Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The government needs to dramatically step up efforts to reverse biodiversity loss, and trading or investing in commodities that drive deforestation should be made illegal, MPs on the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) have demanded today.

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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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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 14, 2020

I generally make this prediction by looking at supply and demand trends, as well as inventory levels. The year has only started above $60/bbl one other time since the downturn of 2014-2015. They expect oil demand to grow by 1 million BPD globally, which is consistent with most other forecasts. bbl for the year. I think U.S.

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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. With people returning to their busy lifestyles after the pandemic, there is high demand for snacks on the go. That makes the industry one of the biggest global emitters. Joanna Allen is CEO at Graze.

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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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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

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 2015, countries came together and formed the Paris Agreement. Internationally, the coal power pipeline has reduced over 75 percent since 2015.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

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.". "It is very positive there are so many companies here that are looking for frameworks that can help them to adopt nature-positive business strategies," he said. "I

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Previous iterations of a potential final agreement at COP27 had also failed to set out clear demands for countries to come forward next year with stronger national climate plans, although the calls did end up being reflected in the final agreement that was gavelled through yesterday. We should have done much more.".

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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 Even so, it was a major breakthrough as the first COP to mention the temperature goals we are all familiar with today.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

And yet fears remain that these calls could yet be drowned out by the even more insistent demands for the Treasury to do whatever it takes to avoid the short term economic damage caused by the coronavirus crisis and related oil price slump. The IEA is now predicting global oil demand will fall to 99.9

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2023

The influential annual report's central scenario, which is dubbed 'New Momentum' and is designed to "reflect the current broad trajectory" of the world's energy system, predicts oil demand would stand at around 93 million barrels a day in 2035 - a reduction of five per cent on last year's forecast.

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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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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Such businesses better meet the demands of the regulatory environment while coming into alignment with investor, consumer, and employee preferences. Since the convention’s establishment, the countries involved meet annually during the Conference of the Parties (COP). 30 years later came COP 26 (2021) – held in Glasgow.

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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. Moreover, it claims a further 16 countries only have one new coal power plant each in development, putting them just "one project away from a future without coal".

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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

JANUARY 30, 2023

"Despite the marked increase in government ambitions, CO2 emissions have increased in every year since the Paris COP in 2015 (bar 2020)," it continues. For years soaring renewables investment has simply served to add new energy capacity without chipping away at overall fossil fuel demand, but BP's contention is that is about to change.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The biggest international deal yet to tackle climate change came out of COP21 in 2015, when countries brokered the landmark Paris Agreement. He wrote a letter to governments in attendance that says, “phasing down demand for, and supply of, all fossil fuels is inevitable and essential” (emphasis mine). That’s what’s at stake now. “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. 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

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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The COP insiders who feel responsible for maintaining an artificial sense of suspense can relax and tell the truth: There will be no breakthrough agreement because delegates have never had the power to deliver one and never will, until most citizens in their home countries demand it. As it sinks in that the crucial 1.5C

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The UK is set to host a 'launchpad' event alongside the UN in early December designed as a platform for countries to come forward with more ambitious climate pledges, as is required ever five years under the terms of the Paris Agreement, which first agreed at COP21 in 2015.

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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.". However, seasoned observers noted that pretty much all of the 25 previous COP Summits have run over in pursuit of a compromise agreement, sometimes by days.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

And through behaviour change to address the demand side of the equation. The next climate COP must bring more-ambitious climate pledges and long-term strategies for 2050 to help drive such shifts. If Global Britain is to mean anything, then Ministers must rise to the challenge of the COP Presidency and demonstrate real leadership now.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Take urgent action to end poaching and trafficking of protected species of flora and fauna and address both demand and supply of illegal wildlife products. They are turning a blind eye to deforestation caused by demand for the commodities they use and failing to publicly recognise their responsibility to act.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The HAC is widely credited with having played a key role in the brokering of the Paris Agreement in 2015, with its members moving in lockstep to encourage large emerging economies to back the Paris Treaty. Nick Mabey, co-founder and CEO of climate think tank E3G, said the HAC grouping "makes the political weather at COP".

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

The UK government, as host of the most important climate conference since the Paris Agreement in 2015, must step up its efforts and show climate leadership. This is an all-hands-on-deck moment for everyone to rise up and demand their leaders take bold climate action like our future depends on it, because it absolutely does.".

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Venezuela demanded changes to the agreements made by the international oil companies that would give PDVSA majority control of the projects. ExxonMobil XOM and ConocoPhillips COP refused, and as a result their assets were expropriated. On paper, Venezuela alone could meet global oil demand for nearly a decade. this month.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The Paris Agreement of 2015 has helped transform the global economy, catalysing the development of the cheapest energy and the fastest industrial revolution in history. How to ensure that the clean energy revolution accelerates at sufficient pace that fossil fuel demand can fall both rapidly and in lockstep with constrained supply.

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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. A key driver in the U.S. But in the U.S.,

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2020

As such, the report reveals a 16 per cent year-on-year drop in coal power capacity under construction and in pre-construction development last year, completing a 66 per cent decline in the pipeline since 2015 when the research was first carried out. However, it seems as if his calls are likely to fall on deaf ears in mant key markets.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Demand has returned, but supply hasn’t caught up. The project had been rejected by President Obama in late 2015, fast-tracked by President Trump in 2017, and now once more rejected by President Biden in 2021. The COP 26 agreement on emissions reductions was a top story, but only time will tell if the agreements had the intended impact.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 10, 2023

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. ⚡ Amperon , a Houston, Texas-based electricity grid demand forecasting platform, raised $20M in Series B funding from Energize Capital, D.E.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Each of these meetings were known as Conferences of the Parties, or COPs, and they have become synonymous with both the world's admirable intention to tackle the climate crisis and the diplomatic quagmire and geopolitical tensions that have repeatedly stymied efforts to curb global emissions. Paris breakthrough.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Whether or not the move indicates a softening of China's long term support for decarbonisation is contested, but it has highlighted how the transition away from fossil fuels is likely to lead to significant price volatility and energy security concerns, as economies battle to match supply and demand.

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