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Analysis: Argentina targets huge expansion of renewable energy by 2030

A Greener Life

The country’s new energy transition plan targets an estimated US$7.4 By Fermín Koop New government plan says US$86 billion of spending needed to boost energy transition – while backing natural gas too. billion of hydropower investments by 2030. Photo credit: Fernando Quevedo / Alamy. Are its goals realistic?

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Even record renewable energy growth did not hamper the fossil fuel sector in 2022

A Greener Life

By Anders Lorenzen The renewable energy sector experienced record growth in 2022 of 1%. They still account for 82% of the global energy supply according to the industry’s Statistical Review of World Energy released this week. We are still heading in the opposite direction to that required by the Paris Agreement.”

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The journey to a climate-safe future needs a proper roadmap

Enviromental Defense

With renewable energy, like solar and wind, becoming cheaper and easier to scale up, there has never been a better moment for governments to transition away from the fossil fuel industry and its destructive impacts on the environment, the climate and communities. In short, past Energy Futures have modelled climate failure.

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More gas, more missing climate targets

Enviromental Defense

Several credible studies indicate that gas may be as bad for the climate as coal. This is due to the very high release of the potent greenhouse gas methane along the process. Methane is emitted in the fracking process, as well as in the production and transportation of liquified natural gas (LNG).

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Why Climate Litigation in South Africa Matters

Law Columbia

Carbon-intensity, social inequality, vested interests, energy insecurity, and climate vulnerability are all present, in acute form. The country is the largest greenhouse gas (GHG) emitter on the African continent , ranked in the top 15 globally, with higher per capita emissions than many developed countries.

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Guest Essay: COP26 Shines A Light On The End Of Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

degree C of warming by 2100 as opposed to the Paris Agreement aspiration of 1.5 This allows the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter China and third largest India to continue chain-smoking coal to power their industrial machines. COP26 commitments have put our planetary fever on a path toward at least 2.4

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Banks Continue to Prop Up the Fossil Fuel Industry

Union of Concerned Scientists

Some of HSBC’s dealings were on behalf of Saudi Aramco, the world’s second-ranked company in Fortune’s Global 500 and often dubbed the world’s biggest polluter for being the largest corporate emitter of greenhouse gases. trillion into oil and gas development in the Global South in the seven years since the Paris Agreement was signed.