DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

There is a generation of Millennials around the globe who have written off fossil fuels,” Chris Romer, co-founder of Project Canary, told the oil and gas industry trade publication Rigzone this month. “We The fossil fuel industry’s impacts on surrounding communities also cut along racial and gender lines, watchdog organizations report.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Last year, he chose to add solar and storage to his home, first buying an array of Panasonic panels and then adding a Tesla Powerwall a few months later. Because conventional generators use fossil fuels, that solution isn’t as clean as solar-and-storage alone, but it could offer higher reliability during extended outages.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

Through unprecedented collaboration with the extraordinary array of businesses, academic and environmental institutions that make up the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership, this government is putting its full weight firmly behind the Net Zero campaign," said Shapps. "By

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

But in the intervening decades, the region’s rivers were dammed or channeled and the fossil fuel era dawned across Appalachia. Among the other rare and threatened wild creatures living in the coal mining-impacted streams are a dozen different kinds of fish, 39 mollusks, and a wide array of crustaceans and snails, the study reports.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2022

Upfront investments in low carbon infrastructure deliver much faster paybacks than they did a year ago, because the fossil fuels they displace are orders of magnitude more expensive. per cent gain, almost entirely as a result of higher fossil fuel prices. per cent loss of GDP to a 0.5

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2020

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis calls went up for green stimulus plans, but while they gained some traction support was largely confined to environmental campaigners and clean tech industries and the opportunity to deliver sweeping climate-focused recovery packages was ultimately squandered.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The news came just as the United Nations was highlighting “first movers and doers” during the Climate Ambition Summit in New York, sparking outrage from many in attendance. Other global takes: Leaders from the UK, China, France, and the US skipped the UN climate gathering. Humanitarian groups say $71.4M

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 24, 2022

But those quakes themselves are just one sign of an oceanic problem confronting Texas: what to do with the billions of barrels of toxic wastewater, mixed with salable fossil fuels, that the oil and gas drilling industry pumps out each year? The most powerful among them was a 4.5 The post Earthquakes.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

DeSmog’s analysis also shows that European agribusiness has borrowed from Big Oil’s lobbying playbook, with arguments that echo tried and tested tactics and messaging used by the oil and gas industry to block action on climate change. The EU has already twice delayed key elements of its green farming plans following industry demands.

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GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

In looking across the broad array of business, environmental, social, technological and political topics that cross my screen and engage me in daily conversation, there is a temptation to allocate a growing share of mind for pessimism. Accelerating climate change will keep the federal research and development spigot open.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2022

LUT University and 14 other contributing universities suggested an energy system based largely on solar and wind energy, energy storage, sector coupling, and direct or indirect electrification of almost all energy demand could plausibly meet global energy needs. "A

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Energy Innovation

JUNE 16, 2022

includes important new metrics to track the economic, environmental, and public health impacts of hundreds of climate policies. CARB is currently evaluating climate policies for its 2022 update of the Climate Change Scoping Plan. The updated California EPS–from model version 1.4.3

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 12, 2020

But carbon is also moving constantly through the global economy, which historically has been powered by burning fossil fuels for energy. As a result, carbon dioxide (CO2) and other emissions have risen dramatically since the industrial revolution, presenting a daunting array of challenges for people, planet and prosperity.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Education and Engagement : It educates and engages stakeholders on the importance of hydrogen in achieving decarbonization goals and addressing climate change. Energy Storage : As a storage medium, hydrogen can help balance the grid, storing excess renewable energy and releasing it when demand is high.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Writing on BusinessGreen last year , Labour's Shadow Energy and Climate Change Minister Alan Whitehead argued that the government had failed to give the regulator "a legal steer towards decarbonisation", having failed since 2013 to issue a formal Policy Statement clarifying its role.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

For this reason, the hydrogen market today is dominated by steam reformation of natural gas, it’s essentially a fossil fuel. However, the imperative of climate change has been amplified by other factors such as security of energy supply concerns that have been greatly increased by the war in Ukraine, for example.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2021

One bank that has recently reoriented its strategy in just this fashion is NatWest, whose CEO, Alison Rose, called climate change "the defining issue of our generation" when she took the helm at the end of 2019. Chris Stark from the Committee on Climate Change recently placed it at "the fulcrum of the change we need" to reach net zero.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2021

More real estate owners, operators, developers and investment firms see the appeal of future-proofing properties from climate shocks such as floods and fires; from market shocks such as high prices for scarce fossil fuels; and from policy shocks such as any future laws requiring climate disclosures or that tax or penalize greenhouse gas emissions.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Yet while that very broad assessment certainly remains true, today's intervention from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was always going to be a little different. This report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a litany of broken climate promises. And it is damning.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

