DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The UK organizers of the COP26 climate conference very publicly declined to offer international oil companies any slots in the conference or any formal role in the event, and oil companies without credible climate programs were also barred from sponsoring events at the high-stakes international talks currently underway.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The European Union has clearly laid out its position: Climate neutrality, the Council of the EU stated last month, will require “a global phase-out of unabated fossil fuels and a peak in their consumption in this decade.” We’re going into a COP where this is going to be a big topic, and we don’t really have a definition for it.”

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2023

As is always the case at COP Summits multiple issues remain unresolved, but the battle between the various opposing camps looks to set to boil down to a fierce row over how, and indeed whether, the final version of the Global Stocktake should reference the future of fossil fuels. All of this is demonstrably true.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 24, 2022

The event will host energy ecosystem stakeholders to unpack the industry’s priorities including its strategic roadmaps, visionary reforms, low cost capital investments and breakthrough technologies for building India’s long term self-reliance in energy. As a large developing economy with over 1.3

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Is the COP27 Summit that kicks off in Sharm El Sheikh this weekend the most important COP meeting yet, and therefore one of the most critical gatherings in the entire history of humanity? It is, by the admission of the Egyptian hosts, an "implementation COP". If COPs did not exist you would need to invent them.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Worse still, it has now emerged from new undercover reporting that Saudi Arabia is operating a so-called ‘Oil Sustainability Programme’ (OSP) designed to artificially increase demand for oil across Africa and Asia. Now the air pollution from burning fossil fuels alone is estimated to kill more than tobacco smoke.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Dubbed the Glasgow Climate Pact, the agreement crucially puts pressure on countries to come foward next year with updated climate plans, promises more funding for climate adaptation, and for the first time ever includes explicit references to the need to drive down coal and phase out fossil fuel subsidies. Phase out coal.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 19, 2023

What isn’t changing, not one bit, is the otherworldly spin from fossil fuel lobbyists and spinmasters, one of whom had the tone-deaf audacity this week to insist it would be “dangerous and irresponsible” not to increase fossil fuel production into the indefinite future. On Monday, July 3, the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. The GMA declined to offer a formal comment, however a spokesperson told DeSmog in an email that the group works to “simplify and distil public information” around international events which are “often dominated by an anti-meat narrative”.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

With world leaders about to gather in Dubai, United Arab Emirates for the COP 28 climate summit, the transition to green energy will be one of the key topics on the agenda. The replacement of fossil fuels by green energy is bringing about a revolution in electricity generation and expanding its role across economies.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2020

The campaign - Make My Money Matter - was launched at an event yesterday and aims to build a movement of individuals, organisations, and pension funds to drive change across the sector. This will help deliver the world that our citizens demand and that future generations deserve.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

But group of petrostates resist calls to phase down fossil fuels and accelerate decarbonisation efforts. The so-called High Ambition Coalition of nations argued the draft text should include a commitment to phase down all fossil fuels and clearer commitments to accelerate the roll out of renewables.

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Meanwhile, key decisions over controversial Cumbrian coal mines and North Sea oil and gas projects are also likely to be made before the end of 2021, providing a clear test of how serious the government is about the transition away from fossil fuels. Nobody has got the full picture in a COP. This is the risk of COP.".

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

G20 agrees to submit enhanced Paris Agreement plans ahead of COP26, but fails to agree coal power and fossil fuel subsidy phase outs. Under the Paris Agreement, signatories are expected to ramp up their national climate pledges every five years in order to help limit temperature rise to 1.5C

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Business Green

APRIL 26, 2020

The two-day Petersberg Climate Dialogue has long been a key event in the annual climate calendar, with environment ministers from around 30 countries typically coming together to thrash out priorities and preparations for the following United Nations COP climate summit.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 9, 2023

UK fossil fuel imports from authoritarian petrostates surged to £19.3 Petrostates are countries that are economically heavily dependent on fossil fuel production. billion on fossil fuel imports from the year beginning February 2022. billion on fossil fuel imports from the year beginning February 2022.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Today, however, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) officially confirmed the new 2035 target, which it said would see it "focus on building a secure, home-grown energy sector that reduces reliance on fossil fuels and exposure to volatile global wholesale energy prices".

