GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Big polluters and a surge of nationalism scuttled any meaning results from two intense weeks of U.N. climate negotiations.

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Pollution COP Climate change Politics 274

Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Lights on EDF's Christmas tree will change colour depending on the levels of air pollution in the city. EDF Energy erected a Christmas tree on one of Glasgow's main shopping streets this week that will change colour according to the pollution levels in the city.

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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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COP Fossil fuels Agriculture Pollution 145

The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 4, 2023

UAE-hosted summit admitted at least 2,456 people affiliated with oil and gas industries, analysis finds See all our Cop 28 coverage At least 2,456 fossil fuel lobbyists have been granted access to the Cop28 climate negotiations, according to an analysis.

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Fossil fuels COP Pollution Energy 145

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Against this backdrop, and on the eve of the UN Biodiversity COP, I’m pleased that our proposal for a major update to the GRI Biodiversity Topic Standard is available for public comment.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2023

” In early December governments from around the world were assembling for COP 15 to agree on how to halt and reverse nature loss. hectares of hard surfaces (such as roads, paths, roofs) from the drainage network flowing into the River Wandle which is helping to reduce surface water flooding and reduce pollution. What is it?

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Business Energy Monitoring Biodiversity Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 246

Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

COP talks each year are often fraught and progress remains far too slow, as today's IPCC report on escalating climate impacts will testify. As close observers of global climate diplomacy have long argued, if the COP process and the Paris Agreement did not exist you would have to invent them. The US left the treaty altogether briefly.

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Plastics Pollution Waste Waste 83

Energy Central

DECEMBER 8, 2023

We’re half way through the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP-28) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), and so it’s a convenient time to assess developments.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The decision has outraged residents who’ve lived with the pollution tied to Coterra Energy’s previous fracking activity and endured over a decade in which they’ve lacked access to clean water for their homes. in 2021 — to household water pollution, banning the company from drilling new natural gas wells in the area entirely.

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Pollution Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 91

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In recent years, the biggest agricultural polluters and food corporations have embraced this term, which refers to a wide range of farming techniques that improve the environment. All these methods work to improve the soil, reduce air and water pollution, cut emissions, and boost biodiversity.

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Agriculture Methane Carbon-neutral COP 145

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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COP Methane Carbon Politics 52

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

One of the most obvious things to do in a crisis is to stop making it worse – stop financially supporting those activities that are highly damaging to the ocean – overfishing, pollution, extraction and dumping. The paper is being published on the eve of Ocean Day at COP on 4 November.

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Climate change Carbon-negative Biodiversity Carbon 264

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. Not the private interests of the biggest polluters on the planet.”

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Agriculture COP Methane Climate change 138

GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2019

And despite impressive improvements in the efficiency of new aircraft and the progress in certifying new types of renewable jet fuels (five thus far), the aviation sector burns 10 billion more gallons of polluting conventional jet fuel per year than it did a decade ago.

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Carbon Soil Aviation Climate change 186

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The ire of environmentalists seemed to be directed more at the developed countries, and Friends of the Earth’s Sara Shaw said the agreement left them “free to keep polluting” in addition to “giving the green light for massive land grabs for offsets in developing countries”. COP president Alok Sharma described it as “a fragile win”.

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COP Fossil fuels Carbon Climate change 130

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The 30×30 target is a leading international commitment that the UK spear-headed at COP-15.

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Government Politics Biodiversity Policy 231

Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

“First study of its kind” to track how plastic bottle pollution moves through the open ocean. Scientific monitoring devices were launched into the ocean on 8 June, World Ocean Day, in a bid to increase understanding about how plastic pollution behaves in the ocean.

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Plastics Pollution Health COP 147

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2024

As a result, the plans of companies analysed in the study fall short of tying the firms to transformative action, with the report’s co-authors concluding the firm’s plans lack “the ambition necessary to significantly reduce pollution, environmental degradation, emissions or even increase soil carbon sequestration”.

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Agriculture Soil Pollution Methane 138

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

We need to kick big polluters out.”. Many climate groups believe such practices will provide an excuse for big companies to continue polluting. More than 450 organizations have already supported a campaign to Kick Big Polluters Out of COP27. body representing indigenous peoples. climate talks,” Sabido said. “We Social license.

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Fossil fuels Plastics COP Pollution 98

EDF + Business

OCTOBER 3, 2023

High profile international commitments like the Global Methane Pledge and the Global Methane Hub have raised the profile of methane as a powerful climate pollutant among policymakers and investors.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Campaigners said the news demonstrated a “classic case of the revolving door” between “big polluters” and governments. Polluter’ Panels. Scott Tully from the campaign group Glasgow Calls Out Polluters called the news of WBCSD’s delegation “100% wrong”.

