GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2021

Companies and countries all over the world are committing to net-zero goals and pledges to the SDGs; diversity, equity and inclusion goals; human rights — the list goes on. We need to put a lot of zeros on the "More than 1,000 businesses" in order to get to a net-zero carbon economy. Helle Bank Jorgensen.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The future stability of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) is under scrutiny after a member group appeared to distance itself from updated UN-endorsed rules for achieving net zero emissions by 2050. . NZBA open letter highlights risks from divergent responses of stakeholders to climate emergency. .

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Chris Hall

JULY 26, 2024

At COP26 in Glasgow, the then-Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak announced plans for the UK to become the world’s first net zero-aligned financial centre. Including nature in transition plans is critical because we won’t achieve net zero without tackling nature loss,” Ellis argued.

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Sustainable Round Table

MARCH 21, 2022

A special thanks to our two wonderful presenters Andy Smith, Sr. The first half of the Symposium focused on global ESG strategy post-COP26 and the new Science-Based Targets Net Zero Standard. In his role, Andy also leads on the FY25 goal to achieve net zero on global Scope 1&2 emissions. Andy Smith, Sr.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Kyoto Protocol agreed to use as a benchmark for their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and 2050, the year many countries set as their target for carbon net zero. Launched in March this year, the drive to decarbonise industry forms a major part of the UK’s journey to 2050 net zero. So where does this put us?

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

“Given the very stark message issued by the IPCC, it is crucial that the British Government shows leadership in fully integrating AD and biogas into its Paris Agreement and Net Zero targets”, she continues. There is no Net Zero without biogas.”, ”, Charlotte Morton concludes.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The COP26 Youth Climate Protest in Glasgow on 5 November (image credit: PMGphotog / Shutterstock.com). While COP25 in Madrid had seen the launch of many such schemes by big polluters like Shell, Total and BP, with COP26 we could now see these schemes taking a central place in the draft agreement. Carbon trading. Carbon capture.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Former chair of the Committee on Climate Change Lord Deben believes the country can get back on track to net zero and regain its status as a global leader. When Glasgow hosted COP26 in 2021, bringing together 120 world leaders and more than 40,000 participants, the UK was seen as a world leader in the battle against climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2022

Following COP26, a total of 64 countries, covering more than 89 percent of global emissions, have pledged or are legislated to achieve net zero in the coming decades. To keep up with these net-zero ambitions, the global energy system may need to significantly accelerate its transformation. To keep the 1.5°C

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3BL Media

MARCH 17, 2022

One recent study found that net zero commitments now cover at least 68% of the global economy. And while UN Secretary-General, António Guterres insisted that last November’s COP26 summit had succeeded in its principal aim of maintaining as viable the target of limiting global warming to 1.5°C

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

A new white paper published by the Mine Energy Taskforce and Local Energy Hub network has called for greater support for mine energy as a key low carbon heat source in the UK that can contribute to government’s ambition to reach net zero by 2050.

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3BL Media

APRIL 27, 2022

Water is the new net-zero challenge. However, in the necessary drive towards a net-zero-carbon future, the present-day impacts of both insufficient and excess water—droughts and floods more frequent and severe due to climate change—on communities are at risk of being side-lined.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

If approved, it will lead to the setting up of RAF as a standardised template for organisations to submit their net zero pledges and transition plans for publication in GCAP, says Gillod. But, Gillod is also cautious about how much impact the UNFCCC’s RAF can actually have. “It Speaking to ESG Investor , Rev.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The report was launched at COP26 in Glasgow in November during the day dedicated to Cities, Regions and the Built Environment. What was WSP’s role in helping WorldGBC present the business case for green buildings? Now to deliver a net zero building is embedded in the cost of doing business.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

climate action and investments, as public and private sector leaders raise their ambition, deliver on commitments, implement policies to capitalize on the opportunities in the necessary transition to a zero emissions future, and ensure public finance to support adaptation and resilience for developing nations. November 3, 2022 /3BL Media/ -

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

C increase over pre-industrial temperatures was hanging by a thread at the end of COP26, subsequent economic and geopolitical events appear to have dealt a blow to those ambitions – at least in the short term. The sense of optimism at COP26 turned out to be short lived. “We Beast from the east.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Efforts to secure global commitments to phase out fossil fuels in prior UN climate conferences have failed, with last year’s COP27 agreement only calling for an “increase in low-emission” energy and renewables, and COP26 including a pledge to “phase down” unabated coal use and inefficient fossil fuel subsidies.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

” The document from the Climate Crisis Advisory Group (CCAG)[1] sets out seven recommendations that it believes global leaders at COP26 must consider to make carbon pricing more effective.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Current pledges will nudge global warming down from its present 2.8°C In an accompanying commentary , UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen said: “I urge every investor, public and private, to put their capital towards a net zero world. C course to 2.5°C

