Inhabitat - Innovation

DECEMBER 16, 2021

A study published in Nature Reviews Endocrinology has linked decreasing fertility rates in humans to burning fossil fuels. The study established that childbirth has steadily declined over the past 50 years. Although the study focused on Denmark, many other nations seem to follow the trend.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Climate activists are protesting the large number of fossil fuel delegates attending the COP27 summit in Egypt. According to research by Global Witness, an international NGO, there are 25% more fossil fuel delegates at COP27 than there were at COP26.

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NRDC onEarth

APRIL 10, 2023

President Biden’s new budget proposes eliminating billions in taxpayer giveaways to fossil fuel companies.

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Grist

MAY 16, 2023

While a century of fire suppression and other land management choices contribute to the severity, climate change is a key factor fueling these fires, roughly doubling the acreage burned over the last 40 years. We just don’t know yet.” It’s sort of a weird silver lining,” Wentz said.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

A new study has found that more than 8 million people died in 2018 from poor air quality caused by fossil fuel combustion.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

Major hospital systems and medical institutions in the United States are betraying their oath to “first do no harm” through their investments in the fossil fuel sector, warns a new report from a campaign advocating for fossil fuel divestment in healthcare. private hospital systems.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2023

While the window for avoiding the most catastrophic consequences of climate change narrows, the global banking sector continues to funnel huge sums each year into fossil fuels, finds a new report. Last year alone, the 60 largest banks financed fossil fuels to the tune of $673 billion. trillion on fossil fuels.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JULY 22, 2021

Despite promises, G20 nations continue to invest in fossil fuels amid the climate crisis.

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Business Green

APRIL 26, 2023

Renewables generate more electricity than fossil fuels across the EU for the first time over the past six months, as energy-saving measures saved the bloc €12bn

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Eco-Business

MAY 23, 2023

Climate calamity will cost US$99 trillion in loss and damage by 2100, and the fossil fuel industry is responsible for US$70 trillion of that wreckage – so should pay US$23.2 trillion in reparations by 2050, a groundbreaking new study finds.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2023

Alice Harrison, fossil fuels campaign leader at Global Witness, said in a statement. But fossil fuel companies are working hard to keep skin in the game, and sadly the UN is rolling out the red carpet to them. But Al Jaber is the only COP president who was a fossil fuel CEO at the time of his appointment.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2023

Tory MP for The Wrekin, Mark Pritchard, stands to earn £153,600 in the next 12 months from three jobs with companies that have an interest in fossil fuels. Linden Energy has a 50 percent stake in Bulgaria’s largest private natural gas company, Overgas, and has downplayed the impact of fossil fuels on the climate crisis.

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Green Living Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Yet, the fossil fuel industry aims to increase the demand for plastic over the next decade. The post Greenpeace US Responds to Fossil Fuel Industry Plans to Grow Plastic Demand appeared first on Green Living Guy. The externalities from plastic pollution result in severe health and environmental harm globally.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The findings underscore concerns over the role of the fossil fuel industry at the negotiations, known as COP27, which have become a focal point for deals to exploit African natural gas. These talks are supposed to be about moving us away from fossil fuels, phasing them out,” Sabido told DeSmog. Social license.

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Eco-Business

APRIL 17, 2023

The amount of capital top banks provided to fossil fuel companies has dropped for the first time since 2016. But this is because of record fossil fuel projects not effective green finance policies, a new study finds.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 3, 2023

Even more unpopular is the province providing financial subsidies to fossil fuel companies to encourage more LNG exports, with nearly half disagreeing with this idea (47.5%) compared to 30.5% who would support fossil fuel subsidies. Among NDP and undecided voters, opposition is even higher.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

From the world’s biggest soccer championship to soccer training for kids , from major universities to music festivals and art galleries to — if you can name it, fossil fuel companies have probably sponsored it. TotalEnergies will sponsor the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2023

Campaign group One for One warn fossil fuels should be viewed as the highest risk class of assets and urges government to tighten financial regulations to avert risk of a financial crash. The One for One rule will ensure that banks making high-risk fossil fuel investments shoulder that risk themselves," she added. "It

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In the latest round of survey work by Clean Energy Canada and Abacus Data, Canadians believe a clean energy system that includes hydro, wind, solar power and electric vehicles would be both more affordable and more secure than a fossil fuel energy system. Totals may not add up to 100 due to rounding.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

