Biomass, captured carbon and plastic waste can help 'defossilize' chemicals, report says
GreenBiz
MAY 8, 2024
Policy briefing sets out how industry can move away from fossil fuel feedstocks and embrace low carbon and sustainable alternatives
Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels to hit record high
The Guardian: Energy
DECEMBER 4, 2023
Projected rate of warming has not improved in past two years, analysis shows Cop28 president forced into defence of fossil fuel phase-out claims See all our Cop28 coverage Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels reached record levels again in 2023, as experts warned that the projected rate of warming had not improved over the past two years.
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Carbon 'rainbow': Unilever pledges $1.2B to scrub fossil fuels from cleaning products
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020
Carbon 'rainbow': Unilever pledges $1.2B to scrub fossil fuels from cleaning products. The new program, Clean Future, is largely focused on identifying and commercializing alternative sources of carbon for surfactants, the petrochemical molecules found in cleaning products that help remove grease from fabrics and surfaces.
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2020: Fossil fuels are dead, long live the sun
GreenBiz
AUGUST 13, 2020
2020: Fossil fuels are dead, long live the sun. In this strangest of all years, as the death toll mounts from a disease caused by human incursions into once intact ecosystems, we’re observing another death — the demise of fossil fuels. Hunter Lovins. Thu, 08/13/2020 - 00:15. Is that possible? What happened?
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Electrofuels Are the Future: The Driving Force to Decarbonizing Heavy Transport
Speaker: Ayesha Choudhury - Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets at Infinium
Electrofuels (aka eFuels) are the next generation of solutions to help the hardest-to-abate sectors pivot from their reliance on fossil fuels. Not only that, but eFuels can also replace petroleum as a key component in the creation of chemicals and plastic solvents.
What if carbon border taxes applied to all carbon — fossil fuels, too?
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
Carbon border adjustments are trade policies designed to avoid 'carbon leakage' — when manufacturers relocate production to skirt green regulations.
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Despite net-zero pledges, banks used $750 billion to finance fossil fuels in 2020
GreenBiz
MARCH 26, 2021
Despite net-zero pledges, banks used $750 billion to finance fossil fuels in 2020. Net-zero commitments may have ricocheted across banking sector over the last 18 months, but big banks' attestations of climate concern did not stop many from expanding financing for the world's top fossil fuel firms during the pandemic year.
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Pressure on creatives: PR, advertising firms targeted by fossil fuel divestment movement
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
Pressure on creatives: PR, advertising firms targeted by fossil fuel divestment movement. As fossil fuel companies' social license to operate becomes increasingly frayed, more industries in their orbit are getting entangled in the reputational quagmire that is now part and parcel of any activity that exacerbates the climate crisis.
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Banks have given almost $7tn to fossil fuel firms since Paris deal, report reveals
The Guardian: Energy
MAY 12, 2024
Among world’s top 60 banks those in US are biggest fossil fuel financiers, while Barclays leads way in Europe The world’s big banks have handed nearly $7tn (£5.6tn) in funding to the fossil fuel industry since the Paris agreement to limit carbon emissions, according to research.
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Scientists generate heat over 1,000 degrees Celsius with solar power instead of fossil fuel
Science Daily: Renewable Energy
MAY 15, 2024
Instead of burning fossil fuels to smelt steel and cook cement, researchers in Switzerland want to use heat from the sun. The proof-of-concept study uses synthetic quartz to trap solar energy at temperatures over 1,000 C (1,832 F), demonstrating the method's potential role in providing clean energy for carbon-intensive industries.
