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Climate Tech VC
DECEMBER 8, 2023
Like Disneyland, at COP28 you can choose your own adventure – from hubs on energy transition and climate finance, to side events and roundtables in swanky hotel ballrooms, or serious negotiations in the sectioned-off blue zone. Climate tech played its biggest role ever at COP this year. The oil & gas COP.
DeSmogBlog
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. Scientists say that unless swift action is taken, methane from agriculture alone will take us beyond a 1.5C
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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.
DeSmogBlog
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
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.” But the only commitment they’re making is to eliminate methane [emissions] and stop flaring,” said Ioualalen. It sets out to achieve “net zero” emissions by 2050 with a catch: They don’t really mean all of their emissions.
Business Green
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
The findings further fuelled the cautiously optimistic mood that has built up during the first week of talks at COP26, which has seen a raft of new net zero pledges from emerging economies and a series of global deals to increase flows of climate finance, better protect forests, accelerate clean tech deployment, and curb methane emissions.
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.
Business Green
NOVEMBER 13, 2021
I also want particularly to thank COP President Alok Sharma who has worked incredibly hard to bring countries together. Despite the Covid-19 crisis, we have accelerated action, the COP has responded to the IPCC's call to close the gap towards 1.5, Greenwashing is the new climate denial, and we have seen too much at play in this COP.
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