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. . We urge all leaders to put people and the planet over the profit of the fossil fuel industry.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The headline commitment of COP28 was the pledge to transition away from fossil fuels. Many commentators also appeared to believe that the “UAE Consensus” – as the deal was dubbed – leaves plenty of scope to continue burning fossil fuels, while also being woefully short on the financial commitments required to realize its aims.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2022

The world cannot lose sight of the urgent need to tackle the climate crisis amid soaring energy costs and Russia's brutal war in Ukraine, COP26 President Alok Sharma has warned this morning, arguing that a failure to honour the commitments made at last year's Glasgow Summit would be "an act of monstrous self-harm". "The Debt is mounting.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) sent at least 20 officials from its Department of Energy, the state-owned oil company ADNOC, or the publicly listed oil company TAQA. AlOtaibi is registered as a senior consultant on climate change for Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Energy. Others are listed with even less detail. Mohammed A.

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The Guardian: Energy

MARCH 12, 2024

Increased electricity demand and energy-disrupting conflicts in Europe and the Middle East played their part. obligations requires clean energy consumption and production to shift together, and that we must find mechanisms to guard against further interruption of both by future geopolitical events.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Climate negotiations at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, better known as COP, are over for another year. With the backdrop of war in Ukraine and a global energy crisis, expectations going into this year’s conference, held in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, were decidedly low. Our friends want clean energy, not fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The European Union has clearly laid out its position: Climate neutrality, the Council of the EU stated last month, will require “a global phase-out of unabated fossil fuels and a peak in their consumption in this decade.” We’re going into a COP where this is going to be a big topic, and we don’t really have a definition for it.”

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 24, 2022

Narendra Modi’s clarion call for becoming ‘AatmaNirbhar’ in energy sector, DISTRIBUTECH India 2022, together with POWERGEN India and Indian Utility Week, India’s leading Energy Business Platforms, will be organised from 12th-14th October 2022 in New Delhi, India. As a large developing economy with over 1.3

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This is the first COP where participants found themselves face-to-face with the reality of breaching the 1.5 The final wording of the COP28 agreement – which required consensus among all nations and the chair – codified a commitment to transition away from fossil fuels in energy systems. The world is starting to notice.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Anger is building over the failure to secure much-needed commitments towards phasing out unabated fossil fuels and tackling near-term emissions as part of the final agreement brokered at COP27 over the weekend, with critics warning the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C target hangs by a thread after this year's summit.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The global energy landscape is on the cusp of transformational changes as the migration to clean power gathers pace. With world leaders about to gather in Dubai, United Arab Emirates for the COP 28 climate summit, the transition to green energy will be one of the key topics on the agenda.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2024

Paul Spence calls for caution when it comes to promoting the idea that heat pumps should be installed regardless of a property’s energy efficiency credentials. If, in the future the homeowner makes energy efficiency upgrades, the heat pump and ancillaries (pipes, circulators, pumps etc.)

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Business Green

JANUARY 12, 2023

Al Jaber has served as the UAE's Special Envoy for Climate Change since 2010, and has participated at 10 previous UN COP Summits. If he does not step down as CEO, it will be tantamount to a full scale capture of the UN climate talks by a petrostate national oil company and its associated fossil fuel lobbyists.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2023

As is always the case at COP Summits multiple issues remain unresolved, but the battle between the various opposing camps looks to set to boil down to a fierce row over how, and indeed whether, the final version of the Global Stocktake should reference the future of fossil fuels. All of this is demonstrably true.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

The Energy White Paper must maintain this momentum as well as explore how to keep older, lower carbon plant on the system when their subsidy ends. With the world watching ahead of COP we cannot afford a COP-out on low carbon. Alistair Phillips-Davies is the CEO of energy firm SSE.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2022

In a communique published at the close of a three-day Energy and Environment Ministerial meeting in Berlin this week, the world's largest economies set out their priorities for tackling the intersecting climate, biodiversity, and pollution crises, and responding to the disruption to energy markets wrought by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 10, 2021

A new study from the Energy Department’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found that deploying 307 GW of solar and 142 GW of wind capacity in India by 2030 would need around a $26.5 Because solar resources are good across large parts of India, the solar energy buildout—and thus the land use—potentially could be spread out. .

