Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

For context, it has taken the world more than a century to warm a little more than 1 degree C, according to NASA. degrees C target was initially established as a target in Paris in 2015 after a push by developing nations at a previous COP, to bring attention to the fact that global warming does not impact all nations equally.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Nature-based solutions” is one of the only phrases linked to agriculture to be mentioned in the COP cover text. of the Paris Agreement, which would provide the structure for a global carbon credit market. We can expect a similar turnout at this year’s COP, too.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The world's top diplomat used a speech today at the UN headquarters in New York City to deliver a characteristically stark warning of the impending climate and biodiversity crises facing the world, noting global warming risks "hurtling past" the 1.5C threshold without urgent action this decade.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

"I also want particularly to thank COP President Alok Sharma who has worked incredibly hard to bring countries together. But today's agreement is a big step forward and, critically, we have the first ever international agreement to phase down coal and a roadmap to limit global warming to 1.5 and coal is in the text.

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The City Fix

OCTOBER 18, 2021

It’s common knowledge that if global warming exceeds 1.5C, we face the prospect of everything from increasingly extreme weather. The need to set aggressive goals, backed by meaningful numbers, is an obvious starting point in the fight against climate change. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Countries agreed to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F) and ideally 1.5 degrees C (2.7 degrees F) as part of the 2015 Paris Agreement. The latest science shows that emissions will need to drop. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

But just two of the 203 events listed make any reference to fossil fuels, which the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says are the dominant cause of global warming. In 2018, 89 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions came from fossil fuels and industry. million tons of carbon dioxide during the year.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

IEA predicts major gains on energy efficiency in 2022 in response to energy crisis, but BloombergNEF warns current clean energy policies still put world on track for a 2.6C The slowdown came after the global rate of energy efficiency improvement had already fallen from two per cent in the first half of last decade to 1.3

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JANUARY 12, 2022

Each year since 1995, with the exception of 2020, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ) has hosted a Conference of Parties (COP), where members of the UNFCCC negotiate issues relating to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other matters relating to climate change. UNFCCC began convening COPs in 1995.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2022

The world cannot lose sight of the urgent need to tackle the climate crisis amid soaring energy costs and Russia's brutal war in Ukraine, COP26 President Alok Sharma has warned this morning, arguing that a failure to honour the commitments made at last year's Glasgow Summit would be "an act of monstrous self-harm". "The Debt is mounting.

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Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2022

It added it has previously been involved in partnerships with the World Economic Forum, UN High Level Climate Change Champions, successive COP presidencies, SBTi (Science Based Targets Initiative), CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project), Breakthrough Energy Catalyst, and First Movers Coalition.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

According to the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), carbon offset programs can be grouped into the following broad categories: Renewable energy, energy efficiency, methane abatement, reforestation and conservation, fuel switching, and community projects. Carbon offset program #1: Renewable energy.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 19, 2023

This story was originally published by The Energy Mix Weekender , and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate crisis. We must invest in the energy system of today as unpopular as it sounds,” declared BP CEO Bernard Looney. “If

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. The hope is that limiting global warming to 1. Conference of the Parties (COP). COP is the decision-making body responsible for monitoring and reviewing implementation of the UNFCCC. Energy transition.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The CCC stressed that "this is a crucial 12 months" within a monumentally important decade for the climate if the world is to stand a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C, adding that "only concrete steps by 2030" would close the growing gap between delivery and ambition. of warming by the end of the century.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The wave of fresh climate commitments and net zero targets announced by world leaders in Glasgow this week could well have edged the planet onto a warming pathway that is just about compatible with the temperature goals of the Paris Agreement, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). in reach".

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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. These attendees come to COPs as “observers” to the talks, with the hope of influencing discussions from the outside.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Companies signed up to the Textiles 2030 campaign have endorsed a goal to slash the UK textiles industry's carbon emissions by 2050 in the next 10 years, in line with limiting global warming by 1.5C. In the run up to COP 26, environmental sustainability is rightly at the forefront of industry minds.

