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. Projects tackling air pollution receive less than one per cent of global aid spending, a new report from Clean Air Fund has revealed.

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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 of warming.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It is estimated that today’s policy ambitions and targets would likely lead to global warming of around 2.7C CCAG also proposes an alternative approach to carbon pricing – one which levies charges at the point of fossil fuel extraction, based on the amount of CO?

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Grist

JUNE 5, 2024

Emissions of the tiny particles that cause smogs, collectively known as aerosols, are in decline across most of the world — apart from South Asia and Africa. Scientists are concerned that the cleanups will both heat the global atmosphere and lead to more intense regional ocean heat waves. Met Office. degrees C, with 0.4

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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. Recent extreme weather across the globe is showing us how rapidly the climate is changing in an increasingly warming world. Have a tip or idea? Get in touch.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

New report warns world is 'heading in wrong direction' post-pandemic resulting in a 48 per cent chance the global 1.5C There is now a near 50-50 chance of global warming temporarily rising above the totemic 1.5C Prolonged and severe droughts in China, the Horn of Africa and the United States. Heatwaves in Europe.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

. | Sean Gallup/Getty Images Tens of thousands of negotiators, activists, and corporate execs have descended upon Dubai to wrangle over the future of fossil fuels. Can governments broker a deal to phase out the oil, coal, and gas causing climate change? The future of fossil fuels Let’s start with some backstory on COP28.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

We now have less than seven years to cut emissions in half in order to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees C, the limit scientists say is necessary for averting some of the most dangerous climate impacts. 2022 saw flooding, drought and severe.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Draft text published this morning requests countries update their NDCs next year and retains calls to tackle fossil fuels, but negotiations over climate finance and other areas still unresolved. It also retains references to tackling emissions from fossil fuels, albeit with caveats.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Dubbed the Glasgow Climate Pact, the agreement crucially puts pressure on countries to come foward next year with updated climate plans, promises more funding for climate adaptation, and for the first time ever includes explicit references to the need to drive down coal and phase out fossil fuel subsidies. Phase out coal.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

government under threat of imprisonment. Working closely with the community, Cole represented the residents in lawsuits fighting against major mining and fossil fuel companies, including the groundbreaking case Kivalina v. government has placed these Tribes at existential risk,” the complaint claims. They allege the U.S.

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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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The documents, which were produced by the industry-funded Global Meat Alliance (GMA), emphasise the meat lobby’s desire to promote “our scientific evidence” at the summit, which will run from November 30 through to December 12. It also states that it will hold regular meetings with the Australian government before the summit.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

They not only help shape the government’s economic policies, they also construct narratives to legitimise the environmental destruction occurring in Brazil’s main biomes – mainly in the Amazon,” Carlos Milani, a professor of international relations at Rio de Janeiro State University, told DeSmog.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

So yeah, there's a little cheat that we did: we took away the hyper-object of global warming, which is so vast and timeless and slow-moving, and we put in a very concrete event, a comet. This risk increases steeply with rises in global temperature. As McKay put it: "No allegory is a perfect fit.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The news follows the government’s approval of the major Rosebank oilfield and the issuing of new North Sea licences, which the government intends to turn into a mandatory annual process, as announced in this week’s King’s Speech. They provide further evidence that Number 10’s fossil fuel agenda is far from accidental.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

global warming pathway are to be kept alive. In snap analysis published yesterday, the IEA said it had calculated the impacts of the net zero pledges and emissions targets announced in recent days, and concluded that if national climate pledges are delivered as promised, the planet could potentially limit warming to 1.8C

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The proposed strengthening of the bloc's emissions target follows the REPowerEU plan, which was unveiled by the EU Commission earlier this year in a bid to rapidly reduce Europe's reliance on Russian fossil fuels by ramping up renewables, energy efficiency, heat pump installations, and hydrogen development.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

But green groups were left underwhelmed, after the government confirmed its commitment today to treble climate adaptation funding and support a series of new forest protection projects would come from existing climate finance budgets. Loss and Damage can no longer be swept under the rug," he said. "It It is a moral imperative.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Oil and gas has dominated discussions at past COPs, which have focused on the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the energy and transport sectors to tackle dangerous levels of global warming. Sabido says the pavilions, where CEOs, lobbyists and government officials all gather, offer a “really good opportunity to lobby”.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Italy’s first climate change lawsuit brought by Greenpeace Italy and climate advocacy group ReCommon against Italian oil giant Eni opened with its first hearing on February 16, alleging the company contributed to global warming. to obscure the Italian oil giant’s true contribution to global warming.

