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April 24, 5:44 AM
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An advert for French oil and gas giant TotalEnergies has been banned in the UK for misleading consumers over the firm’s environmental impact.
Campaign group Adfree cities complained that the paid-for X post in May focused on the firm’s renewable wind energy projects while failing to mention that its operations remained mostly based in fossil fuels.
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March 21, 4:14 AM
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What if energy could be reclaimed as a global public good, free from profit-driven systems and rooted in justice? The Reclaiming Energy report offers systemic solutions to the climate crisis, advocating decolonial, democratic governance and transformative public–community partnerships. By redefining energy and resource justice, it charts a clear path toward a just, sustainable, and democratic future.
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February 28, 3:07 AM
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Italy's Council of Ministers will discuss a draft law that could pave the way for the return of nuclear power in Italy, decades after referendums in 1987 and 2011 led to its phase-out.
The draft law, which will be debated in today's cabinet meeting, aims to establish a comprehensive regulatory framework for sustainable nuclear energy production. This framework will cover various aspects, including nuclear power generation, the decommissioning and dismantling of existing plants, management of radioactive waste and spent fuel, research and development of fusion energy, and the reorganisation of competences and responsibilities in the sector.
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January 31, 8:58 AM
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The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-fuel propaganda and how to fight it Dr. Genevieve Guenther. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024, 280 pages. $29.
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January 17, 8:15 AM
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In an article for the World Economic Forum annual meeting, Morten Wierod, CEO at ABB, the Swedish-Swiss multinational electrical engineering corporation, gives a strong argument for the importance of energy efficiency. Why electrification and efficiency are the two keys to hitting net zero An urgent challenge of the energy transition is integrating renewable energy…
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January 14, 9:08 AM
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Les pays développés de l’OCDE ont échoué à trouver un accord sur l’arrêt progressif des mesures publiques de soutien financier aux industries fossiles, à quelques jours de l’investiture du climatosceptique Donald Trump à la Maison-Blanche.
"Malgré de nombreux mois de négociations et de travail acharné, les pays de l’OCDE participant aux négociations n’ont pas été en mesure de parvenir à un accord pour davantage restreindre le soutien [public] aux projets liés aux combustibles fossiles", a expliqué l’organisation de coopération et de développement économiques (OCDE) dans une déclaration transmise à l’AFP.
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April 22, 2024 10:28 AM
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Low-energy is the future, either through choice or physics. We are running out of time to have a say.
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January 8, 2024 10:07 AM
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Looking back on the past year, Belgian energy experts were proud to find out, after drawing up the tally, that for the first time in the country’s history, the share of electricity from renewable sources has surpassed that made from fossil fuels.
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September 13, 2023 11:30 AM
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After years of neglect, Germany has agreed upon concrete steps to reduce emissions from heating buildings, which are directly responsible for around 15 percent of the country’s entire CO2 output. But agreeing on the details of phasing out fossil fuel-powered boilers has proven to be an extremely difficult and protracted process.
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August 3, 2023 4:52 AM
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Too often in an effort to save Mother Nature, we forget about human nature. Solving problems with rolling out clean renewable energy is less a matter of the physical sciences than the social sciences—overcoming users’ habits and project resistance at the local level.
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August 1, 2023 7:52 AM
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The Berlin Senate has decided to work on developing geothermal sources as part of a sustainability overhaul of the local municipal heating network. The authorities will start test drilling in three lo..
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July 13, 2023 10:16 AM
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As part of the European Green Deal, the European Union is supporting regions that face particularly demanding challenges in the transition to a climate-neutral economy: So-called Coal+ regions, which are heavily dependent on fossil fuel extraction – such as coal, peat or shale oil – need to transform their economies and substitute their carbon-intensive business models.
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April 18, 2023 7:30 AM
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Japan’s plans for ammonia and coal use challenged but Tokyo resists setting firm timeline for wind-down
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April 24, 5:42 AM
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In this episode, Nicola speaks to narrative strategist Ruth Taylor of the Common Cause Foundation about the ways in which adverts shape our priorities and attitudes to social and environmental issues through appealing to certain cultural values. Ruth offers her take on adverts from Pepsi, Volvo and Apple which seem to appeal to intrinsic values like social unity or caring for nature, but may actually end up undermining these values. Finally, Ruth shares her thoughts on how the advertising industry needs to change in order to genuinely play a positive role.
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February 28, 4:37 AM
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Hydrogen is not a silver bullet for the energy transition and the hype that grew up around the clean-burning fuel is slowly dying down. Helen Spence-Jackson joins the show to explain why that is a good development
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February 12, 8:26 AM
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The Dutch Advertising Code Committee interprets the AVMSD unduly narrowly, allowing for the advertising of environmentally harmful products and services. The Committee’s self-regulatory nature and its understanding of the freedom of commercial expression are highly problematic.
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January 31, 8:16 AM
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To truly decarbonise, we must rethink wasteful systems; renewable energy alone won’t replace fossil fuels. Decarbonising our energy supply through renewabl
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January 16, 9:16 AM
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Katowice hopes to serve as an example to other industrial cities wanting to move away from fossil fuels.
Katowice, once the heartland of Poland’s huge coal industry, has joined a group pushing to accelerate the phase-out of coal power in favour of green energy.
It is the country’s first major city to join the Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA) and Katowice hopes it can serve as an example for others wanting to move away from fossil fuels.
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December 16, 2024 9:20 AM
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Becoming more efficient in how we produce and consume energy can substantially reduce our need for fossil fuels and our dependence on other countries for their supplies, bring down energy prices and raise comfort levels in our homes.
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February 21, 2024 9:45 AM
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The COP28 text does not simply call for transitioning away from fossil fuels but rather stipulates that this transition must be “just, orderly, and equitable,” a much more challenging prospect.
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October 6, 2023 10:15 AM
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European societies would not run without energy, which is why the energy transition is such a profound transformation. In the first article of our series on urban politics in the climate emergency, we ask whether local energy democracy can overcome the hurdles facing the green transition. Fossil fuels have kept us hooked to large, impersonal energy systems over which we have little or no control. Could renewables re-politicise and even democratise our relationship with energy?
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August 4, 2023 3:09 AM
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Over the past year and a half we’ve gone on a shared journey to discover how Europe’s cities are evolving to meet the challenges of our rapidly changing world. In our first chapter, focused on the quality of urban life, we went to Rome to explore the turn-of-the-century communities that inspired the modern 15-minute city concept, and to Vienna to learn about the city’s brilliant social housing model.
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August 1, 2023 8:13 AM
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While droughts, floods and abnormal temperature peaks are becoming more frequent in Italy, policy-makers keep showing a lack of will and determination to address the causes of climate change. This failure to act has led climate activists to resort to more radical modes of protest to make their voices heard. In this conversation, two members of Ultima Generazione explain to journalist Elena Pioli the reasons and goals behind their disruptive actions of civil disobedience, and discuss the legal and media backlash they are facing.
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July 19, 2023 8:40 AM
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The European Union will push for a global pledge at COP28 to phase out unabated fossil fuels “well ahead of 2050”, EU climate chief Frans Timmermans announced. EURACTIV's media partner, Climate Home News, reports.
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April 18, 2023 8:42 AM
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2023 will mark the beginning of the decline in fossil fuels, following the peak of global electricity emissions in 2022, according to a new report released on Wednesday (12 April) by energy think-tank Ember.
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