Business Green

DECEMBER 30, 2021

There is potential for 2022 to top progress made in the last 12 months - but only if we see crucial pieces of the decarbonisation puzzle fall into place, writes National Grid's Duncan Burt. This trend has the potential to go even faster by the end of 2022. 2021 was an eventful year for the climate change agenda - can 2022 top it?

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Overall the analysis of the delegates list by DeSmog shows that the total number of people representing the interests of agribusiness has more than doubled since 2022 to reach 340. This number is up from just 10 in 2022. Pesticide firms also turned out in high numbers this year, jumping by 30 percent compared to 2022.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

DeSmog’s analysis shows that business attendees at this year’s biodiversity COP reached record levels, more than doubling compared to the previous summit two years ago, to reach a total of 1,261 delegates. What you see here are two COPs,” he said. The UN said it was important to bring private interests to the negotiating table.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2024

During last year’s COP climate conference, the world agreed to triple its renewable capacity by 2030. Jordan Brompton explains how developments in smart tech are enabling increasingly eco-conscious consumers to more easily and effectively transition towards off-grid renewable energy.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 29, 2020

On Wednesday Ørsted confirmed that two smaller projects — the 120-megawatt Skipjack for Maryland and the 132-megawatt South Fork for New York — are all but certain to be delayed beyond their planned completion dates in 2022. Meanwhile, Ørsted said its three largest awarded U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Why choose a company which works so closely with the oil industry to work at COP? The DMGT annual accounts for the year ending September 2022 state that the firm generated £100 million in revenue on events and exhibitions in 2022 – an increase from £34 million the year before.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Timed neatly midway between COPs, the new Glasgow Climate Week will be a staging post and focal point for our shared progress towards our net zero goals.” “We We are excited by the advent of the Glasgow Climate Week an auditorium in our main conference will focus on the topics under the Week’s spotlight. “Our

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The UK continues to hold the COP Presidency for the next year, until COP27 in Egypt. The UK must maintain its strong COP team with high-level leadership throughout the duration of the Presidency, recognising that decisions over the coming year are critical to the chances of limiting global temperature increase close to 1.5°C.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

A new China-US bilateral agreement to cooperate on emissions reductions – another of the apparent consolations to be drawn from a disappointing COP – seemed to include a major commitment to the “deployment and application of technology such as CCUS and DAC”, as market intelligence firm IDTech X noted. What can be done with the captured CO2?

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Climate negotiations at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, better known as COP, are over for another year. Combined with a series of climate disasters in 2022, the stakes (unlike the expectations) were high. This was the second key issue that COP tried to grapple with and, unfortunately, failed to make any headway on.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 8, 2024

In addition to the NZSG grouping, former Prime Minister Liz Truss , who has become an outspoken critic of net zero since leaving Downing Street in 2022, was voted out on Thursday. In February 2022, Baker received £5,000, and a further £10,000 in February 2023, from Neil Record , chair of Net Zero Watch, the campaign arm of the GWPF.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The revelations come as world leaders prepare to head to Dubai for the UN’s annual climate summit, known as COP, to agree on ways to cut further catastrophic temperature rise. Another Adnoc field, Umm-Dalkh, has flared in more than 90 percent of recorded days between 2018 and 2022, according to Crea’s data. think tank.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2021

But the CCC today said that, in order to capitalise on its role as COP President over the next year, the UK needed to strengthen its domestic net zero policies, as well as ramping up its diplomatic and trade efforts to spur more climate ambition on the world stage. of warming by the end of the century.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The phrases laid out below will also be in the back pockets of lobbyists, who doubled in number year on year in 2022 as an analysis by DeSmog revealed , and are expected to show up in force in 2023. Nature-based solutions” is one of the only phrases linked to agriculture to be mentioned in the COP cover text.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 24, 2022

Narendra Modi’s clarion call for becoming ‘AatmaNirbhar’ in energy sector, DISTRIBUTECH India 2022, together with POWERGEN India and Indian Utility Week, India’s leading Energy Business Platforms, will be organised from 12th-14th October 2022 in New Delhi, India.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The report was commissioned and welcomed by the International Chamber of shipping and called on governments attending COP to send “stronger market signals” to the shipping industry to reduce fears that any new ships built to transport low-carbon fuels would never be used. October 2022 update.”). The full report can be found here.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 26, 2022

From a diplomacy perspective, the Department of State has been leveraging satellite data as a way to guide understanding soil content and rainfall in Africa prior to the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference ( COP 27 ) in Egypt later this year. Planet’s Perspective. We are in the midst of a climate crisis.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2021

Dubbed the Resilient Water Accelerator, the programme aims to select six locations for support by September this year, before then starting work in January 2022, according to the update from the heir to the throne's Sustainable Markets Initiative (SMI).

