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. The future of fossil fuels Let’s start with some backstory on COP28. Greenhouse gas emissions come from extracting and burning fossil fuels, of course.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 3, 2023

Critics of the push say carbon capture technology is still unproven, methane leakage could add untold greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere, and transport complications all make blue hydrogen a much dirtier fuel than the name implies. This has the potential to cut off one area of growth for the fossil fuel industry.

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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. within reach.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The US delegation began using the word “unabated” in conjunction with phasing out fossil fuels for the first time. The UAE, COP’s host, forged a perilous middle path that delights neither end of the fossil fuel spectrum. To abate or not to abate, to phase down or phase out. Words matter.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2023

degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels not only requires reducing fossil fuel emissions but removing around 500 gigatons of atmospheric CO₂ by 2100. In Africa, every increase of 100,000 animals in the Serengeti raises the amount of carbon sequestered by 15 percent. According to the study, keeping global warming below 1.5

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

From tackling deforestation to curbing methane emissions, the various multilateral commitments are focused on areas where they can have real impact. The fossil fuel problem is being named.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The statement also calls for governments to step up efforts to tackle methane pollution, enhance climate adaptation and resilience, and scale up climate finance for developing countries. We encourage governments to engage closely with investors to make sure these risks are effectively managed and that these opportunities are fully realised.".

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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 European Union this week set ambitious 2024 and 2030 targets for green hydrogen, a big step for the emerging sector.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Fossil fuels get named and shamed. For the first time in 25 years of UN climate talks, coal and fossil fuel subsidies have been singled out in an official document. Methane faces a reckoning. Campaigners and energy experts have long dubbed methane emissions as the 'low hanging fruit' of climate action.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

"With governments focussing on the energy crisis, this has been a year of little action on the climate: almost no updated national climate targets for 2030 and no significant increase in participation in Glasgow initiatives on coal phase out, clean cars, and methane," he said, "And without strong 2030 action, governments cannot reach net zero.".

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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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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

From Loss and Damage and just transitions to rows over fossil fuel phase outs and carbon markets, we take a look at some of the key lessons for businesses from COP27. Proposals to phase out fossil fuels, ramp up renewables, and increase pressure on countries to deliver national decarbonisation plans in line with a 1.5C

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

West Africa battled the tragic spread of Ebola while the West remained largely ignorant to the horror of public health threats. Chief among them: how to deal with dangerous NOx emissions that are six times higher than from burning methane. Cast your mind back to 2014. It was Scotland, not the whole UK, pondering independence.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2023

degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels not only requires reducing fossil fuel emissions but removing around 500 gigatons of atmospheric CO₂ by 2100. In Africa, every increase of 100,000 animals in the Serengeti raises the amount of carbon sequestered by 15 percent. According to the study, keeping global warming below 1.5

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The findings further fuelled the cautiously optimistic mood that has built up during the first week of talks at COP26, which has seen a raft of new net zero pledges from emerging economies and a series of global deals to increase flows of climate finance, better protect forests, accelerate clean tech deployment, and curb methane emissions.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

A similar dynamic is at play in the row over phasing out or down of unabated coal power and inefficient fossil fuel subsidies. Phase out or down is semantics, but the recognition is there that fossil fuels are the problem. The Paris Agreement was hailed as the beginning of the end of the fossil fuel age.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

methane) from animal and land management and land-use change, which make the biggest warming contributions in the agricultural sector.”. These come from deforestation, changes in soil carbon, methane emissions, emissions from fertilisers, manure, farm machinery, and animal feed production. gigatonnes (Gt) of CO2e and sequester 8.1

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Countries and companies have also kicked off pledges to triple investments in renewables and nuclear, drive down methane emissions, and commit loss and damage funds. Near-term commitments include 6 GW of clean energy in India alongside considerations for wind and solar in Africa and rural electrification in Latin America.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

