The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 4, 2023

UAE-hosted summit admitted at least 2,456 people affiliated with oil and gas industries, analysis finds See all our Cop 28 coverage At least 2,456 fossil fuel lobbyists have been granted access to the Cop28 climate negotiations, according to an analysis.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

I attended this COP, my first, to learn more about how businesses can accelerate the transition to net zero and to share the findings of a new report, published today, that is a step-by-step playbook for companies to use to turn net zero pledges into progress. Progress worth celebrating.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 3, 2023

High profile international commitments like the Global Methane Pledge and the Global Methane Hub have raised the profile of methane as a powerful climate pollutant among policymakers and investors.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The decision has outraged residents who’ve lived with the pollution tied to Coterra Energy’s previous fracking activity and endured over a decade in which they’ve lacked access to clean water for their homes. in 2021 — to household water pollution, banning the company from drilling new natural gas wells in the area entirely.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In recent years, the biggest agricultural polluters and food corporations have embraced this term, which refers to a wide range of farming techniques that improve the environment. All these methods work to improve the soil, reduce air and water pollution, cut emissions, and boost biodiversity.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Against this backdrop, and on the eve of the UN Biodiversity COP, I’m pleased that our proposal for a major update to the GRI Biodiversity Topic Standard is available for public comment.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Meat and dairy firms in particular are coming under increasing scrutiny due to pollution from livestock, which emits around a third of the global output of methane, a short-lived greenhouse gas identified as the quickest route to slowing global heating. Not the private interests of the biggest polluters on the planet.”

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2023

” In early December governments from around the world were assembling for COP 15 to agree on how to halt and reverse nature loss. hectares of hard surfaces (such as roads, paths, roofs) from the drainage network flowing into the River Wandle which is helping to reduce surface water flooding and reduce pollution. What is it?

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

We need to kick big polluters out.”. Many climate groups believe such practices will provide an excuse for big companies to continue polluting. More than 450 organizations have already supported a campaign to Kick Big Polluters Out of COP27. body representing indigenous peoples. climate talks,” Sabido said. “We Social license.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The ire of environmentalists seemed to be directed more at the developed countries, and Friends of the Earth’s Sara Shaw said the agreement left them “free to keep polluting” in addition to “giving the green light for massive land grabs for offsets in developing countries”. COP president Alok Sharma described it as “a fragile win”.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 18, 2024

Europe’s DSO labour and skills shortages identified Emma Pinchbeck: ‘We need an energy workforce that looks like the population we serve’ “As the world emerges from COP with a clear focus on phasing out fossil fuels, as well as tripling renewables in six years, every company in every sector is fully aware that change is coming fast.”

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GreenBiz

JUNE 5, 2020

times more hazardous pollution than white people — regardless of income. Breathe 56 percent more pollution than they create. Are exposed to 50 percent higher rates of particulate pollution than the general population. Are more likely to live near highways, airports, refineries and other sources of hazardous air pollutants.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2023

The presence of people with ties to the fossil fuel industry and other big polluters at the annual UN climate negotiations is nothing new. More than 600 fossil fuel lobbyists attended last year’s climate talks, COP27, in Egypt, a more than 25 percent increase over COP 26.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Climate negotiations at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, better known as COP, are over for another year. This was the second key issue that COP tried to grapple with and, unfortunately, failed to make any headway on. What can we take away from its 27th iteration? warming limit set by the Paris Agreement.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Big polluters and a surge of nationalism scuttled any meaning results from two intense weeks of U.N. climate negotiations.

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Pollution COP Climate change Politics 251

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

This list includes some of the world’s most destructive companies, and they should only be included at COP with extreme caution,” she told DeSmog. Growing Pressure from Polluters. Dubbed “Africa’s COP”, this year’s conference has put farming in the spotlight and its dedicated ‘adaptation and agriculture’ day was a historic first.

