Business Green

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

A network of COP Cities to go with a network of COP forests - or COP copses, if you will - could be one of the most important legacies of the Summit. As the government is now painfully aware a huge amount needs to happen to deliver a successful COP.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2020

All around us society is shuttering up, hunkering down, limiting circulation: of course Boris Johnson and his fellow ministers would be wondering whether they can pull off such a big logistical feat on which so much depends. And so, perhaps, will the Glasgow COP. So far, so straightforward. Boris's bailiwick? That's right.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

The wording prompted some observers to speculate "low-emission" energy could be interpreted as including unabated gas power, but others argued it was a reference to nuclear and carbon capture and storage projects. This COP caused deep frustrations but it wasn't for nothing," she said. "It warming target.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

As Professor Rebecca Willis, a leading opponent of the mine, observed on Twitter this afternoon: "the untold story of this mine is the absolute failure of govt (both central and local) to help the local area and community develop a vibrant, zero carbon economic strategy".

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2020

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 The UK was the first major economy in the world to legislate to go carbon neutral by 2050.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 25, 2021

In addition to fundamental and immediate questions about the UK's energy supply, we had the Prime Minister Boris Johnson stating his ambition to move our power supplies entirely away from fossil fuels by 2035, the pre-COP meeting in Milan and warnings from the Environment Agency to prepare for rising seas, floods and droughts.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2021

Meanwhile, the advertising sector has faced growing calls to stop taking work from high-carbon industries, with campaigners just this month accusing advertisers of plumping consumer demand for SUVs, cars that are hugely carbon intensive and are far bigger than buyers need in practice. The media is probably on red alert for it.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Documents released this morning strongly suggest significant dividing lines remain on a raft of key issues, including climate finance and adaptation funding, loss and damage, carbon markets, language around the phasing down of fossil fuels, and much more besides.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2020

For a food company, that means knowing how and where you source your ingredients, what your customers want, and understanding the provenance of your direct and indirect carbon emissions. “Concretely, when you look at Danone, 60 percent of our carbon footprint is from agriculture,” Soubeiran acknowledged.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The company says that more oil will mean less emissions; however — provided the industry builds enough facilities to capture carbon dioxide (CO2), the main gas causing the climate crisis. “We The statement was widely interpreted as a pitch for carbon capture. Energy Information Administration and other sources.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

  Google, AstraZeneca, Iron Mountain Data Centers, and more have joined Climate Group's just announced 24/7 Carbon-Free Coalition , committing to sourcing carbon-free electricity around the clock as part of a pilot campaign. metric tons of carbon emissions per year.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2021

Continuing deadlock over carbon market rules and frustration over access to vaccines and missed climate funding pledges means pressure is mounting on diplomats ahead of COP26. Meanwhile, disagreements over how funds raised through carbon markets should be allocated to climate-related projects are ongoing.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Business and policy leaders reflect on the major wins from the Glasgow Summit, what needs to happen next, and why COPs could look and feel difficult from now on. As Frontier Economics' Matthew Bell put it, Glasgow was arguably the first COP conference where the means to decarbonise were discussed alongside the end goals.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for alternative arrangements for preliminary climate negotiations in the run up to November's crucial COP26 global climate summit, arguing upcoming talks will "need to take place virtually" due to health, safety and logistics concerns spurred by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2021

"It's going to be an ongoing conversation," she says of the questions around how the government intends to deliver a covid-secure international event at a time when the pace of vaccine roll outs globally varies massively, "but absolutely the intention and the focus is on being able to deliver an in person COP.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2021

I want to put on the record that we are very keen that we ensure we are delivering a physical COP at Glasgow," he said. That is what the Parties want and I think that's what will help us in achieving our outcomes and goals at the end of the day as well.".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

A COP is the biggest global negotiation: 196 countries with very different agendas, very different political backgrounds; fraught with mistrust, with false rumours; highly technical and highly political - and alongside that a massive trade fair," explained Betts. Nobody has got the full picture in a COP. This is the risk of COP.".

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

At the COP26 Summit in Glasgow in November we need every other country to follow the lead of the UK and commit to net zero carbon emission by the middle of the century," he said, adding that big emitting countries also needed to come forward with specific plans to slash their emissions.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

As fears of a 'COP flop' get an airing, the battle to define what constitutes a successful Glasgow Summit is hotting up. But most of the dramas surrounding the Summit to date have related to either the logistics or domestic politics. COP26 is having its first major wobble. Hasn't the high stakes caravan been wobbling since the get go?

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Business Green

APRIL 16, 2021

The decision to hold three weeks of preliminary COP26 discussions online came yesterday after a meeting of the COP Bureau , the summit decision making body which comprises the United Nations, the summit co-host the UK, as well as representatives from developed and developing countries.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Alongside AVEVA, the pavilion is being sponsored by DP World, the multinational logistics company owned by the Dubai government in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The annual COP summit allows negotiators and leaders across the globe to put in place commitments to address the climate crisis and assist the worst-hit countries.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

BAKU – A carbon capture and storage (CCS) company owned by an oilfield giant was given the opportunity to address the UK’s pavilion at COP29, DeSmog can reveal. In March 2024, SLB bought the CCS company Aker Carbon Capture to create SLB Capturi – saying that it hoped to “shift the economics of carbon capture”.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

The UK government had previously signalled it was keen to see the summit proceed this year if at all possible, but in recent days the scale of the disruption to both logistical and diplomatic preparations for the conference has escalated dramatically. It is not the first time a COP summit has faced major logistical difficulties.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The Paris Agreement Rulebook, including Article 6 of the treaty on how to govern carbon markets, should also be finalised in Glasgow, the group said. Nick Mabey, co-founder and CEO of climate think tank E3G, said the HAC grouping "makes the political weather at COP". — Nick Mabey (@Mabeytweet) November 2, 2021.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

These concerns were further amplified by significant logistical challenges, including the fact the planned conference venue in Glasgow has been converted into a temporary field hospital. financial support to vulnerable states) and [deliver] an ambitious low carbon recovery plan for UK economy".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Each of these meetings were known as Conferences of the Parties, or COPs, and they have become synonymous with both the world's admirable intention to tackle the climate crisis and the diplomatic quagmire and geopolitical tensions that have repeatedly stymied efforts to curb global emissions. Business pressure.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 22, 2023

It’s a toss up from our oracles if the carbon market will fall, but all agree that losing the lower quality offsets can only be good for its health. Oxy buying Carbon Engineering was an exception that had been in the works for a while. Will the voluntary carbon market (VCM) shrink in 2024?  Nuclear on the mind.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The hope is that such strategies, combined with real world efforts to phase out coal power and internal combustion engine cars, ramp up climate finance for developing nations, and expand natural carbon sinks, would curb emissions sufficiently so that updated targets submitted in another five years' time bring the 1.5C goal within grasp.

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