Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The headline commitment of COP28 was the pledge to transition away from fossil fuels. Many commentators also appeared to believe that the “UAE Consensus” – as the deal was dubbed – leaves plenty of scope to continue burning fossil fuels, while also being woefully short on the financial commitments required to realize its aims.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Fossil fuels are everywhere at this COP except in the decisions being negotiated by governments,” Nikki Reisch, the director of climate and energy at the Center for International Environmental Law, wrote to DeSmog from Glasgow. Oil Majors Show up in Disguise.

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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2021

Australian court cases, fossil fuel phase out alliances, and a vote of confidence in Gold Standards all feature in this week's latest round up of global green business news. Colombia to host hybrid Biodiversity PreCOP.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

It was the third time the international body reproached the Canadian federal and provincial governments for their treatment of Indigenous communities in relation to the construction of the two fossil fuel projects. Video posted to social media on June 6, 2022 by Gidimt’en Checkpoint.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Jim had recently read Boiling Point , Ross’s 2004 book chronicling the fossil fuel industries’ strategy of denial and delay, which Gelbspan correctly labeled a crime against humanity. “I It was Ross’s books and journalism that sparked the flames of outrage and opportunity that inspired Jim Hoggan to create the DeSmogBlog in late 2005.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The ministers added that "the last thing anyone wants is for this COP to end without consensus". The latest developments follow the release this morning by Egypt's COP Presidency of texts that provide a sketch of a potential final agreement. warming limit goal.

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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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Documents seen by DeSmog and the Guardian show that the meat industry is poised to “tell its story and tell it well” in the lead up and during the Dubai conference, which comes on the heels of the world’s hottest ever year. Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2023

From the Global Team American PR Firm Edelman Enabled Oil Baron Al Jaber’s Ascension to Lead COP28 Climate Conference By Cartie Werthman In 2023 we returned to our roots and investigated the ongoing relationship between the fossil fuel industry and advertising and public relations firms. Department of Justice that shed light on a $6.4

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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.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 5, 2020

Dozens of studies document the racial disparity in environmental impacts, and I've linked to a number of those below. Are disproportionately exposed to toxic air pollution from the fossil fuel industry. A cop put his knee in the back of his neck and choked him to death, amid his cries for help. The impacts are also real.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

This is hardly the COP figure the Prime Minister wants to read.”. The document specified the support applies to hydronic heat pumps (air-to-water or ground-to-water), because these are able to supply hot water, and therefore can be used to completely decarbonize a property. district heating), hydrogen, hybrid heat pumps, and bioenergy.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

The document also acknowledges that there is little chance of further economic growth.”. The explosive growth of capitalism over the past 200 years has been largely powered by fossil fuel companies and their extraction of humanity’s common resources—air, forests, land, and, most importantly, coal, oil and gas.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The goings-on behind the scenes of COP 26, or kack thereof, have been well documented over the past few weeks. But despite the worrying progress of COP planning, all is far from being lost. The industry are expecting most of the decisions and pathways for the UK's road to Net Zero to be unveiled at COP.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The first full negotiating texts are still not expected until later this evening, or potentially even tomorrow, according to Egypt's COP Presidency. But we are hoping that everyone will rise to the occasion by the end of COP, and realise that while the national interest is very important, something greater than that is at stake.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Notably, the document makes the case for businesses having a much more significant role at future COPs, through the introduction of corporate determined contributions (CDCs) that would mirror the nationally determined contributions (NDCs) that parties signed up to the Paris Agreement must produce every five years.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Documents released this morning strongly suggest significant dividing lines remain on a raft of key issues, including climate finance and adaptation funding, loss and damage, carbon markets, language around the phasing down of fossil fuels, and much more besides.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

as the key target for the Paris Agreement and reiterates last year's promise to deliver a "phasing down" of unabated coal power and a "phasing out" of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies. The COP decision must put the world on a path to phasing out all fossil fuels and an urgent, just transition to renewables.".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Dr Danial Sturge, Energy Systems Catapult's carbon policy practice manager, said policies that drive net zero-focused investment and innovation should be at the heart of the forthcoming Net Zero Strategy, a policy document expected before the COP26 climate talks in November.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Oil and gas has dominated discussions at past COPs, which have focused on the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the energy and transport sectors to tackle dangerous levels of global warming. Big companies which have previously accessed COP in this way include JBS, which came in with the Brazilian delegation for COP27 in Egypt.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

