DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Agriculture used to play second fiddle to energy when it came to global warming, considered as a nice-to-have. After last year’s COP, meat industry bosses left the summit galvanised for what’s to come and vowed to “keep pushing”. But as global heating continues apace, emissions associated with food are rising fast.

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Energy Innovation

APRIL 1, 2021

Energy Innovation is extremely pleased to announce Mary Anne Hitt and Rekha Rao will join the firm’s Climate Imperative project, which aims to avoid the worst impacts of climate change through focused, effective policy design. plays a leadership role tackling the climate crisis at home. Rekha brings deep knowledge of the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

DeSmog’s analysis shows that business attendees at this year’s biodiversity COP reached record levels, more than doubling compared to the previous summit two years ago, to reach a total of 1,261 delegates. What you see here are two COPs,” he said. The UN said it was important to bring private interests to the negotiating table.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

It is time for leaders to move on from tired climate adages and press ahead with actions that can deliver a safer world for all, writes explorer and clean energy pioneer Bertrand Piccard at Sharm el Sheikh. This year is no different from past COP climate summits. What do we need for a successful COP?

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

It would be easy at this point to simply list the litany of policy failures and the paucity of political leadership documented by the CCC's almost satirically titled progress report. The lack of action on domestic energy efficiency that has now been evident for so long it has become a point of cliché for campaigners to point it out.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2020

Investment in energy efficiency offers a triple whammy. By reducing energy bills is allows more of that income to flow back into the economy as increased purchasing power. By reducing energy bills for business it increases economic productivity. The government is already committed to these goals. Tom Burke is chairman of E3G.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Former Energy Minister and COP26 President says progress has been made in recent months, but warns Ministers continue to underestimate need for intense focus on climate efforts in the lead up to crucial Glasgow Summit. Because it's not about the COP, it's about 'can you see the CO2 emissions curve start to inflect and go down?'".

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

In May, Azerbaijan signed a $5 million contract with the New York-based public relations company Teneo , instructing it to craft a media narrative reflecting the country’s “role in the energy transition and climate action,” according to filings with the U.S. Soltanov is also Azerbaijan’s deputy energy minister, and serves on SOCAR’s board.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

The world’s political elite will fly in and out of Glasgow later in the year but the city’s many challenges will remain the day after the circus leaves town,” he said at the time. The best thing government could do for Glasgow is to ditch hosting the COP and instead invest the money in dealing with the state of the city.”.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The goings-on behind the scenes of COP 26, or kack thereof, have been well documented over the past few weeks. But despite the worrying progress of COP planning, all is far from being lost. With the new President in place COP will hopefully be back on track, allowing everyone to continue speculating what the conference will look like.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 13, 2019

’s general election, achieving a huge majority and breaking the country's political deadlock. So what can we expect from his emboldened government on an energy front, and what challenges will the renewables sector have to navigate? hosts the UN’s COP 26 climate negotiations in Glasgow at the end of 2020.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Former Environment Minister Rebecca Pow returned to Defra as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, after stepping down amidst the summer's political chaos, while Lord Benyon was promoted to Minister of State at the department.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The former Energy and Climate Change Minister had been slated to serve as COP26 President after playing a critical role in securing hosting duties for the UK. Politics is politics - and you end up with all these weird things, like the Prime Minister's decision to have a minister on it," she says. But I'm just really pleased.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Like a chicken and egg dilemma, who came up with these goals first, politics or science? Political Origins of 2°C. The next key moment in the 2°C story is no longer scientific, but political. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. And we reached the political tipping point around the two-degree mark.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The emissions gap report is an annual assessment conducted by the United Nations Environment Programme and published in the lead-up to the United Nations climate conference, or COP, which is scheduled to begin at the end of this month in Dubai. The question is, politically, what do countries do about this at COP28?”

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 9, 2023

These seven states are all classed as authoritarian by the Economist Intelligence Unit’s 2022 Democracy Index , which is judged according to five measures: electoral process and pluralism, civil liberties, the functioning of government, political participation, and political culture. The fossil fuel era is over.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Dramatically reducing our use of oil and gas is of primary importance, yet the dogged persistence of hydrocarbons in the global energy mix necessitates a laser focus on reducing operational emissions now. International Energy Agency analysis consistently shows it’s also the simplest and most cost effective.

