Business Green

APRIL 20, 2021

Government export agency says its provided record levels of sustainable investments to developing countries last year. Campaigners have urged the government to enact this phase out quickly and back away from a number of fossil fuel projects in its pipeline, including £2.5bn of financing for a crude oil pipeline in Tanzania and Uganda.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

A group of over 500 global investment managers with more than $39tr in assets under management have this week issued a new statement urging governments around the world to raise their climate ambitions in line with the goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5C ahead of the upcoming COP27 Climate Summit.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

billion tons in August, about half as much as the monthly emissions from fossil fuels. Even if the world quickly ditches fossil fuels, increased emissions from Arctic fires may be locked in, at least for the next 100 years or so. Total carbon emissions from wildfires worldwide was 1.4 Global Forest Watch.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

million people die as a result of air pollution every year, but governments are still spending more supporting fossil fuel projects than they are tackling dirty air. In contrast, middle-income countries in Asia receive 80 per cent of aid funding. per cent of grants worldwide.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Saudi Arabia is set to win the role of top sponsor of international football’s governing body, FIFA, after openly admitting that one of the reasons it engages in sponsorship is to ‘sportswash’ its national reputation for economic benefit. Now the air pollution from burning fossil fuels alone is estimated to kill more than tobacco smoke.

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Business Green

JULY 25, 2021

With less than 100 days to go until the UK plays host to the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), the government is launching a new campaign to encourage us all to go one step greener. In addition, the UK government estimates that export opportunities for the UK's low carbon sector will be up to £170bn by 2030.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Governments, multilateral banks, and philanthropic organisations will today join forces to launch a major new initiative to accelerate the flow of finance into green energy projects in emerging and developing economies around the world.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Editor’s Note: This is part of a regular column, Gaslit , which navigates society’s dysfunctional relationship with fossil fuel disinformation. Heatwaves are scorching Europe, the United States, North Africa, Siberia, and some parts of the Middle East and China. Have a tip or idea? Get in touch.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Fossil fuels - oil, gas, and coal - are still very much the backbone of the global energy system, and these industries employ tens of millions of workers around the world. Clean energy employs more people worldwide than fossil fuels. Fossil fuel employment is struggling to recover from the pandemic.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2022

Tackling the problem requires the coordinated action of everyone in the chemicals value chain—from the chemicals industry itself to governments, regulators, investors and financiers, as well as civil society and consumers. Failure to address marine chemical pollution in a systematic manner risks inflicting irreparable harm on the ocean.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Last year closed with record high spot prices for gas in Europe and Asia, as the natural gas supply remained constricted. Gas prices and fossil fuels reach record highs in Europe – report Avenues for growth within the energy and environment industry. This was evident in the slow-down in demand growth in the second half of 2021.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The announcement, led by 40 members of the Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA), marks the biggest global net zero commitment from the carbon-intensive sector to date, and brings together firms from North and South America, Africa, Asia, and Europe.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 3, 2023

Salmon is fed on other fish — small, oily, and nutritious pelagic species — which are harvested by the tonne off the West African coastline and pulverized into fishmeal and fish oil for export to Europe and Asia. Drax already receives over £800 million a year from the UK government to burn these pellets sourced from around the EU and the U.S.,

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Business Green

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Last year also saw a strong acceleration in renewable energy, as a number of governments placed climate action at the heart of their post-Covid recovery plans. North America and developing Asia attracted about 200 projects each. Latin American and the Caribbean and Africa had 150 and 100 projects, respectively.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 24, 2021

Former Prime Ministers David Cameron and Theresa May both reportedly lobbied the Bahrain government on behalf of Petrofac in 2017, before the SFO investigation was made public later that year. The SFO is investigating Petrofac for alleged bribes in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia over more than 15 years, according to the Guardian.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

above pre-industrial level, an estimate that remains unchanged since last year despite hundreds of governments promising to enhance their decarbonisation pledges ahead of this week's COP27 Climate Summit. CAT said that if governments deliver on these goals it would theoretically put the world on course for 1.8C of warming.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Announced yesterday, the Global Power System Transformation Consortium (G-PST) comprises national electricity system operators from right across the world, including the UK, Australia, California, Texas, Denmark, and 25 other states and nations spanning Europe, Africa, Latin America, and Asia.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

Rwanda has become the first country in Africa to ramp up its national greenhouse gas reduction targets as part of its Paris Agreement commitments, yesterday submitting its plan to slash emissions by at least 16 per cent by 2030 compared with a business-as-usual baseline. — Patricia Espinosa C. PEspinosaC) May 20, 2020.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Nowhere is a smarter approach needed than one of the last frontiers for coal expansion — Southeast Asia. Export credit agencies alone have been financing $31 billion in fossil fuels every year, with a significant amount of that supporting fossil fuels in Asia, according to Oil Change International.

