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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The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Summit president hails ‘historic package to accelerate climate action’, but critics decry ‘litany of loopholes’ in final text Cop28 live – latest updates The Cop28 climate summit has approved a deal that its supporters said would, for the first time, push nations to move away from fossil fuels to avert the worst effects of climate change.

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The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Australia’s climate minister says summit must aim to keep 1.5C goal alive so Pacific countries are not ‘swallowed by the seas’ The Australian climate change minister, Chris Bowen, has told nearly 200 countries at the Cop28 summit that the use of fossil fuels in energy systems must end. Continue reading.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

While the focus is usually on fossil fuel emissions as the main climate change culprit, a new analysis by the nonprofit Energy Vision concludes that reducing emissions from organic waste would more steeply reduce methane. And it would cost less to accomplish.

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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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POWER Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2023

is facing energy and climate challenges on multiple fronts. Rising energy costs, extreme weather events, and a transition away from fossil fuels have placed increasing pressure on governments and […] The post Rooftop Solar Important Piece of Fight Against Climate Change appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A branded leaflet handed out at the event, under the heading “what we stand for”, stated: “End net zero zealotry and promote energy pragmatism to provide both security of supply and low prices”. She claimed voters “don’t like the net zero policies which are making energy more expensive”.

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The Guardian: Energy

JANUARY 30, 2024

Documents show industry-backed Air Pollution Foundation uncovered the severe harm climate change would wreak The fossil fuel industry funded some of the world’s most foundational climate science as early as 1954, newly unearthed documents have shown, including the early research of Charles Keeling, famous for the so-called ‘Keeling curve’ that has (..)

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

According to Saudi Aramco’s podcast, the fossil fuel industry is innovating new climate solutions, and BP’s podcast proclaims more of the same. Darren Woods, the CEO of Exxon, celebrates the potential of carbon capture to dramatically reduce global emissions. and Europe. It’s implicitly calling for a new consensus.”

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 11, 2024

After NDP member of Parliament Charlie Angus introduced a bill in February proposing to ban misleading fossil fuel advertising in Canada, the oil and gas advocate Stephen Buffalo wrote an incendiary National Post column attacking the legislation.

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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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Green Living Guy

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Introduction The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) concluded with a groundbreaking agreement. One that clearly marks the “beginningr of the end” of the fossil fuel era. The conference, held in Dubai, brought together negotiators from nearly 200 countries.

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Energy Central

DECEMBER 18, 2023

It is now popular to talk about leaving fossil fuels to prevent climate change. Pretty much the same result occurs if we run short of fossil fuels: We lose fossil fuels, but it is because we cannot extract them. The economy is extraordinarily dependent on fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Morial Convention Center, a small but dedicated group of environmental activists affiliated with Sunrise Movement New Orleans protested the start of the 20th edition of the Americas Energy Summit & Exhibition. We had the interruption a few minutes ago from the climate protester. It’s not new.”

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Energy Central

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

If it’s not one thing in the climate change battle, it’s another. It turns out replacing fossil fuels with clean sources of energy like wind and solar may be the easy part. The harder part could be how to replace the lost tax revenue.

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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. The energy hierarchy is shifting.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 3, 2023

VANCOUVER — British Columbians overwhelmingly prefer the government to focus on developing renewable energy (64.0%) over LNG (18.2%), according to a new public opinion survey conducted by Stratcom for Clean Energy Canada. to miss its climate targets than would support it in such a case (36.5%). Recognizing that B.C.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Over the past month and a half month, California lawmakers have enacted a pair of climate disclosure bills and endorsed a global call to end the fossil fuel era. In September, the state sued five oil majors and the chief industry lobby group to hold them accountable for climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2023

Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber was named as president-designate of this year’s UN climate summit, COP28, scheduled to take place November 30 – December 12 in Dubai. Al Jaber is the UAE’s special envoy for climate change and also serves as the country’s Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Canada’s major pension funds are dragging their heels on climate change, according to a new report from Shift Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health. Shift Action is a charitable initiative that seeks to protect pensions and the climate by tracking pension fund investments and comparing them with climate policies.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 27, 2022

The Urgent Problem of Climate Change. Our planet is changing. . We need to pay attention and change our behavior. Scientists warn that we are rapidly approaching critical tipping points in our climate system, which could result in adverse impacts such as droughts, floods, and extreme weather events.