The Climate Change Committee's myriad charts serve to hammer home the scale of the decarbonisation challenge. Credit: Climate Change Committee. The UK has one of the most stretching fossil fuel car sale phase out timelines in the world, with the end of new pure petrol and diesel cars set to begin within just eight years.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

It’s a recurring theme that somehow the livestock sector and eating meat is detrimental to the environment, that it is a serious negative in terms of the climate change discussions,” Hsin Huang, Secretary General of the International Meat Secretariat (IMS) , told his audience. The Climate Impact of Meat.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 15, 2021

” The $200 million in incentives is a welcome step, but unlikely to cover more than a fraction of the state's demand for backup power, she noted. megawatt solar array and 8.8-megawatt-hour Fossil fuels vs. renewables, centralized vs. distributed power.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

For all the evidence the Paris Agreement has catalysed an era-defining array of clean tech innovations and a remarkable shift in public opinion, there have been baseless arguments that the entire COP process is an exercise in futility. What sacrifices are you willing to make for climate change?'. How about we sacrifice those?

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Committee on Climate Change CEO discusses infrastructure, airline bailouts, COP26 and making the best of a bad situation. Climate change and our collective response has once again - albeit understandably this time - found itself playing second fiddle to a more immediate crisis, the full ramifications of which remain far from clear.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 19, 2021

Yosie Mon, 07/19/2021 – 02:00 In looking across the broad array of business, environmental, social, technological and political topics that cross my screen and engage me in daily conversation, there is a temptation to allocate a growing share of mind for pessimism. Reasons for cautious hope in a sea of gloom Terry F.

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Business Green

JANUARY 23, 2023

The frustration for Danker and many others is that the government has repeatedly stressed its commitment to green growth and has spent the last few years mulling a wide array of policies that would serve to mobilise much needed green investment. The PM set out less than a year ago what is needed to transform our economy," Danker said.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 12, 2020

But carbon is also moving constantly through the global economy, which historically has been powered by burning fossil fuels for energy. As a result, carbon dioxide (CO2) and other emissions have risen dramatically since the industrial revolution, presenting a daunting array of challenges for people, planet and prosperity.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 1, 2021

greenhouse gas emissions that drive climate change. The electric grid also is highly vulnerable to climate change effects, such as more frequent and severe droughts , hurricanes and other extreme weather events. For both of these reasons, the power sector is central to the Biden administration’s climate policy.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 27, 2021

That this "system" is vulnerable and subject to a variety of threats — from climate change, malware or the inability to robustly predict future electricity consumption — is not in doubt. Is the current array of electricity generators and distributors prepared for this challenge? The answer is no.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Certification is shown to attract and engage top talent, increase credibility and build trust, slash costs, meet the demands of a consumer majority, and protect a company’s mission in the long term. Access to affordable, quality healthcare keeps employees healthy, making sure they’re able to come to work and meet work demands.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Canada has not provided a transition pathway for its fossil fuel workers to move into other industries, and as global demand for oil and gas wanes, tens of thousands of workers could lose their jobs, say the authors of a new report. We do not deny that there needs to be change. degree Celsius (2.7

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2022

The Task Force for Energy Security will be chaired by a representative from the White House and a representative of the President of the European Commission and will work on a range of measures to bolster EU energy security, including initiative to drastically reduce fossil fuel imports this year.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 27, 2021

That this “system” is vulnerable and subject to a variety of threats — from climate change, malware or the inability to robustly predict future electricity consumption — is not in doubt. Is the current array of electricity generators and distributors prepared for this challenge? The answer is no.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

But it is profoundly consistent with Conservative values, to want to leave the world a better place for the next generation and to care deeply about the impact of manmade climate change. Shapps is also making many of the right noises, repeatedly arguing that the cheapest electricity system is one without fossil fuels.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

Climate change is the most significant global threat we face today. cities are drafting plans and testing out developing zero emission zones in downtown areas, banning fossil-fuel-burning vehicles and developing progressive pricing signals. What can we learn from these early implementations?

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

Still, the cheniers and the surrounding wetlands provide critical habitat for fish, shrimp, ducks, and an array of migratory birds travelling across the Gulf of Mexico. John Allaire, a former environmental engineer in the oil industry, photographed with fossil fuel infrastructure behind.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2022

Seventy-five investors with $4.7tr of assets under management (AUM) this week sent a letter to the commissioners at the US Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) to call on them to ensure new climate change disclosure rules are as wide-ranging and robust as possible. Saudi Arabia inks deal for 1GW of new renewables projects.

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