DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

GMB is the third largest union in the UK, with some 620,000 members covering work across a range of industry sectors, including oil and gas, aviation and manufacturing, as well as the public sector. The best thing government could do for Glasgow is to ditch hosting the COP and instead invest the money in dealing with the state of the city.”.

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The IPCC recently conducted a study into the combined effects of all the agreed targets of the countries taking part in the ongoing COP talks. Attempting to maintain business as usual (which is the only type of solution that will be debated at COP 26) will only make things worse. Whatever does come out of COP won’t be enough.

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The COP 26 climate conference took place! The First Movers Coalition is committing to buying volumes of climate friendly solutions in steel, trucking, shipping, and aviation. we’ve probably seen this the most in sustainable aviation fuels so far. For example, $7.5 billion or so to electrify their entire bus fleet).

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Ministers are facing calls to include international aviation and shipping emissions in its national climate goals, as the government prepares to set out its plans for meeting climate targets in the mid-2030s in the coming months.

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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

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

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. Instead of locking in more carbon pollution with more airport expansion, we urgently need a fair and effective way to cut aviation emissions.

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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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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. Instead of locking in more carbon pollution with more airport expansion, we urgently need a fair and effective way to cut aviation emissions.

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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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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

More public transport capacity, improved active travel networks, electric vehicle charging infrastructure, and continued R&D investment in low carbon aviation and shipping technologies. Of course, arguing all that is needed is 'political will' is something of a cop out.

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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. 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

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Meanwhile, the huge clean tech buying signals from coalitions of large corporates focused on electric vehicles, green steel, renewables, green shipping, and sustainable aviation fuels, all point to how these markets could quickly reach tipping points that trigger the rapid adoption that obliterates fossil fuel demand.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

We have been discussing with the COP26 team over the last several months, because they've been looking at these figures, and attempting to say: 'What could you do at COP, in addition to country commitments, which could move the dial in the 2020s?'" This is where the ETC's six-pronged action plan comes in. "We

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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. Which is why HS1 Ltd, with support from Eurostar, hosted a landmark workshop at the World Climate Summit's official COP26 side event - The Investment COP. To achieve all of this, we need help.

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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.    In other news, project cancellation woes abound with NuScale canceling its first-of-a-kind SMR project.

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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

The leaked reports did not provide any indication of the provisions set out in the new plan to boost active travel and tackle emissions from the rail, aviation and maritime sectors. But pressure on PM Told by Whitehall source there's disquiet in FCO over budget cuts while Alok Sharma, COP chief, concerned failure to honour 0.7%

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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. At COP I'm quite sure that as a country we'll be saying to people 'when you sign up to things, you've got to deliver'. So the government is playing a pretty high stakes game here.

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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.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

And in the run-up to COP26, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on the UN bodies that regulate the aviation and shipping sectors to adopt "ambitious and credible targets that are truly consistent with the Paris Agreement", noting that current plans would track warming "way above 3C". If the recent COP kept 1.5

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

To that end, the government yesterday unveiled a new 'Build Back Better' council made up of 30 business leaders covering a range of sectors, from energy and retail to hospitality, finance, and aviation with a view to helping shape the UK's coronavirus recovery plans.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

It's hard to think of a greater dereliction of our responsibility as COP hosts.". UK Green Building Council CEO Julie Hirigoyen said: "With the COP 26 conference just days away, the Chancellor's announcements felt like they were from a different planet and a different time. "This wasn't just a failure to address the climate emergency.

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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.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

This is not just an ecological disaster – trawling adds to the climate emergency and urgently needs addressing ahead of COP 26. Using bottom-towed fishing gear often results in irreversible damage to sensitive habitats such as maërl beds, coralligenous reefs, deep-sea coral reefs, gorgonian gardens and sponge grounds.

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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. There are many different ways to gauge the success or otherwise of a COP.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The new administration faces an immediate challenge to explain how it intends to bring transport, buildings, industry, agriculture, aviation, and shipping into line with legally binding climate goals.

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

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

Finally, he reminded Ministers and officials from around the world that nations must commit to net zero emissions by 2050 and submit more ambitious national climate plans before COP-26 next year.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2021

As we face a climate and ecological crisis, and with the UK having just hosted COP 26, Oceana believes there is additional impetus for the UK government to show leadership and to act at once to manage this damaging activity in all MPAs. A recent study also found that fishing boats that trawl the ocean floor?release?as carbon back?into

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2022

But while the arguments in favour of airport expansion may be deeply questionable from a climate perspective there was at least a considerable economic case for the government to weigh and a semi-plausible decarbonisation scenario to assess whereby the aviation industry might curb its emissions in the coming years.

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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

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In fact, wasted food accounts for six times more greenhouse gas emissions than global aviation - so if we don't fix our food system we won't fix climate change. So when you consider that globally for every two tonnes of food we eat, another tonnes is lost or wasted, action on food waste has to be a priority. to halve food waste by 2030.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Stark, too, is clear that state support for aviation and shipping should come with green strings attached. "I But there is clearly now an opportunity to ensure green aviation R&D efforts and negative emissions programmes scale up much sooner. The 'strategic clarity' of net zero.

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2023

Despite the marked increase in government ambitions, CO2 emissions have increased in every year since the Paris COP in 2015 (bar 2020)," it continues. Even in the shipping and aviation sectors the report acknowledges that oil demand could be displaced by sustainable alternatives from the 2030s onwards.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

It's vital the UK shows action at home and leadership abroad to bring other countries with us in making ambitious climate change commitments in the lead up to COP 26 in Glasgow. As host of COP 26, it sends an important signal to other countries around the world that are currently considering their own commitments.

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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. 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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