Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

VCM Global Dialogue publishes its conclusions on how to shape the voluntary carbon market from the perspective of developing countries. Today's report stresses that voluntary carbon markets must complement, rather than replace, corporate and governmental efforts to slash absolute emissions.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In mid-December, Vietnam will reveal its just energy transition partnership using public money to leverage private investment, following on from South Africa and Indonesia, and with a cab rank of other countries wanting something similar. That requires more and better diplomacy, not less. The relationship with India is critical.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

COP27 partner Hassan Allam Holding , one of the largest privately owned corporations in Egypt, has announced plans to invest $17.1 billion to turn North Africa into a regional natural gas hub, and $830 million in oil projects over the next two years, the analysis found. Conflict of interest.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

These include the risk of weak offtaker finances leading to power purchase agreement renegotiations (as in South Africa and India) and rock-bottom auction prices (mostly in Gulf Cooperation Council countries) setting unrealistically low price expectations from governments in more challenging markets.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 24, 2022

The event will host energy ecosystem stakeholders to unpack the industry’s priorities including its strategic roadmaps, visionary reforms, low cost capital investments and breakthrough technologies for building India’s long term self-reliance in energy. As a large developing economy with over 1.3

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Nearly $370b in tax credits, clean energy incentives, and investments in green innovation are intended to dramatically accelerate domestic decarbonization in sectors from energy to manufacturing. According to the African Development Bank, Africa has received less than 5.5% It aligns U.S. rhetoric and financing and catapults the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND – Only two of the 35 stalls lauding countries’ green credentials at the COP26 UN climate summit mention the need to cut fossil fuel production — the chief cause of the carbon emissions driving climate change. . South Africa, Australia, UK, and Germany. South Africa struck a deal on Tuesday for £6.2

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

For example, the Mission Possible Partnership gets leading heavy-industry companies, banks and governments to create investment-grade “net-zero” sector strategies in seven key areas of the global economy — aviation, shipping, trucks, chemicals, steel aluminum and cement. We are now able to start reaping the early rewards of this harvest.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

Which in turn means, amongst other things, phasing out coal, ending sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles, halting and reversing deforestation, stopping extracting and producing oil and gas, and protecting the planet's natural systems that store carbon, reflect heat, and regulate atmospheric and ocean currents. Stragglers. degree world.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Specifically, the UK presidency of COP26 wants to see these institutions mobilise increased investment through a series of Just Energy Transition Partnerships that can support developing countries transition away from coal to renewable energy.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Put a price on carbon. I also want particularly to thank COP President Alok Sharma who has worked incredibly hard to bring countries together. Despite the Covid-19 crisis, we have accelerated action, the COP has responded to the IPCC's call to close the gap towards 1.5, Phase out coal. degrees. "I and coal is in the text.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Key impacts include loss of natural coastal and flooding protection, disappearance of natural carbon storage sinks, and steep rises in prices of key commodities. The study also estimates economic costs arising from the loss of specific ecosystem services.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

From Amsterdam, Gellert oversaw the company in Europe, Africa and the Middle East for nearly six years, working before that at outdoor gear maker Black Diamond. Energy and Clean Growth minister also served as COP President for the 26th UN Climate Change Conference. He's at the helm of Patagonia Works, the parent company.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. Several of these arguments reference the idea that grazing livestock can help maintain healthy soils which can store carbon.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The government has promised a raft of hotly-anticipated plans and policies in the coming months, including the Heat and Buildings Strategy, Food Strategy White Paper, Treasury Net Zero Review, and an overarching Net Zero Strategy, all of which should help unlock billions of pounds of green investment. Nobody has got the full picture in a COP.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

EU energy emissions fall, Rwanda gets its first mini-grid, and Brazil preps a COP bid. EU carbon emissions from energy use have fallen five per cent over the past three months compared with the same period in 2021, according to a new analysis by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) for Carbon Brief.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Machine learning, AI, automation and other solutions can slash firms' carbon emissions and energy usage while boosting their productivity, writes IBM's Ana Paula Assis. Rania Al Mashat, Egypt's minister for international cooperation, recently said : "For us, what we want this COP[27] to be about is moving from pledges to implementation.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The appeals underscored how for many nations, the success of the Sharm El Sheikh Summit depends on its ability to deliver real progress towards the launch of a dedicated funding mechanism for Loss and Damage, after the contentious issue made it on to a COP agenda for the first time this year.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

From Loss and Damage and just transitions to rows over fossil fuel phase outs and carbon markets, we take a look at some of the key lessons for businesses from COP27. From Loss and Damage and just transitions to rows over fossil fuel phase outs and carbon markets, we take a look at some of the key lessons for businesses from COP27.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

Because finance and investment are the lifeblood of net zero projects - and we can only meet this challenge together. I know the drive to deliver a return on investment and the search for growth areas in the economy. Building the first fully-deployed carbon capture storage cluster by the mid-2020s. clean transport.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2022

For companies and institutions that have made investments in nature-based solutions and/or buying carbon offsets part of their climate strategy, valuing Indigenous people's contributions means investing in their organizations and projects, and paying a fair price for offsets. "We We have the solutions already.".

