DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Companies’ climate commitments are largely misaligned with their lobbying activities, with more than half of the world’s largest corporations at risk of “net zero greenwashing,” according to a new report. InfluenceMap, a London-based climate think tank, published the study today ahead of the COP28 climate summit in Dubai that begins on Nov.

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The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Every year the world’s leaders gather for the UN climate change conference, and after a year of record temperatures, this year’s summit has been called the most vital yet. As Cop28 begins in Dubai, Ian Sample hears from Guardian environment editor and resident Cop expert Fiona Harvey.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Investors in foreign development projects have “weaponized” a system of secretive tribunals, delaying progress on climate change and other environmental crises and having “enormous impacts on human rights,” according to a new report by a United Nations expert. Boyd is calling on states to reform or leave these treaties.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 29, 2023

With this in mind, and ahead the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) 80th Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC 80), industry association SEA-LNG is calling on the IMO to regulate all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from shipping, including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide on a full lifecycle, Well-to-Wake, basis.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

New scientific paper says we will not reach Paris Agreement without urgent ocean action. A scientific paper published in the peer review Journal, Aquatic Conservation says that measures to address climate change and reach the Paris Agreement will not succeed unless the ocean is taken into account.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Three weeks away from the 26th Conference of the Parties ( COP26 ), the World Biogas Association (WBA) is preparing to travel to Glasgow to represent the global biogas industry at the UN Climate Summit and demonstrate the value of the biogas industry in tackling climate change. That is what we at the WBA are aiming to achieve.”

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

UK government to provide £30m for new fund launched to mark 'Biodiversity Day' at COP27 Climate Summit. UK Environment Secretary Thérèse?Coffey meeting of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity we will strive for an ambitious agreement that includes a global 30by30 target, a commitment to?halt

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

and EU to drop their landmark climate change laws, spreads falsehoods about green policies, and fondly recalls an attempt to cancel a major climate conference. She also claims that, while serving in the Treasury, she attempted to cancel the 2021 COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. She adds that “the U.S. is beyond reach.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Green groups and opposition MPs have responded angrily to news the UK government has agreed to drop binding climate targets from the planned UK-Australia trade deal, accusing Ministers of "a massive betrayal of our country and our planet". This government is pursuing trade deals at the expense of our farmers and now our climate targets.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2020

Several European countries who are considered leaders in climate protection owe their apparently good emission reductions to biomass. These might turn out to look quite different in the future, if carbon-accounting under the Emissions Trading System (ETS) were to be based on science and the real effects on climate.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

The verdict appears to mark the first ocassion in history, when a judge has held a corporation liable for causing climate change. But the judge ruled that the resultant climate impacts endangered the human rights of the plaintiffs. This result is a win for communities in the global South who face devastating climate impacts now.”.

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Business Green

AUGUST 10, 2022

Major new academic study sets out fresh climate progress assessment framework for corporates. Published today in the journal Nature Communications , the study sets out a fresh framework for corporate carbon performance management, which is aimed at better aligning companies with the Paris Agreement goals to limit global warming to 1.5C

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Austria is the latest country to be facing a lawsuit brought by some of its youngest citizens who say their government is failing to protect them from the worsening climate crisis. For years, Fridays for Future has been demanding the revision of the Climate Protection Law in order to (finally) establish compliance with the Paris Agreement.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Bank bosses due to attend a green investment summit tomorrow head institutions which have provided over £700 billion of financing for the fossil fuel industry since the 2015 Paris Agreement, including £129 billion in 2020 alone. . billion in fossil fuels since the international climate treaty, including £1.7 billion in 2020.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

C, nature-based solutions and the just transition – a pre-climate summit jargon-buster for investors. Ahead of world leaders gathering in Egypt for the COP27 climate summit in November, here is an A-Z of common terms: 1.5°C. This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement.

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Rinexii

JUNE 13, 2020

It has been 5 years since countries from around the world gathered together to talk about climate change. This compared to China, who is also in the Paris Agreement, which is responsible for 29.34% of co2 emissions. While the USA is set to formally withdraw from the Paris Agreement, Honolulu went in the opposite direction.

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Business Green

AUGUST 4, 2022

India has this week strengthened its official national climate action plan, providing a major boost to international climate efforts ahead of this autumn's COP27 Climate Summit in Egypt. However, the updated NDC also commits India to more ambitious climate targets for 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 30, 2024

In a landmark hearing at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, legal experts and campaigners argued that businesses, such as the fossil fuel and agriculture industries, have legal duties to stop climate-related human-rights breaches. It’s not possible to guarantee human rights without combating climate change,” said Reisch.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The government has announced plans to require trustees to measure and report how their investment portfolios are aligned to the Paris Agreement. Climate change is happening and it is accelerating so the world needs to work together to protect our planet and the UK has been leading in terms of our ambition.".

