Fight or switch? How the low-carbon transition is disrupting fossil fuel politics
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 27, 2019
Global fossil fuel and overall energy consumption are still rising. But the new focus on them shows that the end is near.
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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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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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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‘They’re Destroying Our Coastline’: Activists at the Americas Energy Summit Protest Fossil Fuel Expansion
DeSmogBlog
JANUARY 23, 2024
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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Renewables Start to Outpace Fossil Fuels on Europe’s Grid
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 11, 2020
In the first half of 2020, renewables (solar, wind, hydro and biomass) beat out fossil fuels on the European grid for the first time. They didn’t only beat out coal -- they beat out all fossil fuels put together. Will it make renewables a bigger political force? But it may be happening even sooner.
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WPP Has More Fossil Fuel Clients Than Any Other Advertising Company, Report Finds
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Global advertising and public relations company WPP has more contracts with fossil fuel clients than any of its rivals, despite the group’s pledge to reach net zero emissions by 2030, according to a report by campaign group Clean Creatives. Omnicom followed with 39 contracts; Interpublic Group had 25; and Publicis Groupe had 11. “The
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Snapshots of our World: Energy: Fossil Fuels + Iron Rivers + Current Mystery
Planet Pulse
JANUARY 11, 2024
In this week’s issue : We kick off our energy series with the top dog: fossil fuels Orange rivers in Alaska A river mystery in Colombia Feature Story: Energy: Fossil Fuels If you’re reading this then you owe gratitude to fossil fuels. But fossil fuel companies aren’t quite shaking in their boots yet.
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Give Climate Change the Name It Deserves: Fossil-Fueled Destruction
DeSmogBlog
DECEMBER 11, 2023
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. Such conflicts and record-breakers are happening hourly somewhere in the world.
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The carbon price debate is a distraction. What would those who oppose it do instead?
Clean Energy Canada
MARCH 28, 2024
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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Fossil Fuel Industry Given Billions in EU Hydrogen Support, Report Finds
DeSmogBlog
JULY 8, 2021
Over €8 billion is being invested in hydrogen and “renewable gas” projects in southern Europe using EU Covid-19 recovery funds, thanks to extensive lobbying by the fossil fuel industry, a new report has found. . The over-emphasis on hydrogen as a result of lobbying could lock Europe into decades more of fossil fuels.
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Mapped: Europe’s Fossil Fuel-Backed Hydrogen Lobby
DeSmogBlog
DECEMBER 10, 2021
The UK government’s Hydrogen Strategy , launched in August, promises to develop a “thriving low carbon hydrogen sector” as a “key plank” of its climate plans, and the fuel was given pride of place at a “Hydrogen Transition Summit” hosted in Glasgow during the recent UN climate talks. Credit: Gaia Lamperti. Hydrogen Europe.
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‘We are at a crossroads’: New IPCC report says it’s fossil fuels or our future
Grist
APRIL 4, 2022
Greenhouse gas emissions must peak within the next three years, and in the next eight, the world must push fossil fuels aside, rapidly scaling up the use of clean energy like wind and solar. The authors’ top recommendation: Immediately move away from fossil fuels and replace them with renewable technologies.
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‘Majority of Fossil Fuels Must Stay in Ground to Meet 1.5C Goal’
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
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. target because it was already at its limit, given our projections of fossil fuel demand in the near future.
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Leading Think Tank Met With Minister Over North Sea Energy While Funded by Fossil Fuel Interests
DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 3, 2023
Policy Exchange, one of Westminster’s most prominent think tanks, engaged in a high-level influencing campaign over the UK’s North Sea oil and gas policies while being funded by fossil fuel interests, DeSmog can reveal. Fossil fuel firms tout CCUS and hydrogen as green energy solutions, yet the reality is more complicated.
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Let’s say we stop burning fossil fuels. What happens next?
Grist
JULY 15, 2021
— These Onerous Obstacles Make Undoing Carbonization Hard. Can it really be that, on top of all those tasks, we have to pull carbon out of the atmosphere too? Zachary Byrum, a research analyst in carbon removal at the World Resources Institute, likes to compare our atmosphere to a rapidly filling bathtub.
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Only Two in 200 ‘Green Zone’ Events at COP26 Mention Fossil Fuels
DeSmogBlog
OCTOBER 6, 2021
The UK organisers of the upcoming COP26 climate summit have come under fire for approving just two events that refer to fossil fuels, the primary driver of climate change, in a programme of public events happening alongside the main conference. In 2018, 89 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions came from fossil fuels and industry.
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The killer question is: can we really afford fossil fuels?
Terra Infirma
AUGUST 30, 2022
In our high-carbon economy, everything is dictated by the cost of oil and gas. And is it not simply digging us deeper into the fossil fuel-shaped hole, making us even more vulnerable to the next crisis? We often hear people from the right of politics ask “can we afford net zero?” Image: [link].
