Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The COP26 Youth Climate Protest in Glasgow on 5 November (image credit: PMGphotog / Shutterstock.com). One of the high-profile award ceremonies at COP, for start-up success stories, went to a company with a technology to convert industrial CO2 emissions into building materials. COP president Alok Sharma described it as “a fragile win”.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

Despite the reductions in air travel and the global economic slowdown caused by the pandemic, climate change sadly has not slowed down this past year. 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.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JANUARY 12, 2022

Each year since 1995, with the exception of 2020, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ) has hosted a Conference of Parties (COP), where members of the UNFCCC negotiate issues relating to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other matters relating to climate change.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Ahead of world leaders gathering in Egypt for the COP27 climate summit in November, here is an A-Z of common terms: 1.5°C. This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. The Sixth Assessment Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 12, 2021

At the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Colombia committed to reducing its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 51% by 2030, a responsibility that was transferred to all industrial sectors, including electricity. The company will receive offers to purchase rights to these carbon credits on March 23.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 10, 2021

That spend would be around 20% lower than what was invested across all of the country’s generation resources between 2015 and 2019. . A new study from the Energy Department’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found that deploying 307 GW of solar and 142 GW of wind capacity in India by 2030 would need around a $26.5

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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? It’s our economic activity that’s causing climate change and biodiversity loss.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

However, that number may be an undercount of total government subsidies, he said, given it doesn’t include tax credits, such as the $10 billion federal government carbon capture tax credit announced to coincide with the COP 28 summit. This comes as no surprise to experts who have scrutinized carbon capture technology.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The open letter, organized by the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Clean Creatives campaign, comes just days before the annual UN climate talks (COP27) open in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. The UN Conference of the Parties (COP) climate summits convene world leaders and delegates and draws significant media attention.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

“The aim of the MicroCarb mission is to accurately measure the atmospheric concentration of CO2 across the globe, as well as improve our understanding of the mechanisms through which global climate change unfolds,” said François Buisson, MicroCarb project manager at CNES. MicroCarb is the first mission of its kind in Europe.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

As High-Level Climate Action Champion for COP27, which is due to take place in Sharm el-Sheikh in November, Mohieldin is tasked with helping to bridge the work of governments with the many voluntary and collaborative actions taken by cities, regions, businesses, investors, and civil society to tackle the climate crisis.

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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

But in the wake of today's stark findings, the UN has urged all nations to increase their climate ambition - whether they are among the group that has already submitted an updated climate plans, or among the raft of countries yet to do so.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

National governments at the talks are set to thrash out the terms of a headline treaty to halt global destruction of biodiversity, akin to the Paris Agreement brokered in 2015 for climate. One of the major drivers of the loss of biodiversity and of climate change is the global loss of forests.

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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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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

JANUARY 24, 2022

Second, that inaction or delayed action on climate will create immense risks and costs,and populations across the world demand leaders to respond - and to respond now. In short, climate is a space where national and global interests align. In 2015, countries came together and formed the Paris Agreement.

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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. nJanuary is a time for new beginnings and new resolutions to drive self-improvement, and that applies to nations just as much as individuals.

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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. Food may not have been on the COP26 menu but that doesn't detract from the importance of rebalancing food systems in the fight against climate change. Joanna Allen is CEO at Graze.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

CLIMATE TARGETS. Overview: The 2015 Paris Agreement includes a requirement for countries to submit more ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions (greenhouse gas emissions targets) every five years. Relevance for Canada: Canada is one of the countries expected to provide climate financing for developing countries.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

I think there's a parallel here with climate change. If you look back to the Paris meeting in 2015 when we saw a real shift in ambition, one of the dynamics in play was a very strong presence from the finance and corporate sectors.". Business can help to create certainty," she told BusinessGreen.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The frustration was immediately clear in the plenary hall as the Summit drew to a close in the early hours of Sunday morning, when various countries and negotiating blocs that had spent the past fortnight pushing for far more ambition on efforts to mitigate climate change gave their views on the final outcome.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The moves came as the first glimpse of negotiating parties' positions was provided this morning, pointing to significant divergence between countries on a host of key issues - including climate finance, loss and damage, and the critical overarching 1.5C The future of humanity, without exaggeration, is at stake.

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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. In short, it would entail regular UN-run assessments to see what capitals are up to, how badly they're being hit by impacts, and how successful various policies are.

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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 C above pre-industrial levels , recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change”.

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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. Excellent to be moving forward.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

BEIS noted that it held two roundtable discussions with climate and environmental NGOs last year, and that it has engaged with the independent Climate Change Committee, the Chief Scientific Adviser, and energy academics on the design of the climate compatibility checkpoint. As the COP host, the U.K.

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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. We are at a pivotal time for agriculture policy," she said. "I

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2021

His interest in the course had been piqued by a curious lecture he had attended towards the end of his bachelor's degree that explained there was a connection between oil and climate change. Currently, however, the narrative around the COP26 Climate Summit is "quite exclusive", he warns. I hope so.".

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 25, 2021

Ambitious partnerships on climate action are taking root and bearing fruit Dominic Waughray Mon, 01/25/2021 – 00:30 Buried beneath the dour daily headlines on COVID-19 infections, lockdowns and travel bans, the latest science about our planet released during 2020 makes for tough reading. Global average temperatures are now about 1.2

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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. Alok Sharma is Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and President of the COP26 climate change summit.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

.” – UNFCCC , What is the United Nations Framework on Climate Change? Although this level was not defined by the convention, the aim was to allow ecosystems and society to adapt naturally to climate change, which means slowing global warming down. 30 years later came COP 26 (2021) – held in Glasgow.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Can governments broker a deal to phase out the oil, coal, and gas causing climate change? Countries have already suffered deep losses as a result of the fires, floods, and other disasters intensifying with climate change. In climate negotiations, it’s billed as a fund for “loss and damage.” Now, that 1.5-degree

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Industry Voice: Schneider Electric's Amy Haddon ponders whether the UN Climate Change Summit delivered on businesses' hopes. In November, I had the privilege to represent Schneider Electric at the UN's Conference of Parties (COP) on climate change in Glasgow. COP is and remains, fundamentally, a policy event.

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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. New coal plants are incompatible with the international Paris climate agreement," she said.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

Against this backdrop, green industry groups and think tanks are warning the case for bolder climate action is more compelling than ever. This is the government's opportunity, in the year of the COP, to show true global leadership on the climate crisis," Miliband said. "We

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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. The cumulative impact of all the newly submitted national climate plans fell far short of meeting the 1.5C

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