DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Corporate Europe Observatory and Corporate Accountability are calling for the U.N. body that organises the annual climate negotiations to adopt a conflict of interest policy that would exclude fossil fuel companies and their partners from attending or sponsoring the events.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Former UK energy and climate minister Claire O’Neill’s World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is running a series of events at the conference on private sector efforts to tackle climate change. She is not listed in the group’s delegation but has been chairing events.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Yet 636 lobbyists for the fossil fuel industry are conspicuously present at this year’s crucial COP27 climate talks, according to an analysis of the delegates to COP27, compiled jointly by the NGOs Global Witness, Corporate Accountability, and Corporate Europe Observatory. So much for the “African COP.” The industry knows this.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

This list includes some of the world’s most destructive companies, and they should only be included at COP with extreme caution,” she told DeSmog. Dubbed “Africa’s COP”, this year’s conference has put farming in the spotlight and its dedicated ‘adaptation and agriculture’ day was a historic first.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. The GMA declined to offer a formal comment, however a spokesperson told DeSmog in an email that the group works to “simplify and distil public information” around international events which are “often dominated by an anti-meat narrative”.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance side event sees France join calls for stronger language on phasing down the use of fossil fuels in COP cover agreement. BOGA's announcements come amid growing criticism and concern around the presence of oil and gas executives at this year's COP climate talks.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Some events required a suit and tie, while others felt like next-level science fairs where engineer founders pitch what’s next in climate tech solutions. There were nearly 600 officially affiliated side events , but likely double that many unofficial, individual events scattered across the city throughout the week.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

The Narrative of Fossil Nationalism Noting that “the same kind of rhetoric” was on display during the COP 27 climate summit in Egypt in 2022, King said related strategies include linking fossil fuel use to “human flourishing” and “human freedom” and ensuring that such language seems to emanate from citizen or grassroots entities. “I

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2020

Fears are growing that the UK's ability to host the latest round of climate talks in Glasgow are being severely hindered by the battle to control the pandemic, with some commentators suggesting the event may have to be postponed or relocated if the crisis continues. Hearing COP looking increasingly likely to be cancelled/postponed.

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2021

As if pressure on the UK to help steer the world towards more ambitious climate commitments this year wasn't already high enough, the government now looks increasingly isolated in its determination to hold COP26 - that most crucial of events on the climate calendar - in Glasgow as planned later this year. The Paris Rulebook.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

All four companies have "ambitious and credible climate action plans" to drive down their emissions in line with climate science, and will "support the delivery of a successful and ambitious COP next November", the government said today.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Rania Al Mashat, Egypt's minister for international cooperation, recently said : "For us, what we want this COP[27] to be about is moving from pledges to implementation. We don't need to go back in history to look for the most impactful and devastating climate events.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2021

Speculation is continuing to mount over whether the two high profile summits will be able to proceed as planned, given the worsening coronavirus waves currently afflicting parts of Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The IPCC’s scientists explain how climate change has been fueling extreme weather events and flooding , severe heat waves and droughts , loss and extinction of species , and the melting of ice sheets and rising of sea levels. Secretary-General António Guterres called the report a “code red for humanity.”. staff and other experts.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Another COP is coming - the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference. COP27 in Egypt is going to be taking place alongside war in Europe, concerns about energy security, and significant weather events occurring in both developed and developing countries.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Alongside executives from Iberdrola and its subsidiary ScottishPower – a COP26 “principal partner” – the event organising team includes figures from the UNFCCC, the Scottish government, the International Energy Agency and WWF. Wind and Gas.

