Low Impact

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Over five weeks we’re publishing a range of Stay Grounded factsheets about various kinds of techno-greenwashing provided by the aviation industry. As climate demands are raised, the aviation sector is redoubling its greenwashing efforts, pointing to improbable technological step-changes for ‘greener’ flights.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Just over half of all directors at 30 of the world’s largest insurance companies have affiliations to polluting companies and organisations, reveals an investigation by DeSmog, including several individuals holding senior roles at some of the world’s largest energy companies.

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Pollution Fossil fuels Climate change Aviation 98

The City Fix

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Residents of Jakarta, Indonesia woke up on August 31, 2023, to a thick blanket of haze and news that their city was again ranked the most polluted in the world — one of many times during the last several months when air quality became.

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Pollution Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Fossil fuels 95

Business Green

MAY 11, 2022

The government must act now to scale power-to-liquid fuels that would allow the aviation industry to reduce their emissions, while long-term solutions are in development, argues Green Alliance's Helena Barrett. As a sector, aviation has so far got off lightly in the push to meet net zero.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

UN backs green hydrogen as it publishes seven principles designed to guide policymakers and business leaders approach to scaling the low carbon fuel. The principles also call for equity principles to "permeate the hydrogen value chain", noting that fossil and biomass-derived hydrogen are at risk of producing harmful air pollution.

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Fossil fuels Hydrogen Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 45

Business Green

JULY 19, 2020

Cross party group of 35 MPs call on Chancellor to invest £500m towards developing green aviation fuels and technologies in wake of Covid-19. Decarbonising aviation provides an opportunity for the UK to take a lead in this important global sector, and the sector is ready to work with Government to make this happen," the letter states.

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2024

UK emissions are down 52 per cent since 1990 and fossil fuels last year provided just a third of UK power - change is happening Some good news for the Bank Holiday weekend. Provisional figures have revealed how UK domestic greenhouse gas emissions fell a further five per cent last year, meaning emissions have now fallen 52.7

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2022

Green Alliance makes the case for government to back power-to-liquid fuel as part of its plans to decarbonise flying in the short- to medium-term. Power-to-liquid fuel can be produced with less emissions and land impacts than sustainable aviation fuels dependent on crops or waste as feedstock, it said.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2023

have ties to polluting companies and organizations, including major fossil fuel companies, according to a new DeSmog analysis. This includes oil and gas firms, investment companies that finance polluting sectors, and trade associations known to lobby against climate action.

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Fossil fuels Pollution Carbon-negative Policy 93

Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

A separate study by Transport & Environment found that private jets are up to 14 times more polluting than commercial planes per passenger, and 50 times more polluting than trains. Private jets are staggeringly polluting and generally pointless," said Doug Parr, policy director at Greenpeace UK. "The

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Hydrogen combustion creates water vapor, unlike fossil fuels that release greenhouse gas emissions when burned. That’s seen as especially valuable for cleaning up aviation , maritime shipping, and heavy industries like steel that are more difficult to run on renewable energy and batteries.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

However, aviation remains a new frontier for zero emissions. Miftakhov to learn about the technical and business aspects of hydrogen-electric aviation and his company’s ambitious plans for the future. And that’s kind of a mainstay of regional aviation aircraft of this size.

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Aviation Hydrogen Batteries Automotive 96

DeSmogBlog

MAY 18, 2022

Major car and airline companies are using adverts that greenwash their business while continuing to push highly polluting products that put the world’s climate goals at risk, DeSmog can reveal. DeSmog’s analysis also found that a significant minority of adverts were dedicated to promoting highly polluting vehicles.

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Aviation Fossil fuels Electric vehicle Carbon-neutral 98

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

4 Alternative fuel technology, such as for biofuel and hydrogen, are being developed for larger marine vessels and for aviation. After all, insight suggests that crew transfer vessels (CTVs) across the UK and EU alone burn approximately 1,500 litres of diesel per day, resulting in around 475,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions annually.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2021

The majority of directors at the world’s biggest banks have affiliations to polluting companies and organisations, a DeSmog investigation shows. 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.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

With legal action targeting the government's Jet Zero strategy and a new analysis suggesting the aviation industry is off course to meet Paris Agreement goals, pressure is mounting on airlines to revamp their decarbonisation plans. The government claims that Jet Zero is how the aviation industry will reach net zero emissions by 2050.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2023

Individuals and entities linked to climate denial, fossil fuels and high pollution industries donated more than £3.5 However, rather than strengthen the commitment to the government’s legally binding climate targets, the policies are expected to entrench the role of fossil fuels in the UK’s energy system.

