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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Trucks powered by liquified natural gas (LNG) may be no better for the climate than diesel lorries and could be guilty of polluting the air far more than claimed by manufacturers, according to a new study from Transport & Environment (T&E). per cent less methane than the former. It found the latter emitted only 7.5

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 16, 2023

fossil fuel firms are pushing to build more than 2,900 miles of natural gas pipelines to feed liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facilities in Louisiana, Texas, and Alaska, in a bid to send more of the fuel to Asia and Europe, a new analysis by Global Energy Monitor shows. Several times a year I would hear a huge purge.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The European Investment Bank (EIB) will stop backing fossil fuel energy projects in 2021, except those using carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology or offsets to cancel out their emissions. “The EU bank has been Europe’s climate bank for many years. The benchmark looks like it will be set higher.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Greenpeace Italy and Re:Common have alleged in their climate lawsuit — Italy’s first — that despite knowing at least as early as 1970 that burning fossil fuels posed a serious climate risk, Eni went on to promote “natural” –- or methane – gas as a safe energy source for decades. the spokesperson stated.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

“I am here to sound the alarm alongside my German colleagues: This is destruction masked as economic development, and we will do everything we can to protect our homes and to stop it,” said Anne Rolfes, director of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade , a New Orleans nonprofit working with communities affected by the fossil fuel industry.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 24, 2021

Leaking methane from oil and gas infrastructure is widespread across the European continent, reveals an investigation of more than 150 sites in seven countries. More than 60 percent of the sites analyzed by researchers using state-of-the-art technology were releasing large volumes of methane – a powerful greenhouse gas – into the atmosphere.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Wastewater from overburdened urban septic systems and air pollution from burning fossil fuels contribute to nitrogen pollution, but often runoff of the synthetic fertilizers used in industrialized agriculture is the primary culprit. The good news is that governments have begun to acknowledge the crisis.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The report stresses the world is still "heading in the wrong direction" in its response to climate change, with greenhouse gas concentrations continuing to rise to record highs and fossil fuel emission rates having now risen back above pre-pandemic levels after the temporary drop that resulted from national lockdowns.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. Scientists say that unless swift action is taken, methane from agriculture alone will take us beyond a 1.5C It’s really about production at the end of the day.”

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

This story is part of a DeSmog series on the influence wielded by the gas lobby in Europe BERLIN, Germany — Germany’s push to achieve climate neutrality by 2045 could, by some projections , soon turn the vast network of natural gas pipelines powering the country’s homes and industry into one of Europe’s biggest stranded assets.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

But recent investigations by DeSmog have exposed the industry’s promotion of “false solutions” (such as high-tech plans to lower the methane quotient of cow burps), which have been championed by the U.S.-led Growing Pressure from Polluters. academic Jennifer Jacquet. “In

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Civil society and courts in Europe are pushing back. JBS, the world’s largest meat company — whose methane emissions exceed the combined livestock methane emissions of France, Germany, Canada and New Zealand — has also claimed to be on a net zero pathway based on offsets. The airline has pulled certain ads from the market.

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Business Green

JULY 16, 2020

The target covers both carbon dioxide and methane emissions from OGCI member companies' operated upstream oil and gas exploration and production activities, as well as emissions from associated imports of electricity and steam. Having some targets to reduce carbon pollution is better than none," he said.

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Business Green

AUGUST 20, 2020

Moreover, the production of synthetic nitrogen is highly energy intensive and is currently reliant on burning fossil fuels, research published by the food and farming charity this week points out. Unless we reduce nitrogen pollution, we will never be able to reach net zero targets.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2022

French President ramps up green offering, as EU accelerates efforts to tackle fossil fuel imports. The far-right is a climate-sceptic project, a project that wants to leave Europe's climate ambitions, that wants to destroy windmills.". The choice today is clear," he said. EU mulls stronger renewables target for 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This story is part of a DeSmog series on the influence wielded by the gas lobby in Europe and was developed with the support of Journalismfund.eu. It’s fossil fuel madness.”. Now, the city is at the forefront of the country’s dash to break its dependence on Russian gas. Credit: DeSmog. Hopes Resurrected.

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Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2022

The chief of the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM), the joint sustainability initiative backed by the world's biggest miners, is confident Europe's drive to shore up mineral security and deliver on climate goals could result in a cleaner and greener future for the global mining industry. "I

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 26, 2022

Kerry applauded the pledge made by countries that make up 65% of the global GDP to align policies with the Paris Climate Change Agreement and the 109 countries that committed to reducing methane emissions by 30% which, according to the International Energy Agency, would be equivalent to operating every truck, vehicle, plane, and ship at net-zero.

