Business Green

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

A group of over 500 global investment managers with more than $39tr in assets under management have this week issued a new statement urging governments around the world to raise their climate ambitions in line with the goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5C ahead of the upcoming COP27 Climate Summit.

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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. Dairy companies also found willing hosts in country governments.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda that calls for governments and industry to work together to find new solutions to climate change–driven food insecurity. Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Soils are critical for cultivating crops, maintaining flood protection, sequestering carbon, and supporting biodiversity, but the UK government estimates two million hectares are at risk of erosion, a further four million are threatened by compaction, and 300,000 hectares are contaminated. The outlook is certainly worrying.

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Front And Centered

AUGUST 29, 2022

This includes a 15% corporate minimum tax, a stock buyback tax, and a methane leakage tax. The Act also empowers the federal government to negotiate drug prices. We cannot rely on subsidizing energy corporations—some perhaps double-dipping in dirty energy — to displace fossil fuel use. Deeply Detrimental.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The report stresses the world is still "heading in the wrong direction" in its response to climate change, with greenhouse gas concentrations continuing to rise to record highs and fossil fuel emission rates having now risen back above pre-pandemic levels after the temporary drop that resulted from national lockdowns. billion to 3.6

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Food systems are responsible for at least 15 percent of all global fossil fuel consumption, according to a major report launched ahead of the COP28 climate summit. Its authors found that even if governments delivered on their 2030 climate pledges, by 2037 food-related fossil fuel use alone would blow the remaining portion of the 1.5C

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Progress did seem to be forthcoming on cutting methane emissions, with more than 100 countries (although not China) – committing to a 30% reduction by 2030 compared to the 2030 baseline. We must prioritise making every critical sector of the economy — and vulnerable communities — more climate resilient.”.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Draft text published this morning requests countries update their NDCs next year and retains calls to tackle fossil fuels, but negotiations over climate finance and other areas still unresolved. It also retains references to tackling emissions from fossil fuels, albeit with caveats.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Biomass energy harnesses organic matter, including wood, agricultural crops, and waste by-products, as fuel. As we seek alternatives to fossil fuels, biomass holds significant potential due to its sustainability. Syngas can be subsequently burned to generate electricity or processed into transportation fuels.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

One of the primary reasons Germany cannot use all of the renewable energy it produces is because the nation’s fleet of coal and nuclear plants is still needed to ensure power system resilience when the wind slows or clouds cover the sun. This enables minimization of use of fossil fuels and maximized reduction of emissions.”

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Coal and fossil fuels are now explicitly mentioned, countries will have to report more frequently on progress towards targets and there have been headline grabbing ambitions around forest protection, cutting methane emissions and private sector investments. Build resilience. Crucially, the debate is becoming more refined.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

California's new decarbonisation plan, Austria's windfall tax, and global methane reduction efforts. CARB said the new plan would achieve carbon neutrality by 2045, while cutting air pollution by 71 per cent, slashing greenhouse gas emissions 85 per cent, and reducing fossil fuel consumption to less than one-tenth of current use.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

depends on governments doing what they have said they will do, strengthening their plans further, and catalysing the fastest and widest industrial revolution in history. From tackling deforestation to curbing methane emissions, the various multilateral commitments are focused on areas where they can have real impact.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

From Loss and Damage and just transitions to rows over fossil fuel phase outs and carbon markets, we take a look at some of the key lessons for businesses from COP27. Both publicly and privately, governments made clear their recession hit economies were not about to drastically increase climate aid payments.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

But next week's Sharm El Sheikh Summit lacks the grand diplomatic goal that governments faced in Glasgow and Paris, or Copenhagen and Kyoto before that. There is immense value in governments and businesses coming together once a year to publicly discuss this still badly underreported crisis. goal alive, even if its pulse was weak.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Signs of the UK’s renewed focus came just recently as the Government became the world’s first major economy to present a net zero industrial decarbonisation strategy. The government went one step further and in April, set the world’s most ambitious climate change target into law: to reduce emissions by 78% by 2035 compared to 1990 levels.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In fairness to the government it has resisted the temptation to spin the Summit as an unqualified success. 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. This criticism is understandable and even necessary.

