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. But fossil fuel companies aren’t quite shaking in their boots yet.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 11, 2021

We have to stop burning fossil fuels and leave them in the ground. It looks as though, in a corporate-dominated, growth economy, no fossil fuels are going to be left unburnt. Recently, Bloomberg NEF and Bloomberg Philanthropies produced a report on the scale and impact of global fossil fuel subsidies.

Fossil fuels 101

Fossil fuels Packaging Government Carbon 101

Business Green

MARCH 18, 2022

Group calculates global oil demand could be reduce by 2.7 From incentives for public transport to lower speed limits and car-free Sundays, the organisation argued the various measures set out in its plan could lower oil demand by 2.7 million barrels a day if string of 10 emergency measures were introduced. ease market strains ??

Transportation 84

Transportation Demand Fossil fuels Aviation 84

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2021

The environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion (XR) is planning a series of protests targeting the City of London to demand an end to investments in fossil fuels around the world. No New Fossil Fuel Investments’. It’s not a very radical demand”, she added. It’s civil disobedience.”.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Demand Investment 98

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

“Blue” hydrogen is also derived from natural gas but combined with the use of carbon capture and storage (CCS), and is being heavily promoted by the gas industry as a “bridge” fuel to a low-emission future. Juliet Philips, senior policy advisor at the thinktank E3G, described it as “a bit of a red herring as a low-carbon solution”.

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Fossil fuels Hydrogen Europe Natural gas 97

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. Fossil fuel firms tout CCUS and hydrogen as green energy solutions, yet the reality is more complicated.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The impact of electric transportation on pollution and reduced carbon emissions and fossil-fuel consumption is complicated. On the one hand, well-designed electric vehicles (EVs) use much less energy per mile than conventionally-fueled vehicles. Contributed by Philip T. on a typical day. and from 2 to 9 p.m.

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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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Fossil fuels Investment Energy Energy 101

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Nearly two thirds of social media posts put out by six major European fossil fuel and energy companies since the end of 2019 present a “green” image of the company, despite the majority of their business activity remaining in fossil fuels, reveals new analysis by Desmog.

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Business Green

AUGUST 4, 2022

And I urge people everywhere to send a clear message to the fossil fuel industry and their financiers: this grotesque greed is punishing the poorest and most vulnerable people, while destroying our only home.". All countries - and especially developed countries - must manage energy demand," he said.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2021

Analysts have predicted that electric cars and vans will be cheaper than fossil fuel alternatives by 2027 as battery costs continue to fall, production ramps up, and new vehicle designs are developed. BNEF calculates that light electric vans will be cheaper to produce than diesel vans by 2025, with heavy vans following one year later.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 25, 2024

It also looks at the persistence of fossil fuels in its energy mix. On the other hand, DNV forecasts fossil fuels will still account for 40% of its energy mix in 2050. However, oil and gas usage will continue to rely on imports.

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Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Energy 147

Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2022

Electric vehicles (EVs) are set to become the most in-demand option for drivers across Europe within the next three years, with a rapid shift to electric mobility on roads now inevitable over the coming decade and beyond, a major new study of seven national auto markets has concluded.

Fossil fuels 87

Fossil fuels Europe Electric vehicle Demand 87

Green Living Guy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

They’ve done so in eight European countries about their demand for fossil-fuel-free transport in future procurements. The post New Report Shows Companies are Willing to Pay More for Transport Suppliers With Lower CO2 Emissions appeared first on The Green Living Guy.

Transportation 78

Transportation Fossil fuels Demand Climate change 78

GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The global peak in oil consumption may already be past us, according to a new report from Carbon Tracker — and China and India's rapid transition to low carbon transport is the reason why. Ultimately, building out transportation infrastructure from a lower base provides emerging economies a chance to leapfrog to the low-carbon era.

Transportation 130

Transportation Carbon-neutral Electric vehicle Demand 130

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 23, 2022

New large-scale fossil fuel projects have become mostly unworkable in the Pacific Northwest, with dozens canceled over the past decade due to fierce opposition from local communities. First, developers proposed a series of coal train projects in the early 2010s, as domestic coal demand went into decline but was soaring overseas.

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Fossil fuels Natural gas Construction Demand 87

Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 30, 2018

Fossil fuels, a vision of the future or something our children will see in history books? The energy markets, broadly taken to be fossil fuels and renewables, have seen significant changes over the past years. Though hard to predict, most outlooks expect energy demand to rise by about 30% by 2030.

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Fossil fuels Demand Energy Energy 104

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2022

The energy transition continues to gain steam, with oil demand projected to peak in this decade, perhaps as soon as 2025, according to new research by global consultancy firm McKinsey & Company. Every year we’ve published this report, peak oil demand has moved closer. C by 2100, and reaching a 1.5°C

Global warming 361

Global warming Fossil fuels Hydrogen Demand 361

Business Green

JULY 30, 2020

French oil giant concedes oil sands projects are becoming too expensive and warns that 'beyond 2030' peak oil demand beckons. As well as writing down fossil fuel assets, BP, Total and Shell, have also all recently unveiled net zero transition goals, as the firms embark on reshaping their business model for the future green economy.

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Fossil fuels Demand Carbon Natural gas 94

Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Nearly a third of new European e-mobility funding push set to be invested in decarbonsing tech giant's UK transportation network. Amazon has announced it is to invest more than €1bn in decarbonising and electrifying its transportation network across Europe over the next five years, with £300m allocated to its operations in the UK.

