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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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Renew Economy

JANUARY 8, 2023

Chubb Review recommends suite of “updates” to strengthen the integrity of Australia's carbon offset scheme, including dumping the "avoided deforestation" methodology. The post Chubb prunes carbon credit scheme, but concern lingers over fossil fuel offsets appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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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The Guardian: Energy

MAY 13, 2024

Government told Net Zero Teesside gas scheme will be massive polluter despite its carbon capture claims A multibillion-pound “net zero” project backed by two of the world’s biggest fossil fuel firms will be responsible for more than 20m tonnes of planet-heating carbon over its lifetime, according to research submitted to the UK government.

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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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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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Renew Economy

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

SuperPower Institute says Australia has little idea of the extent of its fossil fuel emissions and wants to create a state-of-the-art data network. The post Australia in the dark on its own fossil fuel emissions, says Superpower Institute appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

Fossil fuel giants BP and Shell were given “ample opportunity” to privately influence proposals for taxing oil and gas companies that were later backed by the government, new documents reveal. The think tank was commissioned to produce a report on carbon pricing by the Climate Leadership Council (CLC), a controversial U.S.

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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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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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The Guardian: Energy

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Ross Garnaut, a leading economist during the Hawke government, and Rod Sims, a former head of the competition watchdog, say a so-called carbon solution levy would raise $100bn in its first year alone if introduced in 2030-31 and set at Europe’s five-year average price of $90/tonne of carbon dioxide-equivalent.

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The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 4, 2023

UAE presidency faces questions over views after recording of Sultan Al Jaber comments emerges, as summit enters sixth day Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels to hit record high Good morning. This is Natalie Hanman, bringing you coverage from the sixth day of the UN’s Cop28 climate summit. Continue reading.

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Campaigners estimate about $3.7bn in trade finance was supplied to oil and gas projects despite bank’s green pledges The World Bank poured billions of dollars into fossil fuels around the world last year despite repeated promises to refocus on shifting to a low-carbon economy, research has suggested.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Littlewood’s speech criticised the UK’s net zero target, complaining about “the Climate Change Committee, pronouncing on our progress to the eye-wateringly [sic] expensive and almost certainly unachievable aim of being carbon net zero”. billion invested in fossil fuels via his investment fund Marshall Wace.

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Science Daily: Renewable Energy

MAY 14, 2024

Even the most optimistic projections for the rapid build-out of solar, wind, and other low-carbon resources acknowledge that coal, natural gas, and other fossil fuels will dominate the world's energy mix for decades to come.

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Renew Economy

JANUARY 30, 2023

Bloomberg New energy Finance says investment in low carbon energy has hit a new high – and for the first time reached parity with capital invested in fossil fuels. The post Clean energy investment tops $US1 trillion, sits neck and neck with fossil fuels appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Exclusive: Climate groups say projected amount is 10 times greater than estimates of Australia’s remaining fair ‘carbon budget’ if global heating is to be limited to 1.5C Exclusive: Climate groups say projected amount is 10 times greater than estimates of Australia’s remaining fair ‘carbon budget’ if global heating is to be limited to 1.5C

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