DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Former UK energy and climate minister Claire O’Neill’s World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is running a series of events at the conference on private sector efforts to tackle climate change. Campaigners said the news demonstrated a “classic case of the revolving door” between “big polluters” and governments.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2021

But Ministers insist end to financial support for overseas fossil fuel energy projects, £16bn transition plan for North Sea, and climate compatibility test for new projects can put UK on track to net zero emissions. We will not leave oil and gas workers behind in the United Kingdom's irreversible shift away from fossil fuels. "We

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Despite the tense, last-minute drama, the Glasgow Climate Pact sends a very clear investment signal to businesses and financial institutions, argues Nick Molho from the Aldersgate Group. This is understandable, but it should not detract from the very clear signals that the business and investment community have been sent at COP26.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Record numbers of delegates from business and finance attended the COP15 Biodiversity Summit, but these actors are not part of official negotiations – so why do they make the trip? In recent years, UN climate summits have become a key fixture in the annual calendar for the CEOs of many large companies.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2022

Planned legislation covering energy, transport, and a clamp down on environmental protests was unveiled in today's Queen Speech. Energy Security Bill.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2020

UK government insists it is on track to deliver crucial UN Climate Summit in November as planned. In the UK, most events and gatherings planned for the coming months have been cancelled or postponed in the immediate term, and the latest advice from the government is that "large gatherings should not take place".

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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. In deals, major funding includes $116M for hydrogen-powered aviation, $44M for sustainability software, and $75M in project finance investment for SAFs. Happy Monday!    And happy COPing to those on the ground in Dubai!

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

But a loose patchwork of weakly enforced rules governing international waters have meant the majority of the planet's oceans are highly susceptible to exploitation whether through over-fishing, acidification and pollution, or emerging threats such as deep water mining. Ladies and gentlemen, the ship has reached the shore," she said.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

BusinessGreen brings you an overview of the key business takeaways from the Glasgow Climate Summit. Forward-thinking businesses and financiers are set to be agents of change as governments look for ways to turn ambition into action - a role that is clearly not lost on the many business leaders represented at the SEC Centre in Glasgow.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

The deal has been hailed as a major coup for multilateralism , and as a crucial milestone in countries' efforts to meeting the goal, agreed by governments last December , to ensure 30 per cent of the Earth's land and sea are granted protected status by 2030.

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Clean Energy Trust

JANUARY 28, 2022

Middling government action Also, one crosscutting theme that is hard to avoid is the significant increase in new climate tech investment funds. Tangible research, development, and demonstration support for new energy technology was also included in the infrastructure bill. As noted above, governments have a significant role to play.

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Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2023

Powers, vice president for global cleantech and renewables at Schneider Electric, who explores how public-private sector collaboration can help unshackle the surging demand for renewable energy. I think a lot of the feedback that you hear from any of the COPs is we're not doing enough and we're not doing it fast enough.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

The pioneering governance structure will see the food giant officially entrench environmental, social, and societal objectives into its bylaws, alongside more typical profit goals. If you really want to do sustainability well in a company, you need to know your business well," Soubeiran says.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The latest report from the Energy Transitions Commission has set out a roadmap for how the world can move on to a 1.5C It is a daunting task, but one governments and businesses have no option but to complete if they want to avert a rolling climate crisis. warming trajectory over the course of the coming decade. pathway by 2030.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 17, 2022

In the first half of 2022, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has moved swiftly toward the first offshore wind lease sales in California , currently anticipated to occur in the fall. BOEM has identified a total of five proposed leases across two areas — the Humboldt Wind Energy Area (WEA) and the Morro Bay WEA.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2020

Pressure grows on the government to ramp up net zero policies and diplomatic efforts ahead of COP26. Before we host the world at COP 26 in November, the UK must get its house in order, and go further and faster to reach net zero as soon as possible," the letter states. "In

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Machine learning, AI, automation and other solutions can slash firms' carbon emissions and energy usage while boosting their productivity, writes IBM's Ana Paula Assis. Understanding the energy and carbon footprint of a firm's assets can be complex. But we have only scratched the surface on the changes that can be made.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

In addition, 74 per cent of the poor are directly affected by land degradation globally and over 80 per cent of the human diet is provided by plants, with just three cereal crops - rice, maize and wheat - providing 60 per cent of humanity's energy intake. The world's economies, businesses and our own well-being all depend on nature," he says.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

COP26 has seen fossil fuels mentioned for the first time in a UNFCCC cover text and the launch of a pioneering alliance of governments committed to phasing out oil and gas production. At the launch event, Denmark's minister for climate, energy and utilities said he hoped the initiative would usher in the end of new fossil fuel production.