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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This Conference of Parties (COP) was highly anticipated as a critical inflection point where our economies and societies set forth on an ambitious and clearly defined path to decarbonize by 2050 and keep warming below 1.5 degrees C to avoid the worst impacts of climate change — or continue with the status quo.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Don't listen to the fossil fuel enthusiasts pushing fracking as a solution for the UK's currently volatile energy market, argues ECIU's Dr Simon Cran-McGreehin. The gas crunch gripping Europe is directly caused by volatile international gas markets that expose the UK to demand surges in Asia and political manipulation by Putin.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Having officially taken the reins of the COP Presidency in Glasgow, Alok Sharma and his diplomatic team are now tasked with steering global climate discussions over the next year ahead of COP27 in Egypt, and the CCC today urged the UK to lead by example with ambitious climate efforts at home. of warming by the end of the century.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

On the plus side, the pact reaffirmed the central importance of 1.5C (our best chance to avoid the worst impacts of climate change), mentions coal and fossil fuels for the first time, and calls for countries to “revisit and strengthen” 2030 climate pledges by the end of 2022 instead of waiting another five years. of warming.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Separately, Bloomberg reported that fossil fuel producers are also seeing a spike in the cost of capital driven in large part by international climate policy efforts. US coal giant Peabody Energy Corp was also hit hard with shares down around eight per cent, amidst a broad sell off for listed coal firms across the US.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Farming also relies on synthetic fertilisers that are both fossil-fuel-based and emit greenhouse gases, and drives deforestation. Nature-based solutions” is one of the only phrases linked to agriculture to be mentioned in the COP cover text. We can expect a similar turnout at this year’s COP, too.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 19, 2023

This story was originally published by The Energy Mix Weekender , and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate crisis. But you wouldn’t know it from the way the fossil fuel industry has responded.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

With greater scrutiny over emissions from meat and dairy companies, it is not surprising they are stepping up their game to head off any COP outcome that might hinder their operations,” Ben Lilliston, from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy told DeSmog. Meat isn’t the only industry under the spotlight.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Dubbed the Glasgow Climate Pact, the agreement crucially puts pressure on countries to come foward next year with updated climate plans, promises more funding for climate adaptation, and for the first time ever includes explicit references to the need to drive down coal and phase out fossil fuel subsidies. Phase out coal.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Worse still, it has now emerged from new undercover reporting that Saudi Arabia is operating a so-called ‘Oil Sustainability Programme’ (OSP) designed to artificially increase demand for oil across Africa and Asia. Now the air pollution from burning fossil fuels alone is estimated to kill more than tobacco smoke.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

But group of petrostates resist calls to phase down fossil fuels and accelerate decarbonisation efforts. The so-called High Ambition Coalition of nations argued the draft text should include a commitment to phase down all fossil fuels and clearer commitments to accelerate the roll out of renewables. warming target.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

Since these standards were developed, the demand for carbon offsets has increased over the years. Carbon offset program #1: Renewable energy. Energy Information Administration (EIA) predicts that there will be a sharp increase in the amount of renewable energy generated between 2010 and 2050.

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Business Green

AUGUST 4, 2020

The plan - which outlines how the oil giant intends to slash its oil and gas output by 40 per cent by the end of the decade, increase its annual spending on low-carbon technologies and energy 10-fold, and reimagine the fossil fuel business as an integrated energy company - has pushed BP from net zero laggard to what looks like a global leader.

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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. The future of fossil fuels Let’s start with some backstory on COP28. Greenhouse gas emissions come from extracting and burning fossil fuels, of course.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

It also noted the decision to end fossil fuel production was an "inherently political" decision that would have to be made by the Secretary of State on the basis of a number of considerations outside of the committee's official climate-focused remit.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2021

But Ministers insist end to financial support for overseas fossil fuel energy projects, £16bn transition plan for North Sea, and climate compatibility test for new projects can put UK on track to net zero emissions. We will not leave oil and gas workers behind in the United Kingdom's irreversible shift away from fossil fuels.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2021

Among its various demands, Extinction Rebellion is calling on the government introduce an immediate ban on new fossil fuel investments, arguing the move would help the world stay within the Paris Agreement's 1.5 warming limit. That makes the government's emissions targets a sham," he said.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

IEA predicts major gains on energy efficiency in 2022 in response to energy crisis, but BloombergNEF warns current clean energy policies still put world on track for a 2.6C The slowdown came after the global rate of energy efficiency improvement had already fallen from two per cent in the first half of last decade to 1.3

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2022

BusinessGreen rounds up the leading reaction to the government's plan for shoring up British energy independence in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. This will reduce our dependence on power sources exposed to volatile international prices we cannot control, so we can enjoy greater energy self-sufficiency with cheaper bills."

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Sophie Punte from the We Mean Business Coalition sets out the top demands from business leaders at the Glasgow Climate Summit. Businesses have a stake in the COP outcomes for three main reasons - let me explain. per cent in global emissions from energy and industrial processes over the same period. ºC pathway. ºC.

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