Business Green

MAY 27, 2022

In a communique published at the close of a three-day Energy and Environment Ministerial meeting in Berlin this week, the world's largest economies set out their priorities for tackling the intersecting climate, biodiversity, and pollution crises, and responding to the disruption to energy markets wrought by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

DeSmog’s renewed focus on agriculture comes ahead of a pivotal and eventful year for climate, and food politics, with major summits related to biodiversity, energy and food due over the coming months in Colombia and Azerbaijan this year. The farming industry is also directly imperilling our natural world.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Experts say that failing to reform the sector’s polluting practices – such as by cutting the use of pesticides and polluting synthetic fertilisers – will harm global efforts to curb climate change and reverse biodiversity loss. The sheer scale of the operations of the companies also means they are major emitters in their own right.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 7, 2024

Scientists tell us that we’ve pushed the planet beyond its ability to support us in critical areas such as availability of water, biodiversity, and, of course, carbon emissions. Banks are also making more money from loans and underwriting to clean energy than to fossil fuels. Great news all around.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The study, which was commissioned by non-profit the B Team, estimates fossil fuels, agriculture and water industries receive more 80 per cent of these environmentally harmful subsidies dished out by policymakers. Nature is declining at an alarming rate, and we have never lived on a planet with so little biodiversity," she said.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

billion worth of fossil fuels from Saudi Arabia. DeSmog has today revealed that the US-based advertising giant McCann, part of the Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG), is putting itself forward to continue working for this fossil fuel giant. So what else do we know about this fossil fuel behemoth?

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Business Green

JULY 12, 2021

University vows to deliver net zero emissions by 2035 and establish UK's 'most biodiverse campus'. • Create the UK's most biodiverse campus - setting aside up to half of the site for nature. • Reach net zero by 2035 - including both direct and indirect carbon emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Farming also relies on synthetic fertilisers that are both fossil-fuel-based and emit greenhouse gases, and drives deforestation. All these methods work to improve the soil, reduce air and water pollution, cut emissions, and boost biodiversity. We can expect a similar turnout at this year’s COP, too.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

The explosive growth of capitalism over the past 200 years has been largely powered by fossil fuel companies and their extraction of humanity’s common resources—air, forests, land, and, most importantly, coal, oil and gas. The document also acknowledges that there is little chance of further economic growth.”.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

But group of petrostates resist calls to phase down fossil fuels and accelerate decarbonisation efforts. The so-called High Ambition Coalition of nations argued the draft text should include a commitment to phase down all fossil fuels and clearer commitments to accelerate the roll out of renewables.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

G20 agrees to submit enhanced Paris Agreement plans ahead of COP26, but fails to agree coal power and fossil fuel subsidy phase outs. Under the Paris Agreement, signatories are expected to ramp up their national climate pledges every five years in order to help limit temperature rise to 1.5C goal without the leadership of the G20.

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Business Green

JANUARY 3, 2022

A significant feature of COP was businesses joining with activists to demand faster progress. We hear most about the climate crisis, but our waste - plastics and e-waste - and biodiversity crises are shocking too. It is a cliché, but whilst states can negotiate with each other, they can't negotiate with physics.

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 17, 2020

To all but the willfully ignorant there is more than ample scientific evidence to indicate that we are facing a biodiversity crisis and a climate emergency. To do this we need to move quickly away from fossil fuels and this will require massive investments in renewable energy, and sustainable transportation.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

I heard someone call COP26 the "business COP" I couldn't find any official reference of that sort, but I'm inclined to agree. Moreover, many of these banks continue to finance the fossil-fuel industry, funding coal mines, backstopping debt issuance and lending directly to power producers, as the Financial Times reported.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

An 'ambitious' new 2030 emissions reduction target, a 2030 phase out date for fossil fuel vehicles, and a major home energy retrofit programme are all on the Climate Coalition's short list, along with a raft of wider proposals designed to accelerate emissions reductions efforts over the coming decade. A ban on fossil fuel finance.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Having officially taken the reins of the COP Presidency in Glasgow, Alok Sharma and his diplomatic team are now tasked with steering global climate discussions over the next year ahead of COP27 in Egypt, and the CCC today urged the UK to lead by example with ambitious climate efforts at home. of warming by the end of the century.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Biodiversity. Commonly known as soot, it is formed from wildfires and fossil fuel consumption and contributes to climate change. Conference of the Parties (COP). COP is the decision-making body responsible for monitoring and reviewing implementation of the UNFCCC. But they help reduce economy-wide total emissions.

