Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

After another full year of global warming events, from droughts to floods, the 196 countries represented in Sharm El-Sheikh failed to achieve even the basics: changing the Glasgow agreement to incorporate measures for combating climate change and reducing fossil fuel use.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The documents, which were produced by the industry-funded Global Meat Alliance (GMA), emphasise the meat lobby’s desire to promote “our scientific evidence” at the summit, which will run from November 30 through to December 12. Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

For the first time, it proposed encompassing all the gases that cause global warming in a single indicator. “It was the most controversial and heated debate in the workshop,” recalls Rijsberman, now director of the Global Green Growth Institute. James Hansen before the U.S. ” A year later came COP16 in Cancún.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

"I also want particularly to thank COP President Alok Sharma who has worked incredibly hard to bring countries together. But today's agreement is a big step forward and, critically, we have the first ever international agreement to phase down coal and a roadmap to limit global warming to 1.5 and coal is in the text.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Aramco has also become a sponsor of a growing number of sporting events in recent years, including the F1 , the women’s golf championship , the 2023 Cricket World Cup, the Indian Cricket Premier League, the International Cricket Council and the all-electric Formula E. billion worth of fossil fuels from Saudi Arabia.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The report confirms global temperatures are currently 1.1C A separate report from IPPC scientists last summer warned that global warming is on track to far exceed 2C this century, unless rapid and deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions occur in the coming decades. If global warming transiently exceeds 1.5C

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Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Companies signed up to the Textiles 2030 campaign have endorsed a goal to slash the UK textiles industry's carbon emissions by 2050 in the next 10 years, in line with limiting global warming by 1.5C. In the run up to COP 26, environmental sustainability is rightly at the forefront of industry minds.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The UK organizers of the COP26 climate conference very publicly declined to offer international oil companies any slots in the conference or any formal role in the event, and oil companies without credible climate programs were also barred from sponsoring events at the high-stakes international talks currently underway.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

global warming pathway are to be kept alive. In snap analysis published yesterday, the IEA said it had calculated the impacts of the net zero pledges and emissions targets announced in recent days, and concluded that if national climate pledges are delivered as promised, the planet could potentially limit warming to 1.8C

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

If designed well and properly adhered to, global treaties have a lot going for them. COP talks each year are often fraught and progress remains far too slow, as today's IPCC report on escalating climate impacts will testify. The Paris Agreement on climate change, signed into life in 2015, may not be perfect.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

But it depends on solutions moving exponentially faster than impacts, and getting on track to halving global emissions by 2030. This summer, we have already seen the extreme weather events caused by a heating world. It is clear that keeping global warming to 1.5°C COP26 will be the moment of truth.". No one is safe.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 19, 2023

This story was originally published by The Energy Mix Weekender , and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate crisis. National Centers for Environmental Prediction reported an average global temperature of 17.01°C, On Monday, July 3, the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 9, 2023

“I just don’t see most countries, and certainly not the vulnerable countries, being willing to support the COP president on this because it is a direct threat to their survival,” Figueres said. The world looks set to surpass the key 1.5C

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Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2022

Management consulting giant has been appointed as the latest major partner for the global climate event due to be hosted in Sharm-el-Sheikh this autumn. COP27 is another critical moment to mobilise public and private actors in the urgent pursuit to limit global warming.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

The communiqué arrived yesterday as fresh research from scientists warned that four G20 countries - China, Russia, Brazil and Australia - all currently have climate policies in place in line with a catastrophic 5C of global warming, underscoring some of the deep divisions that will need overcoming to secure a positive outcome at COP26.

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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. Instead of slowing down the decarbonisation of the global economy, now is the time to accelerate the energy transition to a renewable energy future.".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The failure of richer nations to meet their collective climate finance target - which looks likely to be missed once again in 2021 - not only leaves poorer nations more vulnerable to the worsening impacts of global warming, but risks "poisoning" other key issues up for negotiation at COP26 in November, the ODI warned.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The first full negotiating texts are still not expected until later this evening, or potentially even tomorrow, according to Egypt's COP Presidency. But we are hoping that everyone will rise to the occasion by the end of COP, and realise that while the national interest is very important, something greater than that is at stake.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

"Australian businesses know that good action on climate change is good for jobs and good for our economy, and I want to join the global effort," Albanese told the BBC shortly after Prime Minister Scott Morrison formally conceded defeat on Saturday.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

