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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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This Conference of Parties (COP) was highly anticipated as a critical inflection point where our economies and societies set forth on an ambitious and clearly defined path to decarbonize by 2050 and keep warming below 1.5 degrees C to avoid the worst impacts of climate change — or continue with the status quo.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

IEA predicts major gains on energy efficiency in 2022 in response to energy crisis, but BloombergNEF warns current clean energy policies still put world on track for a 2.6C The slowdown came after the global rate of energy efficiency improvement had already fallen from two per cent in the first half of last decade to 1.3

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2022

In a video address to more than 40 leaders and ministers assembled at the Berlin event this morning, Antonio Guterres slammed political leaders for failing to take adequate action on tackling climate change and mobilising finance to support poorer nations' efforts to decarbonise and bolster their climate resilience.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

At a side event at the COP27 Climate Summit today, countries representing more than half of global GDP will set out a number of sector-specific 'Priority Actions' designed to make emissions-intensive industries more sustainable whilst cutting energy costs and boosting food security.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Sophie Punte from the We Mean Business Coalition sets out the top demands from business leaders at the Glasgow Climate Summit. Businesses have a stake in the COP outcomes for three main reasons - let me explain. per cent in global emissions from energy and industrial processes over the same period. ºC pathway.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

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. Greenwashing is the new climate denial, and we have seen too much at play in this COP. Phase out coal. degrees. "I

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Defend Our Future

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Representing diverse ethnicities and expertise, the youth leaders on hand took an active part in all areas of climate action under discussion – adaptation, resilience, mitigation. The youth organizations and advocates at COP worked through formal channels to check the international negotiations and national commitments for climate goals.

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

This month, we’re highlighting some of the energy and climate provisions in the infrastructure bill, touching on what the international climate conference COP26 was and wasn’t, highlighting the potential impact of corporate buyers coalitions, giving a round of applause to the progress the company NET Power has made, and more! 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. The Energy Transitions Commission estimated that even with ambitious emissions reduction pathways to net zero, 200 gigatons of emissions will still have accumulated in the atmosphere by 2050. Are there risks? But the risks of inaction are greater.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2022

BusinessGreen rounds up the leading reaction to the government's plan for shoring up British energy independence in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. This will reduce our dependence on power sources exposed to volatile international prices we cannot control, so we can enjoy greater energy self-sufficiency with cheaper bills."

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

After hours of tense negotiations and dramatic interventions on the conference floor a compromise deal was reached that rejected the proposed reference to phasing down fossil fuels, and broadened the focus of the energy section of the agreement beyond renewables. The text on energy was weakened but is at least in. warming target.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2020

British diplomats, the UK COP presidency team and Ministers would have been in a whirl of frenetic influencing activity globally (we hope) to drive up ambition, and drive out those new nationally-determined contributions (NDCs) from all the parties to the Paris Agreement. Decarbonised heating and cooling add another 7,000.

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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. added resilient building consultant and former Passive House Canada board chair Deborah Byrne. Who’s the Grown-Up in the Room?

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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.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. The North American Meat Institute will host a side event at the US COP pavilion on December 11, the summit’s Agriculture Day, for example. Typically, the talk is about demand side interventions, like you can get schools or, or individuals to give up meat,” she says.

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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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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

He also said that Energy Minister Greg Hands had signed off on the Strategy, despite not having the legally required information on how carbon budgets would be met. In my judgment it ought to have done so in order to comply with the language and statutory purposes of s.14 14 of the CCA 2008.".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Liz Truss may have been confirmed as the next Prime Minister, but her approach to the big energy and environmental issues facing the UK remains remarkably opaque. What's in the energy support package, and who is going to pay for it? Can you really rule out energy ‘rationing' under such a scenario?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

That will not happen until true net zero emissions is achieved and a global economy has been built that is resilient to the dangerous new world we have unleashed. Future COPs will re-open this debate and seek to extend it to gas and oil. If COPs did not exist you would have to invent them.

