Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Three weeks away from the 26th Conference of the Parties ( COP26 ), the World Biogas Association (WBA) is preparing to travel to Glasgow to represent the global biogas industry at the UN Climate Summit and demonstrate the value of the biogas industry in tackling climate change. That is what we at the WBA are aiming to achieve.”

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Helen Clarkson: I love a bit of COP. I'm in my own world and it is nice to see a lot of people working on climate. And this year, seeing the mainstream media get their head around climate change - working out 'what is good, what is bad' is great. BusinessGreen : How are you enjoying Glasgow? This is a tricky issue.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

And in 2018 he helped set up the Greentech Festival alongside engineers and entrepreneurs Marco Voigt and Sven Krüger in a bid to "bring the enormous potential of green technologies to life". Because 15 years' ago, a COP would not have been like that. Is the sporting world doing enough on climate change?

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

The UN Climate Change Conference is only a few months away, and to say that expectations are high would be an understatement. What are the big priorities for COP? She believed good progress was being made on Adaptation (the effort to secure protection for habitats and communities against the effects of climate change).

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Research engineers at Heriot-Watt University in Dubai are launching a solar energy testing facility to help companies in the UK and other countries to develop and test new solar technologies. COP 28 – the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference – will be hosted in Dubai this November and December.

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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2021

The complainants are similarly looking to contest Santos' claims that it has a "clear and credible" plan to achieve net zero emissions by 2040 which largely relies on carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2024

agriculture’s story” at the climate summit last December. Campaigners and climate scientists had hoped the summit – which was billed as a “Food COP” due to its focus on farming – would see governments agree to ambitious action to transform food systems in line with the goals of the Paris climate agreement.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

For these communities, climate change is existential. Too much of the conversation around smallholder farmers has focused on the deployment of new technologies. We can see this in Indonesia , where the government has fallen back on digital methods to compensate for underinvestment in adapting farming to climate change.

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Grist

DECEMBER 13, 2023

” Gaurab Basu, physician and climate advocate The spotlight COP28, this year’s annual Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, wrapped up Wednesday morning in Dubai. “That’s one thing that I do like about COP. Here’s what they had to say.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2020

The government has been urged by MPs to ensure climate change remains a top priority despite last week's postponement of COP26, as Parliament's Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) launched a new inquiry looking at the role of low carbon technologies in driving towards net zero emissions.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

A new China-US bilateral agreement to cooperate on emissions reductions – another of the apparent consolations to be drawn from a disappointing COP – seemed to include a major commitment to the “deployment and application of technology such as CCUS and DAC”, as market intelligence firm IDTech X noted. degrees alive.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2020

But capital costs, complex technology, and development risks for industrial decarbonisation cannot be carried by business alone. This unfair exclusion means that a number of clean heat projects, with insufficient time to complete by 31st March 2021, could be abandoned.”.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Why choose a company which works so closely with the oil industry to work at COP? Gastech is listed as one of the firm’s biggest events – an annual trade show that claims to be the world’s largest “energy exhibition and conference for natural gas, LNG, hydrogen, climate technologies, and low-carbon solutions.”

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2023

Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber was named as president-designate of this year’s UN climate summit, COP28, scheduled to take place November 30 – December 12 in Dubai. Al Jaber is the UAE’s special envoy for climate change and also serves as the country’s Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The UK and other richer nations should use the funding of greenhouse gas removal technologies as a tool of persuasion at COP26, writes BeZero Carbon's Ted Christie-Miller. World leaders are gathering in Glasgow to debate, broker and hopefully achieve agreement on actions to prevent climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

Questions around the long-term carbon-storage capacity of forests and soils remain, as a forest might be logged, devastated by fire or altered by climate change. Offsetting is a cop-out,” said Thomas Ingenlath, Polestar CEO. “By

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JANUARY 12, 2022

Each year since 1995, with the exception of 2020, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ) has hosted a Conference of Parties (COP), where members of the UNFCCC negotiate issues relating to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other matters relating to climate change.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The UK said the aim of the goals was to make clean technologies "the most affordable, accessible, and attractive choice" across the world's most polluting sectors by the end of the decade, in a move which if successful would deliver a huge boost to the global green economy and net zero transition.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 6, 2023

25 utilities and other energy companies from across the globe along with IRENA and the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions have launched the Utilities for Net Zero Alliance (UNEZA).

