Canary Media

MAY 10, 2024

For the first year ever, renewable energy sources generated 30 percent of the globe’s electricity in 2023 — driven by a decade of consistent, spectacular growth in solar and wind power. This surge in clean generation helped slow the growth of fossil fuels by almost two-thirds over the last 10 years, according to…

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Business Green

MAY 13, 2024

Fifteenth annual Banking on Climate Chaos study finds world's biggest banks gave more than $705bn to fossil fuel firms in 2023 alone, despite many being committed to reaching net zero emissions

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The Guardian: Energy

JANUARY 24, 2024

Fossil emissions ‘finally back to 1960s levels’, say analysts, but they warn levels are still falling too slowly The European Union pumped out 8% less carbon dioxide from the fossil fuels it burned in 2023 than it did in 2022, the Guardian can reveal, pushing these emissions down to their lowest level in 60 years.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

billion supporting the fossil fuel and petrochemical industry. To put that in context, Environmental Defence’s “Canada’s Fossil Fuel Funding in 2023” report estimates that the Canadian government’s accumulated subsidies to the oil and gas sector over the last four years was at least $65 billion.

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Renew Economy

APRIL 11, 2023

Growth in wind and solar output expected to exceed demand growth for first time in 2023 outside of a recession year, signalling "beginning of the end" of fossil fuels. The post “Beginning of the end of fossil fuels” as wind and solar take centre stage appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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BloombergNEF

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Read the full factbook here New York, November 21, 2023 – Governments and state-owned companies in the 19 individual G-20 member states provided $1.3 trillion of support for fossil fuels last year, according to a new report produced by research provider BloombergNEF (BNEF) in partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

billion) in fossil fuel firms. This includes companies that specialise in extracting, refining, transporting and distributing fossil fuels. In its latest SEC filing, for the quarter ending 30 June 2023, Marshall Wace reports a $213 million (£175.6 billion (£1.8 million) to $213 million (£175.6

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R-Squared Energy

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The International Energy Agency (IEA) just released its World Energy Outlook 2023 report. Perhaps the most noteworthy prediction from the report is of peak demand for fossil fuels within this decade. However, fossil fuels will still account for over 70% of supply (down from ~82% in 2022).

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Business Green

JANUARY 3, 2024

Fossil fuel-generated electricity fell more than a fifth in 2023 to lowest in 66 years, but renewable power generation has also 'effectively stood still', Carbon Brief finds

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 23, 2023

. | Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi / Bloomberg via Getty Images More than 130 companies, including Volvo Cars, Ikea, Unilever, Nestlé, and AstraZeneca, signed a letter calling on governments to adopt a global plan to phase out fossil fuels without carbon capture during upcoming international climate negotiations.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 15, 2023

The energy transition is slowing down growth of oil demand, but has yet to reduce overall levels of consumption of the fossil fuel, the IEA warns.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

According to Saudi Aramco’s podcast, the fossil fuel industry is innovating new climate solutions, and BP’s podcast proclaims more of the same. Darren Woods, the CEO of Exxon, celebrates the potential of carbon capture to dramatically reduce global emissions. and Europe. It’s implicitly calling for a new consensus.”

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The Guardian: Energy

AUGUST 29, 2023

The 27 member states burned 17% less fossil fuel to make electricity between January and June 2023 than over the same period the year before, a study from the clean energy thinktank Ember found. Continue reading.

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Energy Central

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The International Energy Agency (IEA) just released its World Energy Outlook 2023 report. Perhaps the most noteworthy prediction from the report is of peak demand for fossil fuels within this decade. The full report may be found here.

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The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Rules would require firms to report emissions, find and fix leaks, and limit wasteful venting and flaring The EU has struck a deal that will force the fossil fuel industry to rein in dangerous methane pollution. The measures include finding and fixing leaks, and limiting wasteful practices such as venting and flaring gas by 2027.

