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Revealed: Fossil Fuel Giants Are Using British Influencers to go Viral

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The campaigns have been deployed across a number of social media platforms and are part of a global effort to give “millennials a reason to connect emotionally” with oil and gas firms, and to tackle their perception as “the bad guys”. percent of their annual capital expenditures in low carbon technologies between 2010 and 2018. ‘The

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Revealed: Two Thirds of Online Posts from Six Major European Fossil Fuel Companies ‘Greenwashing’

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Nearly two thirds of social media posts put out by six major European fossil fuel and energy companies since the end of 2019 present a “green” image of the company, despite the majority of their business activity remaining in fossil fuels, reveals new analysis by Desmog.

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Global Briefing: EU to push for global fossil fuel phase out at COP28

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The text, which has been approved by ministers from all 27 EU nations , states that the bloc will "systematically promote and call for a global move towards energy systems free of unabated fossil fuels well ahead of 2050", alongside pushing for a peak in fossil fuel consumption in the near term.

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This NGO Won a Climate Case Against Shell. Its Next Target? Dutch Bank ING

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Now, the Dutch NGO that successfully sued Shell over its climate plans is taking those financial backers to court in a case that could help reverse the global banking sector’s support of fossil fuel firms and their activities. liquefied natural gas (LNG).

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Hydrogen Hype Bubbles Over At German Gas Lobby Conference

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This story is part of a DeSmog series on the influence wielded by the gas lobby in Europe BERLIN, Germany — Germany’s push to achieve climate neutrality by 2045 could, by some projections , soon turn the vast network of natural gas pipelines powering the country’s homes and industry into one of Europe’s biggest stranded assets.

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Government Defends Praising Tar Sands Industry Figures as COP26 ‘Climate Champions’

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A UK-Canada event last week praised 26 “exceptional individuals actively working to move Canada to net-zero emissions”, five of whom work for companies and investors involved in the fossil fuel industry, including the Canadian oil sands. TAG), the largest natural gas transporter in Brazil.

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The Infrastructure Bill’s Hydrogen Funding Is a Big Win for the Oil and Gas Industry

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The infrastructure bill signed into law by President Biden in November includes $9.5 fracked gas industry under the guise of “clean” blue hydrogen. Blue hydrogen is the name for a fuel product that currently cannot be produced on a commercial scale. There’s gray, made from fossil fuels, and green, made using renewable energy.