Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Supporters of Heathrow expansion had argued increased aviation capacity would provide a major economic boost to the UK and that a third runway could operate within the UK's climate change obligations. No amount of spin from Heathrow's PR machine can obscure the carbon logic of a new runway. It's his chance to shine on the world stage.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

A rapid build out of wind and solar power capacity, backed by smarter grids and energy storage systems, and a mix of nuclear, hydrogen, and possibly carbon capture and storage power plants. An embrace of regenerative agricultural practices and moderately more planet-friendly diets that free up some land for natural carbon sinks.

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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. More than 200 companies and organizations are so far involved.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Anyone who remembers the start of 2020 will recall a time when there was to be a climate COP in the UK in November. So long ago was that pre-Covid time, that the COP would have finished by now. Of course, that parallel universe doesn't exist and instead, due to the impacts of the pandemic, we're now a year out from COP26.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Meanwhile, Michigan approves a bundle of clean energy bills, the UN irons out details for the "loss and damages" fund ahead of COP, and Flexport launches a book and claim model for SAFs.  Tech-enabled credits continue to constitute a big chunk of an anticipated $1T voluntary carbon market , and Oxy is on a development frenzy.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Supporters of Heathrow expansion had argued increased aviation capacity would provide a major economic boost to the UK and that a third runway could operate within the UK's climate change obligations. No amount of spin from Heathrow's PR machine can obscure the carbon logic of a new runway. It's his chance to shine on the world stage.

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Aviation Climate change Government Policy 58

Clean Energy Trust

JANUARY 28, 2022

Credit: Stripe eadership from corporations to be committed first customers for products that can decarbonize the economy Several announcements around COP 26 highlighted corporates who had made commitments to be early customers for new technology solutions, in order to help create market pull?—?this

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Coalition of green groups argue UK should set global precedent by including emissions generated by international travel in next carbon budget. Campaigners yesterday argued the UK could set a global precendent if it updated its carbon accounting framework to include emissions from these heavy transport sectors.

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Aviation Government Transportation Carbon 97

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. percent contribution to global human-induced emissions is a higher share than aviation. 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.

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Agriculture Methane Climate change Government 143

Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The plan promised to deploy a combination of policy interventions and funding to accelerate the UK development of offshore wind, green hydrogen, nuclear power, electric vehicles, public and active transport, green aviation and shipping, energy efficiency, carbon capture and storage, natural carbon sinks, and clean tech innovation and green finance.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

Details of Transport Decarbonisation Plan revealed to Financial Times, as separate report suggest ministers are continuing to lock horns over the best way to introduce new carbon pricing mechanisms. The EU expects to eventually raise €10bn a year from a carbon tax on imports that it plans to introduce gradually from 2023.

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Transportation Government Policy Carbon 80

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 11, 2021

The strategy referenced the decarbonisation of rail, but primarily focused on the role of electric vehicles and sustainable aviation fuels. A simple shift to rail means that whilst consumers are reducing their carbon footprint, they are also contributing to the growth of their local economies. By 2025, this could represent 1.2

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Transportation Electric vehicle Government COP 68

Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

The Strategy was also criticised for failing to provide sufficient detail on how the government planned to tackle emissions from certain sectors, such as farming and land use and aviation. Sunak also hinted that he wanted to see more investment in natural carbon sinks, describing peat restoration as a "pet project".

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Climate change Government Policy Biodiversity 58

Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Meanwhile, global emissions are spiralling upwards again as the economy recovers and surging fossil fuel prices are driving fears that a new wave of high carbon infrastructure investment could yet be unleashed. This is where the ETC's six-pronged action plan comes in. "We Lord Turner tells BusinessGreen. "In

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

Aviation emissions were down a whopping 60 per cent in 2020, shipping emissions down 24 per cent, and road transport emissions fell 18 per cent. Emissions may have fallen rapidly, but they are on course to rebound just as quickly to pre-pandemic levels as carbon-intensive transport use ramps up again, the CCC warns.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

They call on countries to deliver a 40 per cent reduction in the carbon intensity of shipping by 2030 and halve the sector's absolute emissions by 2050, compared to a 2008 baseline. If the recent COP kept 1.5 aligned carbon levy, despite the idea being endorsed by dozens of governments at COP26. This is unacceptable.

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Government Policy COP Carbon 43

Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The only way to be a prudent and responsible Chancellor is to be a Green Chancellor, to invest in the transition to a zero-carbon economy and give British businesses a head-start in the industries of the future. It's hard to think of a greater dereliction of our responsibility as COP hosts.".