Transportation 99

Transportation Europe Fossil fuels Investment 99

The City Fix

MAY 17, 2021

In densely urbanized Hong Kong, transport is the second largest source of greenhouse gas emissions, at 18%. Vehicle traffic is also a major source of toxic air pollutants like NOx, volatile organic compounds and carbon monoxide, accounting for 18%, 21%. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Fossil fuels Pollution Organic Transportation 115

Rinexii

OCTOBER 22, 2021

2021 has shaped up to be rather a surprising year for the fossil fuel industry. After the sudden quarantine of vast swaths of the world through 2020, the shuttering of businesses, and the general loss of revenue, large fossil fuel giants are getting hammered from citizens, government, and even their own investors.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Cooling Patents 52

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This in turn highlights the wind sector’s role in supporting a just and equitable energy transition away from fossil fuels. The report sets out how to maintain a safe and healthy work environment and scale up training capacity to meet the demands of a 1.5C-compliant compliant pipeline of wind energy projects around the world.

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Demand Education Wind power Construction 130

Front And Centered

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Last year the House and the Senate each proposed massive, multi-year packages that failed to pass and failed even harder at closing the justice deficit in our transportation system. People of color have been largely left out of the benefits of the billions spent on transportation and bear a disproportionate share of the burdens.

Packaging 90

Packaging Transportation Fossil fuels Pollution 90

Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

Scottish Widows has claimed that its £250m Environmental Fund now boasts the widest fossil fuel exclusions of any pension provider in the UK, as it unveiled a reboot of the 31-year-old scheme this morning. Outfits that receive revenue from nuclear energy or nuclear uranium mining will also be excluded, it added.

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Fossil fuels Ozone Nuclear Power Investment 85

Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 3, 2023

The Tank-up of Tomorrow Transportation accounts for ~16% of global GHG emissions , and while passenger vehicles have likely gone the way of EVs, cleaning up the remaining 55% of hard-to-decarbonize aviation, heavy ground transport, and maritime shipping is still—well, hard! Engines are optimized for fossil fuels.

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Transportation Carbon Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 52

GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 4, 2020

BP’s hydrogen strategy will include both green and blue varieties, with heavy transport a focus in the U.S. Giulia Chierchia, BP's executive vice president for strategy and sustainability, said green hydrogen is a potential route to establishing an “e-fuels” market. and exports in Australia. Carbon offsets.

Fossil fuels 130

Fossil fuels Hydrogen Carbon Investment 130

GreenBiz

APRIL 20, 2021

The push to quickly transition carbon-intensive activities away from fossil fuels while meeting the world’s growing energy needs has put electricity producers and consumers squarely in the forefront of the emerging clean economy. And the era of fossil fuels is hardly over.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2020

Rockefeller Brothers Fund announces that its investment portfolio has exceeded expectations and industry averages in the five years since it divested from fossil fuels. Well over half the world's oil consumption is used in transport, which has been one of the sectors hit hardest in the downturn" he wrote.

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Fossil fuels Investment Wind power Carbon 101

Business Green

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The think tanks said the record-breaking subsidies were prompted by turmoil in global energy markets that sent fossil fuel prices soaring and prompted governments to intervene to stop households and businesses facing five-fold increases in energy costs.

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Fossil fuels Natural gas Government Energy 36

Business Green

MAY 19, 2020

However, with traditional internal combustion engine car sales set to take an even bigger hit this year, the long-term trend towards electrification of transport is projected to accelerate in the years following the pandemic, according to the influential green energy analyst. per cent to global electricity demand by 2040, BNEF added.

Fossil fuels 97

Fossil fuels Transportation Demand Electric vehicle 97

Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

"This unique project with the Royal Air Force demonstrates the validity of our synthetic fuel and the potential it has to eliminate fossil CO2 emissions from a number of difficult but critical sectors, including transport which currently accounts for 23 per cent of the global total,"he said. "We

Fossil fuels 101

Fossil fuels Aviation Carbon-negative Innovation 101

GreenBiz

JANUARY 27, 2021

The key solutions today are biofuels, only displacing a mere fraction of fossil fuels-based jet fuel, and offsets. Infinium’s electrofuels solution has real potential to help decarbonize transport that carries heavier loads and travels long distances, including air and freight, as well as heavy trucks. Supply Chain.

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Aviation Logistics Fossil fuels Transportation 515

Charged

JULY 9, 2023

Barnard finds the latest version (June 2023) of the Hydrogen Strategy to be an improvement over the first draft, but writes that it still seems to be aimed more at supporting the fossil fuel industry than optimizing the use of hydrogen technology to reduce emissions. per gallon of gasoline, or 83% of the retail price right now).

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Over 600 businesses including Unilever, Netflix, and Volvo Cars have signed an open letter urging world leaders to strengthen short and long term climate targets, end support for fossil fuels, and ramp up climate finance ahead of crunch talks at the G20 and COP26 summits this autumn.

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Fossil fuels Policy Global warming Resilience 101

Smart Energy International

AUGUST 3, 2022

Imported fossil resources contribute to all three of the challenges of the energy transition. This raises several questions which must be discussed together including: How can we prepare the electricity grid for such a structural change in both supply and demand of electricity? Demand side measures. Image: GridBeyond.

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Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 98

Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 17, 2022

The ambitious proposal was included in the REPowerEU plan , which detailed a vast number of changes designed to curb reliance on Russian fossil fuels by 2027, and thus catalysing Europe’s transition to renewable energy. In doing so, we could see an acceleration in the transition to net-zero.

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