DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

While there, Jones edited a 1997 Fraser Institute book entitled Global Warming: The Science and the Politics , which contained essays by people like Willie Soon and Patrick Michaels , prominent spreaders of doubt about the foundations of climate science whose work has been funded by fossil fuel companies.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2024

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world’s foremost climate science body, has stated that carbon dioxide “is responsible for most of global warming” since the late 19th century, which has increased the “severity and frequency of weather and climate extremes, like heat waves, heavy rains, and drought”.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

By Bill Ireland, Logan Energy. Hydrogen is one of the energy solutions that can significantly address climate change and has a vital role to play in decarbonization. In the last decade, green hydrogen in particular has shown great promise as an integral part of the renewable energy mix needed for a sustainable future.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

She is the latest high profile figure to ally with NZW’s parent organisation, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , which is the UK’s principal climate science denial group and part of the Tufton Street network of free market think tanks. Rapidly cutting carbon emissions is necessary to limit global warming to 1.5°C

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Department of Justice to investigate whether Shell and other Big Oil companies’ “alleged campaigns of climate deception” may have violated federal law. Global warming could challenge the very fabric of the world’s ecological and economic systems,” warned Shell executive Ged Davis in one newly uncovered document from 1989.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Weatherford, a lawyer from the corporate law firm Baker Hostetler, stated in opening arguments that Mann was so disliked that “even his own family won’t come to court to defend him.” Michele Bachmann, who once claimed that global warming is “all voodoo” and “a hoax,” was in court to support Steyn as he testified.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Eni’s prediction was quite accurate: Global warming in the year 2000 was exactly 0.5 ° C and CO2 concentrations were around 370 ppm. This is a mandatory prerequisite for filing a defamation lawsuit under Italian law. Eni also understood the need to limit fossil fuel pollution decades ago, according to the report.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

s investigative journalism arm, and the British Channel 4 News this summer exposing how the oil giant and lobby groups such as the American Petroleum Institute seed doubt about climate change and undermine legislation to stop global warming. This document shows that the oil industry was informed of the science of global warming.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Almost half of the world's GDP is now generated in places where authorities have either set, or are proposing to set, a net zero emissions target, according to the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU). degrees, as set out in the Paris Agreement, global greenhouse gas emissions need to reach net zero by 2050 if not before.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 25, 2023

“I even took off my farm boots and wore high heels to come here today,” Camila Telles told the audience of political activists, business executives, and students at April’s Liberty Forum, an annual conservative gathering in Brazil sponsored by the Atlas Network. Some camps supported the reelection of populist strongman Jair Bolsonaro.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Bespectacled, tall, and barrel-chested, with blonde hair and a beard punctuated by gray, Cole stood confidently before a classroom of conference attendees at a University of Oregon environmental law symposium in 2008, less than a year before his death. Almost all aspects of our energy economy thus have environmental justice implications.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

That sends a clear political message that the industry “is less powerful and trusted than before,” Nick Caleb, a climate and energy attorney with Breach Collective, told DeSmog. More than three dozen states and cities are suing oil, gas, and coal companies over their role in causing climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The Assembly is a network of social, environmental, and political groups that have banded together to oppose offshore oil drilling along Argentina’s Atlantic coast. The company’s stock immediately jumped by nearly 9 percent after the law was changed. When the law passed, the public reaction was immediate and intense.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Liz Truss ’s team – who will advise her through the energy crisis – includes staff who have worked for anti-net zero politicians and opaquely-funded climate sceptic think tanks. Others have attacked climate policies and blamed high energy bills on renewable power. She has blamed previous energy bill rises on renewables.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

A proposal to limit HSBC bank climate risk exposure by ending coal financing, a resolution to cut Chevron’s supply chain emissions, a move in support of a climate risk lawsuit against Polish energy company Enea SA. Transferring responsibility and emphasizing that the “onus of energy transition” is shared across multiple actors.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 2, 2023

In his spare time, Walker presents “The Lois and Andre Show”, a fringe YouTube series with Lois Perry, who has said that she does not believe in man-made global warming. We should allow people who are the victims of someone breaking the law to resolve it, so if you glue yourself to the M25, a lorry can run you over,” he said.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2022

But hidden on page 25 of the “Summary for Policymakers” was an even grimmer note: That even in the IPCC’s most optimistic models, the chances of holding global warming to less than 1.5 In short, even if countries were to defy their history of delay and act heroically quickly to boost clean energy, the odds are that it won’t be enough.

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2020

Energy policy veteran Alan Whitehead retains key position, as Matthew Pennycook named Shadow Climate Change Minister. For example, Alan Whitehead is to stay on as Shadow Energy Minister, having seen his brief expanded to also cover Labour's work on delivering a Green New Deal. Tougher air laws and new clean air zones are needed now.".

