Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

The last part of the puzzle is heat, which presents one of the most significant challenges in the road to net zero. With the world watching ahead of COP we cannot afford a COP-out on low carbon. Our aim should be to develop a blue print to show other countries that a pathway to net zero is possible.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

Offsetting is a cop-out,” said Thomas Ingenlath, Polestar CEO. “By In 2030 we want to present a car that does not.” Questions around the long-term carbon-storage capacity of forests and soils remain, as a forest might be logged, devastated by fire or altered by climate change. This makes things very clear.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Thus far we have not really laid the groundwork for the difficult balancing acts that will go into the diplomacy of the COP. What we will be bringing to the COP table as our ambition will be critically dissected by all these cats whilst they are being herded. warming.

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Terra Infirma

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

There are other proven techniques such as volunteering people for, say, a sustainability presentation or getting them to experience the reality of climate change (more difficult), but the essential element is they have to sell Sustainability to themselves. The post Who’s to blame for the climate COP out in Glasgow?

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Grist

JUNE 27, 2024

It scores a “coefficient of performance,” or COP, of 6, meaning for every one unit of energy going in, you get six units of heat out. By contrast, gas furnaces have a COP of less than 1. Accordingly, its COP of 2 or 3 would still far outpace a gas furnace, but not approach geothermal’s COP of 6.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Angela Francis, WWF's chief advisor on economics and economic development, said the final text of the FTA represented "an unwelcome Christmas present for farmers, food businesses and consumers who have been asking the UK government to ensure that trade deals don't undermine the UK's environmental and animal welfare standards".

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The ninth show floor theatre is the Research and Innovation (R&I) Hub organised by ETP which brings academic and industrial collaborative projects together by means of exhibits within pods and presentations in the R&I Hub theatre. conference24 ).

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The main obstacle presently is cost, at around $100-$800 per metric ton of CO2 abated, while afforestation and reforestation can be as low as $5-50/tCO2. One of the high-profile award ceremonies at COP, for start-up success stories, went to a company with a technology to convert industrial CO2 emissions into building materials.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

The coalition, launched by Danone at last year's UN COP climate conference, counts consumer goods heavyweights L'Oréal, Google, McCain, Walmart, Kellogg, Nestlé and Unilever.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Presenting this climate conference as a major achievement - in contradiction to all appearances - simply sets mediocrity as the bar. This promise of financial support, amounting to $100bn per year, has been floated every year at recent COP conferences without that target ever having been reached.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Because it's not about the COP, it's about 'can you see the CO2 emissions curve start to inflect and go down?'". With industrialised economies' commitment to helping emerging economies achieve a net zero transition central to the success of the COP, the government's decision to axe the 0.7 per cent aid budget to 0.5

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Nitrous oxide is another potent greenhouse gas presenting opportunities for impact for the food & agriculture sector.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Attendees are present from some of the world’s largest agribusiness firms – such as meatpacker JBS , fertiliser giant Nutrien, food giant Nestlé and pesticide firm Bayer – and powerful industry trade groups. Privileged Access to Negotiations Most corporations, lobby groups, and NGOs that attend the COP climate summits have “observer” status.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The extractive sector will present an opportunity for solar in the 2020s. Lastly, off-grid solar presents a major opportunity. Finally, economy-wide net zero emissions targets will be on the agenda at the UNFCCC’s 26th Conference of Parties (COP) held in the UK later this year. New applications for a new decade.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Croucher, who has attended biodiversity COPs since the 2000s, said the Montreal meeting set a new precedent for business presence, involvement, and interest. As a former oil and gas executive, Croucher understands the motivations of companies who attend COPs for defensive reasons. "I There's been a complete shift," he said.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

With the conclusion of the first part of COP-15 we have taken a critical step towards writing a new chapter for our planet and for our societies," she said. At present, the rate of global species extinction is accelerating," he said.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The Bavarian geothermal systems achieved COP values ??of The award was presented in absentia, as no one from the team was available. Almost all systems achieved very high annual availability, which shows the reliability of the technology. In terms of efficiency, no other heat generation can keep up with geothermal energy.

