DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2023

A hydrogen industry lobby group has produced a comic book aimed at high schoolers that suggests solar and wind power are incapable of fueling decarbonization goals, and that only hydrogen fuel cells provide sufficient energy to eliminate fossil fuels.

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The Verge: Energy

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

It doubles down on the need to swiftly switch to renewable energy while minimizing the use of technologies that are still largely in demonstration and prototype phase today, including carbon capture and hydrogen fuels. Today, “hydrogen production is more of a climate problem than a climate solution,” the report says.

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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 conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity. Document 1: 1959.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Another $70 million will go toward hydrogen refueling infrastructure, with $25 million more for “zero- and near-zero carbon fuel production and supply” to meet the need for alternatives to battery-powered vehicles in the decades to come. This week's announcement follows on Gov. and the Netherlands. and the Netherlands.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

But the groups have unearthed a 1970 report by Eni’s Isvet research centre that warned of the “catastrophic” risk the build-up of carbon dioxide (CO2) caused by burning fossil fuels could pose to the climate. Methane is the clean energy of the future,” ran a 1986 promotion in Eni’s company magazine Ecos.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 25, 2024

Key uncertainties include levels of methane leakage and venting along the supply chain, assumptions around the global warming potential of methane, emissions from shipping the LNG to its destination, and the extent to which LNG replaces more polluting energy sources versus clean energy.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2022

In 2022 this has led us to stories that have unmasked all manner of trickery: from the minutiae of misleading stickers marketing “hydrogen-ready” boilers to the sinister presence of sanctioned coal barons at this year’s COP27 climate summit. It was a tough year for the green transition. Plenty for DeSmog to get stuck into, in summary.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Meat emits around a third of global emissions of methane, and action to cut this greenhouse gas has been identified by the UN and world leaders as the quickest route to slowing global heating. Farming also relies on synthetic fertilisers that are both fossil-fuel-based and emit greenhouse gases, and drives deforestation.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

But we don’t yet have economical ways to fly airplanes, power large ships, make key materials like steel or cement, or grow food without sending planet-warming emissions into the atmosphere. . The Department of Energy announced a Hydrogen Shot , a program to make clean hydrogen fuel 80 percent cheaper than it is today, in June.

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2022

The Jadar mine was regarded as one of Serbia's biggest foreign investment projects, but environmental groups criticised the plan, claiming it risked polluting land and water in the area. "As far as project Jadar is concerned, this is an end," Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic told reporters yesterday, according to Reuters.

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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 24, 2022

About 77% of the citizens agree that a more important energy priority should be developing alternative energy resources like wind and solar power and hydrogen technology instead of increasing fossil fuel production. Green hydrogen is generated from low-carbon power or renewable energy. Versatile Fuel.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Major net zero blueprint for global chemicals sector argues transformation into 'planet-positive force' is technically feasible would deliver huge financial and jobs benefits. Similarly, ammonia production would need to grow by 330 per cent in order to help create plastic without using fossil fuels as a feedstock, it estimates.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Dubbed the Green Vessel Classification system, the scheme is set to include a new Greenhouse Gas Emissions Fee for ships using the canal, in a bid to accelerate the shift away from fossil fuels towards greener forms of shipping, according to Maritime Executive. Iberdrola and H2 Green Steel plot 1GW green hydrogen plant in Spain.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The new target covers upstream industries such as power generation, including Scopes 1 and 2 direct emissions, as HSBC said it "believes that power generation is where the majority of sector emissions occur through the use of fossil fuels as a source of energy".

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 30, 2024

Keeling’s findings would lead him to conduct a separate series of experiments from the top of the Hawaiian volcano Mauna Loa resulting in the famous Keeling Curve — a visual depiction of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) caused by the burning of fossil fuels. His work underpins our understanding of manmade climate change.

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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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Business Green

APRIL 3, 2023

As a food company, for instance, moves to cut its carbon pollution to avert the serve risks to its resources and assets from a heating planet, that will impact how the farmers it buys from grow their crops, the distribution companies it uses to transport its goods power their fleets, and what ends up on supermarket shelves.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. The hope is that limiting global warming to 1. Commonly known as soot, it is formed from wildfires and fossil fuel consumption and contributes to climate change. Short-lived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs).

