EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

I attended this COP, my first, to learn more about how businesses can accelerate the transition to net zero and to share the findings of a new report, published today, that is a step-by-step playbook for companies to use to turn net zero pledges into progress. Progress worth celebrating. A new roadmap for the “Decisive Decade”.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Levels of methane – another powerful greenhouse gas critical to reducing emissions – have soared since the start of the decade and are showing “no hint of decline”. After last year’s COP, meat industry bosses left the summit galvanised for what’s to come and vowed to “keep pushing”. In Jamaica Hurricane Beryl destroyed over $6.4

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Is the COP27 Summit that kicks off in Sharm El Sheikh this weekend the most important COP meeting yet, and therefore one of the most critical gatherings in the entire history of humanity? It is, by the admission of the Egyptian hosts, an "implementation COP". If COPs did not exist you would need to invent them.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Agriculture is the leading driver of the potent greenhouse gas methane, which is responsible for a third of human-caused warming to date. Nestlé has emissions three times the size of its home country Switzerland, for example, due to methane from its dairy supply chain. Another high profile, international initiative is slated for 2025.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

But recent investigations by DeSmog have exposed the industry’s promotion of “false solutions” (such as high-tech plans to lower the methane quotient of cow burps), which have been championed by the U.S.-led Most corporations and lobby groups that attend the COP climate summits have “observer” status.

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Planet’s monitoring tools provide a key, independent measure of forest change that supports this global climate-change program, and we’ll be convening many of the key actors at the COP. . If you’ll be in Glasgow, we’ll be hosting several events where you can meet these partners and learn more. The future of the planet can’t wait.

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Business Green

MAY 14, 2021

Alok Sharma intent on holding 'most inclusive COP ever' in Glasgow, but it is not UK's gift alone to make in-person event happen. This is what makes the next United Nations Climate Conference in Glasgow, COP 26, so critical. If we are serious about 1.5C, Glasgow must be the COP that consigns coal power to history," he said.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Climate-related events are accelerating and intensifying, alarming organizations such as the IPCC (The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) into calling ‘Code Red’ on the future prospects of life on this planet. A similar amount of countries also committed to cutting 30% of methane emissions by the end of the decade.

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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. Despite the Covid-19 crisis, we have accelerated action, the COP has responded to the IPCC's call to close the gap towards 1.5, Greenwashing is the new climate denial, and we have seen too much at play in this COP.

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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. Countries and companies have also kicked off pledges to triple investments in renewables and nuclear, drive down methane emissions, and commit loss and damage funds. A well-Time(d) profile on Sultan Al Jaber leading COP.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The findings further fuelled the cautiously optimistic mood that has built up during the first week of talks at COP26, which has seen a raft of new net zero pledges from emerging economies and a series of global deals to increase flows of climate finance, better protect forests, accelerate clean tech deployment, and curb methane emissions.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

During a packed event at Chatham House where he unveiled the UK Presidency's priorities for the year ahead, the Cabinet Minister said the collective spirit that helped to forge the Glasgow Climate Pact in November was now needed to ensure the climate promises made at the conference are honoured.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

This COP caused deep frustrations but it wasn't for nothing," she said. "It Writing on Twitter, Tan Copsey at consultancy Climate Nexus, said: "The fossil fuel lobby and friendly countries have made their presence felt at COP, but it's clear momentum is still only going in one direction - towards a clean energy economy.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2022

And it has pledged to align the renumeration of its executive directors with progress against climate commitments and incorporate methane into its greenhouse gas emissions accounting for the energy sector. aligned scenario". ShareAction senior research officer Lydia Marsden warned the plan included a "number of troubling loopholes".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

It was, as ever a highly eventful fortnight, characterised by shifting politics, surging levels of green investment, and escalating fears the climate impacts could be approaching catastrophic 'tipping points'. Once an idea enters the vernacular at COP Summits the chance of it being eventually adopted increases dramatically.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Eliot Whittington, director of the Corporate Leaders Groups, said: "As the range and violence of extreme weather events from around the world reminds us, climate change is a critical and growing business risk, and the IPCC's latest report gives the world the hard numbers showing the state and scale of that risk.

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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. In reality, the current pledges align more closely to 2.7 Bottom Line for Business.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The tech sector can help deliver on COP26 promises such as curbing methane, ending fossil fuel finance and reversing deforestation, explains techUK's Craig Mason. This is the first time that a COP agreement has been made on coal at this level. Global curbs to methane. Tech has two important roles in the wake of this agreement.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The official opening ceremony marked the formal handover of the COP Presidency from Chile to the UK and Italy, with Alok Sharma taking over the mantle of COP26 President from Chile's Carolina Schmidt, who acted as COP25 President in Madrid two years' ago.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 28, 2024

It also announced a $162m loan guarantee for LongPath Technologies to support methane emissions monitoring across oil and gas fields in major US basins, its first GHG-tracking loan. Delegates cross-pollinated conservation ideas at the biodiversity COP last week in Colombia.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Since the convention’s establishment, the countries involved meet annually during the Conference of the Parties (COP). COP is a supreme decision-making body that aims to promote the effective application of the convention. 30 years later came COP 26 (2021) – held in Glasgow. 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

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

While the total number has dropped compared to the record highs at COP28, the figures show that climate COPs continue to be a top priority for businesses working in agriculture, a sector that accounts for up to one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions. Brazil’s COP29 pavilion. Thai activist Permpibul was concerned by DeSmog’s findings. “By

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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. Methane milestone? We are very encouraged by Britain’s commitment to addressing the issue.”

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Other demands include cutting methane emissions by 30 per cent between 2020 and 2030, working to tackle other damaging pollutants, and taking more ambitious action to decarbonise transport such as aviation and shipping. 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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

From President Biden to methane pledges, BusinessGreen explores the biggest developments on the fifth full day of the pivotal climate talks in Sharm EL Sheikh. Biden's address also set out his administration's plans to crackdown on methane leaks in the US' fossil fuel industry.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Speaking at an event in Milan this month, Thunberg spoke for many when she alleged that COPs have delivered little more than a talking shop since the first Earth Summit in 1992. Will enough people turn up to say it's a legitimate COP? But for thousands of scientists and campaigners, these pledges are all too little, too late.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

  We’ll spare you the obligatory “ good COP, bad COP ” joke, but this week, we’ve got a deep dive into the UN’s biggest move at COP29 so far: the approval of Articles 6.2 This approach could set a precedent for bypassing negotiation processes in future COPs, adding uncertainty to the framework.

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