Global Renewable News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

G20 leaders agreed to accelerate efforts to triple global renewable energy capacity by 2030, aligning with recommendations from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) on how the world can m.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This is an extraordinary statistic, especially as fewer world leaders attended that COP, as many were busy at a G20 summit in Bali. The use of private jets last year – and presumably this year too, though we don’t yet have full data – suggests this is becoming the new norm and has moved beyond just essential world leaders.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Mrüna believes that BiomWeb will be adopted by refugee camps and informal settlements, as well as private and public sectors across the world. “We Hub was established by the G20 and works to drive an ambitious agenda on sustainable, resilient and inclusive infrastructure through action-oriented programmes that supports the G20.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Only 20 per cent of climate targets set by companies in the G20 are science-based, according to Science-Based Targets initiative. Growing numbers of companies in G20 countries are setting climate targets, but just a fraction of these goals are aligned with climate science that would put the world on a 1.5C aligned goals.

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

A third of large, listed companies in G20 countries now have net zero targets in place, marking a significant uptick from one in five last year, according to a benchmark of net zero goals published this morning by the Energy and Climate Intelligence unit (ECIU)).

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Low Impact

AUGUST 11, 2021

The chart above shows how they’re doing (source: Our World in Data ). It found that in the four years after the Paris Climate Agreement G20 members gave more than £3.3 As a host of climate emergencies intensify around the world, the continued development of fossil fuel infrastructure is nothing short of reckless.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2021

That is the question being asked today by a coalition of leading global investors with $5tr of assets under management, who have accused G20 governments of failing to come forward with detailed plans to tackle agricultural emissions and leaving investors exposed to escalating climate and stranded asset risks. Where's the beef?"

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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. by the end of the century, marking a step up from previous G20 statements which have focused more on the less ambitious 2C target. goal without the leadership of the G20.

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Business Green

JANUARY 28, 2022

A new report finds that annual spending on nature-based solutions needs to increase by 140 per cent, with special attention paid to investment in non-G20 countries. The UN is urging 20 of the world's richest nations to step up their funding for nature-based solutions in a bid to close the climate spending gap.

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2021

It will signal to business that it's time to go all in and transform every part of every industry into thriving, decarbonised operations providing the products and services we need for a net-zero world. By mobilising the $100bn now, the G20 can: 1. At the G20 meetings this month, the stakes for climate couldn't be higher.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

With time rapidly running out at the UN climate talks, ministers from UK, Canada, and the EU argue G20 statement of intent on climate this week 'must be a baseline not a ceiling' for COP27 deal. We are running out of time and the world cannot afford for this summit to fail.". warming limit goal. Only this can put us on track for 1.5ºC.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

New and updated climate commitments fall far short of what is needed to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, leaving the world on track for a global temperature rise of at least 2.7°C In addition, three G20 members have announced other new mitigation pledges for 2030. To have any chance of limiting global warming to 1.5°C,

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Climate Transparency report projects energy-related CO2 emissions could rise by four per cent this year across G20 nations. However, the majority of G20 governments have now acknowledged net zero be reached by 2050 at the latest to limit global warming to 1.5C, it adds.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The continued failure of major economies to ramp up the rate of green building retrofits is putting climate goals at risk, with fewer than one per cent of buildings in G20 nations being given energy efficiency upgrades each year. per cent a year to put the world on track to meet climate goals.

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Business Green

MAY 31, 2021

Report from Verisk Maplecroft concludes a disorderly energy transition is 'all but inevitable' for G20 economies. The world's leading economies are on track to miss their climate targets and are headed towards a disorderly energy transition, research published last week by risk intelligence company Verisk Maplecroft has warned.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 22, 2021

A report by BloombergNEF and Bloomberg Philanthropies shows that G20 countries have continued subsidizing fossil fuels at the expense of the environment. Despite committing to tackle climate change, G20 countries have provided more than $3.3 special envoy have urged governments to act before the G20 meeting in Italy on Friday.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The report relies on a database from Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology in Finland to model the cost-optimal mix of technologies to produce 100 percent of electricity from renewable sources as well as an analysis of over 200 energy stimulus policies in G20 countries provided by the Energy Policy Tracker.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The leaders of the world's biggest economies - the G20 - have reiterated at the highest level a message of agreement on the need to limit warming to 1.5C This was the clear message sent by more than 200 businesses and civil society organisations to governments at COP27 and G20 last week. The G20 Summit has held the line on 1.5C.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Analysis claims UK continues to plough billions of pounds into fossil fuel sector despite government's ambitions of being a world leader on climate action. No G20 country is performing as it should, but there are some examples that could be followed," said ODI senior research officer Angela Picciariello. "A To be in line with 1.5C

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2022

In the early 2010s, climate scientists were painting a grim picture of the future: If humans didn’t curb carbon dioxide emissions, the world was headed toward 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 Indeed, the commitments prior to COP26 put the world on track for a global temperature rise of 2.7 A decade later, the planet is on a different path.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Group highlights how no G20 nation has disclosed agricultural emissions targets to date. A global investor coalition managing almost $12trn is calling on G20 nations to disclose specific targets for reducing agricultural emissions alongside their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) at COP26. degrees of warming.".

