DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Fossil fuels are everywhere at this COP except in the decisions being negotiated by governments,” Nikki Reisch, the director of climate and energy at the Center for International Environmental Law, wrote to DeSmog from Glasgow. In some cases, the affiliation with the oil industry was publicly declared on the participant list for COP26.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Those markets can be either regulated (reflecting laws requiring companies to secure credits in proportion to their emissions) or voluntary (where buyers choose to acquire credits generated by carbon-reducing activities). Conference of the Parties (COP). Short-lived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs). Carbon sequestration.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2021

There are doubts over the industry's ability to manage health risks like water pollution , anger over disruptive industrial activity near to homes , and fears about the earthquakes caused by fracking. It's simply not tenable for the UK to promote shale gas, particularly given the rising international concern over methane leakage.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

And then November will see Glasgow host the COP climate change summit, taking place five years on from the historic Paris Agreement. With the UK holding the COP presidency, top of the agenda will be to encourage countries to ratchet-up climate ambition to get us closer to 1.5C

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Such an arrangement should neutralise long standing concerns over how attempts to accelerate emissions reduction efforts and ramp up carbon taxes in one jurisdiction will simply prompt 'carbon leakage', whereby polluting companies and investors simply relocate to countries with more lax climate regulations. So far, so positive, perhaps.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The Chancery Law Project is bringing together all sections of the legal profession to try and drill climate action into contracts, regulation and national laws. The answer, even if it sounds like a cop out, is at its root a simple one: each of us must do what we can and should probably focus on what we are good at.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

A few months later, corporate giants also spoke out against state laws meant to restrict voting. The COP26 meeting in Glasgow ended the same as every COP: there was clearly progress in what countries committed to, but given the scale of a crisis that the UN Secretary General called “ code red for humanity ,” it was woefully inadequate.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

Ruling on a case brought by Friends of the Earth, ClientEarth, and the Good Law Project, Mr Justice Holgate agreed the strategy lacked sufficient explanation or quantification as to how the decarbonisation plans set out in the Net Zero Strategy published last autumn would achieve emissions targets for the 2030s and beyond.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Rachel Kyte, Dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and former World Bank Vice President and Special Envoy for Climate Change, said: "Our economy has to operate within nature. By the next CBD COP in 2024, governments have a lot of homework to turn these agreed goals into actions at home.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In fact, there are more representatives of the polluting interests of oil and gas at COP27 than every single national delegation bar the United Arab Emirates — including all countries on the African continent. So much for the “African COP.” It’s yet again a festival of polluters. The reality is they are anything but. He’s right.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2022

This may contain a grain of truth (although it is contested by the CCC, which has said the mine would lead to a 0.4MtCO2e increase in annual UK emissions), but the whole point is that we shouldn't be choosing between different grades of pollutant, we shouldn't be using any coal at all. We should be getting clean.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

“This so-called ‘Glasgow declaration on sustainable bioenergy’ is not an official COP document,” Sally Clark, from biomass campaign group Biofuelwatch, told DeSmog. “It Our forests and climate are under threat like never before and polluters like Drax should have no place at climate talks.”.

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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. The landmark decision suggests that the fate of the world’s largest polluters no longer may be in the hands of their executives, board or investors.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 5, 2020

As revealed in a July 27th report , fossil fuel companies are guilty of environmental racism and they also support racist cops who terrorize the communities they are supposed to be policing. This symbiotic relationship between the fossil fuel industry and police often means that the companies that are polluting Black and Brown communities.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2021

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) - the folks who organise the annual COP events - defines "climate-related risks" as those: ". As Scientific American noted : "For the first time in history, a court … ordered a private company, rather than a government, to curb its planet-warming pollution.".

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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. ” The landmark decision suggests that the fate of the world’s largest polluters no longer may be in the hands of their executives, board or investors.

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Green Market Oracle

JUNE 1, 2020

Floyd is the latest in a seemingly unending stream of unarmed black men killed by law enforcement. Although Trump and others point to the destruction and looting and try to characterize protestors as "thugs" and "domestic terrorists", the vast majority are lawful and non-violent. We do not want to go through this anymore.

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