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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. Phase out coal.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2022

Writing for his old employer , Boris Johnson delivered a staunch defence of his government's decarbonisation agenda, arguing the West's heavy dependence on Moscow for oil and gas has helped enable the Kremlin's brutal invasion of Ukraine. per cent of GDP. Our ambition to go for net zero is not the problem," he said.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2022

US oil major ExxonMobil announced yesterday that it plans to achieve net zero across its "operated assets" by 2050, tapping a range measures from energy efficiency and electrification to methane mitigation and equipment upgrades to slash emissions from its own operations.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Meanwhile, across the dewy-green region north of California, supposedly eco-friendly governments of Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia that failed to fulfill climate promises for a decade have once again pledged to do better. Renewable solar and wind power now typically costs less than fossil-fuel alternatives.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The International Energy Agency (IEA) this week rebranded its flagship annual report as an "essential guidebook" for world leaders attending the COP26 Climate Summit next month, and its message is stark: Governments need to get their act together, and Glasgow is the place to do it. limit that was agreed six years ago.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2022

As the Conservative's Chris Skidmore noted again today , if the government had not previously cut energy efficiency programmes and blocked onshore wind development energy bills would now be lower. per cent gain, almost entirely as a result of higher fossil fuel prices. per cent loss of GDP to a 0.5

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

Energy efficient buildings, better re-use and recycling of resources, more diversified fruit and veg-rich diets, sustainable fishing, and shifting to more circular economy business models in the retail sector would all put nature first while boosting business opportunities and economic resilience, according to the WEF.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Reducing methane is in the hands of a small number of large multinational corporations, which have the resources to act, writes Changing Markets Foundation's Nusa Urbancic. Methane has typically been ignored in climate policy. It also ignores the huge potential of methane emission reductions in the agricultural sector.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The level of debate prompted by the most anodyne efforts to name the fossil fuels that are causing the problem and to commit to ending fossil fuel subsidies and phasing out coal is a disgrace. Paris also created new mechanisms for businesses, investors, subnational governments and civil society to contribute.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Forward-thinking businesses and financiers are set to be agents of change as governments look for ways to turn ambition into action - a role that is clearly not lost on the many business leaders represented at the SEC Centre in Glasgow. Fossil fuels get named and shamed.

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Business Green

JUNE 19, 2022

However, the report - titled Africa Energy Outlook 2022 - argues that it is entirely possible to both reverse this worrying trend and deliver energy access across the continent by 2030 while delivering on emissions reduction goals and enhancing climate resilience.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

C trajectory in half for carbon dioxide emissions and by almost 40% for methane. But there were notable coalitions announcing pledges on cutting methane , ending deforestation and diverting international public finance away from fossil fuels and into clean energy. That’s a start. Big deals, big claims.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

But group of petrostates resist calls to phase down fossil fuels and accelerate decarbonisation efforts. The so-called High Ambition Coalition of nations argued the draft text should include a commitment to phase down all fossil fuels and clearer commitments to accelerate the roll out of renewables.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Green Alliance argues UK has made 'little headway' on pledge made at COP26 to slash methane emisisons by 30 per cent by 2030. For example, soaring fossil gas prices mean that plugging methane leaks from oil and gas sites could deliver a significant boost in profits for fossil fuel firms.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

Photos I shot last year in South Louisiana illustrate the Gulf Coast’s rapidly expanding fossil fuel industry, and the groundswell of frontline community members, environmental advocates, and activists fighting to stop it. While “green” hydrogen fuel can be produced with renewable energy, that process is cost prohibitive for now.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Due to human activity - largely the burning of fossil fuels - concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere are higher than at any time in the last two million years, with concentrations continuing to increase in 2020 despite the temporary dip in annual global emissions that resulted from the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the report.

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Business Green

MAY 14, 2021

And, with Sharma facing a huge task to both charm and rally nations around the world towards raising their climate ambitions this year and raise the domestic profile of the government's decarbonisation agenda, it needed to be. The COP that tackles methane. The precise nature of the government's contingency plans remain unclear.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 28, 2024

The city “has increasingly seen hydrogen offered as a solution and pathway to achieve Edmonton’s emissions reduction targets,” the Energy Transition Climate Resilience Committee (ETCRC) writes in a 14-page memo issued May 2. We just wanted to draw a line in the sand and show that this could be a really bad way to spend our money.

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Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2022

There is potential to create a more circular economy that ensures these crucial raw materials are re-used multiple times, but there is no credible path to net zero emissions that does not require a significant increase in demand for multiple mining commodities, even as demand for fossil fuels plummets.

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