DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Documents seen by DeSmog and the Guardian show that the meat industry is poised to “tell its story and tell it well” in the lead up and during the Dubai conference, which comes on the heels of the world’s hottest ever year. Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP.

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Business Green

JANUARY 12, 2023

The global green workforce will need to expand by 66 per cent over the next decade if climate and environmental goals are to be met, according to a new study from the World Economic Forum (WEF). New research examines how the green technology and jobs market is set to rapidly expand over the coming decade.

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Business Green

AUGUST 23, 2022

million jobs globally, showing just how important the sector will be in creating new jobs around the world. Globally, we need to radically change the way in which we develop and use appliances and technologies to help safeguard the health of the planet. The scale of this challenge is huge - both in the UK and globally.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2020

To coincide with new sustainability strategy agri-business giant Syngenta releases poll showing growing concern worldwide about impact of climate change on crop yields and farmers. Indeed, 63 per cent said climate change would have a greater impact on their business than coronavirus over the next five years, according to the poll.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

alive, and India launches a major new green vehicle programme. The company confirmed it would expand its Climate Science Information Center and rename it as the Climate Science Center, adding new features, like quizzes, to better inform and engage Facebook's community on climate change. Facebook updates climate policy.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In mid-December, Vietnam will reveal its just energy transition partnership using public money to leverage private investment, following on from South Africa and Indonesia, and with a cab rank of other countries wanting something similar. COP27 is over, but there is no time for the dust to settle. So, where do we go from here?

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Low Impact

JUNE 13, 2021

There’s a World Economic Forum risk report from 2016. I think voting is at the end of a process of change, rather than something that causes change. I think voting is at the end of a process of change, rather than something that causes change. This is part 2 of a conversation with John Thackara. It concentrates.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Another COP is coming - the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference. While much of the world continued to struggle through the Covid-19 pandemic, world leaders, media and public scrutiny descended on Glasgow for COP26 in 2021, to negotiate even greater reductions in national climate emissions of greenhouse gases.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As the latest round of United Nations climate change negotiations draws to an end in Egypt this weekend, you could be forgiven for feeling pessimistic. Countries' emissions targets have hardly changed since a year ago. Countries' emissions targets have hardly changed since a year ago. Far from it.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 28, 2022

Tackling the climate crisis is a once-in-a-generation, trillion-dollar economic opportunity, and the world needs a healthy global innovation engine to identify and massively scale new climate technology solutions that will speed up the clean energy transition. . Since our launch in December last year, our ecosystem includes $3.3T

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Climate change and the loss of nature are two intersecting crises that face the global economy. Central banks across the world have become pivotal actors in getting financial institutions to recognise and manage the physical and transition risks of climate change, in the process of aligning capital with the goals of the Paris Agreement.

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Elemental Excelerator

APRIL 21, 2023

Elemental Excelerator, a nonprofit investor driving climate technology for social change, announced today the expansion of its climate coaching team to encompass experts in project and carbon finance, policy and equity and access. “Prior to participation in Elemental, CarbonCure did not have a defined public policy strategy.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

30B to bridge the climate finance gap On day 2 of COP28, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) revealed Alterra, a $30B climate fund for global climate solutions self-described as the world’s largest private investment vehicle for climate action.  Happy Monday!    And happy COPing to those on the ground in Dubai!

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Business Green

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The remainder of the market would be comprised of coal-fired plants that have been retrofitted with carbon capture systems or transformed to use "innovative processes" that refine iron ore into iron and steel using electricity, according to the analyst.

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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2023

2023 has kicked off with yet more extreme weather records being toppled, further underscoring the need for greater climate resilience. 2023 has kicked off with yet more extreme weather records being toppled, further underscoring the need for greater climate resilience. We can regard this as the most extreme event in European history," he said.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2022

million to six UK based innovators to work with international partners to tackle plastic related issues in India, Chile, South Africa and Kenya. The International Circular Plastics Flagship Competition is a game-changing fund to drive forward international innovation in key regions across the world.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Today the International Energy Agency (IEA) has produced what it is said to be the world's "first comprehensive inventory of the global energy workforce", providing estimates of the size and distribution of energy employment across different regions and along the entire energy value chain.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2022

Fall out from Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taipei hits international climate talks, Australia's climate bill advances, and all the biggest green business stories from around the world. Ever since the Paris Agreement of 2015, bilateral negotiations between the world's largest economic superpowers have been critical to the UN climate talks.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Around the world, 2021 saw troops mobilise, violence erupt, and relations between old friends and allies strained. Wars, dragged mercilessly on, and tensions mounted between some of the world's great powers. All around us we saw a fractured and fractious world, as the pandemic continued to cause devastation across the globe.

