DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

The event aims to bring together policymakers and liquified natural gas (LNG), natural gas, and hydrogen players to explore new avenues for fossil fuel expansion. A coalition of environmental groups opposed to the expansion of the liquified natural gas export capacity along the Gulf Coast.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 5, 2021

As the United States moves toward decarbonization, cities and states must use all means available to reduce climate pollution, and natural gas utilities should be at the forefront of this rapid energy transition. This first-of-its-kind tool has the power to transform natural gas utility investment decisions.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 25, 2024

families pay more for electricity and natural gas as the LNG industry drives up the price of both. When accounting for the full life-cycle emissions of LNG, numerous studies show that it is far from clear whether LNG exports can lead to a reduction in global emissions, with estimates varying widely. As for whether B.C.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

zero carbon emissions (NZE) by 2050. The report is Net Zero by 2050: A Roadmap for the Global Energy Sector. The IEA report forecasts that “Global hydrogen use expands from less than 90 million metric tons (Mt) in 2020 to more than 200 Mt in 2030, as the proportion of low? One of those pillars is “Hydrogen and hydrogen?based

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 17, 2021

BloombergNEF estimates that clean hydrogen could meet up to a quarter of the world’s energy demand by 2050. To succeed in this global market, Canada must harness its competitive advantages and plan to produce, use, and export the world’s cleanest hydrogen and its related technologies.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The articles have all been critical of current policies to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions and ensure the transition to renewable energy. The idea of “an energy transition that will dramatically reduce the use of fossil fuels and achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 is a fantasy”, wrote Blackmon on 16 August.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The researchers set out to estimate how much of the world’s fossil fuel reserves must remain in the ground in order to limit global warming to 1.5 This means that global oil and gas production must decline 3 percent on average every year until 2050. “I Nature (2021). degrees Celsius (2.7 C scenario.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Scientists believe that stabilising our warming world’s temperature at 1.5C Fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas are the source of just over 80% of the world’s energy. To avert catastrophic warming, the global community must rapidly reduce how much of these fuels it extracts and burns.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Over the past three years, some of the country’s biggest utilities have been committing to a goal that few may have predicted they’d undertake on their own: weaning themselves off carbon-emitting generation by 2050. Utilities in many states now face mandates to move to 100 percent renewable energy or cut carbon to zero by 2050.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Climate activists say the state’s progress on reducing building emissions has been far too slow given the pace of the climate crisis, and that it needs to end incentives for energy-efficient natural gas heating. Connecticut’s Global Warming Solutions Act calls for a 45% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, and 80% by 2050.

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Mosaic

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

97 percent of climate scientists agree that global warming trends are clear and “extremely likely” due to human activities, most prominently the rising emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the burning of fossil fuels. According to the IPCC , limiting global warming to 1.5°C The Earth’s climate is changing.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 25, 2023

By 2050, the reduction in emissions could amount to 70% under a decarbonised grid scenario. Since renewables can only provide a part of the answer, the critical role energy efficiency plays in accelerating the energy transition toward reaching net-zero emissions by 2050 is undeniable. The urgency is for the private sector to act now.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2021

The company, which currently makes half a million natural gas and liquified petroleum gas boilers annually at the Derbyshire plant, launched its air-to-water 'aroTHERMs' heat pump last year.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 24, 2021

Take New Jersey, for example, where residential and commercial buildings account for the second largest share of the state’s greenhouse gas emissions. According to modeling done by the state, in order to achieve its climate goals of 80% emission reductions by 2050, residential and commercial sector emissions must be reduced by 89%.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Further research by DeSmog has shown that Eni’s company magazine Ecos made repeated references to climate change during the late 1980s and 1990s — while running advertising campaigns promoting natural gas, which is mostly comprised of planet-warming methane, as a “clean” fuel. ‘Friend Methane! ‘Friend Methane!

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

He added that “hydrogen is really the only net zero game in town” for HGVs, since introducing electric models is “not going to happen at any scale or size” by 2040 or even 2050. The Hydrogen APPG received more than £70,000 in February from Connect, a PR firm that is funded by oil and gas companies to run the parliamentary group.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2022

In the nearly three years since the UK government made a legal commitment to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, there has been considerable debate in terms of how this will be achieved, not least the role the gas grid will play in the low carbon transition. Ensuring safety as the gas blend changes.

