DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The industry is also pushing for the government’s promised “climate compatibility checkpoint”, which will test proposed developments against climate targets, to be finalised by the end of 2021 to enable another licensing round to take place next year, the minutes reveal. As the COP host, the U.K. Discussions ?on

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2022

The document sets out G7 countries' ambition to deliver near-zero carbon electricity grids by 2035, citing the need to respond to climate scientists' calls for a drastic reduction in fossil fuel demand so as to stabilise global temperatures. We also have the G7's first coal phase-out goal and endorsement of the Glasgow Breakthroughs.".

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 10, 2021

India has a target ofd 500 GW of installed non-fossil fuel capacity by 2030, as announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP-26) in Glasgow in November. In the first nine months of 2021, India added more than 7.4 GW installed in the same period in 2020.

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The COP 26 climate conference took place! Corporate buying commitments are an area where a lot of opportunity exists in the absence of comprehensive climate policy. For example, $7.5 billion or so to electrify their entire bus fleet). How do people feel about the outcomes? Other News Credit: Robert F.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Farming also relies on synthetic fertilisers that are both fossil-fuel-based and emit greenhouse gases, and drives deforestation. Nature-based solutions” is one of the only phrases linked to agriculture to be mentioned in the COP cover text. We can expect a similar turnout at this year’s COP, too.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Bright Blue says UK Export Credit Agency has made progress in curbing support for fossil fuel infrastructure, but bolder green financing policies are still needed. Under this criteria, the Greening UK Export report gave the UKEF a overall rating of 1.23/3.00,

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Just a week after the government finally unleashed its Net Zero Strategy , Heat and Buildings Strategy and the Treasury's Net Zero Review, replete with a flurry of fresh policy and investment, it was now the turn of the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, to set out the government's spending plans for the next year and beyond.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Dubbed the Glasgow Climate Pact, the agreement crucially puts pressure on countries to come foward next year with updated climate plans, promises more funding for climate adaptation, and for the first time ever includes explicit references to the need to drive down coal and phase out fossil fuel subsidies. Phase out coal.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

There are (admittedly optimistic) reasons to think that if current plans are expanded and translated into near term policy measures the world could soon find itself on a 1.8C — jonathanwatts (@jonathanwatts) November 12, 2021. The fossil fuel problem is being named. trajectory. A visual guide. Ashley_J_Kirk ? ?

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 24, 2022

As a part of the national statement delivered at the 26 Conference of the Parties (COP 26) in Glasgow in November 2021, the Prime Minister announced the landmark commitment to achieve carbon neutrality by 2070.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The government has promised a raft of hotly-anticipated plans and policies in the coming months, including the Heat and Buildings Strategy, Food Strategy White Paper, Treasury Net Zero Review, and an overarching Net Zero Strategy, all of which should help unlock billions of pounds of green investment. Nobody has got the full picture in a COP.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

G20 agrees to submit enhanced Paris Agreement plans ahead of COP26, but fails to agree coal power and fossil fuel subsidy phase outs. Under the Paris Agreement, signatories are expected to ramp up their national climate pledges every five years in order to help limit temperature rise to 1.5C

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2021

But Ministers insist end to financial support for overseas fossil fuel energy projects, £16bn transition plan for North Sea, and climate compatibility test for new projects can put UK on track to net zero emissions. We will not leave oil and gas workers behind in the United Kingdom's irreversible shift away from fossil fuels.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

IEA predicts major gains on energy efficiency in 2022 in response to energy crisis, but BloombergNEF warns current clean energy policies still put world on track for a 2.6C Dr Fatih Birol, executive director of the IEA, said the world was seeing a repeat of some of the policies that emerged in response to the oil supply crisis of the 1970s.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Oil and gas has dominated discussions at past COPs, which have focused on the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the energy and transport sectors to tackle dangerous levels of global warming. Big companies which have previously accessed COP in this way include JBS, which came in with the Brazilian delegation for COP27 in Egypt.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

— Fatih Birol (@fbirol) November 4, 2021. These announcements may generate headlines but assessing their true worth is hugely difficult, especially at speed during a COP meeting. — Mohamed Adow (@mohadow) November 4, 2021. C A big step forward, but much more needed!

