Business Green

JANUARY 3, 2023

Bosch’s Tech Compass Report 2023 also suggests UK adults are among most optimistic worldwide about the economic benefits of green technologies such as climate engineering and hydrogen fuel cells.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 14, 2023

As the sun set on Explore 2023, I walked away in awe of the countless stories I heard, detailing how Planet data has continued to shine a bright light on our rapidly changing planet. Thanks to our leadership keynotes, luminary speakers, and customer stories, I’ve gained an even better sense of the drivers of our global and collaborative work.

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Climate 4.0

OCTOBER 13, 2021

In my previous post , I discussed the large nations of Europe and the imperative for their leadership in global efforts at climate-change abatement and creating sustainable economies. Russia remains a powerful, dangerous country, one sophisticated enough to have meddled successfully with the US political process and EU dialogs as well.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

With its unparalleled purchasing power and exacting demands, fast food has long shaped agricultural systems in the United States, Europe, and China. A sixth company has benefited from IFC advisory services but has not received financing. In Kazakhstan, both banks helped a Soviet-era poultry factory become a KFC supplier. as clients.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

But the scorch factor of recent years was actually tempered by a climate pattern that slightly cools the globe, “La Niña.” degrees Fahrenheit) than preindustrial times — a level that could begin to unleash some of the more drastic consequences of climate change. degrees Celsius warmer (2.7 degrees Celsius warmer (2.7

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Business Green

MARCH 14, 2021

Achieving net zero emissions is the best way of minimising the risks posed by climate change to the stability of the financial system, and central banks around the world should therefore all have explicit strategies to support the transition, a group of economists argue in fresh research released today.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Major report highlights goals of Paris Agreement are threatened by weak climate ambition from countries and limited climate finance flows from rich to poor nations. emissions, despite more than 113 countries and states submitting new climate plans over the last two years, a major UN report has today warned.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

News that Shell is pulling out of the proposed Cambo oilfield in the North Sea has been met with delight by the climate movement and concern by the oil and gas sector. When the exploration licence was first awarded, the UK had no climate change legislation and had not yet ratified the Kyoto Protocol.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 16, 2021

When challenged today about the climate impact of the controversial Cambo oil field, being developed by Shell and Siccar Point Energy , Duguid said “the beauty of oil is you can actually store it”, suggesting the oil could be drilled and then kept as reserves. We are going to use it?”, Gas is less, is more complicated to store.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The attacks on the government's net zero agenda are now reportedly coming from within the Cabinet, but vague criticisms of climate action do not add up to a credible alternative plan. Hold on, haven't we seen this one before? This process always goes the same way.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2021

As climate impacts batter the world's leading economies, EY's third annual climate risk disclosure report assesses how 1,100 firms from 42 countries are faring with TCFD guidelines.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

In my annual review of big themes in sustainability and business — in other words, how companies manage environmental and social issues and opportunities — I’ve always included a changing climate as a big story. A changing climate is and will always be the top story, the context behind everything (at least in the near future).

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

A host of nations then voiced their dissatisfaction with the last minute change to the wording, but the US, the EU, and others nevertheless gave their blessing to the change. He added: "I think we can say with credibility that we have kept 1.5C within reach, but its pulse is weak.". warming trajectory.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The Energy Transitions Commission's Lord Adair Turner reflects on progress so far at the pivotal climate talks. After a few days on the ground at the COP27 Climate Summit in Sharm El Sheikh it's clear that this is a very different experience to Glasgow in 2021. Nevertheless, the focus in Sharm is about delivery and implementation.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2021

On the eve of the climate conference, influential actors from around the world call on governments to deliver climate action pledges that are in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement. warming trajectory and delivering on the $100bn of climate finance promised to developing nations.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Support for efforts to slash methane emissions over the next decade is growing, with around 150 governments now signed up to a global UN-backed pledge to tackle the potent climate pollutant, it was announced at COP27 in Egypt this afternoon. However, the hold-outs include some of the world's biggest emitters, such as Russia, India, and China.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2022

It is a Sisyphean task, but those of us clinging to what George W Bush advisor Karl Rove is alleged to have sneeringly described as "the reality based community" (a charge he denies) have little choice but to continue to push back against these zombie arguments and detail how they are becoming less plausible with every passing week.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

How much the world achieved at the Glasgow climate talks – and what happens now – depends in large part on where you live. In the developed world, countries still have to internalize, politically, that bills are coming due – both at home and abroad – after decades of delaying action on climate change. degrees Celsius (2.7°F).

