DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Tags: chamber of commerce Dan Brouillette James Danly Cory Gardner Paris Agreement But in 2019, the Chamber generated headlines in the environmental press by adding a section to its website titled “Climate Change: The Path Forward.”. Our climate is changing and humans are contributing to these changes,” the website says.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 13, 2020

degrees F), a limit that is within the “well below 2 degrees C” goal prescribed in the Paris Climate Agreement. Tags: ExxonMobil chevron carbon tracker energy transition stranded assets oil majors climate denial degrees C (2.9

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 19, 2020

Tags: shell Shell Knew energy transition Paris Agreement climate change climate litigation Despite clear warnings from scientists , global health experts and even central banks of impending climate-driven crises, Shell’s report largely sends a message that everything is fine and the company’s “business strategy is sound.”.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2019

Read time: 5 mins Automakers are failing to drive a rapid shift towards low-carbon transport, according to a new analysis , indicating that the industry is not aligned with the Paris Agreement goal of keeping global warming below 2 degrees C. Tags: auto alliance clean car standards world benchmarking alliance

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 13, 2020

Increasingly, these meetings have become an opportunity for activists to push the fossil fuel industry towards more progressive positions on climate change, with resolutions aimed at everything from greater transparency over lobbying and emissions to forcing alignment with the Paris Agreement. .

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In December 2015, European Commission President Jean-Claude Junker stood at a podium to hail the world’s first comprehensive agreement to take action on climate change, and told the world, “the Paris Agreement now reflects our ambition worldwide.”

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Although many oil companies signed on to the Paris Climate Agreement, they have simultaneously poured $50 billion into projects since 2018 that are not aligned with climate targets. Tags: Vaca Muerta Shale Argentina Total fracking YPF oil majors The industry is not slowing down, even in the face of the worsening climate crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

With these draft ISO guidelines , which DeSmog has obtained, the ISO appears poised to provide voluntary and market-based standards to address climate change that differ in a key way from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Climate Agreement.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 10, 2021

RBC has invested $160 billion in fossil fuels since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2016, according to a recent study by the Rainforest Action Network, making it Canada’s top fossil fuel financier in that period. TAG), the largest natural gas transporter in Brazil. Last year CDPQ bought Transportadora Associada de Gás S.A.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The summit closed on 13 December with an historic agreement to limit fossil fuel use, which the Emirates has coined the ‘UAE consensus’. The posts shared the same hashtags and tagged the same official COP28 Instagram account. One influencer told DeSmog they had “followed the guidelines and suggested hashtags provided by COP28”.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2021

Many of these bonds were oversubscribed, as investors aim to integrate ESG (environmental, social and governance) criteria across their portfolios and take steps to align their portfolios with the goals laid out in the Paris Agreement, as is indicated in Article 2.1c. Linking financial instruments to NDCs and nature targets.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Moreover, this price tag is for capital investments, not costs. In this context, the Paris Agreement commitment for industrialised nations to provide $100bn a year of climate finance for developing economies looks utterly inadequate. Again, it sounds like a lot but it is equivalent to around 1.3

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2022

per cent of GDP by delivering on the Paris Agreement targets and minimising the climate impacts the industry faces. For context, the entire UK agriculture sector currently accounts for 0.6 per cent of GDP. But the report also stresses that these agriculture losses could be paired back to 0.02

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2023

Despite substantial and increasing demand for green materials and products, many supply-side players are still failing to respond at the pace required to meet that burgeoning demand, eroding hopes that economy-wide decarbonisation can be delivered at the pace needed to deliver on the goals of the Paris Agreement.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The ambition of major corporates set out in the EV100 report needs to be matched by more governments, carmakers, and businesses across the globe in order to deliver on the global climate goals of the Paris Agreement, Roling warned. "To Heavy trucks must therefore become the new frontier for corporate fleet electrification, Roling said.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

ICVCM said the next version will explore complex issues such as the implications of Corresponding Adjustments under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, whether all carbon credit projects should make a contribution towards the UNFCCC Adaptation Fund, and how to further strengthen sustainable development requirements.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

One of the main agreements made by COP26 was the commitment to end and reverse deforestation, along with securing global net zero targets by the mid-century and keeping 34.7°F The Paris Climate Agreement : COP21 took place in Paris 2015, and marked a new momentum for climate action. C) within reach.

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

High price tags are sometimes necessary for innovative green technologies, but with biomass, there's a real risk that the UK doesn't get what it's paying for," Ember's COO and lead UK analyst Phil MacDonald warned.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

As ever, the CCC's assessment of the potential costs of net zero offers a powerful tonic to the loud minority of political and media commentators who have taken to bemoaning the price tags attached to the projects that can help avoid catastrophic climate impacts.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

To get a better understanding of the city’s legacy, DeSmog tagged along to an activist-led tour organised by Brussels based advocacy group, Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) and local activists at Glasgow Calls Out Polluters.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

Uncertain Data Fifteen European countries and the European Union participate in the OSPAR Convention, an agreement for monitoring and reducing pollution in the Northeastern Atlantic Ocean. OSPAR” stands for the Oslo Convention and the Paris Convention, two 1970s environmental pacts that were combined into OSPAR in 1998.)

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Grist

JUNE 21, 2021

The report, which has become the most globally respected pulse-taking of human health in a changing climate since its first publication after the 2016 Paris Agreement, shows just how high the stakes are. Doctors put a price tag on the annual health impacts of climate change. It’s $820 billion. Zoya Teirstein. “I

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

The president-elect’s stance on “quitting” the Paris Agreement seems to have softened in recent days. Tags: Donald Trump nigel farage Nick Hurd Brexit clexit international climate talks Marrakech climate conference

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

It is the kind of price tag that is bound to make treasuries baulk and climate sceptic newspaper editors salivate, but the report stressed that the benefits from building a global clean energy system would greatly outweigh the costs. On the energy crisis.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 23, 2023

🥩 Amatera , a Paris, France-based non-GMO perennial crops developer, raised $2M in Pre-Seed funding from PINC, AgFunder, Joyance Partners, Exceptional Ventures, and Mudcake.   ⚡ Volteras , a London, United Kingdom-based EV charging software platform, raised $3M in Seed funding from Mercedes, BMW, Volvo, and Enphase.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

has officially left the Paris climate agreement. from the agreement, his rival former Vice President Joe Biden has promised to rejoin “on day one,” as NPR pointed out. Tags: Paris Climate Agreement Donald Trump UNFCCC Vice President Joe Biden Reposted with permission from EcoWatch. presidential election.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Fast forward to today, and Indonesia has a five-year development plan that counts greenhouse gas reduction as a key macro-economic metric, in addition to a slightly enhanced - if still inadequate - 2030 emissions goal submitted under the Paris Agreement and an overarching 2060 net zero target. million tonnes of paperboard each year.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

In response to a request for comment regarding these concerns, a BP spokesperson referenced statements the company has made about CCS on its website, including that “CCS is necessary to help achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement” and “We believe CCS can play a key role to help hard-to-abate industries decarbonize and transition.”

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Mitch McConnell Trump Administration Paris Climate Agreement Tags: joe biden U.S.

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