The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Prof Lesley Hughes is a leading climate change scientist and member of the independent Climate Council and government advisory body the Climate Change Authority.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

According to Saudi Aramco’s podcast, the fossil fuel industry is innovating new climate solutions, and BP’s podcast proclaims more of the same. Darren Woods, the CEO of Exxon, celebrates the potential of carbon capture to dramatically reduce global emissions. and Europe.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The poll asked Americans from different social, political and ethnic groups their opinion on specific climate issues. A recent poll found that 60% of Americans believe gas and oil companies are to blame for the climate crisis.

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Fossil fuel companies … wouldn’t be able to operate without money, and that money is coming primarily from Wall Street,” Alicé Nascimento, environmental campaigns director at New York Communities for Change, said hours before she was arrested.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

In the first half of 2020, renewables (solar, wind, hydro and biomass) beat out fossil fuels on the European grid for the first time. They didn’t only beat out coal -- they beat out all fossil fuels put together. Will it make renewables a bigger political force? But it may be happening even sooner.

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The Guardian: Energy

JANUARY 22, 2024

Former Cop26 president criticises the government’s push to ‘max out’ the North Sea Alok Sharma has said the government’s oil and gas bill going through the Commons will not cut household energy costs or create jobs and instead will break the UK’s promise to phase out fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

The event aims to bring together policymakers and liquified natural gas (LNG), natural gas, and hydrogen players to explore new avenues for fossil fuel expansion. Varello added that European countries are willing to pay more for shorter contracts to avoid political scrutiny. Keith Shoemaker of EQT Corp.

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Planet Pulse

JANUARY 11, 2024

In this week’s issue : We kick off our energy series with the top dog: fossil fuels Orange rivers in Alaska A river mystery in Colombia Feature Story: Energy: Fossil Fuels If you’re reading this then you owe gratitude to fossil fuels. But fossil fuel companies aren’t quite shaking in their boots yet.

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The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 10, 2023

goal alive so Pacific countries are not ‘swallowed by the seas’ The Australian climate change minister, Chris Bowen, has told nearly 200 countries at the Cop28 summit that the use of fossil fuels in energy systems must end. Australia’s climate minister says summit must aim to keep 1.5C

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 1, 2022

This transformation happened within weeks – and demonstrates that divesting from fossil fuels can be a bold political move that raises the standard for corporate behaviour in those companies. Fossil Fuel Conflict. Climate breakdown and war have a cause in common – the fossil fuel economy.

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Doubts about whether heat pumps work well in subzero conditions shown to be unfounded, say researchers Heat pumps are more than twice as efficient as fossil fuel heating systems in cold temperatures, research shows.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Global advertising and public relations company WPP has more contracts with fossil fuel clients than any of its rivals, despite the group’s pledge to reach net zero emissions by 2030, according to a report by campaign group Clean Creatives. Omnicom followed with 39 contracts; Interpublic Group had 25; and Publicis Groupe had 11. “The

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Climate change” describes only the result of fossil fuel-based greenhouse gases. A term like “fossil fueled-destruction” would name the cause as well as the effect. The fossil fuel industry hid for decades what it knew about the impacts of its products. The writer Stevie Chedid calls it “warning weather.”

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 13, 2023

The self-styled free market task force seems to be yet another dark money outfit in British politics – led by senior figures from US and UK free market think tanks who have been funded by fossil fuels, the Koch Brothers, climate change deniers, the tobacco industry and much more. I decided to take a look. And guess what?

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Renew Economy

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Woodside, which is developing Australia's biggest fossil fuel project in a decade, also happens to be the biggest fossil fuel political donor. The post Australia’s political leaders need to re-think where their money is coming from appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 8, 2021

Over €8 billion is being invested in hydrogen and “renewable gas” projects in southern Europe using EU Covid-19 recovery funds, thanks to extensive lobbying by the fossil fuel industry, a new report has found. . The over-emphasis on hydrogen as a result of lobbying could lock Europe into decades more of fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 19, 2023

Fossil fuel-linked groups spent around $4 million on Facebook and Instagram that spread false climate claims over the COP27 summit, a new report says. Our report shows Big Oil continues to invest millions in digital advertising to launder their image as ‘climate champions’, while also promoting the necessity of fossil fuels.”

