DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2024

A new campaign is calling on MPs to break the fossil fuel sector’s “chokehold” on politics in a critical election year. Lawmakers returning to work today (Monday) were greeted with smoke flares and a demand to “Stop Polluting Politics” from a banner hung off London’s Westminster Bridge. million in 2022.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 17, 2020

Yet here we are, a year later, looking at a very different world than the one envisaged last August. The Business Roundtable’s statement of purpose, one year on. Joel Makower. Mon, 08/17/2020 - 02:11. The short answer: It’s mostly business as usual. That’s an admittedly blunt and sweeping assessment of the state of corporate responsibility.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Carbon pricing has always been a thorny political issue, but as Ministers weigh how to drive the next phase of the net zero transition some experts believe it has a critical role to play. It all started with such ambition. So, after years of post-Brexit wrangling, the UK's ETS sparked into life in May 2021.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2022

Negotiations for a new UN Treaty to protect two thirds of the planet have ended without conclusion at the UN Headquarters in New York, meaning that a further meeting will be required, the High Seas Alliance reported on 18 March. Anything less is a failure.”. “As said Fabienne McLellan, Managing Director at OceanCare.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

C by the end of the century. C by the end of the century. C as soon as 2030, taking the world into a zone of dangerous climate change. C as soon as 2030, taking the world into a zone of dangerous climate change. license ). This means there is little to no room for manoeuvre, with only a 50% chance of holding the 1.5°C

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The Glasgow Summit ended with a new Climate Pact and COP26 President Alok Sharma's insistence that 1.5C The world's decarbonisation efforts may have taken a massive step forward since the 2015 signing of the Paris Agreement, when the global economy was commonly thought to be on track for 3-4C of warming. alive are faltering.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The number of operational clean hydrogen production projects worldwide is set to at least double in the next five years, according to research published on 23 October by law firm Pillsbury , with 108 set to start producing the gas by the end of 2028. home to 7 (7%); the UK home to 7 (7%); and Japan home to 7 (7%). billion in 192 startups.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 14, 2021

The report by the CEWASTE consortium – led by the Switzerland-based World Resources Forum – says this requirement should apply to certain e-waste categories, including: End-of-life circuit boards, certain magnets in disc drives and electric vehicles, EV and other special battery types, and fluorescent lamps.

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The Verge: Energy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Image: Hugo Herrera / The Verge The nations of the world have to seriously ramp up their clean energy ambitions because time is running out to meet the goals of the Paris climate agreement, a sweeping new United Nations report card says. The world doesn’t have much wiggle room left. The planet has gotten about 1.2 degrees Celsius.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 4, 2024

As energy policy and politics shift globally, business flexibility will be a necessity for the success of the energy transition. And, it looks likely that things will remain uncertain, with no real end in sight. And although the tech is available to meet this need, challenges to its deployment remain, expliains Jon Slade of ENSEK.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 25, 2024

Climate action ‘means a free world order’ he tells Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue conference German federal minister Robert Habeck has warned that the rise of nationalism is a threat to climate action and delivering the energy transition. This conference is a link in that change.” Have you read? Climate action means prosperity.”

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2021

World needs collective ambition to rise seven-fold to stand a chance of keeping on a 1.5C UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has castigated governments for their failure in leadership, following a report today revealing the world is facing a catastrophic 2.7C The era of half measures and hollow promises must end.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

degrees Fahrenheit) warming target by the end of the decade and surpass the 2 degrees C target by 2050. The new research adds to the urgency of conversations about climate change, just weeks before leaders all over the world are expected to travel to Dubai to meet for the United Nation’s annual climate change conference, COP28.

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Business Green

APRIL 18, 2024

Even if the world starts to rapidly decarbonise, climate impacts are likely to knock 19 per cent off projected per capita incomes and 17 per cent off GDP by mid-century. That is true, but such a modest reduction in projected incomes is based on the world getting onto a decarbonisation trajectory that keeps temperature increases below 2C.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

The conference was originally scheduled for the end of October of 2023. The people inside this conference, the execs from oil and gas, the political figures from the governments that work with these companies, they know exactly how bad what they’re doing is,” said Benjamin Hoffman, another member of the Sunrise Movement. “The

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Grist

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Assuming a world in which countries also meet their current goals to zero out net carbon emissions in the coming decades, temperatures will still increase about 2.5 The landmark Paris climate agreement called for nations to keep global temperature increase to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius, with an aspiration of limiting it to 1.5

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Much has already been opined on the outcome of COP28, and while the world’s foremost climate conference is known for spawning tension and frustration, this one seemed especially fraught. It’s not surprising. This is the first COP where we are face-to-face with the reality of breaching the 1.5C And this year’s COP finally looked it in the eye.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2022

Lawyer and activist Farhana Yamin considers XR’s cultural, political, and business impact three years after it drove London to a standstill in 2019. The world is in a fractious state - geopolitically, economically, and climatically.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 25, 2023

“I even took off my farm boots and wore high heels to come here today,” Camila Telles told the audience of political activists, business executives, and students at April’s Liberty Forum, an annual conservative gathering in Brazil sponsored by the Atlas Network. We, producers, live with this fear daily,” Telles said.

