DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

This week, as business and government leaders, investors and campaigners gather for New York Climate Week, DeSmog is relaunching its big agriculture series, which will scrutinise the power of food and farming companies. Agriculture used to play second fiddle to energy when it came to global warming, considered as a nice-to-have.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. Leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda that calls for governments and industry to work together to find new solutions to climate change–driven food insecurity. rise in temperature that risks tipping the world into irreversible climate breakdown.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Agriculture – which is responsible for an estimated third of all global emissions – has been higher up the agenda than at any previous round of climate talks. This list includes some of the world’s most destructive companies, and they should only be included at COP with extreme caution,” she told DeSmog.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Today at COP26, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development announced the Banking for Impact on Climate in Agriculture (B4ICA) initiative in partnership with EDF, the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative and the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials. For example, in the U.S., farmers — less than 10%.

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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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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 There are a variety of different sources of methane emissions and many solutions will be needed to curb those emissions.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

According to the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), carbon offset programs can be grouped into the following broad categories: Renewable energy, energy efficiency, methane abatement, reforestation and conservation, fuel switching, and community projects. Carbon offset program #3: Methane abatement.

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Putting the planet on a sustainable course will require significant changes to almost every sector of the global economy, including energy, transport, industry, agriculture, cities, finance, and land-use. There can be no more dithering or predatory delay. A collection of world-class collaborators – including ??Planet,

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

More specifically, the report urged philanthropists to help create a market for minimising upstream methane emissions; boost capacity for peatland protection and restoration projects; accelerate the shift to alternative and plant-based proteins; create a market and enabling environment for reducing methane emissions in agriculture; support the market (..)

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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. If there's one theme that really comes out loud and clear from this COP, it is about money," said former Energy and Climate Change Secretary Amber Rudd.

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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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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The first few days of COP have ushered in a wave of major announcements and funding pledges. Countries and companies have also kicked off pledges to triple investments in renewables and nuclear, drive down methane emissions, and commit loss and damage funds. Department of Agriculture. Execution questions marks.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

In the southern Polish city of Katowice last December, news coverage of the UN’s COP 24 meeting on climate change suddenly and dramatically surged, mostly thanks to a three-minute speech given by a Swedish teen activist with Asperger’s syndrome and the amplifying power of social media. That’s an area nearly twice the size of India.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Over 100 countries pledged to halt and reverse deforestation, with a similar number joining an EU and US pledge to cut methane emissions by 30 per cent by 2030. What stood out clearly in Glasgow is that COP26 was the first COP where the real economy turned up in force.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The curbing of emissions to reduce the concentration of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane in the environment. Conference of the Parties (COP). COP is the decision-making body responsible for monitoring and reviewing implementation of the UNFCCC. The hope is that limiting global warming to 1. Anthropogenic.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Its priority areas include slashing methane emissions; ending deforestation; phasing out coal; electrifying road transport; decarbonising hard-to-abate industry; and improving energy efficiency. Altogether, that would make for a 40 per cent cut in overall methane emissions by 2030. pathway by 2030.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Future COPs will re-open this debate and seek to extend it to gas and oil. If COPs did not exist you would have to invent them. Phase out or down is semantics, but the recognition is there that fossil fuels are the problem. The Paris Agreement was hailed as the beginning of the end of the fossil fuel age.

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Like the World Cup that kicked off within hours of the gavel coming down in Sharm El Sheikh, COPs provide a regular temperature check for global geopolitics. Those frustrations were further amplified by the Egyptian Presidency's management of the talks, which saw the timetable slip badly, even by COP standards.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 12, 2022

That’s at risk of happening now as major asset managers have remained silent on a proposed new Environmental Protection Agency rule requiring oil and gas producers to cut their methane emissions. The EPA comment period for the proposed methane regulations lasts until Jan. Methane regulation: Low-hanging fruit on the path to net-zero.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2023

The report said that during the final quarter of last year major developments in the EU, US, Canada, and Australia signaled an increase in policy ambition in support of clean power, low carbon industry, sustainable transport, and green building development, with efforts to tackle methane from oil, gas, and agriculture also beginning to emerge.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In November, I had the privilege to represent Schneider Electric at the UN's Conference of Parties (COP) on climate change in Glasgow. This COP was unlike the previous 25 iterations, in that it took place during a global pandemic. In reality, the current pledges align more closely to 2.7 Bottom Line for Business.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 28, 2024

It also announced a $162m loan guarantee for LongPath Technologies to support methane emissions monitoring across oil and gas fields in major US basins, its first GHG-tracking loan. Delegates cross-pollinated conservation ideas at the biodiversity COP last week in Colombia.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Since the convention’s establishment, the countries involved meet annually during the Conference of the Parties (COP). COP is a supreme decision-making body that aims to promote the effective application of the convention. 30 years later came COP 26 (2021) – held in Glasgow. C) within reach.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

BAKU – Hundreds of lobbyists for industrial agriculture have shown up at the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, new analysis shows. Overall, 204 agriculture delegates have accessed the talks this year, analysis by DeSmog and The Guardian reveals.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

And increasingly, the focus of COP seems to be on finance, and negotiations that – it is hoped – will provide pathways for finance to flow to where it’s needed, via mechanisms such as ESG and carbon markets. . Methane milestone? We are very encouraged by Britain’s commitment to addressing the issue.”

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2024

agriculture’s story” at the climate summit last December. Campaigners and climate scientists had hoped the summit – which was billed as a “Food COP” due to its focus on farming – would see governments agree to ambitious action to transform food systems in line with the goals of the Paris climate agreement.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

From President Biden to methane pledges, BusinessGreen explores the biggest developments on the fifth full day of the pivotal climate talks in Sharm EL Sheikh. Biden's address also set out his administration's plans to crackdown on methane leaks in the US' fossil fuel industry.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

  We’ll spare you the obligatory “ good COP, bad COP ” joke, but this week, we’ve got a deep dive into the UN’s biggest move at COP29 so far: the approval of Articles 6.2 This approach could set a precedent for bypassing negotiation processes in future COPs, adding uncertainty to the framework.

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