DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2024

But federal records newly reviewed by DeSmog reveal that the group’s co-founder has personally donated to the Conservative Party of Canada, whose leader Pierre Poilievre is campaigning to abolish the country’s most prominent climate policy, a nationwide tax on carbon emissions, saying it brings “misery and suffering on the Canadian people.”

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

The United States-based oil major’s willingness to publicly throw down the gauntlet to policy-makers underscores the stakes for the fossil fuel industry as the EU fleshes out its plans to slash carbon emissions, ahead of June’s European parliament elections. million tonnes of greenhouse gases during the same period.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

” Nikola Corporation’s recent activities showcase a strong commitment to advancing zero-emission transportation and hydrogen fuel technology. It represents a step towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions from heavy-duty trucks, a major contributor to air pollution in the region.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Based on the principles of designing out waste and pollution, this keeps products and materials in use for as long as possible and reduces resource dependency. It helps reduce the need for excessive mining of resources like iron ore and copper and lowers the carbon footprint associated with manufacturing and delivering new equipment.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Located in the Gansu Province, this colossal wind energy project is a shining example of how a country can harness its vast natural resources to address its growing energy demands while simultaneously reducing its carbon footprint.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 25, 2021

Any serious climate plan needs a backbone that does the heavy lifting, and carbon pricing is widely considered the most cost-effective way to reduce emissions. “As It’s also important to remember that Canada’s price on pollution gives money back to Canadians in the form of a rebate. As jurisdictions like the EU and U.S.

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CleanTech San Diego

MARCH 13, 2023

According to Co-CEO Chris Anthony, “Working with the CEC enables us to produce grid-free, carbon neutral solar mobility, while creating new jobs for all Californians (targeting 10% in underserved communities). Producible at mass scale, Aptera will ultimately result in remarkable GHG and criteria pollutant reductions.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2021

Offsets offer a carbon polluter (like the operator of a steel plant) an additional option to comply with government rules that limit carbon pollution. How offsets are created and the extent to which they are used dictates their effectiveness at reducing pollution. WHAT ARE OFFSETS?

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

So they’re just going to try and squeeze out every last bit of profit they can and give it fancy new names like carbon capture and sequestration. Sarcastically, he thanked the room of “polluters” for destroying Louisiana’s coastline. “On It’s methane gas, which is 80 times more warming in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2021

The report — titled “ The Big Con: How Big Polluters Are Advancing a “Net Zero” Climate Agenda to Delay, Deceive, and Deny ” — was published by Corporate Accountability, the Global Forest Coalition, and Friends of the Earth International, and is endorsed by over 60 environmental organizations.

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Energy Innovation

JUNE 16, 2022

CARB is currently evaluating climate policies for its 2022 update of the Climate Change Scoping Plan. Under the state’s landmark AB 32 climate law, CARB is required to evaluate the state’s progress toward its goals and make recommendations every five years. billion higher than business-as-usual in 2045. .

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

The voluntary carbon offset market is rocketing, with the Ecosystem Marketplace reporting an annual market value of ~$1 billion in 2021, which was an all-time high. This can make things difficult for business leaders like you, looking to reduce their carbon footprint through purchasing offsets. The rules of carbon offsetting.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

She also fronts Shopify's Sustainability Fund, which has committed more than $32m to date to emerging clean technologies, and last year gave a TED Talk titled 'The billion-dollar pollution solution humanity needs right now'. We committed to spend a combined total of $925M to scale carbon removal.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

This comes as major polluters are increasingly deploying digital tactics to detract from negative headlines about their record profits and decades-long contribution to climate change. While there’s more knowledge in general around climate change and the harms of fossil fuels, I think that people have a lot of trust in creators.

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Business Green

JULY 3, 2020

However, government declines to provide further details on precise nature of climate and net zero targets attached to firm's rescue support. With the EU needing to invest nearly €500bn a year in its low-carbon transition, there's a huge opportunity for this to be made far more effective by embracing green aluminium," he added.

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Green Tech Challenge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

The effects of climate change are worsening as countries around the world experience more heat waves and unpredictable weather. In that light, let's take a look at how these five countries are acknowledging climate change, and what steps they are taking to reduce its impact.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

With climate change a top of mind issue for Canadians, this platform lives up to its billing as an unprecedented effort to cut carbon pollution. But the bulk of the efforts are focused on enabling Canadians to cut pollution associated with our buildings and how we get around.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2021

The adverts regularly highlight the companies’ preferred solutions to climate change — from carbon capture and storage, to experimental algae biofuels, and investment in renewable energy sources — without being open about the small percentage of overall investment allocated to these technologies, nor their various limitations.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 18, 2022

Asian girl watering green plant in dry land, Crack dried soil in drought and ,Climate change from global warming. With the sharp rise in human population and increased economic activities, the climate has had its fair share of woes. They cover all aspects of climate change in-depth.