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2022

The bank, the UK's largest financier of fossil fuels, has announced it plans to stop financing thermal coal mining by 2030 in OECD countries, before exiting thermal coal altogether five years later. Campaign group Market Forces said the plan was "so weak" that it would make the bank's net zero by 2050 target impossible. "If

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Another COP is coming - the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference. COP27 in Egypt is going to be taking place alongside war in Europe, concerns about energy security, and significant weather events occurring in both developed and developing countries. There's huge demand for sustainable infrastructure and technology.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

These announcements may generate headlines but assessing their true worth is hugely difficult, especially at speed during a COP meeting. The UK's COP Presidency's assessment of the opening few days of the Summit stressed that the event had so far demonstrated that world leaders had "sent a clear signal that COP26 must keep 1.5C

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Business Green

AUGUST 4, 2020

The plan - which outlines how the oil giant intends to slash its oil and gas output by 40 per cent by the end of the decade, increase its annual spending on low-carbon technologies and energy 10-fold, and reimagine the fossil fuel business as an integrated energy company - has pushed BP from net zero laggard to what looks like a global leader.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

During a packed event at Chatham House where he unveiled the UK Presidency's priorities for the year ahead, the Cabinet Minister said the collective spirit that helped to forge the Glasgow Climate Pact in November was now needed to ensure the climate promises made at the conference are honoured.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Political will to stop subsidies on fossil fuels”, or to shift taxation from income to carbon, “taxing pollution instead of people.” A path where more fossil fuels remain where they should be – in the ground – and where we are on the way to carbon neutrality by 2050. And the fossil fuel industry is not alone.

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Business Green

APRIL 26, 2020

The two-day Petersberg Climate Dialogue has long been a key event in the annual climate diplomacy calendar, with environment ministers from around 30 countries typically coming together to thrash out priorities and preparations for the following United Nations COP climate summit.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

In an event hosted by BusinessGreen, the energy and industry giants behind the largest industrial decarbonisation project in the UK sketched out their vision for how emissions produced by high carbon plants on England’s East Coast could be captured and stored under the North Sea.

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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. The International Energy Agency has estimated that about 30 million new workers are needed by 2030 to meet increased demand in the clean economy.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

But despite an interminable number of husting events and countless miles of column inches, the policy platform of the new administration remains remarkably opaque on a host of critical economic and environmental issues. Are you prepared to strengthen the package again, if Russia blocks all gas exports and prices rise further still?

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2023

The influential annual report's central scenario, which is dubbed 'New Momentum' and is designed to "reflect the current broad trajectory" of the world's energy system, predicts oil demand would stand at around 93 million barrels a day in 2035 - a reduction of five per cent on last year's forecast.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

COP26 has seen fossil fuels mentioned for the first time in a UNFCCC cover text and the launch of a pioneering alliance of governments committed to phasing out oil and gas production. The final days of the COP26 Climate Summit has seen fossil fuels take something of a shellacking.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

COP26 has seen fossil fuels mentioned for the first time in a UNFCCC cover text and the launch of a pioneering alliance of governments committed to phasing out oil and gas production. The final days of the COP26 Climate Summit has seen fossil fuels take something of a shellacking.

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2023

"Despite the marked increase in government ambitions, CO2 emissions have increased in every year since the Paris COP in 2015 (bar 2020)," it continues. Crucially, these changes are evident in both the fossil fuel and the clean energy market. billion by 2050.

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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 21, 2021

Business and policy leaders reflect on the major wins from the Glasgow Summit, what needs to happen next, and why COPs could look and feel difficult from now on. Crucially, it signalled the fossil fuel economy is coming to a close - albeit a slower one than is needed, with its explicit targetting of fossil fuel subsidies and coal power.

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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. In reality, the current pledges align more closely to 2.7 Bottom Line for Business.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Iberdrola helps run an annual cycle ride to UN climate summits backed by the International Energy Agency, which recently called for an end to new fossil fuel developments if the Paris Agreement goals are to be met. Before lauding their green credentials and using cheap gimmicks, how about not investing in new fossil fuel plants?”.

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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. The UK does not set out its expectations, demand they are met, and then declare success or failure.

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