DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. Leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda that calls for governments and industry to work together to find new solutions to climate change–driven food insecurity. percent contribution to global human-induced emissions is a higher share than aviation.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

And then November will see Glasgow host the COP climate change summit, taking place five years on from the historic Paris Agreement. With the UK holding the COP presidency, top of the agenda will be to encourage countries to ratchet-up climate ambition to get us closer to 1.5C

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

As such, he ruled the government had failed to meet its obligations under Climate Change Act 2008 (CCA) and ordered Ministers to update the plan and present it to Parliament by April 2023. This landmark ruling is a huge victory for climate justice and government transparency.

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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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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 25, 2021

Ambitious partnerships on climate action are taking root and bearing fruit Dominic Waughray Mon, 01/25/2021 – 00:30 Buried beneath the dour daily headlines on COVID-19 infections, lockdowns and travel bans, the latest science about our planet released during 2020 makes for tough reading. This is getting uncomfortably close to the 1.5

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

For all the evidence the Paris Agreement has catalysed an era-defining array of clean tech innovations and a remarkable shift in public opinion, there have been baseless arguments that the entire COP process is an exercise in futility. What sacrifices are you willing to make for climate change?'. People who love pollution?

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Before Boris Johnson's government imploded the Climate Change Committee issued a sobering update detailing how on numerous key fronts the UK was off track to meet its medium and long-term emissions goals. What will you do about all the sewage?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Thousands of the world's leading climate scientists, after over three years of work, today delivered yet another landmark report on the state of the climate and ecological emergency the world now faces. With fact upon fact, this report reveals how people and the planet are getting clobbered by climate change.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In November 2021 world leaders will gather in Glasgow for the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, popularly known as COP26. WRAP knows that when it comes to protecting the planet from catastrophic climate change, there is no such thing as too ambitious. to halve food waste by 2030.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2022

I've been writing about the UK climate policy landscape for 15 years and I genuinely can't recall a reaction like it. Perhaps angriest of all was the Climate Change Committee, which pulled no punches in its assessment of a "very bad decision - supporting a technology of the past, with a very poor prospectus for new UK jobs".

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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. More ambitious proposals on climate finance would quickly unlock progress on multiple other fronts - finance is the "solvent", as the Prime Minister declared yesterday afternoon.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 2, 2021

Over the past few years, the term "climate risk" has risen to the fore , taking up residency inside the world's biggest banks and investors. Today, it is part of many companies’ toolkit as they seek to understand the impacts of climate change on their business and society. The implications?

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2021

Over the past few years, the term "climate risk" has risen to the fore , taking up residency inside the world's biggest banks and investors. 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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AGreenLiving

JUNE 2, 2021

Shell and the new era of climate risk Joel Makower Wed, 06/02/2021 – 02:11 Over the past few years, the term “climate risk” has risen to the fore , taking up residency inside the world’s biggest banks and investors. Rather, it may be in the hands of activists, litigants and their judicial allies.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The entire global economy is made inherently unstable by its reliance on fuels where the price can be manipulated and the polluting externalities are not accounted for. Climate change then becomes the economy's way of overcompensating for its rampant insecurity. The foundations of our way of life have been fracked.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

The UK government has today called for Covid-19 recovery plans to bolster the fight against climate change, with Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab telling global leaders at a major climate summit that it is "duty of every responsible government" to reboot economies along climate-resilient lines.

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