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2021

Increasing scientific evidence demonstrates climate change and nature loss are impacting the world and human health in many ways through rising temperatures, including air pollution, water scarcity and plastic pollution. We hope that you'll join us. Sarah McDonald is vice president of sustainability at GSK Consumer Healthcare.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Climate negotiations at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, better known as COP, are over for another year. This was the second key issue that COP tried to grapple with and, unfortunately, failed to make any headway on. What can we take away from its 27th iteration? warming limit set by the Paris Agreement.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2023

The presence of people with ties to the fossil fuel industry and other big polluters at the annual UN climate negotiations is nothing new. More than 600 fossil fuel lobbyists attended last year’s climate talks, COP27, in Egypt, a more than 25 percent increase over COP 26.

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Fossil fuels COP Climate change Government 98

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

This list includes some of the world’s most destructive companies, and they should only be included at COP with extreme caution,” she told DeSmog. Growing Pressure from Polluters. Dubbed “Africa’s COP”, this year’s conference has put farming in the spotlight and its dedicated ‘adaptation and agriculture’ day was a historic first.

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COP Agriculture Fossil fuels Climate change 98

GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

The Global Plastic Action Partnership (GPAP) gets leading consumer goods companies, waste specialists and banks to work with governments to create investment-grade plans for tackling plastic waste pollution, and then trigger the finance and projects to make it happen. Pull Quote.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The presence of hundreds of oil and gas lobbyists at the COP27 Climate Summit last month had many observers worried about how polluting business interests were lobbying to weaken the eventual agreement. As a former oil and gas executive, Croucher understands the motivations of companies who attend COPs for defensive reasons. "I

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LA CleanTech Incubator

JUNE 5, 2020

times more hazardous pollution than white people — regardless of income. Breathe 56 percent more pollution than they create. Are exposed to 50 percent higher rates of particulate pollution than the general population. Are more likely to live near highways, airports, refineries and other sources of hazardous air pollutants.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In fact, there are more representatives of the polluting interests of oil and gas at COP27 than every single national delegation bar the United Arab Emirates — including all countries on the African continent. So much for the “African COP.” It’s yet again a festival of polluters. The reality is they are anything but. He’s right.

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Fossil fuels COP Pollution Europe 93

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

This claim comes as evidence mounts that major agribusiness polluters are using their sizeable economic and political clout to block environmental legislation worldwide – and as the emissions footprints of the largest meat and dairy firms’ continue to grow.

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Agriculture COP Biodiversity Climate change 128

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

There is no legitimacy in a COP president promoting gas and oil alongside false solutions like CCS”, said David Tong, global industry campaign manager at Oil Change International (OCI), who is attending COP27. Newly elected Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has called for the 2024 COP to be held in the Amazon.

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Fossil fuels COP Carbon Climate change 96

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Scott Tully of campaign group Glasgow Calls Out Polluters said: “The UK government, during our interactions, have been unwilling and afraid to confront the power of big polluters at the heart of the climate crisis. The energy company’s Peterhead gas power plant was the biggest polluter in Scotland as of 2019, emitting 1.6

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Fossil fuels Climate change Pollution Politics 96

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Loss and damage”, the question of how the most polluting countries can help developing countries respond to a climate breakdown they did not cause, is now a central plank of annual COP negotiations. It is far from a perfect system – there is barely any social safety net for these farmers if crops fail – but it is a start.

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Energy Monitor Climate change COP Agriculture 114

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Nevertheless, the proximity of employees from so many fossil-friendly PR firms to the climate negotiations underscores wider concerns about the communications industry’s role in helping to defend the business models of major polluters. Department of Justice under rules requiring American companies to report work for foreign governments.

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Fossil fuels COP Government Pollution 129

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. For context, it has taken the world more than a century to warm a little more than 1 degree C, according to NASA.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

However, Glasgow remains home to major polluting companies, and historically played a significant role in triggering both industrialism and colonial expansion — with profound effects for people and the environment.

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Fossil fuels COP Pollution North America 87

Smart Energy International

JANUARY 18, 2024

Europe’s DSO labour and skills shortages identified Emma Pinchbeck: ‘We need an energy workforce that looks like the population we serve’ “As the world emerges from COP with a clear focus on phasing out fossil fuels, as well as tripling renewables in six years, every company in every sector is fully aware that change is coming fast.”

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