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.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

C this century, according to the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) latest Emissions Gap Report 2021: The Heat Is On. C, we have eight years to almost halve greenhouse gas emissions: eight years to make the plans, put in place the policies, implement them and ultimately deliver the cuts. The potential of methane and market mechanisms.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2021

From devastating wildfires to rising methane emissions, Earth’s vital signs are continuing to deteriorate, scientists warn. Both methane and carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere have reached new record highs, the study reveals. Fossil fuel divestment also picked up pace, increasing by $6.5 Australia, the U.K.,

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

“The Liberals announced key additional policies to help them achieve an increased climate target and build a sustainable economy, such as a 2035 clean electricity standard, a requirement for 50% of new cars to be zero-emission by 2030 (en route to 100% by 2035), capping oil and gas emissions, and eliminating fossil fuel subsidies.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

But the newly adopted measures, which were announced last week, leave the London-based multinational with plenty of flexibility to continue financing fossil fuel extraction — and some critics say they don’t go far enough. Publicly, Barclays has signaled an intent to pivot away from fossil fuels and help power the rise of green energy.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Meat emits around a third of global emissions of methane, and action to cut this greenhouse gas has been identified by the UN and world leaders as the quickest route to slowing global heating. Farming also relies on synthetic fertilisers that are both fossil-fuel-based and emit greenhouse gases, and drives deforestation.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The Energy Council looks at the latest IEA report, ‘Global Hydrogen Review 2021’ to assess how the development of green hydrogen is advancing, and what is needed to make it commercially viable in the quickest timeline. Policy innovation is the final tool required to truly kick-start the evolution to a new energy landscape.

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The report calculates if all national climate plans are delivered, fossil fuel demand will peak in 2025 and energy-related emissions will start to bend down, falling by 40 per cent by 2050. This year's WEO also underscores that climate policies can create millions of new jobs. limit that was agreed six years ago.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

“It’s mind-blowing that JBS can continue to make climate claims to investors, even as the company massively increases its emissions,” said Shefali Sharma, Europe director for the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), a nonprofit advocacy organisation, which calculated the estimates. In 2021 alone, JBS processed 26.8

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

The plan would see £904m invested in projects across Britain between 2021 and 2026 to prepare the gas grid for a switchover from using methane natural gas - a fossil fuel - to instead use zero carbon hydrogen and biomethane in support of the UK's 2050 net zero emissions target.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in her Pennsylvania hometown, she will be facing off against some of the most powerful fossil fuel interests in the United States. LNG boom threatens to release vast amounts of methane, a powerful climate pollutant that is the main component of natural gas.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2022

It has also said it will stop providing 'project specific finance' for any projects which involve the exploration, extraction, production, refining, storage or transportation of fossil fuels from oil sands, or to companies involved in similar activities.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2022

Overall, deaths from these so-called “modern” forms of pollution — pollution that’s associated with industrialization, the use of fossil fuels, and chemical exposure — have increased by more than 66 percent over the past two decades. Notably, both methane and many major forms of PM 2.5 named for their diameter of just 2.5

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Driven by rapid improvements in the cost and technical feasibility of clean energy, 83% of new US power capacity in 2021 came from renewables. In contrast to claims of natural gas’ low carbon intensity, the oil and gas industry often fails to appropriately manage its emissions of methane, a potent driver of climate change.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2021

Campaigners are urging the UK government to prioritise and support the production of 'green' hydrogen made using renewable energy, after a major US academic study today found that 'blue' hydrogen produced using fossil fuels could be worse for the climate than burning natural gas. — Jim Watson (@watsonjim2) August 12, 2021.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2021

Late last week, Britain's biggest boiler manufacturers joined together to announce a promise to homeowners who make the switch to hydrogen-ready appliances that doing so will cost them no more than purchasing pure-fossil fuel gas equivalents.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

The pad is owned by a fossil fuel operator that’s come under fire in recent years for purchasing tens of thousands of low-producing oil and gas wells without a clear business motive and for making unrealistic budget projections that minimize the true cost of plugging , critics say.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

JBS, the world’s largest meat company — whose methane emissions exceed the combined livestock methane emissions of France, Germany, Canada and New Zealand — has also claimed to be on a net zero pathway based on offsets. A 2021 greenwashing case filed with the FTC by environmental groups against Chevron is still pending.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

While there is some question about how dirty blue hydrogen is and will be — due to its reliance on gas, a fossil fuel, and carbon capture technology to reduce emissions from its production — no one is arguing that it will ever be cleaner than green hydrogen. Credit: Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The blend would use 5 to 10 percent hydrogen, with the remainder made up of conventional methane gas. All told, the multiple rate hikes NW Natural is hoping to impose on customers would hike bills by a combined 42 percent since October 2021. One study puts the risk of explosion as four times higher compared to conventional methane gas.

