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. without nature," she said.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

But climate disinformation “refers to content that has been deliberately created to deceive people or give them an inaccurate understanding of an issue.” Many of the actors behind the narrative “if you dig in a little bit,” are connected to the fossil fuel industry, she added.

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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

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Meanwhile, the huge clean tech buying signals from coalitions of large corporates focused on electric vehicles, green steel, renewables, green shipping, and sustainable aviation fuels, all point to how these markets could quickly reach tipping points that trigger the rapid adoption that obliterates fossil fuel demand.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Some observers have questioned whether the call for countries to update their NDCs is robust enough, given it does not explicitly reference a 1.5C But there is still widespread speculation that Saudi Arabia and a number of other major fossil fuel producers could yet call for all references to fossil fuels to be removed.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2022

Even then, it was an aspirational goal: One writer referred to it as both “ necessary and inaccessible.”. ‘We are at a crossroads’: New IPCC report says it’s fossil fuels or our future. But three years later, the IPCC released a special report on the new target. degrees. “It Luckily for humanity, 1.5

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 25, 2021

In fact, 789 million people in the world lack access to electricity with 548 million of those in sub-Saharan Africa alone. Indoor air pollution from combustible fuel use for household energy caused 4.3 There is an additional focus on providing access to clean and safe cooking fuels to improve emissions, health, and quality of life.

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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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

We need the animal agriculture equivalent of ‘keep it in the ground’ for fossil fuels,” she adds. “It’s Several of these arguments reference the idea that grazing livestock can help maintain healthy soils which can store carbon. Just seven percent are based in Africa.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 25, 2021

In fact, 789 million people in the world lack access to electricity with 548 million of those in sub-Saharan Africa alone. Indoor air pollution from combustible fuel use for household energy caused 4.3 There is an additional focus on providing access to clean and safe cooking fuels to improve emissions, health, and quality of life.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Talks are on-going around how to strengthen national climate action plans in pursuit of 1.5C, how to increase flows of climate finance, whether the draft text should explicitly reference fossil fuels, and how to reform carbon markets. We cannot go weaker, we cannot go back from here," said Kerry. That language must stay.".

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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 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. Here, we've picked out 10 key takeaways for business leaders from the Glasgow Climate Pact and COP26 Summit: 1. Methane faces a reckoning.

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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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Grist

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The pellets themselves are a mixture of chemicals – they are fossil fuels,” says Tom Gammage, at the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), an international campaign group. In South Africa, a spill in August 2020 came after an accident in 2018, which affected up to 1,250 miles (2,000km) of coastline.

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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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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 6, 2021

The three-part assessment will be the most vital and comprehensive reference yet for informing international negotiations to curb catastrophic human-caused climate change. The rest of those emissions are absorbed by intact forests along with additional emissions from fossil fuel combustion, making forests a net carbon sink.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Here are all the references to climate change from the Canadian federal leaders English Language debate that took place on October 7, 2019. They spend your money to buy a seat at the UN Security Council, and also, they are giving your money to other countries to fight climate change in Asia and build roads in Africa. It’s not our plan.

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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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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The hearing comes alongside a new report by Greenpeace Italy and ReCommon, which describes how Eni’s technical consultants in the case have deep ties to the fossil fuel industry and climate deniers. Stagnaro’s technical report, Greenpeace says, includes references to Eni’s key climate delay tactics, such as “whataboutism.”

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

A study published in Science found that “even if fossil fuel emissions were immediately halted, current trends in global food systems would prevent the achievement of the 1.5°C per capita per day in Africa, 77.57g in Asia, 86.09g in South America, and 102.06g in Europe. gigatonnes (Gt) of CO2e and sequester 8.1

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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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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

JANUARY 24, 2022

The UN reports that temperature increases in the Sahel region of Africa will be 1.5 In the Arctic, melting sea ice is amplifying strategic competition as the accessibility of resources improves, particularly mineral and fossil fuel deposits. times higher than the global average. Arctic militarisation.

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Business Green

JUNE 17, 2022

They also have to provide a big signal that they are really committed to phasing out fossil fuels and building carbon free power systems by the 2030s. Meanwhile, age-old dividing lines were also in evidence as the US and China reportedly clashed, with China rejecting plans for a new work programme over references to "major emitters".

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

That is the stark warning issued today by an international group of scientists drawn from universities from Mexico to Australia, who have outlined their concerns in a paper published in Frontiers in Conservation Science that references more than 150 studies detailing the full scale of the world's inter-related environmental challenges.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

By the closing credits, the viewer is left in little doubt that there is only one fuel plentiful and versatile enough to carry the world “safely” into the 21 st century: coal. Nor does it refer to a topic that was of unequivocal scientific concern at the time: The “greenhouse effect,” or what is now known as climate change.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

"I'm not sure whether this technicality around a ratchet is something we would push for or would be in the final text, but it is often the case that when you have these annual events that is sort of implicit anyway, and there is a lot of referring back to previous agreements.".

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 23, 2024

Over the last year, the governing Conservative Party has watered down its support for the UK’s flagship 2050 net zero emissions target, and has enacted policies to increase fossil fuel extraction. million from fossil fuel interests, £5.7 Since the December 2019 election, the Conservatives have received £2.35

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

warming limit, phasing down coal and phasing out fossil fuel subsidies - there are scant signs of noteworthy progress. Fossil fuel phase down. When the Egyptian COP27 Presidency finally drops the first draft cover texts, many eyes will quickly scan for the words ‘coal' and ‘fossil fuels'.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa. Far from being a disruptive behavior to be quelled at any cost, migration is an ancient and lifesaving response to environmental change, a biological imperative as necessary as breathing. Falling sea levels allowed our passage across the Bering Sea.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

In a 1982 memo, Fisher also outlined plans for think tanks in Argentina, India, South Africa, and Sri Lanka, noting in each place a local businessman or politician that wanted to start an institute. ’” he said, ”I will refer to the often ignored passage of Ludwig Von Mises, in his book Bureaucracy.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The time is therefore now to plan an orderly wind-down of fossil fuel assets and manage the impact on the global economy rather than try to sustain the unsustainable. The worst year for oil ever Oil fueled the 20th century. Many of us now believe it is not a matter of if, but when we will transition away from fossil fuels.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Don’t agree on the assessment or the different pathways to get rid of fossil fuels? This is a review of an article from the Financial Times , which first appeared in February 2020 just before the fossil fuel industry had its worst year ever. Comment down below. The article was called ‘can the world kick its oil habit?’.

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Clean Energy Trust

MARCH 5, 2021

February 2021 Cleantech Roundup: Climate Software Gold Rush | Lone Star State Struggles | Jobs and the Energy Transition Credit: Poole Group This month, we’re covering the rush of investing into startups that quantify, manage, and verify carbon emissions reductions, Texas’ grid troubles, new research on transitioning fossil fuel workers, and more!

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Campaigners launch legal action against South Africa's plans for new coal plants. Coal accounts for around 80 per cent of South Africa's energy mix and the government plans to add 1,500MW of new capacity over the next six years. Reports: Indonesia to launch new carbon trading policy.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

A huge banner hung ceremoniously behind a table in a room lined with chairs, entitled “Signing Of Production Sharing Agreement,” referring to the crucial legislation that would start the resource sharing process. The deal was all but signed. Opposition politicians reacted to the deal falling through with relief, as well as concern.

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