Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 6, 2022

After a several years’-long lull, things were back with a bang – with more people, more meetings, more energy, and more urgency. Nearly $370b in tax credits, clean energy incentives, and investments in green innovation are intended to dramatically accelerate domestic decarbonization in sectors from energy to manufacturing.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

All these methods work to improve the soil, reduce air and water pollution, cut emissions, and boost biodiversity. Nature-based solutions” is one of the only phrases linked to agriculture to be mentioned in the COP cover text. We can expect a similar turnout at this year’s COP, too.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

Less visibly, more than 80 percent of the ocean in 2020 suffered marine heatwaves , providing more energy for tropical storms, as well as impacting sea life and spoiling fish harvests for the billions of people who rely on the ocean for their food and jobs. As with COVID-19, perhaps so with climate? Pull Quote.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Without these cheap energy resources capitalism would not have been able to inaugurate the industrial revolution and its subsequent wonders of specialization, automation, and labor productivity. There is indeed a strong correlation between energy use and economic growth.

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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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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Whatever the outcome of the ongoing negotiations at COP15 Biodiversity Summit, there are high hopes it will mark a turning point in the understanding of the critical role nature plays in regulating the climate and sustaining the global economy. I wish everyone well because it's hard," she says.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Thanks to the actions of the Climate Champions in Glasgow, COPs are fast becoming more multistakeholder - Glasgow being the most diverse COP to date. encouraging nations, firms and investors to confront the planet's biodiversity crisis and the tightening of energy supplies.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

After hours of tense negotiations and dramatic interventions on the conference floor a compromise deal was reached that rejected the proposed reference to phasing down fossil fuels, and broadened the focus of the energy section of the agreement beyond renewables. The text on energy was weakened but is at least in. warming target.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

According to the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), carbon offset programs can be grouped into the following broad categories: Renewable energy, energy efficiency, methane abatement, reforestation and conservation, fuel switching, and community projects. Carbon offset program #1: Renewable energy.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Record numbers of delegates from business and finance attended the COP15 Biodiversity Summit, but these actors are not part of official negotiations – so why do they make the trip? But as the dust settles on this month's COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Montreal, observers have noted how the CBD might be on the brink of a new era.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Having officially taken the reins of the COP Presidency in Glasgow, Alok Sharma and his diplomatic team are now tasked with steering global climate discussions over the next year ahead of COP27 in Egypt, and the CCC today urged the UK to lead by example with ambitious climate efforts at home. of warming by the end of the century.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Biodiversity. Conference of the Parties (COP). COP is the decision-making body responsible for monitoring and reviewing implementation of the UNFCCC. Energy transition. This refers to the global energy sector's shift from energy consumption and production based on fossil fuels to low carbon sources.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

He also said that Energy Minister Greg Hands had signed off on the Strategy, despite not having the legally required information on how carbon budgets would be met. They also all stressed that they wanted to do more to tackle biodiversity loss and water pollution, and a number of candidates floated new policy proposals.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

We are committed to holding COP 26 in Glasgow, but the Scottish government needs to work with us to make sure this is a successful summit, which showcases the UK as a world leader in tackling climate change and represents value for the UK taxpayer," he was quoted as saying. "The Insiders are tearing their hair out," he added. "If

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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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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Since the signing of the Paris Climate Agreement six years ago, the nations of the world have slowly begun to bend the curve on emissions, due largely to spectacular advances in renewable energy. Even so, we haven’t yet made anywhere near the progress required to avoid the worst effects of the climate emergency.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2020

In addition to raising ambition, the UK's COP Presidency will focus efforts on 5 areas which need particular attention to achieve our goals. These are: clean energy, clean transport, nature-based solutions, adaptation and resilience, and underpinning everything, finance. Here in the UK, we are taking action in each of these areas.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

And in order to encourage the approach beyond its supply chain, Danone recently founded the One Planet Business for Biodiversity (OP2B) initiative, a cross-sector effort to improve the private sector's approach to biodiversity. If we protect biodiversity, we are basically protecting the diversity of DNA," Soubeiran mused.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The Energy Transitions Commission estimated that even with ambitious emissions reduction pathways to net zero, 200 gigatons of emissions will still have accumulated in the atmosphere by 2050. Deforestation and land-use emissions currently account for about one quarter of global emissions. Are there risks?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

