DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The UK’s new climate minister has pulled out of an event hosting two of the world’s most prominent climate science deniers, DeSmog can reveal. The minister’s speech at the CC Forum event was to be followed by a “VIP Networking Lunch”, and then a debate titled “Is Global Warming the World’s Most Pressing Problem?”,

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2023

This year the two-day event takes place in the middle of the first Glasgow Climate Week with a programme of associated events around the City taking shape. Glasgow Climate Week is a COP26 legacy event and will now become an annual event. Further information on all aspects of the two day event is at www.all-energy.co.uk

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

After another full year of global warming events, from droughts to floods, the 196 countries represented in Sharm El-Sheikh failed to achieve even the basics: changing the Glasgow agreement to incorporate measures for combating climate change and reducing fossil fuel use. What do we need to change for the COP summit to be more effective?

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The UK organisers of the upcoming COP26 climate summit have come under fire for approving just two events that refer to fossil fuels, the primary driver of climate change, in a programme of public events happening alongside the main conference. Corporate-Friendly Sideshows’. million tons of carbon dioxide during the year.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

I attended this COP, my first, to learn more about how businesses can accelerate the transition to net zero and to share the findings of a new report, published today, that is a step-by-step playbook for companies to use to turn net zero pledges into progress. Progress worth celebrating. A new roadmap for the “Decisive Decade”.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Thus far we have not really laid the groundwork for the difficult balancing acts that will go into the diplomacy of the COP. What we will be bringing to the COP table as our ambition will be critically dissected by all these cats whilst they are being herded.

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Energy Central

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The UN COP events promises large sums of money to meet those goals; finance is very important but we also need innovation, creativity, and new methods. There is a dire need for creativity and innovation to mitigate climate changes.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2023

A series of pledges by developed nations towards a Loss and Damage fund was the headline development on the first day of COP28, on 30 November – and viewed by some as a positive harbinger for Dubai’s stewardship of the event. ”

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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2021

The event will bring together heads of state and government, ministers, heads of international organisations, multilateral banks, and civil soviety groups, among others.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

They also suggested that the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, known as the Biodiversity COP, that China is due to host in October and the COP26 UN Climate Summit that the UK is due to host in Glasgow in November could provide effective crucibles for such co-operation.

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Elemental Excelerator

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In a variety of conversations it became clear to me that to some degree, regardless the outcome of COP negotiations, undrilled oil will soon become stranded assets,” Director of Innovation, Mobility & Innovation Gabriel Scheer shared. At the end of the day, as Dawn wrote in FastCompan y, “The real value of COP is what comes next.”

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2023

December’s COP28 event in Dubai took place against a backdrop of global emissions continuing to rise at a rate of 1.5% Fossil fuels were mentioned for the first time in a COP text two years ago, at COP26 in Glasgow. Commentators were concerned about the decisive role seemingly prepared for carbon removal technologies.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

At the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow this week, BusinessGreen caught up with the former world F1 champion shortly after his appearance at an event to mark the UN Sports for Climate Action initiative, which called on sports bodies, organisations and clubs to target net zero emissions by 2040. BusinessGreen : What does COP26 mean to you?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Is the COP27 Summit that kicks off in Sharm El Sheikh this weekend the most important COP meeting yet, and therefore one of the most critical gatherings in the entire history of humanity? It is, by the admission of the Egyptian hosts, an "implementation COP". If COPs did not exist you would need to invent them.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

CCUS was the focus of more than 30 events at COP26, covering areas like policy, business, and social and technical challenges. One of the high-profile award ceremonies at COP, for start-up success stories, went to a company with a technology to convert industrial CO2 emissions into building materials. degrees alive.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 24, 2022

The event will host energy ecosystem stakeholders to unpack the industry’s priorities including its strategic roadmaps, visionary reforms, low cost capital investments and breakthrough technologies for building India’s long term self-reliance in energy.

