Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The recently-passed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is such a game-changer for domestic climate action that experts at ClimateWeek often referred to it, reflexively, as the Emissions Reduction Act. Finally, there was a lot of discussion at ClimateWeek and UNGA about the “other” COP – COP15, which is convening in December in Montreal.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

This is hardly the COP figure the Prime Minister wants to read.”. Ramboll’s Guy Milligan felt there was confusion even in the name of the scheme, which should refer to boiler “replacement” rather than “upgrade”. Technology menu. The plan also mentions a 2028 minimum target of installing 600,000 heat pumps per year. side panel ].

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LA CleanTech Incubator

JUNE 5, 2020

I can’t breathe" refers to more than police violence. A cop put his knee in the back of his neck and choked him to death, amid his cries for help. But here’s the thing: Clean energy technologies exist to reverse this problem. Manifestation 1: 'I can’t breathe'. "I Black communities have been struggling to breathe for decades. .

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Dubbed the Glasgow Climate Pact, the agreement crucially puts pressure on countries to come foward next year with updated climate plans, promises more funding for climate adaptation, and for the first time ever includes explicit references to the need to drive down coal and phase out fossil fuel subsidies. degrees. "I

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

This so-called ‘Glasgow declaration on sustainable bioenergy’ is not an official COP document,” Sally Clark, from biomass campaign group Biofuelwatch, told DeSmog. “It However, campaigners and experts say the document , which cites the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Net Zero Emissions scenario , is fundamentally misleading.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

But climate disinformation “refers to content that has been deliberately created to deceive people or give them an inaccurate understanding of an issue.” “What that means is that there’s no intention to harm but the negative consequences can be just as powerful.” Public inputs during the COVID-19 pandemic are an example, she said.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

If the various 'build it and we will buy it' green procurement signals offered on areas as diverse as electric HGVs and direct air capture technologies work as planned they could yet take a huge chunk out of the emissions gap and move the world much closer to a 1.5C trajectory.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

"It is also vital for achieving ocean-related goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework," he said, referring to the so-called 30x30 pledge made at last year's COP15 Summit to protect a third of the world's land and sea for biodiversity by 2030.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance side event sees France join calls for stronger language on phasing down the use of fossil fuels in COP cover agreement. Advocates of continued exploration also maintain that carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies could make an on-going reliance on fossil gas compatible with net zero goals.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

A handful of pavilions made passing reference to efforts to cut the use of fossil fuels in pamphlets or video displays. In a few cases, staff referred DeSmog to events they were holding at the summit that they said might cover fossil fuels, or offered to arrange a call or meeting with someone who could provide more information.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

At the launch event for the new initiative today, COP27 President Sameh Shoukry said the Adaptation Agenda was a "critical step" for the "implementation COP", referring to the Egyptian presidency's tag line for the event.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

With the global market for electric buses growing fast here is a chance to demonstrate that the technology works, that it delivers the advertised fuel savings, air quality improvements, and crucial grid balancing services. As the government is now painfully aware a huge amount needs to happen to deliver a successful COP.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

There are also fewer references to ramping up renewables and clean technologies compared to previous iterations of texts circulating last week, while it appears last year's call for countries to double adaptation finance has been dropped in favour of a call to "significantly scale" up such funding.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

On two fronts, COP26 increased the chances of the technological, economic, and social tipping points being reached that might just enable an exponential acceleration of decarbonisation efforts. Future COPs will re-open this debate and seek to extend it to gas and oil.

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Business Green

AUGUST 4, 2020

The plan - which outlines how the oil giant intends to slash its oil and gas output by 40 per cent by the end of the decade, increase its annual spending on low-carbon technologies and energy 10-fold, and reimagine the fossil fuel business as an integrated energy company - has pushed BP from net zero laggard to what looks like a global leader.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

After hours of tense negotiations and dramatic interventions on the conference floor a compromise deal was reached that rejected the proposed reference to phasing down fossil fuels, and broadened the focus of the energy section of the agreement beyond renewables. This COP caused deep frustrations but it wasn't for nothing," she said. "It

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2023

As is always the case at COP Summits multiple issues remain unresolved, but the battle between the various opposing camps looks to set to boil down to a fierce row over how, and indeed whether, the final version of the Global Stocktake should reference the future of fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Mainstream media outlets defend the practice of creating news-adjacent content for advertisers — referred to as “native advertising” or “sponsored content.” Presided over by Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber , the head of Abu Dhabi’s state oil company, Adnoc, it is the most industry-influenced COP yet.

