A new study that mapped the portfolios of the world’s 250 biggest oil and gas companies found their deployment of renewable energy is paltry: they’re responsible for just 1.42% of the global renewable energy capacity in operation. Despite announcing ambitious plans to embrace renewables, a mere 0.1% of the primary energy they produce comes from renewables, the study found. “Fossil fuel companies are maintaining their political license and legitimacy to continue influencing climate and energy policies around the world, by claiming they are part of the solution to the climate crisis,” lead author Marcel Llavero Pasquina, from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, told Mongabay by video call. The numbers clearly show they are not, Pasquina added. Among the 250 companies the researche

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