DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

With greater scrutiny over emissions from meat and dairy companies, it is not surprising they are stepping up their game to head off any COP outcome that might hinder their operations,” Ben Lilliston, from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy told DeSmog. Meat isn’t the only industry under the spotlight. One is the UAE and U.S-led

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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.

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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

But from tobacco to fossil fuels, gambling to deforestation, pension funds have invested trillions on our behalf without asking us the crucial question - do these investments create a world that we actually want to live in? This will help deliver the world that our citizens demand and that future generations deserve.".

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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. This is because business is demanding clearer policies. °C trajectory within reach. ºC pathway. ºC.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2021

Today there are only 950 accredited heat pump installers, compared to 96,000 installers of fossil fuel systems, primarily gas boilers. Demand will grow and grow." They are helping people in fuel poverty and many others enjoy more comfortable homes, lower fuel bills and better health.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2021

But Ministers insist end to financial support for overseas fossil fuel energy projects, £16bn transition plan for North Sea, and climate compatibility test for new projects can put UK on track to net zero emissions. We will not leave oil and gas workers behind in the United Kingdom's irreversible shift away from fossil fuels.

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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

JUNE 29, 2022

The growing fears charging infrastructure and public and active transport networks are struggling to keep pace with soaring demand. The difficulty of arguing against new domestic energy projects at a time when energy security has suddenly become a real and present threat and there is a moral imperative to end imports of Russian fossil fuels.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Another COP is coming - the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference. In addition, there is growing dismay, and anger in many quarters, that the unmet promises of past COPs, especially in providing finance to those that are suffering loss and damage from climate change, are going to make COP27 even more challenging.

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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

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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

EU energy emissions fall, Rwanda gets its first mini-grid, and Brazil preps a COP bid. The report confirms "demand for fossil fuels is falling due to high prices and strong wind and solar output, contrary to fears of a resurgence due to the energy crisis". Brazil to offer to host future COP.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2021

As the countdown to COP 26 continues, hydrogen is an area where the UK can lead by example on the global stage, showcasing the value of strong partnerships between government and the private sector on the road to reducing emissions.".

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

None of this equates with actual action to reduce emissions or tackle inequality, but it’s clearly not fringe anymore (which fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil found out when activist investors forced it to take on sustainability-friendly board members). To me, we’ve reached the end of the beginning. Global climate meeting falls short.

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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

APRIL 7, 2022

The British Energy Security Strategy has been in the works since shortly after the Kremlin's decision to mount an invasion of Ukraine, which has prompted a fresh perspective on the need to reduce the country's dependence on volatile, risky and now very expensive fossil fuels, particularly gas from Russia.

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The COP 26 climate conference took place! Breakthrough Energy’s Catalyst program is a thematically similar initiative involving corporates (as well as other philanthropy and governments) that is focused on reducing the costs of sustainable aviation fuel, long-duration storage, green hydrogen, and direct air carbon capture.

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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. I have witnessed agricultural innovation, to reduce emissions and boost productivity, in Brazil. I have travelled on a prototype hydrogen bus in India.

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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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

How will the government justify an approach that is both poorly targeted, benefitting rich and poor households alike, and dampens the price signal that would help curb energy demand at a time of deteriorating energy security? Are you prepared to strengthen the package again, if Russia blocks all gas exports and prices rise further still?

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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

APRIL 4, 2022

"They are choking our planet, based on their vested interests and historic investments in fossil fuels, when cheaper, renewable solutions provide green jobs, energy security, and greater price stability. But the truly dangerous radicals are the countries that are increasing the production of fossil fuels.

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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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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2023

If the CCC's central allegation is that the government is guilty of complacency and a fundamental lack of focus, the official response from the Department of Net Zero and Energy Security amounts to 'it's a fair cop, Guv'. "We The hugely detailed and widely shared criticisms of the government's underpowered climate policies are simply ignored.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The tech sector can help deliver on COP26 promises such as curbing methane, ending fossil fuel finance and reversing deforestation, explains techUK's Craig Mason. Fossil fuels - an end in sight? This is the first time that a COP agreement has been made on coal at this level. Global curbs to methane.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk. This report must sound a death knell for coal and fossil fuels, before they destroy our planet.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

After a marathon 48 hours of pre-Summit talks, the agenda for the official negotiations was confirmed yesterday and in an early breakthrough for developing economies Loss and Damage was included on the agenda for a COP Summit for the first time. In addition, £65.5m

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Coyote, but without the madcap comic charm, the global fossil fuel industry finds itself out beyond the cliff edge - it just hasn't realised yet. Clean energy generation is close to outstripping increases in energy demand. Now they publicly accept the need for a transition away from all fossil fuels.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 18, 2022

Unlike fossil fuels, we don’t want to stop using steel and cement; we need these materials more than ever. We are prepared and curious, keeping up with innovations in science and campaigning and learning as we do the work. Heavy industry is the foundation of modern society – literally. C-aligned trajectory. . Who We Are : .

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The non-profit has played a pivotal role in mobilising and coordinating corporate climate action in recent years, most notably when it steered a push from a coalition of the UK's largest fleet owners - from Tesco and Centrica to BT to SSE - in support of a 2030 phase out date for fossil fuel cars and vans. This is a tricky issue.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

However, at the same time many countries were left disappointed at the failure to secure a more ambitious agreement on phasing down the use of fossil fuels and accelerating global decarbonisation efforts. It gives the key political signals that indicate the phasedown of all fossil fuels is happening. "We degrees was weak.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

All these issues are either caused or exacerbated by our reliance on fossil fuels and the climate impacts that result. The entire global economy is made inherently unstable by its reliance on fuels where the price can be manipulated and the polluting externalities are not accounted for. It just is. There is no alternative.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

Fortescue unveiled a green ammonia dual-fuel ship at COP. The current Haber Bosch process relies on fossil fuels (~ 70% natural gas, 30% coal) and emits 2.4 Startup Amogy converts ammonia to hydrogen onboard fuel cell-powered vehicles. Of course, beyond ammonia innovation, the world will still need fertilizer.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 10, 2023

⚡ Amperon , a Houston, Texas-based electricity grid demand forecasting platform, raised $20M in Series B funding from Energize Capital, D.E. In other updates on global climate talks, Russia will oppose a pre-COP 28 agreement to phase out fossil fuels. Shaw Group, Veriten and HSBC Asset Management.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Biden's address also set out his administration's plans to crackdown on methane leaks in the US' fossil fuel industry. Research published by Global Witness this morning revealed that 636 fossil fuel lobbyists had been granted access to COP27, more than double the number of delegates representing Indigenous peoples.

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