DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Tags: methane natural gas fracking finances UN Climate Summit ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) Oil and gas companies have been feeling mounting pressure, as signs emerge that oil is losing favor, both with the public amid climate concerns and with some investors.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 4, 2021

Most investors and companies still don’t put a price tag on natural capital, or the cost of losing it, and biodiversity becoming a top "theme" only means people have begun talking about it. New metrics, such as the ones proposed this week by the UN Statistical Commission that go beyond GDP to include natural capital.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Read time: 5 mins Climate activists have found plenty to be angry about at this year’s UN climate talks, which are scheduled to conclude in Madrid tonight. Tags: Friends of the Earth climate activism oil change international UN climate talks COP25

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 9, 2019

Read time: 6 mins After a three year wait, the UN ’s official scientific advisory panel’s verdict on land and climate is here. The UN is right to highlight the crucial importance of land in both causing and curbing climate change — it has been neglected for far too long.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Read time: 11 mins Even as international climate negotiators tried to make progress at the UN climate summit in Madrid in early December, fossil fuel production and consumption has continued to rise, and major oil companies have been seeking new horizons to exploit. Tags: Vaca Muerta Shale Argentina Total fracking YPF oil majors

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 10, 2019

Read time: 5 mins Funding arrangements for the upcoming UN climate conference may be in disarray after local reports suggested contributions from the local mining industry to the Chilean authorities were to be slashed. Tags: COP25 UNFCCC

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Read time: 9 mins The emissions from a new Anglo American underground mine project in Chile could be catastrophic for the host nation of the next UN climate talks, DeSmog can reveal. Tags: Anglo American Chile COP25 Carolina Schmidt

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Instagram videos of glamorous couples lounging on sun-filled beaches or giving quirky outfit tutorials were used to spread positive messaging about the COP process and the UAE’s position on climate, as the critical UN talks progressed in Dubai. The posts shared the same hashtags and tagged the same official COP28 Instagram account.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

With these draft ISO guidelines , which DeSmog has obtained, the ISO appears poised to provide voluntary and market-based standards to address climate change that differ in a key way from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Climate Agreement.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The Sharm El Sheikh Adaptation Agenda, launched in partnership with the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions and the Marrakesh Partnership, provides a checklist of 30 actions required by the end of this decade to enhance the resilience of communities living in climate-vulnerable regions.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 29, 2022

Accurate Calculations – Our calculator relies on the latest data from multiple government agencies like the UN, IPCC and EPA. Emissions Tagging and Categorization – Assign your emissions to your offices, employees or vehicles, to understand how they contribute to your footprint.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 10, 2021

The UK government has defended its decision to celebrate representatives of companies involved in Canada’s controversial tar sands industry as “Climate Champions”, ahead of the COP26 UN climate summit it is set to host later this year. TAG), the largest natural gas transporter in Brazil.

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EDF + Business

AUGUST 24, 2023

Initiatives like the Science Based Targets Initiative , the UN-backed Race to Zero campaign , the UN’s High Level Expert Group on the Net-Zero Emission Commitments of Non-State Entities, and ISO all provide guidance on best-practice net zero goals. Due diligence to ensure environmental and social integrity is key.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The UN-backed initiative provides a raft of tools and resources to smaller businesses looking to decarbonise, designed to aid them through the process of establishing a climate strategy, defining targets, setting requirements for their own suppliers and aligning their business proposition with climate goals.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The process is a big hassle for the prepared food sector, but food waste is an even bigger problem for the planet, accounting for eight per cent of greenhouse gas emissions according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. Because source reduction has such strong economic benefits, the sustainability aspect gets to tag along.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

And there were conflicting reports over the price tag attached to the new support package. Truss ally Iain Duncan Smith told The Times the package was likely to cost in the region of £90bn, while other reports put the estimated cost at £100bn and Bloomberg reported the total cost could reach £130bn.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

Here are some insights from the UN Development Program (UNDP) poll of 1.2 For example, 19 years ago Levi’s launched its "Care Tag for Our Planet" campaign, which included changing the care instructions to recommend cold wash, promote line drying and donate garments when they are no longer needed. This is not a new approach.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 4, 2021

Most investors and companies still don’t put a price tag on natural capital, or the cost of losing it, and biodiversity becoming a top “theme” only means people have begun talking about it. New metrics, such as the ones proposed this week by the UN Statistical Commission that go beyond GDP to include natural capital.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

