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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

climate talks in Egypt demanded European governments halt a “dash” for the continent’s natural gas. At least nine gas deals have been struck so far on the sidelines of the negotiations – known as COP27 – five involving Africa. percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. We cannot be Europe’s gas station.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Oil and gas companies have for years marketed fracked gas from B.C. as a global climate solution, with some industry boosters even going so far as to call Canada’s supply of the fossil fuel the “cleanest in the world.” C is to stop building new fossil fuel projects.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

Of the 64 total board members at Omnicom Group , WPP , Interpublic Group (IPG), Publicis Groupe , Dentsu and Havas , 32 have significant experience in carbon-heavy sectors such as fossil fuels, fossil fuel financing, plastics, utilities, and aviation. Twenty-two are still serving in roles at such companies.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 19, 2024

is well down the path of implementing one of North America’s strongest climate plans. s clean energy sector could grow six per cent a year out to 2050, if our political leaders seize the opportunity. At the household level, residents are similarly embracing the transition away from fossil fuels to a cheaper and cleaner future.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

To achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, countries will likely need to set hard limits on the extraction of fossil fuels in addition to supporting the deployment of clean energy. The researchers set out to estimate how much of the world’s fossil fuel reserves must remain in the ground in order to limit global warming to 1.5

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2023

This “vicious cycle” of pesticide use fueling climate change, and vice versa, is examined in a report published Tuesday by the advocacy group Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA). According to PANNA , the assessment is the first in-depth scientific review of the relationship between pesticides and climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 10, 2022

However, Toogood is a chief executive at Johnson Matthey , a FTSE 250 multinational which markets technology that can produce blue hydrogen “from natural gas at scale”. Blue hydrogen has been marketed as a climate-friendly fuel since the production process aims to capture most of the associated carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

On Wednesday, a group of more than 450 scientists called on advertising agencies to cut off their fossil fuel clients and to end their ties with an ongoing misinformation campaign that has time and again killed progress on addressing the climate crisis. And as this letter makes clear, they have had enough. ” Arena said.

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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 primary issue at the moment is that the vast majority of H2 is made using methods involving fossil fuels, such as natural gas or even coal.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

A number of the agency’s clients are expected to use their stands in the zone to promote the controversial and widely discredited use of hydrogen for home heating, which is favoured by the industry as it can combine with natural gas, and its existing infrastructure.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Research by DeSmog shows that Porter has a track record of publicly casting doubt on established science on human-caused climate change. The BBC regularly covers climate change and the dangers of climate misinformation. She also spoke at a webinar run by GWPF’s campaign arm Net Zero Watch last June.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 28, 2023

Over 90 percent of Ontario’s electricity comes from non-fossil fuel sources, mostly nuclear and hydroelectricity. Aliénor Rougeot, a climate justice advocate and climate and energy program manager with Environmental Defence, told DeSmog she is “frustrated that our public transit is taken over by big polluters making record profits.”

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

s investigative journalism arm, and the British Channel 4 News this summer exposing how the oil giant and lobby groups such as the American Petroleum Institute seed doubt about climate change and undermine legislation to stop global warming. This conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity. Document 1: 1959.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

consulting and PR firm, with a long history of waging influence campaigns for fossil fuel corporations, is under scrutiny by a congressional committee as part of a broader investigation into the decades-long efforts by the oil industry and its allies to block action on the climate crisis. A powerful Washington, D.C.,

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 3, 2022

Gas as ‘economic and political weapon’. For decades the European gas supply has been dominated by Russia and now nobody is under any illusions – Russia is using this as an economic and political weapon,” said IEA executive director Fatih Birol in a press conference. Climate change.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Global leaders belly-flopped well short of the pool at a pivotal climate-protection summit, even after the United Nations declared a “code-red” emergency. . And, in the United States, political gridlock chopped the heart out of Congress’ most ambitious clean energy plan. . If not sooner. Congress last month allocates $7.5

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The Angry Clean Energy Guy

APRIL 16, 2015

Enough With The Doom And Gloom: Fighting Climate Change Promotes Prosperity The coverage of climate change and the rhetoric around it are wearing me down. On Saturday 18 April, President Obama declared during his weekly address that there is “ no greater threat ” than climate change. “ But we don’t.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Our grid isn't ready for climate change. I understand the tribalism of politics. It is horrifying and beyond politics. Energy resilience, like climate change, is not partisan. The grid isn't ready for climate change. Even those with natural gas in their homes were not spared from outages.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2022

