Fossil fuel articles
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Report: Since Paris, banks have channeled $6.9 trillion to fossil fuel firms
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The world’s big banks have handed nearly $7 trillion in funding to the fossil fuel industry since the Paris agreement on carbon emissions, according to research. In 2016, after talks in Paris, 196 countries signed an agreement to limit global heating as […]
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‘Stop being stupid’: John Kerry encourages productive protest and criticizes fossil fuel subsidies
Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called for peaceful protest over the Israel-Gaza war and more tax incentives for clean energy technology.
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Letters to the Editor: Carbon removal won't save us from climate change. We need to end fossil fuels
To the editor: Your article on new scientific interventions to address global climate issues opens with the questionable claim that direct air capture to sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide represents perhaps one of "the world's best hopes for combating climate change." And yet you quickly point out that it would take 1 million facilities like the initial plant now operating in San Joaquin County to make a meaningful impact on global carbon levels. Is that a viable strategy? We will need to...