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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The government programme predicts which crops will be resilient to the changing climate and provides drought-resistant seeds, but farmers spread their risk by planting their own choice of crops too. 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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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In contrast, Oxfam found that polluting industrialised nations such as those of the G20 - which control 80 per cent of the world's economy - are together responsible for over three-quarters of the world's carbon emissions. Increasing taxation on super polluters could easily cover the cost. This is an ethical obligation, not charity.".

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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 8, 2021

Speech from Energy and Clean Growth Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan - International Champion on Adaptation and Resilience for COP26 - marking International Women's Day, at event organised by COP26 presidency in partnership with Chatham House. There is also evidence of better outcomes when women are brought into adaptation and resilience action.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In my first fortnight as COP President, I have been listening to those who have done this before. ??Meeting Meeting people like Paris COP President Laurent Fabius, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed and Patricia Espinosa from the UNFCCC. ??And, And we are getting ready for it.??. Promoting nature-based solutions.??.

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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

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

APRIL 1, 2020

This is a chance for nations to recover better, to include the most vulnerable in those plans, and a chance to shape the 21st century economy in ways that are clean, green, healthy, just, safe and more resilient. That we don't sow seeds of next crisis, but embed resilience to shocks like pandemics & extreme weather events.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Build resilience of vulnerable communities against the here and now impacts of climate change. I also want particularly to thank COP President Alok Sharma who has worked incredibly hard to bring countries together. Greenwashing is the new climate denial, and we have seen too much at play in this COP. Phase out coal. degrees. "I

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

In Canada last month almost 200 countries at COP 15 agreed a set of landmark pledges that will resonate not just through 2023, but to the end of the decade and beyond to the middle of the 21st century. nJanuary is a time for new beginnings and new resolutions to drive self-improvement, and that applies to nations just as much as individuals.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

It can either be used to reduce carbon emissions or promote ways in which to adapt, mitigate and build resilience to the effects of climate change. Conference of the Parties (COP). COP is the decision-making body responsible for monitoring and reviewing implementation of the UNFCCC. Short-lived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs).

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

It's important to stress this point, because a common criticism of NbS is that we are giving polluters a ‘get out of jail free' card. °C without harnessing the power of NbS for both climate mitigation and resilience. If countries or companies use them as such, we have no hope of achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. JBS, the world’s most polluting meat company, will be out in “full force” in Dubai , according to the files. The North American Meat Institute will host a side event at the US COP pavilion on December 11, the summit’s Agriculture Day, for example.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

All over the world not nearly enough is being done to enhance climate resilience, leaving communities and economies exposed. But whether or not the historic reference to fossil fuels is retained, this has been the COP where governments, investors, and businesses made it clearer than ever that the fossil fuel age is slowly drawing to a close.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2020

British diplomats, the UK COP presidency team and Ministers would have been in a whirl of frenetic influencing activity globally (we hope) to drive up ambition, and drive out those new nationally-determined contributions (NDCs) from all the parties to the Paris Agreement. But these are not normal times, and the COP has been delayed by a year.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

But within hours of it being signed the pollution-loving Australian government signalled it had no intention to strengthen its disgracefully weak 2030 emissions targets. That will not happen until true net zero emissions is achieved and a global economy has been built that is resilient to the dangerous new world we have unleashed.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

Other former COP Presidents, such as Laurent Fabius. COP26 can be a moment where the world comes together to ramp up momentum towards a climate-resilient, zero-carbon economy. First, adaptation and resilience. Civil society organisations. Corporate leaders and finance executives. And all our futures are intrinsically linked.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 19, 2023

added resilient building consultant and former Passive House Canada board chair Deborah Byrne. Because there’s no indication that the companies responsible for 86% of the world’s carbon dioxide pollution took notice or broken stride at all. “A very different psychology kicks in, one our brains would normally discount/reject.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Appointment of Conservative MP as international champion on adaptation and resilience for COP26 set to improve gender balance of government’s previously all-male team. I look forward to working with our partners across the globe to represent and drive our high ambitions on the adaptation and resilience agenda.".

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

What are the big priorities for COP? But progress was still lacking on Resilience and Energy Transition. Clearly it will be a major achievement for the UK government if the UK can hold a successful COP, so one can only assume the will is there to try to bring it off. Putting a price on pollution. Nature and finance.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

They also all stressed that they wanted to do more to tackle biodiversity loss and water pollution, and a number of candidates floated new policy proposals.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 19, 2022

IFIs now need to lead for the transformation of how we manage wealth and wellbeing as an essential component of tackling the crises of biodiversity loss, climate and pollution and waste.". 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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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Political will to stop subsidies on fossil fuels”, or to shift taxation from income to carbon, “taxing pollution instead of people.” The COP will also advance work related to capacity-building, deforestation, indigenous peoples, cities, finance, technology, gender and more.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

On the one hand, Labor has backed a range of policies to support renewable energy infrastructure, strengthen an emissions-capping system for the nation's biggest polluters, and build out electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure. Moreover, the Coalition government has long been a thorn in the side of successive UN climate talks.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

“First study of its kind” to track how plastic bottle pollution moves through the open ocean. Scientific monitoring devices were launched into the ocean on 8 June, World Ocean Day, in a bid to increase understanding about how plastic pollution behaves in the ocean.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The government recently announced its latest strategy for cracking down on sewage overspills, but the general consensus from the increasingly vocal campaign against pollution in British waterways and beaches was that it was a case of too little, too late. What will you do about all the sewage?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

But more positively, while the gap between adaptation and resilience efforts currently being undertaken, and what is required to safeguard society and ecosystems, remains considerable, such efforts can in fact be very effective, the report suggests. The world's biggest polluters are guilty of arson of our only home.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The findings highlight how human-induced climate change, alongside deforestation, pollution and land use change, is hampering nature's ability to provide services essential to human life, such as coastal protection, food supply or climate regulation through the capture and storage of carbon from the atmosphere. The facts are undeniable.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Now almost a year on, it is just 23 days to COP27, the end of the UK's COP Presidency, and the end of my time as COP President. And so today, from the vantage point of the ending of my time as COP President, I want to take stock of where we are. And navigating this context is our defining challenge. So I'm going to be frank.

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

We can invest in fossil fuels, whose markets are volatile and whose emissions lead to lethal air pollution. He argued clean energy focused recovery plans offered multiple benefits, helping to slash air pollution, curb climate risks, and cut energy costs while creating jobs and driving economic growth.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

This is the government's opportunity, in the year of the COP, to show true global leadership on the climate crisis," Miliband said. "We This will take investment but making these decisions will create hundreds of thousands of jobs, improve our natural environment, cut air pollution and make Britain a better place to live.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

I heard someone call COP26 the "business COP" I couldn't find any official reference of that sort, but I'm inclined to agree. Over the weekend, Saturday was 'Nature Day' at COP. But these are the things that undergird COP negotiations — decidedly unsexy stuff that is necessary but highly insufficient to meet the moment.

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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. Polluters have been put on notice. Business played a larger and more significant role at the Glasgow COP than any before it.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The UK said the aim of the goals was to make clean technologies "the most affordable, accessible, and attractive choice" across the world's most polluting sectors by the end of the decade, in a move which if successful would deliver a huge boost to the global green economy and net zero transition.

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Business Green

MARCH 19, 2021

Hopes are building that countries could reach an agreement over new targets, including proposals to conserve 30 per cent of the world's oceans and land by 2030, while also introducing controls on invasive species and new measures to reduce plastics pollution. "An That's promising, but we need more countries to pick up the baton.

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