Renewable Energy World

MARCH 12, 2021

Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM) in Colombia will hold a public auction to sell 2 million certificates of carbon credits from three hydroelectric plants and one wind farm. A carbon credit is equivalent to 1 ton of CO2 that is no longer emitted into the atmosphere.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

degrees C target was initially established as a target in Paris in 2015 after a push by developing nations at a previous COP, to bring attention to the fact that global warming does not impact all nations equally. For context, it has taken the world more than a century to warm a little more than 1 degree C, according to NASA.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. The curbing of emissions to reduce the concentration of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane in the environment. Black carbon. Carbon market (including carbon offsets). Carbon sequestration.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

degrees C cap on average warming that governments pledged to aim for when they signed the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement to avoid dangerous climate change. by 2030, and committed to supporting actions such as mapping technology and carbon finance worth billions of dollars. Global average temperatures are now about 1.2 Pull Quote.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Polestar has once again published the full lifecycle carbon emissions associated with the production of its electric vehicles (EVs), estimating that its latest models have generated between 24 to 25 tonnes of CO2 by the time they are sold to customers. Car makers need to take full responsibility," he said.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This is the first COP where participants found themselves face-to-face with the reality of breaching the 1.5 C warming limit that was the central aspiration of the 2015 Paris Agreement. COP28, the world’s foremost climate conference, is known for spawning tension and frustration, but this recent one seemed especially fraught.

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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. Has there been any progress in reducing global carbon emissions since Paris in 2015? And it’s not all about carbon emissions. Also, most countries will miss their targets.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Businesses have a stake in the COP outcomes for three main reasons - let me explain. This commitment to climate action has grown exponentially since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015, when just a handful of pioneering businesses set science-based emissions reduction targets. They are already investing in decarbonisation.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

What is carbon accounting? Carbon accounting – also known as a carbon or greenhouse gas inventory – is the process of measuring the amount of carbon dioxide, or other greenhouse gases (GHG), an organization emits. Carbon accounting is a must for any becoming business today.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

It gained support from the French government during COP-21 in Paris in December 2015. MicroCarb is the first mission of its kind in Europe. This detector is far more compact; it is half the size of the previous generation, providing more flexibility and cost advantages for system integrators.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2022

"There are companies who are saying they are net zero, while they are still engaged in deforestation or other destructive practices that are releasing carbon," she says. "We We can't have that.". I wish everyone well because it's hard," she says. People will be staying up all night or having very late nights.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

He will work alongside Nigel Topping, who continues in his role as the High-Level Climate Action Champion for COP26 in Glasgow late last year, given the UK holds the COP presidency until it passes over the reins to Egypt at the next UN Climate Summit later this year.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

degrees F) as part of the 2015 Paris Agreement. Countries agreed to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F) and ideally 1.5 degrees C (2.7 The latest science shows that emissions will need to drop. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

A COP is the biggest global negotiation: 196 countries with very different agendas, very different political backgrounds; fraught with mistrust, with false rumours; highly technical and highly political - and alongside that a massive trade fair," explained Betts. Nobody has got the full picture in a COP. This is the risk of COP.".

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Overview: The 2015 Paris Agreement includes a requirement for countries to submit more ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions (greenhouse gas emissions targets) every five years. Between 2015 and 2020, Canada delivered $2.65 As part of its COP presidency, the U.K. CARBON MARKETS. CLIMATE TARGETS.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2020

They added that while COP26 and the Pre-COP and Youth4Climate events that had been due to be staged in Italy this summer had been postponed until next year, it remained crucial that governments use the coming months to strengthen their decarbonisation plans. "We degrees," Sharma and Costa added.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

In 2015, the world committed to cutting those to arrest global temperature rises at 1.5C. For good measure we chucked in two more - Egypt and the United Arab Emirates; hosts of the next two COP climate summits. Humans emit nearly 60 billion tons of greenhouse gases, annually. We split the 22 into four groups.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

In Canada last month almost 200 countries at COP 15 agreed a set of landmark pledges that will resonate not just through 2023, but to the end of the decade and beyond to the middle of the 21st century. All play a role in absorbing carbon.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Dig into the 14 October summary from the UK COP Presidency and there's cautious optimism that a set of deals to stop countries cheating on climate could land in Glasgow. These are the final pieces of the Paris Agreement required to complete the jigsaw and activate the UN deal agreed in 2015: Transparency, Article 6 and Common Timeframes.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