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Government Investment Climate change Innovation 66

Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

As Professor Rebecca Willis, a leading opponent of the mine, observed on Twitter this afternoon: "the untold story of this mine is the absolute failure of govt (both central and local) to help the local area and community develop a vibrant, zero carbon economic strategy".

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Nuclear Power Government Policy Carbon 69

Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

Moreover, a host of delayed policy roadmaps and whitepapers for heat and buildings, hydrogen, transport, aviation, biomass, and food must also be delivered, it urged, alongside strengthened plans to decarbonise electricity, industry, and North Sea oil and gas. Not all of this is about public spending.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

These damaging fishing methods also have a devasting impact on blue carbon habitats and ruin the fishing grounds of low-impact fishermen such as creelers.”. This is not just an ecological disaster – trawling adds to the climate emergency and urgently needs addressing ahead of COP 26.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Truss hardly mentioned carbon capture and storage (CCS) on the campaign trail, but she will be under near immediate pressure to deliver coherent plans for how the UK's pipeline of hydrogen and CCS projects can be delivered.

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Government Policy Energy Energy 67

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. More than 200 companies and organizations are so far involved.

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Plastics Government Waste Waste 28

Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The Cameron-era decisions to block onshore wind development, slash energy efficiency funding, delay green building standards, and shelve carbon capture and storage (CCS) plans undermined UK energy security and slowed the clean energy transition. There are plenty more, a fair few of which are not fit to print. We should be getting clean.

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has today issued a stark warning that too many governments and businesses "have still not got the message" and risk engineering a carbon intensive recovery from the coronavirus crisis.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2023

If the CCC's central allegation is that the government is guilty of complacency and a fundamental lack of focus, the official response from the Department of Net Zero and Energy Security amounts to 'it's a fair cop, Guv'. "We But the overall picture is unremittingly bleak. COP26 feels a very long time ago. Meanwhile, time is running out.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

As a country, we have demonstrated we can both rapidly cut carbon emissions, while creating new jobs, new technologies and future-proof industries that will generate economic growth for decades to come. A more ambitious cut is both feasible and necessary to keep us safe and reflect our massive historic carbon emissions.

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Climate change Policy Government Carbon 67

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2021

We need to protect our marine habitats and in return many will also help protect us from climate change by sequestering and storing carbon.”?. carbon back?into into the water column as the global aviation industry sends into the atmosphere annually, and that UK waters are the 4th largest global carbon emitter from 3.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Meanwhile, public polling suggests bailing out high carbon companies without attaching carbon reduction targets would be an unpopular move. With so many planes grounded, airlines are perhaps the most high profile example of struggling high carbon firms seeking state support to survive.

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Carbon-negative Politics Climate change Government 74

Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2023

The most important line in today's new Energy Outlook from BP is the stark admission that "the carbon budget is running out". Despite the marked increase in government ambitions, CO2 emissions have increased in every year since the Paris COP in 2015 (bar 2020)," it continues.

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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. Samuel Abettan, senior economist at ING, said: "Since the COP26 summit, rising carbon and energy prices has already provided a compelling argument for accelerating the transition to low-carbon technologies.

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Climate change Resilience Fossil fuels Government 67

Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The "mood music" in the room where it happens is said to be considerably more upbeat than is typical for the closing days of a COP Summit. Negotiators reckon the shape of a deal is starting to take shape. The hope is the major new agreement between the US and China announced yesterday evening can trigger breakthroughs overnight.

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Fossil fuels Government Politics Demand 39

GreenBiz

JUNE 2, 2021

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change — the folks who organize the annual COP events — defines “climate-related risks” as those: …created by a range of hazards. Today, it is part of many companies’ toolkit as they seek to understand the impacts of climate change on their business and society. That’s huge, in and of itself.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2021

At the same time, negotiating teams will be wrangling with outstanding technical issues in the Paris Agreement rule book around carbon markets, transparency, common timeframes, loss and damage, and climate finance. trajectory. Its stated aim is to collectively slash methane emissions across all sectors by 30 per cent between 2020 and 2030.

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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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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2021

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) - the folks who organise the annual COP events - defines "climate-related risks" as those: ". Today, it is part of many companies' toolkit as they seek to understand the impacts of climate change on their business and society. created by a range of hazards. The implications?

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Fossil fuels Climate change Sea level rise COP 67

EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Interest in carbon markets is currently booming and with increased activity comes increased attention and, of course, familiar criticism. A high-integrity carbon market can help companies and countries increase their ambition on the pathway to net zero by mid century. Kelley Kizzier, VP, Global Climate, EDF. Work on the supply side.

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