DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The investment fund that has reportedly reached an agreement to buy the Telegraph Media Group has stakes in several oil and gas companies, DeSmog can report. based RedBird Capital has entered into a joint venture to take control of The Telegraph alongside International Media Investments (IMI) of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Bank considering introducing stronger limits on its fossil fuel investments as it faces growing pressure from shareholders. Barclays is gearing up to introduce stricter climate change policies that would further limit its investments in fossil fuels, following growing pressure from the bank's shareholders, according to reports.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Reform UK , formerly the Brexit Party, is a vocal critic of climate action, and last year called for a referendum on the UK’s net zero policies. billion invested in fossil fuels. billion invested in fossil fuels. Earlier this year, Tice claimed “there is no climate crisis”. Mordaunt has also donated to the Conservative party.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2023

That is the upbeat conclusion of new research published this week by the Inevitable Policy Response (IPR), an initiative that has been tracking significant climate policy developments on a quarterly basis since the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow in November 2021.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The self-styled PopCons included politicians critical of climate policies and science, including Lord Frost, who is a director of the climate science denial Global Warming Policy Foundation , as well as Conservative MP Lee Anderson and Reform party president Nigel Farage. The channel‘s co-owner, Paul Marshall, has £1.8

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 7, 2022

Just 13 financial players out of hundreds assessed from around the world have restrictions in place against funding oil and gas industry expansion, according to the Oil and Gas Policy Tracker. Now, the tracker has broadened its reach, assessing the fossil fuel policies of 369 banks, insurers, and investors.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

As revealed by DeSmog, a number of ARC advisers have a history of attacking net zero policies and questioning climate science, many of whom are speaking at next week’s conference. A DeSmog investigation in May revealed that one in three GB News hosts spread climate science denial on air in 2022, while half attacked climate policies.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Last month, Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Clare Coutinho met with and praised fuel pricing lobbyist Howard Cox , a Reform UK candidate who wants to “scrap net zero” and claims that “man is not responsible for global warming”. DeSmog has previously revealed that the Conservative Party received £3.5 billion (£1.8

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 11, 2024

Anderson has repeatedly attacked the government’s net zero policies, arguing in February 2024 that a net zero UK “wouldn’t make a blind bit of difference to the earth’s atmosphere”. Tice has said “CO2 isn’t poison, it’s plant food”, while the party’s London mayoral candidate Howard Cox has said “man is not responsible for global warming”.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

VIDEO: What Schroders' analysis tell us about global warming and investments? Schroders has integrated climate change into its global investment returns forecasts for the next three decades, uncovering the stark impact global warming is set to have on international markets.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Energy and investment experts have warned that only concrete policy action from governments can prevent huge economic disruption should the 'carbon bubble' burst as economies shift away from fossil fuels in the coming years. You can still sign up now for a pass to this week's Net Zero Festival here.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 22, 2024

Although prevailing wisdom holds that time is running out, BloombergNEF’s New Energy Outlook 2024 seemingly shows how the world could still achieve the major goal of the Paris Agreement – holding global warming to well below 2°C and avoiding the worst impacts of climate change – and what it would take to get there. is buildings).

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Energy Central

JANUARY 22, 2024

Why are countries falling short of hitting COP28 global targets to mitigate global warming?

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

If Republicans do keep control of the upper chamber of Congress, the options for Democrats to push through their wide-ranging energy and climate change policies will narrow significantly — even if Biden wins the election. Murkowski insisted the GOP is not opposed to what she termed "commonsense climate policies."

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Carbon neutral refers to a policy of not increasing carbon emissions and of achieving carbon reduction through offsets. Alternative investments can also be made in initiatives that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, such as in cattle feed that reduces the methane output of cows.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Solar panels alone generate more electricity globally than the entire US power sector does today. That’s the picture the International Energy Agency (IEA) paints in the World Energy Outlook it published today, which is based on governments’ current energy policies. degrees of global warming this century.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 22, 2021

The theory goes that in order to rapidly deploy clean energy, you need three elements: technology; policy; and finance. The only missing piece, before this week, has been policy. . He’s integrating climate experts across all departments in "the largest team ever assembled inside the White House to tackle global warming.".

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2022

But if emissions are allowed to continue rising and the planet is forced to steel itself for almost 4C of global warming by the end of the century, they conclude the UK faces a huge GDP hit of at least 3.3 per cent by 2100, thanks to both physical impacts and the global socio-economic disruption wrought by rolling climate crises.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 31, 2021

To achieve net-zero economy-wide emissions by 2050 and limit global warming, industrial emissions must drop while still meeting societal needs. As industries electrify, utilities and states must rigorously invest in renewable energy and grid modernization to maintain and enhance reliability.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 10, 2022

At first blush, the Twitter policy seems like it could be a gamechanger. The problem is that Twitter’s new policy won’t actually stop the most dangerous type of climate disinformation: fossil fuel industry greenwashing. The post Twitter’s New Ad Policy Ignores a Subtler Form of Climate Disinformation appeared first on DeSmog.