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Energy Central

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The International Energy Agency (IEA) in its latest report “Energy to 2050: Scenarios for a Sustainable Future,” analyzes “the intersection between energy and climate change mitigation.”

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Energy Central

MARCH 24, 2023

This week, the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change once again made it clear: no more fossil fuel sources can be opened if the world is serious about living up to its commitments and avoiding a significantly worsening climate crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

Spain and several Mediterranean countries registered heat in April that would be “ almost impossible ” without climate change, as an attribution study recently indicated. Steinberger wrote in Climática , “This is a crucial point to understand: fossil fuel companies are not energy companies.

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Renew Economy

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

A regional journalism summit this week made no specific references to climate change and was sponsored by AGL Energy and gas pipeline company APA. The post Independent regional journalism, brought to you by fossil fuels appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Energy Central

JULY 12, 2022

In my recent conversation with an energy industry spokesperson she stated the following and asked a question: The world is energy-hungry and right now much of the energy we consume comes from fossil fuels. So if we could separate fossil fuels from the emissions issue, wouldn’t that be a desirable outcome?”

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Grist

MAY 16, 2023

While a century of fire suppression and other land management choices contribute to the severity, climate change is a key factor fueling these fires, roughly doubling the acreage burned over the last 40 years. That’s the one lawsuit where wildfire-related damages are forefront and central,” Wentz said.

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Energy Central

APRIL 10, 2024

For years, the priority of many environmentalists has been to get the public to care about climate change via data and science — to agree that we do, indeed, have a problem that needs fixing. And it’s time for the climate community to reorient toward empathy, and approach people’s pressing.

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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. The International Energy Agency has stated that new oil and gas exploration is incompatible with net zero.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

These spaces provide governments with a pop-up station for the fortnight to promote their energy vision to delegates and host talks and other networking events. The firm’s energy events brochure lists 40 flagship conferences that it is organising for the energy sector between October 2023 and November 2024.

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Energy Central

DECEMBER 20, 2023

By Dr Jacqui Taylor, Clean Tech Advisor at 350PPM COP28 marked a pivotal moment in climate change talks with the first-ever global stocktake since the Paris Agreement.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

DeSmog analysed examples of more than 100 influencers being paid to promote fossil fuel firms worldwide since 2017, from the US to Malaysia, in campaigns that have reached billions of people. While there’s more knowledge in general around climate change and the harms of fossil fuels, I think that people have a lot of trust in creators.

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Green Living Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Yet, the fossil fuel industry aims to increase the demand for plastic over the next decade. This is as the transition to green energy could decrease the demand for oil and gas. The post Greenpeace US Responds to Fossil Fuel Industry Plans to Grow Plastic Demand appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Michael Jacobs on the use of the ambiguous term ‘energy systems’ in the agreement, and how it should be understood Prof Rupert Read, whom I usually admire, has seriously failed to understand the Cop28 agreement ( Cop28 leaves highway to climate hell wide open, Letters, 15 December ). The latter want you to believe it doesn’t.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The findings underscore concerns over the role of the fossil fuel industry at the negotiations, known as COP27, which have become a focal point for deals to exploit African natural gas. These talks are supposed to be about moving us away from fossil fuels, phasing them out,” Sabido told DeSmog. Social license.

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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. climate talks due to open in Dubai in November.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

From the world’s biggest soccer championship to soccer training for kids , from major universities to music festivals and art galleries to — if you can name it, fossil fuel companies have probably sponsored it. TotalEnergies will sponsor the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France.

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