DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Attendees are present from some of the world’s largest agribusiness firms – such as meatpacker JBS , fertiliser giant Nutrien, food giant Nestlé and pesticide firm Bayer – and powerful industry trade groups. A spokesperson from Bayer said it had brought delegates from across all divisions of its business to help fight climate change. “We

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The main obstacle presently is cost, at around $100-$800 per metric ton of CO2 abated, while afforestation and reforestation can be as low as $5-50/tCO2. DAC can also be installed on non-arable land and in any climate, so more countries could potentially participate. COP president Alok Sharma described it as “a fragile win”.

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Defend Our Future

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

We are going to save the world Young people around the world want solutions to climate change that center mitigation, adaptation, and a just transition. The work doesn’t stop here. Don’t miss a moment of the action – make sure you’re following along on Instagram @DefendOurFuture to follow along!

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Agribusiness delegates attending the climate talks at the Sharm el-Sheikh resort include the head of a U.S. meat lobby group that until recently claimed the extent of man-made climate change was “unknown”, as well as influential trade groups that have lobbied against climate action, DeSmog’s analysis found.

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Business Green

JANUARY 12, 2023

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has today announced the leadership team for the COP28 Climate Summit in Dubai later this year, confirming that the CEO of the state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Corporation (ADNOC), Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, has been appointed President-Designate for the conference.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

VIDEO: Leading scientist, policy advisor and author talks to BusinessGreen's James Murray about her new book on everyday climate actions, the challenges of COP negotiations, and the links between climate change and human rights. The conversation can be watched in full above.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2020

Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee has launched an inquiry into the UK's foreign diplomacy efforts around environmental issues, with a particular focus on preparations for the crucial COP26 UN climate change summit that is set to take place in Glasgow later this year.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The UK organisers of the upcoming COP26 climate summit have come under fire for approving just two events that refer to fossil fuels, the primary driver of climate change, in a programme of public events happening alongside the main conference.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The climate vulnerable hotspots - which the charity defined as those with the highest number of UN appeals driven by extreme weather events - have suffered a 123 per cent increase in acute hunger since 2016. The report found that the countries in the climate hotspots were collectively responsible for just 0.13

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2021

Ahead of next week's Net Zero Nature Summit, Sarah McDonald, vice president of sustainability at GSK Consumer Healthcare, reveals how the company is collaborating on a call to action to ensure climate and health strategies are better aligned. We hope that you'll join us.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. Leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda that calls for governments and industry to work together to find new solutions to climate change–driven food insecurity. The files also detail collaborations planned for the event itself.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Google says it has cracked down on climate misinformation on its platforms. But the company is still taking money from oil and gas companies to place adverts in search results that present their industry as environmentally friendly, a report found. Conflict of interest.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The UN climate talks hosted in Dubai this month will shine a bright light on the pivotal role national oil companies, like UAE’s Abu Dhabi National Company (ADNOC), can and ultimately must play in the fight against climate change – particularly the urgent need to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas supply chain.

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Even so, we haven’t yet made anywhere near the progress required to avoid the worst effects of the climate emergency. Today, under a special program financed by the Norwegian government, Planet’s data helps power the UN’s REDD+ program, a mechanism developed under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

From the hallways of COP27, the NDC Parnership's Pablo Vieira reflects on the innovative ways developing countries are working with private financiers to cut emissions and adapt to climate change. How to achieve this is the focus of the conversations throughout COP. Let's work together to develop and present these opportunities.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

Oil and gas supermajors including Shell and BP are using UK influencers to push false solutions to the climate crisis and manufacture a more family friendly image, DeSmog can reveal. While there’s more knowledge in general around climate change and the harms of fossil fuels, I think that people have a lot of trust in creators.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

In a speech yesterday afternoon, Guterres said that while the pandemic poses major challenges for the UN process to drive global climate action in line with the Paris Agreement, national negotiators must adapt to carry out initial talks online as "the stakes are too high to do otherwise". We need a political decision," Guterres added. "We

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Climate change and the loss of nature are two intersecting crises that face the global economy. This potential shock becomes even more concerning when we realise that these regions are also profoundly exposed to the mounting physical costs of climate change. The same process is now starting for biodiversity.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

