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Chevron’s #BlackLivesMatter Hypocrisy

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 7 mins The oil giant funds both civil rights groups and police, saying “Black Lives Matter” while committing acts of environmental racism all over the world. They love to talk about how dependent African economic growth is on fossil fuels, never about how they've destroyed water sources and wetlands and murdered protesters there).

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Government extends grants for buying electric vans and trucks through to 2025

Business Green

A government grant scheme offering businesses thousands of pounds off the price tag of electric vans and trucks has been extended by a further two years, in a move Ministers expect to support the purchase of tens of thousands of greener vehicles.

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Media Brief: Canada’s Clean Electricity Regulations

Clean Energy Canada

Through media briefs, we aim to provide useful factual and contextual information related to Canada’s clean energy transition. The federal government has released a new paper, Powering Canada Forward , which lays out the federal government’s vision for a 100% clean power grid by 2035.

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Reports: Government mulls gas boiler phase out delay amid cost concerns

Business Green

The previous date touted by the government for ending installations of new gas boilers was 2035, and advocates of the less stretching 2040 timeline claim it would give more time for the clean heating technologies to reduce in price, newspapers suggest. Hill added that it was "sensible" to plan for a longer low carbon heating transition.

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Government Defends Praising Tar Sands Industry Figures as COP26 ‘Climate Champions’

DeSmogBlog

The pension fund was criticised by Greenpeace Canada last year which said that although it “may be getting out of oil”, its investments in gas are “helping this sector survive and unnecessarily delaying the rapid transition underway”. TAG), the largest natural gas transporter in Brazil. CDPQ holds a 12.62

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Green Dividend Stocks: The Comfort Food of Investing in a Sustainable Future

Hydrogen Fuel News

Picture these as your funds’ best pals, rewarding you with a cash bonus simply for holding them. But let’s chit-chat about something that often tags along with investing: dividends. The company is investing in various clean energy technologies, including hydrogen. Evaluate the company’s growth prospects.

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How investing 1.3 per cent of GDP could decarbonise the global economy - and unlock massive financial savings

Business Green

With attempts to deny the seriousness of the climate crisis and discredit the feasibility of clean technologies overwhelmed by observable reality those opposed to climate action have increasingly turned to questioning the cost of decarbonisation. Moreover, this price tag is for capital investments, not costs. warming pathway by 2030.