DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 7, 2022

A media blitz by backbench Tory MPs calling for cuts to green taxes, more North Sea oil and gas extraction, and the return of fracking, is led by politicians with close links to the UK’s main climate science denial group and reflects many of its demands. ‘Politically-Motivated Climate Deniers’.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As policymakers and leaders around the world prepare for pivotal climate discussions at COP28, the sector must seize the momentum to create more renewable energy, enabling other sectors to decarbonise, and shifting demand away from fossil fuels. Vicky Sins, Decarbonisation and Energy Transformation Lead, said: “We cannot keep 1.5

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 16, 2024

More from Davos Schneider Electric chief warns Davos leaders: ‘No time to wait for tomorrow’s climate solutions’ “The ambition to limit global warming and mitigate human-created climate change effects demands a scaling up of climate action.

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Business Green

JANUARY 14, 2021

A new report from McKinsey predicts global fossil fuel demand 'will never return to its pre-pandemic growth curve', but warns the world is still on track to badly miss its climate goals. The oil industry has been particularly badly hit.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 24, 2021

It provides 100 percent renewable power to the City of Houston, and in 2015 it was the first power company in North America to receive certification from the Science-based Targets Initiative (SBTi) that its climate goals aligned with the two-degrees Celsius global warming limit. We really aspire to be a consumer products company.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 30, 2024

This innovative form of hydrogen, produced through the interaction between iron and water under specific conditions, not only provides a potential source of renewable energy but also presents an opportunity to address environmental challenges. What challenges exist in harnessing orange hydrogen?

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The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 14, 2021

The consequences of global warming and the abuse of Earth’s natural resources are becoming more apparent, and people are starting to take notice. As a result, they’re demanding more from the brands they work for and do business with. As a result, they’re demanding more from the brands they work for and do business with.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The report, the second in an ongoing series focussed on the grids, is posited to present a first-of-its-kind global stocktake of the world’s electricity grids, finding that grid length has almost doubled over the past 30 years at a rate of about 1 million km/year, driven by expansion of the distribution networks.

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Green Technology

JANUARY 26, 2023

If you are interested in presenting on these above topics or feel you are an expert in a specific sustainable area, please fill out and send in a session submission form: CLICK HERE. All education sessions and showcase videos will be available on demand following the live Sustainable Facilities Forum on May 18th. and many more.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 25, 2024

s proposed LNG projects would come online in a global LNG market anticipated to see export capacity increase by 43 per cent by 2030, but there is no consensus from governments or industry on future global demand. Natural gas production (48 per cent) and exporting LNG (39 per cent) were the least popular options presented.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Kathryn Porter was introduced as an “energy consultant at Watt-Logic” by business presenter Sean Farrington on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, which has an audience of around six million, on Monday morning (June 19). She also spoke at a webinar run by GWPF’s campaign arm Net Zero Watch last June.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

warming trajectory. Scientists have made clear that global emissions cuts of 45 per cent by 2030 are needed to stand a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C, yet UN analysis suggests that present national commitments would see emissions rise by 16 per cent by the end of the decade, compared to 2010.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

At COP21, world leaders agreed to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 in pursuit of capping global warming to 1.5°C C threshold by 2030, with global energy-related emissions falling by only 9%. Fossil fuels will continue to make up 50% of energy demand by 2050, with gas maintaining its position, according to the report.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 2, 2019

A general sense exists that anthropogenic climate change is changing global weather patterns and events, but that general understanding doesn’t help inform decisions on the regional scale, and decision-makers are demanding reliable information about local conditions and future hazards. An new approach by Otto et al. and Cullen, H.,

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Charged

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Presenting a comprehensive E-Mobility ecosystem, 2035 E-Mobility Taiwan features 6 main categories : Electric, Autonomous, Connected, Interaction, Shared, and EVs, showcasing cutting-edge solutions from electric vehicles, EIC system (battery, motor, and electric control), ADAS, Internet of Vehicles to smart cockpit.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 12, 2020

As a result, carbon dioxide (CO2) and other emissions have risen dramatically since the industrial revolution, presenting a daunting array of challenges for people, planet and prosperity. As the most prevalent of the greenhouse gases (GHGs), CO2 plays an outsize role in global climate change — for example, it accounted for 81 percent of U.S.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 5, 2022

Utilities worldwide are arguably facing the most demanding and far-reaching changes in their operations, with multiple pressures, both top-down from governments and bottom-up from grassroots consumers in addition to their own responsibilities as modern-day businesses. Electricity 4.0 Electricity 4.0

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The letter, sent to 47 company chairs and chief executives, calls on emissions-intensive firms to align all direct corporate lobbying activity and indirect lobbying activity managed by trade associations with the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to 1.5

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Current demand averages at around 40MW, peaking at 75MW in winter, and can fall to as low as 25MW at night during the summer. However, Manx Utilities is confident a majority of the island's demand can be met through an expanded portfolio of wind and solar projects.

