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WoodMac: Emerging Solar Markets to Come of Age in 2020s

GreenTechMedia

These offered policy makers a more effective tool to control deployment rates, and a way to procure increasingly low-cost power. Pairing PV with ever-cheaper batteries can offer firm zero-carbon power; pairing with existing fossil fuel generators can reduce the carbon intensity of power supply.

COP 130
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The scientist who warned the US about climate change says it’s worse than we thought. Again.

Grist

degrees C target was initially established as a target in Paris in 2015 after a push by developing nations at a previous COP, to bring attention to the fact that global warming does not impact all nations equally. For context, it has taken the world more than a century to warm a little more than 1 degree C, according to NASA.

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Rishi Sunak to take reins as Prime Minister amid growing calls to accelerate net zero and nature agenda

Business Green

Green business leaders will be hoping Sunak reaffirms his commitment to the UK's net zero target and provide markets with much-needed policy clarity to support the net zero transition following weeks of political turmoil, policy U-turns and economic upheaval.

Policy 69
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Mapped: Big Ag’s Routes to Influence at COP28

DeSmogBlog

They will use their connections to network, lobby – and even raise investment. 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. This year will be different.

COP 134
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'Half measures won't halve emissions': The green economy reacts to IPCC's climate solutions report

Business Green

The third in a trilogy of reports over the past year or so, today's - dubbed Climate Change 2022: The Mitigation of Climate Change - was particularly highly anticipated due to its focus on solutions to the aforementioned crisis the world currently faces, in terms of technologies, policies, nature-based measures and finances. on the table.

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COP26: Taking on the takes

Business Green

For all the evidence the Paris Agreement has catalysed an era-defining array of clean tech innovations and a remarkable shift in public opinion, there have been baseless arguments that the entire COP process is an exercise in futility. There are many different ways to gauge the success or otherwise of a COP.

COP 101
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'We are witnessing the impacts of a disorderly transition': CCC boss Chris Stark on net zero in the wake of Covid-19

Business Green

Positive noises have also come from those leading governments in Germany , France , Italy and the UK , buoyed perhaps by increasingly irrefutable evidence from leading economists that investing in renewables, energy efficiency, and clean technology offers the best response to the recession for jobs, growth and wellbeing.