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2022

Today more than ever, substantial investments are needed to ensure that the world is on track towards a resilient, inclusive, and sustainable transition despite the setbacks caused by Covid-19. Investors globally are rightly demanding greater transparency and information on the quality and impact of their investments.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

And yet fears remain that these calls could yet be drowned out by the even more insistent demands for the Treasury to do whatever it takes to avoid the short term economic damage caused by the coronavirus crisis and related oil price slump. The IEA is now predicting global oil demand will fall to 99.9

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

But with greater climate ambition from the government the decarbonisation challenge becomes more demanding, which in turn requires deeper scrutiny of the UK's progress to date from its internationally-respected, independent climate advisory body. So the government is playing a pretty high stakes game here.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2021

As such some business groups welcomed the deal, including those representing the UK's manufacturing and renewable energy sectors. RenewableUK's CEO Dan McGrail, for example, hailed the trade deal's potential for boosting trade in clean energy products and services between the two countries.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Stop digging and drilling He said digging and drilling had to stop, replaced by renewable energy and nature-based solutions to drastically slow climate change. “In The COP will also advance work related to capacity-building, deforestation, indigenous peoples, cities, finance, technology, gender and more. It was a solemn promise.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Such businesses better meet the demands of the regulatory environment while coming into alignment with investor, consumer, and employee preferences. Since the convention’s establishment, the countries involved meet annually during the Conference of the Parties (COP). 30 years later came COP 26 (2021) – held in Glasgow.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

He called for a "Climate Solidarity Pact" between richer and poorer nations geared towards helping climate vulnerable countries ramp up renewable energy capacity and end dependence on fossil fuels, with a particular onus on stopping new coal plants being built.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

For example, when social distancing regulations were at their most demanding, trips to train farmers on new practices and discuss investment and financing plans became logistically impossible.

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

As such, Guterres reiterated his call for coal to have "no place in COVID-19 recovery plans", arguing there was a compelling economic, health, and environmental case for governments to "choose the clean energy route". Or, we can invest in renewable energy, which is reliable, clean and economically smart.".

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In November, I had the privilege to represent Schneider Electric at the UN's Conference of Parties (COP) on climate change in Glasgow. This COP was unlike the previous 25 iterations, in that it took place during a global pandemic. A few things to watch: The energy transition. Bottom Line for Business.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Healthy ecosystems are more resilient to climate change and provide life-critical services such as food and clean water," said IPCC Working Group II co-chair Hans-Otto Pörtner. "By Climate resilience will become impossible in some regions if temperature rise exceeds 2C, the report warns.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

It also marks the declining influence of the fossil fuel industry on the conference floor as clean energy economics accelerate and climate impacts become more pointed. If there's one theme that really comes out loud and clear from this COP, it is about money," said former Energy and Climate Change Secretary Amber Rudd.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

As such, the COP Presidency should presumably welcome mounting calls for a new era of public-private cooperation on the financial packages that can help developing and emerging economies wean themselves off fossil fuels. of warming.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Whether governments use their economic recovery plans to support decarbonisation and long-term economic resilience is now the single biggest question at the top of the climate agenda. Building back better. Only today British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the Commons that "our determination to get to net zero by 2050 remains undiminished".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

And it is also fair to say that some officials have found the need for action and real change to be threatening to the COP status quo - for some it is hard to give up on incrementalism even when it is demonstrably failing.". However, she alleged the team is "miles off track" to deliver the agenda.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

Aluminium, which is infinitely recyclable, is a critical component to technologies essential to decarbonisation, clean energy production, and boosting energy efficiency, as well as being a major contender as a more sustainable alternative to plastic bottles. limit outlined in the Paris Agreement.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

For example, when social distancing regulations were at their most demanding, trips to train farmers on new practices and discuss investment and financing plans became logistically impossible.

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