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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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

The Global Plastic Action Partnership (GPAP) gets leading consumer goods companies, waste specialists and banks to work with governments to create investment-grade plans for tackling plastic waste pollution, and then trigger the finance and projects to make it happen. Pull Quote.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Oil and gas has dominated discussions at past COPs, which have focused on the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the energy and transport sectors to tackle dangerous levels of global warming. Big companies which have previously accessed COP in this way include JBS, which came in with the Brazilian delegation for COP27 in Egypt.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Carbon markets are set to be one of the key issues at the upcoming COP climate talks, with negotiators tasked with finalising the rules for Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, which aims to create a framework for countries and companies to meet their climate goals by trading carbon credits.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. JBS, the world’s most polluting meat company, will be out in “full force” in Dubai , according to the files. 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.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In my first fortnight as COP President, I have been listening to those who have done this before. ??Meeting Meeting people like Paris COP President Laurent Fabius, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed and Patricia Espinosa from the UNFCCC. ??And, And we are getting ready for it.??. Promoting nature-based solutions.??.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

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, Greenwashing is the new climate denial, and we have seen too much at play in this COP.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

But whether or not the historic reference to fossil fuels is retained, this has been the COP where governments, investors, and businesses made it clearer than ever that the fossil fuel age is slowly drawing to a close. will surely die. 2C could swiftly follow it. And even now, certain governments are determined to bury 1.5C

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

But within hours of it being signed the pollution-loving Australian government signalled it had no intention to strengthen its disgracefully weak 2030 emissions targets. Future COPs will re-open this debate and seek to extend it to gas and oil. If COPs did not exist you would have to invent them.

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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

MARCH 9, 2020

Other former COP Presidents, such as Laurent Fabius. But we also need to help empower developing countries to leapfrog the polluting options of the past and embrace the clean energy of the future. A Uk business called Azuri Technologies is providing solar energy systems to off-grid homes across Africa.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In fact, there are more representatives of the polluting interests of oil and gas at COP27 than every single national delegation bar the United Arab Emirates — including all countries on the African continent. So much for the “African COP.” It’s yet again a festival of polluters. The reality is they are anything but. He’s right.

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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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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Dozens of countries have said they will not back any global pact on nature and its various provisions around pollution and nature protection without agreement on a new international financing commitment. As such, it is impossible to underestimate the importance of money to the Montreal talks.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

They want the biggest, heaviest-polluting nations to do something about it. Stipulating the phaseout of “unabated fossil fuels” in a deal means that polluters can continue using coal, oil, and gas as long as they install controversial new technologies for capturing CO2 emissions that have yet to prove effective at scale.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

2020 brought tremendous disruption to the global transportation sector. As the world coped with a pandemic, millions began working from home and millions more lost their jobs. Logistics networks were broken and then reshaped. All while the planet experienced the. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 25, 2021

The Global Plastic Action Partnership (GPAP) gets leading consumer goods companies, waste specialists and banks to work with governments to create investment-grade plans for tackling plastic waste pollution, and then trigger the finance and projects to make it happen.

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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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

He said the push for more efficient fertilizers is partly based in fact, given the glaring problem with fertilizer overuse and nitrogen leaching that pollutes the environment. These agribusiness interests have had a notable presence at previous UN COP summits, and COP27 is no exception.

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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. Polluters have been put on notice. temperature target stands tall.

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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. The countries where these polluting assets are located are under significant pressure to phase down these polluting assets.

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Grist

JANUARY 17, 2021

Scientists have said human activities are driving the sixth mass extinction of life on Earth, and agricultural production, mining, and pollution are threatening the healthy functioning of life-sustaining ecosystems crucial to human civilization. So as co-host of the next Climate Cop, the U.K. As part of the HAC announcement , the U.K.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The findings highlight how human-induced climate change, alongside deforestation, pollution and land use change, is hampering nature's ability to provide services essential to human life, such as coastal protection, food supply or climate regulation through the capture and storage of carbon from the atmosphere. The facts are undeniable.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The final statement from this week's meeting of G20 countries - which include the US, China, EU, UK, Brazil, India, South Africa, Japan Korea, and Indonesia, among others - promises a "steadfast" commitment to delivering on the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change, with Russia the only G20 member not to officially back the communique.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Unchecked carbon pollution is forcing the world's most vulnerable on a frog march to destruction - now. The world's biggest polluters are guilty of arson of our only home. As COP president throughout 2022 the UK government has a vital role in leading global efforts to tackle climate change. The facts are undeniable.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree We already know what's needed to secure a safer future: from saying no to polluting fossil fuels like the Cambo oil field, to restoring the natural world, protecting forests and meeting financial promises to support people on the frontline of the climate crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2024

Campaigners and climate scientists had hoped the summit – which was billed as a “Food COP” due to its focus on farming – would see governments agree to ambitious action to transform food systems in line with the goals of the Paris climate agreement. Burr added that COPs provided an opportunity for U.S.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Other demands include cutting methane emissions by 30 per cent between 2020 and 2030, working to tackle other damaging pollutants, and taking more ambitious action to decarbonise transport such as aviation and shipping. Nick Mabey, co-founder and CEO of climate think tank E3G, said the HAC grouping "makes the political weather at COP".

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