Sentences with phrase «change at energy companies»

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Months of deliberations behind closed doors at Shell headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands, had led the top brass at the world's largest non-state-owned oil company by sales to conclude that the energy industry was changing fundamentally — in a way that could turn the profitable oil - sands operation into a liability.

Russia's Gazprom ranked no. 1 in the 2017 S&P Global Platts Top 250 Global Energy Company Rankings, toppling ExxonMobil and ending its 12 - year reign at the top spot, S&P Global Platts said in what it defined as the most profound change in the 16 - year history of the ranking.

For instance, we are doing a lot of work with companies on energy and environmental innovation at MaRS, while at the same time looking at changing the nature of work to be more people - focused.

The remaining funds went towards two companies aimed at reducing humanity's dependence on fossil fuels and so counteracting the problem of climate change: Tesla Motors ($ 70m), a luxury electric car manufacturer that has since expanded to provide energy to homes and businesses through battery technology; and SolarCity ($ 10m) which seeks to offer a cleaner and more affordable energy solution.

Mr. DiNapoli also announced the pension fund had withdrawn shareholder proposals at three energy companies due to their climate - change disclosure policies.

At the same time, Parliament's energy and climate change committee has warned that failure to build new nuclear will make it much harder and more expensive for us to meet our climate change targets, that government appears to be «crossing its fingers that private companies will deliver» and that a Plan B is required in case new nuclear stations are not built on time...

Eventually, Bourtourault felt the desire to «change to real projects» and secured a position at the company's renewable - energy subsidiary EDF Energies Nouvelles.

«We have an obligation to the world to deliver clean, reliable, low - cost energy that is hopefully low carbon, too,» adds chemical engineer David Rogers, general manager for climate change at Chevron, a California - based oil company that did not join efforts to suspend California's climate change initiative.

Republican gains in the U.S. Congress suggest climate change and energy will not be addressed in the next two years, and a voluntary national cap - and - trade market for companies, known as the Chicago Climate Exchange, will expire at the end of this year.

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Sabine Fuss, a sustainable energy researcher at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change in Berlin who is unaffiliated with Climeworks, said that the company's direct - air capture plant is the first of its kind to operate on an industrial scale.

But there are changes coming to Europe that should have investors looking at energy companies across the pond.

«While Americans have rallied in support of clean renewable energy at home, the U.S. Export - Import Bank has made it a priority to handout money to fossil fuel companies to work on projects abroad,» said Kate DeAngelis of Friends of the Earth U.S. «If Trump gets his way, U.S. Export - Import Bank will become a slush fund for Big Oil's plans to accelerate climate change.

Lack of transparency at company level has, however, been a bottleneck to understanding how companies are responding to the considerable changes in the energy market.

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Duke University ConocoPhillips Pledges $ 1 Million to Climate Change Policy Partnership at Duke 2007 ConocoPhillips, the third - largest integrated energy company in the United States, has pledged $ 1 million to support an industry - university collaboration working to develop policies that address global climate change, Duke University President Richard H. Brodhead announced WednChange Policy Partnership at Duke 2007 ConocoPhillips, the third - largest integrated energy company in the United States, has pledged $ 1 million to support an industry - university collaboration working to develop policies that address global climate change, Duke University President Richard H. Brodhead announced Wednchange, Duke University President Richard H. Brodhead announced Wednesday.

«Eventually, we can get to a system where an electric company will be able to hold back some of the power so that maybe your air conditioner won't operate at its peak...» — Carol Browner, former US Energy and Climate Change Advisor, US News, Mar. 9, 2009

Its publication coincides with a major gathering this week of energy chiefs at the IHS - CERAWeek conference in Houston, Texas, and as oil companies back or prepare to support shareholder resolutions that test company resilience to climate change.

Because natural gas may produce less CO2 equivalent per unit of energy produced, natural gas companies are pushing natural gas as at least a short - to medium - term solution to climate change

These changes were met with controversy as energy storage operators and companies filed complaints against PJM, objecting to the rule changes, at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (energy storage operators and companies filed complaints against PJM, objecting to the rule changes, at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).

At the new conference, both stressed that this would be in the funds» financial interests, both because energy companies have been underperforming compared to market indices and because any substantial global action to limit climate change could prevent the companies from exploiting all of their oil and gas reserves.

Authors also included David Legates, who has received funding by various industry groups such as the American Petroleum Institute, Charles G. Koch Caritable Foundation, Southern Company, and Exxonmobil; William M. Briggs, a statistician; Michael Limburg, vice president of the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) that has co-hosted climate change denial events with the Heartland Institute; Dietrich Jeschke from the University of Applied Sciences in Flensburg, Germany; and James Morrison, whose only listing is as an undergraduate in Environmental Scienes at the University of West Anglia.

At Google's annual shareholder meeting today, the company faced an uprising from stakeholder groups and shareholders over its membership in and financial support for lobbying groups that include some of the biggest opponents to climate change and renewable energy on offer in Washington, DC, a town which boasts quite a collection.

Where we have seen relatively small sums passed between energy companies and independent think tanks, it has drawn the ire of the likes of Bob Ward, policy and communications director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics.

For example, in the UK, Patrick Erwin went from head of Energy Markets and Infrastructure Strategy and Programme Office at the Department of Energy and Climate Change to working for the biggest UK fracking company, INEOS shale.

Molly Walsh, climate justice and energy campaigner for Friends of the Earth Europe said «Across Europe, communities know that big energy companies do not have people's best interests at heart and are not making the changes we need to fight climate change.

At the same time, the company spends millions of dollars in political donations to candidates who favor dirty energy and oppose action on climate change.

Windsource — which, despite its name, doesn't actually change where a company's electricity comes from but rather provides funding for expanding renewable energy sources — is available at a rate of $ 2.16 per 100 kilowatt hours, in addition to the regular price of electricity.

The company's environmental policy is also nothing to sneeze at: It is a member of the Clinton Global Initiative Energy & Climate Change Working Group and has trimmed carbon dioxide emissions by over 10 percent since 2006, with an investment of over a cool $ 2 million.

Seeing so many companies - major companies at that - hopping onboard with accessible tools like this is encouraging, since it means global climate change will be directly helped by companies that are actively conserving energy while saving money and prospering.

Environmental groups concerned about climate change fire «legal warning shots» at energy companies, Ottawa Citizen

So I have had the expense of an inspection and cost of producing a certificate for no change in the situation of the property, other than providing work for public employees and energy companies at my expense.