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Revealed: Two Thirds of Online Posts from Six Major European Fossil Fuel Companies ‘Greenwashing’

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The simple fact is that they are not reducing their polluting activities by the significant amount required to limit the worst impacts of global warming.”. However, 13 percent of Shell’s posts focussed specifically on renewable energies such as wind, solar, and hydropower. ” Jonathan White, a lawyer at ClientEarth.

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Global Briefing: China emissions on track to peak by mid 2020s

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"Greens and liberals have different preferences as to the mix of market-based instruments, subsidies and regulatory law to achieve carbon neutrality over the next few decades," Ottmar Edenhofer, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research said. Sri Lanka to cease new coal power projects. per cent, Renew Economy reports.

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New Report Shows Gap Between Utility Carbon Pledges and Climate Change Imperatives

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utilities are on track to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 80 percent by 2030 compared to a 2005 baseline, the target needed to prevent global warming beyond 1.5 A new report from the Sierra Club finds that almost no U.S. degrees Celsius, as called for in the Paris Agreement. generation capacity in 2020, according to federal data.

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Cascadia is known for strong climate action. So why are emissions still rising?

Grist

Imagine you woke up in 2030 to find that Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia had done little to slow the global warming that cooked the Cascadia region this year. We have not kept pace with the scope of the crisis,” Oregon Global Warming Commission Chair Catherine Macdonald wrote to legislators that month.

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How 4 Top US Utilities Are Grappling With the Energy Transition (or Not)

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Utilities will be front and center in America's efforts to combat global warming, from drastically cutting their own carbon emissions to assisting other sectors, like transportation, in cutting theirs. Today, no U.S.

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Inflation Reduction Act: 10 ways it will turbocharge US climate action (and one way it won't)

Business Green

Barring any late Congressional dramas, President Joe Biden could sign the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law before the week is out, triggering a multi-billion dollar green investment bonanza that promises to drastically accelerate US emissions reduction efforts. of global warming by 2050.