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2022

The mine was expected to produce enough lithium to power over one million electric vehicles, making it one of Europe's biggest lithium mines by output, in addition to a host of other materials for various applications. As such, Guterres said that "the battle to keep the 1.5C

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2022

Upfront investments in low carbon infrastructure deliver much faster paybacks than they did a year ago, because the fossil fuels they displace are orders of magnitude more expensive. per cent gain, almost entirely as a result of higher fossil fuel prices. per cent loss of GDP to a 0.5

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The use of these chemicals also damages the environment in other ways; much of the fertilizer used in the world today is the product of methane gas, a fossil fuel, while the wide-scale use of pesticides has been linked to the damage of ecosystems and vital populations of pollinators.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

methane - CH4). Hydrogen gas can be extracted via several methods, the most common of which is steam methane reformation. Low or zero carbon hydrogen can be used to replace current polluting hydrogen as an industrial chemical feedstock. On earth, hydrogen is found in huge volumes in water (H2O) and hydrocarbons (e.g.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Over the last decade, Bloomberg Philanthropies has helped shut down two-thirds of coal-fired power plants in the US and half in Europe - and that work continues. Just as we have been succeeding in the US and Europe, with the help of strong partners on the ground, we are determined to succeed globally.".

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

In our interactive Routes to Influence Map below, DeSmog has plotted the extent of the opportunities open to the world’s most powerful and polluting food and farming companies and lobby groups to influence debates at COP28. Major pesticide and fertiliser producers such as Bayer and Nutrien, who attended last year, will be back. “A

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 30, 2021

The direct way is by reducing fossil fuel production, the main source at 73% of global GHG. Europe is following this approach, perhaps because its companies don’t have the enormous success of a shale revolution to maintain. However, CCS is a non-direct approach because it doesn’t stop the emission of GHG from fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

A recent Wall Street Journal investigation found that, while the market for carbon offsets is forecast to see rapid growth and reach over $1 billion this year, the “offsets” themselves can vary widely in their quality and effectiveness at actually reducing pollution. It’s a pollute now, pay later strategy, the report’s authors say.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

However, while on the surface it may appear to be a positive shift towards lowering the greenhouse gas impact of their projects, the rhetoric about carbon-neutral LNG is mostly hollow, in another attempt to greenwash new fossil fuel projects into existence. While the U.S. based grassroots organization opposing LNG, told DeSmog.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2023

Because countries tend to impose higher tariffs on relatively clean finished goods, but lower tariffs on often more-polluting inputs and intermediates, trade policy skews in favour of dirtier product - resulting in an implicit subsidy for CO2 production of $550bn to $800bn per year," she said. per cent while increasing global income by 0.65

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Grist

MARCH 6, 2024

The vision “Our community, we want to envision an alternative economy that doesn’t exploit the region, that doesn’t use our people as cheap labor, that doesn’t pollute the environment, that doesn’t accelerate climate change.” “We don’t have existing fossil fuel refineries here.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Across Europe, a single-use plastic ban will come into effect from 2021, targeting straws, cotton buds, and disposable cutlery, among other products. Rather, by using an alternative resource to fossil fuels, biodegradable straws enable a reduced ecological footprint across the whole of the product lifespan – from production to disposal.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2022

They told me that the facility is already polluting their air, flaring almost nonstop since December, in addition to the noise and light pollution the facility creates, first from construction and now from operations. It will also make it possible to help Europe break free from its dependence on Russian natural gas, they argued. “We

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Rotterdam refineries are among the biggest polluters in Europe Rotterdam has the dubious title of being the absolute leader in the throughput and storage of crude oil in northwest Europe. Why focus on creating sustainable marine fuels? > At Mr. Sustainability however, we are not interested in replacing all fuels.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Rotterdam refineries are among the biggest polluters in Europe Rotterdam has the dubious title of being the absolute leader in the throughput and storage of crude oil in northwest Europe. Why focus on creating sustainable marine fuels? We however are not interested in replacing all fuels. No surprise there.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Europe As the annual United Nations climate conference — known as COP28 — kicked off in Dubai on Nov. This case has been strengthened by authoritative statements from expert sources, such as the International Energy Agency, emphasizing that new fossil fuel development is inconsistent with the goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

WGHI’s members hope this green hydrogen hub can “avoid uneconomic grid build-out, prevent renewable curtailment, repurpose existing infrastructure, reduce greenhouse gases and air pollution, reduce agricultural and municipal waste, and diversify fuels for multiple sectors from steel production to aviation.”

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

. “It is feared that a further rise in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere could lead to a higher average surface temperature on Earth, which could have far-reaching environmental, social and economic consequences,” wrote the authors of a 1987 internal Shell publication entitled “Air Pollution: an Oil Industry Perspective.”

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