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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. 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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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2020

Following a tumultuous start to the year for the planning of the COP26 Summit in Glasgow, the inquiry will also focus on the event's preparations and speak to other recent COP host countries in order to attempt "to learn from their experiences", the Committee said.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As COP28 nears its end, green business leaders reflect on the opportunities that climate summits past, present, and future can offer the emerging net zero economy

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Defend Our Future

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

For many years, young people were left out of formal negotiations and workshops at COP, but that changed with the creation of the Conference of Youth (COY) in 2005 and YOUNGO, the official children and youth constituency of UNFCCC in 2009. This statement is both functional and symbolic. Hear directly from the speakers on our Instagram!

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

But the company is still taking money from oil and gas companies to place adverts in search results that present their industry as environmentally friendly, a report found. They shouldn’t be allowed to greenwash their image through their presence at COPs.”.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

At an event on Wednesday launching the group’s “Business Manifesto for Climate Recovery”, Giulia Cherchia, executive vice president for strategy and sustainability at UK oil company BP and a member of WBCSD delegation, called for more “inclusiveness” for business at future COPs.

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Business Green

JANUARY 12, 2023

Al Jaber has served as the UAE's Special Envoy for Climate Change since 2010, and has participated at 10 previous UN COP Summits. Rachel Kyte, Dean at Tufts University, Fletcher School and a former advisor to the World Bank, said the UAE's position as one of the world's leading petrostates meant the "incoming COP president has a dilemma".

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The city and its leaders have been eager to present a green image of Glasgow over COP26, with advertisements and billboards across town promoting its climate-friendly projects and initiatives. GLASGOW, SCOTLAND — Scotland’s second city has rolled out the green carpet to world leaders and thousands of delegates arriving for climate talks.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Yet 636 lobbyists for the fossil fuel industry are conspicuously present at this year’s crucial COP27 climate talks, according to an analysis of the delegates to COP27, compiled jointly by the NGOs Global Witness, Corporate Accountability, and Corporate Europe Observatory. So much for the “African COP.”

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 11, 2021

The Construction and Operations Plan (COP) was reviewed by more than two dozen federal, state, and local agencies over the course of more than three and a half years. The project design includes the GE Haliade-X, with a capacity of 13 megawatts (MW).

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

By September this year, Guterres said all businesses, cities, regions, and financial institutions that have pledged to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 should present their transition plans "with credible and ambitious targets for 2025 and 2030", as recommended by the UN net zero expert group appointed by the secretary-general last year.

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Business Green

JUNE 19, 2022

During his visit, Sharma is also set to meet with coal mining communities to hear about their perceptions of a just energy transition and emphasise the opportunities that green growth presents for job creation. "A

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Even so, it was a major breakthrough as the first COP to mention the temperature goals we are all familiar with today. It ended without much of a story, with the parties being called to the COP the following year. For the first time at a COP , a target of 1.5 ” A year later came COP16 in Cancún. However, the exact 1.5°C

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2021

"There is logic to setting a target and then building a plan and reporting mechanisms to meet that, but companies and countries alike will need to make progress on this in the run-up to COP. Countries such as Japan and the US will need to back their net zero ambitions with nearer-term 2030 emissions targets.".

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2021

With climate change and public health challenges inextricably linked, this presents one of the most significant public health challenges we face. We are using COP 26, and events that lead-up to the Glasgow Summit, to support a call to action for business to respond to the climate and public health crisis in ways that drive systemic change.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

Stefan Finkbeiner, CEO Bosch Sensortec, commented: “According to the Bosch guiding principle “Invented for life,” we want to improve people’s quality of life and safeguard the livelihoods of present and future generations. Sustainability, climate and nature protection play a central role in this.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

And today the Friends of COP group of leading academics, scientists, and campaigners wrote to Sunak to urge him to make the trip to Egypt. The most important function of the COP Presidency is to build trust and collective will amongst nations," the letter stated.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The UK’s official COP26 website says the events by civil society, business and academia will present attendees with “amazing opportunities to listen, learn and celebrate climate action” throughout the November conference in Glasgow.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 13, 2021

Some of the XLE’s biggest holdings are ExxonMobil XOM , Chevron CVX , ConocoPhillips COP , EOG Resources EOG , and Schlumberger SLB. In second place was Antero Midstream, which had a total return of 27.6% (and a present yield of 16.0%). The XLE represents the stocks of large energy companies from different sub-sectors (e.g.,

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The revelations come as world leaders prepare to head to Dubai for the UN’s annual climate summit, known as COP, to agree on ways to cut further catastrophic temperature rise. Adnoc did not respond to a request for data on the company’s use of pilot flames.

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