Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Summary: The 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) will take place in Glasgow Scotland (UK) beginning on October 31, 2021.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Three weeks away from the 26th Conference of the Parties ( COP26 ), the World Biogas Association (WBA) is preparing to travel to Glasgow to represent the global biogas industry at the UN Climate Summit and demonstrate the value of the biogas industry in tackling climate change. That is what we at the WBA are aiming to achieve.”

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3BL Media

MARCH 17, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Carbon emissions have, in the years following the ratification of the Paris Climate Agreement (2015), been established as the predominant issue in corporate sustainability discourse and strategy. SOURCE: EcoVadis. One recent study found that net zero commitments now cover at least 68% of the global economy.

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3BL Media

MARCH 15, 2022

Nearly three months after COP26, and six years after the Paris Agreement of 2015, why has so little happened to combat climate change, and how can businesses take action? We have just closed the doors behind COP26, yet another gathering of the big players of the world. In light of the newly launched 1.5°C

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Many of the major announcements unveiled by governments and the private sector so far at COP26 demonstrate that progress is underway. There is potential for this to be ironed out at COP26. . COP26 must deliver robust rules on the Global Stocktake in 2023. . COP26 LIVE BLOG: ALL IN FOR 1.5ºC. C, according to?

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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 capture.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The conference will likely focus particular attention on the implementation of goals from last year’s COP26 conference’s final agreement, the Glasgow Climate Pact. COP26 saw a significant step-up in climate finance pledges, and said that it anticipates the $100 billion goal will be met next year.

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Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

A new report by SDSN’s Food, Environment, Land and Development (FELD) Action Tracker explores the extent to which key countries include transformations of food and land systems—necessary to meet both climate and Sustainable Development Goals—in their Nationally Determined Contributions submitted before COP26.

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ESG Today

JULY 10, 2023

The TCFD was established by the FSB in 2015, with the goal of developing consistent disclosure standards for companies, in order to enable investors and other stakeholders to assess the companies’ climate-related financial risk.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 1, 2021

However, should commodity prices remain high through the end of next year, the cost of wind investments would go back up to levels last seen in 2015 and three years of cost reductions for solar PV would be erased. India is set to come top in terms of the rate of growth, doubling new installations compared with 2015-2020.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The initial goal to mobilize $100 billion per year by 2020 to support climate action in developing countries was announced in 2009, and reaffirmed in 2015’s Paris Agreement, with an agreement to extend the goal through 2025. By 2020, however, annual climate finance mobilization had only reached $83 billion, according to OECD estimates.

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John Englart

OCTOBER 31, 2023

I have attended four previous COPs (2015-2019) in person. For COP26 Glasgow in 2021 and COP27 Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt in 2022, I This is my digital diary of Australia at COP28 in Dubai.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

This year’s COP26 summit is widely viewed as one of the last chances to fulfil the 2015 Paris climate agreement and ensure meaningful progress is made towards tackling our net zero targets and the climate emergency. By Bill Ireland, Logan Energy.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 21, 2022

At COP26 in November 2021, CDL joined 44 companies worldwide to extend its pledge towards a net zero whole life carbon emissions approach. In February 2021, CDL became the first real estate conglomerate in Southeast Asia to sign the WorldGBC Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

If COP cannot deliver on its promise, 40% of the world’s population and more will wonder what the point of it is. Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley. An increasing number of countries now support the idea of averting loss and damage through mitigation, and minimizing losses through climate change adaptation.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 27, 2022

As concerning, as of October 2022, only 24 countries updated their national commitment according to the UNCC, to reduce their GHGs, despite all countries agreeing to update their commitments one year earlier at COP26. In 2015 after COP21, when the Paris Climate Accord was adopted, we knew we needed to reduce GHG emissions rapidly.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The Transport NDC Tracker aims to highlight the critical importance of transport for climate policy by making transparent countries’ transport decarbonisation ambitions in the run-up to the UN climate negotiations at COP26 in November in Glasgow, United Kingdom. Climate change cannot be stopped without decarbonising transport.

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3BL Media

APRIL 6, 2022

At COP26 in November 2021, CDL joined 44 companies worldwide to extend its pledge towards a net zero whole life carbon emissions approach. In February 2021, CDL became the first real estate conglomerate in Southeast Asia to sign the WorldGBC Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment.

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Martin Brown

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Much has changed since the idea for FutureRestorative was conceived back in 2015. We have new regenerative agendas, we are leaving a pandemic portal, we had Code Red for Humanity reports and we prepare for COP26. Working Towards a New Sustainability continues. . What have we achieved in 6 years?

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

And a UK-led joint statement commits 25 countries “to ending international public support for the unabated fossil fuel energy sector by the end of 2022 and instead prioritising support for the clean energy transition,” said an announcement on the COP26 website. Signatories include Italy, Canada, the United States and Denmark.

