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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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

In the past, there have been concerns that monitoring and modelling have been regarded as almost separate methods for the assessment of air pollution, but speakers will outline the case for greater integration. But not all air pollutants have a greenhouse gas effect, and GHGs are not usually toxic.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

JPMorgan Chase is the world’s biggest financier of fossil fuels, according to environmental organisations. In 2020 the bank pledged to end fossil fuel loans for Arctic oil drilling and phase out loans for coal mining. Fossil Finance.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Photos I shot in 2022 for DeSmog capture damage from extreme weather events and the continued expansion of the fossil fuel industry — the dominant industry causing global warming. Industries reliant on methane gas continue to expand their footprint, despite bipartisan discussions about the need to develop climate solutions.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Bank bosses due to attend a green investment summit tomorrow head institutions which have provided over £700 billion of financing for the fossil fuel industry since the 2015 Paris Agreement, including £129 billion in 2020 alone. . JPMorgan financed £230 billion in fossil fuels between 2016 and 2020. billion in 2020.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2021

The report — titled “ The Big Con: How Big Polluters Are Advancing a “Net Zero” Climate Agenda to Delay, Deceive, and Deny ” — was published by Corporate Accountability, the Global Forest Coalition, and Friends of the Earth International, and is endorsed by over 60 environmental organizations.

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Business Green

JANUARY 29, 2020

The Guardian has today become the first major global news organisation to announce a ban on advertising from oil and gas companies, despite the fossil fuels industry's role as a major advertiser and the media outlet admitting it faces a "precarious" financial future.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Total number of faith groups to join anti-fossil fuel movement hits 400 as pressure builds on governments to end public funding for oil, coal, and gas projects. Today's bumper round of divestment pledges means that more than 400 religious instructions have now committed to divest from fossil fuels, the charity said.

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Grist

JULY 15, 2021

We talk so much about the supreme challenge of reducing emissions — something that already requires transitioning our entire economy away from the burning of fossil fuels, adapting to existing climate threats, and doing all that in a way that at the very least doesn’t add to the burdens of already marginalized communities.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

To top it all off, the claim in the tagline promotes the perception that ExxonMobil, and fossil fuel companies more generally, are “part of the solution.” This is what experts refer to as a prime example of corporate greenwashing. This is what experts refer to as a prime example of corporate greenwashing.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Fossil fuels are everywhere at this COP except in the decisions being negotiated by governments,” Nikki Reisch, the director of climate and energy at the Center for International Environmental Law, wrote to DeSmog from Glasgow. In some cases, the affiliation with the oil industry was publicly declared on the participant list for COP26.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 20, 2024

The term is thrown around quite a bit, but it isn’t always clear what it is referring to Referring to a hydrogen economy isn’t anything new, having been thrown around for a few decades, but as the world seeks to decarbonize and H2 is recognized as a key part of that effort, the term is seen much more frequently.

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Energy Central

DECEMBER 11, 2023

About The Event Future Fuels Europe is a rapidly evolving concept that seeks to revolutionize the transportation industry in Europe. As Europe seeks to meet its.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2021

Hydrogen, an energy carrier proposed for helping transition the world away from fossil fuels, is well-suited for the oil and gas industry’s public relations machine. What’s the pollution?’” Basav Sen, climate policy project director at the Institute for Policy Studies, told DeSmog. But where does it come from?

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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. Subscribe here.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

DeSmog can reveal that three APPGs received benefits in the past two years from think tanks whose funders or members include major polluters, including Shell and Equinor. The findings are part of analysis of the latest official registers of interest by DeSmog, based on new research by campaign group Fossil Free Parliament.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

When Royal Dutch Shell lost a landmark climate lawsuit in The Netherlands, climate advocates said the Dutch court’s ruling put polluters and their financiers on notice. C target,” the letter asserts, referring to the Paris Agreement’s more ambitious climate objective. liquefied natural gas (LNG). Credit: Ceescamel , CC BY-SA 4.0

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The pair of California leaders were there to discuss the lawsuit the state had recently filed against Big Oil on behalf of the people of California to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for the effects of climate change. But California is the first fossil-fuel-producing state to do so. History in the making….

