AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

New research has revealed that fossil fuel pollution caused approximately 8.7 Experts found that countries that burn fossil fuels heavily for manufacturing and transport are the most affected. Air pollution caused by fossil fuels kills millions. million deaths in 2018. Read more:Â .

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

To achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, countries will likely need to set hard limits on the extraction of fossil fuels in addition to supporting the deployment of clean energy. The researchers set out to estimate how much of the world’s fossil fuel reserves must remain in the ground in order to limit global warming to 1.5

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2021

UKEF confirmed it now had representatives in Africa, South America, the Middle East, and Asia helping it identify projects with long-term and sustainable growth potential, adding it planned to "significantly increase" this network in 2021. "As

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

The finance sector is increasingly reluctant to finance fossil fuel expansion, and ‘Big Ag’ could be next in the divestment campaign firing line, argues Charlotte Moore from SIGWATCH. Calls for financial institutions to divest from fossil fuels have become a cornerstone of NGO climate campaigning over the past decade.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2021

The merger will establish Statkraft as one of the most prolific solar developers in Europe, giving the firm access to a 6GW pipeline of solar assets across the continent, as well as an expanding portfolio in South America.

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Business Green

JULY 21, 2022

Carbon emissions from the electricity sector are set to decline this year, as demand growth for electricity around the world slows and additions of renewable power generation edge fossil fuel generators off electricity grids around the world, according to the latest data from the International Energy Agency (IEA).

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Terra Infirma

JUNE 19, 2023

Not UK emissions or UK use of fossil fuels! No one wants to confirm it’s Africa, Asia & South America that’s the real problem! If we all shift away from consuming fossil fuels, then BP’s profits goes down the toilet and they go bust.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 3, 2023

Critics of the push say carbon capture technology is still unproven, methane leakage could add untold greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere, and transport complications all make blue hydrogen a much dirtier fuel than the name implies. This has the potential to cut off one area of growth for the fossil fuel industry.

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Green Market Oracle

JUNE 29, 2020

C per decade due mostly to greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide (CO2) generated by the burning fossil fuels. In May warm conditions were also present in both the Arctic and Antarctic, as well as parts of Africa, South America, and Central America. Since the 1970s global temperatures have risen an average of 0.2 °C

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

“Even if the industry switched to 100 percent renewable power supply, there are still important challenges associated with the remaining 60 percent of emissions, which mostly come from the use of fossil fuels throughout the mining process,” said Martinez of the International Council on Mining and Metals.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2023

Unveiling its full-year 2022 financial results, the German car giant said its operating profits rose to €2.6bn despite "challenging" economic conditions, with overall sales across its fossil fuel and EV portfolio rising from €68bn to €74bn.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2022

"GM and Honda will share our best technology, design and manufacturing strategies to deliver affordable and desirable EVs on a global scale, including our key markets in North America, South America and China," said Mary Barra, GM's chair and CEO. "By

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Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The announcement, led by 40 members of the Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA), marks the biggest global net zero commitment from the carbon-intensive sector to date, and brings together firms from North and South America, Africa, Asia, and Europe.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JANUARY 5, 2024

In the words of Nicolás Pérez, principal researcher at CEGA, “green hydrogen can be an energy alternative for transportation that does not pollute and replaces fossil fuels.” The project in Aysén not only seeks regional development, but is also aligned with the country’s climate objectives.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Gas prices and fossil fuels reach record highs in Europe – report Avenues for growth within the energy and environment industry. LNG export growth in 2022 remains dominated by North America, which accounts for more than 75% of the net increase in global LNG supply. Have you read? The rest of the world remains broadly flat.

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Business Green

AUGUST 20, 2020

Moreover, the production of synthetic nitrogen is highly energy intensive and is currently reliant on burning fossil fuels, research published by the food and farming charity this week points out.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 31, 2021

Poised for launch in 2024, the Manta will operate autonomously 75% of the time without the use of fossil fuels , and it will have the ability to extract between 5,000 and 10,000 tons of floating plastic each year. Its design allows the Manta to extract microplastics from 10 mm upward and up to 1 meter deep.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Working closely with the community, Cole represented the residents in lawsuits fighting against major mining and fossil fuel companies, including the groundbreaking case Kivalina v. In the early 2000s, the challenges faced by the community came to the attention of an environmental justice lawyer named Luke Cole. The suit, Kivalina v.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 3, 2020