World leaders are gathering in Glasgow to debate, broker and hopefully achieve agreement on actions to prevent climate change. They provide an opportunity for international climate fairness and are a crucial technological solution to our changing climate. We stand at a breaking point of the climate crisis.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

I am determined to ensure Glasgow is as inclusive as possible, in spite of the challenges presented by Covid-19". "I On a day dedicated to exploring adaptation, loss and damage, communities on the front line of climate change will share their experiences and ministers will discuss the best ways to adapt to escalating climate impacts.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Moreover, at present the rules proposed by the government do not apply to financial firms investing in such commodities, only firms which trade in them. National governments at the talks are set to thrash out the terms of a headline treaty to halt global destruction of biodiversity, akin to the Paris Agreement brokered in 2015 for climate.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

With the completion of our Silvanet architecture and device designs, we are on track to achieve our mission of digitizing forests, and combatting wildfires and climate change, by helping to protect the natural world.” ” The Dryad Silvanet solar-powered mesh gateway. Dryad previously received seed funding of €1.8m

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Green businesses, politicians, and environmental groups react to Court of Appeal's momentous ruling against a third Heathrow runway on climate change grounds. That, in our view, is legally fatal to the [policy] in its present form. It is certainly far from the end of the matter, however.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

As such, he ruled the government had failed to meet its obligations under Climate Change Act 2008 (CCA) and ordered Ministers to update the plan and present it to Parliament by April 2023. This landmark ruling is a huge victory for climate justice and government transparency. We need to look at the plan.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

This new centre will advance the UK's leadership in green finance and bring forward the day when firms can access environmental data and analytics for every place on Earth, past, present and future.". It's a net zero COP. That's the objective. That's the expectation.".

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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. Climate change does not recognise borders. degrees limit within two decades.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Green businesses, politicians, and environmental groups react to Court of Appeal's momentous ruling against a third Heathrow runway on climate change grounds. That, in our view, is legally fatal to the [policy] in its present form. It is certainly far from the end of the matter, however.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

What is said to be the world’s first hydrogen powered double decker bus stopped off at the Baxi factory in Bamber Bridge, on its way to the 26th UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow. On top of all of this – it is 100 per cent green, with water being the only by-product.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Sunak himself, meanwhile, has no plans to attend next month's critical COP27 UN Climate Summit in Egypt, Downing Street has reportedly confirmed today. He has also had stints as a Transport Minister and Health Minister, and served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of State for Climate Change from 2010 to 2011.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

These agri-giants will be rubbing shoulders with over 80,000 participants – the highest attendance of any climate conference – which these days comes with increased media fanfare and activity, including protests, side events, drinks and dinners happening in and around the main event. This year will be different.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

The think tank's new report - which follows a year-long study into the risks presented by "environmental breakdown" - concludes the overall environmental crisis has reached critical levels that have been amplified by a "historic disregard" for the destruction of nature. But the UK is not alone.

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

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

A roadmap can show exactly what the steps to meeting climate change goals, minimising impacts of the climate crisis and reaping business benefits. As part of Arla's roadmap to reducing on-farm (scope three) emissions by 30 per cent, we have been pushed to critically breakdown these targets and show progress in the present.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Tackling climate change is often presented as a complex challenge, and in many respects that's true. Failing to do so means missing our climate targets - and it means missing investment opportunities in sectors which could deliver major economic benefits and nationwide growth. The need for speed. From targets to delivery.

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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 principally I learned that though this international system - the COP process - is imperfect and unwieldy, it can work," he added. "It

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

The proposal paper on mitigation points to arguably weaker language compared to that agreed in Glasgow, presenting a potential challenge to the likes of the UK, EU, the US, and some poorer nations, which have been pushing for more ambitious action on decarbonisation. as the key goal of the Paris Agreement.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2020

The announcement comes ahead of the first meeting of the new regular cabinet committee on tackling climate change, which had been promised by Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The government is inching towards greener fuels, but the UK is still way off track to meet its climate targets," he said. "If

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