Business Green

JULY 3, 2020

Shell and BP are writing down assets while a raft of US fracking firms are entering bankruptcy protection – change is coming to the fossil fuel industry faster than anyone expected. The stranded asset hypothesis just got real. Yet another oil major is writing down the value of its assets," he said.

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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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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 6, 2021

With power demand expected to triple by 2040 as India’s population continues to achieve upward mobility, fossil fuels are poised to see continued growth even as the clean energy market thrives. And to what extent can they mitigate the increase in fossil fuel use? It will reach 175 gigawatts before 2022.”

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2022

The island nation has adopted an incredible goal of being fossil fuel-free by 2040 , which would be a global first. The country is endowed with excellent resources, with geothermal energy pulsating just under its surface and thundering rivers providing hydropower galore.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2019

But it is looking to step up its participation considerably as a way of replacing fossil fuel exports with an alternative created with the country's plentiful renewable energy resources. Norway has vast potential to create hydrogen from hydropower and is pioneering the use of fuel cells in ferries. While the U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

MAY 23, 2021

Those can be accomplished by strict fuel-economy standards and global bans on internal combustion engines (ICEs) after 2035. This should increase the number of electric vehicles on the road from 1% today to 20% in 2030 and 60% in 2040, and it makes a major dent in the carbon emissions from the transportation sector. based fuels.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

  In a ray of sunshine, US solar generation is expected to surpass hydropower for the first time in 2024. The Notorious Hannah Ritchie finds that clean energy will require less mining than fossil fuels.  Solar is expected to generate over 318 billion KWh next year in the US. Aka land platypus.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

He called for a "Climate Solidarity Pact" between richer and poorer nations geared towards helping climate vulnerable countries ramp up renewable energy capacity and end dependence on fossil fuels, with a particular onus on stopping new coal plants being built.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 13, 2021

billion in Empire Wind last year, ahead of rivals in the race to supply New York with the carbon-free energy that under state law must constitute 70 percent of its generation by 2030 and 100 percent by 2040. Wednesday’s news puts Equinor and strategic partner BP , which invested $1.1

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

And just last month, Matthew Chamberlain, the LME's chief executive, said the organisation wanted to work with stakeholders to "build a better, more sustainable market" as he unveiled the LME's intention to achieve net zero emissions by 2040. At the same time, recent geopolitical turmoil has tested the LME's reticence to intervene in markets.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Entire societal structures have been built on the pretense of continued and lasting growth, through the use of fossil fuels. Wind, solar, hydropower or green hydrogen would radically and rapidly reduce the emissions impacts of steel. The IEA “estimates aviation oil demand to rise will increase more than 50% by 2040”.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

All of these benefits can be captured with solar, wind, existing hydropower and lithium-ion battery technologies at projected 2030 prices, he added. It co-optimizes grid capacity investments and hourly operations costs of generation, storage, and transmission to meet projected electricity demand in 2040. transmission grid.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

However, while on the surface it may appear to be a positive shift towards lowering the greenhouse gas impact of their projects, the rhetoric about carbon-neutral LNG is mostly hollow, in another attempt to greenwash new fossil fuel projects into existence. Premier John Horgan (left) announce plans to use hydropower at B.C.’s

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Cornell University Score 82.14 | Ithaca, New York In March 2020, Cornell saw 100 percent of its campus power needs met by solar, hydropower, and other renewable energy projects. In May, the Cornell Board of Trustees announced a moratorium on fossil fuel investments, following more than a decade of student and faculty activism.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The time is therefore now to plan an orderly wind-down of fossil fuel assets and manage the impact on the global economy rather than try to sustain the unsustainable. The worst year for oil ever Oil fueled the 20th century. Many of us now believe it is not a matter of if, but when we will transition away from fossil fuels.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2022

EURACTIV reported that it has seen a leaked draft version of the plan, which had been due to be released this week but has been hastily revised in response to Russia's invasion, the resulting threat to the bloc's energy security, and the growing calls for sanctions on the Kremlin to be extended to cover Russia's fossil fuel exports.

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Business Green

JULY 3, 2020

The last phase of the deal, which has been two years in the making, sees RWE take over E.ON's renewables activities, including its wind, solar, and hydropower businesses as well as the biomass, biogas and gas storage activities and its stake in Austrian power utility Kelag, which boasts a major hydroelectric power business.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2021

DiNapoli, who is trustee of the third largest public pension plan in the US, confirmed the move as he this week also extended the list of fossil fuel firms the fund is to restrict investments in. New York State Comptroller Thomas P. Brazil announces $4bn 'sustainable' coal mining plan.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

That’s greater than its previous commitment to reduce net carbon emissions from its power sector by 80 percent by 2050 and methane emissions from its natural-gas operations by 65% by 2030 and 80% by 2040. gigawatt offshore wind project off the Virginia coast.

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