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Tories Have Received £8.4 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Polluters, and Climate Deniers Since 2019 Election
DeSmogBlog
MAY 23, 2024
Over the last year, the governing Conservative Party has watered down its support for the UK’s flagship 2050 net zero emissions target, and has enacted policies to increase fossil fuel extraction. million from fossil fuel interests, £5.7 Since the December 2019 election, the Conservatives have received £2.35
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Fossil fuel firms forcing countries to compensate them, Mary Robinson says
The Guardian: Energy
MAY 14, 2024
Former Irish president and Ban Ki-moon say fossil lobbying is hampering climate progress Fossil fuel companies are forcing governments to compensate them for lost earnings in the transition to a low-carbon global economy, and destroying the world’s ability to counter their harmful activities , former top UN officials have warned.
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Prospective GB News Board Member is Fossil Fuel Investor
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 12, 2024
Equinor has a majority stake in the Rosebank North Sea oil field, which has been dubbed a “carbon bomb” by environmental law charity ClientEarth. Agnew also has shares in Carbon Plus Capital, a private investment company which specialises in carbon offsetting “based on the protection of forests”. GB News did not respond.
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Fossil fuel drilling scheme faces High Court challenge
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 6, 2023
For that project, greenhouse gas emissions were cited as the most significant factor for refusing permission in Ellesmere Port, with the Secretary of State stating that ‘every tonne of carbon contributes to climate change’. When it came to Dunsfold, the Secretary of State reached a different decision. The decision will be reserved.
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Hidden Fossil Fuels: Plastic Production Drives Climate Change
NRDC onEarth
APRIL 23, 2024
Study shows that plastic production could be nearly one third of the global carbon budget and emits four times more greenhouse gases than the airline industry.
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Fossil fuels are losing ground to renewable energy in Europe
The Verge: Energy
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
. | Photo by Jan Woitas/picture alliance via Getty Images The European Union saw a record drop in pollution from fossil fuel power plants last year, according to a new report. Fossil fuels dropped to their lowest point since reliable record-keeping started in 1990, making up less than a third of EU’s electricity generation in 2023.
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Report: As Climate Crisis Expands, Canada Still Hands Billions to Fossil Fuel Industry
DeSmogBlog
MARCH 27, 2024
billion supporting the fossil fuel and petrochemical industry. To put that in context, Environmental Defence’s “Canada’s Fossil Fuel Funding in 2023” report estimates that the Canadian government’s accumulated subsidies to the oil and gas sector over the last four years was at least $65 billion.
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Australian scientists raise “serious concerns” over soil carbon offsets for fossil fuels
Renew Economy
OCTOBER 28, 2023
Scientists says soil carbon projects are overblown by as much as 10 times, which risks the accuracy of Australia's greenhouse gas inventory. The post Australian scientists raise “serious concerns” over soil carbon offsets for fossil fuels appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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How this 1960s Sydney home became carbon negative and now displaces other people’s fossil fuels
Renew Economy
MAY 16, 2024
The post How this 1960s Sydney home became carbon negative and now displaces other people’s fossil fuels appeared first on RenewEconomy. Motivated by a determination to do the right thing by the planet, Kenrick's house now generates clean energy for the grid, and makes money for his family.
Fossil Fuel Companies Made Bold Promises to Capture Carbon. Here’s What Actually Happened.
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) was high on the agenda at New York Climate Week last week, where critics of the technology raised concerns it would be used to extend the life of the fossil fuel industry. The data showed us that their carbon capture plans are not working at scale.” What CCS Projects Promise.
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New Evidence Reveals Fossil Fuel Industry Sponsored Climate Science in 1954
DeSmogBlog
JANUARY 30, 2024
In 1955 in the wilds of Big Sur, a young Caltech researcher named Charles David Keeling gathered carbon dioxide samples among Northern California’s towering redwoods. Credit: Rebecca John Unknown until now, however, is the fact that Keeling’s earliest research into carbon dioxide across the western U.S.
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Groups Pressure Ottawa to Ban Fossil Fuel Ads in Public Facilities
DeSmogBlog
MARCH 28, 2024
Community organizations, environmental groups, and transit advocates are demanding the city of Ottawa ban fossil fuel advertising from public spaces. Community groups such as Ecology Ottawa are looking forward to the review as a rare opportunity to stop fossil fuel companies from advertising in the city.
