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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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

However, much work remains: coal still accounts for at least one-third of global electricity generation, and, in spite of the clear link between coal burning and higher temperatures, its use has increased in 2021 as economies reopened and energy demand shot up. The post The Glasgow Climate Pact: What does it mean for Canada’s climate policy?

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Clean Energy Trust

JANUARY 28, 2022

Credit: Stripe eadership from corporations to be committed first customers for products that can decarbonize the economy Several announcements around COP 26 highlighted corporates who had made commitments to be early customers for new technology solutions, in order to help create market pull?—?this

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The City Fix

AUGUST 24, 2021

Deadly flooding in Germany and Belgium in July 2021 completely washed away buildings. Headlines related to recent extreme weather appear to come out of a science fiction book: Even the richest countries in the world can’t control widespread fires — they’re even burning in the Arctic. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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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?

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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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

As with the last summit, the risk continues to be that greenwashing leaves governments with “a vision that tinkers around the edges,”rather than a transformative one that creates food systems that are resilient and restore ecosystems,” as Shefali Sharma, director of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), warned at COP27.

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The City Fix

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

World leaders are gathering in New York this week and next for the UN General Assembly meeting (UNGA76) and Climate Week. The two major events come at a critical moment for climate action. The world is facing an emergency. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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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. The nation added 2,835 MW of solar in the third quarter of 2021, up 14% compared to 2,488 MW installed in the second quarter.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The UN Conference of the Parties (COP) climate summits convene world leaders and delegates and draws significant media attention. Time and again, research by me and my colleagues has shown how oil and gas companies and the PR firms that abet them have deployed climate disinformation to debilitate climate policy,” he added.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Domestic Climate Policy Gets Real. COP27, which will be held in Egypt this November, will be different in several key respects from the Glasgow edition that preceded it in 2021. Finally, there was a lot of discussion at ClimateWeek and UNGA about the “other” COP – COP15, which is convening in December in Montreal.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Global markets have long demanded clarity from governments on establishing a policy foundation for an emissions trading system that maintains environmental integrity and puts a global price on carbon.". This issue cannot continue to be deferred, COP after COP after COP. or well below 2C. We need every voice at the table.

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Business Green

JUNE 13, 2021

Business lobby group chief Tony Danker ramps up rhetoric demanding government deliver raft of missing net zero policy on heating, hydrogen and transport. These various targets have been supported by number of policies and investments, such as support for new electric vehicle charging infrastructure and new zero carbon home standards.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

I also want particularly to thank COP President Alok Sharma who has worked incredibly hard to bring countries together. Despite the Covid-19 crisis, we have accelerated action, the COP has responded to the IPCC's call to close the gap towards 1.5, Greenwashing is the new climate denial, and we have seen too much at play in this COP.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 30, 2021

It sounds like the start of a disaster movie, but this is real life, just one month’s notable events in 2021. He added that the report “added to the urgency and importance of making this COP a turning point… the alarm bells couldn’t be clearer or louder.”. Landmark report confirms the link.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

Finally, it said future hosts of UN COP climate summits should also hold the same year's G7 and G20 presidencies, just as the UK is set to do in 2021, and that the wider G77+ countries should also be included as a third co-host, in order to boost inclusivity.

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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

MAY 27, 2022

In addition, the climate ministers pledged to end all direct public support for overseas unabated fossil fuel energy projects by the end of 2022, declaring that all government support for unabated thermal coal-fired power generation overseas had come to an end in 2021.

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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Fossil fuels are everywhere at this COP except in the decisions being negotiated by governments,” Nikki Reisch, the director of climate and energy at the Center for International Environmental Law, wrote to DeSmog from Glasgow. in reach — Alok Sharma (@AlokSharma_RDG) October 23, 2021.

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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

JULY 13, 2021

But the paper said a "civil war" has broken out between senior ministers over how best to enact the potentially controversial policy, with the government yet to decide which products would be targeted by the planned carbon border tariff. — Beth Rigby (@BethRigby) July 13, 2021. per cent to 0.5

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Business Green

APRIL 27, 2020

The postponement of the UN World Climate Change Conference in Glasgow to 2021 is understandable because a global consensus of 200 states would not be able to be reached in a video conference," she explained. There can be no going back," Stern said.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

In what is a crucial year for climate action in 2021, there CCC has today given the government much food - but little time - for thought - here are its top takeaways. So the government is playing a pretty high stakes game here. They seem to be placing all of their chips on the new Net Zero Strategy that is planned before COP26.

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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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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

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Green Alliance's Shaun Spiers offers his overview of the year just passed, and cause to be optimistic about climate and environmental policy and action next year. The climate and nature COPs were underpowered. In November 2021, the Conservatives led Labour by three points on the environment; now, Labour leads by five.

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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! warming pathway as "really quite staggering".

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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

APRIL 7, 2020

Following the decision last week to shift the critical UN climate change summit from November this year into 2021 in response to the ongoing disruption caused by the coronavirus crisis, EAC chair Philip Dunne said it was vital the postponement did not lead to climate change "slipping down the agenda".

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Carbon Mapper satellite rendering @ 2021, Planet Labs, Inc. Planet’s monitoring tools provide a key, independent measure of forest change that supports this global climate-change program, and we’ll be convening many of the key actors at the COP. . All Rights Reserved. We are living through challenges that can seem insurmountable.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

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. In 2021, we invested around £1.3bn directly in sustainable assets. From targets to delivery.

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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. trajectory. How has Cop26 bent the curve on the climate crisis? A visual guide. Ashley_J_Kirk ? ?

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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

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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