DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. 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. Several of these arguments reference the idea that grazing livestock can help maintain healthy soils which can store carbon.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Conference of the Parties (COP). COP is the decision-making body responsible for monitoring and reviewing implementation of the UNFCCC. This refers to the global energy sector's shift from energy consumption and production based on fossil fuels to low carbon sources. It is also referred to as the Paris Accords.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2023

As is always the case at COP Summits multiple issues remain unresolved, but the battle between the various opposing camps looks to set to boil down to a fierce row over how, and indeed whether, the final version of the Global Stocktake should reference the future of fossil fuels.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The recently-passed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is such a game-changer for domestic climate action that experts at ClimateWeek often referred to it, reflexively, as the Emissions Reduction Act. Finally, there was a lot of discussion at ClimateWeek and UNGA about the “other” COP – COP15, which is convening in December in Montreal.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

After hours of tense negotiations and dramatic interventions on the conference floor a compromise deal was reached that rejected the proposed reference to phasing down fossil fuels, and broadened the focus of the energy section of the agreement beyond renewables. This COP caused deep frustrations but it wasn't for nothing," she said. "It

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

"It is also vital for achieving ocean-related goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework," he said, referring to the so-called 30x30 pledge made at last year's COP15 Summit to protect a third of the world's land and sea for biodiversity by 2030.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 5, 2020

I can’t breathe" refers to more than police violence. A cop put his knee in the back of his neck and choked him to death, amid his cries for help. In the spirit of this moment, I turned the microscope on my own sector to ask, how does racism manifest in clean energy? . Manifestation 1: 'I can’t breathe'. "I

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

But climate disinformation “refers to content that has been deliberately created to deceive people or give them an inaccurate understanding of an issue.” “What that means is that there’s no intention to harm but the negative consequences can be just as powerful.” Public inputs during the COVID-19 pandemic are an example, she said.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In fact, the only official reference to define “unabated” fossil fuels is buried in the fine print of a footnote in this year’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) synthesis report, he added. “The 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.”

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

There are also fewer references to ramping up renewables and clean technologies compared to previous iterations of texts circulating last week, while it appears last year's call for countries to double adaptation finance has been dropped in favour of a call to "significantly scale" up such funding.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Dubbed the Glasgow Climate Pact, the agreement crucially puts pressure on countries to come foward next year with updated climate plans, promises more funding for climate adaptation, and for the first time ever includes explicit references to the need to drive down coal and phase out fossil fuel subsidies. degrees. "I

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

At the launch event for the new initiative today, COP27 President Sameh Shoukry said the Adaptation Agenda was a "critical step" for the "implementation COP", referring to the Egyptian presidency's tag line for the event.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2022

While BEIS referred to other speakers, conference organisers said Stuart’s team had cited “unforeseen urgent government business” for his decision to withdraw. The reason for his cancelling was not immediately clear. Stuart did not respond when contacted for comment.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

But while the COP27 Presidency may insist the talks are advancing as planned, the mood among many of the delegates in the COP complex remains dour, with a growing expectation the fraught negotiations will continue deep into the weekend. "I don't think we have anything to worry about," he said. "I I hope I'm not wrong".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

It remains to be seen if the references to tackling unabated coal power and inefficiency fossil fuel subsidies make it into the final version of the text, although it is hugely encouraging that both the US and EU are fighting for their retention.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

So, it’s not like these neighborhood cops just doing a patrol and checking in,” Eugene Kung, a staff attorney with West Coast Environmental Law, told DeSmog. “In It is significant and concerning that Canada would not respond substantively to these letters,” Kung said, referring to the CERD documents.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

A handful of pavilions made passing reference to efforts to cut the use of fossil fuels in pamphlets or video displays. In a few cases, staff referred DeSmog to events they were holding at the summit that they said might cover fossil fuels, or offered to arrange a call or meeting with someone who could provide more information.

