The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Limiting global warming to 1.5C [above pre-industrial levels] with no or limited overshoot requires deep, rapid and sustained reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions of 43% by 2030 and 60% by 2035 relative to the 2019 level and reaching net zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050.

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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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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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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2021

Iván Duque Márquez, President of Colombia, for convening us to set our collective sight on the critical elements and level of ambition to safeguard and put biodiversity on a path to recovery by 2030," said Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This is the first COP where we are face-to-face with the reality of breaching the 1.5C It was also the first to be chaired by an oil and gas executive, putting a crude spotlight on the conflicting interests that have become entrenched in the COP process. And this year’s COP finally looked it in the eye. It’s not surprising.

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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 compared to 2010. I am asking all countries, particularly major emitters, to submit ambitious 2030 emission reduction targets," he said. "We It concludes the new plans would achieve just a 0.5 We must recognise that the window for action to safeguard our planet is closing fast.''.

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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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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. COP president Alok Sharma described it as “a fragile win”. What can be done with the captured CO2? degrees alive.

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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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

With greater scrutiny over emissions from meat and dairy companies, it is not surprising they are stepping up their game to head off any COP outcome that might hinder their operations,” Ben Lilliston, from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy told DeSmog. Not only in COP but in our territories.

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

With the conclusion of the first part of COP-15 we have taken a critical step towards writing a new chapter for our planet and for our societies," she said. Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary of the UN's Convention on Biological Diversity, said the latest round of talks had delivered encouraging progress.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

As such, in May the company urged the EU to use its upcoming Farm to Fork and Biodiversity 2030 strategies to establish an EU Common Food Policy that provides incentives to farmers to switch to regenerative practices.

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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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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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Nature-based solutions” is one of the only phrases linked to agriculture to be mentioned in the COP cover text. Other powerful advocates of GWP* include industry groups such as Beef + Lamb New Zealand , which is partnering with Aim4C at this year’s COP28 and has had representatives lobbying at past COPs.

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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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Grist

JANUARY 17, 2021

A coalition of more than 50 countries has committed to protect almost a third of the planet by 2030 to halt the destruction of the natural world and slow extinctions of wildlife. So as co-host of the next Climate Cop, the U.K. The High Ambition Coalition (HAC) for Nature and People, which includes the U.K.

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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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The draft regulations, which are now proceeding through their public consultation phase, aim to cap greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and gas sector at 35 percent below 2019 levels by 2030. This proposal was on the low end of emissions caps that were considered.

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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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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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