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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Ahead of the COP27 UN climate summit, hundreds of scientists are calling on the PR firm in charge of the event’s communications, Hill+Knowlton, to cut ties with its fossil fuel industry clients, which include major oil companies Aramco, ExxonMobil, and Shell as well as an industry coalition called the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

DeSmog analysed examples of more than 100 influencers being paid to promote fossil fuel firms worldwide since 2017, from the US to Malaysia, in campaigns that have reached billions of people. While there’s more knowledge in general around climate change and the harms of fossil fuels, I think that people have a lot of trust in creators.

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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% The headline commitment of COP28 was the pledge to transition away from fossil fuels. Fossil fuels were mentioned for the first time in a COP text two years ago, at COP26 in Glasgow.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 19, 2023

Fossil fuel-linked groups spent around $4 million on Facebook and Instagram that spread false climate claims over the COP27 summit, a new report says. Climate Denial ‘Comeback’ Big Oil companies Shell, Chevron and Exxon all ran ads in the run-up to the summit, but the majority were posted by PR and fossil fuel front groups.

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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 4, 2021

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND – Only two of the 35 stalls lauding countries’ green credentials at the COP26 UN climate summit mention the need to cut fossil fuel production — the chief cause of the carbon emissions driving climate change. . We urge all leaders to put people and the planet over the profit of the fossil fuel industry.”.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Coyote, but without the madcap comic charm, the global fossil fuel industry finds itself out beyond the cliff edge - it just hasn't realised yet. Now they publicly accept the need for a transition away from all fossil fuels. Clean energy generation is close to outstripping increases in energy demand.

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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. It may be a tactical game, but it's a good game," she said. "We We should support it".

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 9, 2023

UK fossil fuel imports from authoritarian petrostates surged to £19.3 Petrostates are countries that are economically heavily dependent on fossil fuel production. billion on fossil fuel imports from the year beginning February 2022. billion on fossil fuel imports from the year beginning February 2022.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

These agri-giants will be rubbing shoulders with over 80,000 participants – the highest attendance of any climate conference – which these days comes with increased media fanfare and activity, including protests, side events, drinks and dinners happening in and around the main event.

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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. Prime Minister Liz Truss is facing criticism over her support for new fossil fuel projects , including fracking , and plans to block solar farms and scrap environmental protections.

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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 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.

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The Guardian: Energy

MARCH 12, 2024

obligations requires clean energy consumption and production to shift together, and that we must find mechanisms to guard against further interruption of both by future geopolitical events. We must break for good the stop-start of Cop agreements so there is follow-through from one to the next. But it is a stark reminder that meeting 1.5C

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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2021

Australian court cases, fossil fuel phase out alliances, and a vote of confidence in Gold Standards all feature in this week's latest round up of global green business news. Colombia to host hybrid Biodiversity PreCOP.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 2, 2021

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change — the folks who organize the annual COP events — defines “climate-related risks” as those: …created by a range of hazards. Fossil-fuel companies are likely seeing flashing red lights about now. degrees Celsius. Shell vowed to appeal, which could take years.

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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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The European Union has clearly laid out its position: Climate neutrality, the Council of the EU stated last month, will require “a global phase-out of unabated fossil fuels and a peak in their consumption in this decade.” 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.”

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The core team has been strengthened and there is no doubt the covid-induced delay has given officials and diplomats the space they needed to lay the groundwork for the event. As the new COP26 President and Business Secretary Alok Sharma may have an absurdly packed in-tray, but he has not yet put a public step wrong in his Presidential role.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Biden's address also set out his administration's plans to crackdown on methane leaks in the US' fossil fuel industry. Research published by Global Witness this morning revealed that 636 fossil fuel lobbyists had been granted access to COP27, more than double the number of delegates representing Indigenous peoples.

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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. Fossil fuels are driving both the climate and energy crises,” Kennerley said. “We

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2023

As is always the case at COP Summits multiple issues remain unresolved, but the battle between the various opposing camps looks to set to boil down to a fierce row over how, and indeed whether, the final version of the Global Stocktake should reference the future of fossil fuels. All of this is demonstrably true.

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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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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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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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

billion worth of fossil fuels from Saudi Arabia. DeSmog has today revealed that the US-based advertising giant McCann, part of the Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG), is putting itself forward to continue working for this fossil fuel giant. So what else do we know about this fossil fuel behemoth?

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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. academic Jennifer Jacquet. “In

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 27, 2023

There were major geopolitical events, but they didn’t impact the energy markets the way they did a year ago. I am always skeptical of these conferences, but the two-week UN climate summit is a big event, especially in the context of the hottest year in recorded history. This marked a significant win for developing nations.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Do the next best thing and read our COP reflections.  Last COP featured the conference’s first nuclear-themed pavilion, and this year boasted eight. Fuel shortages, rising energy costs and carbon commitments are driving renewed enthusiasm. For now, the swirl of COP nuclear activity represents a dip of the toe.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Mark Carney has responded to mounting criticism of his recent claim that Brookfield - the Canadian investment giant for which he is a board member - is "net zero today", despite the fact it holds billions of dollars of fossil fuel infrastructure assets including coal and tar sands projects. It's a net zero COP.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

What are the big priorities for COP? Clearly it will be a major achievement for the UK government if the UK can hold a successful COP, so one can only assume the will is there to try to bring it off. This “would level the playing field,” she said, “and it would be a massive result if we got that done at COP.”. Job creation?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

COP26 has seen fossil fuels mentioned for the first time in a UNFCCC cover text and the launch of a pioneering alliance of governments committed to phasing out oil and gas production. The final days of the COP26 Climate Summit has seen fossil fuels take something of a shellacking.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

"I'm not sure whether this technicality around a ratchet is something we would push for or would be in the final text, but it is often the case that when you have these annual events that is sort of implicit anyway, and there is a lot of referring back to previous agreements.".

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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. Carbon dioxide runs through pipes at a North Dakota CCS plant.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

COP26 has seen fossil fuels mentioned for the first time in a UNFCCC cover text and the launch of a pioneering alliance of governments committed to phasing out oil and gas production. The final days of the COP26 Climate Summit has seen fossil fuels take something of a shellacking.

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2023

The events of the past year have highlighted the complexity and interconnectedness of the global energy system," said Spencer Dale, chief economist at BP. The events of the past year have served as a reminder to us all that the transition also needs to take account of the security and affordability of energy.

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