Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Progress did seem to be forthcoming on cutting methane emissions, with more than 100 countries (although not China) – committing to a 30% reduction by 2030 compared to the 2030 baseline. COP president Alok Sharma described it as “a fragile win”. What can be done with the captured CO2? degrees alive.

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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 There are a variety of different sources of methane emissions and many solutions will be needed to curb those emissions.

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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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. Scientists say that unless swift action is taken, methane from agriculture alone will take us beyond a 1.5C

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

For example, it argued that providing targeted financial support for "a fair and inclusive energy transition" can play a key role in catalysing investment in low carbon infrastructure and highlighted how supporting efforts to strengthen global value chains can help curb emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

We’re going into a COP where this is going to be a big topic, and we don’t really have a definition for it.” But the only commitment they’re making is to eliminate methane [emissions] and stop flaring,” said Ioualalen. It sets out to achieve “net zero” emissions by 2050 with a catch: They don’t really mean all of their emissions.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This is the first COP where participants found themselves face-to-face with the reality of breaching the 1.5 For Canada to be competitive in the future global economy, it must invest in industries that will be growing in the coming years, which it has been and is set to continue doing.

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

It creates financial incentives for countries to reduce emissions by avoiding deforestation and investing in low-carbon paths to sustainable development. Planet’s monitoring tools provide a key, independent measure of forest change that supports this global climate-change program, and we’ll be convening many of the key actors at the COP. .

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2021

It would require investment in fossil fuel infrastructure at the time when that system will be winding down - possibly leaving stranded assets behind. It's simply not tenable for the UK to promote shale gas, particularly given the rising international concern over methane leakage. On track to net zero.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

I also want particularly to thank COP President Alok Sharma who has worked incredibly hard to bring countries together. Despite the Covid-19 crisis, we have accelerated action, the COP has responded to the IPCC's call to close the gap towards 1.5, Greenwashing is the new climate denial, and we have seen too much at play in this COP.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

A major theme of this COP — the international climate change conference — is the urgent need to transition from commitments to action. At the same time, the sector must reduce its own greenhouse gas emissions, particularly potent methane and nitrous oxide emissions. The finance sector must invest in climate-smart agriculture.

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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. pathway by 2030.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

It was, as ever a highly eventful fortnight, characterised by shifting politics, surging levels of green investment, and escalating fears the climate impacts could be approaching catastrophic 'tipping points'. Once an idea enters the vernacular at COP Summits the chance of it being eventually adopted increases dramatically.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Despite the tense, last-minute drama, the Glasgow Climate Pact sends a very clear investment signal to businesses and financial institutions, argues Nick Molho from the Aldersgate Group. This is understandable, but it should not detract from the very clear signals that the business and investment community have been sent at COP26.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

The final deal also saw important progress on other aspects of the global climate finance regime, with all parties agreeing to explore reforms to multilateral development banks and other financial institutions to help stimulate more investment in low carbon and climate resilient infrastructure.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

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. Firstly, improving disclosures so that investors have a better understanding of the climate risks or opportunities of their investments.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2022

And it has pledged to align the renumeration of its executive directors with progress against climate commitments and incorporate methane into its greenhouse gas emissions accounting for the energy sector. aligned scenario". ShareAction senior research officer Lydia Marsden warned the plan included a "number of troubling loopholes".

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 12, 2022

That’s at risk of happening now as major asset managers have remained silent on a proposed new Environmental Protection Agency rule requiring oil and gas producers to cut their methane emissions. The EPA comment period for the proposed methane regulations lasts until Jan. Methane regulation: Low-hanging fruit on the path to net-zero.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

From tackling deforestation to curbing methane emissions, the various multilateral commitments are focused on areas where they can have real impact. There was definitely some spin and duplication of effort going on, but the vast majority of the announcements point to how decarbonisation efforts can be drastically accelerated. trajectory.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Future COPs will re-open this debate and seek to extend it to gas and oil. If COPs did not exist you would have to invent them. Phase out or down is semantics, but the recognition is there that fossil fuels are the problem. The Paris Agreement was hailed as the beginning of the end of the fossil fuel age.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

It is highly likely the row over phasing down or phasing out coal power will return in the coming years and the debate at future COPs will no doubt be extended to address oil and gas. If there's one theme that really comes out loud and clear from this COP, it is about money," said former Energy and Climate Change Secretary Amber Rudd.

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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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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Given all of the above, all of us invested in the renewables industry hoped for decisive and revolutionary action from the UK’s congress. Both nations have agreed to take steps to reduce methane emissions, to make greater efforts to de-carbonize and to actively transition to clean energy. A betrayal? gap is closed”.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Since the convention’s establishment, the countries involved meet annually during the Conference of the Parties (COP). COP is a supreme decision-making body that aims to promote the effective application of the convention. 30 years later came COP 26 (2021) – held in Glasgow. C) within reach.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Speaking earlier, Johnson acknowledged that while there had been a flurry of "game-changing announcements" on methane, deforestation and finance last week, the Summit was now "firmly in the hard yards of international diplomacy", adding that "with a few days left there is still a huge amount to do".

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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. These risks should be measured, disclosed and mitigated.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Methane: Leaders emerge as the global community wakes up to the challenge. This was the year that the international community woke up to the magnitude of the methane challenge and opportunity – a vital first step in the energy transition. With urgency building in Glasgow, we revisit the metrics here.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Moreover, it specifically urges nations to halt "inefficient" coal subsidies as soon as possible, and stop investing in unabated coal projects both at home and abroad, in addition to setting an end date for domestic coal power altogether. — Nick Mabey (@Mabeytweet) November 2, 2021.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 27, 2023

COP president Sultan Al-Jaber, head of the UAE’s state oil company, faced accusations of using his position to promote fossil fuels. Critics argued that the agreement on transitioning away from fossil fuels was weak and riddled with loopholes, lacking concrete steps and allowing continued reliance on fossil fuels.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Meanwhile, the US and EU will be hoping to get more countries to sign up to their Global Methane Pledge, a deal which has already been endorsed by several nations around the world, including the UK. Its stated aim is to collectively slash methane emissions across all sectors by 30 per cent between 2020 and 2030.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

From President Biden to methane pledges, BusinessGreen explores the biggest developments on the fifth full day of the pivotal climate talks in Sharm EL Sheikh. His] ambitious actions at home now need to be matched by equally robust investments to advance climate action abroad.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

of warming, while this week's report from the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) group suggests now 'inevitable' policies could keep temperature increases below 2C. The IEA sketched out a more encouraging scenario where ambitious policies could lead to 2.1C Our hopes and dreams drown in their empty words and promises," she said. "Of

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 22, 2023

500b in Solar investments in 2023 (up 75% y/y in US), 50% y/y growth in EVs in the US, and battery prices continuing their downward march another 50% by 2030 means many $1t industries are ripe for disruption. This is one of the best times to be investing in this sector I’ve ever seen.   Amy : All things methane! 

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