Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2023

The influential annual report's central scenario, which is dubbed 'New Momentum' and is designed to "reflect the current broad trajectory" of the world's energy system, predicts oil demand would stand at around 93 million barrels a day in 2035 - a reduction of five per cent on last year's forecast.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The UK government must focus on strengthening the detail and delivery of its flagship Net Zero Strategy during a "crucial" year ahead for climate action, with major work particularly needed to fill in policy gaps and uncertainties surrounding taxation, trade, adaptation and agriculture.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Bellwether coal firms saw shares slide on Monday, while EU carbon prices leapt to a record high of over €66 a tonne. Separately, Bloomberg reported that fossil fuel producers are also seeing a spike in the cost of capital driven in large part by international climate policy efforts. per cent, respectively, in Hong Kong trading.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

An analysis last week from a leading group of scientists similarly warned that based on current annual emissions the available carbon budget for keeping temperature increases below 1.5C Other governments now need to isolate the Saudi delegation if they want this COP to succeed for everyone, not just fossil fuel interests.".

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

As with the last summit, the risk continues to be that greenwashing leaves governments with “a vision that tinkers around the edges,”rather than a transformative one that creates food systems that are resilient and restore ecosystems,” as Shefali Sharma, director of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), warned at COP27.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

For a food company, that means knowing how and where you source your ingredients, what your customers want, and understanding the provenance of your direct and indirect carbon emissions. Concretely, when you look at Danone, 60 percent of our carbon footprint is from agriculture," Soubeiran acknowledged.

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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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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2024

Campaigners and climate scientists had hoped the summit – which was billed as a “Food COP” due to its focus on farming – would see governments agree to ambitious action to transform food systems in line with the goals of the Paris climate agreement. Burr added that COPs provided an opportunity for U.S. This is especially true in the U.S,

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The government is expected to unveil a raft of major new green programmes as part of next month's Budget, as Ministers move to "carbon test" new policy measures against the UK's net zero emissions target. However, a number of significant green policy interventions are said to be under consideration.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2022

The document sets out G7 countries' ambition to deliver near-zero carbon electricity grids by 2035, citing the need to respond to climate scientists' calls for a drastic reduction in fossil fuel demand so as to stabilise global temperatures.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This is the first COP where participants found themselves face-to-face with the reality of breaching the 1.5 To anyone paying attention to global oil and gas demand future forecasts, even under existing policies , the COP28 agreement should not be a surprise. But they must not come at the cost of investing in the future economy.

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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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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 24, 2022

As a part of the national statement delivered at the 26 Conference of the Parties (COP 26) in Glasgow in November 2021, the Prime Minister announced the landmark commitment to achieve carbon neutrality by 2070. As a large developing economy with over 1.3

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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. They shouldn’t be allowed to greenwash their image through their presence at COPs.”. Conflict of interest.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 11, 2021

All governments, including the UK, are telling us that they’re laser-focused on reducing carbon emissions. The catasrophic tar sands extraction and fracking industries have subsided for the moment, with the fall in demand and price of oil, but they’ll be back once they’re profitable again. How are they doing?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Coalition of green groups argue UK should set global precedent by including emissions generated by international travel in next carbon budget. Campaigners yesterday argued the UK could set a global precendent if it updated its carbon accounting framework to include emissions from these heavy transport sectors.

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Business Green

JANUARY 12, 2023

Al Jaber has served as the UAE's Special Envoy for Climate Change since 2010, and has participated at 10 previous UN COP Summits. As civil society we demand that Al Jaber does the right thing and either stand aside or step down.". This policy clarity echoes the findings of science and the increasing demands of public opinion.

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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. Businesses have a stake in the COP outcomes for three main reasons - let me explain. This is because business is demanding clearer policies. Business wants to see ambitious policy beyond COP26.

