Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

COP26 concluded on 13 November amidst widespread disappointment from environmental commentators about a lack of significant progress on the promises made in Paris in 2015 – even disbelief at a failure to commit to fulfilling many of those past promises. COP president Alok Sharma described it as “a fragile win”. degrees alive.

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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. Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) This comes as no surprise to experts who have scrutinized carbon capture technology.

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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

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. . Even so, solar power would still be a cost-effective way to meet growing demand instead of building new fossil fuel-based power plants, the report said.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

. | Sean Gallup/Getty Images Tens of thousands of negotiators, activists, and corporate execs have descended upon Dubai to wrangle over the future of fossil fuels. Can governments broker a deal to phase out the oil, coal, and gas causing climate change? The future of fossil fuels Let’s start with some backstory on COP28.

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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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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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 9, 2023

UK fossil fuel imports from authoritarian petrostates surged to £19.3 Petrostates are countries that are economically heavily dependent on fossil fuel production. billion on fossil fuel imports from the year beginning February 2022. billion on fossil fuel imports from the year beginning February 2022.

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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

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. We need concrete plans to phase out fossil fuels as fast as possible.".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Meanwhile, key decisions over controversial Cumbrian coal mines and North Sea oil and gas projects are also likely to be made before the end of 2021, providing a clear test of how serious the government is about the transition away from fossil fuels. Nobody has got the full picture in a COP. Everybody is constantly confused.

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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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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

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. I stick by what we said in our manifesto," Sunak said in response.

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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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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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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Yet while that very broad assessment certainly remains true, today's intervention from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was always going to be a little different. This report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a litany of broken climate promises. And it is damning.

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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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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. Bottom Line for Business.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Today the world's leading climate scientists delivered the clearest picture yet of the scale of the climate crisis that is already unfolding, as well as the likely impacts of further temperature rises over the course of century. Global heating is affecting every region on Earth, with many of the changes becoming irreversible.

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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

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The Paris Agreement on climate change, signed into life in 2015, may not be perfect. COP talks each year are often fraught and progress remains far too slow, as today's IPCC report on escalating climate impacts will testify. If designed well and properly adhered to, global treaties have a lot going for them.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 2, 2021

Over the past few years, the term "climate risk" has risen to the fore , taking up residency inside the world's biggest banks and investors. Today, it is part of many companies’ toolkit as they seek to understand the impacts of climate change on their business and society. degrees Celsius. Flashing red lights. The implications?

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Over two weeks in November, world leaders and national negotiators will meet in Scotland to discuss what to do about climate change. It was the first time the majority of nations formally recognized the need to control greenhouse gas emissions , which cause global warming that drives climate change. 31 through Nov.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

"Other governments now need to isolate the Saudi delegation if they want this COP to succeed for everyone, not just fossil fuel interests.". The largest national delegation is Brazil, which has brought 479 representatives to COP26.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2021

Over the past few years, the term "climate risk" has risen to the fore , taking up residency inside the world's biggest banks and investors. Today, it is part of many companies' toolkit as they seek to understand the impacts of climate change on their business and society. created by a range of hazards. Flashing red lights.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 2, 2021

Shell and the new era of climate risk Joel Makower Wed, 06/02/2021 – 02:11 Over the past few years, the term “climate risk” has risen to the fore , taking up residency inside the world’s biggest banks and investors. Fossil-fuel companies are likely seeing flashing red lights about now.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Almost every challenge governments are struggling to get a grip on has a climate angle. All these issues are either caused or exacerbated by our reliance on fossil fuels and the climate impacts that result. Climate change then becomes the economy's way of overcompensating for its rampant insecurity.

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Climate 4.0

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Sessions and informal discussions were rich with talk of Paris 2015, the UN's SDGs, CSR programs morphing into the corporate mainstream, a note by one speaker that Rachel Carson's groundbreaking book “Silent Spring” is now almost 60 years old, and the upcoming COP26 conference in Glasgow.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The combination of competition with China and downplaying climate change is also making EV-bashing a common refrain from Republican presidential candidates. Rivian is producing at greater volumes, but losing more than $30,000 on each vehicle it delivers —about 8x the losses Tesla experienced on each EV it sold in 2015.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Bush joined other world leaders and signed the first global treaty to combat climate change, saying that an "unprecedented era of peace, freedom and stability" in the wake of the Cold War would spur action to protect the environment. "We But three decades on, times have changed radically. In 1992, US President George H.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Global energy shortages and a recent spike in oil prices to a three-year high above $80 a barrel, have dimmed hopes that governments will announce bold new plans to rapidly ditch fossil fuels at the October 31st to November 12th summit. is closing fast. Our hopes and dreams drown in their empty words and promises," she said. "Of

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