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Big Meat Unveils Battle Plans for COP28

DeSmogBlog

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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Taking the positives from COP26

Business Green

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. is barely alive.

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'This is not a scary transition': Six key takeaways from the CCC's net zero progress report

Business Green

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. The report confirms that the fall mainly came in the transport sectors, with far fewer people driving, flying, or taking the train during various lockdowns the UK experienced.

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'Repeated failures': Climate advisors slam UK's net zero policy 'vacuum'

Business Green

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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Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021: The green economy reacts

Business Green

It's hard to think of a greater dereliction of our responsibility as COP hosts.". Greenpeace's head of politics Rebecca Newsom said: The climate emergency should have been the centrepiece ahead of the most critical UK-hosted climate talks in years, but Rishi Sunak spent more time discussing duty on domestic cider.

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'We are witnessing the impacts of a disorderly transition': CCC boss Chris Stark on net zero in the wake of Covid-19

Business Green

Lending high-level economic and political credence to that growing public clamour for action, the work of Chris Stark and his small team at the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) in driving the issue up the agenda should not be forgotten. Suddenly, barely days into 2020, a new paradigm began to take shape. Building back better.

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'An atlas of human suffering': Top figures react to IPPC's latest climate warning

Business Green

But more positively, while the gap between adaptation and resilience efforts currently being undertaken, and what is required to safeguard society and ecosystems, remains considerable, such efforts can in fact be very effective, the report suggests. Inaction is a foolish business risk no company can afford.