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

EU energy emissions fall, Rwanda gets its first mini-grid, and Brazil preps a COP bid. The rules are set to be folowed by a wider policy push to accelerate the development of solar projects on empty land by motorways and railways. Brazil to offer to host future COP. French Senate approves solar car park legislation.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Despite sounding innocent enough, this allowance is a massive loophole to the government's windfall tax which amounts to taxpayers paying fossil fuel companies to invest in new climate-wrecking oil and gas projects in the North Sea. Let's remind ourselves of these fossil fuel company profits. in tax relief. in return.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Inevitably transforming our energy systems and economy away from fossil fuels is a complicated endeavour. Government and regulators now have - through the Net Zero Review, and a new Net Zero Strategy to be published next year - the opportunity to introduce policy and regulatory frameworks to deliver the investment we need.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

The UK remains COP President until next November, when it will hand the baton over to Egypt, which is set host the COP27 Summit at the Red Sea beach resort of Sharm-el Sheikh. Indeed, there is no shortage of world-changing points of action for Sharma's COP team to be getting on with over the coming months.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

The Net Zero Strategy (NZS) was released in autumn 2021, just ahead of the COP26 Climate Summit, and while it contained a raft of policies, targets, and plans designed to curb emissions commentators at the time highlighted how it failed to incorporate detailed modelling showing how much officials expected policies to reduce emissions.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2023

That is the upbeat conclusion of new research published this week by the Inevitable Policy Response (IPR), an initiative that has been tracking significant climate policy developments on a quarterly basis since the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow in November 2021.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2021

The Strategy, although still lacking details on policy and financial support in certain areas - more of that is now expected in another related policy document next year - envisages hydrogen supporting 9,000 jobs and attracting £4bn investment by 2030, rising to 100,000 jobs by 2050 in an industry potentially worh £13bn.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2020

Pressure grows on the government to ramp up net zero policies and diplomatic efforts ahead of COP26. Before we host the world at COP 26 in November, the UK must get its house in order, and go further and faster to reach net zero as soon as possible," the letter states. "In There is no time for delay.".

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

New four word slogan captures government's ambitions for Glasgow Summit, as Tory backbench opposition to climate policies continues to swell. Cars - we want the world to follow the UK lead and abandon fossil fuel internal combustion engine machines. — Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) August 9, 2021.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Around the world, 2021 saw troops mobilise, violence erupt, and relations between old friends and allies strained. Though policy choices could reduce this figure, and I would add that it includes investments with long term benefits. It calls on countries to phase-down unabated coal power and phase-out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2021

As many press commentators pointed out, in the year of the COP being held in Glasgow, the UK needs to be building its reputation as a climate leader," it said in a statement on Friday. — Jonny Marshall (@JMarshall_ECIU) March 23, 2021. Cost goes up and demand little changed - no change in CO2 [link].

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Business Green

DECEMBER 19, 2021

As 2021 draws to a close, examining lessons from the past will be critical in helping us to transform the future, writes Forum for the Future’s CEO Dr Sally Uren. December 2021.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The North Sea was a major talking point this year as campaigners stepped up pressure on Boris Johnson’s “build back better” government to put a stop to any new fossil fuel projects. The post Our 2021 UK Highlights: ‘Climate-Conflicted’ Bank Directors, North Sea ‘Rogues’ and COP26 Greenwash appeared first on DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

billion worth of fossil fuels from Saudi Arabia. DeSmog has today revealed that the US-based advertising giant McCann, part of the Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG), is putting itself forward to continue working for this fossil fuel giant. So what else do we know about this fossil fuel behemoth?

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

We must be laser-focused on phasing out fossil fuel emissions, while phasing up viable, affordable zero carbon alternatives,” Al-Jaber said at a pre-COP 28 event in Bonn in June. The statement was widely interpreted as a pitch for carbon capture. In times when EOR was not profitable, CO2 was simply vented into the atmosphere.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

The third in a trilogy of reports over the past year or so, today's - dubbed Climate Change 2022: The Mitigation of Climate Change - was particularly highly anticipated due to its focus on solutions to the aforementioned crisis the world currently faces, in terms of technologies, policies, nature-based measures and finances. on the table.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

As the government gears up to unveil its 10 point green recovery plan this autumn, an alliance of more than 70 civil society groups have set out which net zero policies they think should make the cut. But will the government deliver the scale of investment and detailed policy frameworks required to unlock real progress?

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 17, 2020

China has begun drafting its next five year plan (FYP), this top-level policy blueprint has been called, "one of the most important documents on the planet" for global sustainability. We will also need to distribute resources equitably, eneact policies to reduce economic inequality and preserve natural resources. That breaks down to 7.6

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Business Green

MAY 30, 2022

Environmental Audit Committee calls for 'explicit commitments' from financial firms on phasing out fossil fuel investments.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

For all the evidence the Paris Agreement has catalysed an era-defining array of clean tech innovations and a remarkable shift in public opinion, there have been baseless arguments that the entire COP process is an exercise in futility. — Richard Black (@_richardblack) October 30, 2021.

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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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