DeSmogBlog

MARCH 24, 2023

Fossil fuel firms have justified their rushed construction plans by pointing to Europe’s scramble to replace Russian natural gas in the wake of the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine last February. Ozane began pushing back against the fossil fuel industry after Hurricane Laura wrecked her home in southwest Louisiana in 2020. “Me

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Researchers estimate that toxic air produced by burning fossil fuels causes an estimated 4.5 Burning fossil fuels is not just driving climate change, it is also generating an air pollution crisis that is wiping trillions of dollars from the world economy every year. million premature deaths a year.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2024

“These misleading ads are deeply offensive to every healthcare worker who has to treat patients suffering from the health effects of climate change,” said Dr. Melissa Lem in a statement. They further argued that gas exports would lower CO2 emissions related to burning coal for energy, particularly in Asia.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Follow This and Arjuna Capital’s now-withdrawn resolution encouraged Exxon to put a plan in place to reduce the “Scope 3” emissions that arise from the use of its fossil fuel products. World-scale problems like climate change need world-scale companies to help solve them — like ExxonMobil.”

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Business Green

OCTOBER 30, 2022

UN Conference on Trade and Development fears that slowdown in foreign investment could impact flows of climate-related finance. Investment in projects that tackle climate change is expected to decline in 2022 as global foreign direct investment flows drop, according to a report published by the UN Conference on Trade and Development.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2022

UK Minister for Exports Mike Freer explains how the UK's export credit agency has been working to meet its commitment to end financial support for fossil fuel projects abroad. Just over a year ago, the UK ended financial support for fossil fuel projects overseas.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

To achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, countries will likely need to set hard limits on the extraction of fossil fuels in addition to supporting the deployment of clean energy. The researchers set out to estimate how much of the world’s fossil fuel reserves must remain in the ground in order to limit global warming to 1.5

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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. Changing Extremes. Changing Extremes.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As the latest round of United Nations climate change negotiations draws to an end in Egypt this weekend, you could be forgiven for feeling pessimistic. Countries' emissions targets have hardly changed since a year ago. So, is the cause of international cooperation on climate change hopeless? Far from it.

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Eco-Business

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Journalists working in the world's most fossil fuel-dependent, climate-vulnerable region tell Eco-Business why covering climate change is so hard.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 21, 2024

Notably, this partnership marked the first planned hydrogen-powered mining truck in Asia. The hydrogen mining truck will be powered by Ballard’s Proton-exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell technology. This is due to the energy-intensive nature of mining operations, which often rely on diesel and other fossil fuels.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It was part of an arctic heatwave that would have been “almost impossible” without human-caused climate change, according to a recent attribution paper in the journal Climatic Change. billion tons in August, about half as much as the monthly emissions from fossil fuels. Global Forest Watch.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Landmark study estimates 15 per cent of worldwide deaths from Covid-19 may be attributable to long-term exposure to air pollution, demonstrating impact of fossil fuels on pandemic. There are no vaccines against poor air quality and climate change," it concludes.

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Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

Climate change and global warming are issues that define our times. What does this boy care about climate change? How much is to be invested for climate change? Environments and weather systems the world over are being altered, threatened and destroyed. There are millions of people like him in this world.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2021

HSBC's board has today agreed to phase out all coal financing within 20 years, in a major victory for shareholders who have been piling pressure on the bank to set out how and when it will reduce its significant exposure to fossil fuel assets.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

The finance sector is increasingly reluctant to finance fossil fuel expansion, and ‘Big Ag’ could be next in the divestment campaign firing line, argues Charlotte Moore from SIGWATCH. Calls for financial institutions to divest from fossil fuels have become a cornerstone of NGO climate campaigning over the past decade.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

While the fuel is barely on the radar in the United States, around the world a green hydrogen rush is underway, and many companies, investors, governments and environmentalists believe it is an energy source that could help end the reign of fossil fuels and slow the world’s warming trajectory. "It Green hydrogen can do that.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 1, 2024

By denying, derailing, delaying, and deflecting meaningful discussions around the sector’s key issues, the agriculture industry is using the same tactics as the tobacco and fossil fuel lobbies. The livestock industry is also making an effort to target young people, researchers said. In the U.S. which was funded by a $2.9

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Eco-Business

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The network would enable Southeast Asia to keep growing and keep using the 'products of modern life' while reducing emissions, said the Houston-headquartered energy major's low carbon division president.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

” “ Not only will this initiative help reduce carbon emissions including those from burning fossil fuels to ship CO 2 to New Zealand, but it could also create around 40 jobs in the Taupo area and help solve New Zealand’s food grade CO 2 shortage by creating a homegrown source that will increase supply and lessen cost.

