Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Leading waste charity WRAP today published its final report for the Sustainable Clothing Action Plan, as it simultaneously released the first progress report for its successor initiative, Textiles 2030, which is aiming to help the fashion sector halve its greenhouse gas emissions over the next decade. per cent total reduction by 2020.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 3, 2023

I came away with three main takeaways for companies in the food and agriculture sector: It’s time to act 2030 is fast approaching and a changing climate is already here. This year more than ever, food and agriculture sector issues were front of mind in the conversation, given companies even more opportunities and resources to take action.

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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. This target, according to energy thinktank Ember, is possible as long as the world increases its renewables deployment by 17% each year (from 500GW in 2023 to 1.5TW in 2030). [1] Notes [1] [link] [2] [link]

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

What is carbon accounting? Carbon accounting – also known as a carbon or greenhouse gas inventory – is the process of measuring the amount of carbon dioxide, or other greenhouse gases (GHG), an organization emits. Carbon accounting is a must for any becoming business today.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2023

per year, when they need to be falling by 7% every year to 2030, according to some estimates, to keep alive the hopes of the Paris agreement. Commentators were concerned about the decisive role seemingly prepared for carbon removal technologies. The headline commitment of COP28 was the pledge to transition away from fossil fuels.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The authors are calling for the creation of far stronger national policies on low-carbon fuels. Based at the Tyndall Centre at The University of Manchester, the authors identify growth in low-carbon hydrogen and sustainable bioenergy as essential to meet the Paris Climate Agreement’s goals.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

There is now a path to expected global warming of under 2°C, but only if all the ambition in new mid-century Net Zero targets is delivered, alongside national 2030 emissions targets. Only concrete steps by 2030 will close the growing gap between ambition for 1.5°C Low carbon prices are effectively a subsidy.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Progress did seem to be forthcoming on cutting methane emissions, with more than 100 countries (although not China) – committing to a 30% reduction by 2030 compared to the 2030 baseline. Carbon trading. Each credit is equated to a tonne of carbon removed from the atmosphere, or not added in the first place.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 22, 2024

Energy storage, a critical component of a fully renewable grid, also saw record growth in 2023 and Bloomberg New Energy Finance has forecast a 27% compound annual growth rate to 2030 to enable renewable growth. These trends were supercharged at COP28, where over 100 countries committed to a tripling of renewable energy capacity by 2030.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

If countries fully implemented their plans to cut carbon emissions as currently promised under the Paris Agreement framework, the planet will still warm 2.9 Assuming a world in which countries also meet their current goals to zero out net carbon emissions in the coming decades, temperatures will still increase about 2.5

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The EU and Turkey have both unveiled fresh 2030 climate targets in support of the Paris Agreement at the COP27 Climate Summit today, although hopes are already receding that the welcome announcements could inject some much needed urgency into talks that continue to move at a snail's pace. Russia's war against Ukraine will end.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2024

During September’s Climate Week in New York City, the world’s major food companies lined up to share their pro-nature credentials, claiming that they are embracing “regenerative agriculture” practices that will reduce their massive carbon footprint. Again, the strategy is partial.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2022

The document sets out G7 countries' ambition to deliver near-zero carbon electricity grids by 2035, citing the need to respond to climate scientists' calls for a drastic reduction in fossil fuel demand so as to stabilise global temperatures.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Improving agricultural biodiversity on small-scale farms results in healthy, productive soils which sequester more carbon, and makes an important cumulative contribution to carbon storage. million tons of carbon dioxide. “If If development investments do not take nature into account, our money will be wasted,” said Puri.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Building on the foundations of past conferences, especially Paris, to create a zero-carbon economy which will benefit our children and grandchildren. ??. In my first fortnight as COP President, I have been listening to those who have done this before. ?? In Glasgow, the world must ramp up momentum towards a zero-carbon economy.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

We have only until 2030 to get things on track for a net-zero and nature-positive economy — this should sharpen our minds for action. The key for 2021 will be to supersize the good examples of these kinds of efforts and bring them together to help shape a decade of unprecedented partnership and action to 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Regenerative Agriculture Often accompanied with: carbon storage, no till, crop rotation With host country the UAE spearheading a new “Regenerative Landscapes” project in close partnership with the likes of Pepsico, Nestlé and fertilizer giant Yara, the term “ regenerative agriculture ” is likely to be a hot topic at COP28.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The United Arab Emirates has been criticised for promoting oil and gas as a clean source of energy, and for backing “false solutions” such as carbon capture technology, at the UN COP27 climate summit in Egypt, ahead of hosting the event next year. A stand at the UAE pavilion at COP27 promotes the country’s carbon capture projects.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

For example, the firm claims that “by implementing AVEVA software solutions to automate its refinery processes, Kuwait Oil Company is on track to achieve its goal of producing 4 billion barrels of oil per day by 2030.” AVEVA therefore helped the company “to optimise asset configuration and maximise oil production across sites.”

