Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

He has long defended the scientific consensus on climate change, and having been a fervent critic of the outgoing Liberal-National coalition government's weak green policies over the past three years, he touted this weekend's election results as "an opportunity to end the climate wars in Australia".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2022

"Both on the issue [of fracking] and in terms of new oil and gas licences, I think what the UK government, indeed every government, has to demonstrate is how the policies that we're putting forward consistent with legally binding commitments on, in our case, getting to net zero by 2050, or indeed our near-term carbon budgets," he said.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

Writing in a beautiful book called The Future We Choose , architects of the Paris Agreement Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac describe a future in 2050 where we have made the right choices and kept global warming to 1.5C. Gareth Redmond-King is head of climate change at WWF UK. But it will still happen.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

"We recall our collective commitment to hold the global average temperature increase well below 2C and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5C Without more ambitious climate commitment and actions from these countries in particular, green groups warn COP26 will be seen as a failure. are much lower than at 2C," states.

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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. Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) acting director Sepi Golzari-Munro said: "This strategy is an economic and political plan as well as a climate one.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

World’s top scientists have sounded alarm over intensifying impacts of climate change, warning that nature protection must be at the heart of efforts to tackle the problem. Hoesung Lee, chair of the IPCC, said the findings were a "dire warning" about the consequences of inaction on climate change. "It

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Thousands of the world's leading climate scientists, after over three years of work, today delivered yet another landmark report on the state of the climate and ecological emergency the world now faces. Today's IPCC report is an atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of failed climate leadership.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Can governments broker a deal to phase out the oil, coal, and gas causing climate change? Countries have already suffered deep losses as a result of the fires, floods, and other disasters intensifying with climate change. That set a goal of limiting global average temperatures to close to 1.5 Now, that 1.5-degree

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Industry Voice: Schneider Electric's Amy Haddon ponders whether the UN Climate Change Summit delivered on businesses' hopes. In November, I had the privilege to represent Schneider Electric at the UN's Conference of Parties (COP) on climate change in Glasgow. In reality, the current pledges align more closely to 2.7

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Yet while that very broad assessment certainly remains true, today's intervention from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was always going to be a little different. This report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a litany of broken climate promises. on the table. And it is damning.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Today the world's leading climate scientists delivered the clearest picture yet of the scale of the climate crisis that is already unfolding, as well as the likely impacts of further temperature rises over the course of century. Everything we need to avoid the exponential impacts of climate change is doable.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, said: "We have proven we can reduce our emissions and create hundreds of thousands of jobs in the process - uniting businesses, academics, NGOs and local communities in a common goal to go further and faster to tackle climate change. This is important progress but not sufficient.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 9, 2023

“I just don’t see most countries, and certainly not the vulnerable countries, being willing to support the COP president on this because it is a direct threat to their survival,” Figueres said. We continue to work with international partners to maintain stability in global energy markets and boost our energy security.”

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

WWF, National Trust, RSPB, Greenpeace, and Friends of the Earth are among the 70 charities behind the climate wish list published this morning, which sets out 10 major policy areas that campaigners believe are critical to the UK's hopes of achieving net zero emissions by 2050 and engineering a 'green recovery' from the ongoing economic crisis.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

And then there are the big picture climate threats that poorly managed land can rapidly amplify. As the World Resources Institute points out, "land is critically important - both as a source of greenhouse gas emissions and as a climate change solution". SDG 15 to the rescue? "It

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

If designed well and properly adhered to, global treaties have a lot going for them. The Paris Agreement on climate change, signed into life in 2015, may not be perfect. COP talks each year are often fraught and progress remains far too slow, as today's IPCC report on escalating climate impacts will testify.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Over two weeks in November, world leaders and national negotiators will meet in Scotland to discuss what to do about climate change. It was the first time the majority of nations formally recognized the need to control greenhouse gas emissions , which cause global warming that drives climate change.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2021

UN climate chief Patricia Espinosa today proclaimed that "success is entirely possible" in Glasgow, as the long-delayed COP26 UN Climate Summit kicked off on a cautiously-optimistic note amid a flurry of fresh commitments from the likes of Israel, Italy, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The Glasgow Climate Summit is unlikely to bring the world into line with the Paris Agreement's goals, but there is growing optimism it can deliver a lot more than 'blah, blah, blah'. Global carbon emissions fell by a record 5.8 But governments now mainly aim to achieve net zero by 2050 or 2060 at the absolute latest.

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