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

With a historic G7 summit rolling into Cornwall in just a few weeks' time, the CBI was proud to convene the B7 summit, of global business leaders from across the G7 countries along with India, Australia, South Africa and South Korea earlier this month. Yet to deliver a just green transition by 2050, we must go further and faster.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. The COVID-19 pandemic spurred a global cessation of travel, manufacturing, and countless economic activities. Figure 1).

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JUNE 16, 2016

By Joan MacNaughton, Executive Chair, World Energy Trilemma, World Energy Council Originally published on GreenBiz. While climate change has been recognized as an urgent, global issue, the relevance of increasing the visibility of women in clean energy as a solution to advancing our climate goals is rarely discussed.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 25, 2021

Despite the reductions in air travel and the global economic slowdown caused by the pandemic, climate change sadly has not slowed down this past year. degrees C cap on average warming that governments pledged to aim for when they signed the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement to avoid dangerous climate change.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

From Loss and Damage and just transitions to rows over fossil fuel phase outs and carbon markets, we take a look at some of the key lessons for businesses from COP27. BusinessGreen rounds up 10 of the key lessons from a Summit that delivered both major breakthroughs and deep disappointments. A Loss and Damage fund is finally on the way.

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R-Squared Energy

OCTOBER 31, 2019

What could change that trajectory? Answering the questions on BCI’s behalf is Dr. Matt Raiford, manager, Consortium for Battery Innovation , the global lead battery pre-competitive research consortium supported by BCI. Members directly provide nearly 25,000 U.S. jobs and make a $ 26.3 They agreed. Several things.

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Charged

DECEMBER 18, 2023

We humans are, at least in theory, proceeding with a broad range of measures to slow climate change —deploying renewable energy sources, protecting forests, cleaning up industrial emissions, etc. But in the developing world, these small vehicles provide essential transportation for billions of people.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Over the past two years, P2DNZ has positioned itself as the vanguard of a global response to its sector’s rising emissions at summits and high-level meetings around the world. Later this year, P2DNZ will also be making an appearance at COP28 in Dubai. Dairy is a serious, but under-discussed source of planet-warming gases.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Who should join the World Energy Storage Day? World Energy Storage Day (WESD) is a global movement. World Energy Storage Day (WESD) is a global movement. We have divided the world in four regions. I encourage all to participants to join the event. This is also a great opportunity for students to learn.

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Eco-Business

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Investing in companies that have a direct impact on land use is a powerful lever to mitigate climate change," said Angela Hogg, USAID's Regional Development Mission for Asia's Environment Office Director. million of local financing to small and medium private enterprises engaged in sustainable and low emission land use in India.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

An historic climate summit in Nairobi last week underscored the need for drastic changes in climate finance and clean energy development. The summit also sought to highlight Africa as a destination for climate investments, rather than viewing the continent as predominantly a victim of droughts, famines, and floods. Thanks for reading!

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

That is changing with notable success stories in places like Vietnam. Export credit agencies alone have been financing $31 billion in fossil fuels every year, with a significant amount of that supporting fossil fuels in Asia, according to Oil Change International. But things are changing. Public dollars, stranded assets.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 8, 2024

  In deals,   $2.2bn in electric cars, $800m for Octopus’ expansion, and $34m for EVs in India. We breakdown who’s best positioned to tap the money pot. In other news, a major $11bn HVDC line between New Mexico and Arizona, new EV battery sourcing rules reduce eligible models, and BYD surpasses Tesla in EV sales. 

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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2022

I want to reflect back to nearly a year ago when the world came together, and we forged together the historic Glasgow Climate Pact. Vladimir Putin's brutal and illegal war in Ukraine has precipitated multiple global crises: from energy and food insecurity, to inflationary and debt pressures around the world. Good morning everyone.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Speaking to the Guardian , Howard Bamsey, Australia's former special envoy on climate change, said Japan's pledge illustrated how major export markets for Australian fossil fuels were beefing up their decarbonisation plans. Philippines unveils moratorium on new coal-fired power plants.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

The disappearing of the North Pole, the melting of the Arctic (ice), a “blue ocean event”… These all come down to the same thing: a pivotal change in Earth’s climate with many possible disastrous side effects. When will the Arctic Ocean melt and what will be the impact for shipping and for the Earth?

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

  Lots of spice for clean investment this week. The US Clean Investment Monitor published its annual report for 2023, which saw clean investment total $239bn, up 38% from 2022. Winners include manufacturing, up 133% from 2022, and emerging climate technologies that saw a whopping 10x jump to $4.3bn.    Thanks for reading!

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2021

In the words of Ban Ki-moon, former Secretary General of the United Nations, "Climate change is the single greatest threat to a sustainable future but, addressing the climate challenge presents an opportunity to promote prosperity, security and a brighter future for all.". We manage around 2.3

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