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The global push to produce all electricity from clean sources won’ t be enough to meet the net-zero target of the Paris climate agreement , according to a new report from energy consultant DNV. DNV’s fifth annual Energy Transition Outlook comes two months before COP26 , the climate summit of world leaders, in Glasgow.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The most recent UN climate conference, COP26, highlighted the role of forests and agriculture in ways we have not seen before. While investor initiatives to shift finance toward net-zero emissions have been gathering steam for years, deforestation gained new prominence in these efforts in 2021.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 22, 2022

The new RTZ criteria present a challenge for financial institutions, particularly when it comes to fossil-fuel finance and S cope 3 emissions – those from financed assets or others outside of the direct control of the reporting company – and especially for those that were already falling behind. .

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3BL Media

JUNE 1, 2022

The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), established at COP26 to develop a comprehensive global baseline of sustainability disclosures for capital markets, has launched a consultation on its first two proposed standards. The approach paves the way to achieving goals like our commitment to net-zero emissions by 2030.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

This statement is the We Mean Business Coalition response to the Glasgow Climate Pact, agreed at COP26. . Ahead of COP26, more than 750 businesses, employing 10 million people globally and with US$2.7 The COP26 outcome highlights the importance of countries doing everything possible to stay within the 1.5 °C C alive, just.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Many have set science-based targets aligned with 1.5ºC, others are starting their journey to net-zero. As delegates head home, these are the key lessons that business leaders can take from Cop26. Nature came to Cop26 like never before. The Glasgow Pact has given them the direction of travel. Action, action, action.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 22, 2023

C – as called for in the Paris Agreement – emissions need to be reduced by 45% by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050. This is in contrast to the results following Glasgow’s COP26 in 2021, with 30% of investors agreeing that it boosted the chances of meeting the targets and more agreeing than disagreeing (29%) with the statement.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Mark Carney’s US$130-trillion Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) has lost two pension funds and a consulting company in recent weeks, and some large U.S. Greenwashing is truly a clear and present danger.”. The post Cracks showing in Mark Carney’s net-zero financial alliance appeared first on Corporate Knights.

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Chris Hall

MAY 27, 2022

The private sector’s ability to accelerate the pace of net zero transition is open to question. Even so, we were reminded how far the G20 nations are from meeting their COP26 commitment to keep 1.5°C This was a week in which the public realm seemed to make more of the running than those in the private sphere.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 31, 2023

Disorderly transition and portfolio risks loom large. 2025 will cause a fundamental re-appraisal For investors with 2030 and net zero commitments, the Stocktake / Ratchet cycle will show that success from significant company and policy engagement since 2015 has been difficult to spot. errr …in the present.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The new Rethink Farming report presents evidence that farming with nature can restore natural assets and improve resilience to a warming world. Ahead of COP26, the Rethink Farming report presents research from 18 case studies that are said to reveal how farmer-led innovation and nature-based solutions can positively impact farm businesses.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The Hydroliner will go on to visit a number of companies working on hydrogen-related solutions on its journey to COP26, as pressure to produce hydrogen fuelled appliances increases, in an effort to achieve net zero by 2050. It can accommodate 86 passengers and its hydrogen tank takes up to 1,120 litres of the liquid gas.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

We outline below some of the more common initiatives being driven by landlords and tenants alike and raise some of the issues arising from them, namely electric vehicle (EV) charging point installations; photovoltaic (PV) cell installations; and net zero obligations as part of green leases. Green leases and the move to net zero.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

He said that long-duration energy storage–and storage greater than four hours in particular–is crucial to the UK’s net zero ambitions. ILI Group recently committed to the San Jose Declaration that was agreed by the World Hydro Congress in 2021 and presented at COP26.

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Chris Hall

MAY 18, 2022

Despite severe headwinds, India remains committed to the net zero transition. . billion by 2030, thus increasing pressure on existing resources, India has huge incentive to transition to net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as fast as it can. . Large swathes of the global population are not so lucky. .

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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. Glasgow Climate Week is a COP26 legacy event and will now become an annual event. conference24 ).

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We Mean Business Coalition

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

At present, Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and long-term targets set by governments are set to limit warming below 2.3°C These successes paved the way for greater ambition at the G20 Summit last October and COP26 the month after. C according to Climate Action Tracker. To keep the world on track for 1.5°C C pathway .

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

The World Biogas Summit 2021 will focus on how, in the build up to COP26, anaerobic digestion (AD) and biogas can help reduce global methane and other greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions. The event takes place on 6 – 8 July. There are cost-effective solutions that can be implemented immediately, and the benefits far outweigh the costs.

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