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Climate 4.0

APRIL 1, 2021

Yet two-thirds of the world's nations have a per-person income below the world median (of about US$10,000), and a higher imperative exists in most of them: raise the living standards of their people. By Roger Strukhoff The first part of the challenge seems existential.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

The gavel has come down, and despite last-minute drama at COP26, a landmark agreement to accelerate climate action has been brokered in Glasgow by all 197 parties to the Paris Agreement. An emotional Alok Sharma, COP26 President, said that with the Pact agreed late on Saturday "we can say we have kept 1.5C degrees alive.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2020

UN-backed report calls on policymakers to dramatically increase funding for early warning systems that can boost nations' resilience to extreme weather events in response to rising threat from extreme storms, droughts, floods, and wildfires.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2020

It is however giving huge numbers of us a first taste of what it might be like to live without much that we take for granted civilisation provides. The pointlessly stripped supermarket shelves in Britain are a foretaste of what can happen when confidence evaporates and fear rules. Yet here we are. Not dramatically.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

One of the most comforting and widely held assumptions across the green economy is that younger consumers interest in sustainable products will both continue to build and stay with them as they grow older, creating a tailwind that can help drive the global transition towards to net zero emissions.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Notably, the UAE unveiled a $30B fund to finance global climate solutions across the capital stack, with a dedicated focus on emerging markets.   P.S. We’re hiring for an Account Exec at Sightline Climate, apply here. in climate commitments. Happy Monday!    And happy COPing to those on the ground in Dubai!

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

We are approaching that critical turning point - in less than two months - when we must show that we are capable of learning, and maturing, and finally taking responsibility for the destruction we are inflicting, not just upon our planet but ourselves. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's speech at the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2022

Major poll of 30,000 people suggests Europeans are concerned about climate change and want ambitious action to tackle it, but lack confidence the issue will be resolved by mid-century. The survey covers all 27 EU member states in addition to the UK, USA, and China, in order to provide a comparison.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2023

But players across the green economy were quick to point out the government's package of policies and tax changes was notably bereft of focus on three other critical 'E's that are planks of a prosperous economy: environment, energy, and efficiency. Here, BusinessGreen rounds up all of the reaction from the green economy.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Former climate diplomat Pete Betts, WWF's Tanya Steele, CBI's Tania Kumar, and the CCC's Chris Stark offered their views on a crucial period for global climate action at last week's launch of the Net Zero Festival. Britain's green economy is entering perhaps the most monumentally important period in its relatively short lifetime.

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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2023

Just hours after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak gave a New Year speech setting out his priorities for 2023 in which he barely mentioned climate action , the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) has today published a sweeping new report warning that a "war effort" is urgently needed to deliver on the UK's climate and energy security goals.

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Everyone here plants coffee, and coffee is a part of our culture,” said Mr Eban, in the farm he inherited from his grandparents, who used to grow coffee for the French. Everyone here plants coffee, and coffee is a part of our culture,” said Mr Eban, in the farm he inherited from his grandparents, who used to grow coffee for the French.

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Business Green

JULY 16, 2020

Oil and Gas Climate Initiative hails 'further step in support of the Paris Agreement' as national oil majors back new emissions goals. Together we are increasing the speed, scale, and impact of our actions to address climate change, as the world aims for net zero emissions as early as possible," they added.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2022

Masdar, Abu Dhabi's state-owned clean energy company, harbours some seriously lofty ambitions. For a company bankrolled by a state boasting the world's eighth largest proven reserves of oil, such ambition is impressive, to say the least - and given the urgency of the climate crisis, hugely welcome. But it is hungry for far, far more.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2023

The UK's climate advisory body latest report provides an in-depth assessment of the mix of renewable, flexible grid, hydrogen, nuclear, and carbon capture technologies that will need to be in place by the middle of the 2030s if the government is to deliver on its stated goal of operating a nearly completely decarbonised power grid by 2035.

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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2021

Here, BusinessGreen explores the report's key takeaways for this fast-changing sector, as automotive firms and governments shift gears in pursuit of zero carbon road transport - a transition that will trigger widespread market disruption and has huge implications for associated industries such as the oil and gas sector.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

A significant portion of the Review sets out how this fundamental reshaping of the global economy could come about and in so doing proposes a raft of rapid, transformative changes that could rejig finance, education, production, consumption, and institutions to protect biodiversity and future human prosperity.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Can Shell help pilot a new era of sustainable aviation? And it may seem unlikely that an industry as carbon-intensive as aviation — a hard-to-abate sector, in the argot of the climate policy crowd — might somehow emerge with its green credentials flying high in a climate-constrained world. Joel Makower. Mon, 12/14/2020 - 02:11.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

A new report from Stockholm Environment Institute reveals in detail the climate risks to global trade in major agricultural commodities – and concludes that they constitute a serious global challenge. Agriculture is one of the most exposed sectors to climate change.

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