Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Renewables capacity in Europe and North America grew by 57.3GW and 29.1GW, respectively, while Africa added 2.7GW of capacity, delivering a marginal year-on-year increase. Moreover, Oceania saw 5.2GW of new capacity come online and South America continued an upward trend with 18.2GW of capacity added.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 24, 2021

Japan and South Korea, which traditionally financed overseas coal projects, have started to abandon them , and China sees opportunity. Nearly all of the 60 new coal plants planned across Eurasia, South America and Africa — 70 gigawatts of coal power in all — are financed almost exclusively by Chinese banks.

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Grist

AUGUST 18, 2021

The Pantanal wetlands in central South America burned. Where fires were not visible, the lights of cities and of gas flares were: combustion via the transubstantiation of coal and gas into electricity. Yet as the most recent IPCC report emphasizes, global warming is already baked into the planet for decades, perhaps centuries.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

That’s ExxonMobil touting its “lower-emission solutions” and staff working to “develop our global strategy for creating sustainable energy” while planning a $10 billion investment in new oil and gas reserves in South America. Some researchers have called this “fossil fuel solutionism.” .

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