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

MAY 16, 2022

In speech to mark sixth month anniversary of Glasgow Summit, COP26 President argues 'net zero means security, prosperity, and preventing the problems of the present from growing inexorably'. But Sharma insisted the Energy Security Strategy could see the UK secure 95 per cent of its power from low carbon sources by 2030. It can deliver.

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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 one can't really present oneself as a top student when the stakes are too low. We need much higher ambition.". The future of humanity, without exaggeration, is at stake.

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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

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Meanwhile, global emissions are spiralling upwards again as the economy recovers and surging fossil fuel prices are driving fears that a new wave of high carbon infrastructure investment could yet be unleashed. of warming. in the current decade? pathway by 2030. This is where the ETC's six-pronged action plan comes in. "We

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Nordhaus published an article in the American Economic Review entitled Can We Control Carbon Dioxide? For the first time, it proposed encompassing all the gases that cause global warming in a single indicator. Even so, it was a major breakthrough as the first COP to mention the temperature goals we are all familiar with today.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

That report concluded that we have already reached average global warming of 1.1 Just as the science has become starker, the risks have become clearer, and the calls to action have grown louder, the opportunities presented by tackling climate change are increasingly evident. degrees limit within two decades.

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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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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.

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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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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. However, evidence of the efficacy of carbon capture technology at scale is highly dubious. And the captured carbon is often merely used to extract more oil. billion worth of fossil fuels from Saudi Arabia.

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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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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. degree Celsius warming trajectory. COP is and remains, fundamentally, a policy event.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

At present there are 44 countries with no plans to construct any new coal power plants, putting them in a position to join the 40 countries which have already pledged to stop building new facilities since 2015, a report by the climate NGOs calculates.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Unchecked carbon pollution is forcing the world's most vulnerable on a frog march to destruction - now. The reality remains that companies need to halve emissions by 2030 if we are to have any chance of limiting global warming.". Nearly half of humanity is living in the danger zone - now. The facts are undeniable.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree I am asking corporate leaders to support a minimum international carbon price and align their portfolios with the Paris Agreement. The public and private sector must work together to ensure a just and rapid transformation to a net zero global economy.

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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. And yet despite the huge clear and present threat to critical environments, every year the global economy puts ever more pressure on global ecosystems and biodiversity.

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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.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2021

We either choose to achieve rapid and large-scale reductions of emissions to keep the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C, or we accept that humanity faces a bleak future on this planet.". The countries most responsible for historic[al] and present day emissions are not yet doing their fair share of the work," Johnson said. "If

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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. Achieving global climate targets, the report notes, will require substantial increases in climate finance, in addition to a phase-out of underwriting and subsidising of many carbon-intensive industries by financial players and governments.

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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. Achieving global climate targets, the report notes, will require substantial increases in climate finance, in addition to a phase-out of underwriting and subsidising of many carbon-intensive industries by financial players and governments.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 6, 2019

About 200 countries are presently convened for the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP 25 in Madrid. The Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Climate Change (COP) is tasked with making sure the agreements under the Paris Climate Accord are met. degrees above if possible. and EU declined. But in the U.S.,

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow next month is likely to fall short of putting the world on track to avert dangerous levels of global warming, but diplomats and analysts are cautiously optimistic it could deliver several breakthroughs and broadly deliver on the UK hosts' stated goal of 'keeping 1.5C goal within grasp.

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