Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In Glasgow last year, India and China demanded at the last minute that the wording "phase out coal" be replaced in the final text by "phase down coal". The oil and gas industry actually emerged from the conference reinforced, whereas the objective was new commitments to reduce these fuels.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2022

We see clearly the dangers of energy systems powered by foreign fossil fuels," Sharma said. "We In short, we see that climate security is energy security and that we must break our dependency on fossil fuels.". We see the benefits of low cost, homegrown renewables, the price of which cannot be manipulated from afar. "We

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This is the first COP where participants found themselves face-to-face with the reality of breaching the 1.5 The final wording of the COP28 agreement – which required consensus among all nations and the chair – codified a commitment to transition away from fossil fuels in energy systems. The world is starting to notice.

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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

JANUARY 12, 2023

Al Jaber has served as the UAE's Special Envoy for Climate Change since 2010, and has participated at 10 previous UN COP Summits. He was also the founding CEO of the UAE's Masdar clean tech investment arm, and as CEO of ADNOC has instigated a $15bn decarbonisation strategy at the oil and gas giant.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Anger is building over the failure to secure much-needed commitments towards phasing out unabated fossil fuels and tackling near-term emissions as part of the final agreement brokered at COP27 over the weekend, with critics warning the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C target hangs by a thread after this year's summit.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2020

Film producer and co-founder of Comic Relief, Richard Curtis, has launched a campaign to help make the UK's £3tr of pension assets more sustainable and ensure it is invested in building a better world after the coronavirus pandemic. This will help deliver the world that our citizens demand and that future generations deserve.".

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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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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

Without a strong carbon price, older renewable and nuclear plant will close earlier than they should and investment in new low carbon infrastructure like Carbon Capture Usage and Storage (CCUS), hydrogen and negative emissions technologies will stall. With the world watching ahead of COP we cannot afford a COP-out on low carbon.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2022

The document sets out G7 countries' ambition to deliver near-zero carbon electricity grids by 2035, citing the need to respond to climate scientists' calls for a drastic reduction in fossil fuel demand so as to stabilise global temperatures.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2021

The Bank of England (BoE) is facing pressure from MPs and campaigners to take urgent action to clean up its investments before the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow, amid fears that vast sums of public money invested in high-carbon industries could damage the UK's international reputation and derail its climate goals.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 10, 2021

billion annual investment. That spend would be around 20% lower than what was invested across all of the country’s generation resources between 2015 and 2019. . Most of the new transmission buildout is projected to be driven by a near doubling of electricity demand between 2020 and 2030. .

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

On the plus side, the pact reaffirmed the central importance of 1.5C (our best chance to avoid the worst impacts of climate change), mentions coal and fossil fuels for the first time, and calls for countries to “revisit and strengthen” 2030 climate pledges by the end of 2022 instead of waiting another five years. of warming.

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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

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Don't listen to the fossil fuel enthusiasts pushing fracking as a solution for the UK's currently volatile energy market, argues ECIU's Dr Simon Cran-McGreehin. The gas crunch gripping Europe is directly caused by volatile international gas markets that expose the UK to demand surges in Asia and political manipulation by Putin.

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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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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

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

APRIL 7, 2021

Contractors would not risk investing in the workers to undertake the scheme, having had their fingers burned by previous schemes such as the Green New Deal. 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."

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Reclaim Finance publishes scathing assessment of various financial sector alliances – including UN-backed Net Zero Asset Owners Alliance - arguing groups are failing to act fast enough to curb investment in fossil fuels.

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Meanwhile, the huge clean tech buying signals from coalitions of large corporates focused on electric vehicles, green steel, renewables, green shipping, and sustainable aviation fuels, all point to how these markets could quickly reach tipping points that trigger the rapid adoption that obliterates fossil fuel demand.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2021

Among its various demands, Extinction Rebellion is calling on the government introduce an immediate ban on new fossil fuel investments, arguing the move would help the world stay within the Paris Agreement's 1.5 warming limit. That makes the government's emissions targets a sham," he said.

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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

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. They are already investing in decarbonisation. This is because business is demanding clearer policies.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

Before investing in a given carbon offset program, you need to ensure the scheme is robust and verified to the highest international standards. Since these standards were developed, the demand for carbon offsets has increased over the years. Fuel efficiency : Newer combustion devices use less fuel per unit of energy provided.

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Business Green

JANUARY 3, 2022

A significant feature of COP was businesses joining with activists to demand faster progress. Not only do consumers and employees increasingly demand the organisations they engage with do the right thing, but the cost of decarbonising business has rapidly come down.

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Business Green

AUGUST 20, 2021

XR is demanding "crisis talks" with the Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Chancellor Rishi Sunak, COP26 President-designate Alok Sharma, Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng and Environment Secretary George Eustice, on climate action and the upcoming UN summit in Glasgow. We will occupy spaces in London, whether it be buildings or roads.".

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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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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

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

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

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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The government has promised a raft of hotly-anticipated plans and policies in the coming months, including the Heat and Buildings Strategy, Food Strategy White Paper, Treasury Net Zero Review, and an overarching Net Zero Strategy, all of which should help unlock billions of pounds of green investment. Nobody has got the full picture in a COP.

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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

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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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). With this pace of investment, it seems there’s no turning back and EVs are the future.

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