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. We share this space, and we need to share it far, far better than now. But it will still happen.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

of warming. (If If longer-term net-zero pledges are achieved, which is less certain at this point, global warming could be contained to 1.8C.) Banks and major investors with 40% of the world’s financial assets committed to carbon neutrality by 2050 under the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

Energy Information Administration (EIA) predicts that there will be a sharp increase in the amount of renewable energy generated between 2010 and 2050. Figures show that the current average will increase from 15% of the global energy mix to 28% by 2050. Carbon offset program #3: Methane abatement.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

Morrison was eventually pressured into announcing a 2050 net zero target for Australia last year, but critics were quick to point out that the plan for getting there lacked detail or credibility. The Prime Minister has announced Egypt's strategy, and I hope that by November we will see other countries will follow," Maait said. "Now,

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

In a statement yesterday, he reiterated his calls for countries worldwide to commit to net zero by 2050, present more ambitious 2030 emissions reduction plans ahead of COP26, and to bring an end to fossil fuel subsidies and new coal power developments as soon as possible. "I goal without the leadership of the G20.

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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. Overall, the global goal of net-zero by 2050 needs to be matched by an equally clear global goal of net positivity for nature.".

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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. degrees Celsius, not enough to avoid the worst impacts of global warming.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The report confirms global temperatures are currently 1.1C A separate report from IPPC scientists last summer warned that global warming is on track to far exceed 2C this century, unless rapid and deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions occur in the coming decades. If global warming transiently exceeds 1.5C

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

That set a goal of limiting global average temperatures to close to 1.5 A major United Nations report from 2018 charted out what it would take to reach that goal: reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. After decades of stalled negotiations on this front, there was finally a breakthrough at last year’s COP.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

And so today's report's conclusion that while the scale of the challenge is monumental - the world must peak emissions by 2025, before halving them by 2030 - it also encouragingly makes clear that the world already has all of the tools it needs to achieve these aims, in order to keep the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C

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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. The world looks set to surpass the key 1.5C Meanwhile, the UAE and Qatar have each agreed to invest £10 billion in “priority” UK industries.

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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. With the world on the brink of irreversible harm, every fraction of a degree of warming matters to limit the dangers of climate change.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

You cannot claim to be green while your plans and projects undermine the 2050 net-zero target and ignore the major emissions cuts that must occur this decade. "As As current events make all too clear, our continued reliance on fossil fuels makes the global economy and energy security vulnerable to geopolitical shocks and crises.

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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

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Business and Energy Secretary and COP26 President Alok Sharma said: "Tackling climate change is the one of the most urgent shared endeavours of our lifetimes, demanding bold action from every nation to prevent catastrophic global warming. This is important progress but not sufficient.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

If designed well and properly adhered to, global treaties have a lot going for them. COP talks each year are often fraught and progress remains far too slow, as today's IPCC report on escalating climate impacts will testify. the optimal goal, which necessitates deep emissions cuts in the 2020s and net zero by 2050. "I

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

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. That agreement set the goal of limiting global warming to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 But organizers maintain that keeping warming under 1.5

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

UNEP is among the group of official bodies that fear these impacts could create feedback loops, whereby a warming climate puts more pressure on terrestrial ecosystems, leading to more emissions, and in turn more warming. Land is already under growing human pressure and climate change is adding to these pressures," the agency states. "At

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2021

We either choose to achieve rapid and large-scale reductions of emissions to keep the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C, or we accept that humanity faces a bleak future on this planet.". Israel became the latest nation to announce a net zero emissions target for 2050, following the same pledge from Thailand two days ago.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow next month is likely to fall short of putting the world on track to avert dangerous levels of global warming, but diplomats and analysts are cautiously optimistic it could deliver several breakthroughs and broadly deliver on the UK hosts' stated goal of 'keeping 1.5C

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