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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 are hanging by the thinnest of threads.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

of warming. (If If longer-term net-zero pledges are achieved, which is less certain at this point, global warming could be contained to 1.8C.) The International Energy Agency was clear in its landmark report earlier this year: phasing out coal power by 2040 is a key milestone on the path to net zero.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The documents, which were produced by the industry-funded Global Meat Alliance (GMA), emphasise the meat lobby’s desire to promote “our scientific evidence” at the summit, which will run from November 30 through to December 12. Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) sent at least 20 officials from its Department of Energy, the state-owned oil company ADNOC, or the publicly listed oil company TAQA. AlOtaibi is registered as a senior consultant on climate change for Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Energy. Others are listed with even less detail. Mohammed A.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2022

COP26 President also argues ramping up clean energy investment and insulating homes should be top priorities for Rishi Sunak as Britain's new Prime Minister. We need to speed up the process of insulating homes and doing more in terms of buildings and offices," he said.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The latest report from the Energy Transitions Commission has set out a roadmap for how the world can move on to a 1.5C warming trajectory over the course of the coming decade. The US and EU are planning to launch a Global Methane Pledge at COP26 which has already won the backing of several other nations, including the UK.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

COP Summits rarely, if ever, finish on time, but seasoned observers have warned the current talks appear to be badly behind schedule. goal, and stresses the critical role of ramping up renewable energy in support of decarbonisation, although it stops short of establishing a timetable for updated plans.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

For the first time, it proposed encompassing all the gases that cause global warming in a single indicator. “It was the most controversial and heated debate in the workshop,” recalls Rijsberman, now director of the Global Green Growth Institute. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. And they won.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

That report concluded that we have already reached average global warming of 1.1 The International Energy Agency has estimated that about 30 million new workers are needed by 2030 to meet increased demand in the clean economy. Yet every country at COP has agreed to phase-down coal power. degrees limit within two decades.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

In election results that have been hailed in some quarters as a ‘greenslide', Labor Party leader Antony Albanese has been confirmed as Australia's Prime Minster, immediately promising to ramp up the country's climate ambitions and transform it into a renewable energy superpower.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Although this level was not defined by the convention, the aim was to allow ecosystems and society to adapt naturally to climate change, which means slowing global warming down. Since the convention’s establishment, the countries involved meet annually during the Conference of the Parties (COP). C) within reach.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Boris Johnson has stressed that "COP simply must succeed", as he reiterated calls for major economies to ramp up their climate commitments ahead of COP26 and step up to the plate with promised funding to help vulnerable nations deal with the growing impacts of global warming. Getting it all done by COP, six out of 10.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The failure of richer nations to meet their collective climate finance target - which looks likely to be missed once again in 2021 - not only leaves poorer nations more vulnerable to the worsening impacts of global warming, but risks "poisoning" other key issues up for negotiation at COP26 in November, the ODI warned.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

alive or this will be the COP where we lose 1.5C," he said. You need to work out how you want future generations to look upon this COP and each of us individually as countries. alive" by "undertaking rapid, deep and sustained cuts" in greenhouse gas emissions. goal, arguing that "every fraction of a degree matters".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

He called for a "Climate Solidarity Pact" between richer and poorer nations geared towards helping climate vulnerable countries ramp up renewable energy capacity and end dependence on fossil fuels, with a particular onus on stopping new coal plants being built. Loss and Damage can no longer be swept under the rug," he said. "It

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2023

This is creating a new catalyst for climate action, paving the way for a clean energy acceleration as competition increases," the IPR said. IPR forecasts continuing pressure on policy makers via the COP stocktake and ratchet and increasing climate competition driving the acceleration and transition factors facing investors," he said.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

They have pointed out the plan remains thin on detail for how the government plans to bring down the costs of crucial clean technologies for consumers, scale up energy efficiency improvements, plug looming green skills shortages, and encourage people to embrace lower carbon diets. Here, BusinessGreen rounds up the reaction to the stategy.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 12, 2022

Methane from oil and gas operations, agriculture and other industries is responsible for at least 25% of the global warming we experience today. It’s no surprise then that cutting these emissions presents one of the quickest, simplest and most affordable ways to reduce warming, even as we continue the clean energy transition.

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