DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Farming also relies on synthetic fertilisers that are both fossil-fuel-based and emit greenhouse gases, and drives deforestation. Nature-based solutions” is one of the only phrases linked to agriculture to be mentioned in the COP cover text. We can expect a similar turnout at this year’s COP, too.

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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This Conference of Parties (COP) was highly anticipated as a critical inflection point where our economies and societies set forth on an ambitious and clearly defined path to decarbonize by 2050 and keep warming below 1.5 degrees C to avoid the worst impacts of climate change — or continue with the status quo.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

We can focus in the Commonwealth on driving financial flows into resilience and green growth - what does the Commonwealth stand for today if not that? Other countries have built their sovereign funds from fossil fuels, but the UK could be a leader in green wealth creation. That requires more and better diplomacy, not less.

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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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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 20, 2022

But group of petrostates resist calls to phase down fossil fuels and accelerate decarbonisation efforts. The so-called High Ambition Coalition of nations argued the draft text should include a commitment to phase down all fossil fuels and clearer commitments to accelerate the roll out of renewables.

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Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2022

It added it has previously been involved in partnerships with the World Economic Forum, UN High Level Climate Change Champions, successive COP presidencies, SBTi (Science Based Targets Initiative), CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project), Breakthrough Energy Catalyst, and First Movers Coalition.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

With world leaders about to gather in Dubai, United Arab Emirates for the COP 28 climate summit, the transition to green energy will be one of the key topics on the agenda. The replacement of fossil fuels by green energy is bringing about a revolution in electricity generation and expanding its role across economies.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 19, 2023

added resilient building consultant and former Passive House Canada board chair Deborah Byrne. But you wouldn’t know it from the way the fossil fuel industry has responded. “A very different psychology kicks in, one our brains would normally discount/reject. But one that is much more useful, if alarming.”

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Business Green

OCTOBER 11, 2022

"Against the backdrop of ongoing global energy security challenges, organisations like the IMF and World Bank must do all they can to help developing countries move further and faster in tackling climate change, to support resilient economies powered by clean, renewable energy systems," he said.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

EU energy emissions fall, Rwanda gets its first mini-grid, and Brazil preps a COP bid. The report confirms "demand for fossil fuels is falling due to high prices and strong wind and solar output, contrary to fears of a resurgence due to the energy crisis". ADB announces $200m Goal for Water Resilience Programme.

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Notably, the document makes the case for businesses having a much more significant role at future COPs, through the introduction of corporate determined contributions (CDCs) that would mirror the nationally determined contributions (NDCs) that parties signed up to the Paris Agreement must produce every five years. But] we don't revisit it.

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Business Green

APRIL 26, 2020

The two-day Petersberg Climate Dialogue has long been a key event in the annual climate calendar, with environment ministers from around 30 countries typically coming together to thrash out priorities and preparations for the following United Nations COP climate summit.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

All four companies have "ambitious and credible climate action plans" to drive down their emissions in line with climate science, and will "support the delivery of a successful and ambitious COP next November", the government said today. When it comes to climate action, we all have an important role to play.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Businesses have a stake in the COP outcomes for three main reasons - let me explain. per cent use of electricity from renewable sources and reduced total energy consumption from fossil fuel sources by 86 per cent compared to 2017. What do businesses want to see from the governments that's being discussed at COP?

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Fossil fuel companies' daily profits have averaged $2.8bn over the last 50 years, with Oxfam estimating that less than 18 days of those profits would fund the entire UN humanitarian appeal for 2022 of $49bn. We cannot fix the climate crisis without fixing the systemic inequalities in our food and energy systems.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The appeals underscored how for many nations, the success of the Sharm El Sheikh Summit depends on its ability to deliver real progress towards the launch of a dedicated funding mechanism for Loss and Damage, after the contentious issue made it on to a COP agenda for the first time this year.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

From Loss and Damage and just transitions to rows over fossil fuel phase outs and carbon markets, we take a look at some of the key lessons for businesses from COP27. Like the World Cup that kicked off within hours of the gavel coming down in Sharm El Sheikh, COPs provide a regular temperature check for global geopolitics.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Commonly known as soot, it is formed from wildfires and fossil fuel consumption and contributes to climate change. It can either be used to reduce carbon emissions or promote ways in which to adapt, mitigate and build resilience to the effects of climate change. Conference of the Parties (COP). Biodiversity. Black carbon.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

That will not happen until true net zero emissions is achieved and a global economy has been built that is resilient to the dangerous new world we have unleashed. A similar dynamic is at play in the row over phasing out or down of unabated coal power and inefficient fossil fuel subsidies. COP26 has not solved the climate crisis.

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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 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

APRIL 30, 2020

As is the European Commission, according to its First Vice-President Frans Timmermans, who declared in the Petersberg Dialogue that the EU should show leadership across the climate change agenda "…by sticking to the agenda as though a COP would take place in November this year.". More twists in this virus. So - job done?

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

The UK remains COP President until next November, when it will hand the baton over to Egypt, which is set host the COP27 Summit at the Red Sea beach resort of Sharm-el Sheikh. Indeed, there is no shortage of world-changing points of action for Sharma's COP team to be getting on with over the coming months.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2020

Planning time and funding that would have been assigned to climate resilience or mitigation will be eaten up by pandemic responses. You want the banks to be saved, then stop investing in fossil fuel expansion. Genuine efforts towards alternative fuels and emission control.

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Business Green

APRIL 26, 2020

The two-day Petersberg Climate Dialogue has long been a key event in the annual climate diplomacy calendar, with environment ministers from around 30 countries typically coming together to thrash out priorities and preparations for the following United Nations COP climate summit.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Its profile has grown over the past year as governments, particularly in Europe, have looked to find ways to boost their energy independence and curb soaring energy bills in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent fossil fuel supply crunch.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Political will to stop subsidies on fossil fuels”, or to shift taxation from income to carbon, “taxing pollution instead of people.” A path where more fossil fuels remain where they should be – in the ground – and where we are on the way to carbon neutrality by 2050. And the fossil fuel industry is not alone.

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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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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

This includes about $50 billion for resilience, $7.5 The COP 26 climate conference took place! Bukaty/AP A bad omen for the future: fossil fuel plant owners bankrolled a referendum in Maine to try and pass a ballot measure to kill a transmission line that would bring in zero-carbon hydropower from Canada. For example, $7.5

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Business Green

OCTOBER 24, 2022

With just weeks to go until world leaders meet in Sharm El Sheikh for the critical upcoming UN climate summit, it means Sunak will face an immediate test of his commitment to combatting climate change, with the UK set to officially hand over the reins of its COP Presidency to Egypt at COP27.

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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 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

MARCH 2, 2020

All support for fossil fuels should also be phased out by 2021, while an overhaul in farming and land use is needed to drive the development of nature-based solutions to combat climate change such as peatland restoration, habitat rejuvenation, and planting 50,000 hectares per year of tree cover, it adds.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2022

The British Energy Security Strategy has been in the works since shortly after the Kremlin's decision to mount an invasion of Ukraine, which has prompted a fresh perspective on the need to reduce the country's dependence on volatile, risky and now very expensive fossil fuels, particularly gas from Russia.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

It's hard to think of a greater dereliction of our responsibility as COP hosts.". IPPR Environmental Justice Commission head Luke Murphy said: "Today the Chancellor declared the UK was entering an ‘age of optimism' but instead he used the budget to extend the ages of fossil fuels.

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