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Grist

JUNE 5, 2024

Climate change, even combined with natural cycles such as El Niño, is not enough. Other researchers spoken to by Yale Environment 360 see the finding, made with the help of in-depth climate modeling, as having potentially critical implications for future climate in the Pacific and elsewhere. degrees C, with 0.4

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

Macquarie, Asian Development Bank, and Church of Scotland all strengthen their restrictions on fossil fuel investments. Climate change is one of the most complex and critical challenges facing the world, and the finance sector has a vital role to play in efforts to limit global warming," it said.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 16, 2023

fossil fuel firms are pushing to build more than 2,900 miles of natural gas pipelines to feed liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facilities in Louisiana, Texas, and Alaska, in a bid to send more of the fuel to Asia and Europe, a new analysis by Global Energy Monitor shows.

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The Angry Clean Energy Guy

JULY 5, 2018

Powerful fossil fuel lobbies across the ASEAN region are also hindering progress. Now the good news The resistance to renewable energy in the ASEAN region can’t last: The clean energy revolution is poised to steamroll fossil fuels worldwide as the cost of renewables plunges. ASEAN member countries.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

s west coast have faced prohibitively high costs, scathing critiques from climate activists, and fierce opposition from some Indigenous communities. But LNG producers have a strategy for navigating those barriers: make First Nations the public face of support for new fossil fuel infrastructure. Credit: BC Liberals via Twitter.

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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. UK Export Finance's Richard Simon-Lewis. This can be done by simple actions which, when done together, make a big difference.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 7, 2023

In Asia, 14 countries — accounting for 26% of global transport emissions in 2019 — have made economy-wide net zero commitments. Momentum towards zero-emission transport is growing with countries enhancing ambition and including transport-related targets in their nationally determined contributions (NDCs). However,

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Meanwhile, a new report found that an East Coast offshore wind industry — common in Europe and Asia but still nascent in North America — could turn Atlantic Canada into an “energy superpower” similar to “what oil was to Texas or hydro power to Quebec.”

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Climate 4.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Governor Appears at Climate Week Yang Seung-Jo , Chungnam's governor, appeared on a panel during Climate Week NYC in New York September 20-26, 2021 to discuss the project. Tough Reality for Optimists But this is the reality of where we are.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Don't listen to the fossil fuel enthusiasts pushing fracking as a solution for the UK's currently volatile energy market, argues ECIU's Dr Simon Cran-McGreehin. The gas crunch gripping Europe is directly caused by volatile international gas markets that expose the UK to demand surges in Asia and political manipulation by Putin.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2021

We want to be at the heart of financing the energy transition, particularly in Asia," he said. Asia's ability to transition to clean energy in time will make or break the world's ability to avoid dangerous climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2022

Other key findings and recommendations include: Regulators need to enact and enforce stricter rules on pollution, particularly in Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa where much of the future growth in chemicals production will come, and where often there is limited oversight and capacity to deal with chemical pollution.

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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. Last year, we mapped Canada’s hydrogen lobby and revealed how fossil fuel interests are pushing for blue hydrogen in Canada.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The group - which includes leading asset managers such as AXA, UBS, Schroders, BMO Global, Legal & General, Robeco, and others - have promised to align their investment portfolios with global efforts to limit average temperature rise to 1.5C, as set out in the Paris Agreement on climate change.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Market leader Asia accounted for 63 per cent of the world's total renewable energy jobs in 2019, with China alone accounting for 38 per cent at 4.4 For comparison, in the fossil fuel sectors women make up around 21 per cent of the workforce. Wind energy, meanwhile, accounted for 1.17 million jobs last year. million workers.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Today’s climate change headlines often seem at odds with each other. One day, it’s catastrophic wildfires wreaking havoc around the world; the next, it’s an optimistic piece on the rapid scale-up of solar and wind power. Taken together, such stories.

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Business Green

JULY 8, 2022

Office for Budget Responsibility estimates sustained high fossil fuel prices could make the comparative costs of net zero over a third cheaper. But it also stressed the risk that developing nations could drive a rapid rise in demand for fossil fuels in the coming years, putting further upward pressure on energy prices.

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