DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

But in the intervening decades, the region’s rivers were dammed or channeled and the fossil fuel era dawned across Appalachia. Among the other rare and threatened wild creatures living in the coal mining-impacted streams are a dozen different kinds of fish, 39 mollusks, and a wide array of crustaceans and snails, the study reports.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Green business leaders will be hoping Sunak reaffirms his commitment to the UK's net zero target and provide markets with much-needed policy clarity to support the net zero transition following weeks of political turmoil, policy U-turns and economic upheaval.

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 13, 2020

Haque anticipates civilization will end because of the confluence of climate change, mass extinction, ecological collapse, economic depressions, financial implosions, political upheavals, pandemics, plagues, floods, fires, and social breakdowns. Extinction is a political choice. to 12.6 ° F) by the end of the century.

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GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

In looking across the broad array of business, environmental, social, technological and political topics that cross my screen and engage me in daily conversation, there is a temptation to allocate a growing share of mind for pessimism. Reasons for cautious hope in a sea of gloom. Mon, 07/19/2021 - 02:00. Innovation marches forward.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2023

That is the hypothesis advanced in a new report published today by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The authors anticipate the upcoming Fit for 55 package in particular is set to trigger several new cases.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 21, 2022

Surrounded by an endless array of questionable information online, lots of people aren’t quite sure what to think or how to sort truth from falsehoods. But it needs to expand to compete with damage being done by the well-funded fossil fuel industry.”. So we focused on the group we thought was both vulnerable and reachable.”.

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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2022

However, following claims from Truss last week that field-based solar arrays were a "depressing" sight in the British countryside, her rival Sunak today broadly echoed her stance, promising to "make sure that high quality farmland is kept in production and not used for housing, ‘rewilding' or large-scale solar farms".

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

"Some government and business leaders are saying one thing - but doing another. But high-emitting governments and corporations are not just turning a blind eye; they are adding fuel to the flames. But the truly dangerous radicals are the countries that are increasing the production of fossil fuels.

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Business Green

JANUARY 23, 2023

The CBI reckons the UK has lost out on £4.3bn of green growth to its European competitors, making bolder climate action an open goal for a Labour Party that is looking to woo business leaders For much of the past decade the green economy has provided the government with a genuine success story with which to answer its many critics.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Lending high-level economic and political credence to that growing public clamour for action, the work of Chris Stark and his small team at the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) in driving the issue up the agenda should not be forgotten. Suddenly, barely days into 2020, a new paradigm began to take shape. Building back better.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 19, 2021

Yosie Mon, 07/19/2021 – 02:00 In looking across the broad array of business, environmental, social, technological and political topics that cross my screen and engage me in daily conversation, there is a temptation to allocate a growing share of mind for pessimism. Reasons for cautious hope in a sea of gloom Terry F.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 15, 2021

This year’s Goldman honorees have claimed a wide array of environmental victories worldwide. Gloria Majiga-Kamoto, 30, campaigned for Malawi to reinstate a ban on single-use plastics in 2019 and then for the government to enforce that ban. As the shale oil and gas rush spread across the U.S.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 15, 2024

Recent global conflicts, characterised by high and fluctuating oil and gas prices, have exposed the limitations of the current renewable energy market, where weather-dependent green energy sources must coexist with fossil fuels for heating and for stabilisation of the electricity grid.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

For each multi-billion dollar coal phase out plan, there have been accusations of hypocritical virtue signalling, as if governments and financiers seek to overhaul entire economies on a whim. they ask, wilfully ignoring the fact that, for better or worse, no one in government is asking anyone to stop flying. It is one of the few (only?)

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GreenBiz

APRIL 27, 2021

Bold policy and funding proposals from governments in China, the European Union and now the United States; ambitious capital investment plans from the world’s leading automakers; and continuing technological advancements — all contribute to a bullish outlook for market penetration of electric vehicles over the next decade and beyond.

