Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Alongside the policy discussions on how to reach the Paris Agreement of 2015 and limit global warming to 1.5⁰C, A Healthier Earth is a wholly owned subsidiary of Pure DC and backed by investment from Oaktree Capital Management.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Bank bosses due to attend a green investment summit tomorrow head institutions which have provided over £700 billion of financing for the fossil fuel industry since the 2015 Paris Agreement, including £129 billion in 2020 alone. . We are the first major economy to pass new laws for net zero emissions by 2050. billion to £3.5

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The report, published by the UN Environment Programme-hosted Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC), finds that in 2020, the sector accounted for 36 per cent of global final energy consumption and 37 per cent of energy related CO2 emissions, as compared to other end use sectors. Some small progress, but not enough.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Jeff Thiel and James Kempf We are not yet reducing global greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to avert catastrophic levels of global warming. We have the technology now to ensure a livable world for future generations, and investing in that technology will be good for our economy and our health too. annual total returns.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Jeff Thiel and James Kempf We are not yet reducing global greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to avert catastrophic levels of global warming. We have the technology now to ensure a livable world for future generations, and investing in that technology will be good for our economy and our health too. annual total returns.

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Investment Global warming Innovation North America 52

E8 Cleantech Angels

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Jeff Thiel and James Kempf We are not yet reducing global greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to avert catastrophic levels of global warming. We have the technology now to ensure a livable world for future generations, and investing in that technology will be good for our economy and our health too. annual total returns.

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Investment Global warming Innovation North America 52

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

government to spur green technology investment. Scientists at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have said that without “immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors” limiting global heating to 1.5C The Inflation Reduction Act is a $369 billion package of grants and subsidies by the U.S. is beyond reach.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Global investment needs to rapidly shift away from fossil fuels to green energy throughout the 2020s, but bets against that happening look increasingly risky. In order to cap global warming at 1.5C What does energy investment look like today? BNEF compared 1.5C Credit: BNEF.

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Business Green

JULY 12, 2020

Investment firms, banks, and pension funds have spent hundreds of billions of dollars supporting "destructive" global meat and dairy companies that are failing to take adequate action on carbon emissions and deforestation, a new report has warned. by 2030 and 80 per cent by mid-century.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

This year’s COP26 summit is widely viewed as one of the last chances to fulfil the 2015 Paris climate agreement and ensure meaningful progress is made towards tackling our net zero targets and the climate emergency. By Bill Ireland, Logan Energy. Production costs. Implementing clean hydrogen solutions is not without financial challenges.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Analysis from Lombard Odier Investment Managers suggests companies in MSCI World Index are currently aligned with global warming of 2.9C. Despite this, the research by Lombard Odier estimates that only 25 per cent of companies in the MSCI World index are currently aligned to keeping warming below 2C. of warming.".

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2022

This is especially fitting as the conference is taking place seven years after the signing of the Paris Agreement – a legally binding international treaty that commits countries to limiting global warming to below 2 (and preferably below 1.5) degrees Celsius. alive’ is to tackle their scope 3 – or indirect – emissions.

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Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2020

$1bn 'Ambition Zero Carbon' aims for zero carbon emissions across global operations by 2025, and ensure entire value chain is carbon negative by 2030. pathway - first announced in 2015 - by more than a decade. pathway - first announced in 2015 - by more than a decade.

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Business Green

JANUARY 25, 2021

temperature target established by the Paris Agreement in 2015. A collaboration between the United Nations Global Compact, the World Resources Institute, CDP and WWF, the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) launched in 2015 to support corporates in setting effective targets aligned with the goals of the Paris Agreement.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Energy and investment experts have warned that only concrete policy action from governments can prevent huge economic disruption should the 'carbon bubble' burst as economies shift away from fossil fuels in the coming years.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

For context, it has taken the world more than a century to warm a little more than 1 degree C, according to NASA. 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.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Porter’s blog repeatedly cites the work of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate science denial group. Porter’s Energy Blogs Climate models accurately predict global temperature rises, with observed warming tracking the forecasts.

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Business Green

JUNE 19, 2020

global warming scenario. The Bank of England has revealed that parts of its investment portfolio currently support up to 3.5C As of February 2020, 98 per cent was invested in sovereign government bonds and two per cent in sterling corporate bonds.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2020

per cent – sends a clear sign to bank that investors are increasingly displeased with its approach to fossil fuel investment. per cent of shareholders voted in favour of a resolution that asked the bank to report whether and how it would align its lending with the Paris Agreement goal of maintaining global warming well below 2C.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

” Ali Rowe, a campaigner from Extinction Rebellion added: “ It is unconscionable that the Science Museum is taking money from Adani without balancing the impact Adani’s current investments have on the climate crisis and biodiversity loss.” degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels”. billion in the coal industry.

