Although the United Nations states that carbon capture and storage technology (CCS), equipment that enables fossil fuel producers to sequester emissions to mitigate global warming, is needed to meet emissions reduction targets, multiple climate activist groups oppose its development as they believe CCS entrenches the oil and gas industry. The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate…
Eco-Activists Are Trying to Kill Green Tech That Could Eliminate Emissions From Fossil Fuels
December 20, 2022
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EU Announces Agreement to Reform Europe’s Carbon Market, Cap Natural Gas Prices
The European Union (EU) announced a new provisional agreement late Sunday that reforms the bloc’s carbon market, successfully expanding a crucial component of the region’s broader green agenda. After a 30-hour session, member state representatives and the European Parliament agreed to apply the EU’s Emissions Trading System (ETS) to heating, road transportation, and maritime shipping. Officials…
ESG RIP: Review of Terrence Keeley’s ‘Sustainable,’ Part 2
December 16, 2022
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ESG investment strategies can see investors giving up financial returns for no societal gain. In the second of his four part review of Terrence Keeley’s Sustainable, Rupert Darwall explores the implications of investment theory for ESG artificially constraining investment opportunities; the risks of regulators worsening an already inflated ESG bubble; and the distortions that arise…
Report Finds Net-Zero and Ban on Coal, Gas Projects Will Cost Southwest Queensland $47 Billion
Australians living in the rural and regional areas of Queensland will be bearing the brunt of the net-zero agenda and green legal activism, which is putting coal and gas projects at risk of cancellation, costing up to an estimated $47 billion, according to a new paper. It comes as Australia’s major power providers are looking…
Radical Swedish Professor Calls on Activists to Destroy Fossil Fuel Infrastructure
Declaring the construction of oil fields an “act of violence,” a left-wing Swedish professor and climate change activist is calling on green militants to destroy fossil fuel infrastructure. With incidents of climate protests and alleged acts of eco-terrorism on the rise in the last several months, Andreas Malm, author of “How to Blow Up a…
Canada’s Climate Policies Lead to Energy Insecurity: Think Tank
Canada’s current climate policies, outlined in a number of federal plans that have been introduced over the past several years, could cause future energy insecurity while increasing oil and gas prices, says a new paper. “Oil and gas are vital to our mutual security and our energy advantages should not be frittered away,” reads the…
Senior US Delegation Visit China to Follow up on Biden’s Meeting With Xi
A senior U.S. delegation visited China on Dec. 11 and 12 to discuss a range of topics to follow up on President Joe Biden’s meeting with the PRC leader Xi Jinping in Bali. The Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin acknowledged the talks between the U.S. delegation and Vice Foreign Minister Xie Fengin in Langfang,…
Living a Leftist Dream
Commentary “When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing; they then become capable of believing in anything.” (Anon, but ascribed to G. K. Chesterton). “… it is not possible to pierce the mystery of the religious mind, the religious conscience of another, with the sword of logic.” (Eugenio…
ESG Funds Use Financial Strong-arming and Thuggery CCP Style
Commentary There’s no such thing as blue money or red money. Only the green stuff will pay bills. Friday, North Carolina State Treasurer Dale Folwell became the latest of many officials from nearly half the states across the United States—including Florida, Texas, Kentucky, Missouri, Arizona, and West Virginia—to protest Wall Street’s blue investment strategy, also…
ESG RIP: Review of Terrence Keeley’s ‘Sustainable,’ Part 1
December 14, 2022
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Commentary ESG has its origins in a speech by U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan at the Davos World Economic Forum in 1999. In the first of this four part review of Terrence Keeley’s “Sustainable: Moving Beyond ESG to Impact Investing,” Rupert Darwall shows how this created ESG’s dual mandate that accounts for its success—and its unsustainability…
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