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Pressure on creatives: PR, advertising firms targeted by fossil fuel divestment movement

GreenBiz

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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‘They’re Destroying Our Coastline’: Activists at the Americas Energy Summit Protest Fossil Fuel Expansion

DeSmogBlog

The event aims to bring together policymakers and liquified natural gas (LNG), natural gas, and hydrogen players to explore new avenues for fossil fuel expansion. 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. It’s not new.”

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Give Climate Change the Name It Deserves: Fossil-Fueled Destruction

DeSmogBlog

First there was the “greenhouse effect” — a phenomenon identified as early as 1856 by a largely unheralded woman scientist, Eunice Foote, who reported at the time that glass jars filled with air laced with carbon dioxide heated up much quicker than air without it. The term “global warming” stuck.

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The carbon price debate is a distraction. What would those who oppose it do instead?

Clean Energy Canada

As a recent open letter signed by over 250 Canadian economists made clear, ‘the most vocal opponents of carbon pricing are not offering alternative policies to reduce emissions and meet our climate goals. “As And they certainly aren’t offering any alternatives that would reduce emissions at the same low cost as carbon pricing.’ “The

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‘We are at a crossroads’: New IPCC report says it’s fossil fuels or our future

Grist

Nations have moved too slowly to curb climate change, and now must take swift and aggressive steps if they hope to avoid the worst impacts of global warming, the world’s top scientists warned on Monday. degrees Fahrenheit) of warming. degrees C and potentially past 2 degrees C of warming. degrees Celsius (2.7

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Research: Limiting global warming to 2C could create eight million green energy jobs

Business Green

Putting world on path to 'well below' 2C temperature goal in the Paris Agreement could create millions of green jobs worldwide, offsetting losses in fossil fuel sector, research estimates. Other countries such as Canada, Australia and Mexico, which are heavy fossil-fuel exporters, could also suffer net job losses.

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‘Majority of Fossil Fuels Must Stay in Ground to Meet 1.5C Goal’

DeSmogBlog

Scientists believe that stabilising our warming world’s temperature at 1.5C Fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas are the source of just over 80% of the world’s energy. To avert catastrophic warming, the global community must rapidly reduce how much of these fuels it extracts and burns.