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

Macquarie, Asian Development Bank, and Church of Scotland all strengthen their restrictions on fossil fuel investments. Climate change is one of the most complex and critical challenges facing the world, and the finance sector has a vital role to play in efforts to limit global warming," it said.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The letter, sent to 47 company chairs and chief executives, calls on emissions-intensive firms to align all direct corporate lobbying activity and indirect lobbying activity managed by trade associations with the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to 1.5 Investors signing this week's letters have called on the 47 U.S.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2022

Latest projections show global energy investment set to rise eight per cent this year, driven by surging investment in clean energy infrastructure. The IEA's World Energy Investment 2022 report, published yesterday, predicts that global energy investment is to increase by eight per cent in 2022 to reach $2.4tr.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 23, 2024

Over the last year, the governing Conservative Party has watered down its support for the UK’s flagship 2050 net zero emissions target, and has enacted policies to increase fossil fuel extraction. Is it any wonder they’ve adopted so many reactionary and dangerous policies to prop up planet-wrecking fossil fuels?

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 12, 2022

Climate pledges and statements of support from the financial industry ring hollow unless and until firms support public policies that will deliver required emission cuts. Methane from oil and gas operations, agriculture and other industries is responsible for at least 25% of the global warming we experience today.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

The UK register of lobbyists shows that since January, the influential CT Group has been representing the Legatum Institute , a think tank funded by the Dubai-based investment firm Legatum Group, which co-owns GB News. global warming target established by the 2015 Paris Agreement.

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GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

degrees Celsius global warming trajectory. They also have committed to share information on investing in carbon-reduction technologies and to collectively push for public policies that accelerate the net zero transition. The business world of the future cannot look like it does now.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

of warming. (If If longer-term net-zero pledges are achieved, which is less certain at this point, global warming could be contained to 1.8C.) Canadian pension funds, often maligned for their dirty investments, have quietly cut fossil fuel holdings by 90% over the past decade, while ploughing $150 billion into clean energy.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 5, 2021

As the industry reckons with its role in a decarbonized future, advocates, utilities and regulators alike are calling for a carefully-managed transition that avoids costly long-term investments. This first-of-its-kind tool has the power to transform natural gas utility investment decisions. There is more work to be done.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

Banque de France to axe investment in firms generating more than half of their revenue from gas, 10 per cent from oil, and any revenue from coal by 2024. Meanwhile, it will expand its coal exclusion policy to stop all support of companies that generate any part of their revenue from the fossil fuel.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 10, 2024

Last week Wood Mackenzie released an analysis – A delayed energy transition – on the implications of a five-year delay to the energy transition, both on CAPEX spending across segments as well as on the penetration of global warming. In total investment, this drums up to $48 trillion, far below the needed $75 trillion.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 9, 2021

Renewable energy advocates offered reactions on Monday to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report that warned of a “code red for humanity” due to global warming. Reaching a majority renewables electric grid by 2030 will deploy over $1 trillion of capital investment into the U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

But the most striking aspect of the analysis - and perhaps the most pertinent given the rapid uptick in demand for net zero action in 2020 - is to be found in the way the researchers deal with the issue of cost - or, to put it more accurately, investment. That is to say, ending climate change is extremely good value for money.

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GreenBiz

MAY 25, 2021

It cited data from global finance firm UBS that investing in a portfolio of companies with lower emissions intensity — the amount of carbon dioxide emitted per unit of revenue — led to annual returns 1 percentage point higher than the MSCI World index of developed market stocks. Finance & Investing. Policy & Politics.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

Taxpayer handouts to Canada’s wealthiest companies means that less money is available for the types of investments that could actually help people across the country who are deciding between food and energy bills,” she said. It is 10 times what the government has invested in climate change adaptation since 2015.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

A “sustainable development” conference taking place in London gave a platform to two prominent climate science deniers, who used the event to claim that coal-fired power is “clean” and call global warming a “religion”. in a call and response chant of “Global warming is?”, If global warming is your religion, that’s fine.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 17, 2020

Lori Lightfoot of Chicago, Vi Lyles of Charlotte, North Carolina, Libby Schaaf of Oakland, California and Jenny Durkan of Seattle — working in their communities to create powerful dialogues and meaningful policy action. From the carbon footprint of city buildings and housing to energy policy, mayors are on the front lines of sustainability.

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