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Global standard for biodiversity impacts moves a step closer

Envirotec Magazine

Meanwhile, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ( IPBES ) has warned that biodiversity is declining in every global region. On 15 December, webinars take place where stakeholders can learn more about what’s included in the draft Standard.

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The COP28 pledge to triple up by 2030 and implications for geothermal

ThinkGeoEnergy

Tripling the world’s renewable energy production to 11,000 GW by 2030, coupled with doubling energy efficiency, is the most impactful action to rapidly decarbonize this decade, as highlighted in the pre-COP report by the GRA, the COP28 Presidency and IRENA. The strategy focuses on Finance, Policies, Innovation, Training, and Standards.

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The scientist who warned the US about climate change says it’s worse than we thought. Again.

Grist

degrees C target was initially established as a target in Paris in 2015 after a push by developing nations at a previous COP, to bring attention to the fact that global warming does not impact all nations equally. For context, it has taken the world more than a century to warm a little more than 1 degree C, according to NASA.

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Sustainable Clothing Action Plan exceeds carbon and water targets

Business Green

The public, investment managers and policy makers are all demanding practical action, sustainable products and evidence of outcomes. In the run up to COP 26, environmental sustainability is rightly at the forefront of industry minds.

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Mapped: Big Ag’s Routes to Influence at COP28

DeSmogBlog

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. Big companies which have previously accessed COP in this way include JBS, which came in with the Brazilian delegation for COP27 in Egypt.

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East Coast Cluster: Inside the plans to decarbonise England's industrial heartlands

Business Green

Plans for these clusters are advancing fast, and in a webinar hosted by BusinessGreen last week senior executives from BP, SSE, Equinor, National Grid, CF Industries and Drax provided an update on how work is accelerating to develop a network of carbon capture pipelines that could connect industrial sites across England's north east. "It

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Reuters, New York Times Top List of Fossil Fuel Industry’s Media Enablers

DeSmogBlog

Presided over by Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber , the head of Abu Dhabi’s state oil company, Adnoc, it is the most industry-influenced COP yet. ” “Time is money, which is why our agenda gets straight to key pain points holding back drilling and production maximization,” the conference website said.