GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

The world’s kilns, reactors, chillers and furnaces are powered mostly by fossil fuels. . High-temperature industrial heat, over 932 degrees F, poses a particular challenge because that’s the point at which fuels beyond electricity become the mainstay. Making natural gas renewable . The first step?

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Porter’s blog repeatedly cites the work of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate science denial group. She also spoke at a webinar run by GWPF’s campaign arm Net Zero Watch last June. In more recent blog posts, Porter has defended fossil fuel companies and criticised renewable energy.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2023

However, while chemicals and their derivatives are used in over 90 per cent of manufactured products and materials, including paint, fertilisers, and plastics, as well as myriad consumer products, the report argues the sector has been largely overlooked in policy discussions on how to meet the UK's net zero targets.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Hohn revealed in a webinar last week that his London-based TCI hedge fund, which set a precedent last month when it successfully forced Spanish airports operator Aena to draft a new climate plan and give shareholders an annual vote on climate policies, had filed similar climate resolutions at seven more large portfolio companies.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 7, 2023

But the directive is facing concerted opposition from a branch of the fossil fuel industry that receives relatively little scrutiny: Suppliers of liquefied petroleum gas, or LPG, who see the proposed boiler phase-out as an existential threat to their $40 billion business. It’s shameless.” This is a marketing tactic, it’s propaganda.”

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

And the 2-degree limit can be rescued only with the help of purposeful actions to affect Earth’s energy balance,” he said in a webinar. They’re going to actually have to affect the politics so that the special interests do not control — especially the fossil fuel industry — does not control the future.”

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

In addition to its strong offshore wind resource, Europe has ambitious decarbonization policies—the EU has a carbon emissions reduction goal of 55% by 2030 compared to 1990 levels, which means renewables will be on the rise. They currently have 25GW constructed and a target of another 27+GW by 2040.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2022

As WWF launches a new report exploring what makes good corporate climate leadership, top execs from Ikea and H&M reflect on how companies can accelerate their decarbonisation efforts as part of the latest BusinessGreen webinar. The webinar also highlighted how it is critical to ensure such strategies reach right across an organisation. "So,

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 2, 2023

He has often used his TalkTV platform to attack climate policies, claiming last August that the UK’s net zero targets are “plunging people into poverty”. Perry is the director of CAR26 , a pressure group which campaigns for more fossil fuel extraction and a Brexit-style referendum on net zero. CAR26 did not respond.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

And while this is being recognised by European policy – packages such as REPowerEU and the Green Deal for example provide a lot of momentum to advance energy communities and reap their potential benefits – more is certainly needed. The role of the prosumer within the European energy transition is becoming more of a priority from all angles.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

Plans for these clusters are advancing fast, and in a webinar hosted by BusinessGreen last week senior executives from BP, SSE, Equinor, National Grid, CF Industries and Drax provided an update on how work is accelerating to develop a network of carbon capture pipelines that could connect industrial sites across England's north east. "It

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This mechanism serves as a protective shield for the EU’s climate policies, preventing them from being undermined by production relocation to countries with less stringent environmental standards or by the substitution of EU products with more carbon-intensive imports.

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AutoGrid

OCTOBER 18, 2023

To wean itself off of coal, India will need to move away from base-load fossil fuel plants that run 24/7 to rely more on variable renewables. According to the EIA’s Stated Policies Scenario (STEPS), India will have 140 GW of battery capacity by 2040, the largest portfolio of batteries of any country in the world.

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Business Green

AUGUST 14, 2020

The world's kilns, reactors, chillers, and furnaces are powered mostly by fossil fuels. High-temperature industrial heat, over 932 degrees F, poses a particular challenge because that's the point at which fuels beyond electricity become the mainstay. Making natural gas renewable. The first step?

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 5, 2021

While the world waits for cost-effective and scalable long-duration energy storage to support the around-the-clock deployment of power generated by renewable sources, fossil fuels will continue to play a significant role in the energy mix to provide reliability to the grid and industries. But they're not sufficiently available yet.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 23, 2020

And when you use more electricity to meet your energy needs, the demand curve flattens, which means less fossil fuel combustion and significantly lower losses from production to final consumption. All of the consumer-led growth across Asia-Pacific, hydrocarbon-led industrial activity in the lower 48 U.S. And starting from today.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 4, 2021

In two webinars taking place the week after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, an entrepreneur and a scholar challenged audiences to picture how an enterprise and a policy regime could supply solar and other fossil-free energy to more people with more broadly dispersed downsides.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

“A pink badge is like a country badge, which allows you into the negotiations, so you can track what’s going on,” explains Corporate Europe Observatory researcher Pascoe Sabido, who has extensively tracked the influence of the fossil fuel industry at the annual COP climate summits.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 23, 2020

Fossil-fueled combined-heat-and-power systems will continue to take a back seat to distributed solar and energy storage for behind-the-meter generation — although resilience against wildfires, hurricanes and other extreme weather events will drive adoption of both. 1) Solar will retain its leading role in distributed generation.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

This technique of using statements that are technically true but omit crucial information and therefore are misleading, is called paltering — and it’s an old favorite of the fossil fuel industry. He believes that Checkoff dollars are empowering groups like NCBA and NPPC to take policy positions that hurt small producers.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Government and industry provided a behind-the-scenes update on progress towards the decarbonisation of the UK's industrial clusters in the Creating a Zero Carbon Industrial Cluster webinar, hosted by BusinessGreen.

