Terra Infirma

AUGUST 30, 2022

And is it not simply digging us deeper into the fossil fuel-shaped hole, making us even more vulnerable to the next crisis? We often hear people from the right of politics ask “can we afford net zero?” We need policy changes and fast, diverting cash and legislation away from high carbon into low carbon schemes.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

This net zero scepticism has quickly entered the upper echelons of Westminster politics, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak saying that policies to achieve the UK’s legally binding climate targets shouldn’t “hassle” households and should be “proportionate and pragmatic”. The NZSG has extensive ties to the GWPF.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 20, 2021

The push to quickly transition carbon-intensive activities away from fossil fuels while meeting the world’s growing energy needs has put electricity producers and consumers squarely in the forefront of the emerging clean economy. And the era of fossil fuels is hardly over. None of which need be a show-stopper.

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Front And Centered

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Last year the House and the Senate each proposed massive, multi-year packages that failed to pass and failed even harder at closing the justice deficit in our transportation system. People of color have been largely left out of the benefits of the billions spent on transportation and bear a disproportionate share of the burdens.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The global peak in oil consumption may already be past us, according to a new report from Carbon Tracker — and China and India's rapid transition to low carbon transport is the reason why. But the IEA's current forecasts haven't yet accounted for the dramatic policy shifts coming from Beijing. Credit: Carbon Tracker).

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The think tanks said the record-breaking subsidies were prompted by turmoil in global energy markets that sent fossil fuel prices soaring and prompted governments to intervene to stop households and businesses facing five-fold increases in energy costs.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2022

Researchers from the London School of Economics highlights the growing risk of environmental legal action faced by food and agriculture, transport, plastics, and finance firms. There is also evidence that companies beyond the fossil fuel sector are increasingly being targeted with climate-related legal action.

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2022

As the electric vehicle (EV) transition gathers momentum, rethinking the way vehicles are built is fast emerging as the next frontier for the decarbonisation of transport. That is, to a large extent, a political decision.". However, even in the absence of a comprehensive policy framework interest in green steel is building.

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

But it will require a shift towards eco-friendly practices and policies in various sectors. Here are some key steps that can be taken towards achieving this: Transitioning to renewable energy sources One of the key pillars of a sustainable economy is transforming fossil fuels into renewable energy sources.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

But the reports - from the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and International Energy Agency (IEA) - all warn that governments, investors, and industries need to deliver much more ambitious green policies, technologies, and solutions if still rising global emissions are to thrown into reverse.

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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2023

As such, it sets out how the UK could accelerate its transition away from fossil fuels, secure its energy supplies, and tackle the looming affordability, security, and sustainability 'trilemma' through a raft of new policies. Britain will continue to need to access fossil fuel supplies during the Net Zero transition.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

Moreover, the technology results in more air pollution than EVs or fuel cell vehicles and environmental campaigners are fearful that allowing manufacturers to continue to produce ICE vehicles could leave the door open for the continued use of fossil fuels.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

The North West Hydrogen Alliance - a regional trade body backed by several local councils and leading gas companies such as Shell, Cadent, and INEOS-owned Inovyn - today launched a roadmap setting out "quick and easy steps" to deliver a rollout of hydrogen technology across the UK transport sector.

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Front And Centered

MARCH 26, 2024

The following is a statement by the Front and Centered Coalition Leadership regarding I-2117: The campaign to repeal these recently enacted laws represents a reckless and bad faith effort by a wealthy individual and his politics of despair and division to undermine well-intentioned policy for the environment, education, and healthcare.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

It would be easy at this point to simply list the litany of policy failures and the paucity of political leadership documented by the CCC's almost satirically titled progress report. The growing fears charging infrastructure and public and active transport networks are struggling to keep pace with soaring demand.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

They straddle climate change, the role of biomass energy, greenhouse gas emissions from different oil feedstocks, policies towards slashing emissions in transport, buildings and infrastructure, and the interactions between climate change and human health. Reliance on the GDP-based system is not going to work.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Nigel Farage ’s Reform party received £135,000 this year from donors linked to climate science denial and fossil fuels, DeSmog can reveal. Reform UK , formerly the Brexit Party, is a vocal critic of climate action, and last year called for a referendum on the UK’s net zero policies. billion invested in fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Energy policy will be a major focus at the October conferences of both major parties, which fall weeks after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak dramatically announced plans to water down the UK’s green targets. As a result, ‘grey’ fossil-based hydrogen made with natural gas or coal makes up 96 percent of existing supplies globally.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

The government is failing to back up its climate commitments with credible action, with almost all its green policy efforts marred by uncertainty, delay, and a insufficient engagement with the public about the scale of changes ahead, and time rapidly running out for Ministers to get the UK's net zero agenda on track.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 8, 2023