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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

degrees Celsius of global warming that has occurred to date. In the broadest sense, overshoot is a future where the world does not cut carbon quickly enough to limit global warming to 1.5 Warming is already dangerously close to 1.5 Warming of 1.5 It was a critical message that was easy to miss.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

Climate Science Denial Groups Global Warming Policy Foundation / Net Zero Watch The opaquely-funded Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), based at 55 Tufton Street in Westminster, is the UK’s most prominent climate science denial group.

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Politics Climate change Global warming Policy 82

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2023

According to Clean Creatives and DeSmog research, the PR firm’s recent client list includes ExxonMobil, Shell, Eni, TotalEnergies, Equinor, Gas Natural Fenosa, Repsol, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), Arab Petroleum Investments Corporation (APIC), and the Oil Companies International Marine Forum.

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Mr. Sustainability

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Back in 2015 it managed to generate 100 per cent of its electricity from renewable energy sources for 299 days, and in 2016, it ran for 271 days on everything but fossil fuels. It's also worthwhile to note that Costa Rica was one of the few countries which had the prescience to refrain from investing in fossil fuels in the first place.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2020

Think tank reveals wind and solar are now providing 10 per cent of global power and are demonstrating impressive resilience to the coronavirus crisis, as coal investment continues to slide. per cent of global electricity just before the Paris Agreement was brokered in late 2015. per cent share to almost 10 per cent.

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Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2020

Church and Italian insurer are latest to join growing group of world's largest pension funds and insurers committed to fully decarbonising their investments by 2050. The same would apply to all asssets managed by Generali Group - the third largest insurance firm in the world - which currently stand at €488bn.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2021

On the latter point, it found 47 per cent of companies on its scorecard were not aligned with any of Paris Agreement benchmarks - not even the first round of national climate plans pledged by countries and key UN agencies in 2015 that are broadly seen as insufficient to steer a 2C scenario.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2021

At the same time, the country aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 26–28 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 (a target which some deem “insufficient” and doesn’t go far enough towards helping limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures). Buckley contrasted this with the situation in Australia.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 22, 2020

The alarms that are being sounded on global warming, income inequality, and humanitarian crises are the result of materialistic greed. Considering potential risks, the Paris Agreement-2015 is the latest global initiative to keep the increase of the earth’s temperature (global warming) below 1.5

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Agriculture Global warming Climate change Policy 89

Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

"The rapid rebound in emissions as economies recover from the pandemic reinforces the need for immediate global action on climate change," said Professor Pierre Friedlingstein , of Exeter's Global Systems Institute , who led the study. It projected that to have a 50 per cent chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C, 1.7C

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2021

Ever since governments at the 2015 Paris climate summit set 1.5'C C as the desired limit for global warming, scientists and journalists alike have regularly asked whether it is achievable. target - and that's without factoring in the wider effect on global markets, investment and prices that will inevitably follow.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak also confirmed the location of two new CCUS sites, re-committing the government to its £20 billion planned investment in the technology, which in theory involves harnessing the CO2 produced from burning fossil fuels. billion in 2021/22.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 4, 2023

The International Energy Agency has stated that new oil and gas exploration is incompatible with the effort to limit global warming to 1.5C – the legally-binding limit set by the 2015 Paris Agreement. Until April 2023 he was a non-executive director at Net Zero Infrastructure plc, a green investment firm.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The State of Global Air Quality Funding 2021 report, published today to coincide with the UN's International Day of Clean Air for blue skies, offers an overview of projects that tackle air pollution and have been funded by donor governments or philanthropic organisations. There must be no new coal plants built after 2021," he said.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

Motivated by New York Governor Cuomo’s willingness to consider banning hydrofracking, Jacobson worked through the night to layer New York’s pollution, human health, morbidity and global warming data into a cohesive model. In 2015, Jacobson began work on WWS maps for individual countries, with Ukraine being the first.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

The new normal will harness the transformations Covid-19 has unleashed and accelerate the shift to a decarbonised economy that limits global warming to 1.5C. According to McKinsey , investment in climate-resilient infrastructure and decarbonisation will create new and better jobs in the near term while protecting the economy.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

of global warming by 2100 at best. and upwards of 3C of warming. of global warming, which marks an improvement on 3C+ projections from a few years ago but would still blow a hole in the Paris Agreement's target of 1.5C per cent increase in global emissions from energy and industry over that same timeframe, it said.

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