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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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

In a communique published at the close of a three-day Energy and Environment Ministerial meeting in Berlin this week, the world's largest economies set out their priorities for tackling the intersecting climate, biodiversity, and pollution crises, and responding to the disruption to energy markets wrought by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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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 15, 2021

But within hours of it being signed the pollution-loving Australian government signalled it had no intention to strengthen its disgracefully weak 2030 emissions targets. compatible', and instead opts to publicly and loudly highlight how they are advancing policies to deliver on their goals. would be truly dead and buried.

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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. IFIs now need to lead for the transformation of how we manage wealth and wellbeing as an essential component of tackling the crises of biodiversity loss, climate and pollution and waste.".

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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. times more hazardous pollution than white people — regardless of income. Breathe 56 percent more pollution than they create. . “It pertains to surviving and being able to breathe clean air.”

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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. times more hazardous pollution than white people — regardless of income. Breathe 56 percent more pollution than they create. . “It pertains to surviving and being able to breathe clean air.”

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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. Putting a price on pollution. Where are the main challenges?

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Max Boykoff, who contributed research and analysis on the media’s role in climate action to the most recent report on reducing carbon pollution from the UN-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), says the media plays a fundamental role in shaping the public’s and policymakers’ understanding of climate issues.

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

For the first time in 25 years of UN climate talks, coal and fossil fuel subsidies have been singled out in an official document. It is highly likely the row over phasing down or phasing out coal power will return in the coming years and the debate at future COPs will no doubt be extended to address oil and gas.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

It is vital the UK's COP Presidency shows the world we are listening to the voices of those most impacted by climate change and that we will lead global action to address their concerns, from loss and damage, to access to finance," she said.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Unchecked carbon pollution is forcing the world's most vulnerable on a frog march to destruction - now. The world's biggest polluters are guilty of arson of our only home. Nearly half of humanity is living in the danger zone - now. Many ecosystems are at the point of no return - now. The facts are undeniable.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The answer, even if it sounds like a cop out, is at its root a simple one: each of us must do what we can and should probably focus on what we are good at. The Chancery Law Project is bringing together all sections of the legal profession to try and drill climate action into contracts, regulation and national laws.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2024

Campaigners and climate scientists had hoped the summit – which was billed as a “Food COP” due to its focus on farming – would see governments agree to ambitious action to transform food systems in line with the goals of the Paris climate agreement. Burr added that COPs provided an opportunity for U.S. This is especially true in the U.S,

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Grist

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Things got dicey over the last couple of days, with world leaders hashing out the final text of the first global stocktake — a document assessing progress toward the Paris Agreement goals, and outlining measures countries will need to take to meet them. “That’s one thing that I do like about COP.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2022

A spokesperson for the secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the UN body behind the COP15 summit, told New Scientist : "The COP [conference of the parties] bureau, at its last meeting, discussed that the UN Biodiversity Conference could be moved to the third quarter.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

Japan is one of a small handful of countries to already submit an updated NDC, but the document sparked an angry response from campaigners and thinly veiled criticism from leading diplomats after Tokyo declined to upgrade its existing emissions goals. We are dealing with global public goods that we must protect and enhance.".

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