Africa Biodiversity COP Fossil fuels 
Envirotec Magazine
DECEMBER 20, 2023
The headline commitment of COP28 was the pledge to transition away from fossil fuels. Many commentators also appeared to believe that the “UAE Consensus” – as the deal was dubbed – leaves plenty of scope to continue burning fossil fuels, while also being woefully short on the financial commitments required to realize its aims.
Business Green
MAY 27, 2022
In a communique published at the close of a three-day Energy and Environment Ministerial meeting in Berlin this week, the world's largest economies set out their priorities for tackling the intersecting climate, biodiversity, and pollution crises, and responding to the disruption to energy markets wrought by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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Business Green
NOVEMBER 20, 2022
But group of petrostates resist calls to phase down fossil fuels and accelerate decarbonisation efforts. Mohamed Adow, director of think tank Power Shift Africa said the achievement came after three decades of appeals for help from climate impacted nations. "To The phasedown of all fossil fuels is not in this text.
Business Green
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
Fossil fuels get named and shamed. For the first time in 25 years of UN climate talks, coal and fossil fuel subsidies have been singled out in an official document. Here, we've picked out 10 key takeaways for business leaders from the Glasgow Climate Pact and COP26 Summit: 1. Some progress on adaptation finance.
DeSmogBlog
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. The North American Meat Institute will host a side event at the US COP pavilion on December 11, the summit’s Agriculture Day, for example. We need the animal agriculture equivalent of ‘keep it in the ground’ for fossil fuels,” she adds. “It’s
Business Green
JANUARY 24, 2022
It is because climate is central to geopolitics, that the UK's Integrated Review established tackling climate change and biodiversity loss as the UK's top international priority. It calls on countries to phase-down unabated coal power and phase-out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies. And indeed, some thought we were.
Business Green
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
He called for a "Climate Solidarity Pact" between richer and poorer nations geared towards helping climate vulnerable countries ramp up renewable energy capacity and end dependence on fossil fuels, with a particular onus on stopping new coal plants being built. Progress on LEAF.
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