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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NRDC onEarth

OCTOBER 9, 2024

China and Canada, the co-hosts of the 2022 UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15), will pass the torch to Columbia this year. What progress have they made?

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 8, 2023

One of the biggest stories and most widely supported initiatives coming out of the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference (CO28) in Dubai, UAE is the pledge to triple the world’s installed renewable energy capacity by 2030 to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C. This is the only way that ambition can become reality.

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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 Installing 450 GW of renewables by 2030 could help meet Modi’s target, the report said. billion annual investment.

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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]

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2021

Swedish electric car innovator Polestar today announced a "moonshot goal" of creating the "world's first" truly climate neutral car by 2030. By pushing ourselves to create a completely climate-neutral car, we are forced to reach beyond what is possible today," Ingenlath added.

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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 Following COP26, global temperatures are set to rise by around 2.7°C.

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Business Green

JANUARY 16, 2023

COP28 Climate Summit President Sultan Ahmed al Jaber has called for a tripling of clean energy generation by 2030 and a doubling of low-carbon hydrogen capacity by 2030, as he used his first address since being appointed to lead this year's global climate talks to promise a "COP of action". target within reach. "We

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Because 15 years' ago, a COP would not have been like that. But nevertheless, the promise to end deforestation by 2030 deforestation, with the Brazilians on board - that is a step in the right direction, isn't it? Nico Rosberg: I'm energised to be here, because it's incredible how much intention there is on this topic.

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Global Renewable News

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

At COP29, IRENA Outlook calls for ambitious NDC updates, reflecting the global pledge to triple renewable power capacity and double energy efficiency by 2030.Even Even if all COP announcements to dat.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The world needs 50-150 million tonnes of low-carbon hydrogen by 2030, but there is a major gap between this and what is planned to date: already-announced projects will only produce 24 million tonnes by 2030, according to the International Energy Authority. Worryingly, only 4% of these projects have a final investment decision.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2021

The SMI said the scheme is aiming to reach 50 million people in water-stressed areas by 2030, noting that "urgent action" is needed to secure more finance for climate-resilient water programmes.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Obsessing over the conventional talking points – whether or not we should cut emissions by 2050 or 2030 and so on – or what we might term “mitigation”, is no longer going to cut it, they say. A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read. It’s time to pivot to a response that prioritises adaptation.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Obsessing over the conventional talking points – whether or not we should cut emissions by 2050 or 2030 and so on – or what we might term “mitigation”, is no longer going to cut it, they say. A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read. It’s time to pivot to a response that prioritises adaptation.

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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

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Published ahead of the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP-15) that begins on 11 October, the report also outlines how investments in biodiversity contribute to gender equity, women and youth empowerment, and nutrition.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

degree target, emissions will need to fall by more than 40 percent by 2030. The emissions gap report is an annual assessment conducted by the United Nations Environment Programme and published in the lead-up to the United Nations climate conference, or COP, which is scheduled to begin at the end of this month in Dubai.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The $200bn nations committed to mobilise by 2030 in the final deal , after all, assumes a significant increase in flows of finance from the private sector finance, whether than is through philanthropy, investments in nature-based solutions, or transformed business models. As a fellow COP veteran, Stora Enso's Croucher, concurred.

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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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The stand claims that plans to expand the project’s capacity from an annual 800,000 tonnes of CO2 today to five million tonnes by 2030 will capture the equivalent carbon of a forest “almost a third the size of the UAE”. Newly elected Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has called for the 2024 COP to be held in the Amazon.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Next spring, government envoys are convening at the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15) in Kunming, China, to negotiate new global biodiversity goals for the coming decades within the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Current CBD plans aim at placing 20% of degraded ecosystems under restoration by 2030. “We

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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. Fossil fuels were mentioned for the first time in a COP text two years ago, at COP26 in Glasgow. King continued: “Ensuring 1.5C

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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.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

They could be being transported into the Celtic Sea and Bristol Channel, or even further out into the Atlantic and north to Scotland, potentially in time for the UNFCCC CoP in November.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The Alliance, which was launched at COP28, has the companies aligning themselves with the COP28 action agenda objective of fast-tracking a just and orderly energy transition and committing to advancing electrification, renewables ready grids and clean energy deployment in line with 2030 goals and a net zero future by 2050.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 21, 2019

That's an amazing transition that demonstrates to the world that it’s possible to transition beyond coal by 2030 in advanced economies (and 2040 globally) as the latest climate science dictates. gears up to host the next round of COP climate talks in Glasgow, which may be the first COP to run ‘coal free.’

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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

JANUARY 11, 2021

At the same event, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab and COP President Alok Sharma will convene a roundtable on the Clean Power Transition with the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, bringing together ministers from eight African and European countries.

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Business Green

MAY 14, 2021

Alok Sharma intent on holding 'most inclusive COP ever' in Glasgow, but it is not UK's gift alone to make in-person event happen. This is what makes the next United Nations Climate Conference in Glasgow, COP 26, so critical. If we are serious about 1.5C, Glasgow must be the COP that consigns coal power to history," he said.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The WWF is backing measures to reverse the loss of biodiversity by 2030, such as the Dasgupta Review on the Economics of Biodiversity in the UK and its own campaign for a New Deal for Nature and People.

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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.

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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.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Similarly, commodities multinational Cargill says it will “advance” the use of regenerative methods across 10 million acres by 2030, but does not provide the details of how it will do that. Again, the strategy is partial. Cargill’s target covers only its North America holdings, while the company operates in 70 countries worldwide.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The COP27 Presidency has today launched a new global plan that aims to mobilise state and non-state actors behind a shared set of climate adaptation goals for 2030 that span food and agriculture, water and nature, coasts and oceans, infrastructure, and human livelihoods. Seven times that amount will be needed annually until 2030.".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Earlier this year , the firm also announced a "moonshot" goal to create what it claims would be the wold's first truly climate neutral car by 2030, by changing the way its cars are made rather than relying on offsetting which CEO Ingenlath has previously branded as a "cop out".

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2021

The effects of climate change are already causing premature death and worsening health outcomes for many around the world and the expected direct financial costs are predicted to be $2-4bn per year by 2030. We hope that you'll join us. Sarah McDonald is vice president of sustainability at GSK Consumer Healthcare.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2021

"There is logic to setting a target and then building a plan and reporting mechanisms to meet that, but companies and countries alike will need to make progress on this in the run-up to COP. Countries such as Japan and the US will need to back their net zero ambitions with nearer-term 2030 emissions targets.".

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