GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 13, 2020

There is currently twice as much installed hydro as there is solar, but PV could grow three times faster from now till 2040. Even the IEA’s middle-road "Stated Policies" scenario would require an 80 percent increase in grid investments over the next decade compared to the previous 10 years. Grid operators in China, the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

MANCHESTER – The Conservative chair of a parliamentary group on hydrogen has defended the body’s receipt of £70,000 in funding from fossil fuel giants including Shell and Equinor. He added: “[Firms] like Shell, BP, fossil fuel companies, they’ve got money. The companies include Shell, Cadent and Equinor.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 1, 2024

By denying, derailing, delaying, and deflecting meaningful discussions around the sector’s key issues, the agriculture industry is using the same tactics as the tobacco and fossil fuel lobbies. Experts said the promotion was misleading and ignored the global warming impact of UK diets. which was funded by a $2.9

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Scientists, climate policy experts and campaigners had argued the mine was inconsistent with the government's own aim to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. To limit global warming to 1.5C To limit global warming to 1.5C WCM has already agreed to dispose of mine waste underground.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2022

World leaders are missing the opportunity to achieve deep cuts in emissions by adopting circular economy strategies that reduce demand for resources, it warns, and it identifies a roadmap that it says could help them meet the target of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. billion last year. Gt of materials. By 2000 it was 54.9

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Business Green

AUGUST 21, 2020

Landmark pledge makes Suncorp the first major insurer to adopt any policy restricting underwriting for oil and gas. The insurer has also pledged to ditch direct investments in oil and gas projects altogether by 2040, backed by a series of interim goals for to gradually phase them out over the next decade. per cent, and less than 1.5

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

With the start of the 28th annual United Nations climate summit, COP28, just two weeks away, a battle is brewing over the role of fossil fuels as nations try to stem the tide of climate change. Now, a new report shows that fossil fuel production by 2030 is set to exceed the level that would be compatible with limiting warming to 1.5°C

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Banking giant says it will end financing for coal fired power and thermal coal mining by 2030 in EU and OECD countries, and by 2040 for the rest of the world - but activist investors remain unimpressed. This is where we can have the biggest impact to help the world achieve its target of limiting global warming to 1.5C.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) and carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) are seen as increasingly vital components of achieving climate goals because the pace of clean-energy deployment does not seem fast enough to avoid significant levels of global warming. For comparison, fossil fuels emitted 36.7

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

It provides direct advice to governments and its annual World Energy Outlook reports, which offer projections for future energy sources and demand, have provided the bedrock for major energy investment and policy decisions that help shape the trajectory of the global market. The death knell is being sounded for fossil fuels.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Global greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation are on course for a dramatic seven per cent drop in 2020 due to plummeting economic activity caused by the coronavirus crisis, setting the scene for renewables to dominate the recovery at the expense of fossil fuels. per cent today.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Giving evidence at multiple select committees yesterday , Sharma was grilled by MPs on recent government policies designed to ramp up domestic oil and gas extraction, including proposals to lift the ban on fracking in England and hand out 100 licenses for new offshore oil and gas drilling.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

A rapid shift away from fossil fuels is also needed alongside a major ramp up in renewable electricity capacity - largely provided by wind and solar projects - which will form the backbone of the future energy system, while development of hydrogen, carbon capture and new modular nuclear technologies is also crucial, the report warned.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The crackdown on greenwashing stepped up a gear today, with the remaining wriggle room for major corporate emitters to hide their ongoing fossil fuel investments, high carbon lobbying activities, and low integrity carbon credits fast shrinking. Fossil fuels and deforestation must be tackled.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2021

The letter from Scotland's First Minister cites stark warnings earlier this week from the world's top climate scientists regarding the scale of challenge to combat global warming, which Sturgeon described as a "code red for humanity". As things stand, the UK government just nods them through.".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 22, 2021

It was named the Climate Pledge Arena, in honor of The Climate Pledge , which was co-founded by Amazon and Global Optimism in 2019 and calls on organisations to develop a strategy to deliver net zero emissions by 2040. Quebec bans fossil fuel exploration. La Banque Postale publishes oil and gas exit strategy.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

The findings, published ahead of the Brazilian company’s annual general meeting on Friday, prompted renewed calls from climate campaigners for asset managers to divest from JBS – despite its pledge to hit net zero carbon emissions by 2040. Greenhouse gases are emitted throughout the process of producing livestock and poultry.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Business as usual is not working The report is unequivocal that human-caused climate change is affecting weather and climate extremes in every region across the globe, and is set to get worse without a major acceleration in policy action and drastically increased investment in climate solutions. of warming. of warming.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

People can debate whether policy proposals like these are unrealistic , but the scale of the thinking is welcome, and it’s pushing the debate. Here are a few specific examples of big new and interesting commitments in 2019: Amazon will be carbon neutral by 2040 and will buy 100,000 EVs. degrees Celsius. More companies take a stand.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Green groups also argued that the long term emissions pledge was designed to distract from Bolsonaro's controversial land management policies, which have seen deforestation rates in the Amazon rainforest surge to a 12-year high. World bank beefs up climate financing goal.