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Just Two Countries Mention Need to Cut Fossil Fuel Production at COP26 ‘Greenwashing’ Stands
DeSmogBlog
NOVEMBER 4, 2021
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND – Only two of the 35 stalls lauding countries’ green credentials at the COP26 UN climate summit mention the need to cut fossil fuel production — the chief cause of the carbon emissions driving climate change. . We urge all leaders to put people and the planet over the profit of the fossil fuel industry.”.
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New Study Reveals Billions of Dollars in Political Spending by US Trade Associations, Most of It on PR
DeSmogBlog
DECEMBER 14, 2022
Industry trade associations in the United States that work on climate and energy issues spent more than $3 billion over 10 years on political activities, according to a new study that sheds light on trade associations’ role in influencing policies and obstructing climate action. billion on climate-related political activities.
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Extinction Rebellion to Target London’s Financial District Over Fossil Fuel Funding
DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 19, 2021
The environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion (XR) is planning a series of protests targeting the City of London to demand an end to investments in fossil fuels around the world. Lawyer and anti-airport expansion campaigner Tim Crossland said: “The City of London is the arch funder of the carbon economy.”.
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Fossil fuel addiction – the biggest threat to energy transition says Octopus Energy CEO
Smart Energy International
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
“We should not forget that without fossil fuels, Putin would not have the leverage or the finances to have attacked Ukraine,” said UK’s Octopus Energy CEO Greg Jackson. What’s the role of fossil fuels in the future? “Maybe there isn’t one,” said Jackon.
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'Polluters must pay': UN Secretary-General calls for windfall taxes on fossil fuel firms
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
In strongly worded address to UN General Assembly, Antonio Guterres aims latest stinging criticism at fossil fuel firms and 'their enablers' in the PR and investment industries. And it includes the massive public relations machine tanking in billions to shield the fossil fuel industry from scrutiny.
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'Adapt or die': Environment Agency chief urges bankers to stop investing in fossil fuels
Business Green
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
The boss of the Environment Agency has declared that coal and oil are "no longer safe bets" for investors, warning that banks that failed to divest from fossil fuels would be left behind by the market. He said investors that continued to invest in fossil fuels were exposing themselves to major financial risks.
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Fight or switch? How the low-carbon transition is disrupting fossil fuel politics
AGreenLiving
NOVEMBER 27, 2019
Global fossil fuel and overall energy consumption are still rising. How the low-carbon transition is disrupting fossil fuel politics. But the new focus on them shows that the end is near. Read more: Fight or switch?
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Can carbon capture make gray H2 into clean hydrogen?
Hydrogen Fuel News
OCTOBER 28, 2023
Most H2 is produced using fossil fuels like natural gas, but can the right methods make that green? The term “clean hydrogen” doesn’t have a specific official definition, but on the whole, it tends to refer to H2 that is produced in a way that doesn’t generate carbon emissions.
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The ‘Big Con’ Revealed: Report Details Fossil Fuel Industry’s Deceptive ‘Net Zero’ Strategy
DeSmogBlog
JUNE 12, 2021
The paper comes ahead of this November’s United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland and amid proliferating pledges from polluting corporations and governments to achieve what they claim is carbon neutrality — increasingly via dubious offsets — by some distant date, often the year 2050. Secretary-General.
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North Sea Bill’s Carbon Emissions Test is a ‘Smokescreen’ And ‘Makes No Sense’ — Experts
DeSmogBlog
JANUARY 8, 2024
A climate compatibility checkpoint to assess potential new licences, drawn up with the government in 2021, is now set to be replaced by further weakened measures, experts say, based on cherry-picked data that greenwashes new fossil fuel development.
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Why the Belief That Carbon Capture Technologies Can Work at Gigaton-Scale Is a Gigantic Gamble
DeSmogBlog
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
With the start of the 28th annual United Nations climate summit, COP28, just two weeks away, a battle is brewing over the role of fossil fuels as nations try to stem the tide of climate change. Now, a new report shows that fossil fuel production by 2030 is set to exceed the level that would be compatible with limiting warming to 1.5°C
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'Green Day'? Fears grow government is to prioritise fossil fuel projects in upgraded climate strategy
Business Green
MARCH 27, 2023
Tom Burke, a co-founder of the E3G thinktank, told the Guardian : "This is Fawlty Towers politics - don't mention the environment! Green day was supposed to be an opportunity to get back in the green race, but this is just supporting [fossil fuel] lobbies." It is not Green Day," one insider told the paper.
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Boris Johnson Meets Coal Baron on India Tour Despite Calling For End to Dirtiest Fossil Fuel
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 21, 2022
Adani Group has pledged to be carbon neutral and embrace renewable energy, but at the same time is expanding its coal production, with plans to double its coal-fired power capacity to 24GW, according to analysis last year by campaign group Market Forces. Will also work with UK companies to co-create defence & aerospace technologies.”.
