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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

As documented in the latest edition of DeSmog’s Gaslit column, fossil fuel sponsorship of COP27 represents an extension of a decades-long effort by oil and gas companies to buy social legitimacy by bankrolling sports, arts, and education around the world. climate talks,” Sabido said. “We We need to kick big polluters out.”. Social license.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The ministers added that "the last thing anyone wants is for this COP to end without consensus". The latest developments follow the release this morning by Egypt's COP Presidency of texts that provide a sketch of a potential final agreement. warming limit goal.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Ahead of COP 26, many of the UK's biggest companies have today warned Boris Johnson he has a 'limited window' to show genuine climate leadership. We need to see strong UK leadership built on a foundation of credible domestic action to carry the COP to a successful outcome.". The case for action is urgent, and stark.".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Research body argues government must fix 'uneven' decarbonisation policies that continue to drive customers towards high carbon activities. The COP presidency provides us with a unique position, an opportunity, to move the debate forward and to accelerate global progress," he said. "By

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The goings-on behind the scenes of COP 26, or kack thereof, have been well documented over the past few weeks. But despite the worrying progress of COP planning, all is far from being lost. The industry are expecting most of the decisions and pathways for the UK's road to Net Zero to be unveiled at COP.

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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. Carbon accounting is a must for any becoming business today.

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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. An embrace of regenerative agricultural practices and moderately more planet-friendly diets that free up some land for natural carbon sinks.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

But, in part because of the treasured objects they house, museums often have outsize carbon footprints — and they are also uniquely vulnerable to climate impacts. But, she added, museums can actually be some of the most carbon-intensive buildings in cities. dedicated to the climate crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2023

We analyzed hundreds of pages of documents filed with the U.S. Fossil Fuel Companies Made Bold Promises to Capture Carbon. By Michael Buchsbaum and Edward Donnelly Carbon capture and storage got so much buzz this year, but our reporters went beyond the hype. Department of Justice that shed light on a $6.4 From the U.S.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

And the suggested text invites parties to "consider further actions to reduce by 2030 non-carbon dioxide greenhouse gas emissions, including methane". The COP decision must put the world on a path to phasing out all fossil fuels and an urgent, just transition to renewables.". It also "requests parties that have not yet done so.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Documents released this morning strongly suggest significant dividing lines remain on a raft of key issues, including climate finance and adaptation funding, loss and damage, carbon markets, language around the phasing down of fossil fuels, and much more besides.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

A separate analysis just yesterday from a group of leading climate scientists warned global emissions were once again rising fast in the wake of the year of Covid-related lockdowns and as such the remaining carbon budget for keeping temperature increases below 1.5C COP26Glasgow is in danger of drowning the UNFCCC in announcement blitz.

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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. The oil-heavy delegations raise questions about the government’s intentions in Glasgow.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2022

Clearly, such issues are top of the government's list of priorities, as documents accompanying the speech published today conceded that "the fiscal outlook remains uncertain which is why we must continue with our work to repair the public finances and return them to a sustainable path". Non-Domestic Rating Bill. Public Order Bill.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

They are proud of the framework - and as they should be: It has the real potential to galvanise nearly every business in the UK to begin thinking about their own transition plans and the steps they will need to take to help achieve a carbon free future for the UK.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

Details of Transport Decarbonisation Plan revealed to Financial Times, as separate report suggest ministers are continuing to lock horns over the best way to introduce new carbon pricing mechanisms. The EU expects to eventually raise €10bn a year from a carbon tax on imports that it plans to introduce gradually from 2023.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2022

"Both on the issue [of fracking] and in terms of new oil and gas licences, I think what the UK government, indeed every government, has to demonstrate is how the policies that we're putting forward consistent with legally binding commitments on, in our case, getting to net zero by 2050, or indeed our near-term carbon budgets," he said.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

In 2020, leaked internal documents from BP showed how the firm sought to “reach influencers” in order to become “more relatable, passionate, and authentic” and “win the trust of the younger generation” – admitting that the company is “seen as one of the bad guys”. As the study also pointed out, however, these firms invested just 1.7