A new briefing from think tank organisation the Energy Transitions Commission (ETC) argues that the clean energy transition can be delivered on time and at an affordable cost if supply chain risks are minimised by policy and industry action. offshore wind transport vessels or grid transformers) that are costly and have long lead times.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

First up, the UK's Transport Decarbonisation Plan sketched out how the global transport industry could be fully decarbonised. Bigger still is the EU's Fit for 55 policy package , which it is no exaggeration to describe as a blueprint for decarbonising a continent. This is a big deal. It also has international significance.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2022

Billionaire hedge fund manager Sir Christopher Hohn has called on shareholders to vote against directors of banks which fail to adequately measure and report on their exposure to climate risk, after new research today warned many of the world's biggest financial institutions are continuing to fund the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure.

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Business Green

AUGUST 20, 2021

Deal between SNP and Scottish Green promises billions of pounds of investment in renewables, energy efficiency and public transport. Fundamentally this is a new approach to politics. It is about doing politics and governance better to find the solutions needed to solve the problems confronting the world today.".

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Terra Infirma

JULY 24, 2023

The narrow win by the Conservatives in last weeks Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election has thrown the UK political establishment into a tailspin over the cost of net zero policies in a cost of living crisis. According to ‘sources’, this may mean the watering down of various headline Net Zero policies.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Germany’s Federal Ministry of the Environment (BMU) has proposed a plan to establish a market in renewable energy credits for transport, modeled on a similar plan in France and existing electricity credit markets in the Netherlands and California. The plan also includes a 2% e-fuels mandate for aviation, to be met by 2030.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Most H2 is produced using fossil fuels like natural gas, but can the right methods make that green? The primary issue at the moment is that the vast majority of H2 is made using methods involving fossil fuels, such as natural gas or even coal. Another major barrier is the lack of regulatory clarity and political support.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 1, 2019

Position: Clean Transportation Advocate/ Staff Attorney. The Climate Law Institute wages innovative legal and grassroots campaigns to protect people, wildlife and ecosystems from climate change and the dirty and dangerous fossil fuel industry. Location: Sacramento, Oakland, or Los Angeles California. .

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 1, 2019

Position: Clean Transportation Advocate/ Staff Attorney. The Climate Law Institute wages innovative legal and grassroots campaigns to protect people, wildlife and ecosystems from climate change and the dirty and dangerous fossil fuel industry. Location: Sacramento, Oakland, or Los Angeles California. .

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

Political and business leaders have certainly talked a good game in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. The faster than predicted shift to renewable energy is disguising a lack of progress in other sectors of the economy, such as transport, agriculture and land use, and buildings.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

After decades of sowing doubt about climate change and its causes, the fossil fuel industry is now shifting to a new strategy: presenting itself as the source of solutions. Coming from backgrounds in economics, ecology and public policy , we have spent several years focusing on carbon drawdown. The Cost of Scaling up.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Ahead of the Prime Minister's promised new green recovery package, a new report from the business advocacy group outlines a raft of near-term policy interventions that could put the UK on track to reaching net zero emissions. The gap between the government's net zero rhetoric and its policy agenda remains.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 27, 2021

Reduce fossil fuel use. Fisheries should implement a strict policy requiring all netting, lines and other onboard waste to be collected and disposed of properly. At the same time, fisheries can also implement their own policies such as annual catch limits. Reduce Fossil Fuel Use. Use lead-free fishing gear.

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2023

It risks positioning policies and investments that would result in still disastrous levels of warming as a win, on the grounds they are marginally better than business as usual. What of the constant risk of political backlash? What of planning constraints? What of supply chain bottlenecks?

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Green Market Oracle

JUNE 3, 2020

Although COVID-19 has decimated the energy sector it will disproportionately enfeeble the fossil fuel industry and embolden renewable energy. We can achieve decarbonization by electrifying the energy, transportation, manufacturing and industry. However, Matt also expressed concern that we will miss the opportunity.

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Business Green

AUGUST 14, 2022

Deliberative democracy is a valuable tool that can help the next PM craft climate policies that are effective and popular, writes Lancaster University's Jacob Ainscough. The real source of debate over climate policy now lies firmly within questions of how, not if, net zero should be achieved. But that assumption is simply wrong.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Read more news from CLOU Electrification of transportation The electrification of transportation was a captivating subject at Enlit Paris, as industry experts explored the transition from fossil fuel-powered vehicles to electric mobility. Takeaway Enlit Paris 2023 was a melting pot of ideas, innovation, and inspiration.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

Since it was first set up in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has been a hugely influential player in world energy politics. 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.

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