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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 Carbon Negative Shot is a U.S. Elemental’s portfolio companies are poised to accelerate progress on pledges.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Each of these meetings were known as Conferences of the Parties, or COPs, and they have become synonymous with both the world's admirable intention to tackle the climate crisis and the diplomatic quagmire and geopolitical tensions that have repeatedly stymied efforts to curb global emissions.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Domestic Climate Policy Gets Real. 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. Here are my four key takeaways: U.S. For example, to fully transition the U.S. degrees Celsius.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2021

But in the UK today, one solution leaps out: training more people in the green skills of the future, in particular retrofitting homes and installing low-carbon heating. If the government does this, with a focus on targeting marginalised communities, it can both slash unemployment and our carbon emissions. Demand will grow and grow."

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The study utilising this new planning tool from climate analytics non-profit TransitionZero envisions massive expansions of zero carbon generation and transmission across the world, with the grids acting as global clusters and corridors of trade. The platform is set for user beta release at the COP 28 summit.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

It would be easy at this point to simply list the litany of policy failures and the paucity of political leadership documented by the CCC's almost satirically titled progress report. The growing fears charging infrastructure and public and active transport networks are struggling to keep pace with soaring demand.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

The last few months have brought a slew of major announcements signaling ammonia’s potential future as a low-carbon fuel.  Fortescue unveiled a green ammonia dual-fuel ship at COP. Unlike hydrogen, ammonia stores and transports as easily as propane, enabling global clean hydrogen markets alongside other low-carbon uses.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2023

The CCC's annual report is scathing on the lack of policy progress over the past year - the UK cannot afford another 12 months of inaction No aspect of the Climate Change Committee's (CCC) absolutely damning assessment of the UK's decarbonisation efforts over the past year is as dispiriting as the government's response to it.

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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. Generally speaking, “abatement” technologies are solutions that reduce, or abate, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from industrial processes, such as carbon capture and storage (CCS).

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

In particular, he will point to the forthcoming publication of the Private Finance Strategy for COP 26 , which will set out a framework ensuring every financial decision takes climate change into account. Progress has been considerable and momentum is growing. Let's seize it.".

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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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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The G7's plans to establish a Climate Club and the EU's landmark carbon border adjustment mechanism deal hint at a new era - and deeper tensions - for global trade. As is frequently pointed out, climate change is a crisis of global proportions that can only be addressed through global cooperation. So far, so positive, perhaps.

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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. One aim of the conference was to 'keep 1.5 degree Celsius warming trajectory. Bottom Line for Business.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The government has promised to "double-down" on wind, solar, hydrogen, nuclear and carbon capture and storage over the next 15 years, as it today confirmed it is targeting a fully decarbonised electricity system across the UK by 2035.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Every policy, law, regulation, study, analysis, proposal or action that has the climate crisis in mind is built on the basis of those two figures: 1.5 Nordhaus published an article in the American Economic Review entitled Can We Control Carbon Dioxide? That paragraph, in article 2, paragraph 2.a., marked a before and after.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2021

Ahead of COP26, I hope the UK's decisive step towards a cleaner, greener future sends a clear signal to friends around the world that clean power is the way forward," COP 26 President Alok Sharma said. Ambition must be backed up by the policies needed to deliver the pledge," he said. Coal accounted for just 1.8

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Branded as the most inclusive COP to date, the reality of COP26 was activists and NGOs left out in the cold, and billionaires and fossil fuel representative sitting at the negotiating table. How can we have just climate policy when the most affected communities are shut out of decision-making while the worst polluters are welcomed in?

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The government has promised a raft of hotly-anticipated plans and policies in the coming months, including the Heat and Buildings Strategy, Food Strategy White Paper, Treasury Net Zero Review, and an overarching Net Zero Strategy, all of which should help unlock billions of pounds of green investment. Nobody has got the full picture in a COP.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 27, 2021

This is irresponsible, and ought to be challenged in the global public interest, including at COP 26 in Glasgow, Scotland in October-November 2021. Along with pledges of carbon pollution-free electricity , the world should announce decentralization metrics and measures , too. The climate emergency demands it.

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