The canopy similarly controls atmospheric water levels, affecting the water cycle and stabilizing the rainfall of South America. Indeed, were it not for the Amazon rainforest helping to re-absorb the carbon from the carbon footprint generated by human consumption, land use and fossil fuel burning, climate change will not be buffered.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Public transport is one of the best, most cost-effective solutions available to address today’s climate and development challenges. Buses and trains can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by up to two-thirds per passenger, per kilometer compared to private vehicles. The UN’s latest.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 18, 2023

As a society, we routinely burn fossil fuels at about 1000°C to heat our homes at about 22°C. In part, incentives are needed because the impacts of fossil fuels are often not accounted for when considering the power price. What can SLB or GeothermEx contribute to attaining this goal of scaling up?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

If the world warms more than 4C by 2100, the number of days with climatically stressful conditions for outdoor workers will increase by up to 250 workdays per year by century's end in some parts of South Asia, tropical sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Central and South America. That's the future our children have to contemplate.

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The City Fix

JULY 10, 2023

To date, over 90 countries have set net-zero emissions targets, committing to help prevent the most harmful impacts from climate change. But questions remain around the credibility of many of these pledges and whether these goals will be met. Together, countries with net-zero targets — which.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Today’s climate change headlines often seem at odds with each other. One day, it’s catastrophic wildfires wreaking havoc around the world; the next, it’s an optimistic piece on the rapid scale-up of solar and wind power. Taken together, such stories.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Even South America, in the throes of winter, saw unbelievable heat: A town in the Chilean Andes topped 100 degrees F — another all-time high. Across the Northern Hemisphere, from continent to continent, heat records fell at an alarming pace, with Morocco and China setting all-time highs above 120 degrees F.

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Grist

AUGUST 18, 2021

The Pantanal wetlands in central South America burned. With increasing frenzy, humans are binge-burning fossil fuels. They are taking fuel out of the geologic past, burning it in the present with complex (and little understood) interactions, and then releasing the effluent into the geologic future.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

Sommers’ statement may be, in fact, one of the most literal examples of how fossil fuel companies are using language to perpetuate their climate denial and fend off action. Arena was one of six employees to resign in 2015 following revelations of the firm’s greenwashing work with fossil fuel lobbies and associations.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

A study published in Science found that “even if fossil fuel emissions were immediately halted, current trends in global food systems would prevent the achievement of the 1.5°C per capita per day in Africa, 77.57g in Asia, 86.09g in South America, and 102.06g in Europe. gigatonnes (Gt) of CO2e and sequester 8.1

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 15, 2020

From Europe to Australia, South America to China, Florida to Oregon, investors are asking how they should modify their portfolios. Consumers are asking, so banks are responding.]

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

Trees are cut down for pasture, fossil fuels are used as fertilizer for feed, and that feed is transported across borders, and sometimes the world, using even more fossil fuels. He says he has seen cases in South America where people have worked to transform degraded cattle ranches into cocoa plantations.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Since the last climate conference took place in Madrid in 2019, we’ve seen wildfires in Greece, Australia, Canada, and South America, biblical floods in China, the UK, Germany and America, and record-breaking hurricanes, cyclones, and tornadoes across the globe. Coal is by far, the worst of our fossil fuel dependencies.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 24, 2021

The International Energy Agency warns in a new analysis that if the world hopes to reach net zero emissions by 2050, widely seen as necessary to meet the Paris climate agreement goals, there should be no investment in new fossil fuel supply projects or in new coal-fired power plants that don’t capture their carbon emissions.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JANUARY 26, 2024

2024 opens development opportunities in line with reducing dependence on fossil fuels and facilitating the transition towards a clean, safe and sustainable energy matrix at a local scale,” said Diego Morata, Director of CEGA.

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Grist

JUNE 21, 2021

The 9-year-old girl’s fatal asthma attack might have passed without public notice except for the fact that, after a long legal fight, it became the first British death officially attributed to fossil fuel-caused air pollution. When she died in 2013, no doctors mentioned environmental causes. In the U.S.,

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

Frank for NPR and Floodlight) Chevron’s bid to control the public discourse comes as efforts to combat climate change threaten the fossil fuel industry, especially in California. Most of the people who work at the Chevron refinery live outside the city. State regulators would effectively ban the sales of gas-powered cars by 2035.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

South America has lots of land suitable for restoration - but most of it will be turned into plantations. The faster we reduce emissions from fossil fuels and deforestation to zero, the lower the level of negative emissions required. Lewis et al / Nature. scenarios also has a huge land footprint.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Fossil fuels are a dead end - for our planet, for humanity, and yes, for economies," he added. Hoesung Lee, chair of the IPCC, said the findings were a "dire warning" about the consequences of inaction on climate change.

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