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

It forms part of Macquarie's pledge to reach net zero operational emissions by 2025, and to align its financing activity with net zero by 2050, backed by interim and long-term science based emissions reduction targets for its investment and financing portfolio. However, Macquarie still plans to continue to fund oil and gas developments. "We

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Reports emerge of disagreements within Cabinet over expectation management for crucial Summit, as emerging economies hit out at hosts' calls for countries to set net zero by 2050 targets. Communities on the front line of climate change understand very starkly that keeping global warming within 1.5C

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Business Green

JUNE 9, 2020

Following extreme weather incidents in recent years and the growing visibility of climate activists such as Greta Thunberg and Extinction Rebellion, the public today are far more aware of the need for urgent action to halt the negative effects of global warming. I n the energy transition, there is no one silver bullet.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

The science could not be more clear: We must eliminate carbon pollution as soon as possible — nearly 50% this decade, and fully by 2050. They study glaciers and global temperature changes, climate solutions and adaptation, the oceans and the human influence on global warming.

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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.

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Doing so would address a glaring omission in the 2015 Paris accord, which never actually mentions coal, oil, or natural gas despite being an international agreement to stop global warming. More than 100 countries came to the table pushing for an official agreement to “phase out fossil fuels.” degrees Celsius.

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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. And the cost depends on where the carbon is coming from.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JUNE 10, 2020

On June 4, 2020, the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General (AGO) filed a petition with the Department of Public Utilities (DPU) requesting that the DPU open an investigation “to assess the future of local gas distribution company (LDC) operations and planning in light of the Commonwealth’s legally binding statewide limit of net-zero greenhouse (..)

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

Methane emissions reduction could significantly reduce rates of global warming at a relatively low cost, major research warns. This is largely because captured methane in the oil and gas sector can be sold as natural gas or used in chemicals manufacture, amounting to extra revenue for companies.

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Business Green

JUNE 1, 2021

That is the headline conclusion of the latest edition of the International Energy Agency's (IEA's) World Energy Investment report released today, which warns significantly more resource needs to mobilised and directed to clean energy technologies to put the world on track to reach net zero emissions by 2050.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

This phenomenon of global warming is taking its toll on the most vulnerable populations around the planet," Johnson said. That's why we are pledged here in the UK to deliver net zero by 2050. We're going to do it by 2050, we're setting the pace, I hope everybody will come with us.". It's quite proper that we should. "The

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Doing so is essential to limiting global warming to 1.5 In recent months, the world’s three top producers — Europe’s ArcelorMittal, China’s Baowu Steel, and Japan’s Nippon Steel — committed to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050, echoing targets set in their home countries.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

If all methane leaks from fossil fuel operations in 2021 had been captured and sold, then natural gas markets would have been supplied with an additional 180 billion cubic metres of natural gas, the IEA said. warming trajectory.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 31, 2021

greenhouse gas emissions come from industry. To achieve net-zero economy-wide emissions by 2050 and limit global warming, industrial emissions must drop while still meeting societal needs. Energy efficiency can reduce energy inputs and lower cost differences between electricity and natural gas.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

New analysis warns national climate targets for 2030 point to dangerous warming of 2.4C, as rush for LNG capacity risks further undermining chances of meeting goals of Paris Agreement. Projected global warming in 2100 based on national climate targets announced to date remains at a worryingly high 2.4C by mid-century.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

There is nothing to stop Eni from doing so, and the company has vowed to increase its production of oil and natural gas in years to come. Big polluters rely on industry self-regulation of eco-bonds In recent years, SLBs have become popular with companies as a way of raising fresh funds to support their efforts to combat global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2021

It’s an area of Shell’s business that is particularly controversial because the company has so often overstated the nascent technology’s potential in order to justify continuing to explore for more fossil fuels and not slashing emissions, while at the same time claiming it can go “net zero” by 2050. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Meanwhile, Russia's energy minister Alexander Novak has told The Guardian that the country has no plans to scale back fossil fuel production in the coming decades, instead aiming for a 50 per cent growth in gas production alongside plans for developing hydrogen and carbon capture technology. "I Akins, AEP chairman, president and CEO. "We

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The analysis shows that the production, transport, and storage of food are driving greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to those of the EU and Russia combined. Ultra processed foods like snacks, drinks and ready meals, along with chemical fertilisers made from natural gas, are singled out as major sources of pollution.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The simple fact is that they are not reducing their polluting activities by the significant amount required to limit the worst impacts of global warming.”. Eni, Repsol, and TotalEnergies also all aim to become net zero by 2050. TotalEnergies did not respond to a request for comment by time of publication.

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