Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

But they found that a lack of enabling policies from governments, such as guaranteeing markets and prices for producers and consumers, was holding back investment in the shipping infrastructure needed to support the global energy transition. Worryingly, only 4% of these projects have a final investment decision.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Rosberg took a particular interest in electric and autonomous vehicles, taking regular trips to Silicon Valley, and going on to invest in a number of green start-ups and innovations. Because 15 years' ago, a COP would not have been like that. If you had $100bn to spend on climate action, what would you invest it in?

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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. These trends were supercharged at COP28, where over 100 countries committed to a tripling of renewable energy capacity by 2030.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

We have only until 2030 to get things on track for a net-zero and nature-positive economy — this should sharpen our minds for action. The key for 2021 will be to supersize the good examples of these kinds of efforts and bring them together to help shape a decade of unprecedented partnership and action to 2030.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The EU and Turkey have both unveiled fresh 2030 climate targets in support of the Paris Agreement at the COP27 Climate Summit today, although hopes are already receding that the welcome announcements could inject some much needed urgency into talks that continue to move at a snail's pace. Russia's war against Ukraine will end.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The Catholic group said it had already removed fossil fuels from around half its investment portfolio, which is managed by three different equity fund managers, in addition to stepping up its efforts as a shareholder on company boards to encourage greener business practices. COP 26 in Glasgow can be the right moment," he said. "We

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The first few days of COP have ushered in a wave of major announcements and funding pledges. Countries and companies have also kicked off pledges to triple investments in renewables and nuclear, drive down methane emissions, and commit loss and damage funds. billion needed to reach its $250 billion goal by 2030.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Published ahead of the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP-15) that begins on 11 October, the report also outlines how investments in biodiversity contribute to gender equity, women and youth empowerment, and nutrition. If development investments do not take nature into account, our money will be wasted,” said Puri.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Industry Voice: Delivering net zero is at its heart a challenge of delivering investment across multiple sectors, explains Phoenix Group. The International Energy Agency's net zero scenario estimates a clean energy investment requirement of over $4tr per annum by 2030. The need for speed.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Progress did seem to be forthcoming on cutting methane emissions, with more than 100 countries (although not China) – committing to a 30% reduction by 2030 compared to the 2030 baseline. COP president Alok Sharma described it as “a fragile win”. What can be done with the captured CO2? degrees alive.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2023

per year, when they need to be falling by 7% every year to 2030, according to some estimates, to keep alive the hopes of the Paris agreement. Fossil fuels were mentioned for the first time in a COP text two years ago, at COP26 in Glasgow. King continued: “Ensuring 1.5C

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Business Green

DECEMBER 4, 2020

A higher 2030 NDC target is to be welcomed, but it must be underpinned by plans to protect and restore nature, argues WWF's Gareth Redmond-King. Anyone who remembers the start of 2020 will recall a time when there was to be a climate COP in the UK in November. The UK has a legal commitment to decarbonise to reach net zero by 2050.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Next spring, government envoys are convening at the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15) in Kunming, China, to negotiate new global biodiversity goals for the coming decades within the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Current CBD plans aim at placing 20% of degraded ecosystems under restoration by 2030. “We

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

By September this year, Guterres said all businesses, cities, regions, and financial institutions that have pledged to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 should present their transition plans "with credible and ambitious targets for 2025 and 2030", as recommended by the UN net zero expert group appointed by the secretary-general last year.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

With the conclusion of the first part of COP-15 we have taken a critical step towards writing a new chapter for our planet and for our societies," she said. Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary of the UN's Convention on Biological Diversity, said the latest round of talks had delivered encouraging progress.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The stand claims that plans to expand the project’s capacity from an annual 800,000 tonnes of CO2 today to five million tonnes by 2030 will capture the equivalent carbon of a forest “almost a third the size of the UAE”. Newly elected Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has called for the 2024 COP to be held in the Amazon.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Moreover, governments need to grasp that a decision not to invest in the grid, is a decision to build more expensive capacity, such as nuclear and biomass.” The platform is set for user beta release at the COP 28 summit.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The COP27 Presidency has today launched a new global plan that aims to mobilise state and non-state actors behind a shared set of climate adaptation goals for 2030 that span food and agriculture, water and nature, coasts and oceans, infrastructure, and human livelihoods. Seven times that amount will be needed annually until 2030.".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Leading waste charity WRAP today published its final report for the Sustainable Clothing Action Plan, as it simultaneously released the first progress report for its successor initiative, Textiles 2030, which is aiming to help the fashion sector halve its greenhouse gas emissions over the next decade.