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

An in-depth article by the website Carbon Brief argues that the fuel is unlikely to be taken up universally, particularly as “the volume required to satisfy all the possible applications for low-carbon hydrogen would likely far exceed the amount available, even if production is significantly scaled up.”. Political Access.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 11, 2022

The New Scientist magazine has quietly dropped fossil fuel sponsorship of its science festival amid mounting pressure from climate campaigners. However, the New Scientist Live (NSL) festival, which runs in Manchester this weekend, has no fossil fuel sponsors or exhibitors listed on its website.

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The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Uncontracted supplies of the fossil fuel had also been diverted to the domestic market. The Greens will move a disallowance vote in the Senate next Monday, saying the code with its $12 a gigajoule price cap had benefited big gas users.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

Policy Exchange, one of Westminster’s most prominent think tanks, engaged in a high-level influencing campaign over the UK’s North Sea oil and gas policies while being funded by fossil fuel interests, DeSmog can reveal. Fossil fuel firms tout CCUS and hydrogen as green energy solutions, yet the reality is more complicated.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Industry trade associations in the United States that work on climate and energy issues spent more than $3 billion over 10 years on political activities, according to a new study that sheds light on trade associations’ role in influencing policies and obstructing climate action. billion on climate-related political activities.

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

We must join them If Labour wants an energy transition in which working people don’t foot the bill, it has to address fossil fuel companies’ secret weapon against national climate laws: the energy charter treaty (ECT). Eleven countries have already pledged to exit the disastrous international charter treaty.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2021

The environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion (XR) is planning a series of protests targeting the City of London to demand an end to investments in fossil fuels around the world. No New Fossil Fuel Investments’. However, she said: “We do expect our protests to be disruptive. It’s very obvious.”.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas are the source of just over 80% of the world’s energy. To avert catastrophic warming, the global community must rapidly reduce how much of these fuels it extracts and burns. target because it was already at its limit, given our projections of fossil fuel demand in the near future.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

World leaders must bring in stricter criteria to exclude fossil fuel companies from decision-making, campaigners have urged, as talks at the crucial COP26 summit enter their fifth day. The UNFCCC, the EU and UK should ensure climate decision-making is protected from fossil fuel interests at the regional, national and local level.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The UK organisers of the upcoming COP26 climate summit have come under fire for approving just two events that refer to fossil fuels, the primary driver of climate change, in a programme of public events happening alongside the main conference. In 2018, 89 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions came from fossil fuels and industry.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 29, 2022

Jean-Paul Harreman, director of EnAppSys BV, said: “The proportion of the fuel mix occupied by fossil fuels nudged upwards from 33.1% This indicated that the stability brought about by the increase in demand to normal levels was offset by the decrease in wind generation and subsequent increase in dependence on fossil fuels.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

“We should not forget that without fossil fuels, Putin would not have the leverage or the finances to have attacked Ukraine,” said UK’s Octopus Energy CEO Greg Jackson. What’s the role of fossil fuels in the future? “Maybe there isn’t one,” said Jackon.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND – Only two of the 35 stalls lauding countries’ green credentials at the COP26 UN climate summit mention the need to cut fossil fuel production — the chief cause of the carbon emissions driving climate change. . We urge all leaders to put people and the planet over the profit of the fossil fuel industry.”.

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The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Fossil fuel companies, political short-termism and apathy are thwarting action to avert global heating • You can order your own version of this cartoon Continue reading.

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Grist

APRIL 4, 2022

Greenhouse gas emissions must peak within the next three years, and in the next eight, the world must push fossil fuels aside, rapidly scaling up the use of clean energy like wind and solar. The authors’ top recommendation: Immediately move away from fossil fuels and replace them with renewable technologies.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The boss of the Environment Agency has declared that coal and oil are "no longer safe bets" for investors, warning that banks that failed to divest from fossil fuels would be left behind by the market. He said investors that continued to invest in fossil fuels were exposing themselves to major financial risks.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

In strongly worded address to UN General Assembly, Antonio Guterres aims latest stinging criticism at fossil fuel firms and 'their enablers' in the PR and investment industries. Let's tell it like it is: our world is addicted to fossil fuel. It's time for an intervention.

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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?” The post The killer question is: can we really afford fossil fuels? Image: [link].

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Impact Alpha

DECEMBER 20, 2019

21 – The failure of the COP25 global climate conference in Madrid left climate-finance practitioners seeking a path forward in the absence of effective political and policy leadership. “The “Those kind of The post Decapitalizing the fossil fuel industry (podcast) appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, Dec.

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Energy Central

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This story was produced in partnership with OpenSecrets, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that tracks money in politics. Jimmy Cloutier is the political reporter at opensecrets.org. He can be reached at jcloutier@opensecrets.org.

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