criticised both the policies adopted by governments to address climate change, and the science underpinning these policies.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Agencies facing fresh calls to cut their ties with laggard fossil fuel firms, leaving many in the advertising and PR sector with difficult decisions to make. And energy providers the world over are rushing to slash their reliance on fossil fuels as the clean energy transition gathers pace. It is a big business.

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Business Green

JUNE 1, 2021

Global green energy spending expected to rebound in 2021 towards pre-pandemic levels, but far more capital needed to ramp up renewables in line with climate goals. The report predicts global investment in energy is set to rebound by nearly 10 per cent in 2021 to $1.9tr, reversing most of the drop caused by the pandemic in 2020.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 18, 2022

A few weeks ago it was the cost-of-living crisis, which they tried to pin on green policies. The group is chaired by South Thanet MP Craig Mackinlay , and was formed around the time the Global Warming Policy Foundation’s campaigning wing, the Global Warming Policy Forum, rebranded itself as the similarly-named Net Zero Watch.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2023

Hoboken is making this claim against fossil fuel companies under the state-level equivalent of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, a federal law used successfully to prosecute organized crime groups such as the Mafia starting in the 1970s and later the tobacco industry. Joseph Davis, via DVIDSHUB , CC BY 2.0

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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. Reform UK , formerly the Brexit Party, is a vocal critic of climate action, and last year called for a referendum on the UK’s net zero policies. billion invested in fossil fuels.

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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

JUNE 28, 2023

“The CCC’s report could hardly have been more damning – tearing the government to shreds over its abysmal progress on tackling the climate emergency, and its utterly misleading arguments that fossil fuel expansion is somehow necessary before reaching net zero,” Green Party MP Caroline Lucas told DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

New research for the first time links wildfire risks and impacts in western North America to carbon emissions traceable to the world’s largest fossil fuel and cement companies. This research builds on over a decade of science tracing heat-trapping emissions and impacts on a global scale to particular fossil fuel operations.”

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

This net zero scepticism has quickly entered the upper echelons of Westminster politics, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak saying that policies to achieve the UK’s legally binding climate targets shouldn’t “hassle” households and should be “proportionate and pragmatic”. The NZSG has extensive ties to the GWPF.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

Driving through Douglas County Nevada on 16 July 2021, as smoke from the Tamarack fire in nearby Alpine County becomes visible on the horizon (image credit: loren chipman , CC BY-NC 2.0 The recent IPCC Report confirms that global warming is picking up pace. Reliance on the GDP-based system is not going to work.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

From repeated calls for a fossil fuel “phase out” to campaigns to regulate the oil and gas industry, pressure against Big Oil is stronger than ever and isn’t only coming from outside. Oil and Gas Playbook vs. Shareholder Activism In the face of increasing shareholder activism, fossil fuel companies are resistant.

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