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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

MAY 27, 2022

However, a commitment to phase out coal powered electricity by 2030 that was reportedly included in a draft version of the agreement has been struck from the final communique, with the Ministers declining to set a firm coal phase out deadline.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Companies must both cut emissions and significantly increase investment in nature-based solutions if global climate goals are to be reached, writes Maria Mendiluce, CEO, We Mean Business. If scaled up now, NbS could provide roughly a third of the emissions reductions needed to reach our global climate goals by 2030. °C mark.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Governments have a unique opportunity to step up climate action to ensure that we can halve global emissions by 2030. Businesses have a stake in the COP outcomes for three main reasons - let me explain. They are already investing in decarbonisation. A huge wave of companies are aligning their emission reductions with the 1.5ºC

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

It marks the next chapter for the Breakthrough Agenda, which was launched by the UK COP Presidency and the Race to Zero campaign at the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow last year and aims to bring together governments committed to driving the uptake of technologies and solutions that can help decarbonise emissions intensive sectors.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

For example, it argued that providing targeted financial support for "a fair and inclusive energy transition" can play a key role in catalysing investment in low carbon infrastructure and highlighted how supporting efforts to strengthen global value chains can help curb emissions.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 24, 2022

The event will host energy ecosystem stakeholders to unpack the industry’s priorities including its strategic roadmaps, visionary reforms, low cost capital investments and breakthrough technologies for building India’s long term self-reliance in energy.

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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This Conference of Parties (COP) was highly anticipated as a critical inflection point where our economies and societies set forth on an ambitious and clearly defined path to decarbonize by 2050 and keep warming below 1.5 Department of Energy–backed research effort to bring the cost of carbon removal below $100 a ton by 2030.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2020

British diplomats, the UK COP presidency team and Ministers would have been in a whirl of frenetic influencing activity globally (we hope) to drive up ambition, and drive out those new nationally-determined contributions (NDCs) from all the parties to the Paris Agreement. But these are not normal times, and the COP has been delayed by a year.

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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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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 21, 2019

That's an amazing transition that demonstrates to the world that it’s possible to transition beyond coal by 2030 in advanced economies (and 2040 globally) as the latest climate science dictates. gears up to host the next round of COP climate talks in Glasgow, which may be the first COP to run ‘coal free.’

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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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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The company is bought by Spac Transition (which entered the stock market in 2021, and takes the name Arverne) to which are added investments from Crédit Mutuel Equity, Ademe Investissement and Sycomore AM. The operation values ??the the company at more than EUR 300 million, the exact figure will only be known once the IPO is effective.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Another COP is coming - the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference. In addition, there is growing dismay, and anger in many quarters, that the unmet promises of past COPs, especially in providing finance to those that are suffering loss and damage from climate change, are going to make COP27 even more challenging.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2021

At the same event, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab and COP President Alok Sharma will convene a roundtable on the Clean Power Transition with the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, bringing together ministers from eight African and European countries.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

We need urgent, global leadership and immediate action to change the way we use land, to invest in the restoration of nature, to cut emissions and critically to stop destroying forests for food production," said Katie White, executive director of advocacy and campaigns at WWF.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

For good measure we chucked in two more - Egypt and the United Arab Emirates; hosts of the next two COP climate summits. Brazil submitted a worse target, and after committing to end deforestation by 2030, have gone on instead to increase rates of forest clearance. We split the 22 into four groups. Stragglers. degree world.

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The IPCC recently conducted a study into the combined effects of all the agreed targets of the countries taking part in the ongoing COP talks. Tucked away in the report is this: “The available NDCs of all 191 Parties taken together imply a sizable increase in global GHG emissions in 2030 compared to 2010, of about 16%”.

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