While the final text did include a specific call for scaling-up renewables, a last minute change saw the insertion of "low emissions and renewable energy", in a move seen by some as offering more wiggle room for forms of energy such as CCS and nuclear, and potentially even gas.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. 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. The files also detail collaborations planned for the event itself. Meat lobby groups will share a different message at pavilions at COP28.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The decision comes despite the UK still presently holding the crucial COP Presidency role for another fortnight until it hands the baton to Egypt, and despite the PM having promised to prioritise the environment a speech outside Downing Street earlier this week. He will be our very own little Bolsonaro. Grim news for nature.

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2020

Our focus of course will be on clean energy, zero-emissions vehicles, finance, adaptation and resilience. For example in addition to providing livelihoods for over a billion people and a home to some 80 per cent of the world's terrestrial biodiversity, deforestation is the second biggest source of emissions.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

Other former COP Presidents, such as Laurent Fabius. It will devastate nature and biodiversity. The UN Oceans Conference in Lisbon, the 15th Conference on Biological Diversity hosted by China, and of course COP26, offer an opportunity to bend the curve of greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss. Third, energy transition.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Liz Truss may have been confirmed as the next Prime Minister, but her approach to the big energy and environmental issues facing the UK remains remarkably opaque. What's in the energy support package, and who is going to pay for it? Can you really rule out energy ‘rationing' under such a scenario?

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

It is because climate is central to geopolitics, that the UK's Integrated Review established tackling climate change and biodiversity loss as the UK's top international priority. The International Energy Agency has estimated that about 30 million new workers are needed by 2030 to meet increased demand in the clean economy.

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Business Green

JULY 12, 2022

Using the COP process and international collaboration we should aim for a market, science and technology driven approach which can protect the environment and enhance productivity.". The world is facing, as a whole, global challenges over energy and food insecurity. The Conservative Party has had a proud record as the party of nature.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

What are the big priorities for COP? But progress was still lacking on Resilience and Energy Transition. Clearly it will be a major achievement for the UK government if the UK can hold a successful COP, so one can only assume the will is there to try to bring it off. Where are the main challenges? Nature and finance.

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2021

Due to be published just weeks before the UK holds the global COP26 climate summit in November, the strategy is designed in part to show that the nation has a plan for its target, is a credible climate leader and ergo host of the COP. But the state of the UK's nature and wildlife place it bottom of the G7 league table for biodiversity.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

But it remains significantly longer - and has been published much later - than previous COP cover texts, meaning negotiators have a major task ahead of them in whittling down options to deliver political consensus.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The agreement includes a number of environmental clauses, with Chapter 22 of the FTA published yesterday reaffirming the UK and Australia's commitment to protecting biodiversity and achieving the climate goals contained in the Paris Agreement.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

A task force has been established to finalise the precise governance and workings of the Climate Club, backed by an interim secretariat led by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), with a view to the group fully launching ahead of COP28 next year. A win-win situation.".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Those hoping the government might use the Budget to fill the gaps of its £9.2bn manifesto pledge to ramp up the energy efficiency of UK homes were also sorely disappointed. It's hard to think of a greater dereliction of our responsibility as COP hosts.". This wasn't just a failure to address the climate emergency.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 18, 2022

While energy decarbonisation has always been the key focus for the climate COPs, the biodiversity COPs have been very clear that their priority has been land use and how humans are driving nature's devastating depletion. It is also estimated that 60 per cent of global biodiversity loss is caused by the food we eat.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 25, 2021

Less visibly, more than 80 percent of the ocean in 2020 suffered marine heatwaves , providing more energy for tropical storms, as well as impacting sea life and spoiling fish harvests for the billions of people who rely on the ocean for their food and jobs. As with COVID-19, perhaps so with climate?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

They have pointed out the plan remains thin on detail for how the government plans to bring down the costs of crucial clean technologies for consumers, scale up energy efficiency improvements, plug looming green skills shortages, and encourage people to embrace lower carbon diets. Here, BusinessGreen rounds up the reaction to the stategy.

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