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Business Green

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Even in the context of an eventful past five years, it is fair to say 2022 was another rollercoaster. And then, somewhere along the way, 2022 also found time for two major UN COP summits - one on climate change, the other on biodiversity - both of which proved momentous in different ways.

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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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

However, that number may be an undercount of total government subsidies, he said, given it doesn’t include tax credits, such as the $10 billion federal government carbon capture tax credit announced to coincide with the COP 28 summit.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In the year following Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the UK imported £3.4 The company is one of the industry’s biggest spenders on Google advertising and spent $317,710 in 2021 and 2022 on greenwashing adverts targeting users searching for information on renewable energy companies and carbon capture.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 22, 2024

AI as an ally of energy transition DNV forecasts $12tn into grid and renewables in US and Canada by 2050 Looking ahead to 2024, we anticipate: Concrete policy commitments for clean energy deployment In 2024, countries will promulgate specific plans and targets to accelerate policy momentum and achieve the ambitious targets set at COP 28.

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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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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

The UK remains COP President until next November, when it will hand the baton over to Egypt, which is set host the COP27 Summit at the Red Sea beach resort of Sharm-el Sheikh. Indeed, there is no shortage of world-changing points of action for Sharma's COP team to be getting on with over the coming months.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Tripling the world’s renewable energy production to 11,000 GW by 2030, coupled with doubling energy efficiency, is the most impactful action to rapidly decarbonize this decade, as highlighted in the pre-COP report by the GRA, the COP28 Presidency and IRENA. This is the only way that ambition can become reality.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2024

“It’s really a huge scam,” concluded Molly Anderson, a member of the International Panel of Experts on Food (IPES Food), who co-authored an earlier report on regenerative agriculture in 2022. “It’s It’s something that’s being used by corporations to justify their greenhouse gas emissions.”

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 22, 2024

In 2022, QHeat started applying for patents for their technology based on coaxial flow. The company’s competitive edge stems from its superior coefficient of performance (COP).

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

I also want particularly to thank COP President Alok Sharma who has worked incredibly hard to bring countries together. Despite the Covid-19 crisis, we have accelerated action, the COP has responded to the IPCC's call to close the gap towards 1.5, Greenwashing is the new climate denial, and we have seen too much at play in this COP.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 9, 2023

These seven states are all classed as authoritarian by the Economist Intelligence Unit’s 2022 Democracy Index , which is judged according to five measures: electoral process and pluralism, civil liberties, the functioning of government, political participation, and political culture. billion in 2022. billion from Saudi Arabia, £2.6

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In September 2022, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the UN General Assembly: “We need to hold fossil fuel companies and their enablers to account [including] the massive public relations machine raking in billions to shield the fossil fuel industry from scrutiny.”

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Thanks to the actions of the Climate Champions in Glasgow, COPs are fast becoming more multistakeholder - Glasgow being the most diverse COP to date. Equally, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in September is a major multi-stakeholder occasion.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 6, 2022

This will also be the first African COP in several years, and Egypt has promised to champion African interests, which perfectly encapsulates the issues raised above. In June 2022, seven of its eight members agreed to resume limited work – without Russia. degrees Celsius. Toward a Global Deal for Nature.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2021

The BoE should now reach out to those companies that have already secured loans through the programme to remind them the government expects all listed companies and large asset owners to publish climate-related risk disclosures by 2022, as part of its Green Finance Strategy, he said. warming, and in line with the Paris Agreement.".

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Business Green

JUNE 19, 2022

of support in 2022-2023 through the UK's Partnering for Accelerated Climate Transitions (PACT) program. Sharma will this week meet with South African government ministers, communities, business leaders and officials involved in delivering the country's just energy transition for South Africa, while also confirming an additional £1.5m

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Even so, it was a major breakthrough as the first COP to mention the temperature goals we are all familiar with today. It ended without much of a story, with the parties being called to the COP the following year. For the first time at a COP , a target of 1.5 ” A year later came COP16 in Cancún. However, the exact 1.5°C

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Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The report notes the latter data dates from 2017 as there is a lack of recent waste data, but updates in 2022 are not expected to see the target met, in part owing to the impact of the pandemic on collection, reuse, and recycling of clothing. In the run up to COP 26, environmental sustainability is rightly at the forefront of industry minds.

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