DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Nearly two thirds of social media posts put out by six major European fossil fuel and energy companies since the end of 2019 present a “green” image of the company, despite the majority of their business activity remaining in fossil fuels, reveals new analysis by Desmog.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2022

Military alliance announces target to cut emissions 45 per cent by 2030, Australia explores carbon pricing plans, and all the big green stories from around the world this week. NATO confirms plan to deliver net zero emissions by 2050. However, military emissions are often exempted from countries' official carbon targets.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2021

The paper comes ahead of this November’s United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland and amid proliferating pledges from polluting corporations and governments to achieve what they claim is carbon neutrality — increasingly via dubious offsets — by some distant date, often the year 2050.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 21, 2024

Komatsu is aiming to reduce its global emissions by a whopping 50% by 2030, with a further goal to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. On the other hand, GM has set a target to achieve full carbon neutrality in both its products and operations by 2040. The mining industry is no exception.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Policymakers met with fossil fuel and biomass producers nine times as often as with their renewable energy counterparts, DeSmog can reveal, raising fresh concerns over the depth of the government’s commitments to reaching net zero emissions by 2050. Drax Access.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The UK's export agency has pledged to achieve net zero emissions across its financing portfolio by 2050, setting out its plans to increase support for 'green' projects and improve its understanding of climate-related risks.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 27, 2021

1 says it was also doing this to save the planet from the ravages of climate change. It has been pushing for a commitment from Exxon to carbon neutrality by 2050. In other words, hedge funds focus on short-term returns – not long-term concerns such as climate change or even a company’s own future profitability.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

The bank announced this week it would establish interim business-related climate targets by the end of 2021 and would achieve carbon neutrality across its supply chain by the end of this decade.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2021

The carbon credit system needs an overhaul to effectively help in reducing climate change, according to a UCL study. French global energy giant Total recently announced it had delivered its first shipment of ' carbon neutral liquid natural gas '. Why the carbon market is growing.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The European Union has clearly laid out its position: Climate neutrality, the Council of the EU stated last month, will require “a global phase-out of unabated fossil fuels and a peak in their consumption in this decade.” But more stands between COP28 and concrete steps forward for our climate.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 7, 2022

The United Nations secretary-general has become increasingly outspoken about the failure of the world’s financial sector to stop investing in new fossil fuel projects and avoid the worst impacts of climate change. New funding for fossil fuels is delusional,” Guterres said on June 14.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Mining giant unveils strategy for 'climate neutral' growth over the next 10 years as it invests in developing zero carbon aluminium. Moreover, the firm's growth overall between now and 2030 "will be climate neutral", Rio Tinto said, underpinned by $1bn of climate-related spend over the next five years.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2024

But federal records newly reviewed by DeSmog reveal that the group’s co-founder has personally donated to the Conservative Party of Canada, whose leader Pierre Poilievre is campaigning to abolish the country’s most prominent climate policy, a nationwide tax on carbon emissions, saying it brings “misery and suffering on the Canadian people.”

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 10, 2021

A UK-Canada event last week praised 26 “exceptional individuals actively working to move Canada to net-zero emissions”, five of whom work for companies and investors involved in the fossil fuel industry, including the Canadian oil sands. British Commonwealth] government’s Climate Solutions and Clean Growth Advisory Council.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

dissertation in microelectronics to an entirely different field: climate change. "I Even with decarbonizing the electric and transportation sector, to reach long-term goals of the Paris Agreement, the United States would need an 80 percent reduction from 2005 levels in economy-wide emissions by 2050.

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Business Green

AUGUST 10, 2021

Less than one per cent unabated fossil fuels and at least 80 per cent wind and solar in the power mix required to meet UK climate targets, according to Ember's Tom Harrison. This year's edition updates its predecessor's pathways to reaching economy-wide net zero carbon emissions by 2050. Zero carbon power by 2035.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 8, 2022

Senior Canadian officials are working with an Alberta company to open up new markets for natural gas in Germany, according to documents seen by DeSmog, contradicting a federal minister who says the Ukraine crisis can’t be solved by exporting more fossil fuels. Pieridae didn’t respond to queries from DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 4, 2023

He was also formerly an adviser to Consumer Choice Center – a US-based pressure group with links to the Koch fossil fuel empire that has come under fire for advocating against green reforms in the EU without being registered as a lobbying firm. Climate change will disproportionately affect young people.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2020

A Europe-wide 'Climate Law' that would legally require all EU members to build net zero economies by 2050 has been unveiled today by the European Commission as the key pillar of its Green Deal vision. However, criticism of the proposed legislation is not confined for coal-dependent economies or fossil fuel industry lobbyists.

