Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2020

They warn that if the trend is left to continue and food production systems are not reformed to cut harmful fertiliser use, the world will fail to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, established in 2015 to stave off the worst and most devastating impacts of global warming.

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Business Green

JANUARY 25, 2021

temperature target established by the Paris Agreement in 2015. A collaboration between the United Nations Global Compact, the World Resources Institute, CDP and WWF, the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) launched in 2015 to support corporates in setting effective targets aligned with the goals of the Paris Agreement.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 24, 2023

She has been accused of trying to “undermine” climate science when the impact of human-caused climate change is making headlines amid a summer heatwave in Europe. Four months later, during the COP27 climate summit, Frost joined the board of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s principal climate science denial group.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

Scientists at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have said that without “immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors” limiting global heating to 1.5C The UK government has given £20 billion more in support to fossil fuel producers than renewables companies since 2015. is beyond reach.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

This year’s COP26 summit is widely viewed as one of the last chances to fulfil the 2015 Paris climate agreement and ensure meaningful progress is made towards tackling our net zero targets and the climate emergency. Bill is responsible for driving the business of Logan Energy in the UK, Europe and further afield.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2022

There is now a 50 per cent chance of average global warming temporarily reaching the critical 1.5C threshold - which marks the lower temperature goal set out in the Paris Agreement, alongside a commitment to keep temperature increases 'well below 2C' - has steadily risen since 2015, when it was close to zero, according to the WMO.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2020

per cent of shareholders voted in favour of a resolution that asked the bank to report whether and how it would align its lending with the Paris Agreement goal of maintaining global warming well below 2C. At the bank's annual meeting yesterday, 49.6

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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. . Banks like Barclays, JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs are out of excuses. billion, the data suggested. billion to £3.5

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

From 2015 to 2023, he was a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation , the UK’s leading climate science denial group. He added that “peer-reviewed scientific research states that the rapid [global] warming is substantially due to the methane, nitrous oxide, and fossil fuel emissions we produce.”

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 27, 2024

Meanwhile, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) financial agency has pointed out that the UK suffered the worst cost of living crisis in western Europe due to its reliance on gas. The government also has given £20 billion more in support to fossil fuel producers than those of renewables since 2015.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 4, 2023

The International Energy Agency has stated that new oil and gas exploration is incompatible with the effort to limit global warming to 1.5C – the legally-binding limit set by the 2015 Paris Agreement. The OfS is the higher education regulator in England, which works to protect the interests of students.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 7, 2024

By the time of his death in 2018 he owned at least five homes across Ontario and Europe along with a 140-foot-long yacht called the Golden Eagle. In January 2015, Jesse Brown, founder of the Canadaland podcast, asked Coyne for his views on giving a platform to climate change deniers. “I Munk’s wealth was reportedly immense.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

In a statement, the lawyers called out the “contradiction” between the measures Italy should be taking to reach its target for limiting global warming and their “inadequate implemented actions.” ” The lawsuit is “by no means symbolic”, according to the Giudizio Universale campaign website.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 1, 2020

The heat records keep adding to the mountain of data points that demonstrate that we are suffering from ever worsening global warming. Europe suffered through brutal heatwaves that broke records in more than a dozen countries. Europe suffered through brutal heatwaves that broke records in more than a dozen countries.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 12, 2019

So even if it was or is colder in some places, that does not detract from the veracity of global warming. percent chance that 2019 will be one of the five warmest years on record (NOAA's current global average yearly heat rankings are as follows: 1st: 2016, 2nd: 2015, 3rd: 2017, 4th: 2018, and 5th: 2014).

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

China alone is forecast to account for a third of the world's entire electricity consumption by 2025, up from a quarter in 2015, although the IEA said there remain uncertainties about the country's future power growth due to ongoing Covid-19 restrictions and global economic headwinds.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The kingdom almost derailed the 2015 Paris Agreement by rejecting , until the last moment, calls to set a collective goal to keep global warming under 1.5C. Governments across Europe have organised business trips to Saudi Arabia for their entrepreneurs, helping them to secure lucrative Neom contracts.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The three-year funding package is to be channelled into solutions and measures that help the firm, which bottles Coca-Cola products across Western Europe, to eventually transition to using 100 per cent recycled plastic, as well as into depolymerisation technology that can improve rates of plastic recycling, it said.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

of global warming by 2100 at best. and upwards of 3C of warming. of global warming, which marks an improvement on 3C+ projections from a few years ago but would still blow a hole in the Paris Agreement's target of 1.5C of warming, just ahead of the US and Japan which are both on a 2.8C of warming.

