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Bankrolling the Burn: Why Climate Scientists are Taking on Fossil Fuel Financiers

Union of Concerned Scientists

Climate Week events highlighted commitments and actions needed from the financial sector and other corporations to support and spur government ambition. Climate Week events highlighted commitments and actions needed from the financial sector and other corporations to support and spur government ambition. As usual, it was a mixed bag.

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UK 2024 General Election – Mapped: The Tory network of climate denial and fossil fuel funding

A Greener Life

By Adam Barnett DeSmog catalogues how oil and gas firms have forged ties with the highest levels of government, the media, and influential think tanks. This retreat from climate action did not happen in a vacuum but was fuelled by a steady campaign by a network of climate science deniers and fossil fuel interests.

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South Korea and Climate Change

Legal Planet

Even so, it compares favorably with the national governments in places like the U.S. As of 2016, half of its total emissions are from the power sector, with 20% from industry and 15% from transportation, and. According to the Energy Information Agency , South Korea’s power sector is heavily reliant on fossil fuels.

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Environmental Law Again Front-and-Center at California Supreme Court

Legal Planet

County of Monterey –a major case involving the authority of California local governments to limit oil and gas development within their borders. County of Monterey case raises important and difficult questions for both the justices and the Executive Branch of California state government.

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Banks Continue to Prop Up the Fossil Fuel Industry

Union of Concerned Scientists

Last month, the British-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) reported that London-based HSBC, one of the world’s top-10 biggest banks, has helped raise $47 billion for the fossil fuel industry since its 2022 announcement that it would not finance new gas and oil infrastructure. degrees Celsius, or 2.7

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Emergency? Part 2

Legal Planet

Regardless, renewable energy requires land, and land for renewables creates lots of conflicts, with landowners, local governments, environmentalists, and competing development interests. There are many possible emergency actions.

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HotSpots H2O: In Chile’s Lithium Mines, Climate and Environment Are Dueling Priorities

Circle of Blue

Caption: The Salar de Atacama salt works in Chile in 2016. Last week, the outgoing center-right government of President Sebastián Piñera signed over rights to two private companies to extract 160,000 tons of lithium. A battle is brewing over the future of lithium, an essential component of the world’s transition to renewable energy.