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Subsidies to biomass plant in Teesside must be stopped says environmental coalition

Envirotec Magazine

By comparison, the CfD awarded to Hinkley Point C nuclear power station is £106.12/MWh. Utilities across Europe and around the world who are considering biomass should study this project carefully. Unlike cheap wind and solar power, biomass?power power stations can only operate when they are offered sky-high subsidies.

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EU Scientists and Politicians Clash Over Gas and Nuclear as ‘Sustainable’ Investments

DeSmogBlog

In January 2021, representatives from the clean energy sector sent a joint letter welcoming the criteria recommended by the TEG and stating that “the inclusion of power generation with a carbon intensity above this limit would not only deviate from science, but would also harm the EU’s decarbonisation trajectory and its 2050 net-zero objectives.”.

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Can the EU's Taxonomy end greenwashing in the financial sector?

Business Green

The report sets out minimum performance thresholds and standards for activities and sectors that together produce 93 per cent of Europe's greenhouse gas emissions. Financial flows to these green areas will result in an investment boom in sustainable sectors and is expected to create lots of new jobs.".

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The Inflation Reduction Act is signed into law

Smart Energy International

President Joe Biden has signed into law the most significant piece of legislation supporting clean energy and climate change mitigation in US history. With this law, the American people won and the special interests lost,” Biden said at a bill signing ceremony on 16 August. By Jennifer Runyon and John Engel. Transmission.

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Lost Decade: How Shell Downplayed Early Warnings Over Climate Change

DeSmogBlog

Climate Lawsuits Historical evidence of what oil majors knew about climate change is taking on new significance in the courtroom as lawyers seek to hold big polluters to account for the accelerating devastation caused by the climate crisis. based Center for International Environmental Law has reported. Conflicts would abound.

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New Shell Files Could Aid Climate Cases, Attorneys Say 

DeSmogBlog

. “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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Global Briefing: EU emissions fall but SUVs drive up transport CO2

Business Green

Emissions also fell in other industrial sectors and residential buildings that year due to a warmer winter and lower demand for heating, but CO2 from the transport sector continued to increase, largely driven by growing fuel consumption from passenger cars on Europe's roads. Russian parliament approves law to limit greenhouse gas emissions.