DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

According to Saudi Aramco’s podcast, the fossil fuel industry is innovating new climate solutions, and BP’s podcast proclaims more of the same. ” However, climate advocates argue that when it comes to a complex and politicized issue like the climate crisis, the media should re-think this practice. and Europe.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Her work focusses on mapping the geopolitical landscape onto diplomatic strategy across sectoral issues, and between governments and NGO networks, to drive up climate policy ambition and secure the financing to deliver it. Their conversation can be watched back in full in the video below.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

UN declares virtual talks have set the stage for the adoption of an ambitious post-2020 global biodiversity framework next year. However, the coronavirus crisis forced a second postponement of the global talks, with the UN and Chinese hosts staging a virtual round of talks this week ahead of the conclusion of the summit in person next spring.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 9, 2023

I’m Victoria Mills, Managing Director at Environmental Defense Fund, and I write a monthly newsletter called “Climate Policy News You Can Use.” climate policy news, key upcoming advocacy opportunities for companies, relevant events, and exciting EDF updates. You can subscribe to it by clicking here and find previous editions below.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 17, 2021

Tobacco giant pledges to bring its existing sustainability commitments in line with climate science, as it signs up to the Race to Zero campaign. after signing up to the UN's Race to Zero, the company announced late last week. after signing up to the UN's Race to Zero, the company announced late last week.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The findings of the UN’s climate science body the IPCC show that the long-term goals of the Paris Agreement cannot be met without climate action on food. Even so, a tripling of delegates is alarming – it drives home the urgent need for reforms that limit corporate influence at UN climate meetings.”

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

World's largest emitters could meet climate targets early, as response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine fast-tracks the transition away from fossil fuels, according to new ECIU analysis. warming - well in excess of the Paris Agreement's stated goal of keeping temperature increases 'well below' 2C.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

Indigenous peoples, smallholder farmers and academics have claimed that a UN summit focused on the future of agriculture helped to entrench corporate control over the global food system. Agriculture generates 34 percent of the world’s anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, according to the UN’s own Food and Agriculture Organization.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The number of delegates representing big agribusiness has more than doubled at the UN climate talks since last year, leading to concerns from campaigners at access enjoyed by high-carbon companies attending the Egypt summit. Agribusiness delegates attending the climate talks at the Sharm el-Sheikh resort include the head of a U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Agriculture, which is responsible for over one third of the world’s emissions, will be under the spotlight at the upcoming COP28 global climate summit in Dubai. Major food and farming corporations will be seeking to steer conversations in Dubai via an influential coalition: the AIM for Climate (Aim4C) initiative.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

NGOs write open letter to UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP-FI) calling for bolder measures to ensure banks' net zero pledges are met. The UN-backed Race to Zero campaign, of which NZBA is a partner, updated its criteria for its members in June.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Anti-climate politicians, media and think tanks are pumping out false and misleading arguments which erode public support for climate action. The TalkTV host went on to “thank god for fossil fuels”, and dismissed this year’s record UK heatwave and the devastating floods in Pakistan, saying: “It’s called weather”. How it Works.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2022

The UN has appointed Grenada's former environment minister Simon Stiell to lead its climate change body - the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) - it confirmed yesterday. Stiell has recent experience in this regard, however.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Extreme hunger, fear and increased financial risk among effects of growing global climate crisis. The climate crisis is getting worse, impacts are intensifying, and their effects are already being felt across communities, businesses, and markets globally, resulting in starvation, poverty, and increased financial risks.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2021

UN Secretary-General António Guterres urges nations to consider the costs of economic profit against damage to the environment. Critics argue that governments' focus on the metric drives the pursuit of unsustainable economic growth that leads to environmental and climate destruction. Could the world be about to move 'beyond GDP'?

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 27, 2021

The UK has been accused of shutting out activists who hail from countries “battered” by extreme weather events from the upcoming UN climate summit, with campaigners warning it could be “the most exclusionary COP ever”.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2024

The county argues oil companies’ “campaigns to deceive and mislead the public about the damaging nature of their fossil fuel products” delayed climate action for decades, robbing communities of precious time to mitigate the climate-driven disasters they now face.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Faith groups, health professionals, youth climate leaders and academics join Conservative MPs and former world leaders in urging UK to ramp up Paris Agreement target. Such a plan - or Nationally-Determined Contribution (NDC) in UN jargon - should "at the very least" aligned with limiting global warming to 1.5C

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2022

COP26 President urges governments to demonstrate that Russia's invasion of Ukraine has 'increased, not diminished, our determination to deliver on climate action'. alive' that was at the heart of the Glasgow Climate Pact would be quickly broken. "We The world expects it. The hard work on climate action didn't stop in Glasgow.

