Die Fossilindustrie finanziert seit Jahrzehten Universitäten und fördert damit Publikationen in ihrem Interesse, z.B. zu false solutions wie #CCS. Hintergrundbericht anlässlich einer neuen Studie: https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/sep/05/universities-fossil-fuel-funding-green-energy

Studie: https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.904

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/05/climate-change-denial-congress

Eine Studie von Greenpeace unter dem Titel "The Dirty Dozen" zeigt, dass die europäischen Fossil-Konzerne ihre enormen Gewinne weiterhin vor allem in fossile Energien investieren. Nur 7,3% ihrer Investitionen flossen 2022 in erneuerbare Energien. Nur 0,3% der von ihnen produzierten Energie stammte aus erneuerbaren Quellen.

https://taz.de/Investition-der-Oelkonzerne/!5951092/

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/nov/23/companies-still-investing-too-much-in-fossil-fuels-global-energy-watchdog-says

• for: energy transition without willing participation from the fossil fuel industry

• question

  • What data does the IEA base this claim on?

• for: stats - oil and gas industry - repurposing for clean energy

• stats: oil and gas industry - repurposing for clean energy

  • only 30 % of the energy consumed in a clean energy future within 1.5 Deg C comes from low emission fuels and technologies that benefit from oil and gas industry resources
  • this leaves a huge deficit of 70 %.

• question

  • How will the transition account for these human and technological resources?

• for: stats - oil and gas industry - clean energy investments

• comment

  • Inclusive transformation
    • Clearly, transforming the dirty fossil fuel industry into clean energy industry requires migrating as much of those 12 million dirty energy jobs as possible. We can't alienate the fossil fuel industry.
    • the barometer to measure this paradigm shift in fossil fuel industry narrative is their investment into clean energy. Over the years, majors have acted like politicians, promising significant clean energy investment, then backsliding. There is no more time for that.

• for: stats - fossil fuel industry - valuation in a 1.5 Deg C world

• stats: fossil fuel industry - valuation in a 1.5 Deg C world

  • current 2023 valuation: 6 trillion USD
  • current NDCs met (short of a 1.5 Deg C world): 4.5 trillion USD
  • 1.5 Deg C world: 2.4 trillion USD

• for: IEA 2023 report - exec summary - Fossil Fuel industry, IEA 2023 report - exec summary - Oil and Gas industry

• summary

  • this is the IEA summary of the position of the Oil and Gas industry and what they must do in order to transition to a net zero world by 2050 and avert 1.5 Deg C global mean temperature.
  • it contains a lot of useful information and statistics

for: stats - oil and gas industry, stats - fossil fuel industry

• stats: oil and gas industry
• stats: fossil fuel industry
  • The fossil fuel industry's production, transport and processing operations accounts for 15% of global energy-related greenhouse gas emissions.

• for: stats - oil and gas industry, stats - fossil fuel industry

• stats - oil and gas industry

• stats - fossil fuel industry
  • Oil and gas producers account for approximately 1% of total clean energy investment
  • 60 % of that comes from 4 companies

• for: stats - oil and gas industry, stats - fossil fuel industry

• stats - oil and gas industry

• stats - fossil fuel industry
  • supplies approximately 50% of all total global energy
  • employs 12 million people directly
  • Since 2018, annual revenues average 13 trillion USD
  • revenue split
    • 50 % to governments
    • 40% to investment
    • 10% to shareholders and debt
  • Major oil companies account for 13 % of all reserves
  • National Oil Companies (NOC) account for
    • over 50% of all production
    • close to 60% of all reserves

• for: polycrisis, Trumpism, Chaos, distraction, climate crisis, climate communication, complexity, adjacency climate change fossil fuel industry, adjacency climate change big oil, adjacency climate change politics big oil, quote adjacency climate change fossil fuel industry, quote adjacency climate change big oil
• key insight
  • claim
    • One big reason that big oil is funding GOP to keep the chaotic Trump story as the main headline is to foster distraction from climate change impacts
    • big news story in the US is Donald Trump and the election, climate change impacts of extreme weather is minimized
    • the distraction of politics from a chaotic GOP is perfect distraction for the masses to ignore climate change and for big oil to continue BAU
• paraphrase
• quote
  • when you take a step back and look at that part of the distraction and the chaos that Trump and these GOP trolls deliver
  • it's it's a wonderful Boon for the oil and gas industry and the Koch brothers and the guys that fund these campaigns and the federal Federalist Society that's owning the Supreme Court
  • they want to keep doing business as usual and the easiest way to do that is
    • to have this big chaotic GOP that ignores climate change and
    • to play into what they want
      • the mainstream media not focusing more on climate change let alone making those two connections
    • a lot of mainstream media is scared to make that connection because oil companies are paying the bills of CNN and every other network
• author
  • Noel Casler

Mit Total meldet ein weiterer Energiegigant Rekordgewinne. Sie gehen zu einem großen Teil auf den gestiegenen Gaspreis zurück. In erneuerbarer Energie. Total investiert nur einen kleinen Teil der Einnahmen in erneuerbare Energien. Wesentlich mehr Geld fließt in Dividenden und den Rückkauf von Aktien.

Guter Artikel, auch als Ergänzung zu der großen Studie von Anderson und anderen. Die Studie, die er vorstellt, geht auf die verschiedenen Player und Interessengruppen ein, die Dekarbonisierung erschweren und manchmal beschleunigen.

She'll und BP geben allein im UK Hunderttausende für Greenwashing-Kampagnen aus. Zur Zeit sollten sie ihnen vor allem die Licence to Operate vor dem Hintergrund von Milliardengewinnen sichern, die sie den durch den Ukraine-Krieg gestiegenen Ölpreisen verdanken.