Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

COP26 concluded on 13 November amidst widespread disappointment from environmental commentators about a lack of significant progress on the promises made in Paris in 2015 – even disbelief at a failure to commit to fulfilling many of those past promises. COP president Alok Sharma described it as “a fragile win”. degrees alive.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Fossil fuel PR agencies show up at events like the COP in order to delay progress by claiming their clients are somehow essential and responsible companies.” A senior Azeri COP executive was secretly filmed as he appeared to use his role to set up meetings to explore possible fossil fuel deals.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

But climate control represents a particularly bedeviling problem, since more energy use contributes to climate change, which in turn causes greater temperature extremes that necessitate even more energy use to maintain a controlled indoor environment (sometimes known as the “doom loop” of AC ).

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

degrees C target was initially established as a target in Paris in 2015 after a push by developing nations at a previous COP, to bring attention to the fact that global warming does not impact all nations equally. The earth is now absorbing more energy from the sun which, they claim, is increasing the rate that the planet warms up.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

It requires a lot of energy to run capture facilities and compress the carbon dioxide gas for transportation to where it is injected underground or used in other processes,” said Stockman. “It It is, therefore, both an energy and money drain on our economy that is unnecessary for most of the energy services we require.”

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 10, 2021

A new study from the Energy Department’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found that deploying 307 GW of solar and 142 GW of wind capacity in India by 2030 would need around a $26.5 That spend would be around 20% lower than what was invested across all of the country’s generation resources between 2015 and 2019. .

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The IPCC recently conducted a study into the combined effects of all the agreed targets of the countries taking part in the ongoing COP talks. Has there been any progress in reducing global carbon emissions since Paris in 2015? But energy saving measures, within a constantly-growing economy, can actually increase overall energy use.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The climate benefits of a Polestar EV rack up further still if they are driven in countries with high levels of renewable energy on the grid, as battery cars emit no further CO2 emissions on the road if the driver powers up their battery car with green electricity, the company said.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

In 2015, nearly 200 countries agreed to “Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Translated from the original published at climatica.lamarea.com.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The UN Conference of the Parties (COP) climate summits convene world leaders and delegates and draws significant media attention. The question after that is for the UN and other stakeholders to determine if we need stricter rules for who is in the room and around the table at these COPs,” he said.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 12, 2021

At the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Colombia committed to reducing its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 51% by 2030, a responsibility that was transferred to all industrial sectors, including electricity. The company will receive offers to purchase rights to these carbon credits on March 23.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 14, 2020

Against this backdrop, it’s harder for me to get a clear handle on the trends in the energy markets this year. Below are my predictions for some of the significant energy trends I expect this year. The year has only started above $60/bbl one other time since the downturn of 2014-2015. per barrel (bbl), and averaged $56.98/bbl

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

degrees F) as part of the 2015 Paris Agreement. Countries agreed to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F) and ideally 1.5 degrees C (2.7 The latest science shows that emissions will need to drop. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 31, 2020

Sure, Energy Stocks Are Cheap. Oil prices — and the energy sector — were crushed in response (with a strong nudge from Russia and Saudi Arabia). Oil prices — and the energy sector — were crushed in response (with a strong nudge from Russia and Saudi Arabia). Energy stocks look extremely cheap — and they are.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

When approached for comment, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) distanced itself from the discussions, saying they were “independent of government” and had “not been part of our policy-making process”. “No As the COP host, the U.K.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 9, 2023

In her speech to the Conservative Party Conference in October 2022, then prime minister Liz Truss warned that the UK had become “too dependent on authoritarian regimes for cheap goods and energy”. Replacing Russian energy with fossil fuels from other authoritarian regimes, is at best short sighted, at worst a gross hypocrisy.”