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2020

Dave Pearson, director of Star Renewable Energy, blasted the policy as a "clear error of judgement" that would be a "major national embarrassment in the run up to COP 26", referring to the UN climate conference set to be hosted by the UK in November 2021.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

It's not necessarily that the game of musical chairs has intensified in the C-suite, but you'll note major executive moves at big apparel, food, energy, finance and technology corporations, some of which have enlisted a chief sustainability officer (CSO) or equivalent for the first time. Who's news. The former U.K.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 19, 2023

Russia’s war in Ukraine and its impact on energy supply chains have renewed anti-climate attacks globally, as vested interests falsely attribute blame for these events to the “cult of Net Zero,” King explained. Adverts promoted fossil fuels as affordable and reliable, and justified their ongoing use with arguments around energy independence.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Without these cheap energy resources capitalism would not have been able to inaugurate the industrial revolution and its subsequent wonders of specialization, automation, and labor productivity. There is indeed a strong correlation between energy use and economic growth.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

degrees C target was initially established as a target in Paris in 2015 after a push by developing nations at a previous COP, to bring attention to the fact that global warming does not impact all nations equally. The earth is now absorbing more energy from the sun which, they claim, is increasing the rate that the planet warms up.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

They reflect the interests, the conditions, the contradictions and the state of political will in the world today. They take important steps, but unfortunately the collective political will was not enough to overcome some deep contradictions. Greenwashing is the new climate denial, and we have seen too much at play in this COP.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

“The role of the fossil fuel industry in driving climate change, and distorting politics in their favour, deserves rigorous and sustained scrutiny from the public and governments alike,” Sam Chetan Welsh, political campaigner for Greenpeace UK, said. million tons of carbon dioxide during the year.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

For the energy which will become available once we stop rather desperately staving off grief, depression, despair at the state of our world and the extent of our common failure, …the energy that then becomes available to us is incalculably huge. The media and political leaders unable to hold back the tide.

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Gasoline prices are on the way down, and I am seeing a lot of chatter from people who are convinced this is political. As someone whose job it once was to blend gasoline for ConocoPhillips COP , allow me to explain the reasons. But that’s not why prices are falling. Right now, oil prices are falling, and that certainly helps.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

billion investment in clean energy projects for the Middle East, and $187 billion domestically, is dwarfed by the annual income of Aramco from oil extraction. What’s more, carbon capture investments displace money and attention that could otherwise be devoted to developing proven renewable energy sources.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The government could yet relocate the COP26 Climate Summit to London, according to reports this morning, amid claims of spiralling costs and political rows over the current Glasgow venue. It's vital that COP is a success. It's a massive opportunity. We have a duty to do everything we can to make it a success.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2021

The UK will commit at least £3bn to climate change solutions that protect and restore nature over the next five years and launch a new push to support green energy projects in developing countries, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to announce later today.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2020

Claire O'Neill has been ditched as President of COP26, in a shock move by Downing Street that will reportedly see all preparations for co-hosting the crucial UN climate summit in Glasgow later this year folded into the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). — COP26President (@Cop26President) January 31, 2020.

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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.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

If there is a Brexit dividend, it is certainly not political stability. Too much politics meant too little action on climate and nature. The climate and nature COPs were underpowered. Of course, it is understandable that the environment has dropped down the political agenda since COP26. This has political consequences.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Now almost a year on, it is just 23 days to COP27, the end of the UK's COP Presidency, and the end of my time as COP President. Vladimir Putin's brutal and illegal war in Ukraine has precipitated multiple global crises: from energy and food insecurity, to inflationary and debt pressures around the world.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2022

The world cannot lose sight of the urgent need to tackle the climate crisis amid soaring energy costs and Russia's brutal war in Ukraine, COP26 President Alok Sharma has warned this morning, arguing that a failure to honour the commitments made at last year's Glasgow Summit would be "an act of monstrous self-harm". Energy prices are rising.

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The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The Guardian’s John Harris is joined by Green MP Caroline Lucas and former Conservative energy minister Chris Skidmore Continue reading. So what can leaders agree that will make a change to the planet? And in the UK how far away are we from a greener economy?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Don't listen to the fossil fuel enthusiasts pushing fracking as a solution for the UK's currently volatile energy market, argues ECIU's Dr Simon Cran-McGreehin. The gas crunch gripping Europe is directly caused by volatile international gas markets that expose the UK to demand surges in Asia and political manipulation by Putin.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

I was speaking recently with leading energy analyst Michael Liebreich and he argued that the government should name a handful of net zero towns and cities - communities from different parts of the country, with different geographies and socio-economic circumstances - and seek to show how net zero emissions can be delivered at the system level.

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