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Fossil fuels Pollution Aviation Climate change 98

Charged

JANUARY 21, 2021

Most automakers may have rejected hydrogen as an energy storage medium for passenger vehicles ( Toyota is the notable exception), but the technology may yet find applications for industrial processes, and in other forms of transportation such as aviation and shipping. Source: Government of Canada.

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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2022

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen announced the ambition in her New Year's address to Danish citizens on Saturday, noting that achieving sustainable domestic aviation would be a challenge, but not an insurmountable one. Will it be difficult?" Can it be done? Yes, I think so. We're already on it. We need to make flying green.".

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Aviation Fossil fuels Carbon Pollution 81

The Verge: Energy

AUGUST 7, 2023

Image: Bing Guan / Bloomberg via Getty Images Report cards are out for retailers’ climate goals, specifically when it comes to tackling the pollution from their shipping. Today, the ships that haul all the furniture, gadgets, and other consumer goods we buy are major sources of pollution.

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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

MARCH 18, 2022

With the majority of oil demand coming from transport, the roadmap focuses largely on reducing the amount of the fossil fuel used by passenger cars, with some measures aimed at slashing fossil fuel demand from aviation.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 27, 2021

Reduce fossil fuel use. From litter and pollution to overfishing and habitat destruction, today’s unsustainable commercial fishing has a significant negative impact on the oceans’ ecosystems. Reduce Fossil Fuel Use. Fishing is one of the most energy-intensive industries and almost entirely relies on fossil fuels.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Big Tech produces 4 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, more than aviation. The new Stand.earth report published today includes recommendations for companies to rein in that pollution. “Other brands need to send similarly clear signals to their suppliers.”

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

To maintain a safe climate for human habitation, scientists say the world must abandon the use of fossil fuels by 2050 or before. Longer flights, carrying hundreds of people, will need to be powered by energy-dense liquid fuels for decades to come. The development of climate-safe aviation fuel is undoubtedly a challenge.

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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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Fossil fuels Policy Packaging Aviation 56

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The news follows criticism from the government’s own climate advisers that the country’s recently-announced net zero strategy excludes measures to tackle aviation growth, an increasing source of emissions. The PRI was working with investors to make the aviation sector “less carbon?intensive, intensive, through?investment

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Aviation Carbon-neutral Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 91

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Farming also relies on synthetic fertilisers that are both fossil-fuel-based and emit greenhouse gases, and drives deforestation. In recent years, the biggest agricultural polluters and food corporations have embraced this term, which refers to a wide range of farming techniques that improve the environment.

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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. At the same time, it was a year in which the case for climate action could not have been clearer.

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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.

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Carbon Fossil fuels Government Pollution 69

Grist

MARCH 8, 2021

When shipping giant Maersk announced last month it would operate a “carbon-neutral” vessel by 2023, the Danish company committed to using a fuel that’s made from renewable sources, is free of soot-forming pollutants — and is currently in scarce supply. Methanol, or CH?OH,

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2021

Exclusive: Researchers have sought to calculate the external environmental, social and health costs of from fossil fuels, renewables, road transport and aviation. It's yet even more sobering evidence that the UK needs to move away from fossil fuels and ambitiously pursue rapid decarbonisation," he added.

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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

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The reforms, set out by the EU's executive body yesterday, have been designed to accelerate uptake of low carbon gases, such as hydrogen, that could replace fossil fuels and help deliver on the EU's goal of reducing emissions by at least 55 per cent by 2030 on 1990 levels.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) standards fall far short of meeting the objectives laid out in the Paris Climate agreement (ie keeping temperatures below the upper threshold limit of 1.5 - 2 degrees C). Addressing pollution from aircraft is an important element of U.S. However, this is nowhere near enough.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

The government has offered the deepest glimpse yet of its vision for harnessing hydrogen to decarbonise the UK economy, today setting out its vision for a "twin track" approach that leaves the door open for production of the energy source from both renewable electricity and fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Meat and dairy firms in particular are coming under increasing scrutiny due to pollution from livestock, which emits around a third of the global output of methane, a short-lived greenhouse gas identified as the quickest route to slowing global heating. percent contribution to global human-induced emissions is a higher share than aviation.

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