They are just some of the countries in which Europe-headquartered fossil fuel companies stand convicted or credibly accused of criminal, civil, or administrative offences. The history of fossil fuels is a litany of criminal accusations, from corruption and bribery to human rights violations and even complicity in war crimes.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2023

Individuals and entities linked to climate denial, fossil fuels and high pollution industries donated more than £3.5 However, rather than strengthen the commitment to the government’s legally binding climate targets, the policies are expected to entrench the role of fossil fuels in the UK’s energy system.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Major investment funds available to UK consumers are marketing themselves as “sustainable” and “ethical” while financing fossil fuel companies, research has found. The fund with the most fossil fuel-linked holdings in its portfolio was iShares Dow Jones Global Sustainability Screened. Fuelling the Fire’.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2022

A fossil fuel executive recently told Fortune , “Appalachia is the elephant in the room,” referring to the claim that demand for natural gas is rising, while supply in Appalachia and the United States is falling. But what he gets wrong is that the future does not entail further dependence on fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 2, 2023

New Electoral Commission records released today show that the bulk of the fossil-fuel linked funds came from Christopher Harborne, who donated £500,000 in the final quarter of 2022 – the joint-largest donation registered by the party during this period. million income during the final quarter of 2022.

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Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

The post On deadline, COP27 wrangles with loss, damages and fossil fuels appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, Nov. 21 – Exhausted negotiators from nearly 200 countries clinched a climate agreement in the wee hours Sunday as the two-week global.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2023

Elite law schools in the United States are disproportionately funneling their students into jobs serving fossil fuel clients, according to a new report published Thursday. law firms for their representation of fossil fuel clients. law firms (known as the Vault 100) according to their work for the fossil fuel industry.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 14, 2023

government rules to lower emissions in the fossil fuel sector and create a new Clean Energy and Major Projects Office: “Today’s announcement signals a new direction for B.C.’s would simply not meet its climate targets with a growing fossil fuel sector. “We s emissions and its future economic competitiveness.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

French environmental organizations Notre Affaire à Tous, Friends of the Earth France, and Oxfam France last week filed what they say is the world’s first climate lawsuit against a commercial bank, suing BNP Paribas over its continued funding of fossil fuels. They also say that the financial sector more broadly is on notice.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The post Young savers, if not Republican governors, want their banks out of fossil fuels appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, Sept. 8 – Politicians that seek to ban ESG investing are up against some serious headwinds from the next generation. Banking with.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

But the UN chief once again reserved his fiercest criticism for "the bottomless greed of the fossil fuel industry and its enablers", as he took aim at the hundreds of billions of pounds of profits enjoyed by oil and gas companies in the wake of soaring energy prices sparked by Russia's war in Ukraine. "I No more baby steps.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2023

The Danish toy manufacturer announced plans to replace the fossil-fuel based plastics used in some of its signature toys with lower-carbon alternatives.

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Business Green

JANUARY 25, 2023

Campaign group Make My Money Matter has today published an open letter to the chief executives of HSBC, Barclays, Santander, NatWest, and Lloyds asking them to stop financing fossil fuel expansion. Barclays came out as the second-largest investor, committing $48.3bn to fossil fuel finance during the period.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

A new database cataloging the world’s oil and gas reserves reveals extensive data on the global fossil fuel industry for the first time. The Global Registry of Fossil Fuels, launched by Carbon Tracker and Global Energy Monitor, is the first public and free-to-use database of fossil fuel production, reserves, and emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 29, 2021

Read time: 10 mins In December, The New York Times published a story revealing how ExxonMobil and other oil companies had paid a public relations firm named FTI to build “news” and information websites falsely suggesting grassroots support for the fossil fuel industry and its initiatives.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2021

Read time: 4 mins The fossil fuel industry continues to use a long list of deceptive tactics to conceal environmental destruction that harms Black, Indigenous, and People of Color ( BIPOC ) and low-income communities. That’s the top finding of a newly released NAACP report titled “Fossil Fuel Foolery.”

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2022

The California legislature was close to passing a bill that would require the state’s two massive pension funds to divest from fossil fuels, but on June 21 the legislation was killed by one Democratic assemblyman who has accepted tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from the energy industry.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The world's first public database tracking fossil fuel production, reserves, and emissions has officially launched this morning, in a bid to foster more transparency around fossil fuel production, national energy policies, and stranded asset risks.

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