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Global Warming
Global Warming and Energy
Dirty Lie
The fossil fuels industry and their lobbyists are always telling us that we can't afford not to use their dirty energy. Fossil fuels are abundant and cheap, they say. Renewables can't do the job, they argue, and switching to them would cripple our economy. But it's all a Dirty Lie.
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Bill Koch: The Dirty Money Behind Cape Wind...
Our report, "
Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine
," exposed Charles and David Koch, the billionaire oilmen who control Koch Industries, as a chief source of funding for the climate denial machine. As it turns out, doing everything possible to delay the clean energy revolution is something of a family business. We've released a
dossier on Bill Koch
, David’s twin brother and the principal funder of opposition to Cape Wind, the project to build the nation’s largest wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts.
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Financing the Energy [R]evolution with FTSM
Based on both Energy [R]evolution Scenarios for developing (non-OECD) countries, a calculation has been done to estimate the costs and benefits of an FTSM program using the following assumptions:
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The Feed-in Tariff Support Mechanism (FTSM)
This section outlines a Greenpeace proposal for a feed-in tariff system in developing countries whose additional costs would be financed by developed nations.
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Climate and energy policy
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Renewable energy technologies
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Renewable energy
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State of global fuel supply
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Energy resources and security of supply
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Fossil fuel power generation investment
Under the Reference or "business as usual" scenario, investment in renewable electricity generation will be $1.2 trillion. This compares to $7.2 trillion in the advanced Energy [R]evolution scenario. How investment is divided between the different renewable power generation technologies depends on their level of technical development and regionally available resources.
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Future investment in new power plants
The overall level of investment required in new power plants up to 2050 will be in the region of $3.2 to 8.4 trillion. A major driving force for investment in new generation capacity will be the ageing fleet of power plants. Utilities must choose which technologies to opt for within the next five to ten years based on national energy policies, in particular market liberalization, renewable energy and CO2 reduction targets.
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Key results of the USA energy [r]evolution...
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Key principles of the energy [r]evolution
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Nuclear power and climate protection
Nuclear power and climate protection
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Implementing the Energy [R]evolution in USA
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Kyoto protocol
The Kyoto protocol
The signatories to the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) agreed the Kyoto Protocol in 1997. The Protocol finally entered into force in early 2005 and its 190 member countries meet annually to negotiate further refinement and development of the agreement. Only one major industrialised nation, the United States, has not ratified Kyoto.
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Climate protection and energy policy
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Executive summary
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Energy [R]evolution iPhone app
A bright green future in your pocket.
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Case Study: Koch Organizations Instrumental in...
The Koch web is playing a role in promoting studies that exaggerate the costs of climate policy. In 2008, the Koch-web-funded
American Council on Capital Formation (ACCF)
teamed up with the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) to sponsor and disseminate a study of the economic impact of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act. Every step of the way, Koch-funded anti-clean energy groups played a key role in moving the NAM/ACCF study in the media and at the grassroots level.
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