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

Italian Minister for the Environment, Land and Sea Protection, Sergio Costa: "Whilst we have decided to postpone COP26, including the Pre-COP and ‘Youth for the Climate' event, we remain fully committed to meeting the challenge of climate change. Tackling climate change requires strong, global and ambitious action.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

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 This COP caused deep frustrations but it wasn't for nothing," she said. "It The agreement was hailed by activists and developing countries as a major breakthrough. warming target.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The previous timetable for updating NDCs would have meant they would only have been improved once or maybe twice before the available carbon budget for 1.5C Having recognised the desirability of achieving 1.5C of warming was completely burned through. trajectory. The counter to all of this is that 1.5C is barely alive.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The first full negotiating texts are still not expected until later this evening, or potentially even tomorrow, according to Egypt's COP Presidency. But we are hoping that everyone will rise to the occasion by the end of COP, and realise that while the national interest is very important, something greater than that is at stake.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Though policy choices could reduce this figure, and I would add that it includes investments with long term benefits. An explanation for this was set out clearly in a letter last week from Larry Fink, to the Chief Executives of companies in which Blackrock invests. Sustainable investments have now reached 4 trillion dollars.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

Other former COP Presidents, such as Laurent Fabius. COP26 can be a moment where the world comes together to ramp up momentum towards a climate-resilient, zero-carbon economy. So, we want all countries to submit more ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions, committing to further cuts in carbon emissions by 2030.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

But this potential problem has to be set against the fact that the global carbon budget is being burnt through so quickly that the world may have had just one more cycle of improved NDCs to be submitted in 2025 before 1.5C Future COPs will re-open this debate and seek to extend it to gas and oil. would be truly dead and buried.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This COP must agree on a clear, timebound roadmap reflective of the scale and urgency of the challenge, and that roadmap must deliver effective institutional arrangements for financing.". To date, $12bn in public and private finance has been pledged to the cause, with another $4.5bn expected at COP27. Progress on LEAF.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

alive or this will be the COP where we lose 1.5C," he said. You need to work out how you want future generations to look upon this COP and each of us individually as countries. goal, arguing that "every fraction of a degree matters". We'll either leave Egypt having kept 1.5C It is really up to us to decide.".

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 25, 2021

For example, the Mission Possible Partnership gets leading heavy-industry companies, banks and governments to create investment-grade “net-zero” sector strategies in seven key areas of the global economy — aviation, shipping, trucks, chemicals, steel aluminum and cement. We are now able to start reaping the early rewards of this harvest.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The landmark $8bn-plus agreement with South Africa to support a just transition away from coal power also provides an exciting template for how emerging economies can be provided with support as they attempt to move onto cleaner development pathways. Rules on carbon markets finally wrapped. Polluters have been put on notice.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

As such, the COP Presidency should presumably welcome mounting calls for a new era of public-private cooperation on the financial packages that can help developing and emerging economies wean themselves off fossil fuels. of warming.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Now almost a year on, it is just 23 days to COP27, the end of the UK's COP Presidency, and the end of my time as COP President. And so today, from the vantage point of the ending of my time as COP President, I want to take stock of where we are. And navigating this context is our defining challenge. So I'm going to be frank.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 7, 2020

From Amsterdam, Gellert oversaw the company in Europe, Africa and the Middle East for nearly six years, working before that at outdoor gear maker Black Diamond. Energy and Clean Growth minister also served as COP President for the 26th UN Climate Change Conference. He’s at the helm of Patagonia Works, the parent company.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

These initiatives were on display during “Agriculture Day” at COP27 on Saturday, with dedicated sessions highlighting milestones and new investments. One of those new investments, announced by Vilsack, is the establishment of a public-private research partnership called the Efficient Fertilizer Consortium.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

The London Metal Exchange confirmed earlier this month it intends to give low-carbon aluminium its own trading platform, meaning that for the first time in the trading hub's near 150-year history a commodity will be traded based on its environmental footprint. Rusal, the aluminium company majority owned by EN+ Group, produces aluminium at 2.9

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