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FILE: A woman rides her bicycle past the Shell Pernis site in Rotterdam on 30 July 2020. Picture: Robin Utrecht/AFP

Fossil fuels

Oil majors vow energy transition - at their own pace

By AFP

Last week alone, a Dutch court ordered Shell to slash its greenhouse gas emissions, and investors used shareholder meetings to install activist board members at...

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    UK newspaper 'Guardian' bans fossil fuel adverts

    The Scott Trust, which owns the media group, has also "almost entirely" divested from fossil fuel companies.

    846 days ago
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    Global resource consumption tops 100 billion tonnes for first time

    The share of minerals, fossil fuels, metals and biomass feeding into the global economy that is reused declined in two years from an already paltry 9.1% to 8.6% today, the Circularity Gap Report 2020 found.

    854 days ago
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    Air pollution deaths are double earlier estimates - study

    Between 40 and 80% of those excess deaths are caused by heart attacks, strokes and other types of cardiovascular disease underestimated up to now as a driver of smog-related mortality, researchers reported.

    1169 days ago
  • A Total oil and gas exploration rig. Picture: Total Facebook page

    SA shouldn’t be exploring new fossil fuels - Greenpeace Africa warns

    Greenpeace Africa says one of the key issues surrounding the discovery of gas in the country is how it will affect climate change.

    1196 days ago
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    Mention of ‘fossil fuels’ cut from videos at UN climate talks

    In October, a landmark report by a UN body of experts, the IPCC, highlighted for the first time the need to drastically cut fossil fuel use.

    1257 days ago
  • The Whanganui River in New Zealand has been granted “legal personhood“. Picture: Twitter/@theNZstory.

    New Zealand push on clean power comes with high political, economic risks

    The 3,000-member Ngaati Kea Ngaati Tuara iwi in Rotorua, when switching to renewables, found local geothermal sources were not hot enough to generate electricity.

    1453 days ago
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    'EU should raise fossil fuel taxes to plug Brexit budget gap'

    European leaders will discuss options for the bloc’s next long-term budget from 2021 to 2027 at a summit on Friday.

    1553 days ago
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    These renewable superpowers control the future of energy

    The countries which dominate the production of fossil fuels will mostly be familiar.

    1553 days ago
  • FILE: Leonardo DiCaprio joined more than 400 institutions who have promised to divest from fossil fuels. Picture: Facebook.

    DiCaprio joins growing movement to divest from fossil fuels

    Leonardo DiCaprio joined more than 400 institutions who have promised to divest from fossil fuels.

    2435 days ago
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