Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Meanwhile, the huge clean tech buying signals from coalitions of large corporates focused on electric vehicles, green steel, renewables, green shipping, and sustainable aviation fuels, all point to how these markets could quickly reach tipping points that trigger the rapid adoption that obliterates fossil fuel demand.

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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. degree goal alive.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

But group of petrostates resist calls to phase down fossil fuels and accelerate decarbonisation efforts. It just shows that this UN process can achieve results, and that the world can recognise the plight of the vulnerable must not be treated as a political football.". The phasedown of all fossil fuels is not in this text.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

But while the COP27 Presidency may insist the talks are advancing as planned, the mood among many of the delegates in the COP complex remains dour, with a growing expectation the fraught negotiations will continue deep into the weekend. "I don't think we have anything to worry about," he said. "I I hope I'm not wrong".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

as the key target for the Paris Agreement and reiterates last year's promise to deliver a "phasing down" of unabated coal power and a "phasing out" of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies. The COP decision must put the world on a path to phasing out all fossil fuels and an urgent, just transition to renewables.".

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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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. The North American Meat Institute will host a side event at the US COP pavilion on December 11, the summit’s Agriculture Day, for example. We need the animal agriculture equivalent of ‘keep it in the ground’ for fossil fuels,” she adds. “It’s

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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. There has been movement but I would be exaggerating if I said it was matching exactly what the political statements are," said Aboulmagd.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Of course, there are deep failures at the heart of the COP process and its politics. The level of debate prompted by the most anodyne efforts to name the fossil fuels that are causing the problem and to commit to ending fossil fuel subsidies and phasing out coal is a disgrace.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Fossil fuels get named and shamed. For the first time in 25 years of UN climate talks, coal and fossil fuel subsidies have been singled out in an official document. Here, we've picked out 10 key takeaways for business leaders from the Glasgow Climate Pact and COP26 Summit: 1.

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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

MAY 23, 2022

Although Labor has refused to back a phase out of coal use or block the opening of new coal mines in Australia - which remains one of the world's biggest exporters of the carbon-intensive fossil fuel - the party has promised to adopt more ambitious emissions targets and turn the nation into a global renewable energy 'superpower'.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The international agreement that comes out of COP26 will not be ambitious enough, but it could still drive the real world progress that will slash fossil fuel demand over the coming years. The "mood music" in the room where it happens is said to be considerably more upbeat than is typical for the closing days of a COP Summit.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

However, his speech today was notable by its relative absence of net zero rhetoric, neglecting to make any mention of the word 'climate' at all, while only referring to 'net zero' twice, as he hailed the decarbonisation goal as an opportunity to back research, development and innovation.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

What are the big priorities for COP? And Nature, she suggested, was a “big big problem”, referring to the difficulties with accounting for natural capital. 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.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2022

Delivered in Her Majesty's absence by Prince Charles, the speech set out the government's legislative agenda and broad political priorities for the coming year, and contained myriad references to economic growth, levelling up, supporting Ukraine's war effort, and tackling rising living costs. Public Order Bill.

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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 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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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

From Rio to Glasgow: The political recognition of our climate crisis increases On the 9th of May, 1992, the United Nations Framework Convention on Change (UNFCCC) was adopted. 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

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

To take two examples: "bullying allegations" were referred to, when you are aware that there was a single historical complaint, which was fully investigated by the Cabinet office and found to be entirely without merit.". It was very disheartening in this context to learn that No. It was very disheartening in this context to learn that No.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

And by COP in Glasgow we will look to have those types of commitments across the financial sector, right into the private banking sector as well.". It's a net zero COP. Meanwhile, there are also growing political pressures. That's the objective. That's the expectation.". The decade of delivery.

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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. According to Investopedia , the term refers to: a fiduciary responsibility held by company directors which requires them to live up to a certain standard of care.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

warming limit, phasing down coal and phasing out fossil fuel subsidies - there are scant signs of noteworthy progress. National ministers are usually critical to getting agreements over the line, and it is highly unusual for them to join COP negotiations so late into a summit. Fossil fuel phase down.

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AGreenLiving

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. Flashing red lights The implications?

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Republican lawmakers with a presence at the international climate summit in Dubai — known as COP28 — have received over $11 million in fossil fuel donations, DeSmog can reveal. million from oil and gas interests since his political career began in 1995. Rounding out the top five recipients of fossil fuel donations: Rep.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 22, 2023

For us this year’s hurdle was to move from delivering point-in-time insights on climate tech to building a platform that could be a single point of reference for the space. An Article 6 agreement at COP could be the wildcard here. It's a predatory delay strategy and a fossil fueled meme, not a decarbonization strategy. 

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