Johnson is expected to use the speech to reiterate his promise to avoid an austerity-style response to the current economic crisis and instead forge ahead with his plans to "level up" the UK's regions.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Patagonia is considered worthy of its sustainable brand reputation, winning the 2019 UN Champions of the Eart h award. The environmental claim is implied by the tag line, but the solution it provides is to yesterday’s problem of oil shortage. Next, let’s consider the company Patagonia as an example.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

In addition, the program-level requirements for governance have been streamlined to build on the existing requirements established through the UN-backed CORSIA aviation carbon offset scheme, a move the ICVCM said had been adopted following extensive consultation with stakeholders.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Patagonia is considered worthy of its sustainable brand reputation, winning the 2019 UN Champions of the Eart h award. The environmental claim is implied by the tag line, but the solution it provides is to yesterday’s problem of oil shortage. Next, let’s consider the company Patagonia as an example.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

Although Canada has enshrined the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), they most certainly are not upholding it. Earlier this year, Trans Mountain said the price tag could reach C$21.4 In short, the clans that oppose Coastal GasLink say that both Indigenous and Canadian law are on their side.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Over 650 scientists have signed a letter urging world leaders to stop using forests for bioenergy, ahead of the 15th Meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP15) – a major UN summit on protecting nature. In Canada the UN nature meeting could declare forest ecosystems no-go areas for extractive industries, including bioenergy.”

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

We are off track for the Fourth Carbon Budget, we are off track for the Fifth Carbon Budget, and we are off track for the 2030 emissions target, which we submitted to the UN in December - and that is not a great place to be for the UK as COP President," he said. "So So the government is playing a pretty high stakes game here.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2021

With the UN estimating up to $10bn of precious yet polluting metals are dumped around the world each year through e-waste efforts from major electronics firms to both design-out waste and upcycle older gadgets look set to garner increasing focus in the coming years. Lasso's home closed loop recycling appliance.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2021

With the UN estimating up to $10bn of precious yet polluting metals are dumped around the world each year through e-waste - and rising - efforts from major electronics firms to both design-out waste and upcycle older gadgets look set to garner increasing focus in the coming years. Lasso's home closed loop recycling appliance.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 30, 2021

The world’s governments will be arguing from now through the make-or-break UN climate summit in November about who pays how much. Please help amplify this message by sharing it and tagging @CoveringClimate and using the hashtag #CCNow. All this will cost money – lots of it.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

Here are some insights from the UN Development Program (UNDP) poll of 1.2 For example, 19 years ago Levi’s launched its “Care Tag for Our Planet” campaign, which included changing the care instructions to recommend cold wash, promote line drying and donate garments when they are no longer needed. This is not a new approach.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

Here are some insights from the UN Development Program (UNDP) poll of 1.2 For example, 19 years ago Levi’s launched its “Care Tag for Our Planet” campaign, which included changing the care instructions to recommend cold wash, promote line drying and donate garments when they are no longer needed. This is not a new approach.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 17, 2023

The majority of Denbury’s revenue comes from EOR, which involves injecting CO2 into the ground in order to extend the life of oil fields, and ~60% of the price tag likely covered the value of Denbury’s oil production rather than the CCS infrastructure. Share new deals and announcements with us at hello@ctvc.co

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The Paris Climate Agreement opened for signature on Earth Day (22nd of April 2016), at the UN headquarters in New York. Consider the types of data your business needs to capture, and how that data can be tagged and aggregated. To improve the system, a more granular method has been developed by the company Energy Tag.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

That was how British businessman, Trump ally, and Brexit bankroller Arron Banks responded to the news that Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teen who inspired the school climate strikes movement, was sailing to America to attend the UN Climate Action Summit. Tags: School Strikes. His scorn was not unique. .

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Tags: UN General Assembly UN Climate Summit Donald Trump Greta Thunberg Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI)

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

That was déjà vu for climate scientists, who seven years earlier had experienced a nearly identical chain of events leading up to the 2009 UN climate change conference in Copenhagen. . Tags: Climategate climate science denial hockey stick graph climate gate michael mann

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Read time: 4 mins A US thinktank with close ties to Donald Trump has obtained accreditation for a delegation of climate science deniers to the UN summit currently underway in Madrid.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

It is the kind of price tag that is bound to make treasuries baulk and climate sceptic newspaper editors salivate, but the report stressed that the benefits from building a global clean energy system would greatly outweigh the costs.

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