Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

On the plus side, the pact reaffirmed the central importance of 1.5C (our best chance to avoid the worst impacts of climate change), mentions coal and fossil fuels for the first time, and calls for countries to “revisit and strengthen” 2030 climate pledges by the end of 2022 instead of waiting another five years. (If

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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 report's conclusions received a positive response from investors and sustainable finance leaders.

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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 principally I learned that though this international system - the COP process - is imperfect and unwieldy, it can work," he added. "It And it is the best chance we have of tackling climate change. The former Business Secretary also revealed the UK was now considering its own formal response to the Glasgow Climate Pact.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Companies signed up to the Textiles 2030 campaign have endorsed a goal to slash the UK textiles industry's carbon emissions by 2050 in the next 10 years, in line with limiting global warming by 1.5C. The public, investment managers and policy makers are all demanding practical action, sustainable products and evidence of outcomes.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Second, that inaction or delayed action on climate will create immense risks and costs,and populations across the world demand leaders to respond - and to respond now. In short, climate is a space where national and global interests align. That report concluded that we have already reached average global warming of 1.1

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The moves came as the first glimpse of negotiating parties' positions was provided this morning, pointing to significant divergence between countries on a host of key issues - including climate finance, loss and damage, and the critical overarching 1.5C The future of humanity, without exaggeration, is at stake.

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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. National Centers for Environmental Prediction reported an average global temperature of 17.01°C,

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

As this year’s climate summit gets underway in Dubai, powerful food and farming companies are well positioned to ensure their interests are protected. They will use their connections to network, lobby – and even raise investment. This year will be different.

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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. of global warming.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

They claim the broad-ranging roadmap will deliver hundreds of thousands of new green jobs and unlock tens of billions of pounds of private investment, cementing the UK's place as a leader in multiple clean technologies. Once again, it has failed to recognise that the prudent, responsible choice is to sufficiently invest in a green transition.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

He has long defended the scientific consensus on climate change, and having been a fervent critic of the outgoing Liberal-National coalition government's weak green policies over the past three years, he touted this weekend's election results as "an opportunity to end the climate wars in Australia".

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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. We need to speed up the process of insulating homes and doing more in terms of buildings and offices," he said.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

"We recall our collective commitment to hold the global average temperature increase well below 2C and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5C As such, the communiqué has received a mixed response in climate diplomacy circles. are much lower than at 2C," states.

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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?

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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

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The UK is among a host of wealthier nations which have yet to stump up their "fair share" of funding to help developing countries decarbonise their economies and contend with the worsening impacts of climate change, despite a long-held pledge that they would collectively provide $100bn a year in climate funding by 2020.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

.” – UNFCCC , What is the United Nations Framework on Climate Change? Although this level was not defined by the convention, the aim was to allow ecosystems and society to adapt naturally to climate change, which means slowing global warming down. 30 years later came COP 26 (2021) – held in Glasgow.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Thousands of the world's leading climate scientists, after over three years of work, today delivered yet another landmark report on the state of the climate and ecological emergency the world now faces. Today's IPCC report is an atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of failed climate leadership.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

World’s top scientists have sounded alarm over intensifying impacts of climate change, warning that nature protection must be at the heart of efforts to tackle the problem. Hoesung Lee, chair of the IPCC, said the findings were a "dire warning" about the consequences of inaction on climate change. "It

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The proposed wording would be seen by many countries as a weakening of the ambition agreed in last year's Glasgow Climate Pact, which was signed at COP26 Climate Summit and saw countries commit more explicitly to supporting efforts to "keep 1.5C alive or this will be the COP where we lose 1.5C," he said.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Yet while that very broad assessment certainly remains true, today's intervention from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was always going to be a little different. This report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a litany of broken climate promises. on the table. And it is damning.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

There are a lot of major oil companies that tend to fill headlines when talking about climate change – BP, Shell, Chevron – any of the ‘big six’ public oil companies. Greenwashing Aramco has been accused of having the weakest climate pledges in an industry that is known for watering down its climate commitments.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Today the world's leading climate scientists delivered the clearest picture yet of the scale of the climate crisis that is already unfolding, as well as the likely impacts of further temperature rises over the course of century. The climate crisis poses enormous financial risk to investment managers, asset owners, and businesses.

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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.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 9, 2023

The best way to deliver energy security for the long-term is to insulate the nation, adopt abundant and affordable renewables, invest in storage technologies, and keep all new fossil fuels in the ground where they belong.” Meanwhile, the UAE and Qatar have each agreed to invest £10 billion in “priority” UK industries.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

An 'ambitious' new 2030 emissions reduction target, a 2030 phase out date for fossil fuel vehicles, and a major home energy retrofit programme are all on the Climate Coalition's short list, along with a raft of wider proposals designed to accelerate emissions reductions efforts over the coming decade. A climate infrastructure bank.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

And then there are the big picture climate threats that poorly managed land can rapidly amplify. As the World Resources Institute points out, "land is critically important - both as a source of greenhouse gas emissions and as a climate change solution". SDG 15 to the rescue? "It

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

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

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

We have determined a way forward on a decades-long conversation on funding for loss and damage - deliberating over how we address the impacts on communities whose lives and livelihoods have been ruined by the very worst impacts of climate change. "In degree limit alive and pull humanity back from the climate cliff.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

warming trajectory. 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

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

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The pledge was framed by the UN and COP26 Presidency as a critical mechanism to encourage nations to ratchet up underpowered climate plans in order to give the world a fighting chance of capping average global temperature rise at 1.5C The fact that only 24 new or updated climate plans were submitted since COP 26 is disappointing.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The pledge was framed by the UN and COP26 Presidency as a critical mechanism to encourage nations to ratchet up underpowered climate plans in order to give the world a fighting chance of capping average global temperature rise at 1.5C The fact that only 24 new or updated climate plans were submitted since COP 26 is disappointing.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

all of that, you know, COP is very important, it is very important to the government.". Wera Hobhouse, the Liberal Democrat spokesperson for energy and climate change, reflected that Johnson was "embarrassing Rishi Sunak into doing the right thing". The prime minister is WRONG not to go to COP," she wrote on Twitter.

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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.

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