An independent HS2 review published by the government today said there was a risk of the project running up costs as high as £100bn, almost double the £56bn budget forecast back in 2015, while also conceding that construction of the new rail network could push up carbon emissions.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2021

A recent study estimated that food systems were responsible for one third of global greenhouse gas emissions between 1990 and 2015. Policymakers should use the momentum from COP to ensure business does better so that future generations don't end up paying our bill. That makes the industry one of the biggest global emitters.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

But, in part because of the treasured objects they house, museums often have outsize carbon footprints — and they are also uniquely vulnerable to climate impacts. But, she added, museums can actually be some of the most carbon-intensive buildings in cities. dedicated to the climate crisis.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The general consensus amongst seasoned observers of both Whitehall and the UN's COP talks is that there is time to deliver the successful summit that the UK and the wider world so desperately needs, but it has been an disappointing and chaotic start to proceedings and the clock is ticking. But you can't do that at a COP.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The Exploration Task Force – a “collaborative structure” between the oil and gas industry and its regulator – lists its purpose as maintaining North Sea “exploration and activity” while supporting the “transition towards a net zero carbon future and beyond”. As the COP host, the U.K.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The first full negotiating texts are still not expected until later this evening, or potentially even tomorrow, according to Egypt's COP Presidency. But we are hoping that everyone will rise to the occasion by the end of COP, and realise that while the national interest is very important, something greater than that is at stake.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

In 2015, countries came together and formed the Paris Agreement. Internationally, the coal power pipeline has reduced over 75 percent since 2015. Actions and ambitions towards de-carbonization have also increased. And I want to set out how the UK will work over our COP26 Presidency year to keep the world on course.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Indeed, a number of key figures, including some directly involved in the talks, have over the past 24 hours hit out at the lack of ambition in the final COP27 text on how to tackle near-term emissions, curb reliance on fossil fuels, and expand natural carbon sinks. We should have done much more.".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2022

We will deliver on what we said at COP because we care deeply about passing our children an environment in a better state than we found it ourselves.". And I can give the honourable lady my commitment that we will deliver on those ambitions.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

The International Energy Agency has estimated that $13.5tr of public and private investment in the global energy sector alone will be required between 2015 and 2030 to meet the Paris Agreement targets. Building the first fully-deployed carbon capture storage cluster by the mid-2020s. And many of them require private finance to deliver.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

In 2015, nearly 200 countries agreed to “Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C Nordhaus published an article in the American Economic Review entitled Can We Control Carbon Dioxide? Two numbers.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2021

Freuds, which was certified as a B Corp last year, has specialised in campaigns focused on sustainability for 35 years, from the launch of Live Aid and Comic Relief in the 90s to a more recent campaign geared at communicating the UN's 2015 Sustainable Development Goals to citizens around the world. The media is probably on red alert for it.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

In the past few days a flurry of major reports have again highlighted how the UK can realise major economic benefits from stepping up low carbon investment and supportive net zero policies, while green business leaders have urged Sunak and Johnson to make good on their environmental pledges.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 25, 2021

degrees C cap on average warming that governments pledged to aim for when they signed the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement to avoid dangerous climate change. by 2030, and committed to supporting actions such as mapping technology and carbon finance worth billions of dollars. Global average temperatures are now about 1.2

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Analysis by E3G and Global Energy Monitor calculates pipeline for pre-construction coal plants has plummeted 76 per cent since 2015. As one of the world's most carbon-intensive energy sources, putting an end to coal power as soon as possible is widely seen as critical to keeping global climate goals within reach.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In November, I had the privilege to represent Schneider Electric at the UN's Conference of Parties (COP) on climate change in Glasgow. This COP was unlike the previous 25 iterations, in that it took place during a global pandemic. This COP was unlike the previous 25 iterations, in that it took place during a global pandemic.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Business and policy leaders reflect on the major wins from the Glasgow Summit, what needs to happen next, and why COPs could look and feel difficult from now on. As Frontier Economics' Matthew Bell put it, Glasgow was arguably the first COP conference where the means to decarbonise were discussed alongside the end goals.

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2023

BP said it now expects global carbon emissions to peak in the 2020s and fall to 37.8 The carbon budget is running out," the report states. Despite the marked increase in government ambitions, CO2 emissions have increased in every year since the Paris COP in 2015 (bar 2020).

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