What is COP? Here’s a practical explainer
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 23, 2023
Everything you need to know about attending COP (this year, or any other): What it is, how to get access, what actually happens, and more.
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COP Won’t Survive for Long Unless We Tackle Climate Corruption
DeSmogBlog
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
Framed as the “finance COP”, this year’s summit will be defined by negotiations around the amount of public money dedicated to tackling climate change. For the second year in a row, COP will be hosted by a petrostate. The implications of this – not just for COP29, but all future COPs – are profound.
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Will COP make any difference?
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 25, 2021
Is your company ready to meet the post-COP moment?
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Summary Update on the COPs
Energy Central
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
Summary Update on the COPs ROBIN FARRELL November 1, 2024 As we enter November and with COP 29 just under 2 weeks away, a brief run down of the recent CBD COP16 and the equally recent COP13 / MOP36 event in Bangkok.
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A ‘Cop of peace’? How can authoritarian, human rights-trashing Azerbaijan possibly host that? | Greta Thunberg
The Guardian: Energy
NOVEMBER 10, 2024
Cop meetings have proven to be greenwashing conferences that legitimise countries’ failures to ensure a livable world and future and have also allowed authoritarian regimes like Azerbaijan and the two previous hosts – the United Arab Emirates and Egypt – to continue violating human rights.
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COP is dead. Long live COP!
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
It’s a chaotic, confounding circus pilloried by many as a waste of time and resources, and a needless exercise that changes little. But we keep coming back.
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Priorities for Success at the Biodiversity COP
NRDC onEarth
OCTOBER 21, 2024
The world has a strategic plan to reverse global biodiversity loss. We must follow through by working with each other to address the critical issues and build a new relationship with nature.
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? Good COP, Bad COP
Climate Tech VC
DECEMBER 8, 2023
Maybe it was the offer of warm sun in December, but this year’s COP drew 100K attendees, almost double the size of COP15 in Paris. Climate tech played its biggest role ever at COP this year. The oil & gas COP. This was the COP of the climate and O&G juxtaposition. The greenwashing was unavoidable.
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How COP 27 became the food systems COP
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
For the first time food, agriculture and food systems have taken center stage at the global negotiations.
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The 2024 COPs and Climate Funding Solutions
Energy Central
OCTOBER 21, 2024
The 2024 COPs and Climate Funding Solutions ROBIN FARRELL Entrepreneur | Investments | Green Finance | Sports & Media October 20, 2024 Monday brings the official start of CBD COP16 in Cali, Colombia, focused on Biodiversity and Nature Finance.
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Generators fill their pockets again, pushing grid prices to new highs and leaving renewables to cop the blame
Renew Economy
JULY 30, 2024
The post Generators fill their pockets again, pushing grid prices to new highs and leaving renewables to cop the blame appeared first on RenewEconomy. Wholesale electricity prices hit a new landmark on Tuesday night when all five state grids had prices pushed above $15,000 a megawatt hour (MWh) at the time. Greed is the new black.
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Voices of women and Indigenous leaders push ‘the Finance COP’ toward a just transition (podcast)
Impact Alpha
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
The post Voices of women and Indigenous leaders push ‘the Finance COP’ toward a just transition (podcast) appeared first on ImpactAlpha. The group photo of global leaders assembled at the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan – the ones who dared to show up.
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The UAE’s unconventional COP
Energy Transition
OCTOBER 31, 2023
The debate over the UAE’s chairmanship (and in particular, the chairman himself) has been louder than talk of the topics on the table at this year’s COP. How is the UAE positioning.
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How COP27 became the food systems COP
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
For the first time food, agriculture and food systems have taken center stage at the global negotiations.
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Cop out? Hard truths in Dubai…
Terra Infirma
DECEMBER 11, 2023
While we in the West derided COP President’s Sultan Al Jaber’s outburst about going back to living in caves, in the Middle East that ain’t too far from the truth. The post Cop out? If/when the oil economy fades, so will the wealth and power of the region.