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2021

Increasing scientific evidence demonstrates climate change and nature loss are impacting the world and human health in many ways through rising temperatures, including air pollution, water scarcity and plastic pollution. We hope that you'll join us. Sarah McDonald is vice president of sustainability at GSK Consumer Healthcare.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Loss and damage”, the question of how the most polluting countries can help developing countries respond to a climate breakdown they did not cause, is now a central plank of annual COP negotiations. It is far from a perfect system – there is barely any social safety net for these farmers if crops fail – but it is a start.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

There is no legitimacy in a COP president promoting gas and oil alongside false solutions like CCS”, said David Tong, global industry campaign manager at Oil Change International (OCI), who is attending COP27. Newly elected Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has called for the 2024 COP to be held in the Amazon.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The awards fall just as another controversially chosen oil state, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), plays host to international climate talks, COP 28 , at which the UAE was revealed as planning to use the opportunity to make more oil and gas deals. Good sport draws public audiences in the billions like nothing else. Credit: Badvertising.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The 30×30 target is a leading international commitment that the UK spear-headed at COP-15.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Carney will know this Declaration well, having been formally engaged as an adviser to the UK government in the run up to COP. The Glasgow Declaration - spearheaded by UK government at COP26 - committed leaders to halt and reverse deforestation.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Carney will know this Declaration well, having been formally engaged as an adviser to the UK government in the run up to COP. The Glasgow Declaration - spearheaded by UK government at COP26 - committed leaders to halt and reverse deforestation.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The UN Conference of the Parties (COP) climate summits convene world leaders and delegates and draws significant media attention. The question after that is for the UN and other stakeholders to determine if we need stricter rules for who is in the room and around the table at these COPs,” he said.

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Fossil fuels COP Pollution Organic 91

EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This implies a reduction in fossil fuel-related infrastructure, notably a halt in new exploration and early retirement of the most polluting fields. NOC Opportunities at COP28 In addition to broader discussions at COP 28, climate science makes the importance of NOCs undeniable. The UAE isn’t the first oil-rich nation to host a COP.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Scott Tully of campaign group Glasgow Calls Out Polluters said: “The UK government, during our interactions, have been unwilling and afraid to confront the power of big polluters at the heart of the climate crisis. The energy company’s Peterhead gas power plant was the biggest polluter in Scotland as of 2019, emitting 1.6

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

One of the most obvious things to do in a crisis is to stop making it worse – stop financially supporting those activities that are highly damaging to the ocean – overfishing, pollution, extraction and dumping. The paper is being published on the eve of Ocean Day at COP on 4 November.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2019

And despite impressive improvements in the efficiency of new aircraft and the progress in certifying new types of renewable jet fuels (five thus far), the aviation sector burns 10 billion more gallons of polluting conventional jet fuel per year than it did a decade ago.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

But a loose patchwork of weakly enforced rules governing international waters have meant the majority of the planet's oceans are highly susceptible to exploitation whether through over-fishing, acidification and pollution, or emerging threats such as deep water mining. per cent of international waters have protected status, with just 0.8

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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

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Branded as the most inclusive COP to date, the reality of COP26 was activists and NGOs left out in the cold, and billionaires and fossil fuel representative sitting at the negotiating table. How can we have just climate policy when the most affected communities are shut out of decision-making while the worst polluters are welcomed in?

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

The environment has also suffered, in the form of pollution, deforestation, biodiversity reduction, and now, climate change. Making COP26 sound more like COP-OUT26, the report furthermore states that, “Current emissions are incompatible with the Paris Agreement and immediate and deep cuts are absolutely mandatory.”.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

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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Energy Transition

JUNE 27, 2023

Going green in the power sector has proven costly, but also very important in reducing pollution and environmental degradation across the continent. In this blog, Kennedy Nyavaya looks at how a.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

It marks the next chapter for the Breakthrough Agenda, which was launched by the UK COP Presidency and the Race to Zero campaign at the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow last year and aims to bring together governments committed to driving the uptake of technologies and solutions that can help decarbonise emissions intensive sectors.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2021

At the same event, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab and COP President Alok Sharma will convene a roundtable on the Clean Power Transition with the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, bringing together ministers from eight African and European countries. "We

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