DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

The consultant was the sole interviewee in the segment, in which she claimed that the move to renewable energy, primarily wind power, was increasing the risk of blackouts. Porter’s blog repeatedly cites the work of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate science denial group.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2022

Redwood , a former advisor to Margaret Thatcher, has described government measures to tackle global warming as “radical” and defended climate sceptics as misunderstood. In July, he tweeted that leadership candidates should not support shutting down “fossil fuel using industry” in the UK, saying this would “cripple” the economy.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

This story originally appeared in AGU’s Eos Magazine and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. Renewables will make up 84% of energy jobs in 2050, primarily in wind and solar manufacturing. The future looks bright for solar and wind.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 30, 2021

Fossil fuel companies lied for decades about climate change, and humanity is paying the price. The crime in question is the fossil fuel industry’s 40 years of lying about climate change. Their aim was “to reposition global warming as theory, not fact,” one planning document stated. By Mark Hertsgaard.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Mark Fullbrook, who ran Truss’s leadership campaign, launched a political consultancy – Fullbrook Strategies – in March , with clients including Cerulean Winds, official records show. DeSmog estimates that powering the new field with wind energy for a year would save the equivalent of 0.2 Green’ Oil Rigs.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Plus all the top green business news from around the world this week, including global wind capacity forecasts, food system CO2 fears, and an IKEA second-hand store in Sweden. Russia eyes fossil fuel growth as it unveils 2030 climate goal. Global wind capacity to reach record 1,000GW by 2025.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

“It’s obviously pretty alarming and dangerous,” Erika Seiber, a spokesperson at the nonprofit Friends of the Earth and member of a global coalition called Climate Action Against Disinformation , said of the upcoming ARC Conference. Now they tell us that the global warming is an existential threat to humanity. Which is it?”

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 16, 2021

For comparison, the Fort McMurray fire of 2016 was up to six times more likely as a result of global warming. While a decline in fossil fuel use is well-documented, crops will increasingly be impacted as well, by droughts or unexpected snowstorms. Climate change threatens many important industries.

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Green Living Guy

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Renewable energy development is key for Thailand to cut its dependency on fossil fuel imports, as gas-based thermal power generation accounted for nearly 61.3% GlobalData’s latest report, ‘Thailand Power Market Size, Trends, Regulations, Competitive Landscape and Forecast, 2022-2035’, reveals […].

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

West driven by increased heat and dry conditions linked to global warming from human carbon emissions. It starts with collecting data on the carbon intensity of the power supplied across different regions and calculating the resulting carbon footprints of different facilities.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

However, with women making up just 12 per cent of the UK's renewable energy workforce, the country lags far behind the global average, with women making up almost a third of the world's renewable energy jobs, IRENA said. For comparison, in the fossil fuel sectors women make up around 21 per cent of the workforce.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

The death knell is being sounded for fossil fuels. By far the most startling aspect of today's report is the outlook for fossil fuels. Crucially, by 2035, no cars powered purely by fossil fuels should be sold anywhere in the world, which would effectively remove a huge market for the oil industry.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

At COP21, world leaders agreed to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 in pursuit of capping global warming to 1.5°C C threshold by 2030, with global energy-related emissions falling by only 9%. Fossil fuels will continue to make up 50% of energy demand by 2050, with gas maintaining its position, according to the report.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

The plans, available at The Solutions Project’s “ Clean Energy ” link, reveal the unique mix of wind, water and sun technologies capable of powering states, countries and even select U.S. Wind, Water and Sun (aka WWS) include wind power; waterpower from tides, rivers, and subsurface water (geothermal water); and solar power.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Imagine you woke up in 2030 to find that Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia had done little to slow the global warming that cooked the Cascadia region this year. We have not kept pace with the scope of the crisis,” Oregon Global Warming Commission Chair Catherine Macdonald wrote to legislators that month.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

An emergency reconciliation bill, which can be passed with a simple majority rather than being subjected to a Senate filibuster, could include shifts in spending on existing channels of federal funding, such as energy incentives for fossil fuel versus clean energy industries. Successive polls show that a significant majority of U.S.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2022

The remarkably rapid march of renewable power could see it become the backbone of much of the global electricity system by as soon as the end of this decade - but concerted policy action is still needed to deliver a successful transition away from fossil fuels towards a system dominated by solar, wind and hydro power.

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Green Living Guy

DECEMBER 30, 2020

They’re called fossil fuels. These are power sources like crude oil and natural gas that we use to sustain ourselves. What’s one significant contributor to climate change? Fortunately, we can turn to renewable energy alternatives that work similarly — and are better for the planet. Take a look to see.