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Grist

MAY 15, 2024

“For me, intellectually, that always felt like a little bit of a cop-out,” said Jesse Nichols, a video producer at Grist. But when she learned about how biodiverse parasites in fact are, and the often crucial roles they play in ecosystems, it felt like she had discovered a whole new secret world. Watch the full video here.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2020

International summits to progress a global oceans treaty and mid-year UNFCCC talks have been postponed, while even more crucially COP26 and the much anticipated 'Biodiversity COP' are now set to take place next year. You want the banks to be saved, then stop investing in fossil fuel expansion.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

But it remains significantly longer - and has been published much later - than previous COP cover texts, meaning negotiators have a major task ahead of them in whittling down options to deliver political consensus. We can only really perhaps get the highest ambition on mitigation if we also see a strong breakthrough on loss and damage.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

They also all stressed that they wanted to do more to tackle biodiversity loss and water pollution, and a number of candidates floated new policy proposals. What would happen if we moved it to 2060 or 2070? We're not going to be here. Let's be realistic.".

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

This increase will push out alternative, fossil-fuel-powered energy sources, supporting a much-needed energy evolution as fossil-fuel reserves begin to deplete. Figures show that the current average will increase from 15% of the global energy mix to 28% by 2050. One such project is Aclymate’s Kariba REDD+ Project.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 30, 2022

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. Even British Gas, a company that takes is name from the fossil fuel, began ramping up its heat pump installations this year.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

As current events make all too clear, our continued reliance on fossil fuels makes the global economy and energy security vulnerable to geopolitical shocks and crises. The Treasury commissioned the Dasgupta review to look at the economics of biodiversity. Continued dependence on fossil fuels will cost lives.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk. This report must sound a death knell for coal and fossil fuels, before they destroy our planet.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. The North American Meat Institute will host a side event at the US COP pavilion on December 11, the summit’s Agriculture Day, for example. We need the animal agriculture equivalent of ‘keep it in the ground’ for fossil fuels,” she adds. “It’s

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

It is because climate is central to geopolitics, that the UK's Integrated Review established tackling climate change and biodiversity loss as the UK's top international priority. It calls on countries to phase-down unabated coal power and phase-out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies. And indeed, some thought we were.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

COP talks each year are often fraught and progress remains far too slow, as today's IPCC report on escalating climate impacts will testify. As close observers of global climate diplomacy have long argued, if the COP process and the Paris Agreement did not exist you would have to invent them. "It

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

What are the big priorities for COP? Its conclusions have since been endorsed with apparent sincerity by the UK government, which announced in June that it was committing to ensuring that more of the UK’s largest new infrastructure projects “leave nature and biodiversity in an overall better state than before development”.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

It's hard to think of a greater dereliction of our responsibility as COP hosts.". IPPR Environmental Justice Commission head Luke Murphy said: "Today the Chancellor declared the UK was entering an ‘age of optimism' but instead he used the budget to extend the ages of fossil fuels. But investment alone is not enough.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

He called for a "Climate Solidarity Pact" between richer and poorer nations geared towards helping climate vulnerable countries ramp up renewable energy capacity and end dependence on fossil fuels, with a particular onus on stopping new coal plants being built. That's why this first agreements with Ecuador is so significant.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Truss has plenty of high profile supporters who keep attacking a flagship policy she insists she is wedded to and advocating for pro-fossil fuel policies that even the fossil fuel industry thinks make little sense. Where do you stand on farming subsidy reforms and what is your strategy for restoring nature?

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

In addition, the new net zero strategy must be accompanied by equally ambitious plans for nature - there is no way of managing global warming without preserving the planet's biodiversity, forests and oceans. Overall, the global goal of net-zero by 2050 needs to be matched by an equally clear global goal of net positivity for nature.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Leaders of the world's biggest economies have today signalled their continued support for an ambitious outcome from the tense on-going climate negotiations at the COP27 Summit, emphasising their support for capping global warming at 1.5C, ramping up climate finance, cutting back on coal power, and phasing out fossil fuel subsidies.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Another challenge that has derailed past COPs is agreeing on implementing a carbon trading system outlined in the Paris Agreement. Major fossil fuel producers such as Saudi Arabia , Russia and Australia seem unwilling to strengthen their commitments. Courtesy: Johannes Plenio /Unsplash.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

While NYCW has been around for more than a decade , this year the vibe of ~10x the participants and well-curated mini-conferences alongside official UN programming felt almost like a Davos or a mini-COP (which, depending on your take on the efficacy and impact of COP, could be a good or bad thing).

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