Business Green

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Ahead of COP 26, many of the UK's biggest companies have today warned Boris Johnson he has a 'limited window' to show genuine climate leadership. You will also need to align other government policies and action across transport, housing, our natural environment and our international aid budget.".

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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. Not only in COP but in our territories.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

To grasp the opportunities of net zero and deliver a successful climate change summit in Glasgow, the government must come forward with ambitious policies in 2020, argues the REA's Nina Skorupska. The goings-on behind the scenes of COP 26, or kack thereof, have been well documented over the past few weeks.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Research body argues government must fix 'uneven' decarbonisation policies that continue to drive customers towards high carbon activities. Stable and enduring policies that cover all key emitting economic sectors and reward investment and innovation in reducing emissions will be needed," he said.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

As documented in the latest edition of DeSmog’s Gaslit column, fossil fuel sponsorship of COP27 represents an extension of a decades-long effort by oil and gas companies to buy social legitimacy by bankrolling sports, arts, and education around the world. climate talks,” Sabido said. “We We need to kick big polluters out.”. Social license.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 19, 2023

Climate Action Against Disinformation (CAAD) – the coalition behind the second “ Deny, Deceive, Delay ” report – has documented how PR companies, front groups and oil majors were actively spreading disinformation in the weeks leading up to and during the summit. Analysis out today shows oil and gas interests were also busy online.

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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. A cop put his knee in the back of his neck and choked him to death, amid his cries for help. Organizations that design policies, programs and products usually are controlled by white people.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Carbon markets are set to be one of the key issues at the upcoming COP climate talks, with negotiators tasked with finalising the rules for Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, which aims to create a framework for countries and companies to meet their climate goals by trading carbon credits.

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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 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

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The COP Presidency and host nation Canada convened a special meeting of heads of delegation at 11am on Wednesday in a bid to smooth out some of the deadlocked issues ahead of the arrival of ministers. "For Without it then you would say we have not had a successful COP," he said."

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

. “The architect’s office had a fire,” Tom said, and a few other record-keeping issues meant that “there was just no accurate documentation.” dedicated to the climate crisis.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Giving evidence at multiple select committees yesterday , Sharma was grilled by MPs on recent government policies designed to ramp up domestic oil and gas extraction, including proposals to lift the ban on fracking in England and hand out 100 licenses for new offshore oil and gas drilling.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

The Financial Times reported today that the plan includes proposals for a UK-wide ban on smaller diesel trucks from 2035 and vehicles weighing more than 26 tonnes five years later, citing sources familiar with the document. per cent to 0.5 per cent of GDP on the upcoming international climate summit.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

In my eyes, that certainly doesn't merit a big COP announcement. And for soy, it acknowledges the need for no-conversion policies, but the companies couldn't agree on a definition, let alone strategy. The roadmap's definitions also bring up a geography question. It limits action to forests and peatlands for palm oil.

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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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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

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 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. For instance, Royal Dutch Shell sent at least six employees under multiple designations.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

Every year since its inception the Climate Change Committee (CCC) offers its verdict on the UK's progress against its climate goals, providing an overview of the country's decarbonisation to date, its latest economic and emissions projections, and the state of the policy landscape. So the government is playing a pretty high stakes game here.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2023

We analyzed hundreds of pages of documents filed with the U.S. She found statements acknowledging that CCS enables or prolongs the use of fossil fuels, admissions of the challenges or limitations of CCS, and references to the need for federal funding or policy support to make it viable. Department of Justice that shed light on a $6.4

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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

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In terms of next steps, countries must now embed these commitments in domestic policy and unlock the role of the private sector. Georgina Chandler, senior international policy advisor at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), said: "Unlike the World Cup, there isn't just one winner at COP15.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2020

Pressure grows on the government to ramp up net zero policies and diplomatic efforts ahead of COP26. Before we host the world at COP 26 in November, the UK must get its house in order, and go further and faster to reach net zero as soon as possible," the letter states. "In There is no time for delay.".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

However, setting out the government's revised position on Tuesday, Environment Secretary George Eustice explained that the new clause would enshrine an expectation set out in a policy document by the water industry regulator Ofwat earlier this year into law.

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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. The EU showing it is committed to deliver and reduce more of our greenhouse gas emissions is a positive sign," said Sven Harmeling, international climate policy expert at CAN Europe.

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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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AGreenLiving

JUNE 5, 2020

” Dozens of studies document the racial disparity in environmental impacts, and I’ve linked to a number of those below. “A cop put his knee in the back of his neck and choked him to death, amid his cries for help. “It pertains to surviving and being able to breathe clean air.” It’s expensive to be poor.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Every policy, law, regulation, study, analysis, proposal or action that has the climate crisis in mind is built on the basis of those two figures: 1.5 Even so, it was a major breakthrough as the first COP to mention the temperature goals we are all familiar with today. That paragraph, in article 2, paragraph 2.a., The year was 2008.

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2020

Dubbed the 'Pump it Up' campaign, the new initiative was launched today by an alliance of companies working on large-scale heat pump projects in response to policy proposals that would remove government support for large scale heat pumps that can help slash emissions in many non-domestic settings.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

What are the big priorities for COP? Alice Bordini Staden, who works on climate finance and policy with National Trust – Europe’s biggest conservation charity – said she thought it was going to go ahead, but likely in a hybrid format. Where are the main challenges? How do you fix the gap?”

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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. “A cop put his knee in the back of his neck and choked him to death, amid his cries for help. “It pertains to surviving and being able to breathe clean air.” It’s expensive to be poor.

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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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Presided over by Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber , the head of Abu Dhabi’s state oil company, Adnoc, it is the most industry-influenced COP yet. And fossil fuel companies have been happy to pay. ” In 2022 alone, the group placed ExxonMobil sponsorships in more than 100 editions of Washington Post newsletters.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The Yorkshire-based biomass giant is among over a dozen signatories to an industry-backed document that claims bioenergy could increase its output to nearly threefold, and reduce net global emissions by over one billion tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2050. Despite this, the document offers an optimistic take on bioenergy.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

“We are calling on Scottish Ministers to take urgent action to ban bottom-towed fishing gear in all of Scotland’s Marine Protected Areas and reinstate the 3 nautical mile inshore trawl and dredge ban,” said Melissa Moore, head of UK policy at Oceana. “As Scotland needs to step up and protect its rich and diverse marine life.

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