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altenergymag

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

The co-located events, marking All-Energy's 20th anniversary, will be staged at Glasgow's SEC on 13 and 14 May 2020, just six months before the UN's COP 26 at the same venue

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2021

They don't want it to be virtual but even if it's not as big as previous COPs, they feel it must be done face-to-face.". BusinessGreen reached out to both UNFCCC and the Cabinet's COP unit for comment on the latest reports and was awaiting a response at the time of going to press. — Leo Hickman (@LeoHickman) March 25, 2021.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Each has an internal brand studio that creates advertising content for fossil fuel majors that range from podcasts to newsletters, videos, and advertorials, and some allow fossil fuel companies to sponsor their events. All four are also some of the fossil fuel industry’s favorite partners for advertising and events.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2020

Following a tumultuous start to the year for the planning of the COP26 Summit in Glasgow, the inquiry will also focus on the event's preparations and speak to other recent COP host countries in order to attempt "to learn from their experiences", the Committee said.

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Eco-Business

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

As the Philippine delegation presses for funds to pay for the loss and damage caused by extreme weather events, climate negotiators explain why it is in the country’s best interests that the conference is held in a developing region.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read. Her work with an NGO on the Pacific island of Vanuatu has made her mindful of what might seem an incommensurable cultural and psychological gulf between indigenous groups and the formalities that perhaps hold sway in a modern, western-dominated forum like COP.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read. Her work with an NGO on the Pacific island of Vanuatu has made her mindful of what might seem an incommensurable cultural and psychological gulf between indigenous groups and the formalities that perhaps hold sway in a modern, western-dominated forum like COP.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The COP26 summit - which is being co-hosted by the UK and Italy - is seen as a critical event for securing more ambitious progress towards the Paris Agreement goal of limiting average temperature rise to 1.5C This issue cannot continue to be deferred, COP after COP after COP. or well below 2C.

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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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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 30, 2021

Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, the equivalent of a year’s average rainfall fell in just three days in Zhengzhou, China, drowning commuters trapped on the subway system and leading to a mass evacuation event involving 200,000 people. Of all the COP series so far, this one is undoubtedly the most important in history.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The United Arab Emirates has been criticised for promoting oil and gas as a clean source of energy, and for backing “false solutions” such as carbon capture technology, at the UN COP27 climate summit in Egypt, ahead of hosting the event next year.

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Echoing Sharma's defence of the logistical difficulties seen over the past few days, she adds that a lot of the challenges have been a result of Covid and stresses that "this is the biggest global event the UK has had - so it was always going to be hard". It is a one-year thing, it only lasts as long as a COP.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2023

“As we prepare for more extreme weather events, we must use every weapon in our armoury and Natural Flood Management will play an essential role in this.” ” In early December governments from around the world were assembling for COP 15 to agree on how to halt and reverse nature loss. .” What is it?

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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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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The first few days of COP have ushered in a wave of major announcements and funding pledges. 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. A well-Time(d) profile on Sultan Al Jaber leading COP.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Government says events are designed to 'put a spotlight on how all parts of society and the global economy drives ambitious climate action’. Other events will focus on accelerating the shift from coal to clean power and the findings of the latest IPCC report, according to the programme.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Sustainability was at the core of COP26 and I am proud that the UK has added yet another impressive standard of environmental compliance to the event with the ISO2021 certification," he said. COP26 President Alok Sharma said the UK Presidency had worked hard to embed sustainability throughout the delivery of the summit.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The goings-on behind the scenes of COP 26, or kack thereof, have been well documented over the past few weeks. But despite the worrying progress of COP planning, all is far from being lost. With the new President in place COP will hopefully be back on track, allowing everyone to continue speculating what the conference will look like.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Last week he gave his thoughts on the key challenges, opportunities, knowns and unknowns of these final weeks leading up to the Summit at the launch event for BusinessGreen 's upcoming Net Zero Festival - although he was compelled to concede that the negotiations process underpinning the Paris Agreement can be somewhat, well, chaotic. "A

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2021

The UK and UN took another step towards delivering this autumn's COP26 Climate Summit in person today, as the official UN portal for registering delegates to the event was opened to participants. This will be part of wider measures put in place to ensure a safe, in-person COP this November for delegates and the local community," he added.

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