Business Green

JUNE 13, 2021

Taking nothing less than unprecedented, unstoppable action in the next five months to ensure the legacy we sow in Glasgow far outlasts our leadership of COP.". With the world soon to be on our doorstep, now is the time for the UK to step up and make the big plays.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2021

What is the COP about is a question I get asked a lot? "We are miles away from where we need to be. The answer is surprisingly simple but has never been properly set out by government.".

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

The COP26 meeting in Glasgow ended the same as every COP: there was clearly progress in what countries committed to, but given the scale of a crisis that the UN Secretary General called “ code red for humanity ,” it was woefully inadequate. Either way, the attack on democracy is not over, so companies will face serious choices again.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

They call on countries to deliver a 40 per cent reduction in the carbon intensity of shipping by 2030 and halve the sector's absolute emissions by 2050, compared to a 2008 baseline. If the recent COP kept 1.5 degrees alive, the IMO's decision to not set a target of zero by 2050 has gone a long way to killing it," he said.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2022

On November 29, Coterra Energy and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) signed a consent order allowing the operator, one of the largest natural gas producers in the state, to drill laterally beneath an area that has been mostly fracking-free since 19 households found methane in their water in 2008 and 2009.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Even so, it was a major breakthrough as the first COP to mention the temperature goals we are all familiar with today. The year was 2008. It ended without much of a story, with the parties being called to the COP the following year. For the first time at a COP , a target of 1.5 ” A year later came COP16 in Cancún.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2022

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. And navigating this context is our defining challenge. So I'm going to be frank.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

The coalition, launched by Danone at last year's UN COP climate conference, counts consumer goods heavyweights L'Oréal, Google, McCain, Walmart, Kellogg, Nestlé and Unilever. Workers fills up milk storage tank at a Danone dairy plant in Normandy, France, April 2008. Sponsored Article. Source: Photoagriculture. Shutterstock.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

UK aviation emissions have increased 125 per cent since 1990, according to European NGO Transport and Environment , yet they have been excluded by the UK's first five legally-binding carbon budgets, covering the period between 2008 and 2032.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

And this time the stakes are even higher, and the economic outlook even bleaker, than was the case the last time green stimulus packages were up for debate in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis. "I The legwork on diplomacy for COP is the piece that needs to ride alongside the domestic efforts to cut emissions," Stark explains.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

And by COP in Glasgow we will look to have those types of commitments across the financial sector, right into the private banking sector as well.". It's a net zero COP. That's the objective. That's the expectation.". The decade of delivery.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2020

The coalition, launched by Danone at last year’s UN COP climate conference, counts consumer goods heavyweights L’Oréal, Google, McCain, Walmart, Kellogg, Nestlé and Unilever. Source: Photoagriculture Shutterstock Photoagriculture Close Authorship.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 27, 2023

When you look back on 2008—when U.S. COP president Sultan Al-Jaber, head of the UAE’s state oil company, faced accusations of using his position to promote fossil fuels. production was at a 62-year low, and exports were zero—it is a remarkable turnaround.” ” In a closely related story, the U.S.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2020

The climate advisers said the UK also has a major responsibility to steer the globe's response to the pandemic as President of the next United Nations COP Climate Summit and incoming president of the G7. The letter emphasises that the UK's "credibility as an international leader rests on taking action at home".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The 'long 90s' of idealism, hedonism, and relative peace is on its death bed, where it will remain until the financial crash of 2008 administers the final rights. Everyone is rightly worried about what comes next. A cycle of vengeance and pain is about to spin out of control. One of our number knows what is coming.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2021

At the UN's recent COP 26, over 140 world leaders promised to end deforestation by 2030, pledging over $19bn to do so. To give back to his community he conceived the ERA Congo project in 2008 when the government suspended 91 of the 156 logging contracts in the province because of corruption. To limit the global temperature rise to 1.5

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2020

One possible future is a repeat of what China did in response to the global financial crisis in 2008 - a stimulus package targeted at highly polluting smokestack industries, resulting in coal consumption and emissions surging far above pre-crisis levels," Myllyvirta told BusinessGreen.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

Given this is an evolving situation we are keeping the situation under careful review and are in frequent contact with the UN, Chile (as current COP president) and other partners.". "We continue to work towards hosting the event in Glasgow in November, which is eight months away," she said.

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Mosaic

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Norris, who grew up in the mountains twenty miles southeast of Asheville, earned a degree in public policy at Stanford and, when he was twenty-three, started working for the Obama Administration, advising on clean-energy investments initiated by the recovery plan for the 2008 financial crisis. So the battle will be fought at the global level.

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