Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

revisit and strengthen" their 2030 climate targets by the end of next year, in a move that would put pressure on countries to ramp up their decarbonisation ambitions after more than 150 countries failed to do so ahead of COP27. It also "requests parties that have not yet done so. in reach, global emissions must peak before 2025 at the latest.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2022

The bank, the UK's largest financier of fossil fuels, has announced it plans to stop financing thermal coal mining by 2030 in OECD countries, before exiting thermal coal altogether five years later. aligned scenario". ShareAction senior research officer Lydia Marsden warned the plan included a "number of troubling loopholes".

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Keep your eye on 2030. Earlier in the Summit an independent analysis had warned that based on current national emissions targets for 2030 the world was still on track for 2.4C This COP caused deep frustrations but it wasn't for nothing," she said. "It The NDCs just don't add up," he warned. That is our horizon.".

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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

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Now there is a broad consensus that bolder action is required well before 2030, even if some of the details are still being thrashed out. From tackling deforestation to curbing methane emissions, the various multilateral commitments are focused on areas where they can have real impact. of warming was completely burned through.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

But within hours of it being signed the pollution-loving Australian government signalled it had no intention to strengthen its disgracefully weak 2030 emissions targets. Future COPs will re-open this debate and seek to extend it to gas and oil. If COPs did not exist you would have to invent them.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

It is highly likely the row over phasing down or phasing out coal power will return in the coming years and the debate at future COPs will no doubt be extended to address oil and gas. Countries requested to set tougher 2030 climate plans. Polluters have been put on notice. temperature target stands tall. or 1.7C, but 1.5C

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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. In reality, the current pledges align more closely to 2.7 Bottom Line for Business.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The tech sector can help deliver on COP26 promises such as curbing methane, ending fossil fuel finance and reversing deforestation, explains techUK's Craig Mason. This is the first time that a COP agreement has been made on coal at this level. Global curbs to methane. Tech has two important roles in the wake of this agreement.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Such businesses better meet the demands of the regulatory environment while coming into alignment with investor, consumer, and employee preferences. 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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Dubbed the 'Glasgow Declaration', it also signals that current COP26 negotiations should call on countries to take "ambitious action during this critical decade to keep the [Paris Agreement temperature limit] within reach, including as necessary communicating or updating 2030 NDCs and long-term strategies".

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

He wrote a letter to governments in attendance that says, “phasing down demand for, and supply of, all fossil fuels is inevitable and essential” (emphasis mine). In a move that environmental advocates cautiously celebrated, the pair agreed earlier this month to work together to try to triple renewable energy capacity globally by 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2024

Campaigners and climate scientists had hoped the summit – which was billed as a “Food COP” due to its focus on farming – would see governments agree to ambitious action to transform food systems in line with the goals of the Paris climate agreement. Burr added that COPs provided an opportunity for U.S. This is especially true in the U.S,

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

OECD countries must phase out existing coal by 2030, with all others following suit by 2040. By 2030, solar and wind capacity should quadruple and renewable energy investments should triple to maintain a net zero trajectory by mid-century. There must be no new coal plants built after 2021. COP26 will be the moment of truth.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

And it argues that by 2023 all nations should collectively commit to halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and pledge to reach net zero targets by mid-century in line with a 1.5C Nick Mabey, co-founder and CEO of climate think tank E3G, said the HAC grouping "makes the political weather at COP".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

From President Biden to methane pledges, BusinessGreen explores the biggest developments on the fifth full day of the pivotal climate talks in Sharm EL Sheikh. Biden's address also set out his administration's plans to crackdown on methane leaks in the US' fossil fuel industry.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Whether or not the move indicates a softening of China's long term support for decarbonisation is contested, but it has highlighted how the transition away from fossil fuels is likely to lead to significant price volatility and energy security concerns, as economies battle to match supply and demand. is closing fast.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 22, 2023

500b in Solar investments in 2023 (up 75% y/y in US), 50% y/y growth in EVs in the US, and battery prices continuing their downward march another 50% by 2030 means many $1t industries are ripe for disruption. Big demand funnel even with the lower quality credits exiting the supply. Amy : All things methane!  Joshua : No!

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