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Business Green

JANUARY 25, 2022

Importantly, too, the report points out that given global emissions need to fall by 45 per cent by 2030 in order to keep the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C, the increase in spending would have to be front-loaded within the current decade. per cent of global GDP between 2026 and 2030, up from around 6.8

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

That report concluded that we have already reached average global warming of 1.1 By contrast the OBR estimates that if we act now, the transition to net zero could add around 21 per cent of GDP to government debt by mid-century. degrees, that human activity is unequivocally to blame, and that we were on track to breach the 1.5

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Yet as the global economy emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic, emissions are on the rise once again, presenting a monumental challenge over the next eight years if the world is to keep to the 1.5C global warming target countries signed up to in the Paris Agreement on the table. We don't have to wait on government and policy.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk. Global heating is affecting every region on Earth, with many of the changes becoming irreversible. window shutting.".

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

But demand for polluting fossil fuel-derived plastics could peak by 2035 if business and government works together to create a more sustainable plastic supply chain, report finds. Gilfillan said this outcome depended on all actors playing a part in overhauling the way plastic is used in modern society.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2021

The Paris Agreement is the framework for a future world in which global warming remains below a level we can tolerate. It's not just a government issue. Create more national parks and reserves, fossil free towns and cities. We need a stop to coal everywhere and further exploration on fossil fuel.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Australia, for example, has already put out a statement this week stressing that its 2030 target is "fixed" and highlighting how it has a near-unique position as an industrialised economy with huge extractive industries and fossil fuel exports. Coal and fossil fuels: An increasingly risky investment bet.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

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. Instead of slowing down the decarbonisation of the global economy, now is the time to accelerate the energy transition to a renewable energy future.".

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Grist

AUGUST 9, 2022

They also confirmed that rising temperatures — driven by human consumption of fossil fuels — were partly to blame. Since 1850, global temperatures have climbed 1.2 Christine Albano, an ecohydrologist at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada, studies evaporative demand and how it might change under global warming. “A

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The summit also sought to highlight Africa as a destination for climate investments, rather than viewing the continent as predominantly a victim of droughts, famines, and floods. More domestic refining and processing of the raw materials for batteries and other critical mineral deposits located in Africa.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The world faces unavoidable and worsening climate hazards over the next two decades as global temperatures are driven up by human activity, with "irreversible impacts" on humans and ecosystems expected even if the global economy achieves the unprecedented feat of only marginally overshooting the 1.5C

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The British government announced this evening that it has built a 190-strong coalition of countries and organisations at COP26 committed to ending the use of and support for coal power, with 18 nations including Poland, Vietnam, Egypt, Chile, and Morocco for the first time announcing clear end-dates for coal power and coal financing.

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Business Green

JUNE 17, 2022

Most notably, the conference completed the first technical dialogue of the Global Stocktake , a new process designed to review collective progress towards achieving the Paris Agreement's goal to limit global warming to 1.5C. Governments have to work together to make this happen, but they are simply not working together.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Negotiations around adaptation plans and carbon markets have spilled over into the second week, eating into time typically earmarked for political discussions between government ministers. alive" by "undertaking rapid, deep and sustained cuts" in greenhouse gas emissions. from a raft of public and private institutional investors.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2022

Analysts concluded that the new promises, including phasing out coal, would bend the global warming trajectory , though still fall short of the Paris climate agreement. Russia is waging a war on European soil, with global implications for energy and food supplies. Meanwhile, severe famines have hit Yemen and the Horn of Africa.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Two-thirds of the directors who run the Conservative Party’s multi-million-pound endowment fund have interests in fossil fuel firms or polluting industries, DeSmog can reveal. Financial interests of its directors include Shell, BP, consultancies that work for fossil fuel giants and petrostates, and the construction multinational JCB.

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