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

Clean hydrogen could cut greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel by up to 34 percent, reported Bloomberg New Energy Finance. . locations in 2021. Still, the process of making hydrogen fuel from any source has a way to go before it has firm footing, even in a state committed to decarbonization. .

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

CAT's last annual assessment, announced during the COP26 Summit in Glasgow in late 2021, calculated that if governments worldwide delivered on their decarbonisation promises made so far - itself far from a given - it could put the world on track for average global temperature rise of 2.4C of warming this century.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Such reductions require massive infrastructural changes, especially in our homes, where water and food are often warmed with what is known as “natural gas” but is better understood as methane gas, a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change. But I grow anxious just thinking about it.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 26, 2022

2021 climate action achievements. Private investors directed $40 billion in climate technology in 2021, a record level, whilst climate technology firms created more shareholder value and the US committed $20 billion in clean energy R&D, according to Kerry. Energy transition challenges. Global economies also continue to use coal.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

But the reports - from the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and International Energy Agency (IEA) - all warn that governments, investors, and industries need to deliver much more ambitious green policies, technologies, and solutions if still rising global emissions are to thrown into reverse.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2022

Sanctions against Russian goods, oligarchs, and services have multiplied in the week since the Kremlin launched its unprovoked attack on Ukraine, but questions have remained as to when and if the economic response to the invasion will be extended to cover the fossil fuel exports that bankroll much of Russia's economy.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

There are (admittedly optimistic) reasons to think that if current plans are expanded and translated into near term policy measures the world could soon find itself on a 1.8C — jonathanwatts (@jonathanwatts) November 12, 2021. The fossil fuel problem is being named. trajectory. A visual guide. Ashley_J_Kirk ? ?

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2020

ExxonMobil has unveiled several short term targets to tackle its carbon intensity, methane emissions, and flaring activity in a new climate plan it claims is "projected to be consistent with the goals of the Paris Agreement", despite the oil and gas giant's continuing refusal to set a long-term net zero emissions goal.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Secretary General António Guterres asked nations to arrive at the session with concrete commitments for phasing out fossil fuels, observing in his opening remarks that “humanity has opened the gates of hell.” Despite its name, ambition was largely lacking at mid-September’s Climate Ambition Summit at the United Nations in New York.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Revelations about high-level and systemic failures of oversight — both private and public — come at a time when historic federal investments in renewable energy are threatening a constellation of fossil fuel interests and political coalitions vying to preserve profits as the U.S. economy is increasingly rocked by climate chaos.

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Grist

MARCH 8, 2021

The industry accounts for nearly 3 percent of annual global greenhouse gas emissions, a number that’s expected to rise if ships keep using the same dirty fuels, according to the International Maritime Organization, or IMO, the United Nations body that regulates the industry.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

You’ve got plenty of company after the events of 2021: Heat waves, hurricanes, fires, and floods hit new and deadly extremes. Renewable solar and wind power now typically costs less than fossil-fuel alternatives. In British Columbia, Premier John Horgan’s government detailed policies to nearly double climate-protection efforts.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In February 2021, German agribusiness giant BASF hosted a virtual wine tasting, a seemingly cozy affair swirling glasses of Portugal’s finest in front of a webcam debating the future of EU agricultural policies. Invited to the event was a small group of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

5, 2021, angry and impatient as the first week of the U.N. C trajectory in half for carbon dioxide emissions and by almost 40% for methane. But there were notable coalitions announcing pledges on cutting methane , ending deforestation and diverting international public finance away from fossil fuels and into clean energy.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

While the pandemic initially provoked a swift and immediate short-term reaction, the vaccine’s rollout can now afford key legislators the chance to plan for the ‘next normal’, with 2021 assuming extra significance as the UK hosts the UN’s COP26 in Glasgow later this year. So where does this put us?

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