DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Social media influencers were paid to boost the UAE’s climate credentials in and around COP28 in what appears to be a coordinated PR effort by the oil-dependent host nation, DeSmog can reveal. Reports of the fossil fuel interests of the host country dominated much of the media coverage of the summit.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2020

Read time: 8 mins You don’t have to look far to find misinformation about climate science continuing to spread online through prominent social media channels like YouTube. Tags: climate science denial youtube avaaz PragerU Patrick Moore google

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

However, if they’d divested from fossil companies in 2009 while keeping their other investments at the same proportions, they could have amassed a combined additional $19 billion in ten years, the report published by Corporate Knights, a Canadian media, research and financial firm, concludes.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 11, 2019

Although most people with basic education, common sense, and a lack of financial interest in the fossil fuel industry accept what scientists worldwide have proven through decades of research, some media outlets continue to publish inconsistent, incoherent opinions of people who reject climate science.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

coast, footage of the storm's devastation flooded the internet alongside calls for governments and the news media to recognize the here-and-now destruction of the climate emergency. Tags: hurricanes and global warming extreme weather Caribbean green new deal

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 16, 2019

In September, API began running TV , billboard, and social media ads promoting natural gas as a climate solution. Tags: American Petroleum Institute natural gas methane advertising spin Thanks to natural gas, the U.S. But is all of that true?

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

The campaigns have been deployed across a number of social media platforms and are part of a global effort to give “millennials a reason to connect emotionally” with oil and gas firms, and to tackle their perception as “the bad guys”. The former BBC presenter has also promoted the series on his personal social media channels.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 22, 2020

It developed the sustainability-minded audience by capturing a list of terms that someone interested in sustainability may use in their Twitter bio, or by tagging accounts that a climate activist may follow. To reach these rankings, Zoomph’s platform started with about 342 million anonymized profiles.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 17, 2019

We have called every state and federal agency, we have called the news media, and nobody is responding. Tags: virtual pipelines Compressed Natural Gas PHMSA Massachusetts These trucks are a brand-new technology, and nearly entirely unregulated — it’s very frustrating.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 11, 2023

The tag “forever chemicals” is clearly very appropriate for a class of synthetic compounds whose unusual molecular structure, including the carbon-fluorine (C-F) bond (considered one of the strongest found in organic chemistry), appears to offer little scope for any thermal or other degradation at all, so they endure permanently.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Top flight football coverage is the latest target of media giant Sky's efforts to curb its contribution to climate change, with the broadcaster announcing today that all Premier and English Football League matches shown live on Sky Sports this season will carry new green certifications.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

They’re ramming it down our throats,” said Chief Jacko during a media scrum outside a Carbon Capture Canada conference held on Tuesday. What you see in the media is about the same level of detail we’ve received, up until last week.” billion (CAD) price tag by 2030 to fund the project. Pathways estimates a $16.5

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2020

Speaking at a media launch yesterday, managing director Julian Scriven said that demand for all the company's products and services, including bike rentals, had been "astronomical" over the last few months, with more than 700 bikes out on hire at the end of July, according to The Guardian.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 8, 2023

Through media briefs, we aim to provide useful factual and contextual information related to Canada’s clean energy transition. Please use this as a resource, and let us know if there are any topics that you would like to see for future media briefs. Already, provinces with the cleanest grids typically pay the least for electricity.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Green businesses contend the social media giant's policies are treating their adverts in the same way as campaigns from 'dark money' funded lobbyists, undermining the timeliness and effectiveness of their marketing messages in the process. But, as Fidler points out, she was trying to advertise a careers event, not make a political point.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Maarten Wetselaar, director of Shell’s integrated gas and new energies division told Greentech Media the company would “ absolutely ” look to establish a utility business in deregulated states. (It It already runs a Shell-branded supplier in the U.K.). Meanwhile, in 2019 Shell cemented its place in the quickly emerging U.S.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Caleb Brackney is a graduate student and a true Gen-Z kid who’s active on social media. He plays piano and got a huge flat screen TV, a laptop and lots of time to post on social media feeds. He bought the bus for just $3,000, making the total price tag for his project $10,000. And yes, sometimes it is in motion.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 31, 2020

Here at Greentech Media, we’ve spent years covering the contenders, which range from quixotic defiers of the laws of physics to understated, scientifically minded strivers. And the lithium-ion batteries that supply 99 percent of new storage capacity today get very expensive if you try to stretch them out over many hours.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Related: Housing pods made of recycled plastic offer an alternative to festival tent waste The designer receives the used tents from volunteer organizations and recruits more volunteers from social media to assist with the sewing and assembling of the apparel as well as collecting additional tents.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Widespread media reports suggest Truss and her team are preparing to unleash a sweeping new energy package plan that would cap domestic energy bills at around £2,500 until at least the end of this year, and potentially for up to 18 months. I am determined to deliver.".