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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. But what we demand is a process that is led by government to show us and finance those changes.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Can the Conservative Party build an election-winning government under Rishi Sunak's fledgling leadership? It is the number one question being asked in Tory circles. Sunak could run as the man who finally 'got Brexit done'. It is as simple as that."

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 20, 2020

In fact, many are still requesting that FERC reconsider the order and planning lawsuits to challenge it, or simply awaiting November’s election, which could shift political power in Washington D.C. in ways that could lead to FERC's order being overturned. The silver lining in PJM's compliance plan.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 16, 2022

Countries across Europe are already deep into a generational shift away from fossil fuels and toward greater efficiency, electrification, and integration of renewables. Laws and governance around RECs should be kept as simple and straightforward as possible to avoid becoming a barrier to entry into such communities.

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Business Green

JUNE 19, 2020

Now the coronavirus crisis has ensured the decade will start with a sharp reduction in annual emissions, but the question as to whether emissions will now rebound or begin a sustained decline rests to a huge degree on the decisions governments make as they mobilise their imminent economic stimulus packages.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 27, 2021

Bold policy and funding proposals from governments in China, the European Union and now the United States; ambitious capital investment plans from the world’s leading automakers; and continuing technological advancements — all contribute to a bullish outlook for market penetration of electric vehicles over the next decade and beyond.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

Momentum is building as businesses and governments transform their organizations to be more efficient and resilient. SPEAKERS The list of speakers is composed of professionals in energy management and procurement from corporations and governments, as well as allied service providers, innovators, developers, financiers and utilities.

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Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

With the ‘old’, I refer to the fossil-fuel based, centralized energy industries that are reliant on conservative economic models. According to Carbon Trackers , we are talking about a value of between 14-129 trillion dollars for fossil fuel assets alone and revenue streams of trillions of dollars annually. Let me explain.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

“If you were a fossil fuel project, you would have been shut down long ago.” For fossil fuel ideologues, sowing misinformation about wind and solar power is proving to be an effective stall tactic. “Hear this message: We’re here to save the whales!”

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The efforts of Indigenous peoples in North America have helped block or delay a long list of major fossil fuel projects over the past decade, successfully leading to the avoidance of a massive amount of greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report. The numbers don’t lie. November, 2016. Credit: Becker1999. (CC CC BY 2.0).

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2021

And businesses felt little pressure to respond to early COPs, shackled for years by US-led doubts that human greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels were the main driver of climate change, and by the reluctance of many nations to make a wrenching economic shift away from fossil fuels.

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Andrew Winston

DECEMBER 22, 2021

It captures a huge array of corporate goals, announcements, partnerships, government action, and more. AICD research confirms directors want the government to prioritise climate risk… here. Building New Renewables Is Cheaper Than Burning Fossil Fuels… here. Business, democracy, and misinformation.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

This paper explores how governments and private interests have hijacked public narratives to serve political or corporate agendas. This applies to the fossil fuel and other industries as well as political.parties and most notably, political leaders like Donald Trump. Media and politics are intimately intertwined.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

I went out to tech -- you have a facility where you have one of the largest, largest solar panel arrays in the world. And the Green New Deal that I support, by the way, will create up to 20 million good-paying jobs as we move our energy system away from fossil fuel to energy efficiency and sustainable energy. How do you do it?

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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. After decades of gridlock, the US looks set to pass sweeping climate legislation for the first time.

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Mosaic

DECEMBER 27, 2022

But this year Congress finally passed serious legislation—the Inflation Reduction Act—that allocates hundreds of billions of dollars to the task of transforming the nation so that it burns far less fossil fuel. The federal government is providing the biggest infusion of clean-money capital in its history.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

For the first time in its 175 year history Scientific American announced that it issuing a political endorsement. As we now know from the Woodward tapes, Trump knew the virus was deadly, but he lied to advance a political agenda. He is the world's most powerful fossil fuel advocate who has declared war on wildlife and gutted the ESA.

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