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 civil disobedience.”.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Denmark set the same goal — phase out new fossil fuel vehicle sales in 2030 — and world-leader Norway plans to make the switch in 2025. The Climate Group's EV100 program , which has 92 member companies that have pledged to buy EVs and install EV chargers, features the tagline: "Making electric transport the new normal by 2030.".

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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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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?” Imagine the transformation you could make throwing a couple of billion at low carbon transport infra?

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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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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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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. Ultimately, building out transportation infrastructure from a lower base provides emerging economies a chance to leapfrog to the low-carbon era.

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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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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2022

From incentives for public transport to lower speed limits and car-free Sundays, the organisation argued the various measures set out in its plan could lower oil demand by 2.7 million barrels a day within four months, roughly equivalent to the oil consumed by all the cars in China. ease market strains ??

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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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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”. It claims to have the support of 140 MPs and “key media”.

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Energy Central

JUNE 2, 2022

We, therefore, by necessity need to continue relying on fossil fuels being extracted, processed, transported, and burned. Government and business leaders remind us that the energy we get from renewables cannot meet future global electricity demand for the foreseeable future.

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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. Sandström predicts the commercial case for fossil-free steel is also set to solidify over the coming years. That is, to a large extent, a political decision.".

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

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. Solar, geothermal and wind power, all offer a cleaner alternative to traditional fossil fuels.

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The report notes that, under existing government policies global fossil fuel fuse is set to peak this decade, as coal use falls back in the coming years, natural gas demand reaches a plateau by the end of this decade, and oil demand levels off in the mid-2030 as the transition to EVs gather space.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Pessimists will argue this failure demonstrates that, even in some very blue states, reducing GHG emissions from the transportation sector isn’t going to be easy. Pessimists will argue this failure demonstrates that, even in some very blue states, reducing GHG emissions from the transportation sector isn’t going to be easy.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

A climate compatibility checkpoint to assess potential new licences, drawn up with the government in 2021, is now set to be replaced by further weakened measures, experts say, based on cherry-picked data that greenwashes new fossil fuel development. UK oil and gas consumption needs to fall by over 80 percent to meet UK targets.”

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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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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Overseas Development Institute warns fossil fuel emissions from plastic will rise three-fold by 2050 unless current trends are addressed. Phasing out the use of plastic in a number of industries could help the world curb demand for fossil fuels and more effectively confront the climate crisis, researchers have today advised.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

as a global climate solution, with some industry boosters even going so far as to call Canada’s supply of the fossil fuel the “cleanest in the world.” C is to stop building new fossil fuel projects. Oil and gas companies have for years marketed fracked gas from B.C. Gas releases less emissions when burned than coal.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

On the other hand, the pace of such a major shift for the world’s transportation system will depend on a host of unpredictable factors, including the speed of production ramp-ups, the availability of raw materials, and the formidable political power of fossil-fuel interests.

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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. Latest official records show that all donations made to Reform UK so far this year are from individuals with ties to climate science denial or fossil fuel interests.

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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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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This implies a reduction in fossil fuel-related infrastructure, notably a halt in new exploration and early retirement of the most polluting fields. Even before fossil fuels are consumed, their production and distribution are major sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. But they share some important attributes.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

The fund assists organisations based in emerging economies that are working to improve access to clean transport. The LEAP Fund, backed by Drive Electric, was founded in 2022 to encourage low-carbon transitions and minimise fossil-fuel vehicle lock-in. million in funding grants. Have you read?

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Experts have warned that exaggerating the potential of hydrogen could delay action on tackling climate change by obstructing the rollout of renewables and keeping the fossil fuel industry alive. 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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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2021

Hundreds of climate activists are occupying a busy street in central London today in the first of two weeks of protest against the UK financial sector’s continued investment in fossil fuels. XR has been criticised for its disruptive tactics, including on the London transport network in 2019.

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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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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. Another shows that spending the same amount of money on clean energy to replace fossil fuels is more effective at reducing emissions, air pollution and other costs.

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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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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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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

It alleges the government’s actions, such as continuing to promote fossil fuel development, are disproportionately harming Canada’s youth and violating young people’s fundamental rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2023

For critics of climate policies - be they fossil fuel vested interests, trade unions genuinely concerned about employment in carbon intensive industries, or reactionary climate sceptics - scare stories about the impacts of decarbonisation have considerably more edge if the talk is of all petrol cars being banned or gas boilers being ripped out.

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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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