Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 3, 2019

degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, reach carbon neutrality by 2050 and cut greenhouse gas emissions by 45 per cent from 2010 levels, by 2030. The key missing ingredient is a lack of political will he said: “Political will to put a price on carbon. Global average levels of carbon dioxide reached 407.8

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

An independent HS2 review published by the government today said there was a risk of the project running up costs as high as £100bn, almost double the £56bn budget forecast back in 2015, while also conceding that construction of the new rail network could push up carbon emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

This comes as major polluters are increasingly deploying digital tactics to detract from negative headlines about their record profits and decades-long contribution to climate change. percent of total energy consumption in 2050. percent of their annual capital expenditures in low carbon technologies between 2010 and 2018.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

Virtually all of the world’s largest companies now issue a sustainability report and set goals; more than 2,000 companies have set a science-based carbon target; and about one-third of Europe’s largest public companies have pledged to reach net zero by 2050. Maersk even advocated for a $150 per ton carbon tax on shipping fuel.

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Business Green

JUNE 17, 2021

It warns that delays to copying EU energy and climate rules into UK law and a slew of "less effective" temporary arrangements are likely to have a negative impact on both UK and EU efforts to meet net zero goals. Not only was the UK the first major world economy to set a target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050,?

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

In the southern Polish city of Katowice last December, news coverage of the UN’s COP 24 meeting on climate change suddenly and dramatically surged, mostly thanks to a three-minute speech given by a Swedish teen activist with Asperger’s syndrome and the amplifying power of social media. billion by 2050 as axiomatic.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

BusinessGreen rounds up the best of the reaction from the low carbon economy to the government's flagship roadmap for achieving net zero emissions by 2050. Drax CEO Will Gardiner said: "The government's Net Zero Strategy, published today, is a key step forward as the UK looks towards a zero-carbon future.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 17, 2020

We have to act much, much faster and go further in reducing the carbon footprint. New strategies will have to be created to align the company goals with the most basic climate-related requirements, such as setting targets to reduce carbon emissions. Success could help make the basin carbon-negative.”

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The Yorkshire-based biomass giant is among over a dozen signatories to an industry-backed document that claims bioenergy could increase its output to nearly threefold, and reduce net global emissions by over one billion tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2050. to Yorkshire, in the UK, and the emissions impact of burning wood for power. “It

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

As fears of a 'COP flop' get an airing, the battle to define what constitutes a successful Glasgow Summit is hotting up. The lesson of COPs past is that having to stand for hours in queues for security or being unable to easily find halfway decent food inevitably leads to frayed tempers. COP26 is having its first major wobble.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The Cameron-era decisions to block onshore wind development, slash energy efficiency funding, delay green building standards, and shelve carbon capture and storage (CCS) plans undermined UK energy security and slowed the clean energy transition. There are plenty more, a fair few of which are not fit to print. We should be getting clean.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

The next climate COP must bring more-ambitious climate pledges and long-term strategies for 2050 to help drive such shifts. If Global Britain is to mean anything, then Ministers must rise to the challenge of the COP Presidency and demonstrate real leadership now. But increased action must begin this year, not next year.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Meanwhile, public polling suggests bailing out high carbon companies without attaching carbon reduction targets would be an unpopular move. Encouragingly, word from the EU Commission suggests it remains steadfast in its 2050 net zero ambitions and that combatting climate change should feature strongly in economic recovery packages.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2021

Obviously we're all conscious about where we all need to get to - the trillions of dollars that need to flow into zero carbon goods and services and into resilience, and to support the 'just transition'. Commitments to net zero financed emissions have begun to come in thick and fast in recent months.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Taking immediate action to slash emissions towards net zero by 2050 could make a monumental difference to the level, frequency, and breadth of growing climate impacts, the scientists emphasise. Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree We need immediate action on energy. degree goal will fall quickly out of reach.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

COP talks each year are often fraught and progress remains far too slow, as today's IPCC report on escalating climate impacts will testify. As close observers of global climate diplomacy have long argued, if the COP process and the Paris Agreement did not exist you would have to invent them. The US left the treaty altogether briefly.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The Tories have committed to the 2050 Net Zero target, set a goal for offshore wind of 40 gigawatts by 2030 (compared to less than 10 gigawatts in place today), and are setting aside funds for an £800 million ($1.05 billion) investment in carbon capture and storage by the mid-2020s. will host the UN’s COP 26 climate talks.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2020

It's the first time that both conventions have had 'super-summits' in the same year, with China due to host the CBD in October and the UK the climate COP in November. On the negative side, every international process like this depends on the 'big mo' - momentum. And so, perhaps, will the Glasgow COP. That's right.

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