Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Anger is building over the failure to secure much-needed commitments towards phasing out unabated fossil fuels and tackling near-term emissions as part of the final agreement brokered at COP27 over the weekend, with critics warning the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C are hanging by the thinnest of threads.

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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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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

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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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. That set a goal of limiting global average temperatures to close to 1.5 Now, that 1.5-degree

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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

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. In reality, the current pledges align more closely to 2.7

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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. on the table. And it is damning.

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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. Everything we need to avoid the exponential impacts of climate change is doable.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 9, 2023

“I just don’t see most countries, and certainly not the vulnerable countries, being willing to support the COP president on this because it is a direct threat to their survival,” Figueres said. The state has killed an average of 129 people per year since Crown Prince Mohammed Bin-Salman assumed de facto rule in 2015.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

And then there are the big picture climate threats that poorly managed land can rapidly amplify. As the World Resources Institute points out, "land is critically important - both as a source of greenhouse gas emissions and as a climate change solution". SDG 15 to the rescue? "It

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

If designed well and properly adhered to, global treaties have a lot going for them. 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.

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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.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

warming trajectory. Scientists have made clear that global emissions cuts of 45 per cent by 2030 are needed to stand a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C, yet UN analysis suggests that present national commitments would see emissions rise by 16 per cent by the end of the decade, compared to 2010.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2021

UN climate chief Patricia Espinosa today proclaimed that "success is entirely possible" in Glasgow, as the long-delayed COP26 UN Climate Summit kicked off on a cautiously-optimistic note amid a flurry of fresh commitments from the likes of Israel, Italy, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 6, 2019

About 200 countries are presently convened for the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP 25 in Madrid. The Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Climate Change (COP) is tasked with making sure the agreements under the Paris Climate Accord are met. degrees above if possible.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The Glasgow Climate Summit is unlikely to bring the world into line with the Paris Agreement's goals, but there is growing optimism it can deliver a lot more than 'blah, blah, blah'. Global carbon emissions fell by a record 5.8 alive', despite widespread scepticism amongst environmental activists.

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