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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. Europe is staying the course. Don't let anyone tell you, here or outside, that the EU is backtracking," Timmermans told COP27 delegates. Russia's war against Ukraine will end.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The UK organizers of the COP26 climate conference very publicly declined to offer international oil companies any slots in the conference or any formal role in the event, and oil companies without credible climate programs were also barred from sponsoring events at the high-stakes international talks currently underway.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

This COP caused deep frustrations but it wasn't for nothing," she said. "It Writing on Twitter, Tan Copsey at consultancy Climate Nexus, said: "The fossil fuel lobby and friendly countries have made their presence felt at COP, but it's clear momentum is still only going in one direction - towards a clean energy economy.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

When thinking about sustainability, convenience and efficiency in the rail sector, high-speed rail provides all three whether that's in the UK, Europe or globally. At the moment, we are accelerating the development of the London-Amsterdam service on the busiest international air route in Europe. By 2025, this could represent 1.2

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 10, 2019

In the event of Johnson not winning, it's hard to imagine anyone else failing to follow suit. will host the UN’s COP 26 climate talks. Power companies around Europe are asking for more climate ambition. The current Prime Minister revealed at the same time that he would chair the new committee personally.

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2022

A key fixture in the annual climate diplomacy calendar, the Petersburg Climate Dialogue is taking place today and tomorrow in Berlin, as Western Europe bakes in an intense and unprecedented heatwave. Ministers at the Petersberg Dialogue must rescue ambition for climate action and just transitions in the lead up to the COP," she said.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The appeals underscored how for many nations, the success of the Sharm El Sheikh Summit depends on its ability to deliver real progress towards the launch of a dedicated funding mechanism for Loss and Damage, after the contentious issue made it on to a COP agenda for the first time this year.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Subscribe Now 📩 Submit deals, announcements, events & opportunities, or general curiosities for the newsletter at hello@ctvc.co. sold in Europe during the first half of the year. The company is expected to expand across Asia, Australia, and Europe and is also pushing into Latin American markets. Thanks for reading!

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

We’re going into a COP where this is going to be a big topic, and we don’t really have a definition for it.” Methane leakage is really important, but really the way you stop methane leakage is by stopping drilling for oil and gas,” said Pascoe Sabido, researcher and campaigner for the Brussels-based organization Corporate Europe Observatory.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 25, 2021

In addition to fundamental and immediate questions about the UK's energy supply, we had the Prime Minister Boris Johnson stating his ambition to move our power supplies entirely away from fossil fuels by 2035, the pre-COP meeting in Milan and warnings from the Environment Agency to prepare for rising seas, floods and droughts.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Even in the context of an eventful past five years, it is fair to say 2022 was another rollercoaster. 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.

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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. The join us at the Net Zero Finance pathway event , as part of the Net Zero Festival 2021 , which will take place online on March 16th. That's the objective.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

While not losing sight of the importance to progress mitigation measures, in the next five to 10 years, world leaders will zone in on adaptation strategies, to help build resiliency in the face of increasingly severe and frequent weather events.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Speaking at an event in Milan this month, Thunberg spoke for many when she alleged that COPs have delivered little more than a talking shop since the first Earth Summit in 1992. Will enough people turn up to say it's a legitimate COP? But for thousands of scientists and campaigners, these pledges are all too little, too late.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Last year we saw devastating floods across Asia and Europe. Where people's ability to feed their families becomes precarious and extreme weather and diseases wipe out livelihoods, people may be forced from their homes, and civil unrest may ferment, events that can undermine fragile government, and reverberate around the globe.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

We must be laser-focused on phasing out fossil fuel emissions, while phasing up viable, affordable zero carbon alternatives,” Al-Jaber said at a pre-COP 28 event in Bonn in June. The statement was widely interpreted as a pitch for carbon capture.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The event was also attended by a number of leading utility and engineering companies, including Korea Electric Power Corp, SK E&S, Hanwha Engineering & Construction Corp, Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co., CS Wind Corp, and Samkang M&T Co. LafargeHolcim and Schlumberger New Energy explore cement CCS options.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

It's vital the UK shows action at home and leadership abroad to bring other countries with us in making ambitious climate change commitments in the lead up to COP 26 in Glasgow. We know that countryside communities are on the front line of climate change and the extreme weather events it causes. It's time for real climate action.".

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