Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Polestar has once again published the full lifecycle carbon emissions associated with the production of its electric vehicles (EVs), estimating that its latest models have generated between 24 to 25 tonnes of CO2 by the time they are sold to customers. Making cars electric is not the end game, it is a starting point.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Critics argued that the agreement on transitioning away from fossil fuels was weak and riddled with loopholes, lacking concrete steps and allowing continued reliance on fossil fuels. COP president Sultan Al-Jaber, head of the UAE’s state oil company, faced accusations of using his position to promote fossil fuels.

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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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GreenBiz

JUNE 5, 2020

The right to breathe isn't just related to surviving interactions with police," said Alexis Cureton, former electric vehicle fellow at GRID Alternatives , an organization that works to bring clean energy jobs and access to low-income communities. "It Are disproportionately exposed to toxic air pollution from the fossil fuel industry.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2023

Specifically, it highlighted progress at EU level to expand the bloc's emissions trading scheme (ETS), develop a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM), set dates to phase out fossil fuel vehicles, and reform planning and grid connection processes to to fast-track new renewables projects.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The awards fall just as another controversially chosen oil state, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), plays host to international climate talks, COP 28 , at which the UAE was revealed as planning to use the opportunity to make more oil and gas deals.

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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

JULY 12, 2021

Other plans include investing in low-carbon alternatives to fossil fuel dependent infrastructure, working with suppliers that meet sustainability goals, and introducing more electrical vehicle charging points.

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Business Green

MAY 14, 2021

Alok Sharma intent on holding 'most inclusive COP ever' in Glasgow, but it is not UK's gift alone to make in-person event happen. This is what makes the next United Nations Climate Conference in Glasgow, COP 26, so critical. If we are serious about 1.5C, Glasgow must be the COP that consigns coal power to history," he said.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The Glasgow Climate Pact is clear: we are moving away from fossil fuels. Ultimately, COP26 has made coal - and fossil fuels more generally - an even less attractive investment proposition than they were before the start of the summit. The boardroom perspective: at COP26, private sector commitments reached a critical mass.

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Business Green

JANUARY 3, 2022

A significant feature of COP was businesses joining with activists to demand faster progress. It is routinely the cheaper option for businesses to convert their company cars to electric vehicles, with the whole life cost of an EV beating that of an internal combustion engine almost every time (subject to availability of course).

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The first few days of COP have ushered in a wave of major announcements and funding pledges. The appointment of Sultan Dr. Al Jaber as Chairman of Alterra, and also host of COP28, has already stirred controversy due to his role as President of ADNOC and rumored intention to broker fossil fuel deals during COP.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 24, 2022

As a part of the national statement delivered at the 26 Conference of the Parties (COP 26) in Glasgow in November 2021, the Prime Minister announced the landmark commitment to achieve carbon neutrality by 2070.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

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. Of course, arguing all that is needed is 'political will' is something of a cop out.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

It also noted the decision to end fossil fuel production was an "inherently political" decision that would have to be made by the Secretary of State on the basis of a number of considerations outside of the committee's official climate-focused remit.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

The report launched on 19 March, entitled Decarbonisation of the Steel Industry in the U K, predicts the global steel industry will grow by 50 per cent up to 2050, while new green industries will create fresh market opportunities, such as offshore wind, electric vehicles, and hydrogen infrastructure.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

An 'ambitious' new 2030 emissions reduction target, a 2030 phase out date for fossil fuel vehicles, and a major home energy retrofit programme are all on the Climate Coalition's short list, along with a raft of wider proposals designed to accelerate emissions reductions efforts over the coming decade. Lots more clean energy.

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The COP 26 climate conference took place! Bukaty/AP A bad omen for the future: fossil fuel plant owners bankrolled a referendum in Maine to try and pass a ballot measure to kill a transmission line that would bring in zero-carbon hydropower from Canada. For example, $7.5 billion or so to electrify their entire bus fleet).

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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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LA CleanTech Incubator

JUNE 5, 2020

The right to breathe isn't just related to surviving interactions with police," said Alexis Cureton, former electric vehicle fellow at GRID Alternatives , an organization that works to bring clean energy jobs and access to low-income communities. "It Are disproportionately exposed to toxic air pollution from the fossil fuel industry.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

From Loss and Damage and just transitions to rows over fossil fuel phase outs and carbon markets, we take a look at some of the key lessons for businesses from COP27. Like the World Cup that kicked off within hours of the gavel coming down in Sharm El Sheikh, COPs provide a regular temperature check for global geopolitics.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

A similar dynamic is at play in the row over phasing out or down of unabated coal power and inefficient fossil fuel subsidies. Phase out or down is semantics, but the recognition is there that fossil fuels are the problem. Future COPs will re-open this debate and seek to extend it to gas and oil.

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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. There are many different ways to gauge the success or otherwise of a COP.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

We have been using fossil fuels for over 200 years now, and our recent fuel crisis is a stark reminder of how reliant our transport network remains on it. The type of fuel we use to travel matters. Transport is this country's highest greenhouse gases emitting sector, producing 30 per cent of total emissions in 2019.

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2023

Despite the marked increase in government ambitions, CO2 emissions have increased in every year since the Paris COP in 2015 (bar 2020)," it continues. Crucially, these changes are evident in both the fossil fuel and the clean energy market. Investment in clean energy basically matched that in fossil fuels last year.

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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). Auto industry goes all-in on electric vehicles.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Global energy shortages and a recent spike in oil prices to a three-year high above $80 a barrel, have dimmed hopes that governments will announce bold new plans to rapidly ditch fossil fuels at the October 31st to November 12th summit. is closing fast. Our hopes and dreams drown in their empty words and promises," she said. "Of

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Business Green

DECEMBER 30, 2022

And then, somewhere along the way, 2022 also found time for two major UN COP summits - one on climate change, the other on biodiversity - both of which proved momentous in different ways. Even British Gas, a company that takes is name from the fossil fuel, began ramping up its heat pump installations this year.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

Although Labor has refused to back a phase out of coal use or block the opening of new coal mines in Australia - which remains one of the world's biggest exporters of the carbon-intensive fossil fuel - the party has promised to adopt more ambitious emissions targets and turn the nation into a global renewable energy 'superpower'.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

Post COP, it's really about the action aspect, and that reinforcement of commitment from government along with the business models will allow these projects to proceed.". It is not about carbon capture as an alternative to renewable power, or carbon capture as an alternative to electric vehicles or housing insulation.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The climate crisis may have stayed near the top of the political and corporate agenda, net zero commitments have come thick and fast, and renewable and electric vehicle investment may have toppled records, but there is barely a country on the planet on track to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. Lord Turner tells BusinessGreen. "In

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

And by COP in Glasgow we will look to have those types of commitments across the financial sector, right into the private banking sector as well.". It's a net zero COP. That's the objective. That's the expectation.". The decade of delivery. In financial markets, too, confidence in low carbon assets has become more pronounced.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

COP talks each year are often fraught and progress remains far too slow, as today's IPCC report on escalating climate impacts will testify. As close observers of global climate diplomacy have long argued, if the COP process and the Paris Agreement did not exist you would have to invent them. The US left the treaty altogether briefly.

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

To support its argument, the government today published new research it commissioned with Bloomberg New Energy Finance, which shows how 31 per cent of the global passenger vehicle market is now covered by vehicle manufacturer commitments to end sales of fossil fuel-powered vehicles, up from a near zero share of the market at the start of 2021.

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