DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Nigel Farage ’s Reform party received £135,000 this year from donors linked to climate science denial and fossil fuels, DeSmog can reveal. Latest official records show that all donations made to Reform UK so far this year are from individuals with ties to climate science denial or fossil fuel interests.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

It would be easy at this point to simply list the litany of policy failures and the paucity of political leadership documented by the CCC's almost satirically titled progress report. The lack of action on domestic energy efficiency that has now been evident for so long it has become a point of cliché for campaigners to point it out.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Can the global aviation industry ever truly operate without fossil fuels and shift to zero emissions fuels and technologies? The discussion - which touches on the challenges, opportunities, investment and policies associated with green aviation - is available to watch again in full above.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 27, 2021

Reduce fossil fuel use. Reduce Fossil Fuel Use. Fishing is one of the most energy-intensive industries and almost entirely relies on fossil fuels. of total global fuel consumption. That’s more than the annual emissions from aviation. Adhere to the “Good Fish Guide”. Use lead-free fishing gear.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2021

The findings raise concerns over a systemic conflict of interest at a time when the international financial sector is under increasing pressure to stop funding fossil fuels. Banks are increasingly saying they will decarbonise by 2050, yet a large number continue to finance fossil fuels, the primary source of carbon emissions.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

The plan is not perfect - there is nothing in it that couldn't have been announced several years ago and the approach to decarbonising aviation in particular is built on the wing and a prayer of techno-optimism. Across Europe the question facing the fossil fuel industry is over precisely how marginal it will become.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2023

From clean energy and nature investments to phasing down fossil fuels, We Mean Business Coalition's Maria Mendiluce offers her take on what corporate climate leadership should look like over the coming year. However, it was a missed opportunity to be bolder and propose to phase out all fossil fuels.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

The analysis apparently finds that: Just 12 industries – which include aviation, agriculture, steel, manufacturing and construction – make up 62% of all UK carbon emissions. These industries are likely to be politically harder to decarbonise too.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The market would allow competition among electricity, biofuels and hydrogen as green transport fuels. The plan also includes a 2% e-fuels mandate for aviation, to be met by 2030. The term e-fuel , or electrofuel , refers to hydrogen and other synthetic fuels such as butanol and biodiesel.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Climate targets were under threat from all sides with climate science deniers, politicians and media platforms exploiting the war in Ukraine and ensuing energy crisis to demand an increase in fossil fuel extraction. North Sea Gas Profits Going Direct to the Kremlin. Anti-Net Zero’ MP Hires Aides Linked to Climate Denial Group.

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

Political and business leaders have certainly talked a good game in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. When it comes to cutting emissions and rebuilding the economy after Covid, the prime minister really can have his cake and eat it," argued Chris Venables, head of politics at Green Alliance.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2021

Late last week, Britain's biggest boiler manufacturers joined together to announce a promise to homeowners who make the switch to hydrogen-ready appliances that doing so will cost them no more than purchasing pure-fossil fuel gas equivalents.

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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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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Over five weeks we’re publishing a range of Stay Grounded factsheets about various kinds of techno-greenwashing provided by the aviation industry. Alternative jet fuels or so-called “Sustainable Aviation Fuels” (SAF) are liquid hydrocarbon fuels that can be used with existing aircraft in place of kerosene produced from fossil fuels.

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Business Green

JANUARY 10, 2023

It was our addiction to fossil fuels that got us into this position. It's in all of our interests that we kick this addiction to fossil gas, both to make a warm home affordable for everyone, and to put the brakes on climate breakdown. In 2012, we were insulating more homes a year than ever before. But we've been here before.

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2021

How to decarbonise aviation and shipping. How to maintain public and political support while all this is done. They need to throw everything possible at destroying fossil fuel demand. Retiring a fossil fuel industry that has dominated the global economy for centuries is really hard. This is understandable.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The report released Friday underscores the role that transportation in emerging economies will play in future oil demand, and how quickly falling battery costs and increasingly aggressive decarbonization policies are accelerating the shift from fossil-fueled to electric vehicles. It's a really significant issue,” he added.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2022

