Business Green

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The world's top diplomat used a speech today at the UN headquarters in New York City to deliver a characteristically stark warning of the impending climate and biodiversity crises facing the world, noting global warming risks "hurtling past" the 1.5C threshold without urgent action this decade.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Put a price on carbon. I also want particularly to thank COP President Alok Sharma who has worked incredibly hard to bring countries together. But today's agreement is a big step forward and, critically, we have the first ever international agreement to phase down coal and a roadmap to limit global warming to 1.5

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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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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

of warming. (If If longer-term net-zero pledges are achieved, which is less certain at this point, global warming could be contained to 1.8C.) On top of this, 46 countries signed up to the Global Coal to Clean Power Transition Statement to phase out coal in the 2030s (for rich countries) and 2040s (for developing ones).

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has declared that 2022 could mark a "vital turning point" in the drive to use energy more efficiently, after record investment was directed to measures that reduce consumption of energy, from building renovations to public transport upgrades and electric car infrastructure.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The documents, which were produced by the industry-funded Global Meat Alliance (GMA), emphasise the meat lobby’s desire to promote “our scientific evidence” at the summit, which will run from November 30 through to December 12. Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2022

But Sharma insisted the Energy Security Strategy could see the UK secure 95 per cent of its power from low carbon sources by 2030. But principally I learned that though this international system - the COP process - is imperfect and unwieldy, it can work," he added. "It It can deliver.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

MPs on Parliament's Work and Pensions Committee (WPC) have urged the government to lead a global push to align pension schemes with climate goals when it hosts world leaders in Glasgow next month for the COP26 UN climate summit. The Committee also said government policy must "prioritise good pension scheme stewardship over divestment".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2022

COP26 President also argues ramping up clean energy investment and insulating homes should be top priorities for Rishi Sunak as Britain's new Prime Minister. Current targets will enable the UK to meet carbon budgets three and four, which cover the periods of 2018-2022 and 2023-2027 respectively, according to the assessment.

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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Anger is building over the failure to secure much-needed commitments towards phasing out unabated fossil fuels and tackling near-term emissions as part of the final agreement brokered at COP27 over the weekend, with critics warning the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C are hanging by the thinnest of threads.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

BusinessGreen rounds up the best of the reaction from the low carbon economy to the government's flagship roadmap for achieving net zero emissions by 2050. Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said: "There is a global race to develop new green technology, kick-start new industries and attract private investment.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 19, 2023

This story was originally published by The Energy Mix Weekender , and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate crisis. We must invest in the energy system of today as unpopular as it sounds,” declared BP CEO Bernard Looney. “If

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The climate crisis may have stayed near the top of the political and corporate agenda, net zero commitments have come thick and fast, and renewable and electric vehicle investment may have toppled records, but there is barely a country on the planet on track to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. in the current decade? pathway by 2030.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

That report concluded that we have already reached average global warming of 1.1 Though policy choices could reduce this figure, and I would add that it includes investments with long term benefits. He wrote, and I quote: "It's been two years since I wrote that climate risk is investment risk. degree limit within reach.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

Yesterday's communiqué agrees to "phase-out and rationalise, over the medium term, inefficient fossil fuel subsidies", and makes no direct reference to coal power, instead calling for investment in carbon capture and similar technologies to abate the emissions of fossil fuels. goal without the leadership of the G20.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

And, echoing the demands of many developing nations, Guterres stressed that progress on Loss and Damage - a thorny issue surrounding new forms funding for climate vulnerable nations facing the brunt of global warming impacts - should serve as a "litmus test" for the success of COP27 as a whole. It is a moral imperative.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2023

The IPR, which was founded by the UN-affiliate investor group the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), highlighted a raft of significant new climate policy announcements and investment plans from major Western economies in the past three months.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

alive or this will be the COP where we lose 1.5C," he said. You need to work out how you want future generations to look upon this COP and each of us individually as countries. alive" by "undertaking rapid, deep and sustained cuts" in greenhouse gas emissions. goal, arguing that "every fraction of a degree matters".