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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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Fossil fuels are everywhere at this COP except in the decisions being negotiated by governments,” Nikki Reisch, the director of climate and energy at the Center for International Environmental Law, wrote to DeSmog from Glasgow. The oil-heavy delegations raise questions about the government’s intentions in Glasgow.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The awards fall just as another controversially chosen oil state, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), plays host to international climate talks, COP 28 , at which the UAE was revealed as planning to use the opportunity to make more oil and gas deals. Sport is often referred to as a battlefield, or a substitute for actual conflict.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2021

Trevelyan explains that her work is focused on how countries most vulnerable to escalating climate risks can access the finance, innovation, and technology required to prepare their economies, citizens, and infrastructure in response to increasingly frequent and intense climate impacts.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

However, his speech today was notable by its relative absence of net zero rhetoric, neglecting to make any mention of the word 'climate' at all, while only referring to 'net zero' twice, as he hailed the decarbonisation goal as an opportunity to back research, development and innovation.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

It remains to be seen whether the landmark references to fossil fuels will survive into final version of the agreement, with observers noting their inclusion will be a flashpoint between COP26 negotiators over the coming 25 hours. They had are investing in an old fashioned technology that is going out," he said.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JANUARY 12, 2022

This area could host up to 7 gigawatts of additional offshore wind development in the NY Bight – enough to power nearly 2 million homes – and even more as technology advances. BOEM removed from leasing consideration proposed Lease Area OCS-A 0543, commonly referred to as Hudson South A, due to concerns raised by the fishing industry and DOD.

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Clean Energy Trust

JANUARY 28, 2022

Credit: Stripe eadership from corporations to be committed first customers for products that can decarbonize the economy Several announcements around COP 26 highlighted corporates who had made commitments to be early customers for new technology solutions, in order to help create market pull?—?this

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

Yesterday's communiqué agrees to "phase-out and rationalise, over the medium term, inefficient fossil fuel subsidies", and makes no direct reference to coal power, instead calling for investment in carbon capture and similar technologies to abate the emissions of fossil fuels.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Trevelyan said the two countries would "continue to work together in addressing shared challenges in global trade, climate change and technological changes in the years ahead". The UK is COP President for another year, with the job of building on the legacy of the Glasgow climate conference," she said.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

warming scenario, target net zero emissions by around 2050, accelerate industrial decarbonisation, and reflect these goals in national strategies submitted under the Paris Agreement, according to terms of reference unveiled yesterday. All members of the club must therefore commit to pursue efforts in line with a 1.5C

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

It remains to be seen whether the landmark references to fossil fuels will survive into final version of the agreement, with observers noting their inclusion will be a flashpoint between COP26 negotiators over the coming 24 hours. They are investing in an old fashioned technology that is going out," he said.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

Kwarteng today also confirmed an industrial decarbonisation strategy would be published in the first quarter of this year, as well as a "North Sea Transition Deal" early in 2021, likely in reference to the long-awaited oil and gas sector deal which has been beset by several delays.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2022

Delivered in Her Majesty's absence by Prince Charles, the speech set out the government's legislative agenda and broad political priorities for the coming year, and contained myriad references to economic growth, levelling up, supporting Ukraine's war effort, and tackling rising living costs. Public Order Bill.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

What are the big priorities for COP? And Nature, she suggested, was a “big big problem”, referring to the difficulties with accounting for natural capital. Clearly it will be a major achievement for the UK government if the UK can hold a successful COP, so one can only assume the will is there to try to bring it off.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Dig into the 14 October summary from the UK COP Presidency and there's cautious optimism that a set of deals to stop countries cheating on climate could land in Glasgow. These are the final pieces of the Paris Agreement required to complete the jigsaw and activate the UN deal agreed in 2015: Transparency, Article 6 and Common Timeframes.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 5, 2020

Manifestation 1: ‘I can’t breathe’ “I can’t breathe” refers to more than police violence. “A cop put his knee in the back of his neck and choked him to death, amid his cries for help. ” But here’s the thing: Clean energy technologies exist to reverse this problem.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 5, 2020

Manifestation 1: ‘I can’t breathe’ “I can’t breathe” refers to more than police violence. “A cop put his knee in the back of his neck and choked him to death, amid his cries for help. ” But here’s the thing: Clean energy technologies exist to reverse this problem.

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Grist

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe has referred to “unabated” as a weasel word.) For advocates on the ground at COP fighting for certain outcomes, the agreements generated are just the beginning. “That’s one thing that I do like about COP. Here’s what they had to say.

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