Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) yesterday used its Annual General Meeting in Boston to approve a resolution calling for the global air transport industry to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050. The scale of the industry in 2050 will require the mitigation of 1.8 We have a plan," he said.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 31, 2021

To achieve net-zero economy-wide emissions by 2050 and limit global warming, industrial emissions must drop while still meeting societal needs. For example, its analysis found that using electrified drying for the recycled paper industry could avoid 16 million metric tons of carbon dioxide by 2050. Sponsored Article.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2022

Altogether, a scenario in which the UK reaches net zero emissions by 2050, and the world as a whole achieves the same target by 2075, would result in net economic benefits to the UK economy equivalent to an increase in GDP of 9.1 per cent by 2050 rising to 7.4 per cent by the end of the century, they estimate. per cent GDP boost. "We

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 13, 2024

Reform’s Climate Science Denial Reform UK has been campaigning on an overtly anti-climate platform, and has called for the UK’s 2050 net zero emissions target to be scrapped. Tice has said “CO2 isn’t poison, it’s plant food”, while the party’s London mayoral candidate Howard Cox has said “man is not responsible for global warming”.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 3, 2021

In the document, the science advisory group calls for far-reaching policy action. So far, EU policies have centered on the concept of ‘Nearly-zero energy buildings’ with a focus on reducing the consumption of energy used to provide comfort to building occupants. But the energy used for operating buildings is only part of the story.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 12, 2023

Students for Liberty also received a one-off donation of $10,000 from the Cato Institute , a US-based libertarian think tank that has received millions in funding from Koch sources and has downplayed the severity of global warming. Consumer Choice Center was part of US-based Students for Liberty until 2020.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

and EU to drop their landmark climate change laws, spreads falsehoods about green policies, and fondly recalls an attempt to cancel a major climate conference. The Climate Change Act legalised the UK’s commitment to reducing carbon dioxide emissions by at least 80 percent by 2050 from 1990 levels. She adds that “the U.S.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 23, 2023

But many are stopping short of a commitment to no longer use the fossil fuels causing global warming — particularly those that stand to lose business from such a pact. That’s why they’re asking heads of state to set policies that hasten the deployment of renewable energy. degrees Celsius higher than the preindustrial era.

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The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Limiting global warming to 1.5C [above pre-industrial levels] with no or limited overshoot requires deep, rapid and sustained reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions of 43% by 2030 and 60% by 2035 relative to the 2019 level and reaching net zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2022

But the survey was commissioned by Net Zero Watch (NZW) – the campaign arm of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) – which last week released a paper calling for renewable energy from wind and solar to be “wound down” completely and for coal-fired power stations to be kept open.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Barclays is gearing up to introduce stricter climate change policies that would further limit its investments in fossil fuels, following growing pressure from the bank's shareholders, according to reports. Bank considering introducing stronger limits on its fossil fuel investments as it faces growing pressure from shareholders.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Alongside the policy discussions on how to reach the Paris Agreement of 2015 and limit global warming to 1.5⁰C, Biochar production is still in its infancy but if we incentivised production at scale, by 2050 it could lock 2.6 C, a variety of different sustainable agriculture solutions will be on display at the Urban Farm.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2024

In 2019, under the Conservatives, the UK was the first country in the world to introduce legally binding commitments to reach net zero emissions by 2050. But since making that commitment in 2019, the party has been criticised for dramatically weakening key climate policies.

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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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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2020

Barclays has set out its ambition to become a net zero bank by 2050, today pledging to align both its own business as well as its entire financing, investing and lending portfolio with the goals of the Paris Agreement within the next 30 years. The whole thing stinks of hypocrisy," he said.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2021

All of the 'big six' US investment banks have now vowed to significantly reduce the carbon emissions of their lending activity in a bid to deliver net zero financed emissions by mid-century, after Wells Fargo announced yesterday it planned to align all its activities with global climate goals.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

A “sustainable development” conference taking place in London gave a platform to two prominent climate science deniers, who used the event to claim that coal-fired power is “clean” and call global warming a “religion”. in a call and response chant of “Global warming is?”, If global warming is your religion, that’s fine.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 8, 2022

Steve Baker , a former Brexit minister, insists that his Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG) of MPs accepts climate science and is only concerned about the cost and efficacy of the UK’s 2050 net zero target. Baker wrote an article to coincide with the Global Warming Policy Forum’s rebranding as Net Zero Watch in October 2021.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

