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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

World leaders must bring in stricter criteria to exclude fossil fuel companies from decision-making, campaigners have urged, as talks at the crucial COP26 summit enter their fifth day. The UNFCCC, the EU and UK should ensure climate decision-making is protected from fossil fuel interests at the regional, national and local level.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 13, 2023

The self-styled free market task force seems to be yet another dark money outfit in British politics – led by senior figures from US and UK free market think tanks who have been funded by fossil fuels, the Koch Brothers, climate change deniers, the tobacco industry and much more. And guess what?

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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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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

Biodiversity loss and dangerous Climate Change potentiate each other in their disastrous consequences. But the scientists also see opportunities: conserving, managing and restoring ecosystems for example can mitigate climate change and enable adaptation to its impacts while also enhancing biodiversity.

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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

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. fossil fuel trade associations spent $1.4

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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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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 11, 2022

The New Scientist magazine has quietly dropped fossil fuel sponsorship of its science festival amid mounting pressure from climate campaigners. However, the New Scientist Live (NSL) festival, which runs in Manchester this weekend, has no fossil fuel sponsors or exhibitors listed on its website.

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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. Corporate-Friendly Sideshows’.

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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”.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 19, 2022

Your answer could say a lot about your views on climate change, explains Genevieve Guenther. But a growing concern about the climate crisis caused her to switch gears — and her research — to climate communication. How did you go from being an English professor to a climate activist?

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The appointment comes as senior Conservative Party figures continue to embrace anti-climate politics. Last month, Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Clare Coutinho met with and praised fuel pricing lobbyist Howard Cox , a Reform UK candidate who wants to “scrap net zero” and claims that “man is not responsible for global warming”.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

A business lobby group that regularly meets with top elected officials and policymakers in British Columbia is now being led by someone who once argued that human-caused climate change is an “untested proposition.” Jones will be representing major fossil fuel producers in her interactions with the B.C. government.

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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

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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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 24, 2024

The UK’s most prominent climate science denial group has seen its income drop to the lowest level since 2016, DeSmog can reveal. The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) filed its latest accounts on 18 January, showing an income of £280,000 for the year ending 30 September 2023, a drop of £110,000 from the previous year.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 3, 2022

Climate change has worsened global inequality, with poorer countries less able to withstand and adapt to climate change’s effects. But new research suggests the reverse is also true: Not only is climate change contributing to greater inequality, but inequality is also fueling climate change.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Sean Hackett EDF+Business Senior Manager, Energy Transition By Sean Hackett With the dire need to slash greenhouse gas and methane emissions from the global oil and gas sector, more and more investors are advocating for stronger climate policies that accelerate the energy transition and mitigate risks.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The government's mooted policy changes will damage, but not derail the net zero transition - but Sunak's political cynicism threatens to burn down something precious I must admit, I didn't think they would do it. On the policy front, it is worth looking at the detail of what is being proposed. How wrong was I?

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Grist

JULY 15, 2021

We talk so much about the supreme challenge of reducing emissions — something that already requires transitioning our entire economy away from the burning of fossil fuels, adapting to existing climate threats, and doing all that in a way that at the very least doesn’t add to the burdens of already marginalized communities.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

If Exxon had back then used its vast political and financial power to aggressively push for a national carbon tax to be adopted in major economies around the world, global emissions might have already peaked by now. This is exactly what would be needed in order for a global economic power like Canada to do its part to halt climate change.

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Terra Infirma

AUGUST 30, 2022

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?” We need policy changes and fast, diverting cash and legislation away from high carbon into low carbon schemes.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 15, 2023

His Majesty the King alleges Canada’s policies and actions that perpetuate fossil fuels and worsen the climate crisis amount to violations of youths’ fundamental rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Unfulfilled government promises are not going to protect young people from climate change.”

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2021

The report — titled “ The Big Con: How Big Polluters Are Advancing a “Net Zero” Climate Agenda to Delay, Deceive, and Deny ” — was published by Corporate Accountability, the Global Forest Coalition, and Friends of the Earth International, and is endorsed by over 60 environmental organizations. Secretary-General.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2024

A senior figure at the influential Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) think tank contributed to a new documentary that spread numerous myths about climate change. According to the website Skeptical Science, which debunks climate misinformation, Climate The Movie contains more than two dozen myths about climate change.

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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.". by the end of the century.

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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. Climate change is already altering our way of life. Undermining climate action is the real scandal of our time.”

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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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The pair of California leaders were there to discuss the lawsuit the state had recently filed against Big Oil on behalf of the people of California to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for the effects of climate change. But California is the first fossil-fuel-producing state to do so.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2022

Legal action poses a growing risk for the fossil fuel industry and other companies in high-emitting industries, according to a major new report published today which shows that almost 500 climate-related litigation cases have been filed around the world since 2020.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

CALGARY — Alberta Ecotrust Foundation , Calgary Climate Hub and Clean Energy Canada announced today that a recent poll shows 63 percent of Calgarians believe Calgary’s future as a vibrant city is at risk if we do not become a leader in addressing climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

New licences were also awarded this week to fossil fuel giants Shell and Equinor. It’s clear there is no public benefit from the policy… But new fields could make a tidy little profit for a handful of oil and gas executives and their shareholders, including Conservative Party donors.” The Conservatives received £3.5

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) are informal cross-party groups of MPs and Lords which discuss issues and try to influence policy around a specific subject area. The findings are part of analysis of the latest official registers of interest by DeSmog, based on new research by campaign group Fossil Free Parliament.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2022

Lawyer and activist Farhana Yamin considers XR’s cultural, political, and business impact three years after it drove London to a standstill in 2019. The world is in a fractious state - geopolitically, economically, and climatically.

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