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Carbon tax could make blue hydrogen cheaper than fossil fuels in 10 years, report
Hydrogen Fuel News
APRIL 4, 2024
According to a Wartsila report, H2 made using natural gas would be less expensive than oil by 2035 A recently released Wartsila report suggests that with the support of a carbon tax, blue hydrogen will be a cheaper shipping fuel than oil by 2035. Failure to do so will result in a penalty. Take our fun and engaging Hydrogen Quiz now!
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Europe’s banks helped fossil fuel firms raise more than €1tn from global bond markets
The Guardian: Energy
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
In the push to zero carbon, Europe’s biggest lenders face growing pressure to limit their financial support for fossil fuel companies through direct loans and other financing facilities.
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NYC Pensions Are Sued for Shedding Fossil Fuels
DeSmogBlog
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Monica Weiss attended her first fossil-fuel divestment protest on a frigid February day in 2015. Subsequently, two independent reports suggested that the funds would “face high potential risk for economic disruption from the transition to a low carbon global economy” if they continued to invest in fossil fuel.
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New Report Issues Damning Verdict on Food’s Fossil Fuel Addiction
DeSmogBlog
NOVEMBER 2, 2023
Food systems are responsible for at least 15 percent of all global fossil fuel consumption, according to a major report launched ahead of the COP28 climate summit. Its authors found that even if governments delivered on their 2030 climate pledges, by 2037 food-related fossil fuel use alone would blow the remaining portion of the 1.5C
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Tranter contributes to fossil fuels reduction in steel production using green hydrogen and Carbon Capture
FuelCellsWorks
APRIL 18, 2024
The DRI plant reduces its carbon footprint. Vanersborg, Sweden– Tranter has secured an order for a cutting-edge direct reduced iron (DRI), green steel plant set to be constructed in Germany.
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The Guardian view on a non-proliferation treaty: fossil fuels are weapons of mass destruction | Editorial
The Guardian: Energy
DECEMBER 3, 2023
The planet faces an existential threat if we do not transition from the current extractive model of growth to a low-carbon economy Colombia’s economy is dependent on fossil fuels, which account for about half of its exports. Colombia is the first big economy to endorse a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty.
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EU fossil fuel CO2 emissions hit 60-year low
The Guardian: Energy
JANUARY 24, 2024
Fossil emissions ‘finally back to 1960s levels’, say analysts, but they warn levels are still falling too slowly The European Union pumped out 8% less carbon dioxide from the fossil fuels it burned in 2023 than it did in 2022, the Guardian can reveal, pushing these emissions down to their lowest level in 60 years.
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More than 130 companies including Ikea, Volvo ask world leaders to ‘phase out’ fossil fuels
The Verge: Energy
OCTOBER 23, 2023
. | Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi / Bloomberg via Getty Images More than 130 companies, including Volvo Cars, Ikea, Unilever, Nestlé, and AstraZeneca, signed a letter calling on governments to adopt a global plan to phase out fossil fuels without carbon capture during upcoming international climate negotiations.
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Reuters, New York Times Top List of Fossil Fuel Industry’s Media Enablers
DeSmogBlog
DECEMBER 5, 2023
Darren Woods, the CEO of Exxon, celebrates the potential of carbon capture to dramatically reduce global emissions. According to Saudi Aramco’s podcast, the fossil fuel industry is innovating new climate solutions, and BP’s podcast proclaims more of the same. and Europe.
