Charged

JUNE 8, 2022

Furthermore, most of them are actively lobbying against climate action by governments. Companies’ regional sales targets reflect the level of pro-EV government policy (or the lack thereof). Tesla, the only company that sells no fossil fuel vehicles, was the only one that earned a decent grade—a B—for its lobbying efforts.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 7, 2020

This will allow far more businesses, citizens and politicians across North America and the world to join, says a press release. It brings together national, state and regional government leaders, businesses and the broader climate sector to accelerate climate action.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The report, which looks to a 2030 energy system in which clean tech plays a significantly greater role than today, states how sheltering consumers from volatile fuel prices in 2022 cost governments $900 billion in emergency support. ” The energy world will look very different by 2030, even under today's policy settings ?

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2023

That is the headline conclusion from a new YouGov survey of 2,000 adults commissioned by the Warm This Winter coalition of fuel poverty and environmental charities, which found 54 per cent of Brits want to see an acceleration in the UK's clean energy transition.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

A week later, the federal government announced $12 million to help Nova Scotia with electricity grid upgrades. We recently ran this analysis for Nova Scotia, where a suburban family that ditches fossil fuels entirely in favour of clean energy alternatives can save $940 a month.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The normally cold and wet Siberian taiga — or boreal forest, as we call it in North America — broiled and dried out. billion tons in August, about half as much as the monthly emissions from fossil fuels. It’s no surprise that the combination of hot, dry forests and lightning is producing a lot of fires.

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 18, 2021

.” Below are some of its key findings: FOSSIL FUELS. Fossil fuels fall from around 80% of total energy supply to around 20% by 2050. Remaining fossil fuels will be used in plastics, captured and stored, or in sectors with few clean options. Natural gas demand declines 55% and coal demand declines 90%.

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Business Green

JULY 21, 2022

Carbon emissions from the electricity sector are set to decline this year, as demand growth for electricity around the world slows and additions of renewable power generation edge fossil fuel generators off electricity grids around the world, according to the latest data from the International Energy Agency (IEA).

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Smart Energy International

MAY 15, 2022

The pivot to renewable energy away from fossil fuels will help slash global carbon emissions — but it’s likely to put significant strain on the grid, writes Emily Newton. The most popular forms of renewable energy cannot flexibly increase or decrease production to meet demand like fossil fuel-fired power plants can.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 5, 2022

Enbridge Gas launches first-of-its-kind hydrogen-blending project in North America Angeles Link – a proposed hydrogen hub for California’s LA Basin Eurogas director on decarbonising industry, hydrogen and ‘the essence of sector integration’. Have you read? NCPA’s Lodi Energy Center power plant is located adjacent to H2?

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

It also would significantly decrease demand for natural gas, diesel and other fossil fuels, helping to accelerate California’s and the region’s climate and clean air goals. Initial comment from the industry, state and city governments and labour has been positive. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 27, 2019

Though Alberta may have been “slower to adopt new forms of energy” because of its connection to fossil fuels, Greengate CEO Dan Balaban said that’s changing. Wind has already boomed in the region, and Alberta ranks third among Canadian provinces for installed wind capacity, according to government data.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Fossil fuels - oil, gas, and coal - are still very much the backbone of the global energy system, and these industries employ tens of millions of workers around the world. Clean energy employs more people worldwide than fossil fuels. Fossil fuel employment is struggling to recover from the pandemic.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Editor’s Note: This is part of a regular column, Gaslit , which navigates society’s dysfunctional relationship with fossil fuel disinformation. Heatwaves are scorching Europe, the United States, North Africa, Siberia, and some parts of the Middle East and China. Have a tip or idea? Get in touch.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 9, 2020

Others, including Utah and Wyoming , have resisted pressure from activists and local governments to take this path. The trade group’s members include EDF Renewable Energy, Invenergy, Constellation Exelon, Shell Energy North America and others with significant fleets of renewable energy projects across the country.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

above pre-industrial level, an estimate that remains unchanged since last year despite hundreds of governments promising to enhance their decarbonisation pledges ahead of this week's COP27 Climate Summit. CAT said that if governments deliver on these goals it would theoretically put the world on course for 1.8C of warming.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Last year also saw a strong acceleration in renewable energy, as a number of governments placed climate action at the heart of their post-Covid recovery plans. North America and developing Asia attracted about 200 projects each. Latin American and the Caribbean and Africa had 150 and 100 projects, respectively.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

We would like to thank the Legislature, the Governor, and especially the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) for their efforts to enable geothermal technologies to thrive in New York State to replace fossil fuels for heating and hot water needs. “We are thrilled that Governor Hochul has signed this bill into law. .