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Business Green

JANUARY 16, 2023

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) decision to appoint Al Jaber to the influential role was heavily criticised by environmental activists around the globe, who warned his role at Adnoc represents a fundamental conflict of interest given the need to rapidly phase down fossil fuel production and consumption to meet climate goals.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 9, 2020

At the same time, Brussels signaled that it will also encourage the development of "blue" hydrogen produced from fossil fuels paired with carbon capture, at least for the time being. The next-largest proposal, by BP, would use Australian wind and solar to export ammonia to Asia. The 4-gigawatt project , led by U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The clean power ambitions of state governments and utilities propel storage deployment in the U.S. Regionally, Asia-Pacific (APAC) will lead the storage build on a megawatt basis by 2030, but the Americas will build more on a megawatt-hour basis, because storage plants in the U.S. See educational sessions here.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2021

The update comes as the UK government gears up to issue its first ever sovereign green bond late this year, offering consumers investment opportunities to support green economy growth in areas such as renewable energy. "We

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2021

million farmers from around the world called on governments to follow through on their climate promises, businesses have signed a pledge of support. It is more important than ever that we listen to our farmers, raise their voices and ensure governments and businesses alike act now.". million Fairtrade farmers. Earlier this week, 1.8

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda that calls for governments and industry to work together to find new solutions to climate change–driven food insecurity. It also states that it will hold regular meetings with the Australian government before the summit.

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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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Grist

AUGUST 9, 2021

The report, produced by hundreds of the world’s top scientists, with sign off by all the world’s governments, concludes that it could get far worse if the slim chance remaining to avert heating above 1.5 of heating, heavy rain and flooding are projected to intensify in Europe, North America and most regions of Africa and Asia. “We

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The French Senate this week approved new legislation that will require all large car parks in the country to install solar canopies in support of the government's renewable energy drive. The French government said the move could add up to 11GW of capacity. French Senate approves solar car park legislation.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

But group of petrostates resist calls to phase down fossil fuels and accelerate decarbonisation efforts. Mohamed Adow, director of think tank Power Shift Africa said the achievement came after three decades of appeals for help from climate impacted nations. "To The phasedown of all fossil fuels is not in this text.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

The past week has seen a series of reports and developments that have served to highlight how, as lockdown conditions ease, the wind energy sector hits many of the economic sweet spots governments are desperate to target. The global offshore market has now grown on average by 24 per cent each year since 2013.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The UK has also announced a new 'ZEV rapid response facility' that aims to provide technical assistance to developing and emerging country governments looking to develop large-scale projects and unlock funding for zero emission vehicles (ZEV) transitions. Cheung said the rapid growth of EV sales - which grew from 8.7

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

As senior government ministers hymn the need for investment in net zero, UK’s export finance agency urges British renewables business to export their expertise overseas.

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 6, 2021

The rest of those emissions are absorbed by intact forests along with additional emissions from fossil fuel combustion, making forests a net carbon sink. Figure 2: Modeled past and future carbon dynamics of structurally intact old-growth tropical forests in Africa and Amazonia. But why in the Amazon and not in Africa?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

If the world warms more than 4C by 2100, the number of days with climatically stressful conditions for outdoor workers will increase by up to 250 workdays per year by century's end in some parts of South Asia, tropical sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Central and South America. That's the future our children have to contemplate.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The Filipino government rounded out a busy few weeks for the Asian clean energy transition this week, announcing a moratorium on new coal power plants in support efforts to accelerate renewables development. Analysts warn Asian net zero pledges could dent Australian fossil fuel exports.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Last year we saw devastating floods across Asia and Europe. Where people's ability to feed their families becomes precarious and extreme weather and diseases wipe out livelihoods, people may be forced from their homes, and civil unrest may ferment, events that can undermine fragile government, and reverberate around the globe.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2022

There had also been speculation that candidates from Asia or Africa were likely to be preferred given the past four holders of the post have been from Latin America and Europe. However, his purported appointment comes as something of a surprise given the UN had indicated that it would "especially welcome" female candidates.

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