It comes as Truss faces mounting criticism over economic and climate policies announced in the first weeks of her premiership. Vinson, a supporter of the late Margaret Thatcher, has previously donated nearly £50,000 to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) through his own charity. Free Market Links.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The UK’s main climate science denial group has been invited to give evidence to a parliamentary inquiry into the country’s energy transition and the cost of its net zero policies. Gas and nuclear have to be fast-tracked if there is any chance of publicly acceptable, long-term climate policies.”.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2024

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world’s foremost climate science body, has stated that carbon dioxide “is responsible for most of global warming” since the late 19th century, which has increased the “severity and frequency of weather and climate extremes, like heat waves, heavy rains, and drought”.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Governments around the world have today adopted a non-binding 2050 net zero emissions target for international flights, in a "milestone" move that for the first time seeks to put the global aviation sector on a long-term decarbonisation pathway that is in line with the Paris Agreement.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Anti-net zero campaigners and climate science deniers are claiming credit for the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s weakening of UK green policies, as a senior official told DeSmog that civil servants were left “scratching their heads” after being ignored by Sunak this week. Household energy efficiency standards would also be dropped.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

This story originally appeared in AGU’s Eos Magazine and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. Renewables will make up 84% of energy jobs in 2050, primarily in wind and solar manufacturing. The future looks bright for solar and wind.

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2020

Shell has become the latest oil major to join the net zero club, yesterday pledging to strengthen its previous climate goals in a bid to deliver net zero emissions across its business and value chain by 2050. So just how serious is Shell about decarbonising its business and reaching net zero by 2050? warming pathway.

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2021

CEOs of the world's leading wind energy firms and turbine manufacturers have warned G20 leaders that they must urgently raise their national wind power ambitions and work to unblock "policy and regulatory bottlenecks" if the world is stand a chance of meeting climate targets. are to be kept alive. are to be kept alive.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

“I completely agree that Canada’s tax credit for carbon capture and storage is a subsidy to the oil and gas industry,” Jason MacLean, an adjunct professor who studies climate policy at the University of Saskatchewan, told DeSmog in an email. Reaching “net-zero” entails stabilizing global temperature rise at 1.5

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Grist

JANUARY 21, 2022

But the eruption illustrated a question that has been dogging scientific and climate experts for decades: If the world got unbearably hot, should scientists and governments opt to put sulfur dioxide or similar chemicals into the atmosphere to slow the rate of global warming? The first report on global warming that was handed to a U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 19, 2020

Most decarbonization proposals play out over 30 years, aiming toward 2050. But a new roadmap from researchers at UC Berkeley and the policy firm Energy Innovation shows the grid can get to a level of 90% clean in just 15 years' time. Resources: UCB Goldman School of Public Policy : The 2035 Report. No new fossil fuel plants.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Barclays was the largest European financier of fossil fuels between the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2016, which set a goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C, and 2022. The latter emits up to three times more global warming pollution than producing the same quantity of crude oil.

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Charged

JUNE 8, 2022

According to a new report by InfluenceMap , as it stands now, major automakers will fail to meet the necessary goals to keep global warming below 1.5 The report compared automakers’ production forecasts to the International Energy Agency’s 2050 road map, which found that 57.5% degree level. will be EVs by that date.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2023

The Daily Telegraph’s chief interviewer and columnist Allison Pearson has joined the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , one of the UK’s principal climate science denial groups. The GWPF has criticised both the policies adopted by governments to address climate change, and the science underpinning these policies.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 17, 2023

To overcome this, the report, Electricity Grids and Secure Energy Transitions , calls for “an unprecedented level of attention from policy makers and business leaders to ensure grids support clean energy transitions and maintain electricity security”. This would mean that the global long-term temperature rise would go well above 1.5

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 17, 2023

It’s all part of countries’ combined efforts to limit global warming to the Paris agreement target of roughly 1.5 Of course, there are other major challenges to overcome to reach global climate goals. That’s as much planet-heating pollution as the power sector created globally over the past four years.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

She is the latest high profile figure to ally with NZW’s parent organisation, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , which is the UK’s principal climate science denial group and part of the Tufton Street network of free market think tanks. Rapidly cutting carbon emissions is necessary to limit global warming to 1.5°C

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

UnHerd has published multiple articles and videos critical of climate action, including an interview in July with Bjorn Lomborg about “ how global warming will save lives ”. The UK’s 2050 net zero target is legally binding and is backed by the world’s top climate scientists. Tice has recently been hired by GB News.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 13, 2022

All of the remaining contenders were elected in 2019 on the Conservatives’ manifesto pledge to “lead the global fight against climate change by delivering on our world-leading target of Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050”. . Others have failed to mention climate at all. Foreign Secretary.

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