DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

As with the last summit, the risk continues to be that greenwashing leaves governments with “a vision that tinkers around the edges,”rather than a transformative one that creates food systems that are resilient and restore ecosystems,” as Shefali Sharma, director of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), warned at COP27.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Building on the foundations of past conferences, especially Paris, to create a zero-carbon economy which will benefit our children and grandchildren. ??. In my first fortnight as COP President, I have been listening to those who have done this before. ?? In Glasgow, the world must ramp up momentum towards a zero-carbon economy.

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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. What can be done with the captured CO2?

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Heading into fall, this batch of career updates from the worlds of sustainability and business is somewhat top-heavy. Amid myriad social, health and political crises, business sustainability is alive and well and living the Paris Agreement. Mattel appointed Pamela Gill-Alabaster as head of global sustainability. Who's news.

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Business Green

AUGUST 4, 2020

The net zero strategy unveiled by BP earlier today has received plaudits from a number of unusual suspects, with Greenpeace, sustainable shareholder group Follow This, think tank Carbon Tracker, and UK envoys to the forthcoming COP26 climate conference all lining up to praise the sweeping new plan. BP's plan has scale. barrels per day.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

COP27's treatment of carbon markets was messy, and greenwashing crept back into the negotiations on Article 6 compliance markets. We can focus in the Commonwealth on driving financial flows into resilience and green growth - what does the Commonwealth stand for today if not that? That requires more and better diplomacy, not less.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Today at COP26, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development announced the Banking for Impact on Climate in Agriculture (B4ICA) initiative in partnership with EDF, the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative and the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

How can we radically collaborate to make the right choices – and the right investment decisions – to mobilize global markets and accelerate the establishment of a sustainable, low-carbon economy? Better data means better carbon accounting, and that means a clearer picture of the impact of our actions.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

EU energy emissions fall, Rwanda gets its first mini-grid, and Brazil preps a COP bid. EU carbon emissions from energy use have fallen five per cent over the past three months compared with the same period in 2021, according to a new analysis by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) for Carbon Brief.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

UN approves UK and Italian request for high profile Summit to be postponed by a full year, as co-hosts announce new 'Friends of COP' advisory board. The co-hosts also yesterday announced that they have expanded the team of senior figures working on the Summit with the appointment of a new "Friends of COP" advisory board.

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Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2022

It added it has previously been involved in partnerships with the World Economic Forum, UN High Level Climate Change Champions, successive COP presidencies, SBTi (Science Based Targets Initiative), CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project), Breakthrough Energy Catalyst, and First Movers Coalition.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

The ocean is the world's largest carbon sink and contains 95 per cent of the planet's biosphere. We praise countries for seeking compromises, putting aside differences and delivering a Treaty that will let us protect the oceans, build our resilience to climate change and safeguard the lives and livelihoods of billions of people."

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The curbing of emissions to reduce the concentration of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane in the environment. Following years of delays, at COP21 last year countries agreed on rules for the implementation of international carbon market mechanisms. Black carbon. Carbon market (including carbon offsets).

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

He is an executive director at the International Monetary Fund and has also been UN Special Envoy on Financing for the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda since February 2020. An Egyptian national, Mohieldin boasts more than 30 years' experience in international finance and development.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

All four companies have "ambitious and credible climate action plans" to drive down their emissions in line with climate science, and will "support the delivery of a successful and ambitious COP next November", the government said today. When it comes to climate action, we all have an important role to play.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 11, 2022

"Against the backdrop of ongoing global energy security challenges, organisations like the IMF and World Bank must do all they can to help developing countries move further and faster in tackling climate change, to support resilient economies powered by clean, renewable energy systems," he said.

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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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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. Rodgers defends meat-eating as sustainable and has spoken against measures to curb its consumption in rich countries.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2020

COP26 President steps up calls for 'clean, inclusive and resilient recovery' that delivers on the goals of the Paris Agreement, as polling reveals huge support for accelerate climate action. More ambition on adaptation and resilience, more ambition on mitigation, and more ambition on support to vulnerable countries.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2020

UK Director of Sustainability at WSP, David Symons, argues the UK environmental movement has to come out of this crisis in one piece, 'ready to crack on when the time is right'. Just a fortnight days ago, I was asking my son's class for their ideas to deliver a zero carbon world.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2020

UK Director of Sustainability at WSP, David Symons, argues the UK environmental movement has to come out of this crisis in one piece, 'ready to crack on when the time is right'. Just a fortnnight days ago, I was asking my son's class for their ideas to deliver a zero carbon world.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Businesses have a stake in the COP outcomes for three main reasons - let me explain. What do businesses want to see from the governments that's being discussed at COP? ºC ambition, climate finance, adaptation and resilience. There are major implications for carbon markets and border tax adjustments. ºC pathway.

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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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Business Green

MAY 14, 2021

Alok Sharma intent on holding 'most inclusive COP ever' in Glasgow, but it is not UK's gift alone to make in-person event happen. This is what makes the next United Nations Climate Conference in Glasgow, COP 26, so critical. If we are serious about 1.5C, Glasgow must be the COP that consigns coal power to history," he said.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

It is up to all of us to sustain our lodestar of keeping 1.5 Put a price on carbon. Build resilience of vulnerable communities against the here and now impacts of climate change. I also want particularly to thank COP President Alok Sharma who has worked incredibly hard to bring countries together. Phase out coal.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The plan promised to deploy a combination of policy interventions and funding to accelerate the UK development of offshore wind, green hydrogen, nuclear power, electric vehicles, public and active transport, green aviation and shipping, energy efficiency, carbon capture and storage, natural carbon sinks, and clean tech innovation and green finance.

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

This includes about $50 billion for resilience, $7.5 The COP 26 climate conference took place! We’ve talked about the action Stripe and Microsoft have taken to help jumpstart the market for verifiable carbon offsets. we’ve probably seen this the most in sustainable aviation fuels so far. For example, $7.5

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

°C without harnessing the power of NbS for both climate mitigation and resilience. NbS will play a critical role in achieving our climate goals because many of them both cut emissions from land-use and remove carbon from the atmosphere. What about the "risks and limitations"? Are there risks?

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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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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Eric Soubeiran, the company's vice president of nature and water cycle, explained that weaning the company off intensive farming is at the core of its new sustainability mission. If you really want to do sustainability well in a company, you need to know your business well," Soubeiran said.

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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 diplomacy 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 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 All over the world not nearly enough is being done to enhance climate resilience, leaving communities and economies exposed. Having recognised the desirability of achieving 1.5C

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2022

For companies and institutions that have made investments in nature-based solutions and/or buying carbon offsets part of their climate strategy, valuing Indigenous people's contributions means investing in their organizations and projects, and paying a fair price for offsets. "We We have the solutions already.". A rip-off of a price.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Subscribe to get sustainability food news in your inbox every Thursday. 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. This article originally appeared as part of our Food Weekly newsletter.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The IEA's findings come as a separate report from BloombergNEF has similarly set out how the world is making progress towards a more sustainable energy system - but needs to go much faster if global climate goals are to be met.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

The UK remains COP President until next November, when it will hand the baton over to Egypt, which is set host the COP27 Summit at the Red Sea beach resort of Sharm-el Sheikh. Indeed, there is no shortage of world-changing points of action for Sharma's COP team to be getting on with over the coming months. remained "weak".

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

Emissions may have fallen rapidly, but they are on course to rebound just as quickly to pre-pandemic levels as carbon-intensive transport use ramps up again, the CCC warns. There is a limited window to change behaviours," the report states. So the government is playing a pretty high stakes game here.

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