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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.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

But while solar and wind have an obvious role to play in helping miners control their carbon emissions, the mining industry faces steep decarbonization challenges, analysts say. Rio Tinto, for example, says that 71 percent of its energy now comes from renewables, yet it has only set a goal of “substantial decarbonization” by 2050.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 3, 2019

My message here today is one of hope not of despair” said UN chief António Guterres addressing journalists at a press conference in the Spanish capital on Sunday, after revealing the key takeaways from the World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate report, due to be published during COP25. degrees “is still within reach.”

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

The voluntary carbon offset market is rocketing, with the Ecosystem Marketplace reporting an annual market value of ~$1 billion in 2021, which was an all-time high. This can make things difficult for business leaders like you, looking to reduce their carbon footprint through purchasing offsets. The rules of carbon offsetting.

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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2022

Two reports out this week have highlighted how developments across 2021 are set to catalyse policy and technological trends that could catalyse the retreat of fossil fuels across the global energy system. At times the fossil fuel economy can seem indefatigable.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2022

Major investors have urged the EU to amend its draft green investment rulebook to ensure that no fossil gas investments can be labelled sustainable, arguing their inclusion will hinder financiers' ability to deliver net zero portfolios, undermine the credibility of the green taxonomy, and could result in reduced climate ambition around the world.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 12, 2019

On Wednesday the European Commission presented a sweeping 50-point plan centered around achieving net zero status in Europe by 2050. The proposals include a new climate law to be drafted within 100 days and stronger carbon taxes including the creation of so-called carbon borders. ” Electrification.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2021

The action challenges Belgian National Bank's use of the ECB's Corporate Sector Purchase Programme, which is designed to improve financing conditions for Eurozone businesses but which has historically supported a number of high-carbon companies whose activities are alleged to have undermined national and global climate goals.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

She has since become vice chair of two climate-focused all-party parliamentary groups (APPGs) on net zero and youth action against climate change. Parliamentary records show the MP has mentioned “net zero” just once in debates over the past 22 months, and is yet to refer to “climate change”.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 28, 2023

A Pathways’ advertisement on a Bixi docking station read “Le captage du carbone est une étape importante vers des activités d’exploitation carboneutre,” or “Carbon capture is an important step towards carbon neutral resource extraction.” Toronto’s subways and streetcars run on electricity.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Kyoto Protocol agreed to use as a benchmark for their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and 2050, the year many countries set as their target for carbon net zero. Launched in March this year, the drive to decarbonise industry forms a major part of the UK’s journey to 2050 net zero.

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Business Green

MAY 28, 2021

But concerns persist about the reliability of data metrics measuring carbon output. to support the goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050?or Brookfield, a Canadian company that employs UN climate finance envoy Mark Carney as vice-chair, has invested billions of dollars in fossil fuel projects.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 18, 2022

This low-carbon image is out of step with the reality of fleet production figures – both current and projected – which reveal a business model out of step wedded to sales of fossil-fuel powered vehicles. These sales fall far below the 70 percent of car adverts that promoted lower-carbon electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles.

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Business Green

MARCH 19, 2021

Oil major announces intention to build major hydrogen plant just days after government grants funding for carbon transportation and storage network in region. Roughly two million tonnes of carbon dioxide emitted during the production process will be captured and sent for storage from the project annually by 2030, it added.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 10, 2022

Pension schemes run by BP and Shell have yet to bring in net zero targets for their investment portfolios despite the fossil fuel giants’ “green” marketing, new analysis has found. The group is calling on pension schemes to develop concrete plans to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, including a halving of emissions by 2030.

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Business Green

JANUARY 8, 2021

All the top green business news from around the world this week including China's ETS, Japan's fossil fuel car ban, and Enel's African green power push. China launches world's largest carbon market for power sector. Japan aims for ban on fossil fuel car sales by 2035.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The Canadian oil and gas giant, which also operates a notoriously polluting oil refinery in Colorado, expresses skepticism about whether “adoption of alternative energy vehicles will accelerate” and assures investors that its climate-harming products are “easily transported into global markets” if oil alternatives take off in North America.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

For comparison, in the fossil fuel sectors women make up around 21 per cent of the workforce. Yet IRENA cautioned that the encouraging trends for clean energy jobs worldwide would have to be sustained in order to spur a worldwide shift away from fossil fuels towards renewables in line with international climate change targets.

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