Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In its final report, SCAP revealed it exceeded its carbon and water footprint reduction targets for the period, but missed its waste reduction targets. The report confirms members of SCAP, which include many leading fashion brands, exceeded a 15 per cent reduction targets for their carbon footprint by six per cent, achieving a 21.6

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2021

The Bank of England (BoE) is facing pressure from MPs and campaigners to take urgent action to clean up its investments before the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow, amid fears that vast sums of public money invested in high-carbon industries could damage the UK's international reputation and derail its climate goals.

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Business Green

JANUARY 12, 2023

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has today announced the leadership team for the COP28 Climate Summit in Dubai later this year, confirming that the CEO of the state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Corporation (ADNOC), Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, has been appointed President-Designate for the conference. There is no other path forward.".

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

IBM, also a sponsor, works with pesticide and fertiliser companies to promote “carbon farming” – a carbon offsetting technique that generates carbon credits for storing carbon in soils. Many climate groups believe such practices will provide an excuse for big companies to continue polluting. Conflict of interest.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 6, 2022

to a carbon free economy by 2050, experts at Bloomberg and Princeton estimate that the US will have to build enough solar and wind farms to fill an area roughly five times the size of South Dakota. First and foremost, there will be a much stronger focus on climate adaptation , rather than solely on mitigation. degrees Celsius.

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Business Green

JANUARY 3, 2022

Post-COP26 the world risks taking its foot off the pedal of climate action in 2021, but businesses must not let that happen, writes Pinwheel's Rob Cheesewright. Businesses have often been blamed for sluggish progress on climate change - yet at COP26 it was the progress that governments made that felt frustratingly slow.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. Leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda that calls for governments and industry to work together to find new solutions to climate change–driven food insecurity. rise in temperature that risks tipping the world into irreversible climate breakdown.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2020

The campaign - Make My Money Matter - was launched at an event yesterday and aims to build a movement of individuals, organisations, and pension funds to drive change across the sector. This could turn the existential risks from climate change into the greatest commercial opportunity of our time," he added.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

What is carbon accounting? Carbon accounting – also known as a carbon or greenhouse gas inventory – is the process of measuring the amount of carbon dioxide, or other greenhouse gases (GHG), an organization emits. The aim is to help the entity understand its climatic impact.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

On the plus side, the pact reaffirmed the central importance of 1.5C (our best chance to avoid the worst impacts of climate change), mentions coal and fossil fuels for the first time, and calls for countries to “revisit and strengthen” 2030 climate pledges by the end of 2022 instead of waiting another five years.

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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This Conference of Parties (COP) was highly anticipated as a critical inflection point where our economies and societies set forth on an ambitious and clearly defined path to decarbonize by 2050 and keep warming below 1.5 degrees C to avoid the worst impacts of climate change — or continue with the status quo.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2021

The plan, which was confirmed by Energy and Climate Change Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan this morning following a consultation period late last year, brings forward the official phase-out date for coal power in the UK's electricity system by a year, from a previous target of October 2025 that was established in 2017.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Money continued to dominate the agenda on the final day of the World's Leaders Summit at COP27, with heads of state using their moment in the spotlight to hammer home the need to deliver more financial support for climate-vulnerable counties. And this all happened despite our very low carbon footprints.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Global markets have long demanded clarity from governments on establishing a policy foundation for an emissions trading system that maintains environmental integrity and puts a global price on carbon.". This issue cannot continue to be deferred, COP after COP after COP. or well below 2C.

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Grist

JUNE 21, 2023

But then, about four years ago, she discovered that she could continue to be a climate advocate — at work, rather than outside of it. “A member approached the president of our local [union chapter] and said, ‘You know, climate change is something that I’m really concerned about,’” McLaren recalls.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Put a price on carbon. Build resilience of vulnerable communities against the here and now impacts of climate change. And make good on the $100 billion climate finance commitment to support developing countries. "We Laurence Tubiana, CEO of the European Climate Foundation, said: "Paris is working. Phase out coal.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The gas crunch gripping Europe is directly caused by volatile international gas markets that expose the UK to demand surges in Asia and political manipulation by Putin. This crisis highlights the benefits of weaning ourselves off fossil fuels - to stabilise our energy market, whilst achieving our climate goals. No backtracking.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

EU energy emissions fall, Rwanda gets its first mini-grid, and Brazil preps a COP bid. EU carbon emissions from energy use have fallen five per cent over the past three months compared with the same period in 2021, according to a new analysis by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) for Carbon Brief.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The outcome of the upcoming talks will have significant implications for businesses around the world who want to tackle climate change, writes the CBI's Tania Kumar. Last week two landmark reports from the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and UN Environment Agency demanded our attention.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

