DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. Typically, the talk is about demand side interventions, like you can get schools or, or individuals to give up meat,” she says.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 27, 2023

COP president Sultan Al-Jaber, head of the UAE’s state oil company, faced accusations of using his position to promote fossil fuels. Those sectors have done well in recent years, but this year rising interest rates began to negatively impact the growth forecasts for many renewable energy companies.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Meanwhile, public polling suggests bailing out high carbon companies without attaching carbon reduction targets would be an unpopular move. With so many planes grounded, airlines are perhaps the most high profile example of struggling high carbon firms seeking state support to survive. "I

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

Virtually all of the world’s largest companies now issue a sustainability report and set goals; more than 2,000 companies have set a science-based carbon target; and about one-third of Europe’s largest public companies have pledged to reach net zero by 2050. Maersk even advocated for a $150 per ton carbon tax on shipping fuel.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 3, 2019

degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, reach carbon neutrality by 2050 and cut greenhouse gas emissions by 45 per cent from 2010 levels, by 2030. The key missing ingredient is a lack of political will he said: “Political will to put a price on carbon. Global average levels of carbon dioxide reached 407.8

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Business Green

DECEMBER 6, 2022

With the final round of pre-COP preparatory talks wrapped up yesterday and negotiations set to officially launch tomorrow following this afternoon's opening ceremony, businesses around the world should be paying close attention to developments in Montreal. What makes this COP so special?

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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

APRIL 4, 2022

And through behaviour change to address the demand side of the equation. The next climate COP must bring more-ambitious climate pledges and long-term strategies for 2050 to help drive such shifts. If Global Britain is to mean anything, then Ministers must rise to the challenge of the COP Presidency and demonstrate real leadership now.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2021

Meanwhile, the advertising sector has faced growing calls to stop taking work from high-carbon industries, with campaigners just this month accusing advertisers of plumping consumer demand for SUVs, cars that are hugely carbon intensive and are far bigger than buyers need in practice. The media is probably on red alert for it.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

In the southern Polish city of Katowice last December, news coverage of the UN’s COP 24 meeting on climate change suddenly and dramatically surged, mostly thanks to a three-minute speech given by a Swedish teen activist with Asperger’s syndrome and the amplifying power of social media.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree I am asking corporate leaders to support a minimum international carbon price and align their portfolios with the Paris Agreement. The good news is that we know what it will take to avoid a calamitous future and generate much-needed jobs and low-carbon, economic growth.

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