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 2, 2019

If the European Union does not cooperatively rise to the challenges posed by incoming migrants before climate change sends ever greater waves of them, it risks rending itself asunder, turning Europe back into a continent of warring nations. But in terms of sheer number in a given year, this human influx peaked in 2015.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Dairy is a serious, but under-discussed source of planet-warming gases. Cows produce methane, a greenhouse gas that absorbs more atmospheric heat than carbon and is currently responsible for 25 percent of all global warming today. That’s a larger share of global emissions than aviation.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Europe's leading frozen foods company has committed to slashing the emissions it generates directly through its own operations and energy use - known as scope one and two - and through its scope 3 or value chain by 25 per cent in absolute terms by 2025 against a 2019 baseline. degrees, the primary goal set out in the Paris Agreement.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2022

BNEF estimates last year's global EV sales helped avoid 1.5 However, despite this progress overall demand for oil was actually still a touch higher last year than it was in 2015. The window for us to avoid the worst impacts of global warming is rapidly closing. per cent of total oil demand.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

It’s mind-blowing that JBS can continue to make climate claims to investors, even as the company massively increases its emissions,” said Shefali Sharma, Europe director for the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), a nonprofit advocacy organisation, which calculated the estimates. Top emitter Be?chatów

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 22, 2024

The world’s foremost climate science body, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has said that “immediate and deep emissions reductions” are needed “across all sectors” to limit global warming to 1.5C – the global target established by the 2015 Paris Agreement.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Coca-Cola's sustainability director for Europe Therese Noordlander talks to BusinessGreen about the drinks giant's mission to drive down emissions and ramp up its recycling efforts. On topics like water scarcity, where we face serious issues in Europe, I'm looking to learn from my colleagues in Africa and Brazil.". Do I feel pressure?

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 4, 2020

As NPR reported, “Researchers found that the world lost roughly one-third of its old growth forest between 1900 and 2015. In North America and Europe , where more data was available, they found that tree mortality has doubled in the past 40 years.” Science Via NPR and PNNL.

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2022

Rio Tinto's $2.4bn Jadar mining project would have made the Anglo Australian firm one of the world's top producers of lithium, which has found itself in increasing global demand as a key raw material for EV batteries and other clean tech products. by the end of the century are to be kept alive.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. It reveals the behind-the-scenes action that takes place to convert the rhetoric of climate change into the action on the ground that actually reduces the GHG emissions and global warming. Climate impacts 2.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

However, Anthony Chant, investment director at sustainable investment firm OnePlanetCapital, cautioned that the ONS figures "should be taken with a pinch of salt" due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on UK economy and employment, and that growing commitments to net zero across Europe and worldwide were "key triggers for emerging growth".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Barclays, for one, has set an ambition to become a net zero bank by 2050, but at present remains Europe's biggest financier of fossil fuels, and the seventh largest in the world. Since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015, the bank has financed $118.bn bn for the coal, gas and oil sectors, according to campaign group Market Forces.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

All in all, whichever pathway is taken, monumental changes are needed to the global energy system over the next decade in order to avert the most catastrophic levels of global warming. At present, around 83 per cent of primary energy is currently fossil fuels, while wind and solar PV account for just 1.3

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 11, 2015

Del Chiaro is also looking to hire its fifth staff member early this year, and expects CALSEIA’s 2015 budget to reach about $850,000. This is an important distinction, and I’m speaking about California only, unlike Europe we have put in place policies that have allowed the industry to grow as subsidies have declined.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

The central message from the latest review of climate science is remarkably bleak: The world is running out of time to stabilise global temperatures at relatively safe levels, with current policies and levels of investment nowhere near sufficient to secure a liveable future for all. warming of the planet." within reach.

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Energy Innovation

MAY 25, 2022

Here, the authors examined how IAMs featured in IPCC reports evolved in response to political interest in limiting warming to 1.5ºC following the 2015 Paris Agreement. Or, how might Russia’s war in Ukraine make transitioning Europe off gas more politically expedient? In: Global Warming of 1.5°C. Beckage, B.,

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Set against a 1990 baseline, the new target marks a slight uptick in ambition from the EU's current 55 per cent goal, and is a further sign of the bloc's accelerated shift towards cleaner sources of energy in the wake the war in Ukraine which has exposed Europe's reliance on Russian fossil gas. Europe is staying the course.

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Business Green

MARCH 14, 2022

When it launched in 2015, SBTi's top priority was to spread awareness about greenhouse gas emission reduction target-setting, which was a relatively newfangled concept at the time. or 2C of global warming, the paper warned the SBTi was at risk of becoming a "platform for greenwash".

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