Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Continuing to subsidize polluting fossil fuels defies logic,” said Shannon Laun, a staff attorney for the Conservation Law Foundation, in a statement. “If Connecticut’s Global Warming Solutions Act calls for a 45% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, and 80% by 2050. Activists met the news with incredulity.

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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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Grist

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Crystal-clear liquid flows from the array into big plastic drums, which chemists wheel toward a tall metal still. But short-lived products can still benefit the environment if they displace products made from fossil fuels. Sipping “carbon negative” vodka will hardly reduce a drinker’s contribution to global warming.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

For this reason, the hydrogen market today is dominated by steam reformation of natural gas, it’s essentially a fossil fuel. Despite the growing interest in renewable hydrogen, the cost has remained an impediment to widespread adoption and displacement of the fossil-fuel derived hydrogen that dominates the current market.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Oil and gas has dominated discussions at past COPs, which have focused on the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the energy and transport sectors to tackle dangerous levels of global warming. This year will be different. The COP28 host United Arab Emirates is using its presidency to firmly press the need for food transformation.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

And so today's report's conclusion that while the scale of the challenge is monumental - the world must peak emissions by 2025, before halving them by 2030 - it also encouragingly makes clear that the world already has all of the tools it needs to achieve these aims, in order to keep the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 12, 2020

But carbon is also moving constantly through the global economy, which historically has been powered by burning fossil fuels for energy. As a result, carbon dioxide (CO2) and other emissions have risen dramatically since the industrial revolution, presenting a daunting array of challenges for people, planet and prosperity.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

This array of species and surfaces reduces fire intensity and promotes biodiversity. For at least 10,000 years before Europeans arrived, the Indigenous peoples of what is now California benefited from and shaped a landscape that teemed with an incredible array of flora and fauna. As authors Otis Parrish and Kent G.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 12, 2020

But carbon is also moving constantly through the global economy, which historically has been powered by burning fossil fuels for energy. As a result, carbon dioxide (CO2) and other emissions have risen dramatically since the industrial revolution, presenting a daunting array of challenges for people, planet and prosperity.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 15, 2021

These programs can include an array of services, from on-campus EV chargers, access to carpooling programs, financial incentives for buying bikes, e-bikes and EVs, and — for the lucky few — rides to and from work in electric buses.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

Frustration with the banking industry is gaining currency - in particular, the sector's role in financing fossil fuels. The funding was dominated by four US banks - Bank of America, Citi, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo - which together accounted for a quarter of all fossil-fuel financing since 2015.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Canada has not provided a transition pathway for its fossil fuel workers to move into other industries, and as global demand for oil and gas wanes, tens of thousands of workers could lose their jobs, say the authors of a new report. ” Canada is not alone in this task of tackling a Just Transition for fossil fuel workers.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

It was notable that yesterday's event took place just around the corner from Tufton Street, the notorious home to a coterie of free-marketeer groups, including the Institute of Economic Affairs and notorious climate-sceptic organisations Net Zero Watch and the Global Warming Policy Foundation.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 15, 2021

These programs can include an array of services, from on-campus EV chargers, access to carpooling programs, financial incentives for buying bikes, e-bikes and EVs, and — for the lucky few — rides to and from work in electric buses.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

“If you were a fossil fuel project, you would have been shut down long ago.” ” That apparent conservation activist was, in fact, an infamous climate change disinformation artist : Marc Morano, who’s done more than perhaps any other person to manufacture doubt about global warming.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This report, a collaboration between more than a dozen federal agencies and a wide array of academic researchers, takes stock of just how severe global warming has become and meticulously breaks down its effects by geography — 10 distinct regions in total, encompassing all of the country’s states and territories.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

It would appear they learned from the experience of Utah governor Jon Huntsman whose presidential campaign came to an end after he expressed support for science and the veracity of global warming. This trail reveals that Republicans have been bought by the fossil fuel industry. Subscribe in a reader

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

This applies to the fossil fuel and other industries as well as political.parties and most notably, political leaders like Donald Trump. However, in practice the interactions envisioned by the reticulate public sphere devolve into an anarchic array of endless permutations. under the leadership of President Donald Trump.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

BIDEN: It [climate change] is the existential threat humanity faces, global warming. I went out to tech -- you have a facility where you have one of the largest, largest solar panel arrays in the world. That is more important than the profits of the fossil fuel industry. That's where most of the greenhouse.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2019

Americans want their children to know the causes, consequences, and solutions to global warming. So if both teachers and parents want kids to learn about the economic and societal impacts of global warming, why is this not happening? Specifically the fossil fuel industry and Republican legislators whom they help elect.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

The landmark legislation's climate provisions could unlock billions of dollars of low carbon investment and millions of green jobs - but it also paves the way for new fossil fuel infrastructure. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas with a global warming potential many times higher than that of CO2.

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