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.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This is the first COP where we are face-to-face with the reality of breaching the 1.5C It was also the first to be chaired by an oil and gas executive, putting a crude spotlight on the conflicting interests that have become entrenched in the COP process. And this year’s COP finally looked it in the eye. It’s not surprising.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

In its application, submitted in partnership with the Kenya Climate Change Working Group (KCCWG), WBA highlighted the importance of tackling short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs), in particular methane and black carbon, to achieve the Paris Agreement targets “to limit global warming to well below 2, preferably to 1.5°C,

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Oil and gas has dominated discussions at past COPs, which have focused on the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the energy and transport sectors to tackle dangerous levels of global warming. Big companies which have previously accessed COP in this way include JBS, which came in with the Brazilian delegation for COP27 in Egypt.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Meat emits around a third of global emissions of methane, and action to cut this greenhouse gas has been identified by the UN and world leaders as the quickest route to slowing global heating. Nature-based solutions” is one of the only phrases linked to agriculture to be mentioned in the COP cover text.

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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2021

The court documents allege that the company's claims in its 2020 annual report that natural gas is a "clean fuel" is misleading, given natural gas involves the release of "significant quantities of carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere".

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Business Green

JANUARY 16, 2023

COP28 Climate Summit President Sultan Ahmed al Jaber has called for a tripling of clean energy generation by 2030 and a doubling of low-carbon hydrogen capacity by 2030, as he used his first address since being appointed to lead this year's global climate talks to promise a "COP of action". target within reach. "We

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Meat and dairy firms in particular are coming under increasing scrutiny due to pollution from livestock, which emits around a third of the global output of methane, a short-lived greenhouse gas identified as the quickest route to slowing global heating. Pesticide company Syngenta’s Foundation came with Ukraine.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Progress did seem to be forthcoming on cutting methane emissions, with more than 100 countries (although not China) – committing to a 30% reduction by 2030 compared to the 2030 baseline. COP president Alok Sharma described it as “a fragile win”. What can be done with the captured CO2? degrees alive.

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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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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This Conference of Parties (COP) was highly anticipated as a critical inflection point where our economies and societies set forth on an ambitious and clearly defined path to decarbonize by 2050 and keep warming below 1.5 There are a variety of different sources of methane emissions and many solutions will be needed to curb those emissions.

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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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The Adnoc LNG field and a number of others in the UAE appear to be constantly emitting and burning polluting methane despite Adnoc’s 20-year-old policy to reduce the environmentally damaging practice to zero in on day to day operations. Flaring also allows the escape of some unburned methane gas, which is a powerful greenhouse gas.

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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”.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. Scientists say that unless swift action is taken, methane from agriculture alone will take us beyond a 1.5C

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

According to the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), carbon offset programs can be grouped into the following broad categories: Renewable energy, energy efficiency, methane abatement, reforestation and conservation, fuel switching, and community projects. Carbon offset program #3: Methane abatement.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

It is highly likely the row over phasing down or phasing out coal power will return in the coming years and the debate at future COPs will no doubt be extended to address oil and gas. If there's one theme that really comes out loud and clear from this COP, it is about money," said former Energy and Climate Change Secretary Amber Rudd.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JANUARY 12, 2022

Each year since 1995, with the exception of 2020, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ) has hosted a Conference of Parties (COP), where members of the UNFCCC negotiate issues relating to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other matters relating to climate change. UNFCCC began convening COPs in 1995.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

More specifically, the report urged philanthropists to help create a market for minimising upstream methane emissions; boost capacity for peatland protection and restoration projects; accelerate the shift to alternative and plant-based proteins; create a market and enabling environment for reducing methane emissions in agriculture; support the market (..)

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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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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. . Likewise, Planet is working on breakthrough efforts to independently measure climate emissions.

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The curbing of emissions to reduce the concentration of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane in the environment. Conference of the Parties (COP). COP is the decision-making body responsible for monitoring and reviewing implementation of the UNFCCC. The hope is that limiting global warming to 1. Anthropogenic.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2021

And all for a fuel that's hard to justify in a future low-carbon economy, requiring carbon capture technology (which has not yet been demonstrated at scale) and deeper emissions reductions elsewhere to compensate for methane leakage from fracking wells. On track to net zero.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Its priority areas include slashing methane emissions; ending deforestation; phasing out coal; electrifying road transport; decarbonising hard-to-abate industry; and improving energy efficiency. Altogether, that would make for a 40 per cent cut in overall methane emissions by 2030. pathway by 2030.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2021

It will be an extraordinary COP in extraordinary times," he will say. For example, Reuters reported yesterday that two dozen countries have now signed up to a US and EU-led effort to slash methane emissions 30 per cent by 2030. But collectively, we must pull together to make it work. Forging unity from the unfamiliar.

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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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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Both nations have agreed to take steps to reduce methane emissions, to make greater efforts to de-carbonize and to actively transition to clean energy. A similar amount of countries also committed to cutting 30% of methane emissions by the end of the decade. gap is closed”.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This is the first COP where participants found themselves face-to-face with the reality of breaching the 1.5 New federal methane regulations, investment tax credits and the emissions cap on the oil and gas industry are – setting aside the objections from certain premiers – the right moves.

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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

The UK remains COP President until next November, when it will hand the baton over to Egypt, which is set host the COP27 Summit at the Red Sea beach resort of Sharm-el Sheikh. Indeed, there is no shortage of world-changing points of action for Sharma's COP team to be getting on with over the coming months.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

A major theme of this COP — the international climate change conference — is the urgent need to transition from commitments to action. At the same time, the sector must reduce its own greenhouse gas emissions, particularly potent methane and nitrous oxide emissions.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

And the suggested text invites parties to "consider further actions to reduce by 2030 non-carbon dioxide greenhouse gas emissions, including methane". Including a specific mention of methane in the final agreement has been a leading demand of parties such as the UK and EU over the past week.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Like the World Cup that kicked off within hours of the gavel coming down in Sharm El Sheikh, COPs provide a regular temperature check for global geopolitics. Those frustrations were further amplified by the Egyptian Presidency's management of the talks, which saw the timetable slip badly, even by COP standards.

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Terra Infirma

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Added to this agreements on halting deforestation, cutting methane emissions and, partially successfully, phasing out coal, and I don’t think anybody could rightly call the conference itself a failure (although that won’t stop many doing so). The post Good COP, Bad COP? appeared first on Terra Infirma.

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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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