EDF + Business

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Food & ag companies have a unique opportunity to signal to investors, policymakers and consumers that they are investing in and adopting solutions to drive down global emissions and incorporate nature as a critical part of their climate strategies. Invest in new innovations that can drive further reductions over time.

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Agriculture COP Methane Soil 57

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

Decarbonising steel requires innovation in the fields of renewable energy, hydrogen technology, and carbon capture and storage, said the authors. Steel production is the world’s second biggest emitter of carbon dioxide after concrete, with an average of 1.85 tonnes of CO2 emitted for every tonne of steel produced worldwide.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 22, 2024

The year 2023 was a record-setting year for investment and growth in clean energy, with the International Energy Agency projecting over 500GW of new renewable capacity to come online by year-end globally. These policies and roadmaps will not be developed in a vacuum. shares his expectations for the clean energy transition in 2024.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Glasgow moved us a step closer to this goal, with almost 200 countries pledging to “phase down” unabated coal power in the final text (“unabated” refers to coal power without carbon capture and storage). Firstly, improving disclosures so that investors have a better understanding of the climate risks or opportunities of their investments.

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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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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

Decisions made during this Parliament on infrastructure and investment will be critical in delivering a net zero economy, argues EAC chair Philip Dunne MP. The government can adapt what has worked well from its swift and immediate response and apply such learning to the economic recovery by putting climate-friendly policies at its core.

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Government Policy Climate change Carbon 93

Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Industry Voice: Delivering net zero is at its heart a challenge of delivering investment across multiple sectors, explains Phoenix Group. The International Energy Agency's net zero scenario estimates a clean energy investment requirement of over $4tr per annum by 2030. But in other ways, the net zero transition is straightforward.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

The government is failing to back up its climate commitments with credible action, with almost all its green policy efforts marred by uncertainty, delay, and a insufficient engagement with the public about the scale of changes ahead, and time rapidly running out for Ministers to get the UK's net zero agenda on track.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

When approached for comment, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) distanced itself from the discussions, saying they were “independent of government” and had “not been part of our policy-making process”. “No As the COP host, the U.K. for the climate compatibility checkpoint?. “?Discussions Discussions ?on

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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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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Rich countries are forcing an agreement full of escape hatches: carbon markets, nature-based solutions and ‘net zero by the middle of the century’ are all ways for them to get out of making the real emissions cuts we need to prevent climate catastrophe.”. Carbon trading. Carbon capture.

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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. Stable and enduring policies that cover all key emitting economic sectors and reward investment and innovation in reducing emissions will be needed," he said.

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Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 86

Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

VCM Global Dialogue publishes its conclusions on how to shape the voluntary carbon market from the perspective of developing countries. Today's report stresses that voluntary carbon markets must complement, rather than replace, corporate and governmental efforts to slash absolute emissions.

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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. You will also need to align other government policies and action across transport, housing, our natural environment and our international aid budget.".

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COP Government Policy Climate change 101

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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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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Fossil fuels COP Investment Demand 52

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. He was also the founding CEO of the UAE's Masdar clean tech investment arm, and as CEO of ADNOC has instigated a $15bn decarbonisation strategy at the oil and gas giant.

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Fossil fuels COP Climate change Government 82

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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Carbon Electricity Government Policy 72

GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 21, 2019

government has aligned national policy to phase out coal use, its very own central bank, which has been the world’s most vocal financial champion of limiting the risk from climate change, is conspicuously absent in that effort. Over 110 globally significant financial institutions now have a coal exclusion policy. Indeed, the U.K.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

COP27 partner Hassan Allam Holding , one of the largest privately owned corporations in Egypt, has announced plans to invest $17.1 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.

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Fossil fuels COP Plastics Pollution 97

Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Domestic Climate Policy Gets Real. Nearly $370b in tax credits, clean energy incentives, and investments in green innovation are intended to dramatically accelerate domestic decarbonization in sectors from energy to manufacturing. Here are my four key takeaways: U.S. built things like the Hoover Dam and the Interstate Highway System.

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Carbon-negative COP Climate change Biodiversity 98

Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Businesses have a stake in the COP outcomes for three main reasons - let me explain. They are already investing in decarbonisation. By doing so they are also giving government leaders the confidence to step up and set the policies and regulations that will support their efforts on climate and enable them to go further and faster.

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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Green business groups and campaigners welcome the government's renewed focus on the net zero transition, but warn plan lacks long-term policies and sufficient funding in key areas. It gives a springboard to the huge opportunities for UK-wide investment and green jobs that a true low-carbon economy can bring.

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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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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

These offered policy makers a more effective tool to control deployment rates, and a way to procure increasingly low-cost power. Pairing PV with ever-cheaper batteries can offer firm zero-carbon power; pairing with existing fossil fuel generators can reduce the carbon intensity of power supply.

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COP Fossil fuels Government Africa 130

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

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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Fossil fuels Government Carbon COP 83

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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Fossil fuels Methane Carbon-neutral Technology 122

Low Impact

AUGUST 11, 2021

All governments, including the UK, are telling us that they’re laser-focused on reducing carbon emissions. Kwasi Kwarteng was on Radio 4 on Monday, explaining how the UK has managed to ‘decouple’ economic growth and carbon emissions. Read the report here BNEF-Climate-Policy-Factbook_FINAL.pdf (bbhub.io).

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Fossil fuels Packaging Government Carbon 101

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. If we're going to put in the right investment for decarbonising transport, let's do it right and futureproof for the long-term.".

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Transportation Government Policy Carbon 84

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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Policy Carbon North America Europe 66

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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Innovation Technology Methane Fossil fuels 105

Smart Energy International

AUGUST 24, 2022

The event will host energy ecosystem stakeholders to unpack the industry’s priorities including its strategic roadmaps, visionary reforms, low cost capital investments and breakthrough technologies for building India’s long term self-reliance in energy. As a large developing economy with over 1.3

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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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Politics Fossil fuels Policy Carbon 101

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. Despite the Covid-19 crisis, we have accelerated action, the COP has responded to the IPCC's call to close the gap towards 1.5, Phase out coal. and coal is in the text.

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Fossil fuels COP Global warming Politics 81

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. This is the risk of COP.".

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