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Challenges & Solutions in Sustainable Energy Engineering: Navigating the Transition to a Low-Carbon Future

Hydrogen Fuel News

The Challenge: Transitioning from Fossil Fuels to Renewables Fossil fuels still dominate global energy production. Reliance on fossil fuels contributes to greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. Political resistance to transitioning away from traditional energy sources.

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IEA Think Tank Contributes to Climate Science Denial Documentary

DeSmogBlog

The IEA has extensive influence in politics and the media. The group has also received donations from a number of philanthropic trusts accused of channelling funds from the fossil fuel industry and helping to support climate science denial groups. The IEA also received a £21,000 grant from U.S. oil major ExxonMobil in 2005.

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This is the future climate hawks want to see

Business Green

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 lack of action on domestic energy efficiency that has now been evident for so long it has become a point of cliché for campaigners to point it out.

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A Growing Wave of Litigation Spurs Climate Action

DeSmogBlog

In Australia, a student filed a consumer complaint with Ad Standards against the financial services organization HSBC for claiming to support the protection of the Great Barrier Reef despite its links to fossil fuel operations.

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American PR Firm Edelman Enabled Oil Baron Al Jaber’s Ascension to Lead COP28 Climate Conference

DeSmogBlog

Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), any group working for a foreign country to conduct political activity or public relations in the U.S. political strategy group GMMB , to lobby for the UAE to host the newly created International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), an intergovernmental body. Under the U.S.

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Global Briefing: In-person COP15 biodiversity talks braced for delay to 2022

Business Green

Indonesia, one of the world's most prolific thermal coal producers, has submitted an updated climate plan to the United Nations that suggests it intends to rely on the fossil fuel for power well beyond mid-century. Indonesia submits updated 2030 climate plan. I have no doubt," he told delegates.

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What Jeremy Leggett did next: The British solar pioneer turning his hand to 'ethically profitable' rewilding

Business Green

Here, the company is now already running habitat tours, educational seminars, and corporate eco-retreats at the Bunloit estate's onsite cottages and castle, with plans to add further community-based schemes going forward. That's important for the politics of land up here, the drive for land equality and everything else."

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