DeSmogBlog

JUNE 9, 2023

UK fossil fuel imports from authoritarian petrostates surged to £19.3 Petrostates are countries that are economically heavily dependent on fossil fuel production. billion on fossil fuel imports from the year beginning February 2022. billion on fossil fuel imports from the year beginning February 2022.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Its profile has grown over the past year as governments, particularly in Europe, have looked to find ways to boost their energy independence and curb soaring energy bills in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent fossil fuel supply crunch. of global warming.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

Although Labor has refused to back a phase out of coal use or block the opening of new coal mines in Australia - which remains one of the world's biggest exporters of the carbon-intensive fossil fuel - the party has promised to adopt more ambitious emissions targets and turn the nation into a global renewable energy 'superpower'.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

Energy Information Administration (EIA) predicts that there will be a sharp increase in the amount of renewable energy generated between 2010 and 2050. Figures show that the current average will increase from 15% of the global energy mix to 28% by 2050. Carbon offset program #3: Methane abatement.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2022

"Both on the issue [of fracking] and in terms of new oil and gas licences, I think what the UK government, indeed every government, has to demonstrate is how the policies that we're putting forward consistent with legally binding commitments on, in our case, getting to net zero by 2050, or indeed our near-term carbon budgets," he said.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

BusinessGreen rounds up the best of the reaction from the low carbon economy to the government's flagship roadmap for achieving net zero emissions by 2050. Overall, the global goal of net-zero by 2050 needs to be matched by an equally clear global goal of net positivity for nature.".

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

And so today's report's conclusion that while the scale of the challenge is monumental - the world must peak emissions by 2025, before halving them by 2030 - it also encouragingly makes clear that the world already has all of the tools it needs to achieve these aims, in order to keep the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

WWF, National Trust, RSPB, Greenpeace, and Friends of the Earth are among the 70 charities behind the climate wish list published this morning, which sets out 10 major policy areas that campaigners believe are critical to the UK's hopes of achieving net zero emissions by 2050 and engineering a 'green recovery' from the ongoing economic crisis.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In November, I had the privilege to represent Schneider Electric at the UN's Conference of Parties (COP) on climate change in Glasgow. This COP was unlike the previous 25 iterations, in that it took place during a global pandemic. degrees Celsius, not enough to avoid the worst impacts of global warming.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Taking immediate action to slash emissions towards net zero by 2050 could make a monumental difference to the level, frequency, and breadth of growing climate impacts, the scientists emphasise. Global heating is affecting every region on Earth, with many of the changes becoming irreversible. Now, it's time to get on and do it.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

You cannot claim to be green while your plans and projects undermine the 2050 net-zero target and ignore the major emissions cuts that must occur this decade. "As As current events make all too clear, our continued reliance on fossil fuels makes the global economy and energy security vulnerable to geopolitical shocks and crises.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The report confirms global temperatures are currently 1.1C A separate report from IPPC scientists last summer warned that global warming is on track to far exceed 2C this century, unless rapid and deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions occur in the coming decades. If global warming transiently exceeds 1.5C

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

If designed well and properly adhered to, global treaties have a lot going for them. COP talks each year are often fraught and progress remains far too slow, as today's IPCC report on escalating climate impacts will testify. the optimal goal, which necessitates deep emissions cuts in the 2020s and net zero by 2050. "I

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It was the first time the majority of nations formally recognized the need to control greenhouse gas emissions , which cause global warming that drives climate change. That agreement set the goal of limiting global warming to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 But organizers maintain that keeping warming under 1.5

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow next month is likely to fall short of putting the world on track to avert dangerous levels of global warming, but diplomats and analysts are cautiously optimistic it could deliver several breakthroughs and broadly deliver on the UK hosts' stated goal of 'keeping 1.5C is closing fast.

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