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

In my eyes, that certainly doesn't merit a big COP announcement. Grasslands, shrublands, peatlands and other carbon and biodiversity-rich ecosystems are also being plowed up too. The roadmap's definitions also bring up a geography question.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Darren Woods, the CEO of Exxon, celebrates the potential of carbon capture to dramatically reduce global emissions. Presided over by Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber , the head of Abu Dhabi’s state oil company, Adnoc, it is the most industry-influenced COP yet.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The first full negotiating texts are still not expected until later this evening, or potentially even tomorrow, according to Egypt's COP Presidency. But we are hoping that everyone will rise to the occasion by the end of COP, and realise that while the national interest is very important, something greater than that is at stake.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

For anyone involved in driving the net zero transition it is a crucial document that is well worth diving in to for more detail, but here are a handful of the most important takeaways: 1. Decarbonisation progress is well short of what is required, despite the pandemic. So the government is playing a pretty high stakes game here.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2021

The Strategy, although still lacking details on policy and financial support in certain areas - more of that is now expected in another related policy document next year - envisages hydrogen supporting 9,000 jobs and attracting £4bn investment by 2030, rising to 100,000 jobs by 2050 in an industry potentially worh £13bn.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

But this potential problem has to be set against the fact that the global carbon budget is being burnt through so quickly that the world may have had just one more cycle of improved NDCs to be submitted in 2025 before 1.5C Future COPs will re-open this debate and seek to extend it to gas and oil. would be truly dead and buried.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2020

Before we host the world at COP 26 in November, the UK must get its house in order, and go further and faster to reach net zero as soon as possible," the letter states. "In The UK was the first major economy in the world to legislate to go carbon neutral by 2050.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

What are the big priorities for COP? Finance will obviously be the enabling factor in making the kind of transition that is required, so it’s a problem if accounting systems continue to act as if nature is “free to use”, a key issue pinpointed earlier this year by The Dasgupta Review , hailed at the time as a landmark document.

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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. The cover document does retain some of the key breakthroughs delivered at last year's COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Nordhaus published an article in the American Economic Review entitled Can We Control Carbon Dioxide? Even so, it was a major breakthrough as the first COP to mention the temperature goals we are all familiar with today. It ended without much of a story, with the parties being called to the COP the following year.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

The government has repeatedly stressed that it will deliver a national net zero strategy this year, alongside the raft of promised sectoral policy documents and a Treasury-backed review of the economic costs and opportunities associated with the net zero transition. Not all of this is about public spending.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The Yorkshire-based biomass giant is among over a dozen signatories to an industry-backed document that claims bioenergy could increase its output to nearly threefold, and reduce net global emissions by over one billion tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2050. Despite this, the document offers an optimistic take on bioenergy.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

These damaging fishing methods also have a devasting impact on blue carbon habitats and ruin the fishing grounds of low-impact fishermen such as creelers.”. This is not just an ecological disaster – trawling adds to the climate emergency and urgently needs addressing ahead of COP 26.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

For the first time in 25 years of UN climate talks, coal and fossil fuel subsidies have been singled out in an official document. It is highly likely the row over phasing down or phasing out coal power will return in the coming years and the debate at future COPs will no doubt be extended to address oil and gas.

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2020

Low Carbon Farming, Black Mountain and Zero Carbon Yorkshire have joined a campaign that calls on the government to revise its low carbon heat strategy to support the development of large-scale heat pumps, a sector they contend could help the UK drive a green recovery to the pandemic.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

My question to my fellow world leaders this afternoon, as we enter the last hours of COP, is: Will you help us do that? Elsewhere, discussions over Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, the section which governs carbon markets and offsetting rules, appear to be progressing rather more smoothly.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2021

We need to protect our marine habitats and in return many will also help protect us from climate change by sequestering and storing carbon.”?. carbon back?into into the water column as the global aviation industry sends into the atmosphere annually, and that UK waters are the 4th largest global carbon emitter from 3.

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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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