Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

What are the big priorities for COP? Its conclusions have since been endorsed with apparent sincerity by the UK government, which announced in June that it was committing to ensuring that more of the UK’s largest new infrastructure projects “leave nature and biodiversity in an overall better state than before development”.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Adapting to climate change presents opportunities - more Jobs, lower bills and cleaner air. It's hard to think of a greater dereliction of our responsibility as COP hosts.". But only if we act now and at scale. According to the OBR, failure to act will mean public sector debt explodes later, to nearly 300 per cent of GDP.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

billion worth of fossil fuels from Saudi Arabia. DeSmog has today revealed that the US-based advertising giant McCann, part of the Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG), is putting itself forward to continue working for this fossil fuel giant. So what else do we know about this fossil fuel behemoth?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The study, which was commissioned by non-profit the B Team, estimates fossil fuels, agriculture and water industries receive more 80 per cent of these environmentally harmful subsidies dished out by policymakers. Nature is declining at an alarming rate, and we have never lived on a planet with so little biodiversity," she said.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In November, I had the privilege to represent Schneider Electric at the UN's Conference of Parties (COP) on climate change in Glasgow. This COP was unlike the previous 25 iterations, in that it took place during a global pandemic. In reality, the current pledges align more closely to 2.7 Bottom Line for Business.

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 17, 2020

To all but the willfully ignorant there is more than ample scientific evidence to indicate that we are facing a biodiversity crisis and a climate emergency. To do this we need to move quickly away from fossil fuels and this will require massive investments in renewable energy, and sustainable transportation.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

I heard someone call COP26 the "business COP" I couldn't find any official reference of that sort, but I'm inclined to agree. Moreover, many of these banks continue to finance the fossil-fuel industry, funding coal mines, backstopping debt issuance and lending directly to power producers, as the Financial Times reported.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

As current events make all too clear, our continued reliance on fossil fuels makes the global economy and energy security vulnerable to geopolitical shocks and crises. The present failure of the international community to respond with an integrated adaptation strategy is grave. Failing to adapt to this crisis will cost lives.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk. This report must sound a death knell for coal and fossil fuels, before they destroy our planet.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

While NYCW has been around for more than a decade , this year the vibe of ~10x the participants and well-curated mini-conferences alongside official UN programming felt almost like a Davos or a mini-COP (which, depending on your take on the efficacy and impact of COP, could be a good or bad thing).

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Business Green

DECEMBER 30, 2022

And then, somewhere along the way, 2022 also found time for two major UN COP summits - one on climate change, the other on biodiversity - both of which proved momentous in different ways. Even British Gas, a company that takes is name from the fossil fuel, began ramping up its heat pump installations this year.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

COP talks each year are often fraught and progress remains far too slow, as today's IPCC report on escalating climate impacts will testify. As close observers of global climate diplomacy have long argued, if the COP process and the Paris Agreement did not exist you would have to invent them. "It

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Johnson was followed this morning by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres who called for a new framework to pressure countries into increasing their climate ambitions not just every five years - as is the present system under the Paris Agreement - but every single year. Enough of brutalising biodiversity. Not every five years.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2022

COP15 Biodiversity Summit reportedly facing further delays. The COP15 Biodiversity Summit that was slated to take place in Kunming, China in May could be delayed for a fourth time, according to reports in the New Scientist. However, the official decision on this has not yet been taken.". EDF announces plans for new Irish wind farm.

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