DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

Political leaders make denier and delayer arguments. If you could inoculate enough of the public, even if you can’t change the minds of [everyone], you can achieve herd immunity and for all practical purposes not eradicate climate denial, but make it politically irrelevant.” Fake news circulates online.

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Grist

JUNE 14, 2023

Today’s story, from news and politics fellow Akielly Hu, shares the perspective of one young person who witnessed the effects of climate change on the places she loved and decided to take what some might call a drastic measure — suing her state government. And since then, I developed a taste for climate activism.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The Netherlands comes in second with nearly 7GW; Ireland nearly 4GW; and China and Spain with 2GW each The recent growth in hydrogen projects follows significant efforts by governments across the world to promote the hydrogen industry.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

But, given the extraordinary correlation between donations to the Tories and valuable awards from the government, I wonder whether it would be more accurate to brand them as investments?” There is no evidence that Deltic or Spencer used political contacts to secure the licences. The Conservatives received £3.5

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2024

The researchers found the governance of its local MSW management system to be robust and noted significant support from the state government for the implementation of sorting and composting units across the state. The results have been very positive in both cases.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Thee government should aim to unleash commercial-scale heat pump projects instead of hydrogen for heating, argues Kevin Stickney, managing director of Erda Energy and part of the Pump It Up campaign. West Africa battled the tragic spread of Ebola while the West remained largely ignorant to the horror of public health threats.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Nawaz co-wrote a report released today titled “ Agenda for a Progressive Political Economy of Carbon Removal. ” In it, she and her co-authors lay out a vision for carbon removal that shifts away from market-centric approaches to ones that are government-, community-, and worker-led. Not just government procurement of carbon removal.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

This week’s edition of Smart Energy Finances sees a new study from BDEW and CapGemini detail how sustainable transformation and decarbonisation purchasing are more important than ever for Austrian and German utility Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) goals. Another 24% are working on it. Microgrid debt financing.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Meanwhile, the Dii re-emerged this year in connection with plans to develop hydrogen in North Africa, an idea that has met with a lukewarm reception from observers. In essence, Xlinks’ goal is the same as Nur Energie’s: to harness North Africa’s massive renewable energy promise for the U.K. government contract.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 14, 2023

government through Planet’s co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer Robbie Schingler’s fireside chat with Vice Admiral Frank Whitworth, Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. government can work in collaboration to help ensure peace and security globally. Chance Saltzman (right).

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Cross-party political support has driven the 'meteoric rise' of UK offshore wind industry, an approach that should be taken for other critical technologies, Tony Blair Institute contends. Markets should be designed around desired long-term outcomes, it notes, adding that a clear strategy is needed to secure domestic benefits.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Traditionally, Scatec has sought non-recourse debt to finance up to 75 percent of the cost of power plants, typically relying on governments, commercial banks and development finance institutions for lending. “We’re not just a supplier of electricity, we’re a partner to government,” he said.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Even now, there are conflicting rumors about the reasons for Kocher's ouster at the energy giant, which is 24 percent owned by the French government. Engie is also actively building a customer base in Africa’s off-grid market. Her current term as CEO ends in May.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

For large middle-income countries, like India and South Africa, there were signs of progress on investments needed for developing clean energy. In the developed world, countries still have to internalize, politically, that bills are coming due – both at home and abroad – after decades of delaying action on climate change.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 14, 2021

This has moved these issues up the political priority list and bolstered a massive effort to diversify India’s economy away from coal and other polluting technologies and practices. Over the past few years, national and state governments in India have successfully expanded the power grid to villages in the countryside.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

According to the CCUS and hydrogen: 5 things to look for in 2022 report, 2021 saw these markets characterised by announcements of new projects, policies and investments under efforts by governments and companies to achieve net zero targets. Projects in 2021 focused on technology advancements and infrastructure preparations.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Investors are failing African entrepreneurs — it’s time for a change Salma Okonkwo Thu, 02/25/2021 – 00:10 Despite the global economic slowdown caused by COVID-19, the case for investing in Africa is stronger than ever. These figures get more concerning when considering the number of women-led or co-founded startups in Africa.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In his first speech after staging a stunning political comeback at Brazil’s presidential elections, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva vowed to halt the Amazon deforestation that surged under outgoing rival Jair Bolsonaro. In order to succeed, Lula won’t just need to face down farmers, loggers, and miners. He will also have to win a battle of ideas.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

"We are witnessing the beginnings of a paradigm shift in trade principles that have burdened Africa for many decades," said Carlos Lopes, Professor, Mandela School of Public Governance & African Climate Foundation Advisory council chair. "An

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Of the two exceptions, Denmark and South Africa, the first did not mention Denmark’s role as the largest oil producer in the European Union, while South Africa’s stall was sponsored by the country’s top coal companies. South Africa, Australia, UK, and Germany. South Africa struck a deal on Tuesday for £6.2 Greenwashing’.

