DeSmogBlog
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Over the past month and a half month, California lawmakers have enacted a pair of climate disclosure bills and endorsed a global call to end the fossil fuel era. Lena Gonzalez (D-Long Beach) introduced legislation requiring both funds to divest from the 200 largest fossil fuel companies by the 2030s — holdings worth about $15 billion.
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. Between 2025 and 2050, there could be as many as 419,000 clean energy jobs added in the province. According to the Business Renewable Centre, Alberta was on track to see $3.7
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Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
The end of the fossil fuel era appeared to have come a significant step closer with the signing of a joint commitment to phase out coal on day four of the COP summit (4 November). A coal power station in Canock, Staffordshire (image credit: Catherine Poh Huay Tan , CC BY 2.0 degrees in reach.”.
R-Squared Energy
OCTOBER 30, 2023
Perhaps the most noteworthy prediction from the report is of peak demand for fossil fuels within this decade. However, it is important to note that coal is the only fossil fuel projected to decline over the next decade under the IEA’s Stated Policies Scenario. The full report may be found here.
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? It's conclusions are similarly encouraging.
Business Green
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
By September this year, Guterres said all businesses, cities, regions, and financial institutions that have pledged to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 should present their transition plans "with credible and ambitious targets for 2025 and 2030", as recommended by the UN net zero expert group appointed by the secretary-general last year.
DeSmogBlog
OCTOBER 6, 2022
billion into fossil fuel projects around the world since the Paris Climate Agreement was signed in 2015, undercutting global efforts to combat the worsening climate crisis. The Big Shift Global report called on the World Bank to definitively rule out support, both direct and indirect, for fossil fuel projects, which it has yet to do.
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