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 4, 2021

The transition is also proving to require a team effort that goes far beyond the vehicle manufacturers — and involving governments, utilities and a new ecosystem of technicians to go along with it. First, and perhaps most crucially, it plans to price its vehicles at the same or lower prices as comparable fossil-fuel vehicles.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Climate campaigners, however, see the new piers and pipelines as ominous signs that the gas lobby has finally achieved a long-standing goal to lock Germany into the $100 billion global LNG market – threatening to keep Europe’s biggest economy hooked on fossil fuels for decades to come. “A It’s fossil fuel madness.”.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

A recent DeSmog analysis of over 300,000 tweets from the past five years found that climate science deniers have been principally promoting four major narratives, based on drumming up fears of government control in order to prevent effective climate policies, particularly in the U.S. thereby limiting climate action.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

“I am here to sound the alarm alongside my German colleagues: This is destruction masked as economic development, and we will do everything we can to protect our homes and to stop it,” said Anne Rolfes, director of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade , a New Orleans nonprofit working with communities affected by the fossil fuel industry.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2022

SMMT hailed "another bumper month" for battery EVs in particular, but warned of "greater concern" that the rollout of charge points to support growing demand from plug-in cars remains far behind the pace needed to enable the government's target of ending the sale of new fossil fuel cars from 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 1, 2021

C, in line with the Paris Agreement: no investment in new fossil fuel projects, and an end to petrol and diesel cars by 2035. But the vision it presents governments is fantastic in another sense of the word, too. Its reports both reflect and shape the prevailing paradigm for how governments respond to the climate crisis.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2022

SMMT chief executive, Mike Hawes, heralded the UK's new EV sales record as a significant moment in the UK's transition away from fossil fuel vehicles. The continued uptake of EVs is dependent on government and policy makers ensuring the rollout of the charging network is done properly.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 11, 2023

The agenda for the conference, which is being hosted in Boise, Idaho, shows that the Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA) and the waste management company Veolia North America are sponsoring two of the “beat dinners” hosted on Friday, April 21 — the third day of the event.

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Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2022

Hamid is currently global finance program director at The Sunrise Project, a global network focused on building campaigns to end financial support for fossil fuels. She is also a board member of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Migrants. Previously, Hamid has worked at senior levels in several Greenpeace offices around the world.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

But it argues the sector has a significant role to play and stresses that a number of technologiesare already available that can deliver major emissions reductions, with the report providing an overview of 31 existing CCUS projects in Europe and 24 in North America. French citizens' assembly slams government climate plan.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Meanwhile, across the dewy-green region north of California, supposedly eco-friendly governments of Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia that failed to fulfill climate promises for a decade have once again pledged to do better. Renewable solar and wind power now typically costs less than fossil-fuel alternatives.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

We can evolve business (and cities, governance and individuals) to be and do better. My focus at work has been providing tools, trainings and resources for all of Unilever’s employees in North America, focusing primarily on parents, women and our POC talent. Urban Designer and Planner; Sydney, Australia.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 27, 2022

The Canadian government published its proposed Frame for the Clean Electricity Regulations (CER), a follow-up to a discussion paper published in March. While the CER limits is expected to become binding in 2035, it likely would deter any new unabated fossil fuel-fired generation in Canada. Both values remain to be determined.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

PARIS — Shell expects its filling stations to become fossil-fuel free, eventually. In addition to the power sector, Shell New Energies is responsible for the company's activities in new fuels, namely hydrogen and biofuels.

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Clean Energy Canada

OCTOBER 4, 2019

For one, jobs in our clean-energy sector are set to grow more than three times faster than the Canadian average between 2020 and 2030, while jobs in our fossil-fuel sector will decline half a per cent annually over that same period (in part thanks to automation). Provinces also provide real-world case studies.

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Mr. Sustainability

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The so-called Porthos project in the North Sea should therefore be a milestone in Europe. is captured from flue gas that is released when fossil fuels are burned. Last summer, Minister Eric Wiebes of Dutch Economic Affairs and Climate Policy wrote that since 2008 the government has paid out approximately € 4.5

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The biggest question that comes to mind is how to make this transition happen in accordance with the timeline that the Canadian government has set in 2050. The major difference is that many times the best renewable sources are in different locations than the best fossil fuel sources.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda that calls for governments and industry to work together to find new solutions to climate change–driven food insecurity. It also states that it will hold regular meetings with the Australian government before the summit.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2022

The government has presented further details of its plan for scaling up direct air capture, CCUS, and BECCS technologies in the coming decade. The estimates come in the government's response to a host of recommendations from the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) last year on the role for carbon removals in the net zero transition.

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