That report concluded that we have already reached average global warming of 1.1 I thank all the CEOs and business owners, from the FTSE 100 to the SMEs, whose firms came forward with commitments, as well as our COP partners, some of whom are here with us today. Yet every country at COP has agreed to phase-down coal power.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

"Ecological overspending costs are becoming increasingly evident: deforestation, soil erosion, biodiversity loss, and the build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere leading to climate change and more frequent extreme weather events," says Mathis Wackernagel, co-inventor of Ecological Footprint and founder of Global Footprint Network.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It was the first time the majority of nations formally recognized the need to control greenhouse gas emissions , which cause global warming that drives climate change. That agreement set the goal of limiting global warming to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 F), and preferably to 1.5 staff and other experts.

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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. degrees Celsius, not enough to avoid the worst impacts of global warming.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

warming trajectory. Scientists have made clear that global emissions cuts of 45 per cent by 2030 are needed to stand a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C, yet UN analysis suggests that present national commitments would see emissions rise by 16 per cent by the end of the decade, compared to 2010.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Business and Energy Secretary and COP26 President Alok Sharma said: "Tackling climate change is the one of the most urgent shared endeavours of our lifetimes, demanding bold action from every nation to prevent catastrophic global warming. It's time for real climate action.".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2021

We either choose to achieve rapid and large-scale reductions of emissions to keep the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C, or we accept that humanity faces a bleak future on this planet.". We need to leave Glasgow with a balanced package of decisions that reflects the positions of all countries.". "We

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Although this level was not defined by the convention, the aim was to allow ecosystems and society to adapt naturally to climate change, which means slowing global warming down. Since the convention’s establishment, the countries involved meet annually during the Conference of the Parties (COP). C) within reach.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 27, 2023

There were major geopolitical events, but they didn’t impact the energy markets the way they did a year ago. I am always skeptical of these conferences, but the two-week UN climate summit is a big event, especially in the context of the hottest year in recorded history. This marked a significant win for developing nations.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 8, 2024

Meanwhile, 14 anti-net zero MPs were re-elected, including Labour MP Graham Stringer , who is on the board of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate denial group, and Lee Anderson , who defected from the Tories to Reform UK earlier this year.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

EU Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra explained in late April that the five oil executives were invited to COP28 on the basis of their participation in EU events during the summit. These summits now often involve hundreds of side events hosted by individual states and pressure groups.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

It certainly began inauspiciously, with recordings released early in the event catching one of the organisers canvassing potential investors in natural gas , of which the country has enormous reserves. Simply collecting and recycling these organic wastes would deliver half of the global methane pledge, to which the UK has also committed.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The government earlier this week announced the sponsors of the UK COP29 pavilion, which will host a number of events featuring politicians, climate experts, and businesses. The sponsors of the UK pavilion are called its “official COP29 partners”, allowing these corporations to host events featuring their spokespeople.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

all of that, you know, COP is very important, it is very important to the government.". The prime minister is WRONG not to go to COP," she wrote on Twitter. Global warming is the biggest crisis facing our planet.". Clearly he wants to concentrate on the financial statement and that's what he's doing," he said.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

US re-joins High Ambition Coalition, as snap analysis suggests commitments made in Glasgow could bring global warming trajectories down below 2C for the first time. warming pathway. Nick Mabey, co-founder and CEO of climate think tank E3G, said the HAC grouping "makes the political weather at COP".

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Oil and gas giants are paying tens of thousands of dollars in order to sponsor events at this year’s flagship climate talks in Baku, Azerbaijan. In exchange, the fossil fuel giant will receive access to an events room, office space, branding both online and in written materials, and “facilitated access to onsite media”.

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2021

As if pressure on the UK to help steer the world towards more ambitious climate commitments this year wasn't already high enough, the government now looks increasingly isolated in its determination to hold COP26 - that most crucial of events on the climate calendar - in Glasgow as planned later this year. The Paris Rulebook.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow next month is likely to fall short of putting the world on track to avert dangerous levels of global warming, but diplomats and analysts are cautiously optimistic it could deliver several breakthroughs and broadly deliver on the UK hosts' stated goal of 'keeping 1.5C No chance to keep 1.5C

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