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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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Fairsnape

JANUARY 22, 2020

We are not telling you to “offset your emissions” by just paying someone else to plant trees in places like Africa while at the same time forests like the Amazon are being slaughtered at an infinitely higher rate. We couldn’t care less about your party politics. degree or well-below-2-degrees commitments of the Paris Agreement.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 24, 2022

The World Economic Forum, taking place in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, takes the theme of ‘History at a Turning Point: Government Policies and Business Strategies’. The global energy landscape and markets are being radically reshaped as governments and businesses respond to the crisis and reduce dependence on Russian energy.

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Climate 4.0

MARCH 28, 2022

The SEC's proposed rule changes regarding corporate reporting of Scope 1 and 2, and under certain circumstances, Scope 3 greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions, strike a middle ground between the view that strong, relentless government regulation is needed to address climate-change and the view that the market should decide everything.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Growing consumption and demand of commodities has already seen large scale corporate-led land acquisitions for industrial production of cattle, soy and palm oil in Latin America, Africa and Southeast Asia. Between 2001-2015, 27% of forest disturbance was attributed to commodity-driven deforestation.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Coffey made the announcement on the sidelines of the COP15 Summit in Montreal, where she is taking part in high-level political negotiations on the terms of a new global pact that should result in a string of new targets and policies to reverse nature's decline by 2030.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Comments come as new analysis suggests Africa could face GDP hit of 64 per cent as a result of escalating climate impacts. A carbon footprint and carbon price shouldn't be decided by one country.". African countries face a number of challenges and the climate crisis poses a major threat to their ability to sustainably develop their economies.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The government cannot and will not regulate us to net zero.". But now she strikes a more conciliatory tone, arguing the government has pulled itself together over the past 12 months, under Sharma's leadership. It has been great to see the government leading from the front over the last few days." I have to credit Alok [Sharma].

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 3, 2021

That is long term, patient capital that focuses on growth over dividends, is not always available to developing countries because of the perceived political and/or economic risks. In a recent study, the IE A found that in 2019 the number of people without electricity access was 770 million and 75% lived in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Business Green

JANUARY 3, 2021

But, absent a global government, who's really checking? You don't need a global government; that will never come," said Antoine Rostand, founder and president of Kayrros, a data analytics company that uses EU satellite data to ' detect, quantify and attribute' large methane emission sources. EU satellites , that's who.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

In South Africa, three civil society organizations launched a case alleging that the government’s plans to obtain new coal power threaten various constitutional rights. But it also reflects a deeper evolution in the politics of climate change and in the attitude of activists, social scientists, media professionals, and lawyers.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

In a characteristically blunt address to the UN General Assembly, the world's top diplomat directed some of his most scathing criticism to date of the fossil fuel industry and its many "enablers", including investors, PR firms, and governments. It must be the first priority of every government and multilateral organisation.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2022

COP26 President urges governments to demonstrate that Russia's invasion of Ukraine has 'increased, not diminished, our determination to deliver on climate action'. We urgently require political-level interventions and decisions in each of these areas in order to achieve a balanced package," she said.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 14, 2021

That is long term, patient capital that focuses on growth over dividends, but is not always available to developing countries because of perceived political and/or economic risks.

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Climate 4.0

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Russia remains a powerful, dangerous country, one sophisticated enough to have meddled successfully with the US political process and EU dialogs as well. Its tremendous, deep culture remains in contrast with its melancholy history of trying to integrate with the European elite politically and be treated as an equal partner.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2020

O'Neill, a former Energy and Clean Growth Minister who stepped down from Parliament at the General Election last month, suggested the government "can't cope" with an independent COP26 unit and that there had been no dedicated climate change meetings within cabinet to date, despite Johnson's promise last year to begin chairing such meetings.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Heatwaves are scorching Europe, the United States, North Africa, Siberia, and some parts of the Middle East and China. The month before, extreme rainfall and floods in South Africa killed more than 400 people. Last month, the worst heatwave ever recorded hit Japan. The backlash [from deniers] was intense.

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