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Only policy action can avert 'carbon bubble' chaos, experts warn
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Net Zero Festival: Leading figures from IEA, Carbon Tracker and Ceres unite in calls for more ambitious government action to shift away from fossil fuels. Campanale was optimistic that if such board-level activity grows across the high-carbon sectors, the fossil fuel industry would start to feel the economic pressure.
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'Cascade of emergencies': 500 green groups demand end to fossil fuel-driven war and climate chaos
Business Green
APRIL 27, 2022
Over 500 environmental and civil society groups from across six continents have urged world leaders to renew international efforts to bring an end to both Russia's war in Ukraine and the world's dependence on fossil fuels in order to tackle the "cascade of emergencies" facing humanity.
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'Get its own house in order': UK urged to end new fossil fuel licensing in North Sea to meet net zero
Business Green
JUNE 1, 2021
Letter from 50 campaign groups urges government to heed recent advice of International Energy Agency that growing fossil fuel supply is incompatible with a 1.5C The court ruling was hailed by climate campaigners as a watershed moment that could potentialy pave the way for other climate litigation against major fossil fuel firms.
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In these uncertain times, companies must avoid a relapse towards fossil fuels
Business Green
OCTOBER 4, 2022
What is considered comfortable now could have consequences in the future - especially if it means reverting back, even in the short term, to old, damaging, carbon-based energy tactics. While energy as a political and economic tool is far from a novel concept, it has once again been pushed to the fore. Striving for self-sufficiency.
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Report: UK Export Finance could create 42,000 jobs if it dumps fossil fuels for clean energy
Business Green
OCTOBER 14, 2020
The UK's export credit agency could support up to 42,000 jobs around the UK by 2035 if it switches it support for overseas fossil fuel projects to renewables and clean energy infrastructure, according to a major new analysis from Vivid Economics.
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'From laggard to leader': Trinity College Cambridge to ditch fossil fuel investments in net zero drive
Business Green
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
Trinity College Cambridge has committed to fully divesting from fossil fuels over the next ten years, following a long-running student campaign. We will move rapidly where we can, starting with divestment from all fossil fuel exposure in our public equities this year.".
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A Guide to the Anti-Net Zero Forces in Westminster Politics
DeSmogBlog
JULY 26, 2023
This net zero scepticism has quickly entered the upper echelons of Westminster politics, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak saying that policies to achieve the UK’s legally binding climate targets shouldn’t “hassle” households and should be “proportionate and pragmatic”. It claims to have the support of 140 MPs and “key media”.
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Challenges & Solutions in Sustainable Energy Engineering: Navigating the Transition to a Low-Carbon Future
Hydrogen Fuel News
OCTOBER 17, 2023
The Challenge: Transitioning from Fossil Fuels to Renewables Fossil fuels still dominate global energy production. Reliance on fossil fuels contributes to greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. Political resistance to transitioning away from traditional energy sources.
'The sky's the limit': How 'cheap, abundant' renewables could boot fossil fuels from the electricity sector by mid-2030s
Business Green
APRIL 22, 2021
Carbon Tracker study finds solar and wind energy potential is 100 times as much as global energy demand. Harry Benham, report co-author and chairman of think tank Ember-Climate, argued that only a fraction of the world's extensive renewable resources would need to be tapped to replace fossil fuel power.
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'Climate security is energy security': Alok Sharma urges world to 'break dependency on fossil fuels'
Business Green
MAY 16, 2022
In a speech in Glasgow to mark six months since the landmark UN Climate Summit, the COP26 President conceded the Kremlin's "illegal and brutal" war, rising inflation, and cost of living concerns had dominated the political and media agenda in 2022, but stressed that climate action must remain a top priority for governments around the world.
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Italian Oil Giant Eni Knew About Climate Change More Than 50 Years Ago, Report Reveals
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
Italian oil major Eni knew of the climate impacts of fossil fuel extraction since 1970, according to a report by Greenpeace Italy and advocacy group ReCommon shared with DeSmog.
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Revealed: Oil and Gas-Backed Think Tanks Give £240k to ‘Green’ Parliamentary Groups
DeSmogBlog
DECEMBER 11, 2023
These were the APPGs on Net Zero, Hydrogen and Carbon Monoxide. At least 12 APPGs have oil and gas connections – from direct funding or services via think tanks, to administrative support by industry associations, or having fossil fuel companies as “external members”. RWE did not reply when contacted for comment.
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Expert: The current pace of decarbonization in Massachusetts is too low to meet climate goals
TechXplore
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
Having worked with renewables for the last 15 years, and listening to the lofty goals political leaders make to achieve net-zero carbon emissions, UMass Lowell mechanical engineering Professor Christopher Niezrecki can tell you that as a state and a nation, we're not on track.
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