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Oil and Gas UK announces name change to account for members growing interest in blue hydrogen, offshore wind and CCS. The likes of Equinor, BP, Shell, Total, and others all now boast net zero strategies and hold significant stakes in a host of established offshore wind projects and planned carbon capture and hydrogen developments.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

It’s vodka, made without any potatoes or grains, and the key ingredients are hydrogen and captured carbon dioxide. Their technology combines CO2 and hydrogen using a metal catalyst to produce ethanol (ethyl alcohol), a chemical building block. The resulting product has been blended into jet fuel and spun into synthetic fibers.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 22, 2021

H2 Green Steel aims to use hydrogen and renewable power harnessed from Swedish hydroelectric and wind projects to produce steel with a carbon footprint that will be up to 95 per cent lower than that produced using coal. "Our Sourcing steel produced using hydrogen and green power can make a vital contribution to this.".

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

When we turn them into fuels and burn them, no new carbon is added to the atmosphere —the whole cycle is considered “carbon neutral.” Proponents tout biofuels as an answer for industries that can’t easily replace fossil fuels with clean electricity or batteries, like flying, shipping, and long-haul trucking.

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 16, 2021

Comparing before and after photos, most people thought that reduced air pollution may have only been COVID-19 pandemic ’s redeeming quality. Plastic pollution brings a host of environmental problems, with many ending up in landfills for, possibly, eternity. Incineration = Air Pollution. Endangersthe Marine Ecosystem.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Reversing the decline caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, this will primarily be driven by a strong rebound in demand for fossil fuels in electricity generation. Yes, there's a lot to be done to halt the worst effect of global warming but let's be clear: it's absolutely achievable and there's a great deal of willingness to get there.

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

They also reveal strong support for various sources of renewable energy and action that tackles air pollution, alongside steadily growing awareness and understanding of the concept of 'net zero'. I don't think it's good for a political party to be on the side of, you know, climate change scepticism," he tells BusinessGreen. "I

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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. In fact, the International Energy Agency has said that new oil and gas projects are not compatible with keeping warming below 1.5C – an international climate goal that has been adopted by the UK government.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

New analysis reveals Net Zero Banking Alliance members funnelled $33bn towards expanding oil and gas production over past year, but banks insist they are working to reduce their exposure to fossil fuels. temperature goal alive. If oil and gas demand decreases in line with 1.5C

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Yet as the global economy emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic, emissions are on the rise once again, presenting a monumental challenge over the next eight years if the world is to keep to the 1.5C global warming target countries signed up to in the Paris Agreement on the table.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Key technologies include electrification, on-board batteries, solar panels, synthetic fuels, carbon capture and storage and possibly hydrogen. Once again, we will (and we must ) transition from fossil fuels to into a zero-emission world. All the technology that is required exists and is matured.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

3 the promise of hydrogen flight ; and this one is about the promise of biofuels. Alternative jet fuels or so-called “Sustainable Aviation Fuels” (SAF) are liquid hydrocarbon fuels that can be used with existing aircraft in place of kerosene produced from fossil fuels. 2, electric flight ; no.

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Business Green

MAY 17, 2021

The report makes clear that huge changes are already underway across the global energy system that will have "far reaching consequences" for fossil fuel producers as the economy rapidly embraces clean technologies.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Although there is unlimited supply of the fossil fuels, we should go for the use of renewable energy as it is not only safe for the environment, eco-friendly but also less prone to pollutants if any. using this wind energy there is no pollution and less space occupancy and less cost effective. Green Diesel, Biogas.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Its “conservative estimate” is that extreme weather supercharged by global warming already costs the US $150 billion in damages a year. Extreme weather supercharged by global warming already costs the US $150 billion in damages a year How is the Biden administration coping with this new reality?

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

The firm last week released a new Accelerated Energy Transition Scenario - AET-2 - which explores how "progressive electrification will squeeze the most polluting hydrocarbons out of the energy mix, nearly eliminating their markets". As such, oil demand would shrink, and with it, the power of major oil producers.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Burning coal is the most polluting way to generate electricity and probably the best way to quickly destroy the world (global warming, anyone?). According to the International Renewable Energy Agency ( IRENA ), renewable power is increasingly cheaper than any new electricity capacity based on fossil fuels.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The US and EU are reportedly remaining steadfast in their historic resistance to proposals for a Loss and Damage funding mechanisms, amid fears such a move would be interpreted as an acceptance of legal liability for their historic pollution. alive" by "undertaking rapid, deep and sustained cuts" in greenhouse gas emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Compiled by Dutch climate activist Vatan Hüzeir , and reviewed by DeSmog and Dutch investigative journalism platform Follow The Money , the documents show how Shell was actively supporting research that clearly underscored the dangers posed by burning its fossil fuel products from the mid-1970s — years earlier than previously thought.

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