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GB News Owner’s Hedge Fund Has $2.2 Billion Fossil Fuel Investments
DeSmogBlog
OCTOBER 30, 2023
billion) in fossil fuel firms. This includes companies that specialise in extracting, refining, transporting and distributing fossil fuels. million) shareholding in the oil and gas supermajor Chevron, as well as stakes in Shell, Equinor, and 109 other fossil fuel companies. billion (£1.8
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Study: Fossil fuel grid share hits record low
Business Green
APRIL 24, 2024
New Carbon Brief analysis suggests grid is on track to operate for periods without fossil fuel generation from next year
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Carbon Tracker: Oil majors continue to reward execs for driving fossil fuel production growth
Business Green
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Fossil fuel giants' executive renumeration packages are betting against the clean energy transition, financial think tank warns
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Is there any place for fossil fuels in the clean hydrogen future?
Canary Media
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
That's the question at the core of the battle over clean hydrogen, a potential fossil-fuel substitute that burns without emitting carbon dioxide. Should our clean energy future rely more on electrons or on molecules? Right now, the vast…
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Fossil Fuel Advocates Spread Disinfo About Canada’s False Advertising Bill
DeSmogBlog
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
A member of the Canadian parliament has proposed a ban on misleading fossil fuel advertising. Taking inspiration from Canadian government bans on tobacco advertising that went into effect in the 1990s, New Democratic Party (NDP) MP Charlie Angus has proposed private members bill C-372, An Act respecting fossil fuel advertising.
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Share of electricity generated by fossil fuels in Great Britain drops to record low
The Guardian: Energy
APRIL 24, 2024
of power generation for an hour last week, data shows, amid ‘zero-carbon grid’ plans The share of Great Britain’s electricity generated by burning fossil fuels plummeted to unprecedented lows this month, ahead of plans to begin running a “zero-carbon grid” for short periods from next year.
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New York private college to shift from fossil fuel heating to geothermal
ThinkGeoEnergy
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Bard College , a private liberal arts college in the hamlet of Annandale-on-Hudson, New York State, will soon replace its aging, fossil fuel-fired heating and cooling system located in The Charles P. Stevenson, Jr Library with a new state-of-the-art system that will run on geothermal energy.
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104 Climate scientists hail 2023 as ‘beginning of the end’ for fossil fuel era
The Guardian: Energy
DECEMBER 29, 2023
Cautious optimism among experts that emissions from energy use may have peaked as net zero mission intensifies Global efforts to slow a runaway climate catastrophe may have reached a critical milestone in the last year with the peak of global carbon emissions from energy use, according to experts. Continue reading.
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EPA details its carbon crackdown on industry, and fossil fuel generators are not happy
Renew Economy
JANUARY 19, 2023
EPA unveils its carbon crackdown. The post EPA details its carbon crackdown on industry, and fossil fuel generators are not happy appeared first on RenewEconomy. Coal generators say it is all too much, and environmentalists say it is not nearly enough.
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Biden Administration Bans Fossil Fuel Usage In Federal Buildings
R-Squared Energy
MAY 5, 2024
Department of Energy has finalized a rule banning fossil fuels from new and renovated federal buildings. The Clean Energy for New Federal Buildings and Major Renovations of Federal Buildings Rule, mandated by the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007, mandates a phased reduction in fossil fuel usage in these buildings.
Revealed: Fossil Fuel Giants Have Committed £41 Million to UK Universities Since 2022
DeSmogBlog
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Major fossil fuel firms have committed tens of millions in finance to UK universities since 2022, DeSmog can reveal. Previous reporting from openDemocracy and the Guardian found that, between 2017 and December 2021, £89 million had been given to UK universities from some of the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies.
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‘Smoking gun proof’: fossil fuel industry knew of climate danger as early as 1954, documents show
The Guardian: Energy
JANUARY 30, 2024
A coalition of oil and car manufacturing interests provided $13,814 (about $158,000 in today’s money) in December 1954 to fund Keeling’s earliest work in measuring CO2 levels across the western US, the documents reveal.
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Analysis: UK electricity generation from fossil fuels plunges to lowest level since 1957
Business Green
JANUARY 3, 2024
Fossil fuel-generated electricity fell more than a fifth in 2023 to lowest in 66 years, but renewable power generation has also 'effectively stood still', Carbon Brief finds
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