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2021

Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiate launches alongside consultation into how carbon credits should be embedded into business strategies. In a statement, the group said it planned to address "credibility concerns" surrounding carbon offset markets and close a "number of critical gaps in voluntary carbon market integrity".

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2022

Major investors have urged the EU to amend its draft green investment rulebook to ensure that no fossil gas investments can be labelled sustainable, arguing their inclusion will hinder financiers' ability to deliver net zero portfolios, undermine the credibility of the green taxonomy, and could result in reduced climate ambition around the world.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2021

At Magway, we are developing a revolutionary zero-emission high-capacity delivery system that not only transports goods more efficiently, more securely and at greater speed but makes our roads safer and our air less polluted by removing the need for 90% of traditional online freight deliveries HGV haulage. Sustainable aviation fuels.

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Clean Energy Canada

OCTOBER 17, 2020

When the federal government delivered its Throne Speech in late September, no words were minced: climate action would be a “cornerstone” of this government’s recovery. And it wasn’t just about climate change. election now a mere week away, climate action has made few headlines out west. But with a B.C.

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Grist

JANUARY 24, 2020

But what if I told you that not all climate tipping points are bad? A recent study in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences outlines the positive “tipping elements” needed to address climate change — society-wide shifts that could reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to avert disaster. Green cities.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

“Fossil fuels are everywhere at this COP except in the decisions being negotiated by governments,” Nikki Reisch, the director of climate and energy at the Center for International Environmental Law, wrote to DeSmog from Glasgow. AlOtaibi is registered as a senior consultant on climate change for Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Energy.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

But while solar and wind have an obvious role to play in helping miners control their carbon emissions, the mining industry faces steep decarbonization challenges, analysts say. Cutting mining’s carbon footprint to zero is complicated by the fact that electricity use only accounts for around 40 percent of direct emissions.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

Cars and vans are on their way to carbon neutrality. That hope was reiterated in the Prime Minister's Ten Point Plan late last year, with an investment of half a billion in hydrogen technology. The way we move around our cities will also need to change. This leads us on to another major system challenge: aviation.

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

“Satellites for Climate Action” Brings Together Government, Technology, Philanthropy, and Environmental Groups to Use Satellite Data to Advance Climate Protection. Data is one of the most powerful tools we have in the fight against climate change. Today, Michael R.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The remaining 20 percent represents investments outside of fossil fuels, in areas such as renewables, carbon capture and storage, and research into new green technologies. . The simple fact is that they are not reducing their polluting activities by the significant amount required to limit the worst impacts of global warming.”.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Of all the tools we have to curb climate change, devoting land to growing bioenergy crops is among the most contentious. The reason it’s considered a solution is that plants suck up carbon from the air while they grow. But critics say biofuels’ carbon-neutrality is a mirage. But what about in the future?

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

With all the recent talk around climate change at last week's G7 Summit and the UK hosting the UN's climate summit COP26 in Glasgow later this year, you'd be forgiven for forgetting all the incredible progress we have made over the past few months and years to lead the charge and take action against climate change.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Airlines should already be running as net zero emissions businesses, using a combination of energy efficient processes and carbon offsets to achieve their climate goals, according to the first man to circumnavigate the world in a solar-powered aeroplane. They could be carbon neutral today.".

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2022

Although flying is one of the most carbon intensive activities a person can do, and despite growing focus on polluting behaviours in recent years, emissions from aviation have more than doubled since 1990. As a sector, aviation has so far got off lightly in the push to meet net zero.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Another airport investor, Spanish transport giant Ferrovial, owns a 25 percent stake in Heathrow, already the second most polluting airport in the world , despite having had its business plans approved by the Science Based Targets initiative, another UN-backed scheme. carbon budget if left unchecked. Incompatible’ with Climate Action.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Abstract: There is a growing recognition among businesses, policymakers, and the general public regarding the economic and societal risks of climate change. The latest, most urgent call to action from the IPCC has increased attention on policies to reduce CO2 emissions and enhance carbon sequestration.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 3, 2019

My message here today is one of hope not of despair” said UN chief António Guterres addressing journalists at a press conference in the Spanish capital on Sunday, after revealing the key takeaways from the World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate report, due to be published during COP25. degrees “is still within reach.”

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

.” The competition for the Shell account occurred against a backdrop of accusations that advertising and public relations agencies are helping oil majors stall climate action by creating an exaggerated impression of their investments in clean energy technologies.

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