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

Although Labor has refused to back a phase out of coal use or block the opening of new coal mines in Australia - which remains one of the world's biggest exporters of the carbon-intensive fossil fuel - the party has promised to adopt more ambitious emissions targets and turn the nation into a global renewable energy 'superpower'.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

And so today's report's conclusion that while the scale of the challenge is monumental - the world must peak emissions by 2025, before halving them by 2030 - it also encouragingly makes clear that the world already has all of the tools it needs to achieve these aims, in order to keep the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 12, 2022

Methane is a powerful climate warmer — 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide for the first two decades after it’s emitted. Methane from oil and gas operations, agriculture and other industries is responsible for at least 25% of the global warming we experience today. Investors can help raise ambition.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The findings highlight how human-induced climate change, alongside deforestation, pollution and land use change, is hampering nature's ability to provide services essential to human life, such as coastal protection, food supply or climate regulation through the capture and storage of carbon from the atmosphere. The facts are undeniable.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In the past, the company has under-reported its carbon footprint by as much as 50 percent in an effort to attract investors. billion investment in clean energy projects for the Middle East, and $187 billion domestically, is dwarfed by the annual income of Aramco from oil extraction. billion worth of fossil fuels from Saudi Arabia.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

And there in lies the rub for policymakers, businesses and investors: more ambition and speed is urgently needed, but investing in adaptation efforts works and will help reduce intensifying risks and economic costs, if done correctly, the report suggests. Nearly half of humanity is living in the danger zone - now. The facts are undeniable.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

It has been announced as a key pillar of the UK's first individual Paris Agreement plan, or nationally-determined contribution (NDC) in UN jargon, with its previous global decarbonisation pledges to the UN having formed part of the European Union's NDC. This is important progress but not sufficient. It is action that counts.".

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree By 2030, solar and wind capacity should quadruple and renewable energy investments should triple to maintain a net zero trajectory by mid-century. The climate crisis poses enormous financial risk to investment managers, asset owners, and businesses.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The UK will only be successful in galvanising global climate action ahead of COP 26 if it gets its own house in order," said Clara Goldsmith, campaigns director of the Climate Coalition. But will the government deliver the scale of investment and detailed policy frameworks required to unlock real progress?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

If designed well and properly adhered to, global treaties have a lot going for them. COP talks each year are often fraught and progress remains far too slow, as today's IPCC report on escalating climate impacts will testify. The Paris Agreement on climate change, signed into life in 2015, may not be perfect.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

When well managed the land helps regulate water and air quality, sequester and store carbon, and minimise flood and soil erosion risks. At the same time, keeping global warming to well below 2C can be achieved only by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from all sectors including land and food.". SDG 15 to the rescue?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

This COP has taken an important step towards justice. We need to drastically reduce emissions now - and this is an issue this COP did not address. Developed countries must make good on the existing US $100bn per year pledge to support low income countries to deliver carbon-cutting policies and increase resilience to climate impacts.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Scientists have made clear that global emissions cuts of 45 per cent by 2030 are needed to stand a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C, yet UN analysis suggests that present national commitments would see emissions rise by 16 per cent by the end of the decade, compared to 2010. could be burned through in just 11 years. "The

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

On almost all of the key issues - ramping up climate finance for developing nations, doubling adaptation finance, agreeing a new loss and damage fund to support countries suffering the fallout from climate impacts, establishing certain rules governing global carbon markets, and ensuring ambitious language around the 1.5C has dwindled.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

US re-joins High Ambition Coalition, as snap analysis suggests commitments made in Glasgow could bring global warming trajectories down below 2C for the first time. warming pathway. Nick Mabey, co-founder and CEO of climate think tank E3G, said the HAC grouping "makes the political weather at COP".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The fact that only 24 new or updated climate plans were submitted since COP 26 is disappointing. But overall, it emphasises that far more action is needed, not least in unlocking billions of dollars of green investment and climate finance in order to drive the transition to net zero.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 27, 2023

While the summit reaffirmed the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, C, a stark assessment revealed that current emission reduction pledges put the world on course for warming of 2.9°C. COP president Sultan Al-Jaber, head of the UAE’s state oil company, faced accusations of using his position to promote fossil fuels.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The fact that only 24 new or updated climate plans were submitted since COP 26 is disappointing. But overall, it emphasises that far more action is needed, not least in unlocking billions of dollars of green investment and climate finance in order to drive the transition to net zero.

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