It would be easy at this point to simply list the litany of policy failures and the paucity of political leadership documented by the CCC's almost satirically titled progress report. Of course, arguing all that is needed is 'political will' is something of a cop out.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Fossil fuels get named and shamed. For the first time in 25 years of UN climate talks, coal and fossil fuel subsidies have been singled out in an official document. Here, we've picked out 10 key takeaways for business leaders from the Glasgow Climate Pact and COP26 Summit: 1.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Consequently, the Glasgow Climate Pact points to a new approach whereby NDCs become living documents to be updated annually as new policies and targets are adopted - policies and targets that will hopefully reflect the rapid pace at which clean technologies and public engagement is evolving. would be truly dead and buried.

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LA CleanTech Incubator

JUNE 5, 2020

Dozens of studies document the racial disparity in environmental impacts, and I've linked to a number of those below. Are disproportionately exposed to toxic air pollution from the fossil fuel industry. A cop put his knee in the back of his neck and choked him to death, amid his cries for help. The impacts are also real.

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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. My priority for Thursday 11 November will be to bring matters together and resolve final outstanding issues, leaving time for document preparation.". — Mohamed Adow (@mohadow) November 4, 2021.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

But it remains significantly longer - and has been published much later - than previous COP cover texts, meaning negotiators have a major task ahead of them in whittling down options to deliver political consensus. The cover document does retain some of the key breakthroughs delivered at last year's COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Since being designated COP president in January, Al Jaber, who heads Abu Dhabi’s national oil company, has cycled through a dozen or so American PR companies, according to filings with the U.S. Al-Jaber later denied questioning whether climate science required a phase-out of fossil fuels to keep warming below 1.5

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2022

Clearly, such issues are top of the government's list of priorities, as documents accompanying the speech published today conceded that "the fiscal outlook remains uncertain which is why we must continue with our work to repair the public finances and return them to a sustainable path". Public Order Bill.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Graham Stuart - who at present remains Climate Minister in BEIS, despite a cabinet reshuffle yesterday - has insisted the UK's plans to expand oil and gas production in the North Sea is still compatible with climate goals, arguing domestic fossil fuels production is less emissions-intensive than imports. 1/n) [link].

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2020

All support for fossil fuels should also be phased out by 2021, while an overhaul in farming and land use is needed to drive the development of nature-based solutions to combat climate change such as peatland restoration, habitat rejuvenation, and planting 50,000 hectares per year of tree cover, it adds.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2021

The Strategy, although still lacking details on policy and financial support in certain areas - more of that is now expected in another related policy document next year - envisages hydrogen supporting 9,000 jobs and attracting £4bn investment by 2030, rising to 100,000 jobs by 2050 in an industry potentially worh £13bn.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

What are the big priorities for COP? Finance will obviously be the enabling factor in making the kind of transition that is required, so it’s a problem if accounting systems continue to act as if nature is “free to use”, a key issue pinpointed earlier this year by The Dasgupta Review , hailed at the time as a landmark document.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 5, 2020

” Dozens of studies document the racial disparity in environmental impacts, and I’ve linked to a number of those below. Are disproportionately exposed to toxic air pollution from the fossil fuel industry. “A cop put his knee in the back of his neck and choked him to death, amid his cries for help.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

The government has repeatedly stressed that it will deliver a national net zero strategy this year, alongside the raft of promised sectoral policy documents and a Treasury-backed review of the economic costs and opportunities associated with the net zero transition.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 5, 2020

” Dozens of studies document the racial disparity in environmental impacts, and I’ve linked to a number of those below. Are disproportionately exposed to toxic air pollution from the fossil fuel industry. “A cop put his knee in the back of his neck and choked him to death, amid his cries for help.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

My question to my fellow world leaders this afternoon, as we enter the last hours of COP, is: Will you help us do that? As we move into the final stages of the summit, a lot more commitment and action is needed if this is to be a successful COP," said Kiran Sura, sustainability and climate change expert at consulting giant PwC.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Since the convention’s establishment, the countries involved meet annually during the Conference of the Parties (COP). COP is a supreme decision-making body that aims to promote the effective application of the convention. 30 years later came COP 26 (2021) – held in Glasgow. C) within reach.

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