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Australia signs up to COP pledge to triple renewables by 2030, double efficiency
Renew Economy
DECEMBER 2, 2023
The post Australia signs up to COP pledge to triple renewables by 2030, double efficiency appeared first on RenewEconomy. Australia and 117 other countries sign pledge at COP28 to triple renewables by 2030 and double energy efficiency.
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Fossil fuel giants play home ground advantage as climate COP despairs about 1.5°C
Renew Economy
DECEMBER 3, 2023
COP host says abandoning fossil fuels will send us back to caves, Exxon flies in to boost CCS, NZ does a back flip on oil and gas exploration, and Forrest's green ammonia push blocked at the port. The post Fossil fuel giants play home ground advantage as climate COP despairs about 1.5°C C appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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This Week in Impact: Another petrostate COP.
Impact Alpha
OCTOBER 10, 2024
The post This Week in Impact: Another petrostate COP. Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: What’s at stake as climate negotiators prepare for. appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
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Bowen tips another $91m into industrial emissions abatement, but coal grant cops flack
Renew Economy
JULY 11, 2024
The post Bowen tips another $91m into industrial emissions abatement, but coal grant cops flack appeared first on RenewEconomy. An Australia-first demonstration of coal pollution abatement technology is one of the biggest winners of federal funding to help cut industrial emissions.
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13 big deals that made COP26 the ‘Business COP’
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 13, 2021
Amid a controversial climate summit, a baker's dozen of initiatives that will affect the private sector for years to come.
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“Tough cop on the beat,” or new plod enforcing old “broken laws”? Labor’s EPA gets a grilling
Renew Economy
MAY 28, 2024
The post “Tough cop on the beat,” or new plod enforcing old “broken laws”? Legislation to set up Australia’s first national environment protection agency promises strong new powers and penalties to protect the natural environment. Critics are not so sure.
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All over bar the shouting: Fossil fuels finally named and shamed by COP as climate culprit
Renew Economy
DECEMBER 13, 2023
Astonishingly, in the 30 year history of the UN COP climate negotiations, renewables have never gotten a mention. The post All over bar the shouting: Fossil fuels finally named and shamed by COP as climate culprit appeared first on RenewEconomy. Now they are acknowledged as central to the switch from fossil fuels.
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The business of COP is business
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
COP26 is showcasing private-sector solutions at a time when policymakers are at loggerheads.
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Success, or another COP Flop?
Energy Central
DECEMBER 13, 2023
Success, or another COP Flop? After a marathon overtime session, the United Nations Climate Change Conference - COP28 - concluded. It is being hailed as the “beginning of the end” of the fossil fuel era. Sadly, that is a delusional statement.
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Solar farm output cut by half as renewables cop brunt of grid congestion
Renew Economy
JANUARY 17, 2023
Some solar farms are losing half of their output due to grid congestion, as renewable cop the brunt of curtailment and markets fail to provide correct signals to storage. The post Solar farm output cut by half as renewables cop brunt of grid congestion appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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All eyes on Dubai as COP 28 begins with Stephan Nicoleau
Impact Alpha
DECEMBER 1, 2023
ImpactAlpha’s Amy Cortese speaks with Full Cycle’s Stephan Nicoleau at the start of COP 28 to hear what he’s expecting – and hoping. The post All eyes on Dubai as COP 28 begins with Stephan Nicoleau appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
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How COP fails — by proxy
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 20, 2021
As COP26 beckons, the United States is being held hostage. Is there hope?
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“The end of the fossil fuel era” may be in sight following COP pledge
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
The end of the fossil fuel era appeared to have come a significant step closer with the signing of a joint commitment to phase out coal on day four of the COP summit (4 November). A coal power station in Canock, Staffordshire (image credit: Catherine Poh Huay Tan , CC BY 2.0
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Not Quite a COP-Out in Dubai
BloombergNEF
DECEMBER 20, 2023
The post Not Quite a COP-Out in Dubai appeared first on BloombergNEF. Away from the wrangling in Dubai, some policymakers make some progress on implementing some of the programs needed to achieve the Paris goals.
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It's An Instagram COP - But I Am Finally OK With That
Energy Central
DECEMBER 13, 2023
I started going to COPs when they were numbered in single digits (e.g. In those early days, the COPs consisted solely of what the acronym stands for – Conference of the Parties, with “Parties” meaning Countries in UN parlance. COP1 vs this year’s COP28). negotiators as they worked with but.