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Energy Innovation

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. This recent COP, also a pillar of global progress on sustainability, focused not primarily on climate change but on biological diversity. However, a new review by John J.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Since the UNGA also occurs in the final week of September, security is high, but the climate community’s energy is higher. Offtake unlocks finance because it proves that the tech works (or at least, is commercially de-risked), and that customer revenue can repay investors.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Green business figures, politicians, environmental groups, economists and more react to leading climate experts' assessment of the solutions needed to deliver net zero. Here, BusinessGreen rounds up all the top reaction from business figures, politicians, campaigners, economists and more. Simply put, they are lying.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

COP26 has seen fossil fuels mentioned for the first time in a UNFCCC cover text and the launch of a pioneering alliance of governments committed to phasing out oil and gas production. Jørgenson said the end of fossil fuel production would only come when governments moved to legislate for it.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

What are the big priorities for COP? Of course, that’s all assuming it goes ahead, and the UK government haven’t ruled out the possibility of a postponement until Spring 2022. But progress was still lacking on Resilience and Energy Transition. Where are the main challenges? Nature and finance.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

COP27 put significant pressure on both organisations and governments to urgently act now. A roadmap can show exactly what the steps to meeting climate change goals, minimising impacts of the climate crisis and reaping business benefits. We agree that we, and the world around us, simply cannot afford to wait around.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Reclaim FInance said the groups, which represent a sizeable chunk of the global economy, bringing together institutions with assets of around $90tr, are yet to mandate that members to stop investing in new fossil fuel infrastructure, in line with net zero scenarios set out this summer by the International Energy Agency (IEA).

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 7, 2020

New leaders at Patagonia, McDonald’s, Netflix Elsa Wenzel Wed, 10/07/2020 – 02:01 Heading into fall, this batch of career updates from the worlds of sustainability and business is somewhat top-heavy. Amid myriad social, health and political crises, business sustainability is alive and well and living the Paris Agreement.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2020

The pioneering governance structure will see the food giant officially entrench environmental, social and societal objectives into its bylaws, alongside more typical profit goals. “If you really want to do sustainability well in a company, you need to know your business well,” Soubeiran said.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 28, 2024

In deals, $900m for pulsed magnetic inertial fusion, $100m for energy efficiency as a service, and $70m for AI precision weed control. By 2030, it aims to produce 75,000 to 100,000 tons of Lithium Carbonate Equivalent (LCE), the refined product used in batteries, enough to power 1m EVs.    Image via USGS.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Carbon accounting is a must for any becoming business today. Such businesses better meet the demands of the regulatory environment while coming into alignment with investor, consumer, and employee preferences. And to do that, this Green Business Bureau is your guide. 30 years later came COP 26 (2021) – held in Glasgow.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

  Ship Orders  Yara Eyde, a joint venture between Yara Clean Ammonia and North Sea Container Line, aims to be the  world’s first clean ammonia-powered container ship. Fortescue unveiled a green ammonia dual-fuel ship at COP. Startup Amogy converts ammonia to hydrogen onboard fuel cell-powered vehicles.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

This is the first time that a COP agreement has been made on coal at this level. One is to accelerate commercial viability of renewable energy projects and technology. Working on hardware solutions that will make coal power obsolete is one way to force coal use down in the long term. Global curbs to methane.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2021

At the UN's recent COP 26, over 140 world leaders promised to end deforestation by 2030, pledging over $19bn to do so. Stopping deforestation does not happen in government offices. Local communities receive 25 per cent of the proceeds, while the government collects taxes of $0.50 To limit the global temperature rise to 1.5

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

an accomplished business leader and long-time supporter of Climate Corps. As an adjunct professor at Columbia University and Johns Hopkins University, he finds it deeply rewarding to guide the next generation of renewable energy finance leaders. to invest in energy-efficient improvements. . “Bill” Bowes, Jr.,

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The new Labour government has committed the UK to investing £22 billion in CCS over the next 25 years, claiming that it will help to create a “new era” of clean energy jobs. CCS is popular among fossil fuel firms because it offers a way for them to carry on business as usual, rather than transitioning to renewables.

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Energy Innovation

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. This recent COP, also a pillar of global progress on sustainability, focused not primarily on climate change but on biological diversity. However, a new review by John J.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Blanton, a Senior Research Scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy , and Ben Ratner, Associate Vice President at EDF. For all the attention to corporate net zero by 2050 commitments, the reality is that actions in this decade will be decisive for both the planet’s warming trajectory and energy firms’ viability in the energy transition.

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