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Business Green

MAY 26, 2022

Environment and energy ministers from world’s leading seven economies meet in Berlin this week to amid pressure to ramp up climate and nature commitments. This Ministerial can help to accelerate the shift to clean power generation and break our dependence on fossil fuels, and protect consumers and businesses from price volatility.".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Food and agriculture companies and their investors are failing to adequately price in the financial impact of coming 'land use transition', UN study warns. But it warns that those companies that fail to transition their business models could see billions of dollars of value "permanently lost". trajectory.

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Business Green

JANUARY 28, 2022

Influential diplomat credited with persuading Margaret Thatcher to address climate risks and laying the foundations for global climate treaties. Tributes have this week been paid to the diplomat and environmentalist, Sir Crispin Tickell, who has died at the age of 91. A role model in leadership for the community.".

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Italian oil major Eni knew of the climate impacts of fossil fuel extraction since 1970, according to a report by Greenpeace Italy and advocacy group ReCommon shared with DeSmog.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2021

warming pathway, and to turn 'vague' net zero pledges into action, UN warns. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has castigated governments for their failure in leadership, following a report today revealing the world is facing a catastrophic 2.7C World needs collective ambition to rise seven-fold to stand a chance of keeping on a 1.5C

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Climate 4.0

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

This week has been Climate Week at the United Nations in New York. Part of the General Assembly meeting, Climate Week saw both China and the United States, the world's two largest CO2 and related emissions producers, issue significant statements related to climate-change abatement. Will this be enough?

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Despite its name, ambition was largely lacking at mid-September’s Climate Ambition Summit at the United Nations in New York. Using the courts has become especially critical, say climate experts and lawyers, given the insufficient political responses to the climate emergency.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Lack of strong 2030 climate plans puts world on course for a dangerous 2.4C of warming by 2100, latest analysis from influential Climate Action Tracker warns. and avoiding the worst climate impacts, scientists have stressed that greenhouse gas emissions should fall by 45 per cent by 2030. of warming by the end of the century.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

White storks migrating to Northern Europe nest up to a week earlier in warm weather, exposing them to extreme storms and threatening the survival of their chicks. Scientists have warned for years that climate change is upending the natural life cycles of plants and animals — to potentially devastating effect.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2021

Institutions representing 13 million UK workers commit to accelerating climate action across the economy. The charter is the result of a working group of seven professional institutions, created after a meeting of over 45 professional bodies at London Climate Action Week last year. warming trajectory. warming trajectory.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

With the start of the 28th annual United Nations climate summit, COP28, just two weeks away, a battle is brewing over the role of fossil fuels as nations try to stem the tide of climate change. C by more than 110 percent. He also referenced building “an energy system free of all unabated fossil fuels.”

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Investors in all of the UK airports planning to expand are members of a UN-backed green investment scheme, a DeSmog investigation has found, highlighting what experts say is a “gulf” between the financial world’s environmental pledges and its actions. Incompatible’ with Climate Action. carbon budget if left unchecked.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2021

BusinessGreen has today launched a dedicated content hub to provide up to the minute business news, opinion, and analysis on this autumn's high profile COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow. And yet understanding of the business and economic implications of the UN climate negotiations is often patchy at best.

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Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2020

UK sets out sponsorship criteria for crucial UN climate summit next year, including preference for firms with science-aligned net zero targets. We are looking for businesses who have set ambitious net zero commitments by 2050 or earlier, with a credible short term action plan to achieve this (e.g.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Tesco, Dixons Carphone, E.On, Heathrow, Lime and SSE latest to join 27-strong UK Electric Fleets Coalition partnership led by BT and The Climate Group. Bolton said the EV100 campaign complemented Tesco's plans to transition to 100 per cent electric vans and to roll out EV charging infrastructure across its UK stores.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2021

The campaign group’s “Impossible Rebellion” is expected to see thousands from across the country travel to London’s financial district for at least two weeks of marches and occupations, starting on Monday 23 August in Trafalgar Square. There will also be “digital actions” online for those who cannot attend in-person protests due to Covid.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Climate negotiations at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, better known as COP, are over for another year. What can we take away from its 27th iteration? Adding to the pressure were reports from the UN and International Energy Agency indicating that the world is still set to soar past the 1.5C

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 24, 2023

Susan Hall, the Conservative Party candidate for London mayor, has opposed key climate policies, backed the reintroduction of fracking and promoted articles online which spread climate science denial, DeSmog can reveal.

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