And yet, so complete is their disconnect from the real world that these zombie arguments continue to stumble across the political landscape desperately looking for an issue, any issue, to attack. per cent gain, almost entirely as a result of higher fossil fuel prices. Soaring energy bills? Blame net zero. Net zero's fault.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The Green Deal is the first political act from the new European Commission, which was confirmed last month and serves as the European Union's executive branch. While it covers commercial aviation, heavy industry and the power sector, emissions from passenger transport, agriculture and waste are not.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Lower carbon sources of fuel for aviation and shipping is critical to delivering on net zero targets for firms, argues WasteFuel CEO Trevor Neilson. We know from opinion polls that citizens have woken up to the scale of the climate emergency and that it remains a political priority.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

In the summer of 2022, faced with a very real opportunity to confront the fossil fuel industry, potentially forcing the facility to halt oil train shipments entirely, the city instead chose to strike a compromise that allows the oil facility to continue to operate. You’re in the driver’s seat. Out in 5 yrs.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Indeed, the ingredients for negativity are all too abundant: a persistent, shapeshifting virus; political stalemates that thwart climate action; growing social and economic inequality; terrifying ecological indicators; pushback by the anti-science crowd and their media enablers. Time to polish your resumé 2. Hard to abate' got easier.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

In fact, on multiple fronts ministers and officials have done a remarkably good job within the financial and political constraints placed upon them. Chris Skidmore's recommendation that the date for phasing out gas boilers should be pulled forward was politely ducked. That is not to say there is not good news here.

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Business Green

AUGUST 10, 2022

What we're trying to show is that there are policy designs that can be used to overcome that, and where the costs fall is a political decision," Burke explains. "It Opposition will form if the transition is not seen to be fair," he tells BusinessGreen.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2021

Will well-intentioned critiques of demonstrably inadequate net zero strategies catalyse more ambitious decarbonisation plans or will they inadvertently undermine a trend that has helped successfully push climate issues up the corporate and political agenda? The net zero concept also has three inherent strengths.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

There is not enough new thinking on how to tackle the worsening net zero skills shortage or elegantly extricate the UK from its reliance on fossil fuels and enable a just transition. The scandalous failure to plan for a collapse in fuel duty revenues continues.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2021

The new report from the think tank found that just 12 industries - including aviation, agriculture, steel, manufacturing, and construction - make up 62 per cent of the UK's total carbon emissions, provide 23 per cent of domestic output, and account for 21 per cent of the UK workforce.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Secondly, the report calls on policy makers to create the right policy and investment environment by removing fossil fuel subsidies and increasing carbon pricing to incentive decarbonisation in areas where the economics for clean technologies and solutions are less favourable.

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Grist

JANUARY 31, 2024

Read more “fiction to reality” based on past Imagine contests ] “It’s unrealistic to think that regulation can work on its own,” said Matto Mildenberger, an assistant professor and researcher who specializes in climate politics and political drivers of policy inaction.

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Business Green

JUNE 28, 2022

What's more, since that crucial UN summit seven months ago, geopolitical landscape has been transformed by the worsening cost of living crisis further exacerbated by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which has sent energy costs soaring and given a renewed impetus to fossil fuel cheerleaders.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The international agreement that comes out of COP26 will not be ambitious enough, but it could still drive the real world progress that will slash fossil fuel demand over the coming years. From there a virtuous and accelerating circle is possible that results in surging clean tech adoption and the end of the fossil fuel era.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The projections mark a significant shift from five years ago when there were was almost no green competition to fossil fuels at all, while even today there are only cost competitive solutions in the energy sector, covering a quarter of global emissions, according to the new findings.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The climate crisis may have stayed near the top of the political and corporate agenda, net zero commitments have come thick and fast, and renewable and electric vehicle investment may have toppled records, but there is barely a country on the planet on track to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.

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Business Green

MAY 25, 2022

HVCs are responsible for up to two per cent of global emissions, equivalent to aviation, and double that associated with the aluminum industry. The alternative for the petrochemical sector, meanwhile, is likely to be one of stranded assets, falling demand, and mounting political and public pressure.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Civil servants then dutifully run off to try and find anything on the statute book that is genuinely outdated or counter productive, only to return several months later having found next to nothing that can be cut without serious economic, environmental, and/or legal consequences, as well as likely political uproar.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2023

The payment from the former coal-fired power station was registered on September 12 last year, and published in December in the Electoral Commission register of political donations. However, the recent donation appears at odds with its own company policy, included in its latest annual report, that states “Drax makes no political donations”.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The business group's recommendations cover all major sectors of the economy, impacting heavy industry, land use, aviation and shipping, buildings, power, transport, and waste. It's a litmus test because upgrading 16 million homes is primarily is political not a technical challenge," she said.

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