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. Adding to the problem is that the fossil-fuel sector is Canada’s fastest-growing source of emissions. But all was not lost.

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Is the COP27 Summit that kicks off in Sharm El Sheikh this weekend the most important COP meeting yet, and therefore one of the most critical gatherings in the entire history of humanity? It is, by the admission of the Egyptian hosts, an "implementation COP". If COPs did not exist you would need to invent them.

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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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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

It means the Swedish electric vehicle brand's two Polestar 2 variants - long-range and standard-range - have a slightly higher carbon footprint than petrol cars through their production and disposal, but they generate considerably lower lifecycle emissions compared to fossil fuel equivalents overall when production and use are combined.

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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. The future of fossil fuels Let’s start with some backstory on COP28. Greenhouse gas emissions come from extracting and burning fossil fuels, of course.

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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. Commonly known as soot, it is formed from wildfires and fossil fuel consumption and contributes to climate change. Conference of the Parties (COP). The hope is that limiting global warming to 1. Biodiversity. Mitigation.

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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

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. All this, despite a short-term spike in reliance on fossil fuels in response to the energy crisis.

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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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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

DeSmog revealed last month that Kwarteng held 63 private meetings with fossil fuel and biomass energy producers between July 2019 and March 2021. The OGA was set up as part of BEIS in 2015 and incorporated as a government company in 2016, with its sole shareholder being Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

We need concrete plans to phase out fossil fuels as fast as possible.". Japan, South Korea, Russia, New Zealand, Switzerland, Brazil, and Australia have all delivered plans in recent months that experts have warned fail to meaningfully improve on the emissions goals they set in their 2015 submissions to the UN.

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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. CLIMATE TARGETS. billion over that five year period.

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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

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. It calls on countries to phase-down unabated coal power and phase-out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies. And around the world, markets are on the move.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2021

The fossil fuel economy's devastating impact on the planet is common and inescapable knowledge, and students are lining up in droves to apply for degrees that will set them up for careers in purpose-led finance and business. Fast forward a couple decades and the world looks very different. The media is probably on red alert for it.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

"They are choking our planet, based on their vested interests and historic investments in fossil fuels, when cheaper, renewable solutions provide green jobs, energy security, and greater price stability. But the truly dangerous radicals are the countries that are increasing the production of fossil fuels.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Since the convention’s establishment, the countries involved meet annually during the Conference of the Parties (COP). COP is a supreme decision-making body that aims to promote the effective application of the convention. 30 years later came COP 26 (2021) – held in Glasgow. C) within reach.

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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. Crucially, it signalled the fossil fuel economy is coming to a close - albeit a slower one than is needed, with its explicit targetting of fossil fuel subsidies and coal power.

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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

The increased focus on energy security as a result of the Russia-Ukraine war has the potential to accelerate the energy transition as countries seek to increase access to domestically produced energy, much of which is likely to come from renewables and other non-fossil fuels." The carbon budget is running out," the report states.

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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. Crucially, these changes are evident in both the fossil fuel and the clean energy market. Investment in clean energy basically matched that in fossil fuels last year.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk. This report must sound a death knell for coal and fossil fuels, before they destroy our planet.

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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

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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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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GreenBiz

JUNE 2, 2021

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change — the folks who organize the annual COP events — defines “climate-related risks” as those: …created by a range of hazards. Fossil-fuel companies are likely seeing flashing red lights about now. degrees Celsius. Flashing red lights. The implications?

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

That treaty has since been updated, including in 2015 when nations signed the Paris climate agreement. The initial set of emission reduction targets in 2015 was far too weak to limit global warming to 1.5 Another challenge that has derailed past COPs is agreeing on implementing a carbon trading system outlined in the Paris Agreement.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2021

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) - the folks who organise the annual COP events - defines "climate-related risks" as those: ". Fossil fuel companies are likely seeing flashing red lights about now. created by a range of hazards. Flashing red lights. The implications?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

All these issues are either caused or exacerbated by our reliance on fossil fuels and the climate impacts that result. The entire global economy is made inherently unstable by its reliance on fuels where the price can be manipulated and the polluting externalities are not accounted for. It just is. There is no alternative.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 2, 2021

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change — the folks who organize the annual COP events — defines “climate-related risks” as those: …created by a range of hazards. Fossil-fuel companies are likely seeing flashing red lights about now. degrees Celsius. Flashing red lights The implications?

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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

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. In other updates on global climate talks, Russia will oppose a pre-COP 28 agreement to phase out fossil fuels. The Sultan is head of Abu Dhabi Oil Co.,

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