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Grist

AUGUST 9, 2022

This complexity has resulted in conflicting messages about the role of human-caused global warming in the droughts that have ravaged the American West and the rest of the world. Scientists have a measure for how “thirsty” the atmosphere is, or how much water the sky absorbs: evaporative demand. The sky gets thirstier.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 1, 2024

Experts said the promotion was misleading and ignored the global warming impact of UK diets. The report states that the CLEAR Center has not only conducted research supporting current animal agriculture practices; it has also actively undermined research presenting unfavourable findings to the industry.

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Business Green

JULY 11, 2021

By investing in forestry assets used to produce carbon offset credits, investors can benefit from growing demand for both compliance and voluntary credits, explains Gresham House's Olly Hughes. As much as 17 billion tonnes of CO2 must be removed from the air by 2050 if global warming is to be kept below 2C. per cent and 48.5

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 18, 2024

GB News presenters have claimed that net zero will cause “death by poverty and starvation”, that the policy “poses an existential threat to the free world”, and have called for the UK to “drill, baby, drill” for more fossil fuels. All of Reform’s donations in 2023 were made by fossil fuel interests and climate science deniers.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 17, 2021

BloombergNEF estimates that clean hydrogen could meet up to a quarter of the world’s energy demand by 2050. To succeed in this global market, Canada must harness its competitive advantages and plan to produce, use, and export the world’s cleanest hydrogen and its related technologies.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 17, 2022

Technologies for renewable electricity generation, energy storage and power grids are essential to decarbonise existing supply and meet growing electricity demand from rapid electrification of buildings, transport, and industry. A big part of this is ensuring that the infrastructure and power supply match the demand for EVs.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 17, 2019

The rapid growth of Vietnam’s population in urban areas is resource intensive and leads to increased energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions. The Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN) Index ranks Vietnam as the 89 th least ready to adapt to climate change. Image source: The Hound. Agriculture. All the constraints i.e

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The term “global warming” stuck. That tonal change drove home the point that this was not merely a phenomenon to be described, but a tectonic shift demanding ongoing reporting. Over the 170 years since Foote’s discovery, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere has leapt from 290 parts per million to more than 400 ppm today.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Climate scientists have warned that limiting global warming to 1.5C by the end of the century requires global greenhouse gas emissions to be halved by 2030, and reduced to net zero by 2050. At present, however, G20 nations' current climate targets put the world on a pathway towads missing the 1.5C

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Business Green

JULY 30, 2021

There they aim to accelerate action to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by the middle of the century. The Paris Agreement, which rests on a commitment by countries to prevent the worst effects of climate change by keeping global warming this century to well below 2°C, preferably 1.5°C,

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Doing so would address a glaring omission in the 2015 Paris accord, which never actually mentions coal, oil, or natural gas despite being an international agreement to stop global warming. Solar and wind power are already cheaper alternatives to coal, oil, and gas in most of the world when it comes to meeting new electricity demand.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Photos I shot in 2022 for DeSmog capture damage from extreme weather events and the continued expansion of the fossil fuel industry — the dominant industry causing global warming. Industries reliant on methane gas continue to expand their footprint, despite bipartisan discussions about the need to develop climate solutions.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The commitment is aligned with the Paris Agreement's target to limit global warming to 1.5C Climate change poses a clear and present threat to the scheme's ability to meet its long-term commitments," said BTPS chairman Otto Thoresen.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 2, 2023

Investigating the possibility of putting data centres into space, LG’s ThinQ UP smart home appliance global launch and ‘circular’ farming with onsite methanol production and use for powering tractors are in the week’s technology radar. The appliances also offer the opportunity for enrolment in demand response programmes.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2023

Furthermore, agriculture, forestry, and land use change are responsible for about 25% of the greenhouse gas emissions that are driving global warming, and agriculture uses about 70% of fresh water supplies. However, it has been estimated that around 768 million people were hungry in 2021.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The new pledge comes amid growing demand for palm oil for use in a huge number of everyday consumer products, which has fuelled deforestation in producing countries where farmers clear rainforest to make way for palm oil plantations, thereby exacerbating climate change by destroying crucial natural carbon stores. "It

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Mosaic

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

97 percent of climate scientists agree that global warming trends are clear and “extremely likely” due to human activities, most prominently the rising emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the burning of fossil fuels. According to the IPCC , limiting global warming to 1.5°C The Earth’s climate is changing.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

The available evidence that these companies lied — and continue to lie — to the public about their central role in exacerbating the climate crisis demands further investigation,” the letter contends. The letter also points to two peer-reviewed studies indicating that Big Oil deceived and continues to deceive the public.

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