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Did the Planet Gain From the Latest Annual COP Agreement?
Energy Central
DECEMBER 15, 2023
At this year’s COP, the 28th meeting of the world’s nations and parties interested in addressing climate change, the fossil fuel industry had a prominent seat at the table. Considering the final COP-issued statement, the fossil fuel industry, particularly oil and gas, saved itself for another.
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Cop summits ‘no longer fit for purpose’, say leading climate policy experts
The Guardian: Energy
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Future UN conferences should only be held in countries that show support for climate action, urge influential group Over 1,700 coal, oil and gas lobbyists granted access to Cop29, says report Future UN climate summits should be held only in countries that can show clear support for climate action and have stricter rules on fossil fuel lobbying, according (..)
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Liz Truss Book Calls for Climate Laws to be Abolished and Boasts of Effort to Cancel UK COP Summit
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 18, 2024
Truss writes that “we should cancel” the United Nations annual COP climate summit, and falsely claims that electric vehicles are worse for the environment than those powered by fossil fuels. “In Truss writes that “we should cancel the COP gravy train”. It features the same instincts of collectivism and authoritarianism.”
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Study: COP Troika on track to increase fossil fuel production by a third
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
Analysis from Oil Change International warns COP hosts UAE, Azerbaijan, and Brazil are all planning to expand fossil fuel production
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Climate, biodiversity and the ‘other COP’
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
What is the 1.5-degree degree equivalent for nature?
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“Read the text:” Bowen’s warning to fossil fuel industry as COP finally embraces transition
Renew Economy
DECEMBER 13, 2023
The post “Read the text:” Bowen’s warning to fossil fuel industry as COP finally embraces transition appeared first on RenewEconomy. Bowen says COP28 agreement is a "big deal", with a clear warning to fossil fuels that the world is committed to transition to clean energy. But will it be quick enough?
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Did the COPs rise to meet our oceans’ biggest challenge?
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 29, 2022
Beyond our beautiful coastal shores lies a deadly threat: ocean acidification.
A conversation starter: The role of smaller climate events beyond UN COP summits
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
With Climate Week NYC on the horizon, regional and city climate events are reclaiming some of the spotlight taken up by annual UN Climate Summits COPs, offering a chance to set the conversation and break new ground, writes AECOM's Robert Spencer
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Not in this Text; disappointment at Cop 27
Energy Central
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Sharma was the president of the Glasgow Cop in 2021, and he was clearly frustrated with the events of the last two weeks in Egypt. and especially the final text outcome adopted at the Cop 27 meeting.
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Australia praised for methane reductions, but should be prepared for uncomfortable COP
Renew Economy
NOVEMBER 6, 2022
The post Australia praised for methane reductions, but should be prepared for uncomfortable COP appeared first on RenewEconomy. Coal mines will help Australia meet a COP26 methane pledge but developing countries are gearing up to make loss and damage the cause de jour of COP27.
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ImpactAlpha Open: COP watch + blending finance for the Global Goals
Impact Alpha
DECEMBER 5, 2023
The post ImpactAlpha Open: COP watch + blending finance for the Global Goals appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Hi there, Agents of Impact! Welcome to the latest ImpactAlpha Open, our free weekly roundup of essential reads and exclusive opportunities across impact investing.
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COP 27 Dispatch: New thinking required for ecological transition in Global South
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
Should priority be given to financing local startups or is it more worthwhile to ensure the necessary solutions are quickly adapted for the rest of the world?
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World installs 2TW solar PV, must double momentum to meet COP targets
PV Tech
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
The Global Solar Council announced that it will launch the International Solar Finance Group at the COP29 conference in Baku, Azerbaijan
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Nature crisis and extinctions: Why Australia needs to stand up at the “Other COP”
Renew Economy
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
It needs to stand up and be counted at the Nature COP in Montreal. The post Nature crisis and extinctions: Why Australia needs to stand up at the “Other COP” appeared first on RenewEconomy. Australia continues to have one of the highest rates of species decline among OECD countries.
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