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How Fossil Fuels Are Saving Lives In Developing Countries

R-Squared Energy

Mr. Rockall highlighted a major global problem in which the fossil fuel solution is clearly better than the status quo. Robert – About a decade ago I was researching a book chapter I was writing, and I learned something new. You don’t need to develop vaccines to stop people dying from air pollution.

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Revealed: The Climate-Conflicted Directors Leading the World’s Top Banks

DeSmogBlog

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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Yes, Investing in ESG Pays Off

Andrew Winston

Our economy relies entirely on inputs from the natural world, from the things we grow and dig up to the harder-to-measure benefits, such as providing a free dumping ground in the sky for pollution. Raising the price on carbon or other inputs drives different capital and investment decisions. Solution: Price the unpriced.

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Biomass Lobby Makes ‘False’ Claims to Sway EU Law-makers

DeSmogBlog

European law-makers are due to vote on a revised renewable energy directive next week, part of the EU’s Green New Deal to slash carbon emissions by 55 percent by 2030. They have sent MEPs a version marked with their corrections. non-profit tracking biomass, who authored the comments, told DeSmog.

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Direct Air Capture and Storage

Energy Innovation

Direct Air Capture (DAC) of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from the atmosphere is one set of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) strategies that may play a role in mitigating climate change, particularly in the mid to latter part of the 21 st century. C report provided four scenarios (P1-P4 in Figure 1) with increasing roles for negative emissions.

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In defence of net zero

Business Green

A blanket dismissal of the net zero concept demands not that polluters come forward with credible strategies that could work in both principle and in practice, but rather fuels the impression any and all plans are 'greenwash' and are not worthy of consideration. It's that simple. Real world action.

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Sustainable Business Went Mainstream in 2021

Andrew Winston

Virtually all of the world’s largest companies now issue a sustainability report and set goals; more than 2,000 companies have set a science-based carbon target; and about one-third of Europe’s largest public companies have pledged to reach net zero by 2050. Maersk even advocated for a $150 per ton carbon tax on shipping fuel.