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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. Sport is often referred to as a battlefield, or a substitute for actual conflict.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JANUARY 12, 2022

BOEM removed from leasing consideration proposed Lease Area OCS-A 0543, commonly referred to as Hudson South A, due to concerns raised by the fishing industry and DOD. Therefore, BOEM may condition COP approval on the incorporation of such methods where appropriate. Figure 2a, Proposed Wind Energy Lease Areas.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The first full negotiating texts are still not expected until later this evening, or potentially even tomorrow, according to Egypt's COP Presidency. But we are hoping that everyone will rise to the occasion by the end of COP, and realise that while the national interest is very important, something greater than that is at stake.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Nor did they appear at the same time, nor has the same language always been used to refer to them, as will be seen below. We have to go back to the last century to find the first references to 2°C. The first referred to a global average temperature increase of 1°C above pre-industrial times. The Scientific Origins of 2°C.

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LA CleanTech Incubator

JUNE 5, 2020

I can’t breathe" refers to more than police violence. A cop put his knee in the back of his neck and choked him to death, amid his cries for help. In the spirit of this moment, I turned the microscope on my own sector to ask, how does racism manifest in clean energy? . Manifestation 1: 'I can’t breathe'. "I

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Of course, there are deep failures at the heart of the COP process and its politics. Activists on the street decry many of the announcements I've referred to as empty words and ask business and government leaders to prove them wrong. I don't know if COP26 was a success, but I would argue that it wasn't a failure.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

In my eyes, that certainly doesn't merit a big COP announcement. Commitments to transparency and traceability lack clarity: Reporting appears as a more robust area in the document, referring to respected industry frameworks such as the NDPE Implementation Reporting Framework, CDP and Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi).

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

More positively, the final agreement yesterday did secure a number of firsts, namely marking the first time a COP cover text has referenced nature-based solutions, the ocean, food and agriculture.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2023

She found statements acknowledging that CCS enables or prolongs the use of fossil fuels, admissions of the challenges or limitations of CCS, and references to the need for federal funding or policy support to make it viable. House Oversight Committee’s investigation into the fossil fuel industry’s climate disinformation.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

COP Summits rarely, if ever, finish on time, but seasoned observers have warned the current talks appear to be badly behind schedule. And there is a reference to proposals to reform multilateral development banks (MDBs) to help mobilise increasing levels of climate finance for the most climate vulnerable nations.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

This is hardly the COP figure the Prime Minister wants to read.”. Ramboll’s Guy Milligan felt there was confusion even in the name of the scheme, which should refer to boiler “replacement” rather than “upgrade”. The plan also mentions a 2028 minimum target of installing 600,000 heat pumps per year.

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Clean Energy Trust

JANUARY 28, 2022

Credit: Stripe eadership from corporations to be committed first customers for products that can decarbonize the economy Several announcements around COP 26 highlighted corporates who had made commitments to be early customers for new technology solutions, in order to help create market pull?—?this

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Glasgow moved us a step closer to this goal, with almost 200 countries pledging to “phase down” unabated coal power in the final text (“unabated” refers to coal power without carbon capture and storage).

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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. The delegations from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Colombia, Kuwait, and the UAE did not respond to requests for comment.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

warming scenario, target net zero emissions by around 2050, accelerate industrial decarbonisation, and reflect these goals in national strategies submitted under the Paris Agreement, according to terms of reference unveiled yesterday. All members of the club must therefore commit to pursue efforts in line with a 1.5C

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Dig into the 14 October summary from the UK COP Presidency and there's cautious optimism that a set of deals to stop countries cheating on climate could land in Glasgow. These are the final pieces of the Paris Agreement required to complete the jigsaw and activate the UN deal agreed in 2015: Transparency, Article 6 and Common Timeframes.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

India and China may have got their way by watering down the language, but the precedent-setting reference to fossil fuels in a UN climate agreement and Sharma's canny insistence that India and China publicly own their act of late sabotage on the plenary floor means this debate could now dominate the next decade of global climate diplomacy.

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Business Green

AUGUST 4, 2020

"To give some scale - the 50GW of planned renewables by 2030 is roughly equal to the current installed renewables capacity in the UK (generating over a quarter of our power over the last year)," Dr John Murton, UK COP 26 envoy, explained on Twitter this morning. It also has pace.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

However, his speech today was notable by its relative absence of net zero rhetoric, neglecting to make any mention of the word 'climate' at all, while only referring to 'net zero' twice, as he hailed the decarbonisation goal as an opportunity to back research, development and innovation.

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