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2022

If you follow climate or energy news, you've likely been inundated with headlines about the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the 700-plus page federal bill that dedicates $369bn to decarbonise the United States. Clean energy would get cheaper. Here are three takeaways to make sense of the signal through the noise.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

But while coal is being phased-out, oil and gas remain part of the country’s energy mix. The case is represented by lawyers Luca Saltalamacchia, an expert in human and environmental rights protection; Raffaele Cesari, an expert in civil environmental law; and Michele Carducci, an expert in climate law from the University of Salento in Puglia.

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Business Green

JUNE 26, 2020

Plus all the top green business news from around the world this week, including Denmark's new climate law and the Australian mining sector's net zero pledge. global warming ambition, as its members predicted EU prices would average €32 per tonne over the next decade. Denmark agrees 'landmark' climate action law.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

He also referenced building “an energy system free of all unabated fossil fuels.” The report refers to an International Energy Agency dataset which projects, as of March 2023, less than 350 million metric tons of CO2 capture capacity from all of the global CCS projects planned, under construction, and operational in 2030.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

"Large scale deployment of CCUS technology in the UNECE region would allow countries to decarbonise the energy sector and hard-to abate industrial sectors in the medium term to bridge the gap until next generation low-, zero-, or negative- carbon energy technologies become available to meet the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement," the UN added.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Near-term emissions reduction is key Emissions reduction this decade is set to "largely determine" whether global warming can be limited to 1.5C Yesterday's report was unequivocal in its warning that losses and damages are happening now to nature and people, as well as major sectors of the global economy.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

Rishi Sunak has confirmed that a fossil fuel-funded think tank helped to draft his government’s laws targeting climate protests. Sunak’s statement yesterday appears to confirm openDemocracy’s allegation that sections of the 2022 law were ‘directly inspired’ by Policy Exchange’s report. million to the party since 2014.

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

As changing weather patterns driven by global warming have extended California’s wildfire season and increased the intensity and size of the infernos burning across the state, residents who don’t take precautions do so at their own peril. According to Emily Williams, a Ph.D.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Every policy, law, regulation, study, analysis, proposal or action that has the climate crisis in mind is built on the basis of those two figures: 1.5 Like a chicken and egg dilemma, who came up with these goals first, politics or science? Political Origins of 2°C. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

A good indication is the accelerating pace corporate commitments to 100% renewable energy (through the group RE100 ), setting science-based targets (more than 740 companies now), and pursuing the most aggressive carbon reductions in order to hold global warming to 1.5 Senate to pass common-sense gun laws.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Thus far we have made investments towards reducing the climate impact of our food, industrial production, and energy systems, and we are eager to make more. But now, with global warming knocking on our door, the case for mitigation and adaptation solutions is making more and more financial sense.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The most important issue in the case was whether the Clean Air “completely preempted” state law claims. I remain skeptical that the Court is as apolitical as justices of all political stripes would have us believe, but I certainly think that the 10 th Circuit got it right and I would both hope and expect SCOTUS to agree.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

But we’re overdue for more from the governments that we, as tax-payers, voters, and (generally) law-abiding citizens, have contracted to manage our societies. We’re fast approaching the point where our needs for food, space, and energy have stripped Earth’s reserves bare. I know my people.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

It’s more about politics and policy that drives organizations and individuals to “attack the science and confuse the public,” as Michael Mann wrote in his 2016 book, “The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy,” co-written with cartoonist Tom Toles.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Other writers regularly undermined the effectiveness of renewable energy. Nor is it clean”, Conservative peer Matt Ridley wrote in one column, despite evidence that renewable energy in the UK is significantly cheaper than gas. Ridley wrote last year that global heating was “mostly beneficial”. Wind power is not cheap or secure.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2022

The movie is an allegory for climate change , showing how those with the power to do something about global warming willfully avoid taking action and how those with vested interests can mislead the public. In a politically polarized society, individuals may feel pressured to make decisions based on what their social group believes.

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Business Green

AUGUST 2, 2021

But in keeping with the seriousness of the Covid-era the next month looks set to be dominated by an intensifying and hugely important political row over the future of both the British economy and the planet itself. A Hydrogen Strategy that promises to make the UK a world leader in the adoption of hydrogen trains is imminent.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The impacts of global warming are deeply regressive, disproportionately hurting our poorest and most vulnerable communities. The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 was the first piece of legislation signed into law by President Obama. But a stalled effort is also an opportunity to gather energy.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 11, 2015

The state leads the country by housing about half of the nation’s total installed solar capacity, according to the latest data from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). Del Chiaro has taken these two attributes and poured them into her career of working in public policy to help pass green laws and regulations.

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