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JANUARY 12, 2022

Each year since 1995, with the exception of 2020, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ) has hosted a Conference of Parties (COP), where members of the UNFCCC negotiate issues relating to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other matters relating to climate change. UNFCCC began convening COPs in 1995.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

National governments at the talks are set to thrash out the terms of a headline treaty to halt global destruction of biodiversity, akin to the Paris Agreement brokered in 2015 for climate.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Businesses have a stake in the COP outcomes for three main reasons - let me explain. This commitment to climate action has grown exponentially since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015, when just a handful of pioneering businesses set science-based emissions reduction targets. ºC ambition, energy, finance included.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. In 2015, developed countries committed to coming up with $100 billion per year by 2020 to tackle climate change in developing countries. Conference of the Parties (COP). Energy transition. Glasgow Climate Pact.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The general consensus amongst seasoned observers of both Whitehall and the UN's COP talks is that there is time to deliver the successful summit that the UK and the wider world so desperately needs, but it has been an disappointing and chaotic start to proceedings and the clock is ticking. But you can't do that at a COP.

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Energy Innovation

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. This recent COP, also a pillar of global progress on sustainability, focused not primarily on climate change but on biological diversity. Convene joint biodiversity-climate COPs.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This is the first COP where participants found themselves face-to-face with the reality of breaching the 1.5 C warming limit that was the central aspiration of the 2015 Paris Agreement. The post Canada must stop treating its Big Oil as some sacred cow appeared first on Clean Energy Canada. It’s time Canada faced this reality.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

In 2015, the world committed to cutting those to arrest global temperature rises at 1.5C. For good measure we chucked in two more - Egypt and the United Arab Emirates; hosts of the next two COP climate summits. All this, despite a short-term spike in reliance on fossil fuels in response to the energy crisis.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

A COP is the biggest global negotiation: 196 countries with very different agendas, very different political backgrounds; fraught with mistrust, with false rumours; highly technical and highly political - and alongside that a massive trade fair," explained Betts. Nobody has got the full picture in a COP. This is the risk of COP.".

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Overview: The 2015 Paris Agreement includes a requirement for countries to submit more ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions (greenhouse gas emissions targets) every five years. Between 2015 and 2020, Canada delivered $2.65 As part of its COP presidency, the U.K. CLIMATE TARGETS. billion over that five year period.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2021

A recent study estimated that food systems were responsible for one third of global greenhouse gas emissions between 1990 and 2015. There is real energy in the business community to shift to the future of capitalism, but legislative change is essential to do that. That makes the industry one of the biggest global emitters.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2022

But this year she is attending UN climate and biodiversity COPs in a new capacity, observing talks from afar as she looks to advance the UN net zero panel's suite of recommendations, which also include strict rules around offsetting, lobbying and target setting. I wish everyone well because it's hard," she says.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

In 2015, countries came together and formed the Paris Agreement. Internationally, the coal power pipeline has reduced over 75 percent since 2015. The International Energy Agency has estimated that about 30 million new workers are needed by 2030 to meet increased demand in the clean economy. And indeed, some thought we were.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

The International Energy Agency has estimated that $13.5tr of public and private investment in the global energy sector alone will be required between 2015 and 2030 to meet the Paris Agreement targets. Supporting energy intensive industries as they move to low-carbon techniques. clean transport. nature based solutions.

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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, 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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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Rishi Sunak today signalled that he intends to reinstate the ban on fracking in England, as the new Prime Minister touted the importance of "more renewables, more offshore wind and indeed more nuclear" to bolster the UK's energy security and drive down bills for households and businesses.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

On one hand a sustained low oil price will make a raft of new oil projects uneconomic and further highlight the need for producer countries to diversify their economies in favour of cleaner energy sources. This is the government's opportunity, in the year of the COP, to show true global leadership on the climate crisis," Miliband said. "We

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

While the final text did include a specific call for scaling-up renewables, a last minute change saw the insertion of "low emissions and renewable energy", in a move seen by some as offering more wiggle room for forms of energy such as CCS and nuclear, and potentially even gas. We should have done much more.".

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2021

Freuds, which was certified as a B Corp last year, has specialised in campaigns focused on sustainability for 35 years, from the launch of Live Aid and Comic Relief in the 90s to a more recent campaign geared at communicating the UN's 2015 Sustainable Development Goals to citizens around the world. The media is probably on red alert for it.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

They are choking our planet, based on their vested interests and historic investments in fossil fuels, when cheaper, renewable solutions provide green jobs, energy security, and greater price stability. Inflation is rising, and the war in Ukraine is causing food and energy prices to skyrocket.

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