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Diplomats are striving to deliver both ambitious new targets for nature protection and a financial and policy framework to enable the pursuit of the new goals similar to that provided by the Paris Agreement on climate change. However, calls for an ambitious agreement are growing across the business community.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Calls for tougher measures to tackle greenhouse gases from global shipping have been rejected by governments after a week of deliberations held by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), instead opting for a climate plan campaigners claim lacks ambition and could even allow the sector's emissions to rise over the coming decade.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Shell’s board of directors officially has been served with a world-first lawsuit aiming to hold its corporate directors personally liable for alleged mismanagement of climate risk. ClientEarth alleges that inadequate climate strategy by Shell and improper management by the board amounts to violations under the UK Companies Act.

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Defend Our Future

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Environment Colorado and Auraria Sustainable Campus Program hosted a discussion panel this week discussing how Denver can uphold the goals of the Paris Agreement. This is why it is essential to have opportunities such as the Paris Climate Agreement Panel to educate the public. As for the result?

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

French environmental organizations Notre Affaire à Tous, Friends of the Earth France, and Oxfam France last week filed what they say is the world’s first climate lawsuit against a commercial bank, suing BNP Paribas over its continued funding of fossil fuels. They also say that the financial sector more broadly is on notice.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2022

The European Commission has unveiled a plan to "protect the climate, environment and labour rights worldwide" by introducing sharper teeth to the Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD) chapters of the EU's trade agreements. We will engage and support our partners to make this happen.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The race is on to submit officially updated climate action plans to the UN ahead of the crucial COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow this autumn, after Norway became the first industrialised nation to table its new plans. Helen Mountford, vice president for climate and economics at the World Resources Institute, welcomed the news. "As

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2021

The action challenges Belgian National Bank's use of the ECB's Corporate Sector Purchase Programme, which is designed to improve financing conditions for Eurozone businesses but which has historically supported a number of high-carbon companies whose activities are alleged to have undermined national and global climate goals.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The government should also embed considerations about deforestation, biodiversity, and other key environment protections into the trade deals it brokers with other countries post-Brexit, according to the report. Global deforestation and the UK's contribution to it cannot be tackled without bold and ambitious action," the report states.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2022

Environment minister from small island state pips COP26 President Alok Sharma and UNFCCC's Ovais Sarmad to influential post, where he will take up the reins from Patricia Espinosa. Stiell has recent experience in this regard, however. Sharma congratulated Stiell on the appointment, stating that the Grenadian would "do a great job".

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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2022

Incumbent president has pledged to ramp up climate agenda during his second term, after securing a resounding victory over rival Le Pen. He also promised a "complete renewal" of his environmental policy programme, pledging to make his next prime minister directly responsible for tackling the climate crisis.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2020

More than 40 backbenchers and Lords call for new climate plan in line with CCC's recommendations backed by strong diplomatic resources to ensure successful COP26.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

The UK government has been accused of breaking international environmental law by failing to give the public a say over its post-Brexit trade deals, with a coalition of farming, trade, and conservation groups lodging a legal challenge against the controversial agreement reached earlier this year with Australia.

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Rinexii

MAY 21, 2021

We recently received an interesting reader request to talk about how individuals can commit to the Paris Climate agreement in the same ways as countries have. If you are serious about cutting your carbon footprint, following the steps outlined in the Paris agreement has a lot of benefits. Write down your goals.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

G20 agrees to submit enhanced Paris Agreement plans ahead of COP26, but fails to agree coal power and fossil fuel subsidy phase outs. Under the Paris Agreement, signatories are expected to ramp up their national climate pledges every five years in order to help limit temperature rise to 1.5C

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2021

Since the Paris Agreement was adopted five years ago, the impact of export credit agency (ECA) policies on climate change has come under greater scrutiny. When evaluated against the 2015 Paris Agreement targets, many of these practices are unsustainable. It is worth asking where UK exporters stand on these issues.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Former Prime Minister Theresa May has slammed climate “sceptics” and “pessimists” who oppose the UK’s net zero targets, arguing they have been proved wrong and are out of touch with public opinion. In her speech, May called on Conservatives to unite ahead of the UN COP26 climate summit. A Unifying Issue’.

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The Verge: Energy

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The world actually came tantalizingly close to a deal to phase out fossil fuels during a United Nations climate conference in Dubai last December. Despite dozens of countries pushing for that kind of commitment, the agreement ultimately calls for “transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems, in a just, orderly and equitable manner.”

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