Business Green

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The world's top diplomat used a speech today at the UN headquarters in New York City to deliver a characteristically stark warning of the impending climate and biodiversity crises facing the world, noting global warming risks "hurtling past" the 1.5C threshold without urgent action this decade.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

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.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Companies signed up to the Textiles 2030 campaign have endorsed a goal to slash the UK textiles industry's carbon emissions by 2050 in the next 10 years, in line with limiting global warming by 1.5C. The public, investment managers and policy makers are all demanding practical action, sustainable products and evidence of outcomes.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

Before investing in a given carbon offset program, you need to ensure the scheme is robust and verified to the highest international standards. Yet despite a clear need, the renewable energy sector still faces financial obstacles , which is why continued investment in this sector is necessary.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

MPs on Parliament's Work and Pensions Committee (WPC) have urged the government to lead a global push to align pension schemes with climate goals when it hosts world leaders in Glasgow next month for the COP26 UN climate summit. The Committee also said government policy must "prioritise good pension scheme stewardship over divestment".

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

of warming. (If If longer-term net-zero pledges are achieved, which is less certain at this point, global warming could be contained to 1.8C.) Canadian pension funds, often maligned for their dirty investments, have quietly cut fossil fuel holdings by 90% over the past decade, while ploughing $150 billion into clean energy.

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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

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has declared that 2022 could mark a "vital turning point" in the drive to use energy more efficiently, after record investment was directed to measures that reduce consumption of energy, from building renovations to public transport upgrades and electric car infrastructure. of global warming.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2022

But principally I learned that though this international system - the COP process - is imperfect and unwieldy, it can work," he added. "It The Group will develop policy options to encourage and enable the investment and finance necessary for delivery of the Paris agreement and the Glasgow climate pact," Sharma said today.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Anger is building over the failure to secure much-needed commitments towards phasing out unabated fossil fuels and tackling near-term emissions as part of the final agreement brokered at COP27 over the weekend, with critics warning the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C are hanging by the thinnest of threads.

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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

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. We must invest in the energy system of today as unpopular as it sounds,” declared BP CEO Bernard Looney. “If

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

That report concluded that we have already reached average global warming of 1.1 Though policy choices could reduce this figure, and I would add that it includes investments with long term benefits. He wrote, and I quote: "It's been two years since I wrote that climate risk is investment risk. degree limit within reach.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The climate crisis may have stayed near the top of the political and corporate agenda, net zero commitments have come thick and fast, and renewable and electric vehicle investment may have toppled records, but there is barely a country on the planet on track to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. in the current decade? pathway by 2030.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2022

COP26 President also argues ramping up clean energy investment and insulating homes should be top priorities for Rishi Sunak as Britain's new Prime Minister. We need to speed up the process of insulating homes and doing more in terms of buildings and offices," he said.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

They claim the broad-ranging roadmap will deliver hundreds of thousands of new green jobs and unlock tens of billions of pounds of private investment, cementing the UK's place as a leader in multiple clean technologies. Once again, it has failed to recognise that the prudent, responsible choice is to sufficiently invest in a green transition.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

Yesterday's communiqué agrees to "phase-out and rationalise, over the medium term, inefficient fossil fuel subsidies", and makes no direct reference to coal power, instead calling for investment in carbon capture and similar technologies to abate the emissions of fossil fuels.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The failure of richer nations to meet their collective climate finance target - which looks likely to be missed once again in 2021 - not only leaves poorer nations more vulnerable to the worsening impacts of global warming, but risks "poisoning" other key issues up for negotiation at COP26 in November, the ODI warned.

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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

And, echoing the demands of many developing nations, Guterres stressed that progress on Loss and Damage - a thorny issue surrounding new forms funding for climate vulnerable nations facing the brunt of global warming impacts - should serve as a "litmus test" for the success of COP27 as a whole. It is a moral imperative.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

The country's national climate action plan under the Paris Agreement remained worryingly underpowered, aligned with as much as up to 4C of global warming, according to some experts. The Prime Minister has announced Egypt's strategy, and I hope that by November we will see other countries will follow," Maait said. "Now,

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2023

The IPR, which was founded by the UN-affiliate investor group the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), highlighted a raft of significant new climate policy announcements and investment plans from major Western economies in the past three months.

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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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EDF + Business

JANUARY 12, 2022

Methane from oil and gas operations, agriculture and other industries is responsible for at least 25% of the global warming we experience today. It’s no surprise then that cutting these emissions presents one of the quickest, simplest and most affordable ways to reduce warming, even as we continue the clean energy transition.

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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The report confirms global temperatures are currently 1.1C A separate report from IPPC scientists last summer warned that global warming is on track to far exceed 2C this century, unless rapid and deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions occur in the coming decades. If global warming transiently exceeds 1.5C

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

And there in lies the rub for policymakers, businesses and investors: more ambition and speed is urgently needed, but investing in adaptation efforts works and will help reduce intensifying risks and economic costs, if done correctly, the report suggests. Tangible progress in this area must be a key outcome of COP27 in Egypt.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

billion investment in clean energy projects for the Middle East, and $187 billion domestically, is dwarfed by the annual income of Aramco from oil extraction. What’s more, carbon capture investments displace money and attention that could otherwise be devoted to developing proven renewable energy sources.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 9, 2023

The best way to deliver energy security for the long-term is to insulate the nation, adopt abundant and affordable renewables, invest in storage technologies, and keep all new fossil fuels in the ground where they belong.” Meanwhile, the UAE and Qatar have each agreed to invest £10 billion in “priority” UK industries.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

It has been announced as a key pillar of the UK's first individual Paris Agreement plan, or nationally-determined contribution (NDC) in UN jargon, with its previous global decarbonisation pledges to the UN having formed part of the European Union's NDC.

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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. The Paris Agreement on climate change, signed into life in 2015, may not be perfect.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

By 2030, solar and wind capacity should quadruple and renewable energy investments should triple to maintain a net zero trajectory by mid-century. The climate crisis poses enormous financial risk to investment managers, asset owners, and businesses. It is clear that keeping global warming to 1.5°C No one is safe.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The UK will only be successful in galvanising global climate action ahead of COP 26 if it gets its own house in order," said Clara Goldsmith, campaigns director of the Climate Coalition. But will the government deliver the scale of investment and detailed policy frameworks required to unlock real progress?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

This COP has taken an important step towards justice. We need to drastically reduce emissions now - and this is an issue this COP did not address. But they were ignored by the Egyptian COP Presidency. Ambition to keep the 1.5 degree limit alive and pull humanity back from the climate cliff. But let's be clear.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

UNEP is among the group of official bodies that fear these impacts could create feedback loops, whereby a warming climate puts more pressure on terrestrial ecosystems, leading to more emissions, and in turn more warming. Land is already under growing human pressure and climate change is adding to these pressures," the agency states. "At

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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.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

On almost all of the key issues - ramping up climate finance for developing nations, doubling adaptation finance, agreeing a new loss and damage fund to support countries suffering the fallout from climate impacts, establishing certain rules governing global carbon markets, and ensuring ambitious language around the 1.5C has dwindled.

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