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2022

BusinessGreen rounds up the top takeaways from the government's long-awaited Jet Zero Strategy to decarbonise domestic flight by 2040. Could passengers be enjoying climate-friendly flights within the UK by 2040? Many of the policy moves floated by the Jet Zero Strategy remain TBC. Here are the five key takeaways.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 28, 2020

Given the Paris Accord’s aspirations, the climate challenge facing humanity can be expressed in simple terms: halve annual carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions by 2030, halve them again by 2040, and again by 2050. The post Negative Emission Technologies And Land Use appeared first on Energy Innovation: Policy and Technology.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Global advertising firm McCann is putting itself forward to continue working for the Saudi fossil fuel giant Aramco, DeSmog understands. The US-based McCann currently works for Aramco across a number of its global agencies, under contracts that are set to expire early next year.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Reversing the decline caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, this will primarily be driven by a strong rebound in demand for fossil fuels in electricity generation. Yes, there's a lot to be done to halt the worst effect of global warming but let's be clear: it's absolutely achievable and there's a great deal of willingness to get there.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 28, 2021

Shareholders at HSBC have voted overwhelmingly to end financing of the dirtiest fossil fuel, coal. This means the banking giant will be legally bound to phase out financing for all coal-fired power and thermal coal mining by 2030 in developed markets, and by 2040 in other markets. Preliminary voting results showed that 99.7

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 29, 2022

The push to sell “blue hydrogen” as a clean energy fuel — which experts have called a misleading rebrand of fossil fuels — hit another setback this month. Climate provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 are bringing new economic headwinds to the gas-derived hydrogen fuel’s prospects.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk. Global heating is affecting every region on Earth, with many of the changes becoming irreversible.

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Business Green

APRIL 18, 2022

So each kilometre travelled where a car is replaced by a bicycle generates €1.35 (£1.12) of social benefits - of which only a few cents would be saved by switching from a fossil-fuelled to an electric-powered car, according to this analysis. Reducing car use in cities. Half a century ago, the Danish capital was dominated by cars.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Alternative jet fuels or so-called “Sustainable Aviation Fuels” (SAF) are liquid hydrocarbon fuels that can be used with existing aircraft in place of kerosene produced from fossil fuels. The argument is that blending these fuels with fossil fuels would thereby reduce emissions.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2020

The letters, which are co-signed by CIFF's chairman Graeme Sweeney, argue the banks should "take more tangible actions" to end financing, underwriting, and other financial services to companies with significant coal activity, before ending such financing altogether by 2030 in OECD countries and 2040 elsewhere.

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Business Green

MAY 17, 2021

The report makes clear that huge changes are already underway across the global energy system that will have "far reaching consequences" for fossil fuel producers as the economy rapidly embraces clean technologies.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Australia, for example, has already put out a statement this week stressing that its 2030 target is "fixed" and highlighting how it has a near-unique position as an industrialised economy with huge extractive industries and fossil fuel exports. Coal and fossil fuels: An increasingly risky investment bet.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

This phenomenon of global warming is taking its toll on the most vulnerable populations around the planet.". Moreover, policy plans are in the pipeline. Will all cars using fossil fuel engines be fully banned outright from sale? Until details of the fossil fuel car phase out plan emerges, much remains unclear.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2023

By 2040, the latter is expected to double in Europe, and to account for almost a fifth of the global carbon budget worldwide. Jean-Pierre Schweitzer, Deputy Policy Manager for Circular Economy at European Environmental Bureau (EEB), described the law as the “most lobbied on file that many people in the Parliament have witnessed.”

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 6, 2020

In 2005 she became Germany's first female chancellor and in 2011 she launched an energy transition policy called energiewend which is moving the country away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy towards renewable sources of energy. Global warming is real. It is threatening.So It is still possible," Merkel said.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Don’t agree on the assessment or the different pathways to get rid of fossil fuels? This is a review of an article from the Financial Times , which first appeared in February 2020 just before the fossil fuel industry had its worst year ever. Comment down below. The article was called ‘can the world kick its oil habit?’.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

BIDEN: It [climate change] is the existential threat humanity faces, global warming. And the Green New Deal that I support, by the way, will create up to 20 million good-paying jobs as we move our energy system away from fossil fuel to energy efficiency and sustainable energy. They're 2040, 2035. WARREN: Yes.

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