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2022

The 'costs' of building a net zero economy in the UK have come into sharp focus in recent months, as a small group of MPs and media commentators have argued the country cannot afford to accelerate its decarbonisation efforts, despite the reems of evidence pointing to the economic necessity of combatting climate change.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2022

But it is also true that an effective near-term energy security strategy would have dampened the impact of soaring bills, provided assurance to the public and businesses that the government had a grip on the crisis, and reduced the price tag of the multi-billion bailout the Treasury is now going to have to provide.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 1, 2020

In this Greentech Media series, we’re asking people with jobs in cleantech — from installing solar panels, to permitting wind projects, to promoting building energy efficiency software — to tell us what they really do all day. Typical programs have a price tag of several hundred thousand dollars.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Perhaps the most pertinent forerunner to this campaign is not Brexit, but the various campaigns previously pedalled by Baker's friends at the Global Warming Policy Foundation and the accompanying network of 'free market' think tanks and media titles.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The deal was officially announced last Thursday and covered by several media outlets including TechCruch. The combined platform will now enable teachers to assess how students are doing and then quickly match them to resources in the UClass library, where content is tagged for compliance with Common Core standards.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

Video posted to social media on June 6, 2022 by Gidimt’en Checkpoint. If you’re telegenic, if you looked good on camera, if you had social media acumen, if you had a lot of followers, if the issue was something where you could break it down into slogans…those would get you scored,” Howe said.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

According to multiple media reports, the new plan will see the government effectively cap the price of wholesale gas with subsidies then handed to gas suppliers to make up the difference between the cap and the real market price. As a result, domestic energy bills should stay at around current levels through this winter.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Shop NCLA Beauty on Amazon Le Labo With 147,219 hashtags on the social media platform, Le Labo takes the second-place spot. Shop Billy Jealousy on Amazon Nanshy With 9,326 tags, Nanshy moved into the tenth-place spot. The fragrance brand is more than small batch — it’s personalized batch.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 22, 2020

It developed the sustainability-minded audience by capturing a list of terms that someone interested in sustainability may use in their Twitter bio, or by tagging accounts that a climate activist may follow. To reach these rankings, Zoomph’s platform started with about 342 million anonymized profiles.

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Business Green

JUNE 6, 2022

But how will this drive change the look, feel, and price tag of items on sale on high streets and fashion sites? A growing band of major fashion retailers have pledged to achieve net zero emissions and overhaul their design and manufacturing processes to make the notoriously resource intensive industry more sustainable.

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CleanTech San Diego

APRIL 3, 2024

Cleantech San Diego member Top Rope Media is a is a San Diego-based digital marketing agency helping early to mid-stage startups in the outdoor and cleantech space create and execute highly-effective marketing strategies. Their services include strategic consulting, email, social media, paid media, PR, and web development.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

But, as the CCC's CEO Chris Stark put it during a media briefing this week, that drop in emissions last year was "illusory", rather than demonstrative of the lasting, structural change that will be needed every year in order to hit the UK's climate targets. Silence from the Treasury opens the door to climate action 'naysayers'.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Labour's Party Conference kicked off yesterday, with the new tag line 'A Fairer, Greener Future' on prominent display, and the opening policy announcement coming in the form of a commitment to deliver a net zero emissions power system by 2030, a full five years earlier than the government's current 2035 target date.

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The Environmental Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

And thanks in part to social media, they are able to connect directly with more ethically minded consumers. Founder of the business, Kei Nishida, shares that his desire to give back to the world inspired him to pursue the business advocacy: “We decided to use the tag line ‘Harvested with love in Japan’.

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Grist

JUNE 2, 2023

Preliminary estimates suggest that the price tag on filtering forever chemicals out of America’s drinking water is more than $3.8 Ross Anthony Willis / Fairfax Media via Getty Images In 1976, 3M found forever chemicals in the blood of its factory workers, and internal laboratory tests on monkeys and rats had produced worrying results.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Among the main reasons H2 vehicles have yet to even approach mainstream adoption includes their high price tag and the lack of a meaningful refueling infrastructure. In 2021, Sasol, a top South African greenhouse gas emitter, entered into a partnership with Toyota Motor Corp for a pilot project to use H2 along freight corridors.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2024

The trials which include city-wide returnable takeaway packaging; electronic tagging of reusable alternatives and doorstep packaging collections, involved over 100 food and drink businesses. The impact and learnings from six reuse projects, funded by over £1.4

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