Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

A new China-US bilateral agreement to cooperate on emissions reductions – another of the apparent consolations to be drawn from a disappointing COP – seemed to include a major commitment to the “deployment and application of technology such as CCUS and DAC”, as market intelligence firm IDTech X noted. What can be done with the captured CO2?

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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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Globally, the United States and Canada invest the most public money into the controversial technology, with the United States contributing $8 billion, the report states. This past July, the federal government indicated its plan to phase out what it termed inefficient fossil fuel subsidies. Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 22, 2024

The year 2023 was a record-setting year for investment and growth in clean energy, with the International Energy Agency projecting over 500GW of new renewable capacity to come online by year-end globally. Fortunately, an economy powered by renewable energy is potentially much more secure and resilient than one reliant upon fossil fuels.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2021

The Bank of England (BoE) is facing pressure from MPs and campaigners to take urgent action to clean up its investments before the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow, amid fears that vast sums of public money invested in high-carbon industries could damage the UK's international reputation and derail its climate goals.

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Business Green

JUNE 19, 2022

The partnership centres on an additional $8.5bn commitment from donor countries to catalyse investment in the clean energy infrastructure that would allow the largely coal-dependent emerging economy to swiftly change its energy mix, in the process creating thousands of green jobs across the country.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 24, 2022

Narendra Modi’s clarion call for becoming ‘AatmaNirbhar’ in energy sector, DISTRIBUTECH India 2022, together with POWERGEN India and Indian Utility Week, India’s leading Energy Business Platforms, will be organised from 12th-14th October 2022 in New Delhi, India.

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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

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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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

On the plus side, the pact reaffirmed the central importance of 1.5C (our best chance to avoid the worst impacts of climate change), mentions coal and fossil fuels for the first time, and calls for countries to “revisit and strengthen” 2030 climate pledges by the end of 2022 instead of waiting another five years. of warming.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Despite the tense, last-minute drama, the Glasgow Climate Pact sends a very clear investment signal to businesses and financial institutions, argues Nick Molho from the Aldersgate Group. This is understandable, but it should not detract from the very clear signals that the business and investment community have been sent at COP26.

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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 in 2022. billion on fossil fuel imports from the year beginning February 2022. billion in fossil fuels from Qatar, £3.4

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Businesses have a stake in the COP outcomes for three main reasons - let me explain. They are already investing in decarbonisation. per cent use of electricity from renewable sources and reduced total energy consumption from fossil fuel sources by 86 per cent compared to 2017. ºC pathway. ºC.

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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 per cent as the Covid pandemic slowed the pace of building and factory upgrades.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

Here are the 6 big themes I drew from the last year, and 6 things to look out for in 2022]. None of this equates with actual action to reduce emissions or tackle inequality, but it’s clearly not fringe anymore (which fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil found out when activist investors forced it to take on sustainability-friendly board members).

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Fossil fuel companies' daily profits have averaged $2.8bn over the last 50 years, with Oxfam estimating that less than 18 days of those profits would fund the entire UN humanitarian appeal for 2022 of $49bn. We cannot fix the climate crisis without fixing the systemic inequalities in our food and energy systems.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

This includes a £450 million (over three years) Boiler Upgrade Scheme, which will be issued as grants of £5000-£6000 per household “to help overcome the current differential between heat pumps and boilers”, which will be available from April 2022. This is hardly the COP figure the Prime Minister wants to read.”. Insulation first?

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

They will use their connections to network, lobby – and even raise investment. 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. This year will be different.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2022

Barclays has this week published its long-awaited climate plan , which it has confirmed it will put to a shareholder vote at its 2022 AGM in May in a landmark 'Say on Climate' vote. We do hope that shareholders support the work that we have done so far, recognising that as always, there is more to be done.".

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

Although Labor has refused to back a phase out of coal use or block the opening of new coal mines in Australia - which remains one of the world's biggest exporters of the carbon-intensive fossil fuel - the party has promised to adopt more ambitious emissions targets and turn the nation into a global renewable energy 'superpower'.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Fossil fuels get named and shamed. For the first time in 25 years of UN climate talks, coal and fossil fuel subsidies have been singled out in an official document. Here, we've picked out 10 key takeaways for business leaders from the Glasgow Climate Pact and COP26 Summit: 1.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 24, 2022

— Conservative Environment Network (@CEN_HQ) October 24, 2022. We call on the new Prime Minister to throw his full weight behind the net zero transition and rapidly enact the policies that will help accelerate the low carbon investment that the UK economy urgently needs.".

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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 report confirms "demand for fossil fuels is falling due to high prices and strong wind and solar output, contrary to fears of a resurgence due to the energy crisis". Brazil to offer to host future COP.

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

So, it is not the major climate legislation that is in the potential reconciliation bill, but a sizable set of investments in its own right. The COP 26 climate conference took place! Link Starting in 2022, all new and renovated homes and buildings in the United Kingdom will be required to include electric vehicle chargers.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. They include the North American Meat Institute (NAMI), a powerful group representing large meat producers in the US, which in 2022 was still questioning on its website whether climate change was caused by humans. The files also detail collaborations planned for the event itself.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Though policy choices could reduce this figure, and I would add that it includes investments with long term benefits. An explanation for this was set out clearly in a letter last week from Larry Fink, to the Chief Executives of companies in which Blackrock invests. Sustainable investments have now reached 4 trillion dollars.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2022

COP26 President also argues ramping up clean energy investment and insulating homes should be top priorities for Rishi Sunak as Britain's new Prime Minister. Current targets will enable the UK to meet carbon budgets three and four, which cover the periods of 2018-2022 and 2023-2027 respectively, according to the assessment.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Even in the context of an eventful past five years, it is fair to say 2022 was another rollercoaster. And then, somewhere along the way, 2022 also found time for two major UN COP summits - one on climate change, the other on biodiversity - both of which proved momentous in different ways.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2021

For shorter journeys of less than 2,000 miles APD is set at £13 per passenger until the end of March 2023 for the lowest class of travel, rising to £82 from next month and £84 from April 2022 for journeys above 2,000 miles. It's easier for households to invest in burning coal than roof-top solar panels," he said.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 7, 2024

Some in the investment community even pushed back on anti-ESG laws — partly because, as one analysis concluded, those state laws could cost taxpayers $708 million. Banks are also making more money from loans and underwriting to clean energy than to fossil fuels. Great news all around. And in a rare positive moment in U.S.-China

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2022

Elsewhere, the Bill will aim to support industry to "step up investment in growing the consumer market for electric heat pumps by providing for a new market standard and trading scheme", which the government said would "support innovation and help to lower the costs of heat pumps over time". Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

What are the big priorities for COP? Of course, that’s all assuming it goes ahead, and the UK government haven’t ruled out the possibility of a postponement until Spring 2022. This “would level the playing field,” she said, “and it would be a massive result if we got that done at COP.”. Where are the main challenges?

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2023

The IPR, which was founded by the UN-affiliate investor group the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), highlighted a raft of significant new climate policy announcements and investment plans from major Western economies in the past three months.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In the year following Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the UK imported £3.4 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.

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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.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

And there in lies the rub for policymakers, businesses and investors: more ambition and speed is urgently needed, but investing in adaptation efforts works and will help reduce intensifying risks and economic costs, if done correctly, the report suggests. — Alok Sharma (@AlokSharma_RDG) February 28, 2022. 2/2) [link].

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

As such, in 2022 81% of S&P 500 companies reported their own emissions (scope 1), and the emissions of the electricity they bought (scope 2). 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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