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Chris Hall

JULY 15, 2022

When global leaders gathered at COP26 last year, governments pledged ambitious 2030 emissions reduction targets to achieve net zero by 2050. Dr Bo Bai, Executive Chairman of MetaVerse Green Exchange, says regulation should reflect the duality of carbon credits to drive green finance growth. Months on, the effects have been debatable at best.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Funding gap In 2015, the UN defined the SDGs as a “blueprint for peace and prosperity”, setting a 2030 deadline to achieve the 17 goals. The funding gap required to achieve these goals, however, amounts to US$3.9 Further, the fund extends beyond climate, investing in financial inclusion and agriculture, she added.

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We Mean Business Coalition

JUNE 2, 2022

Since the 2015 Paris Agreement, thousands of companies have voluntarily set ambitious, science-based emissions reduction targets. Since COP26, some of those jurisdictions (the SEC, EFRAG and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Foundation) have delivered pioneering legislative and standard-setting efforts.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 10, 2020

It marks the 20th All-Energy anniversary event; and SEC hosting the UN’S COP26. The first 14 events were staged at AECC Aberdeen, and it moved to Glasgow in 2015. Both are incubators for vital decarbonisation solutions and thus catalysts for opportunity”.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

During the recent COP26 climate negotiations , water as a mitigation tool received more attention than it had at previous talks. The city of Portland, Oregon, has used in-pipe units since 2015, saving enough energy to power several hundred homes. The fact is, however, that water also can play a powerful role in climate mitigation.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

At the closing of COP26 in Glasgow in 2021, one of the headline questions centered on how countries would address the need for finance to address loss and damage , those impacts from climate change that are so severe communities are simply unable to adapt to them. Finance must scale significantly to support adaptation needs. degrees C.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 12, 2022

A week before COP26 in Glasgow, the initiative unveiled the world’s first science-based accreditation of companies’ net-zero targets with the launch of the Corporate Net Zero Standard. In July, it had already outlined a strategy to increase the minimum ambition for corporate targets to a temperature rise of “well below 2°C” to 1.5°C

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2022

The throwaway global economy is fuelling the climate crisis with more than half a trillion tonnes of virgin materials consumed since the 2015 Paris Agreement, according to a report from impact organisation Circle Economy launched on 19 January. C at the COP26 summit in Glasgow. World leaders committed to limit climate change to 1.5°C

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

According to a press release about the event, the International Net Zero Local Leadership Summit is being compared to the Paris City Hall Declaration in 2015, which paved the way for the Paris Climate Agreement at COP21. Our goal is to mobilise at least 1,000 cities ahead of COP26 to commit to achieve net zero by 2050.

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Sustainable Development Network

JULY 30, 2021

Moreover, the package comes at a crucial time with a few months to go before the world heads into a new round of climate diplomacy at COP26 in Glasgow. One of the key points of debate at COP26 will revolve around the role of carbon removal by natural sinks in the calculation of ‘net’ carbon emissions. tCO₂ in 2015.

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3BL Media

MAY 18, 2022

There was a lot of media attention around COP26 last year where world leaders gathered to continue the work to uphold the actions promised by the Paris Agreement, 2015. Now, 50 years after that Stockholm meeting, it’s time to reflect: have we done as much as we could have? Why is Stockholm +50 important?

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Sphera

APRIL 12, 2022

Decarbonization progress has not kept pace to achieve targets set by the 2015 Paris Agreement, and last November, at COP26 in Glasgow, nations pledged to adjust their CO2 emissions targets by 2030 in an effort to realign with the goal of net zero by 2050.

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We Mean Business Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In 2015, when a group of us met to ensure the voice of forward-looking business was heard at the crucial COP21 Paris Climate negotiations, this observation felt painfully familiar. COP26 in Glasgow, which many have called the finance and business COP, clearly demonstrated how this movement has become unstoppable.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 29, 2022

Beyond a small group, clean energy investment levels are still at the same level as they were in 2015,” Gould said, speaking on a panel alongside Svenstrup. . Further, the rise in clean energy spending “isn’t evenly spread”, with the majority taking place in advanced economies as well as China and India. .

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Suga’s pledge was followed up at COP26 last November when current Prime Minister Fumio Kishida promised US$10 billion over the next five years to support Asia’s migration from fossil-fuel-fired to zero-emission thermal power, such as ammonia and hydrogen.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The 2015 agreement set long-term goals for limiting global temperature rise and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The Glasgow Climate Pact from COP26, for example, saw countries agree to reduce coal consumption, the largest contributor to carbon emissions. Multilateralism on climate change has landed significant achievements.

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Chris Hall

MAY 18, 2022

At COP26, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged to reduce the country’s emissions by one billion tonnes by 2030 and promised to raise the percentage of renewables in its energy mix to 50%, growing India’s non-fossil fuel energy capacity to 500 gigawatts (GW) by the end of the decade, achieving 175 GW by the end of 2022. .

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