“The aim of the MicroCarb mission is to accurately measure the atmospheric concentration of CO2 across the globe, as well as improve our understanding of the mechanisms through which global climate change unfolds,” said François Buisson, MicroCarb project manager at CNES. MicroCarb is the first mission of its kind in Europe.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Sophie Punte from the We Mean Business Coalition sets out the top demands from business leaders at the Glasgow Climate Summit. Governments have a unique opportunity to step up climate action to ensure that we can halve global emissions by 2030. Businesses have a stake in the COP outcomes for three main reasons - let me explain.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND – Only two of the 35 stalls lauding countries’ green credentials at the COP26 UN climate summit mention the need to cut fossil fuel production — the chief cause of the carbon emissions driving climate change. . The COP teams for Saudi Arabia and Denmark have been contacted for comment.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Fossil fuels are everywhere at this COP except in the decisions being negotiated by governments,” Nikki Reisch, the director of climate and energy at the Center for International Environmental Law, wrote to DeSmog from Glasgow. AlOtaibi is registered as a senior consultant on climate change for Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Energy.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

It makes you wonder if what is missing from the UK government's deeply flawed and badly underpowered pursuit of both its climate goals and levelling up agenda, is someone willing to take yesterday's 600 page tome from the Climate Change Committee (CCC) , drop it on a table with a satisfying thud, and declare "this is what we believe".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

A COP is the biggest global negotiation: 196 countries with very different agendas, very different political backgrounds; fraught with mistrust, with false rumours; highly technical and highly political - and alongside that a massive trade fair," explained Betts. Nobody has got the full picture in a COP. This is the risk of COP.".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Simply put, we cannot achieve the Paris Agreement's global climate goals to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C °C without harnessing the power of NbS for both climate mitigation and resilience. If scaled up now, NbS could provide roughly a third of the emissions reductions needed to reach our global climate goals by 2030.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 3, 2019

My message here today is one of hope not of despair” said UN chief António Guterres addressing journalists at a press conference in the Spanish capital on Sunday, after revealing the key takeaways from the World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate report, due to be published during COP25. degrees “is still within reach.”

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

As such, he ruled the government had failed to meet its obligations under Climate Change Act 2008 (CCA) and ordered Ministers to update the plan and present it to Parliament by April 2023. This landmark ruling is a huge victory for climate justice and government transparency. 14 of the CCA 2008.".

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The “unabated” qualifier has no internationally accepted definition, Romain Ioualalen, global policy campaign manager at Oil Change International, explained. We’re going into a COP where this is going to be a big topic, and we don’t really have a definition for it.” Credit: Matt Hrkac , CC BY 2.0

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Green businesses, politicians, and environmental groups react to Court of Appeal's momentous ruling against a third Heathrow runway on climate change grounds. This judgment has exciting wider implications for keeping climate change at the heart of all planning decisions. The Court has said very clearly that was illegal.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

In an event hosted by BusinessGreen, the energy and industry giants behind the largest industrial decarbonisation project in the UK sketched out their vision for how emissions produced by high carbon plants on England’s East Coast could be captured and stored under the North Sea.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

The wording prompted some observers to speculate "low-emission" energy could be interpreted as including unabated gas power, but others argued it was a reference to nuclear and carbon capture and storage projects. This COP caused deep frustrations but it wasn't for nothing," she said. "It warming target.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Second, that inaction or delayed action on climate will create immense risks and costs,and populations across the world demand leaders to respond - and to respond now. In short, climate is a space where national and global interests align. Climate change does not recognise borders. degrees limit within two decades.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2020

British diplomats, the UK COP presidency team and Ministers would have been in a whirl of frenetic influencing activity globally (we hope) to drive up ambition, and drive out those new nationally-determined contributions (NDCs) from all the parties to the Paris Agreement. Gareth Redmond-King is head of climate change at WWF-UK.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

revisit and strengthen" their 2030 climate targets by the end of next year, in a move that would put pressure on countries to ramp up their decarbonisation ambitions after more than 150 countries failed to do so ahead of COP27. and recognise the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] finding that to keep 1.5C

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

In Canada last month almost 200 countries at COP 15 agreed a set of landmark pledges that will resonate not just through 2023, but to the end of the decade and beyond to the middle of the 21st century. All play a role in absorbing carbon.

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Business Green

JUNE 13, 2021

Business lobby group chief Tony Danker ramps up rhetoric demanding government deliver raft of missing net zero policy on heating, hydrogen and transport. These various targets have been supported by number of policies and investments, such as support for new electric vehicle charging infrastructure and new zero carbon home standards.

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