From rogue Tory backbenchers to North Sea profits for Putin, in the past year the DeSmog UK team has kept tabs on the people, money and PR machines that work to slow meaningful action on climate change. North Sea Gas Profits Going Direct to the Kremlin. The Dangers of Liquified Natural Gas Lock-In.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Now, the city is at the forefront of the country’s dash to break its dependence on Russian gas. On Saturday, a newly built jetty is due to welcome the Norwegian-flagged Höegh Esperanza, a 280-metre vessel capable of offloading cargoes of natural gas supercooled into liquid form, then shipped across the ocean in specialised tankers.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

Since it was first set up in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has been a hugely influential player in world energy politics. The death knell is being sounded for fossil fuels. By far the most startling aspect of today's report is the outlook for fossil fuels.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

. | Sean Gallup/Getty Images Tens of thousands of negotiators, activists, and corporate execs have descended upon Dubai to wrangle over the future of fossil fuels. Can governments broker a deal to phase out the oil, coal, and gas causing climate change? Namely, should they even have a future? Now, that 1.5-degree

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

While California already has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent since their peak in 2004, many residents still suffer from high levels of air pollution — much of it produced by fossil fuels. Climate change is usually seen as a global problem. As the U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

He is extremely active in the areas of cleantech and climate change, and widely-respected in the energy sector. He summarized his critique on Twitter : “We do not have the luxury of consigning technologies to the dustbin because they (or the companies that own them) fail a socio-political purity test.”.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Such reductions require massive infrastructural changes, especially in our homes, where water and food are often warmed with what is known as “natural gas” but is better understood as methane gas, a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change. But I grow anxious just thinking about it.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Ultimately, the challenge faced by California and Germany with high-level penetrations of renewables is one that many federal and local governments must grapple with as they pursue policies in an attempt to mitigate the most dangerous impacts of climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In his first speech after staging a stunning political comeback at Brazil’s presidential elections, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva vowed to halt the Amazon deforestation that surged under outgoing rival Jair Bolsonaro. Climate Denial. In order to succeed, Lula won’t just need to face down farmers, loggers, and miners.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2021

Late last week, Britain's biggest boiler manufacturers joined together to announce a promise to homeowners who make the switch to hydrogen-ready appliances that doing so will cost them no more than purchasing pure-fossil fuel gas equivalents.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The European Union’s scientific and political communities are locked in a battle over whether gas and nuclear can be considered green investments. This science-based threshold — considered necessary to achieve emissions targets by 2050 — excluded all fossil fuels from being in the taxonomy.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 17, 2022

As Russian forces advanced towards Kyiv, Canada’s oil and gas industry and its supporters responded with a self-serving narrative: the Ukraine crisis means Canada must accelerate its production of fossil fuels. Shouldn’t the world be buying Canadian oil and gas instead?”. Actual climate experts disagree.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

For instance, the company’s just-published “ Energy Transition Progress report ” references chemicals right alongside “low carbon energy” and “renewable natural gas” as examples of the company’s stated commitment to lowering emissions. Town sign for Norco, Louisiana. Shell US did not respond to a request for comment from DeSmog.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2020

However, it also stressed the sector currently provides around 75 per cent of UK energy consumption, and that government forecasts expect fossil fuels to remains important to the overall energy mix "for the foreseeable future, including as we transition to net zero".

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2022

When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — the consortium of scientists responsible for summarizing the world’s climate knowledge and releasing it in roughly decadal, 3,000-plus-page installments — published its latest report on Monday, the findings were just as grim as usual. Luckily for humanity, 1.5

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2022

Sanctions against Russian goods, oligarchs, and services have multiplied in the week since the Kremlin launched its unprovoked attack on Ukraine, but questions have remained as to when and if the economic response to the invasion will be extended to cover the fossil fuel exports that bankroll much of Russia's economy.

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Grist

JANUARY 31, 2024

.” — a passage from “ Cabbage Koora ,” by Sanjana Sekhar The spotlight Nearly 4 in 5 people support doing “whatever it takes” to mitigate climate change, according to a survey published late last year by the firm Potential Energy. “On the other hand, you know, it’s 2024 now. .

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The energy crisis triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the prospect that far-right politician Giorgia Meloni will win snap elections on Sunday, have all but eclipsed growing calls from a younger generation for a rapid phase-out of fossil fuels. In fact, Italy seems to be moving in the opposite direction.

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