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NOVEMBER 15, 2021

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Grist

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

If countries fully implemented their plans to cut carbon emissions as currently promised under the Paris Agreement framework, the planet will still warm 2.9 Assuming a world in which countries also meet their current goals to zero out net carbon emissions in the coming decades, temperatures will still increase about 2.5

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2023

From the Global Team American PR Firm Edelman Enabled Oil Baron Al Jaber’s Ascension to Lead COP28 Climate Conference By Cartie Werthman In 2023 we returned to our roots and investigated the ongoing relationship between the fossil fuel industry and advertising and public relations firms. Department of Justice that shed light on a $6.4

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Is the COP27 Summit that kicks off in Sharm El Sheikh this weekend the most important COP meeting yet, and therefore one of the most critical gatherings in the entire history of humanity? It is, by the admission of the Egyptian hosts, an "implementation COP". If COPs did not exist you would need to invent them.

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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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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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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

degrees C target was initially established as a target in Paris in 2015 after a push by developing nations at a previous COP, to bring attention to the fact that global warming does not impact all nations equally. For context, it has taken the world more than a century to warm a little more than 1 degree C, according to NASA.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Don't listen to the fossil fuel enthusiasts pushing fracking as a solution for the UK's currently volatile energy market, argues ECIU's Dr Simon Cran-McGreehin. 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.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Dubbed the Glasgow Climate Pact, the agreement crucially puts pressure on countries to come foward next year with updated climate plans, promises more funding for climate adaptation, and for the first time ever includes explicit references to the need to drive down coal and phase out fossil fuel subsidies. Put a price on carbon.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2020

International summits to progress a global oceans treaty and mid-year UNFCCC talks have been postponed, while even more crucially COP26 and the much anticipated 'Biodiversity COP' are now set to take place next year. So, if companies can't expect clear political direction, will the upsurge in climate activism keep corporate minds focused?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

But while the COP27 Presidency may insist the talks are advancing as planned, the mood among many of the delegates in the COP complex remains dour, with a growing expectation the fraught negotiations will continue deep into the weekend. "I don't think we have anything to worry about," he said. "I I hope I'm not wrong".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The previous timetable for updating NDCs would have meant they would only have been improved once or maybe twice before the available carbon budget for 1.5C The fossil fuel problem is being named. Having recognised the desirability of achieving 1.5C of warming was completely burned through. is barely alive.

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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. With the new President in place COP will hopefully be back on track, allowing everyone to continue speculating what the conference will look like.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

But group of petrostates resist calls to phase down fossil fuels and accelerate decarbonisation efforts. It just shows that this UN process can achieve results, and that the world can recognise the plight of the vulnerable must not be treated as a political football.". The phasedown of all fossil fuels is not in this text.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Instead, thanks to asset purchasing programs such as quantitative easing where the Bank has bought up wide swathes of corporate bonds, the institution has actually skewed its own balance sheet toward high carbon purchases, according to the London School of Economics. Its purchases include the one thing the U.K. ’ The role of U.K.-based

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

as the key target for the Paris Agreement and reiterates last year's promise to deliver a "phasing down" of unabated coal power and a "phasing out" of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies. And the suggested text invites parties to "consider further actions to reduce by 2030 non-carbon dioxide greenhouse gas emissions, including methane".

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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

JULY 26, 2021

G20 agrees to submit enhanced Paris Agreement plans ahead of COP26, but fails to agree coal power and fossil fuel subsidy phase outs. Under the Paris Agreement, signatories are expected to ramp up their national climate pledges every five years in order to help limit temperature rise to 1.5C

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The appeals underscored how for many nations, the success of the Sharm El Sheikh Summit depends on its ability to deliver real progress towards the launch of a dedicated funding mechanism for Loss and Damage, after the contentious issue made it on to a COP agenda for the first time this year.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The Exploration Task Force – a “collaborative structure” between the oil and gas industry and its regulator – lists its purpose as maintaining North Sea “exploration and activity” while supporting the “transition towards a net zero carbon future and beyond”. As the COP host, the U.K. Preferential Treatment’.

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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. Millions of people have already been displaced and millions more will lose their homes between now and the next COP.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Meanwhile, key decisions over controversial Cumbrian coal mines and North Sea oil and gas projects are also likely to be made before the end of 2021, providing a clear test of how serious the government is about the transition away from fossil fuels. Nobody has got the full picture in a COP. This is the risk of COP.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

From Loss and Damage and just transitions to rows over fossil fuel phase outs and carbon markets, we take a look at some of the key lessons for businesses from COP27. Like the World Cup that kicked off within hours of the gavel coming down in Sharm El Sheikh, COPs provide a regular temperature check for global geopolitics.

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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

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. There has been movement but I would be exaggerating if I said it was matching exactly what the political statements are," said Aboulmagd.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Ministers have said the UK should continue to develop gas projects that can act as a "bridge" to a net zero emission economy in conjunction with carbon capture and storage technologies. We are inevitability growing the market for fossil fuels by increasing production in the UK, and that will have a climate impact," Stark said. "We

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Business Green

APRIL 26, 2020

The two-day Petersberg Climate Dialogue has long been a key event in the annual climate calendar, with environment ministers from around 30 countries typically coming together to thrash out priorities and preparations for the following United Nations COP climate summit.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

If a week is a long time in politics, a year can feel like a lifetime - and that's almost the exact amount of time that has passed since the UK hosted the COP26 Summit. First, we need to double-down in our efforts to develop effective carbon markets. Key to securing progress is grappling with thorny issues left unresolved in Glasgow.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

The Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) - all of which have already committed to end their carbon emissions by 2050 - were particularly strong on that point, declaring : 'Action must begin now and increased ambition must be communicated now.'. More twists in this virus. So - job done?

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Fossil fuels get named and shamed. For the first time in 25 years of UN climate talks, coal and fossil fuel subsidies have been singled out in an official document. Rules on carbon markets finally wrapped.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

per cent of global carbon emissions as well as sitting in the bottom third of countries least ready for climate change. In contrast, Oxfam found that polluting industrialised nations such as those of the G20 - which control 80 per cent of the world's economy - are together responsible for over three-quarters of the world's carbon emissions.

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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. We need the animal agriculture equivalent of ‘keep it in the ground’ for fossil fuels,” she adds. “It’s

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2021

Here, BusinessGreen rounds up the reaction from a host of leading figures and organisations from across politics, business, NGOs, academia and think tanks offer their views on the Strategy and its many implications for the UK's net zero transition.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Green business leaders will be hoping Sunak reaffirms his commitment to the UK's net zero target and provide markets with much-needed policy clarity to support the net zero transition following weeks of political turmoil, policy U-turns and economic upheaval.

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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. We can only really perhaps get the highest ambition on mitigation if we also see a strong breakthrough on loss and damage.

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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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