DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Graham Stuart MP was listed as a keynote speaker on Tuesday at the four-day Global Investment in Sustainable Development conference in London, hosted by the CC Forum, a company which touts itself as the “green Davos”. We need a government that understands the actions needed to reach net zero.”. climate science denial activist.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Dubbed the Glasgow Climate Pact, the agreement crucially puts pressure on countries to come foward next year with updated climate plans, promises more funding for climate adaptation, and for the first time ever includes explicit references to the need to drive down coal and phase out fossil fuel subsidies. Phase out coal.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

On the plus side, the pact reaffirmed the central importance of 1.5C (our best chance to avoid the worst impacts of climate change), mentions coal and fossil fuels for the first time, and calls for countries to “revisit and strengthen” 2030 climate pledges by the end of 2022 instead of waiting another five years. of warming. (If

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In the wake of blazing heat, rising food insecurity and devastating floods, COP28 leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda for the conference, which will call for governments to work with industry to find new solutions. of the Paris Agreement, which would provide the structure for a global carbon credit market.

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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. But you wouldn’t know it from the way the fossil fuel industry has responded.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

. | Sean Gallup/Getty Images Tens of thousands of negotiators, activists, and corporate execs have descended upon Dubai to wrangle over the future of fossil fuels. Can governments broker a deal to phase out the oil, coal, and gas causing climate change? The future of fossil fuels Let’s start with some backstory on COP28.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

G20 agrees to submit enhanced Paris Agreement plans ahead of COP26, but fails to agree coal power and fossil fuel subsidy phase outs. Under the Paris Agreement, signatories are expected to ramp up their national climate pledges every five years in order to help limit temperature rise to 1.5C

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The Climate Change Committee delivers its verdict on COP26, but will the UK government heed its advice for the coming 'crucial' year ahead? Globally, the UK must continue to encourage stronger action on climate and insist on rapid emissions reductions and stronger adaptation through all diplomatic channels.

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Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2022

In its role as a partner for the summit, BCG said it will support Egypt's COP27 Presidency by providing analytical capabilities and industry insights from its extensive experience helping companies, governments, and multilateral organisations accelerate their climate strategies.

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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

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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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

Australia looks set to ditch its climate-laggard global status after voters strongly backed more ambitious green policies – but can the change in government help reignite global climate action, as geopolitical challenges escalate?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

global warming pathway are to be kept alive. In snap analysis published yesterday, the IEA said it had calculated the impacts of the net zero pledges and emissions targets announced in recent days, and concluded that if national climate pledges are delivered as promised, the planet could potentially limit warming to 1.8C

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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

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

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Ramping up the energy efficiency of buildings, technology and industrial processes is seen to be a key solution for meeting climate goals by mid-century as the global population expands. Amid today's energy crisis, we are seeing signs that energy efficiency is once again being prioritised.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2022

COP26 President Alok Sharma has urged his own government to "explain and demonstrate" how opening up more of the North Sea for oil and gas drilling can be compatible with delivering on the UK's climate commitments.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Documents released this morning strongly suggest significant dividing lines remain on a raft of key issues, including climate finance and adaptation funding, loss and damage, carbon markets, language around the phasing down of fossil fuels, and much more besides.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Fresh analysis published this afternoon by the United Nations climate body the UNFCCC calculates the combined impact of 48 revised national emission reduction plans published in 2020, which together account for just under a third of global emissions. We need concrete plans to phase out fossil fuels as fast as possible.".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Meanwhile, global emissions are spiralling upwards again as the economy recovers and surging fossil fuel prices are driving fears that a new wave of high carbon infrastructure investment could yet be unleashed. in the current decade? pathway by 2030. This is where the ETC's six-pronged action plan comes in. "We

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

That report concluded that we have already reached average global warming of 1.1 By contrast the OBR estimates that if we act now, the transition to net zero could add around 21 per cent of GDP to government debt by mid-century. degrees, that human activity is unequivocally to blame, and that we were on track to breach the 1.5

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

But green groups were left underwhelmed, after the government confirmed its commitment today to treble climate adaptation funding and support a series of new forest protection projects would come from existing climate finance budgets. Loss and Damage can no longer be swept under the rug," he said. "It It is a moral imperative.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

BusinessGreen rounds up the best of the reaction from the low carbon economy to the government's flagship roadmap for achieving net zero emissions by 2050. While Labour has a bold climate investment pledge of £28bn extra each and every year to 2030, the government offers a tiny fraction of that.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

And so today's report's conclusion that while the scale of the challenge is monumental - the world must peak emissions by 2025, before halving them by 2030 - it also encouragingly makes clear that the world already has all of the tools it needs to achieve these aims, in order to keep the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

As the government gears up to unveil its 10 point green recovery plan this autumn, an alliance of more than 70 civil society groups have set out which net zero policies they think should make the cut. The 10 point plan set out today should serve "litmus test" for the government commitment's to net zero.".

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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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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

AUGUST 9, 2021

The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk. Global heating is affecting every region on Earth, with many of the changes becoming irreversible. window shutting.".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

As current events make all too clear, our continued reliance on fossil fuels makes the global economy and energy security vulnerable to geopolitical shocks and crises. Instead of slowing down the decarbonisation of the global economy, now is the time to accelerate the energy transition to a renewable energy future.".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Report author Chris Littlecott, an associate director at E3G, said coal power was increasingly becoming economically unviable in many regions of the world, and urged governments to collectively state their intention to move from coal to clean energy ahead of the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow in November.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In November, I had the privilege to represent Schneider Electric at the UN's Conference of Parties (COP) on climate change in Glasgow. This COP was unlike the previous 25 iterations, in that it took place during a global pandemic. degrees Celsius, not enough to avoid the worst impacts of global warming.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The world faces unavoidable and worsening climate hazards over the next two decades as global temperatures are driven up by human activity, with "irreversible impacts" on humans and ecosystems expected even if the global economy achieves the unprecedented feat of only marginally overshooting the 1.5C

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

If designed well and properly adhered to, global treaties have a lot going for them. COP talks each year are often fraught and progress remains far too slow, as today's IPCC report on escalating climate impacts will testify. It's really about designing a roadmap for governments to embark on the journey wherever they are currently.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

warming trajectory. Scientists have made clear that global emissions cuts of 45 per cent by 2030 are needed to stand a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C, yet UN analysis suggests that present national commitments would see emissions rise by 16 per cent by the end of the decade, compared to 2010. alive.". "The

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

The final text of the agreement confirmed the adoption of historic plans to introduce a new fundiung mechanism to help climate vulnerable nations cope with climate-related Loss and Damage, marking a sizeable victory for nations from the Global South. This COP has taken an important step towards justice. Ambition to keep the 1.5

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It was the first time the majority of nations formally recognized the need to control greenhouse gas emissions , which cause global warming that drives climate change. That agreement set the goal of limiting global warming to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 F), and preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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