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Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2021

But delivering a fundamental reshaping of the financial system, as BlackRock chief executive Larry Fink acknowledged was necessary in his influential annual shareholder letter last year, is going to require more than green ambition and the occasional coal exclusion policy. Rating agencies, in my experience, rarely pick this up.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 8, 2021

“Our state is addicted to fossil fuels and, like many addicts, instead of seeking to break our addiction. Major fossil fuel companies, like Exxon, tout CCS as a necessary tool for the United States to reduce CO2 emissions as outlined in the Paris Agreement. . It delays action.” .

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MARCH 11, 2021

In October 2019, the TCI published a Framework for a Draft Regional Policy Proposal, which described the TCI-P’s key design elements. See Latham’s blog post TCI Releases Framework for Draft Policy to Reduce GHG Emissions From Transportation.).

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

The community provides resources and support for members, including events, webinars, and peer-to-peer learning opportunities. Does your company offer an explicit policy for transgender healthcare coverage? An open-book management policy builds trust, which lays the foundation for strong relationships. Train staff accordingly.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 12, 2020

But carbon is also moving constantly through the global economy, which historically has been powered by burning fossil fuels for energy. As a result, this data informs policy decisions, shapes more effective regulation and helps scientists and other experts understand trends and evaluate potential solutions. Pull Quote.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

  In other news the EU parliament passed a law to restore 20% of the EU’s land and sea by 2030, England requires all new buildings to improve biodiversity, and the US Congress finds something they can agree on with nuclear policy, while the SEC may be set to announce watered down rules on reporting.    Equity.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Yet in the six years since its birth, the Paris Agreement has undoubtedly transformed policy, investment, and economic thinking. The webinar - ‘Is a UN treaty needed to solve the plastics pollution crisis?' - was hosted in partnership with Hill+Knowlton Strategies. You can watch back the entire discussion here.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

ShareAction itself has already filed resolutions at Barclays and - just recently - HSBC where it has the backing of 117 other institutional investors in calling on the bank to phase out fossil fuel financing. Much more action, both in terms of investment signals and firm policy measures, is expected in the run up to COP26 and beyond.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 29, 2021

Sam Ricketts, a prominent climate policy adviser, told the Los Angeles Times : “This is the most ambitious climate platform put forward by an American president. [.] Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research A Review of the Role of Fossil Fuel Based Carbon Capture and Storage in the Energy System. Register today.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 12, 2020

But carbon is also moving constantly through the global economy, which historically has been powered by burning fossil fuels for energy. As a result, this data informs policy decisions, shapes more effective regulation and helps scientists and other experts understand trends and evaluate potential solutions.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 23, 2021

In the meantime, see How To Speak Utility , the middle section of these FAQ’s on e-buses , and the second webinar of the electric school bus webinar series that I helped CTE to create. Again, let me know of more resources I can share in this newsletter. Women’s leadership. I think those last six words are pivotal.

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

JUNE 3, 2021

Critically, the bill requires that 40 percent of investments to go communities most impacted by climate change including low income communities, communities of color, rural areas, and those transitioning away from fossil fuels. The great news is that this policy has real legs. In Congress, H.R.

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Bidgely

JANUARY 8, 2021

As we enter 2021, we find ourselves in the middle of an energy transition that is transforming the way electricity is generated, stored and consumed, with power systems moving from fossil-fuel-based centralized single-flow electric grids to renewable bi-directional and decentralized energy networks. Interested to learn more?

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Bidgely

JANUARY 8, 2021

As we enter 2021, we find ourselves in the middle of an energy transition that is transforming the way electricity is generated, stored and consumed, with power systems moving from fossil-fuel-based centralized single-flow electric grids to renewable bi-directional and decentralized energy networks. Interested to learn more?

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Vehicle emissions also cause air pollution, so eliminating fossil fuel vehicles will clean up the state's air (learn more about this topic in a webinar I'm running Thursday with City of Oakland, the California Air Resources Board and fuel company Neste). . We're all going to be learning.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

government accountable for perpetuating a fossil fuel-based energy system and worsening the climate crisis. government may have a hard time defending their continued authorization of fossil fuel development when faced with evidence of climate science in a court of law. That case, Juliana v. Similarly, the U.S.

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