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Crunch talks over carbon market rules have begun in earnest at COP26, with nations having last night agreed a key negotiating text on Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, which diplomats are hoping to finalise over the next two weeks of talks.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Row brewing over Boris Johnson's G7 plans to promote carbon border tariffs. The Australian government has signalled it will oppose proposals for a new international agreement in support of carbon border tariff adjustments, labelling the move a form of protectionism. South Korea unveils plans for world's largest offshore wind farm.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The UK and other richer nations should use the funding of greenhouse gas removal technologies as a tool of persuasion at COP26, writes BeZero Carbon's Ted Christie-Miller. China, for instance, emits quadruple the amount of carbon emissions annually than the whole of Europe. COP26 is a watershed moment for the future of our planet.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The first few days of COP have ushered in a wave of major announcements and funding pledges.   The whopping $30B fund will be split into “Acceleration” and “Transformation” and will target deploying $250B by 2030.  billion needed to reach its $250 billion goal by 2030. Happy Monday! 

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

For a food company, that means knowing how and where you source your ingredients, what your customers want, and understanding the provenance of your direct and indirect carbon emissions. Concretely, when you look at Danone, 60 percent of our carbon footprint is from agriculture," Soubeiran acknowledged.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 12, 2021

Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM) in Colombia will hold a public auction to sell 2 million certificates of carbon credits from three hydroelectric plants and one wind farm. A carbon credit is equivalent to 1 ton of CO2 that is no longer emitted into the atmosphere.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

By September this year, Guterres said all businesses, cities, regions, and financial institutions that have pledged to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 should present their transition plans "with credible and ambitious targets for 2025 and 2030", as recommended by the UN net zero expert group appointed by the secretary-general last year.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

The ocean is the world's largest carbon sink and contains 95 per cent of the planet's biosphere. Similar to its climate, biodiversity, and deforestation equivalents, the new oceans COP will be designed to hold parties to account, monitor progress, and help build a policy framework to enable high seas protection.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

On the plus side, the pact reaffirmed the central importance of 1.5C (our best chance to avoid the worst impacts of climate change), mentions coal and fossil fuels for the first time, and calls for countries to “revisit and strengthen” 2030 climate pledges by the end of 2022 instead of waiting another five years. of warming.

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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. Tucked away in the report is this: “The available NDCs of all 191 Parties taken together imply a sizable increase in global GHG emissions in 2030 compared to 2010, of about 16%”.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

It is highly likely the row over phasing down or phasing out coal power will return in the coming years and the debate at future COPs will no doubt be extended to address oil and gas. Countries requested to set tougher 2030 climate plans. Rules on carbon markets finally wrapped. Polluters have been put on notice.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Polestar has once again published the full lifecycle carbon emissions associated with the production of its electric vehicles (EVs), estimating that its latest models have generated between 24 to 25 tonnes of CO2 by the time they are sold to customers. Car makers need to take full responsibility," he said.

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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This Conference of Parties (COP) was highly anticipated as a critical inflection point where our economies and societies set forth on an ambitious and clearly defined path to decarbonize by 2050 and keep warming below 1.5 Carbon Negative Shot is a U.S. Elemental’s portfolio companies are poised to accelerate progress on pledges.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The Yorkshire-based biomass giant is among over a dozen signatories to an industry-backed document that claims bioenergy could increase its output to nearly threefold, and reduce net global emissions by over one billion tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2050. to Yorkshire, in the UK, and the emissions impact of burning wood for power. “It

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

All four companies have "ambitious and credible climate action plans" to drive down their emissions in line with climate science, and will "support the delivery of a successful and ambitious COP next November", the government said today. When it comes to climate action, we all have an important role to play.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 24, 2022

As a part of the national statement delivered at the 26 Conference of the Parties (COP 26) in Glasgow in November 2021, the Prime Minister announced the landmark commitment to achieve carbon neutrality by 2070. As a large developing economy with over 1.3

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 13, 2024

Tomakomai, Japan’s government-funded carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Hokkaido, is considered the cornerstone of the nation’s push to make CCS part of Asia’s energy future. In 2008, Japan released a low-carbon action plan, which spawned the initial plan for the Tomakomai Demonstration plant. That’s a problem.”

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Business Green

DECEMBER 4, 2020

A higher 2030 NDC target is to be welcomed, but it must be underpinned by plans to protect and restore nature, argues WWF's Gareth Redmond-King. Anyone who remembers the start of 2020 will recall a time when there was to be a climate COP in the UK in November. The UK has a legal commitment to decarbonise to reach net zero by 2050.

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