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

They knew the world needed a clear picture of these risks, as well as of the opportunities presented by corporate sustainability action, in order to ensure long-term profitability — especially in a world with a precariously changing climate. and in the rest of the world. More recently, the U.K.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Meanwhile, some of the world's biggest emitters, including the US, China, India, and Indonesia, are yet to publish revised climate plans, although formal submissions are expected in the coming months. COP26 President Alok Sharma said the findings in the report should "serve as an urgent call to action" to nations around the world. "I

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2021

However, while welcoming the rapidly expanding renewable power capacity, the experts behind the research flag that the plunge in coal-fired generation was only possible because the pandemic paused the world's rising demand for electricity. This double-edged analysis is contained in a new report from green energy think tank Ember.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

Aviva Investors has made a number of recommendations to G7 and G20 nations aimed at transforming the global financial system to better support efforts to tackle the climate emergency and shift towards a net zero economy. Asset manager sets out eight recommendations for a more sustainable financial system.

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Business Green

APRIL 16, 2020

In related news, G20 Finance Ministers yesterday issued a communique following a virtual conference to discuss the global economic response to the coronavirus crisis. In a break from recent G20 statements that has seen the US refuse to sign up to environmental pledges, the communique was backed by both Washington and Saudi Arabia.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2023

Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Guterres said the world was facing a litany of economic and humanitarian challenges, all of which are being exacerbated by the worsening climate crisis. "We We risk what I have called a Great Fracture - the decoupling of the world's two largest economies," he said. "A

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2021

The global pandemic offered only a modest and brief respite from some of these trends, the scientists note, such as a short drop in the use of fossil fuels as the world went into lockdown, but a quick rebound in oil and gas consumption demonstrates that the world remains stuck on a dangerous track. trillion between 2015 and 2019.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2022

COP26 President calls on G20 nations in particular to strengthen 2030 emissions targets this year. Alok Sharma has urged countries around the world to follow through on the climate pledges made at COP26 late last year, describing the Glasgow Climate Pact signed by almost 200 nations at the UN summit as a "fragile win".

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2021

Central banks and financial authorities across the world's leading economies are still failing to deliver concrete actions that limit financial support for fossil fuel infrastructure, despite their growing advocacy work in support of the net zero transition, research today by non-profit Positive Money claims.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Social media giant launches fresh crackdown on climate misinformation, a new analysis highlights how G20 nations can keep 1.5C Report: G20 nations can keep 1.5C alive, and India launches a major new green vehicle programme. Facebook updates climate policy. goal within reach.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2021

million farmers from around the world called on governments to follow through on their climate promises, businesses have signed a pledge of support. The businesses have signed a pledge ahead of the COP26 Climate Summit next month calling on world leaders to respond to the needs of farmers in climate vulnerable countries.

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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2020

India is the world's third largest greenhouse gas emitter after China and the US, as well as one of biggest producers and users of coal. This is why the world's largest investors are increasingly abandoning coal," he will say. Continued support for fossil fuels in so many places around the world is deeply troubling.".

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Business Green

MAY 25, 2020

Call comes in letter signed by more than 40 million healthcare professionals backed by World Health Organisation and other influential groups. This is not the time to go back to business as usual, it is a time to take bold steps forward to create a future that protects both people and the planet.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The need for international financial system reform came squarely into view - and President Macron and Prime Minister Mia Mottley will drive that agenda through an eminent person group until the spring meetings of the IMF/World Bank and then a global conference in June 2023.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2021

Meanwhile, the UK should lead a coalition to create the first comprehensive digital map of all physical assets in the world, through the use of earth observation data from satellites and other sensors integrated with artificial intelligence, data science, and financial data, the report argues.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

How much the world achieved at the Glasgow climate talks – and what happens now – depends in large part on where you live. In the developed world, countries still have to internalize, politically, that bills are coming due – both at home and abroad – after decades of delaying action on climate change. Rachel Kyte , Tufts University.

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