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2024

To date, most studies have tended to base calculations for future economic damages on the national impacts that are expected to result from anticipated increases in average annual temperatures through to the end of the century. The truth is no one knows for sure. But today's report takes a much more granular and empirical approach.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

At a panel discussion held at the 24th World Petroleum Congress, Shaikh Nawaf Saud Al-Sabah, deputy chairman & CEO of the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, estimated that more than a billion people will die if all new oil and gas investment is stopped. You’re going to have an extremely rough transition between now and then,” he said.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Only UN-accredited individuals – world leaders, country representatives, media and NGOs – are permitted in the area. The UAE is a major producer of oil and gas and has the world’s largest oil expansion plans. billion debt of the Barclay brothers, their current owners. billion debt of the Barclay brothers, their current owners.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Overall, the report contends that investing in net zero projects promises to boost UK GDP by two per cent by the end of the decade, and by three per cent by 2050, through the creation of high value new industries and a shift towards cheaper, more secure energy supplies that reduce reliance on expensive fossil fuel imports.

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Fairsnape

JANUARY 22, 2020

Once again Great Thunberg has shaken our thinking on carbon with her speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos. With our focus on “net zero emissions” “low carbon economy” and “carbon neutrality” are we cheating and fiddling around with numbers? Another wake up call. I said I wanted you to panic. But don’t worry. degree target.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2022

Boris Johnson's premiership has ended in failure, the opportunity to shape a new era of climate action squandered by a fundamental lack of seriousness. It is, by any measure, a staggering political demise. Last autumn, Johnson's dominance of British politics seemed unimpeachable.

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2021

The end of this week marks the end of the parliamentary term and the start of summer recess. The UK is, in many ways, leading the world on decarbonisation. Now should be the time for the Prime Minister to get more involved in diplomatic work for an ambitious outcome at COP26, writes Green Alliance's Joe Tetlow.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 19, 2022

She also founded End Climate Silence , an organization focused on strengthening climate change reporting and ending fossil fuel advertising in the media. She also founded End Climate Silence , an organization focused on strengthening climate change reporting and ending fossil fuel advertising in the media.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2022

When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — the consortium of scientists responsible for summarizing the world’s climate knowledge and releasing it in roughly decadal, 3,000-plus-page installments — published its latest report on Monday, the findings were just as grim as usual. So how did the world end up with a 1.5-degree

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 11, 2020

Until you start focusing on what needs to be done rather than what is politically possible there is no hope," Greta said. From the streets to the halls of power, her calls for climate action have reverberated around the world. At the forthcoming World Economic Forum in Davos she is expected to call for an end to fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 11, 2022

As the world gasped in wonder at the first images of our infant universe from the James Webb Space Telescope last month, we were reminded that human beings are still capable of acts that elevate us all and advance our collective potential. By Clara Vondrich. ”, pack their bags, and hop in the nearest space-Uber.

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2023

As temperatures the world over smash records this summer, death rates spike, and agricultural yields plummet, the implications of more than 1.5C target is dead, the Paris Agreement's 'well below' 2C goal is on life support, and the world is heading for a very dangerous place.

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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 lack of action on domestic energy efficiency that has now been evident for so long it has become a point of cliché for campaigners to point it out.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2022

And today, UK and US researchers at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), have sought to deliver some sobering, if not wholly surprising, answers to these critical questions. per cent by the end of the century, they estimate.

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Charged

JULY 12, 2023

One thing that’s indisputable is that the brave new world of charging is spectacularly good news for Tesla, and for several reasons. One thing that’s indisputable is that the brave new world of charging is spectacularly good news for Tesla, and for several reasons.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

That sends a clear political message that the industry “is less powerful and trusted than before,” Nick Caleb, a climate and energy attorney with Breach Collective, told DeSmog. Gavin Newsom on the opening day of Climate Week NYC. But California is the first fossil-fuel-producing state to do so.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

At this point they are asked what regulations they actually want to cut and are so flummoxed by this predictable question they end up babbling some nonsense about newts or water voles stymying development. Hold on, haven't we seen this one before? This process always goes the same way.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Wales, France, Ireland, Denmark, and Costa Rica are among a group of national and subnational governments to this afternoon launch a pioneering alliance of actors who are "determined" to set an end date for oil and gas exploration and extraction. California and New Zealand are also joining the initiative as associate members.

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