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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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Business Green

JANUARY 7, 2022

As the report dictates, and is now protected by law, it is imperative for the UK to reduce its emissions, with numerous initiatives relying on the goal of installing 40GW of offshore wind by 2030, eventually building up to 100GW by 2050. We need to revolutionise the way we power people, from heating to transport and beyond.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2022

Namely, it would mean a long-term extension - and renewal back to the full value - of the Investment Tax Credit (ITC) and Production Tax Credit (PTC), two credits that have spurred forward the deployments of solar and wind power that have been set to sunset.

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Green Living Guy

MAY 5, 2021

The reign of fossil fuels has long been over, but many carbon producers just didn’t get the memo on time. Despite its early promise, solar energy is still behind wind and hydro. Now they have. The future clearly belongs to renewable energies, but which one will take the lead?

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

A rapid shift away from fossil fuels is also needed alongside a major ramp up in renewable electricity capacity - largely provided by wind and solar projects - which will form the backbone of the future energy system, while development of hydrogen, carbon capture and new modular nuclear technologies is also crucial, the report warned.

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Green Living Guy

MAY 5, 2021

The reign of fossil fuels has long been over, but many carbon producers just didn’t get the memo on time. Despite its early promise, solar energy is still behind wind and hydro. Now they have. The future clearly belongs to renewable energies, but which one will take the lead?

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The cost of wind power and solar power has plummeted over the past decade whilst creating thousands of jobs.”. In 2016, Theresa May received a £15,000 donation from Ian Taylor, chair and former global chief executive of Vitol Group, the Dutch oil and shipping company.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 12, 2020

The cuts in crabon intensity are expected to be largely delivered through a huge expansion in renewables capacity, with Xi confirming a new target to boost the share of non-fossil fuel energy to 25 per cent of primary energy demand by 2030, in addition to delivering 1.2 billion kilowatts of solar and wind power by the same date.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

During the leadership contest, Truss defended her tax plans by citing economist Patrick Minford, an IEA trustee who has institutional connections to the climate science-denying Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). In 2016, he blamed high energy prices on solar and wind power, saying on Twitter: “This is how UK climate policy works.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The falling costs of wind and solar power are pushing utilities to find ways to incorporate them into their long-range plans, even as they struggle to define what resources can be relied on to provide the dispatchable power they need. Duke's utilities serve 7.7 million electric customers and 1.6

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The alliance, which represent 22 million supporters in total, has urged the government to emulate their plan in its forthcoming announcement, warning it is critical that the UK show global leadership ahead of the COP26 climate summit it is due to host next November. A 2030 phase out for new fossil fuelled cars and vans.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The Trump administration has restricted federal agencies from sharing information on the global warming impacts of human-caused carbon emissions. Danly issued a partial dissent to FERC’s carbon pricing policy statement, calling it “unnecessary and unwise.”

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Nearly all the world's leading carmakers and electric utility companies are set to blow a hole in their individual carbon budgets for limiting global warming to 1.5C, with their continued overreliance on fossil fuels and sluggish rollout of green technologies putting both the climate and their businesses in danger.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Related: Beautiful, solar-powered EV charging stations promise to charge a vehicle in 15 minutes According to Honda, it currently obtains about 21 percent of its North American operations’ power from low- or zero-emission power sources. Honda’s VPPA purchase essentially “de-carbonizes” the electricity grid.

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2022

A failure to further scale up onshore wind power in the UK - despite polling consistently indicating strong public support for onshore turbines, even among Tory and rural voters - is estimated to have heaped additional costs on household bills in recent years by increasing the UK's reliance on expensive fossil fuel imports.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The only specific action named was to “advance” five large-scale carbon capture projects by 2030 and makes no mention of phasing out fossil fuels or of China’s controversial construction of new coal-fired power plants. However, to limit global warming to 1.5°C Walewashing.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

This conference is a global platform to discuss and learn about aims to provide a Renewable energy researchers, scientists, industrialists, policy makers, energy economists and academicians to exchange and share their experiences and research results about all aspects of Renewable Energy and Resources. Green Diesel, Biogas.

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Green Living Guy

MARCH 31, 2021

From solar panels to wind turbines, there’s a lot of attention on reducing your carbon footprint. One of the fastest changing industries for technology is related to the climate. Luckily, there are many simple changes you can make to be a little more eco-friendly in your life. Become More Energy.

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Green Living Guy

JANUARY 29, 2021

Air quality has dramatically improved over the years, but it’s still not up to healthy standards. Many people spend most of their time indoors, and while vents and air purifiers help keep the air clean, it’s not enough. People are often unaware of the impacts of low air quality. Non-renewable.

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