“A pink badge is like a country badge, which allows you into the negotiations, so you can track what’s going on,” explains Corporate Europe Observatory researcher Pascoe Sabido, who has extensively tracked the influence of the fossil fuel industry at the annual COP climate summits.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

For its electric business, the new net zero goal will include greenhouse gas emissions from the power it purchases for resale, from the procurement of fossil fuels used for generation, and from the electricity purchased for its own use. Irish government announces ambitious Home Energy Upgrade Scheme.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2023

Greta Thunberg issues cease and desist letter to fossil fuel bosses Fresh from her arrest during protests against the Luetzerath coal mine in Germany, Greta Thunberg travelled to Davos for a high profile meeting with the head of the International Energy Agency Fatih Birol.

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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

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The climate impact of farming practices are significant too - in the UK, agriculture and land-use are responsible for around 12 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, including almost half of the country's methane emissions. If you taxed fossil fuels, that would make agro-ecological farming more competitive," he argues.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Monica Weiss attended her first fossil-fuel divestment protest on a frigid February day in 2015. There were also successful precedents, says Weiss, pointing to the decisions TRS made to jettison investments in South Africa in the mid-1990s, and firearms in the 2010s. We understood that,” Weiss says.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The IPCC’s Sixth Assessment, released in August, emphasizes that limiting climate change requires capping total carbon dioxide emissions, “reaching at least net zero CO2 emissions,” and making major cuts in methane and other greenhouse gas emissions. If emissions had peaked back in 2000 we would be skiing down a bunny slope toward 1.5C.

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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. This report must sound a death knell for coal and fossil fuels, before they destroy our planet.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2022

Some leaders who a few months ago were vowing to phase out fossil fuels are now encouraging fossil fuel companies to ramp up production. Meanwhile, severe famines have hit Yemen and the Horn of Africa. Russia is waging a war on European soil, with global implications for energy and food supplies.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Another pledge by more than 100 countries to cut methane by 30 per cent by 2030, essential for reducing this potent and prevalent greenhouse gas. A mixed result of negotiations was that mention of the reduction of fossil fuels was included in the final agreement for the first time since the original 1995 COP.

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The City Fix

JANUARY 24, 2024

Last year shattered global heat records. The world witnessed the effects of rising temperatures in the form of devastating wildfires, severe flooding, extreme heatwaves and more. Poor countries and communities who have contributed the least to causing the climate crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Compiled by Dutch climate activist Vatan Hüzeir , and reviewed by DeSmog and Dutch investigative journalism platform Follow The Money , the documents show how Shell was actively supporting research that clearly underscored the dangers posed by burning its fossil fuel products from the mid-1970s — years earlier than previously thought.

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Business Green

JUNE 13, 2022

Historically known for publishing conservative forecasts for clean energy deployment that were subsequently marshalled by oil and gas industry to justify fossil fuel expansion, it has in recent years become a vocal champion of the clean energy transition and the need to stop all new oil and exploration if climate goals are to be met.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2022

Washington and Brussels team up in support of wide-ranging plan to diversify Europe's sources of LNG, ramp up renewables development, plug methane leaks, and boost energy efficiency. In Africa, it is even worse: 60 per cent of people lack coverage. EU and US team up for energy security push. Early warnings and action save lives.".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

All the top green business news from around the world this week, including fresh WHO air pollution guidelines and global coal, methane and HFC commitments. More countries join global methane and coal power pledges. Study: Renewable energy could deliver 25 million jobs in Africa and Asia.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

From President Biden to methane pledges, BusinessGreen explores the biggest developments on the fifth full day of the pivotal climate talks in Sharm EL Sheikh. Biden's address also set out his administration's plans to crackdown on methane leaks in the US' fossil fuel industry.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Reflecting on COP26 so far, Obama said there was "good and bad news" to come out of the Glasgow Summit, hailing progress on methane emissions, climate finance, curbing fossil fuel investment, and protecting forests. Obama emphasised that no country could sit on the "sidelines" of climate action. "We

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