The Environmental Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Climate change is a global problem that we all need to be aware of and active in ensuring its stop. There are many companies out there dedicated to fighting climate change. Greenpeace is fighting climate change and influencing companies to make a better impact on the environment. 1) Greenpeace.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

A new report makes the case that if Scotland is to successfully end its contribution to climate change by 2045, there has to be a significant increase in public spending to help move homes and other buildings away from a reliance on fossil fuel heating.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 6, 2019

billion), the European Investment Bank is one of the sector’s biggest lenders. And for every euro the EIB puts into a project or business, around seven more are invested by the private sector. According to the International Energy Agency, global renewables investment in 2018 amounted to $300 billion. billion ($14.9

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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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Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2023

BNEF reports that global investment in the clean energy transition rose 30 per cent last year to record levels Global investment in the clean energy transition soared to record levels last year, surpassing $1tr as the sector matched the level of investment in fossil fuels for the first time.

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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Bank considering introducing stronger limits on its fossil fuel investments as it faces growing pressure from shareholders. Barclays is gearing up to introduce stricter climate change policies that would further limit its investments in fossil fuels, following growing pressure from the bank's shareholders, according to reports.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

New report from Friends of the Earth reveals none of the major UK pension schemes have plans to divest from fossil fuels. UK pension funds have invested an estimated £128bn in fossil fuels, according to a new report published today by environmental campaign group Friends of the Earth. Polluted Pensions?

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2022

“Investing in new fossil fuel infrastructure is moral and economic madness,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released part of its latest report on Monday. It is what science tells us will result from our current energy policies.”.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Royal College of Psychiatrists and Jesuits in Britain become latest groups joining growing movement to remove their financial interests in fossil fuels. We see the impact of climate change on communities everywhere and it is the poorest, most marginalised people who suffer most.

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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. Policy Exchange received $30,000 from the oil and gas supermajor ExxonMobil in 2017.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

billion into fossil fuel projects around the world since the Paris Climate Agreement was signed in 2015, undercutting global efforts to combat the worsening climate crisis. The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), a member of the World Bank Group, gave the project $1.1

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Bank bosses due to attend a green investment summit tomorrow head institutions which have provided over £700 billion of financing for the fossil fuel industry since the 2015 Paris Agreement, including £129 billion in 2020 alone. . JPMorgan financed £230 billion in fossil fuels between 2016 and 2020.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

French environmental organizations Notre Affaire à Tous, Friends of the Earth France, and Oxfam France last week filed what they say is the world’s first climate lawsuit against a commercial bank, suing BNP Paribas over its continued funding of fossil fuels. They also say that the financial sector more broadly is on notice.

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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. Conflict of interest.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

and EU to drop their landmark climate change laws, spreads falsehoods about green policies, and fondly recalls an attempt to cancel a major climate conference. She also claims that, while serving in the Treasury, she attempted to cancel the 2021 COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. She adds that “the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

But the data compiled by Brussels-based research and advocacy group Food & Water Action Europe, and shared with DeSmog, shows that 57 percent of 147 hydrogen projects under consideration by the European Commission are designed to also carry natural gas, or “blue” hydrogen made from the fossil fuel.

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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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DeSmogBlog

MAY 24, 2022

HSBC has been accused of double standards after suspending an executive who said investors “need not worry” about climate change, while continuing to plough billions of pounds into fossil fuels. HSBC has financed £103 billion in fossil fuels since the Paris Agreement was ratified in 2016, including £43.8

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Grist

APRIL 4, 2022

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. This week’s report focuses on mitigation — what we can do to halt climate change. degrees Celsius (2.7

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

New tool designed to help civil society and investors scrutinise the mismatch between national climate goals and energy policies. The Global Registry will help governments, companies, and investors make decisions to align their fossil fuel production with the 1.5C

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Insurance giant confirms it will divest from major coal producers without accredited climate plans by the end of next year. Chief executive officer Amanda Blanc said the firm had a responsibility to drive action on climate change as the UK's largest insurance firm.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 25, 2021

Central banks are continuing to help channel trillions of dollars into fossil fuels through policy decisions and direct financing, with overall sums rising in recent years, a new report has found. The report calls on governments to update the mandates of the banks to support the managed decline of fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2024

A new campaign is calling on MPs to break the fossil fuel sector’s “chokehold” on politics in a critical election year. The message forms the name of the campaign by Climate Resistance, a new collective that aims “to push the fossil fuel lobby out of Westminster and stop polluters from bankrolling political parties”.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 19, 2023

Fossil fuel-linked groups spent around $4 million on Facebook and Instagram that spread false climate claims over the COP27 summit, a new report says. Our report shows Big Oil continues to invest millions in digital advertising to launder their image as ‘climate champions’, while also promoting the necessity of fossil fuels.”

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The new research adds to the urgency of conversations about climate change, just weeks before leaders all over the world are expected to travel to Dubai to meet for the United Nation’s annual climate change conference, COP28. Hansen was the first to sound the alarm on climate change in 1988 in testimony to Congress.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

University of Cambridge college outlines net zero plan to ditch millions of pounds of direct and indirect investments in oil and gas. Trinity College Cambridge has committed to fully divesting from fossil fuels over the next ten years, following a long-running student campaign. £8.2m by the end of the century.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 13, 2022

A newly published report by Fossil Free California finds California’s pension fund managers are circulating divestment “misinformation” by exaggerating the costs involved in shedding their fossil fuel investments in documents prepared for state lawmakers. The two pension funds have estimated holdings of $7.4

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The Climate Change Committee, the independent body that advises the government on its net zero policies, warned on 30 January that mixed messages, including new fossil fuel projects, have damaged the UK’s international climate standing. billion) in fossil fuel firms. billion (£1.8 billion (£1.8

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 7, 2022

Just 13 financial players out of hundreds assessed from around the world have restrictions in place against funding oil and gas industry expansion, according to the Oil and Gas Policy Tracker. New funding for fossil fuels is delusional,” Guterres said on June 14. New funding for fossil fuels is delusional.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

above the pre-industrial average in 2020, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned in its recent report that Earth could hit 1.5C could help avoid the most serious effects of climate change. Fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas are the source of just over 80% of the world’s energy.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The state of New Jersey filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against five oil companies and the oil industry’s most powerful lobbying group for covering up and misleading the public about climate change, the latest round of state and municipal-led climate litigation seeking accountability from the oil industry.

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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. . degree C temperature limit is to be met.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 21, 2023

million job decline in fossil fuels in this scenario (the world will want a lot less oil and gas), this is far exceeded by the 2.2-million investing half a trillion dollars in clean energy and other countries quickly following suit, the energy transition is already a reality. While there will be a 1.5-million With the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 17, 2021

Three dozen Christian organisations and institutions from across the world — including dioceses from the Church of England — announced their divestment from fossil fuels today and urged leaders to take greater action on climate change ahead of major global summits this year.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 22, 2021

Former UK Energy Minister and original COP26 President Claire O’Neill has been cleared to take up a role at a business consultancy known for running “astroturf” campaigns for fossil fuel companies, despite warnings from the body that approves such appointments. Oil and Gas Industry Groups.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 20, 2021

There are signs Oxford University is slowly “getting it” when it comes to climate change. Last year, it committed to selling its multimillion-pound investments in oil and gas companies, after years of student campaigning, and more recently it launched an ambitious Sustainability Strategy. million in research grants and £3.7

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