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 But one can't really present oneself as a top student when the stakes are too low.

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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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

In 2015, nearly 200 countries agreed to “Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C C above pre-industrial levels , recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change”.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Graham Stuart - who at present remains Climate Minister in BEIS, despite a cabinet reshuffle yesterday - has insisted the UK's plans to expand oil and gas production in the North Sea is still compatible with climate goals, arguing domestic fossil fuels production is less emissions-intensive than imports.

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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 Without more ambitious climate commitment and actions from these countries in particular, green groups warn COP26 will be seen as a failure. are much lower than at 2C," states.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Or, to take the question the Energy Transitions Commission (ETC) has sought to answer: what precise actions does the world need to take to limit global warming to 1.5C of warming. The US and EU are planning to launch a Global Methane Pledge at COP26 which has already won the backing of several other nations, including the UK.

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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

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

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

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

APRIL 4, 2022

Green business figures, politicians, environmental groups, economists and more react to leading climate experts' assessment of the solutions needed to deliver net zero. This report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a litany of broken climate promises. on the table. And it is damning. degrees Celsius.

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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. A Guardian investigation found that one in five ads served on search results around climate change were placed by oil firms.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Industry Voice: Schneider Electric's Amy Haddon ponders whether the UN Climate Change Summit delivered on businesses' hopes. In November, I had the privilege to represent Schneider Electric at the UN's Conference of Parties (COP) on climate change in Glasgow. In reality, the current pledges align more closely to 2.7

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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. Everything we need to avoid the exponential impacts of climate change is doable.

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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 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?

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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 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

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, 2021

UN climate chief Patricia Espinosa today proclaimed that "success is entirely possible" in Glasgow, as the long-delayed COP26 UN Climate Summit kicked off on a cautiously-optimistic note amid a flurry of fresh commitments from the likes of Israel, Italy, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.

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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.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The Glasgow Climate Summit is unlikely to bring the world into line with the Paris Agreement's goals, but there is growing optimism it can deliver a lot more than 'blah, blah, blah'. Global carbon emissions fell by a record 5.8 alive', despite widespread scepticism amongst environmental activists.

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