Low Impact

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The IPCC recently conducted a study into the combined effects of all the agreed targets of the countries taking part in the ongoing COP talks. Attempting to maintain business as usual (which is the only type of solution that will be debated at COP 26) will only make things worse. And it will be spent on material goods.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The emissions gap report is an annual assessment conducted by the United Nations Environment Programme and published in the lead-up to the United Nations climate conference, or COP, which is scheduled to begin at the end of this month in Dubai. That’s the good news. The bad news is those goals are not sufficient.

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Terra Infirma

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The post Good COP, Bad COP? It’s not perfect, but life never is perfect, and I’m a big believer in perfection being the enemy of success. But there’s no escaping the fact that the hard work starts now. appeared first on Terra Infirma.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

For these reasons, and marginally to re-level the playing field, the Saudi kingdom has been awarded this year’s top prize at the Bad Sport Awards 2023, a new, annual scheme organised by the Badvertising campaign in association with the Cool Down Network of sport for climate action, and an expert judging panel.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And make good on the $100 billion climate finance commitment to support developing countries. "We I also want particularly to thank COP President Alok Sharma who has worked incredibly hard to bring countries together. Greenwashing is the new climate denial, and we have seen too much at play in this COP. Phase out coal.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

And yet I see them getting a lot of media coverage because those companies’ PR firms are so good at connecting to journalists, with press releases, with sources, with exciting innovations, with very ‘built-for-stories’ kind of kind of information.”

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 31, 2020

The challenge is that the fundamentals are changing so rapidly that we don’t even have a good handle on what those fundamentals currently are. What seems undeniable is that we still have a period of bad news in front of us before conditions begin to improve. The entire sector is on sale.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

A commercial business with sustainability and tech for good at its core, Dryad was set up in 2020 with a mission to digitize the forest and help protect and regrow the world’s largest carbon sinks. This is the perfect basis for identifying bad air quality or early fire detection.”. Dryad previously received seed funding of €1.8m

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2020

British diplomats, the UK COP presidency team and Ministers would have been in a whirl of frenetic influencing activity globally (we hope) to drive up ambition, and drive out those new nationally-determined contributions (NDCs) from all the parties to the Paris Agreement. But these are not normal times, and the COP has been delayed by a year.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Meanwhile, COP27 was once again dominated by accusations rich nations have not made good on their promise to provide $100bn a year of climate finance a year. That has to be good news and helps explains why COP27 will be seen by many countries as a qualified success. Petrostates are still not fully onboard with the Paris Agreement.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

The campaigns have been deployed across a number of social media platforms and are part of a global effort to give “millennials a reason to connect emotionally” with oil and gas firms, and to tackle their perception as “the bad guys”. million since June 2018. The Wrong Side of History’ British inventor Colin Furze, who has 12.5 million views.

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The COP 26 climate conference took place! Time will tell, but it seems like there were some tangible steps of progress: a good deal was reached on carbon offset markets which should help add credibility to carbon trading schemes and avoid double counting between governments and private actors. For example, $7.5

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 19, 2023

The Warmest It’s Been in 125,000 Years It’s either very good or very bad news when you know you’re living through a moment you’ll never forget, that future generations will remember for decades or centuries. I would have thought we were already far past that point.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Good morning everyone. Now almost a year on, it is just 23 days to COP27, the end of the UK's COP Presidency, and the end of my time as COP President. And so today, from the vantage point of the ending of my time as COP President, I want to take stock of where we are. It's a pleasure to be here. So I'm going to be frank.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Collectively, corporate boards have more clout than many government leaders to reverse the damage caused by climate change. See the original post: Let’s put corporate boards on the spot at COP26.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 7, 2024

The good news is that even though we’re not moving fast enough, sustainability in business is mainstream — a must-do, not a nice-to-do. With both significant bad and good news, I’m frequently asked if I’m optimistic or pessimistic. I can’t answer that easily. As part of this work, the U.S.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The levels of anger and frustration across the green movement are unprecedented, and with good reason. "An Perhaps angriest of all was the Climate Change Committee, which pulled no punches in its assessment of a "very bad decision - supporting a technology of the past, with a very poor prospectus for new UK jobs".

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

The next climate COP must bring more-ambitious climate pledges and long-term strategies for 2050 to help drive such shifts. We know that a net zero economy presents huge opportunities for growth and the creation of good green jobs and so countries and companies need to accelerate that transition.". This month, not next month. "But

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

While NYCW has been around for more than a decade , this year the vibe of ~10x the participants and well-curated mini-conferences alongside official UN programming felt almost like a Davos or a mini-COP (which, depending on your take on the efficacy and impact of COP, could be a good or bad thing).

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Committee on Climate Change CEO discusses infrastructure, airline bailouts, COP26 and making the best of a bad situation. I have good days and bad days, but today is a good day - I feel quite positive about it all today.". The 'strategic clarity' of net zero.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2022

We also want to see the money from the promised Future Nuclear Enabling Fund allocated at pace, with good sites being made available for project development. Not only are these solutions staring us in the face, but in this year of COP Presidency, the eyes of the world are on us too. This is a go slow strategy in a fast moving world."

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Helen Clarkson: I love a bit of COP. And this year, seeing the mainstream media get their head around climate change - working out 'what is good, what is bad' is great. It's no longer good enough to say we can't spend this money because we can't get our heads around this. It is good business to get this right.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

As Pete Betts - the recently departed and much missed British diplomat and veteran of countless COPs - used to say of the UN climate talks: "We didn't always agree, but we trusted the other side enough to know that if they said something, it was because they had reasons to say it and you had to listen." Something has gone badly wrong.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Do the next best thing and read our COP reflections.  Last COP featured the conference’s first nuclear-themed pavilion, and this year boasted eight. A fusion of world powers Scientists have also been chasing nuclear fusion for decades , but again COP could reflect a global paradigm shift. Happy Monday! 

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Green Market Oracle

JUNE 1, 2020

A 2009 CBS News/New York Times poll found that under the presidency of Barack Obama two thirds of Americans thought that race relations were generally good. citizens think race relations are bad. Ten years later a 2019 CBS poll shows that in Trump's America, the majority of U.S. We do not want to go through this anymore.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Businesses should show a 'certificate of good behaviour' in order to participate in climate leadership events, he said. And that is a bad gap for a company to be saying one thing and doing another - and the quicker the CEOs and the board know about the discrepancy, the quicker they can correct it. Sheldon Whitehouse.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Innovations such as the tax-deferred "401(j)" accounts proposed by Al Gore to allow employees to save for lifelong learning also would be a good step. playing a crucial role along with the EU, China and Japan, could not be more important in the run-up to COP 26. states and cities — have. infrastructure.

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CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 10, 2023

COP 28 has some good news stories to go with the bad. Prominent among the good news was the Double. continued] The post What Do COP 28 Double Down, Triple Up & Nuclear Commitments Mean? appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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