Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Next spring, government envoys are convening at the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15) in Kunming, China, to negotiate new global biodiversity goals for the coming decades within the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). This is the case for many subsidies, e.g., in agricultural policy.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

That even the successes of Extinction Rebellion in 2019 have not translated into policy-change or a saner trajectory. What if the most powerful thing that can be done now is for those who carry the flame of this cause in the public eye instead to admit a kind of defeat? To admit that we are definitively exiting the safe climate space.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Businesses have a stake in the COP outcomes for three main reasons - let me explain. And Asahi is already brewing half of its beers in Europe with renewable energy and using 40 per cent less water than it used 10 years ago. This is because business is demanding clearer policies. They are already investing in decarbonisation.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 24, 2022

Part of the world’s largest series of energy sector events spread across North America, Europe, Australia, Africa & South East Asia, this even brings together over 200 exhibitors and 8000 qualified professionals from the entire value chain of the global power generation, transmission and distribution under one roof.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

From Amsterdam, Gellert oversaw the company in Europe, Africa and the Middle East for nearly six years, working before that at outdoor gear maker Black Diamond. Energy and Clean Growth minister also served as COP President for the 26th UN Climate Change Conference. He's at the helm of Patagonia Works, the parent company.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The potential is clearly there to create a group of leading economies that sufficiently align their climate policies, taxes, and industrial decarbonisation programmes to create a relatively level playing field. CBAM will be a crucial pillar of European climate policies," he said. "It A win-win situation.".

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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

APRIL 27, 2020

We have to take the next step forward for climate action and do this in Europe, and do everything possible to ensure other economies follow suit.". We can see the way forward and we have to do in Europe and across the world.". There can be no going back," Stern said. "We We have to rule out austerity. That doesn't make sense.

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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. And we want to highlight what are the practical policies and practices, the processes that can actually push the pledges [into action], to bridge that gap.".

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The “unabated” qualifier has no internationally accepted definition, Romain Ioualalen, global policy campaign manager at Oil Change International, explained. 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.” The misleading wording isn’t new to this year’s UN climate meeting.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2023

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. These narratives are a far cry from Big Oil’s public statements about carbon capture and storage.

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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 Dr Fatih Birol, executive director of the IEA, said the world was seeing a repeat of some of the policies that emerged in response to the oil supply crisis of the 1970s.

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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

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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Business Green

MAY 27, 2022

But it notes that investment in liquified fossil gas that can displace gas piped to Europe from Russia also had an important role in delivering energy security and protecting consumers from further energy market volatility.

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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. The Largest Delegation?

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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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. These companies are stepping up their game because the exposure they are facing is stepping up,” says Jennifer Jacquet, Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Miami. “It rise in temperature that risks tipping the world into irreversible climate breakdown.

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Clean Energy Trust

JANUARY 28, 2022

Credit: Stripe eadership from corporations to be committed first customers for products that can decarbonize the economy Several announcements around COP 26 highlighted corporates who had made commitments to be early customers for new technology solutions, in order to help create market pull?—?this

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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

JUNE 17, 2021

Report sets out the myriad ways ongoing discussions over Brexit climate and energy policy are affecting the UK's chances of meeting climate goals. As such, it urges the government and other energy organisations to dedicate considerable time and effort trying to try and influence future EU energy policy choices that will affect UK operators.

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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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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. The talks are now widely expected to run well beyond their scheduled close of Friday evening.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

As is the European Commission, according to its First Vice-President Frans Timmermans, who declared in the Petersberg Dialogue that the EU should show leadership across the climate change agenda "…by sticking to the agenda as though a COP would take place in November this year.". More twists in this virus. So - job done?

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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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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Last year we saw devastating floods across Asia and Europe. Though policy choices could reduce this figure, and I would add that it includes investments with long term benefits. When my team and I established priorities in 2020, with the support of our Friends of COP group, we questioned whether we were setting ourselves up to fail.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Original post: Your guide to Europe’s ‘Green New Deal,’ the continent’s new plan to get to net zero. Not got time to read every line of the European Green Deal? We’ve got you covered.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

and Europe. 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. All four are also some of the fossil fuel industry’s favorite partners for advertising and events.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2022

War has returned to Europe. But principally I learned that though this international system - the COP process - is imperfect and unwieldy, it can work," he added. "It The clouds have darkened over the international landscape," Sharma said. The tectonic plates within our geopolitics have shifted. Inflation is spiking around the world.

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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.”

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Michele has 30 years’ experience providing environmental, health & safety and social impact consulting services to the oil & gas, mining, manufacturing and public service sectors across Europe and Australia.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

At an event on Wednesday launching the group’s “Business Manifesto for Climate Recovery”, Giulia Cherchia, executive vice president for strategy and sustainability at UK oil company BP and a member of WBCSD delegation, called for more “inclusiveness” for business at future COPs.

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Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2023

I think a lot of the feedback that you hear from any of the COPs is we're not doing enough and we're not doing it fast enough. And I do believe that summits like COP help to crystallize our efforts toward a more balanced relationship with the natural world. Has COP changed your perspective on what Schneider could do?

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2023

The CCC's annual report is scathing on the lack of policy progress over the past year - the UK cannot afford another 12 months of inaction No aspect of the Climate Change Committee's (CCC) absolutely damning assessment of the UK's decarbonisation efforts over the past year is as dispiriting as the government's response to it.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 7, 2020

From Amsterdam, Gellert oversaw the company in Europe, Africa and the Middle East for nearly six years, working before that at outdoor gear maker Black Diamond. Energy and Clean Growth minister also served as COP President for the 26th UN Climate Change Conference. He’s at the helm of Patagonia Works, the parent company.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2022

Recognising the difficulties in implementing effective policy quickly, it is still disappointing not to see more on energy efficiency and on supporting households to make changes that can cut their energy bills now. Instead, the government has prioritised policies that will keep us dependent on high cost fossil fuels and nuclear power.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Green business groups and campaigners welcome higher 2030 emissions reduction goal, but call for ambitious policy and funding to put the UK on a net zero pathway as soon as possible. We now need the policies in place to achieve this target, if we're going to lead and inspire the whole world to meet the ambition of the Paris Agreement.".

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