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The plastics and petrochemical industries’ latest purported solution to the plastic pollution crisis – chemical or “advanced” recycling – is essentially a public relations and marketing strategy designed to distract from the urgent need to curb plastic production, a new report contends.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Harnessing electric motors for propulsion, the vessels (also referred to as E-CTVs) significantly reduce carbon emissions and are proving to be more efficient and cost-effective than their traditional counterparts. References [1] [link] [2] [link] [3] [link] [4] [link]

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

MANCHESTER – Conservative MPs gave resounding backing to the fossil fuel industry this week at a conference event paid for by U.S. The panel “Can fossil fuel companies play a role in the energy transition?” None of the speakers on the panel referred to the major role of fossil fuels in bringing about global heating.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 30, 2024

At 9:30 am on March 12, 1963, in Room 1-B of Manhattan’s Rockefeller Institute , six experts gathered to discuss the implications of a newly identified atmospheric phenomenon: the rising level of carbon dioxide (CO2) caused by the burning of fossil fuels. Ordway, Jr., in the foreword to the group’s 1962 Annual Report.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Campaign group Clean Creatives, which had earlier published its annual “ F-List ” documenting ties between advertising agencies and fossil fuel companies, said Havas’ partnership with Shell was a big step backwards for a company that had appeared to be moving away from fossil clients.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

With the start of the 28th annual United Nations climate summit, COP28, just two weeks away, a battle is brewing over the role of fossil fuels as nations try to stem the tide of climate change. Now, a new report shows that fossil fuel production by 2030 is set to exceed the level that would be compatible with limiting warming to 1.5°C

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 23, 2024

The complaint references a video, titled “Technologies shaping the future of transport”, that included testimonials from Aramco‘s chief transport technologist, Amer A. Amer, and F1’s chief technology officer, Pat Symonds, about various Aramco efforts to cut emissions using innovative liquid fuel and engine technologies.

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The Environmental Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

And, it largely depends on pollution. First-world countries are responsible for most of the fossil fuels consumption and waste generation. Since they have a greater need for resource consumption, it is natural that they pollute more. That impacts the global environment, polluting the world and society.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

However, base load refers to the minimum amount of demand on an electrical grid over a given period of time, not a minimum level of constant supply. There are five countries in the world that run on 100 percent wind-water-solar (WWS) alone with zero batteries, zero nuclear, and zero fossil fuels. 100 percent WWS,” he said.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

From repeated calls for a fossil fuel “phase out” to campaigns to regulate the oil and gas industry, pressure against Big Oil is stronger than ever and isn’t only coming from outside. Oil and Gas Playbook vs. Shareholder Activism In the face of increasing shareholder activism, fossil fuel companies are resistant.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Melissa Lem was shocked when she saw an advertisement from a major Canadian fossil fuel lobby group showing young parents and their two children happily cooking a meal over a brand new gas stove. The companies changed an online version of the ad to read “the least polluting fossil fuel.”.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Abbott has previously said that “climate change is probably doing good” and is a long-standing advocate for coal power, the most carbon-intensive fossil fuel. It has also expressed the view that carbon dioxide has been mis-characterised as pollution, when in fact it is a “benefit to the planet”.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

However, while the fuels are seen as a more sustainable alternative to biofuels they remain in their infancy and are significantly more expensive than other types of engine fuel.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

And, next year, the 2024 Olympics will see the Paris games sponsored by other major polluters, such as car maker Toyota, that has sought, for example, to delay the introduction of electric vehicles. Now the air pollution from burning fossil fuels alone is estimated to kill more than tobacco smoke. Credit: Badvertising.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

They stem from the system we chose when we grabbed and relied on fossil fuels," McCarthy said. McCarthy observed that the pandemic is one more example of how our system has left some communities behind, drawing a parallel to the disproportionate impact of climate change and pollution on communities of color. Trade-offs? "I

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2021

For those not yet up to speed, net zero refers to the goal of emitting no greenhouse gases by a specific date, typically 2050. These questions and others will be central to our upcoming (and free) VERGE Net Zero conference in August. First, what is net zero? However, Germany just committed to reaching this goal by 2045.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

However, coal was responsible for more carbon dioxide emissions than its fossil fuel counterparts. Fossil fuels are primarily composed of carbon and hydrogen. Regulations eventually reined in that problem, but coal-fired power plants still emit pollutants like mercury. Coal Emissions In 2022, coal comprised 26.7%

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The meetings – which include in-person talks with the then Business and Energy Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng and his minister Greg Hands (now the Conservative Party chairman) – are revealed in research by Fossil Free Parliament (FFP), a group campaigning against fossil fuel influence on UK politics.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

But the groups have unearthed a 1970 report by Eni’s Isvet research centre that warned of the “catastrophic” risk the build-up of carbon dioxide (CO2) caused by burning fossil fuels could pose to the climate. Methane is the clean energy of the future,” ran a 1986 promotion in Eni’s company magazine Ecos.

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