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Preparing for COP26

Envirotec Magazine

What are the big priorities for COP? Alice Bordini Staden, who works on climate finance and policy with National Trust – Europe’s biggest conservation charity – said she thought it was going to go ahead, but likely in a hybrid format. But progress was still lacking on Resilience and Energy Transition. Nature and finance.

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Senator Whitehouse: Prove your 'corporate political footprint'

Business Green

They should also be reporting their climate political activity," the Rhode Island Democrat said at the GreenBiz VERGE Net Zero virtual event on Tuesday. The senator's call reflects a growing disdain over the gap between corporations' decarbonization commitments and their support for political candidates undermining climate action.

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New leaders at Patagonia, McDonald's, Netflix

GreenBiz

It's not necessarily that the game of musical chairs has intensified in the C-suite, but you'll note major executive moves at big apparel, food, energy, finance and technology corporations, some of which have enlisted a chief sustainability officer (CSO) or equivalent for the first time. Who's news. The former U.K.

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? Ammonia goes from fertilizer to fuel #180

Climate Tech VC

  Ship Orders  Yara Eyde, a joint venture between Yara Clean Ammonia and North Sea Container Line, aims to be the  world’s first clean ammonia-powered container ship. Fortescue unveiled a green ammonia dual-fuel ship at COP. Air Liquide is building a hydrogen cracking pilot plant in Antwerp.

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1.5 and 2°C: A Journey Through the Temperature Target That Haunts the World

DeSmogBlog

In 2015, nearly 200 countries agreed to “Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C C above pre-industrial levels , recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change”.

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Forget 2050: As COP26 Starts, Five Immediate Priorities for Oil and Gas

EDF + Business

Blanton, a Senior Research Scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy , and Ben Ratner, Associate Vice President at EDF. With urgency building in Glasgow, we revisit the metrics here. That is why one year ago we teamed up to define 5 key climate metrics for the next 5 years of oil and gas.

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?? 2024 Climate Tech Oracle

Climate Tech VC

But we’re not quite at the point of churning projects out as fast as the bank can finance them or the developer can build them.  But it was also a year where the worlds of policy and finance became leading - not lagging - indicators. Meanwhile, CTVC continued to grow, passing 60,000 industry leading readers.