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Spearheaded by the US and United Arab Emirates (UAE), Aim4C will be showcasing $13 billion-worth of joint projects (or “innovation sprints”) which feature many high-tech “climate-smart” solutions that are favoured by industry, and include some dubious technologies unproven at scale. Much of this work references the science of U.S-based

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

The Systems Change Alliance share our view at Lowimpact.org that the climate change problem can’t be solved within the current economic system, which requires and generates perpetual growth and wealth concentration. The climate crisis is not a crisis to be solved with technological fixes enabled by market sales tactics.

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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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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

Despite the reductions in air travel and the global economic slowdown caused by the pandemic, climate change sadly has not slowed down this past year. degrees C cap on average warming that governments pledged to aim for when they signed the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement to avoid dangerous climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The United Arab Emirates has been criticised for promoting oil and gas as a clean source of energy, and for backing “false solutions” such as carbon capture technology, at the UN COP27 climate summit in Egypt, ahead of hosting the event next year. There’s no such thing as ‘responsible’ oil drilling.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

EY's Steve Varley sets out his expectations and hopes for the pivotal climate talks that kick off on Sunday. Another COP is coming - the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference. Despite this backdrop, it is vital that we have a high ambition for what we will achieve together.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Former UK energy and climate minister Claire O’Neill’s World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is running a series of events at the conference on private sector efforts to tackle climate change. O’Neill’s reputation on climate change from her time in government is mixed. Terrible Joke’.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

We have to scale up clean technologies that are already commercially available and cost competitive like wind and solar energy," Biden said. International financing for clean energy and climate change resiliency will be a focus of COP26.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

To grasp the opportunities of net zero and deliver a successful climate change summit in Glasgow, the government must come forward with ambitious policies in 2020, argues the REA's Nina Skorupska. The goings-on behind the scenes of COP 26, or kack thereof, have been well documented over the past few weeks.

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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. While we rightly focus on fighting the immediate crisis of the Coronavirus, we must not lose sight of the huge challenges of climate change," he said in a statement.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Regardless of how interesting face-to-face meetings with heads of state may be, their speeches still are nothing more than empty words as they follow one another to the podium during the first formal plenary session at COP climate talks. This year is no different from past COP climate summits.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2023

While COP28 delegates have been wrangling over the wording of the all-important text, DeSmog has been tracking an overlooked factor in climate diplomacy: the role of the advertising and public relations (PR) industry in shaping perceptions of key players.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 6, 2022

First and foremost, there will be a much stronger focus on climate adaptation , rather than solely on mitigation. Today, 90% of climate finance is focused on mitigation – stopping the sources of climate change at their origin, rather than adapting to their effects. They are nearly-perfect mirror images.).

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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. However, evidence of the efficacy of carbon capture technology at scale is highly dubious.

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

As you know, I'm now devoting all of my time and energies to the role of COP President-designate whilst continuing as a full member of the UK government cabinet. And I hope I speak for all of us when I say welcome back to the USA in our shared fight against climate change. 2020 saw record temperatures.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

For all the evidence the Paris Agreement has catalysed an era-defining array of clean tech innovations and a remarkable shift in public opinion, there have been baseless arguments that the entire COP process is an exercise in futility. What sacrifices are you willing to make for climate change?'. How about we sacrifice those?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

alive or this will be the COP where we lose 1.5C," he said. You need to work out how you want future generations to look upon this COP and each of us individually as countries. goal, arguing that "every fraction of a degree matters". We'll either leave Egypt having kept 1.5C It is really up to us to decide.".

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