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Financial Times: Energy

MAY 12, 2024

Trends show increase in funding for companies examining expansion of LNG capacity

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Tufton Street Links Politicians fronting the PopCon group have a history of working with anti-green think tanks and supporting more fossil fuel extraction. billion invested in fossil fuels via his investment fund Marshall Wace. The channel‘s co-owner, Paul Marshall, has £1.8

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2023

Climate campaigners reacted with outrage on Thursday to the announcement that the United Arab Emirates’s president has appointed the leader of the country’s national oil company to preside over the 2023 United Nations climate talks, which the UAE will host later this year. You wouldn’t invite arm dealers to lead peace talks.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2024

Ministers in charge of the UK’s climate policies met with fossil fuel companies and lobbyists over 100 times last year, four times as much as they did external climate scientists, campaigners, and charities, DeSmog can reveal. The post Net Zero Ministers Met Oil and Gas Representatives Twice a Week in 2023 appeared first on DeSmog.

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Energy Central

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

For many years, there has been a theory that imports of oil would become a problem before there was an overall shortage of fossil fuels. Interregional trade of fossil fuels based on data of the 2023 Statistical Review of World Energy by the Energy Institute. As I look at the.

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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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The Guardian: Energy

JANUARY 3, 2024

Fossil fuel firms ‘took the mask off’ as they reneged on climate pledges and doubled down on expansion of planet-heating energy Throughout 2023, the hottest year in recorded history, fossil fuel giants doubled down on their planet-heating business models.

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NRDC onEarth

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The fight against environmental harm, economic dependence, and negative health impacts from fossil fuel development on Indigenous land is a centuries-long tale.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Global advertising and public relations company WPP has more contracts with fossil fuel clients than any of its rivals, despite the group’s pledge to reach net zero emissions by 2030, according to a report by campaign group Clean Creatives. Omnicom followed with 39 contracts; Interpublic Group had 25; and Publicis Groupe had 11. “The

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Clean Creatives' releases its third annual F-List report, which names just shy of 300 agencies that worked for fossil fuel companies in 2022 and 2023

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Grist

MAY 16, 2023

While a century of fire suppression and other land management choices contribute to the severity, climate change is a key factor fueling these fires, roughly doubling the acreage burned over the last 40 years. Wildfires tore through western Alberta, Canada, leaving a burned landscape, May 10, 2023. We just don’t know yet.”

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 3, 2023

While Alberta moves full speed ahead on approving new fossil fuel projects, it inexplicably has put the brakes on developing renewable energy projects. billion worth of renewables construction by 2023, creating over 4,500 jobs. According to the Business Renewable Centre, Alberta was on track to see $3.7

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

From the world’s biggest soccer championship to soccer training for kids , from major universities to music festivals and art galleries to — if you can name it, fossil fuel companies have probably sponsored it. TotalEnergies will sponsor the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The firm’s energy events brochure lists 40 flagship conferences that it is organising for the energy sector between October 2023 and November 2024. Adnoc intends to increase its oil production by more than any other fossil fuel firm in the world, according to data from the Global Oil and Gas Exit List (Gogel).

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

The conference was originally scheduled for the end of October of 2023. The event aims to bring together policymakers and liquified natural gas (LNG), natural gas, and hydrogen players to explore new avenues for fossil fuel expansion.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

If Marty McFly and Doc were to travel from the past to spring 2023, they’d think that the Delorean had gotten the date wrong; it’s just too hot for this time of year. Although there are many human activities that impact global warming, there are two that are its greatest contributors: deforestation and, above all, the burning of fossil fuels.

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Greentown Labs

MAY 7, 2024

Over the past six months, the Greentown Go Make 2023 startup cohort has worked closely with Shell to accelerate partnerships to deploy and commercialize technologies for carbon utilization, storage, and traceability. “The Go Make 2023 program was incredibly transformational for our company,” says Caravel Bio’s CEO Emily Weinberg. “We

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

They are just some of the countries in which Europe-headquartered fossil fuel companies stand convicted or credibly accused of criminal, civil, or administrative offences. The history of fossil fuels is a litany of criminal accusations, from corruption and bribery to human rights violations and even complicity in war crimes.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2023

Elite law schools in the United States are disproportionately funneling their students into jobs serving fossil fuel clients, according to a new report published Thursday. law firms for their representation of fossil fuel clients. law firms (known as the Vault 100) according to their work for the fossil fuel industry.

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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

He urged world leaders, businesses, and investors to deliver a "year of gamechanging climate action", backed by concerted efforts "to end the merciless, senseless war on nature", as he called on the private sector in particular to step up its efforts in 2023. We need a renewables revolution, not a self-destructive fossil fuel resurgence."

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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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