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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3BL Media

JULY 29, 2022

DESCRIPTION: 2021 was a year of accelerating our net-zero commitment and sustainability to take energy forward. The world has changed dramatically since Baker Hughes made its net-zero commitment in 2019. Tweet me: 2021 was a year of accelerating its net-zero commitment for @bakerhughesco. Principles.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 25, 2024

Theresa May’s stint was brief, but cross-party pressure did result in a world first: a legal commitment to achieving net-zero emissions in the U.K. It was Boris Johnson, whose 2019 manifesto placed “climate leadership” as a top international priority, who turned the U.K. At the COP26 climate summit, hosted by the U.K.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 18, 2021

It sets out a plan to deliver the 40GW of operational capacity needed by the end of the decade for the UK to remain on track for a net zero carbon economy, according to the Climate Change Committee. of the UK’s emissions in 2019. Trebling the UK’s solar energy capacity by 2030 could cut total UK carbon emissions by 21.2

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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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3BL Media

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In addition, in August 2022, Tetra Pak’s target to reach net-zero GHG emissions across the value chain by 2050 has been approved by Science Based Target initiative (SBTi) 3 under its Corporate Net-Zero Standard 4. Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions combined were reduced by 27% compared to 2019 baseline. 2 Baseline: 2019.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 28, 2022

In early December, Canada announced it would implement the Glasgow Statement , a multilateral commitment signed at last year’s COP26 to end international public financing for fossil fuels by the end of 2022 and fully prioritize the clean energy transition. Between 2016 and 2019, EDC provided an average of $10.6 billion in 2020.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Singapore plans to submit a more ambitious emissions reduction goal at the upcoming COP27 climate conference in November, according to Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, as part of a strengthened commitment to achieve net zero by 2050. Wong said: “As you can see, our net zero path is not an easy one.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2023

New research by the University of East Anglia highlights the risks of countries relying on nature-based solutions to achieve net zero. National climate strategies set out how countries plan to reduce emissions, for example by phasing out fossil-fuel use, to get to net-zero in 2050.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 16, 2023

The Glasgow Summit at COP26 made a major focus on “keeping 1.5°C The recent IEA report and UNEP gap report on net zero pathways have noted how difficult it will be to achieve the 1.5°C The previous IEA net zero report included various assumptions, including an increase in land use for bio-energy crops.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Banks were hit by a double salvo for continued financing of fossil fuel firms in the face of widely accepted net zero roadmaps and the commitments made at COP26. trillion into the coal industry between January 2019 and November 2021, while institutional investors maintained coal holdings worth US$1.2

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

As its presidency of COP26 comes to a close, the future of the UK’s net zero strategy is open to question. Balance of power – How strong will the UK’s commitment to net zero be under incoming premier Liz Truss, whose immediate priority is the impact of the energy crisis on consumers, businesses and public services?

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ESG Today

MARCH 30, 2023

The commitment was announced today with the introduction of an updated Green Finance Strategy by Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt, part of the government’s launch today of its “Powering Up Britain” plan outlining initiatives to achieve the UK’s energy security and net zero objectives.

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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.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 5, 2023

After signing on to the Global Methane Pledge two years ago during the COP26 meeting in Glasgow, Canada released a methane reduction strategy in September, 2022 that affirmed the 75% reduction from 2012 levels by decade’s end, Guilbeault’s department recalled in a backgrounder published earlier today. “We

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 23, 2024

Between 2008 and 2016, the five biggest oil companies (ExxonMobil, BP-Amoco, Chevron-Texaco, Royal Dutch Shell and ConocoPhillips) collectively spent an average of US$217 million on advertising annually, a sixfold increase from two decades earlier, according to a 2019 paper in the journal Climatic Change.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In 2021, we engaged in the World Climate Summit at the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) and the first global UN Food Systems Summit to explore avenues with other stakeholders towards transforming food systems to make them more secure and sustainable. C pathway.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 28, 2023

“ When I attended COP25 (Madrid) in 2019, there was talk of the climate crisis, but there was not a lot of urgency,” she says. According to An, the coming together of the finance sector in support of the global transition to net zero has been responsible for propelling sustainability into the mainstream.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

That amounted to about $370 billion of investment in renewable energy power recorded in 2021, compared with about $350 billion in 2020 and about $320 billion in 2019. “It At COP26, commitments were made to end support for the fossil fuel energy this year.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Figure 3: Calculated impacts of company A for the fiscal year 2019 (own operations and upstream supply chain). Sustainability trends 2023: Net-Zero roadmaps. As a result, 91% of the global economy and almost half of the 2,000 largest companies have net-zero pledges. Source VBA. UK) and devastating floods (e.g.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Looking at Cooperative Approaches as a Market-Based Path Toward Net Zero. DESCRIPTION: Tetra Tech’s Rodrigo Chaparro, senior climate advisor, looks at three Cooperative Approaches as a market-based path toward net zero in advance of the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27). SOURCE: Tetra Tech.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Since 2019, that slogan has been a rallying cry for the music industry. Late last year, in the wake of COP26, the U.K.’s Late last year, in the wake of COP26, the U.K.’s “No Music on a Dead Planet.”. It’s shown up on the backdrops of arena tours, on award-show red carpets, on album compilations and playlists.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 10, 2020

All-Energy 2019 – the UK’s largest renewable energy exhibition and conference – and Glasgow’s Scottish Event Campus (SEC) have been awarded Best Business Event at the national finals of this year’s Scottish Thistle Awards National Final held on 5 March at the EICC. Dan Thurlow, SEC’s Director of Exhibition Sales. Registration now open.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

A separate letter was submitted by the CEOs of more than 100 global corporates with a UK presence, calling on Truss to tie her growth plans to a net zero and nature positive investment agenda. You have to give the government credit for its Net Zero Strategy , which set out decarbonisation pathways for many key sectors of the economy.

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Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s 2019 Special Report on Climate Change and Land , the pace of decarbonization needed to meet the 1.5°C In order to secure the rights of current and future generations, societies must transition toward total decarbonization by 2050.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

From 2013 to 2019, USD 42 billion was committed to grid-connected coal power plants in the 18 countries studied. This stands in contrast with China’s domestic energy policy, which is prioritizing a transition to renewable energy, peak emissions before 2030 and a net-zero economy by 2060. Of course, China is not the only culprit.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 23, 2022

Lolita White, senior analyst, Hampleton Partners, said: “While everything seems to point to the advent of a new age of regulatory scrutiny and corporate responsibility in the race to net zero and other goals, businesses’ ESG reporting is not yet up to scratch.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 27, 2022

billion between 2016-18 to US$14 billion between 2019-21 – a 60% decrease. . The Adaptation Fund received US$356 million from governments at COP26, and climate adaptation is expected to be a big focus for discussions at the climate summit in Sharm El Sheikh. .

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) established an accounting mechanism known as the “corresponding adjustment” to ensure that only one country counts each emission reduction. The use of high-quality credits is crucial to the realization of net-zero emissions. Key Issue 2—The Corresponding Adjustment.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 24, 2021

The project, announced as the UK prepares to host the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, will support almost 900 jobs in rural areas across Scotland during construction and will provide critical storage capacity needed to support a net-zero power system.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This includes a wide range of schemes to protect consumers from wholesale energy price volatility, such as the UK price cap introduced in 2019. Clearly, current incentives do not sit well alongside the UK’s net zero ambitions. In December, it consulted on a proposal to align the UK’s licensing regime with its climate objectives.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

As the world’s largest producer of greenhouse gases (generating around 28% of total emissions in 2019), China’s environmental record is closely scrutinised. As China enters the Year of the Tiger, this explainer attempts to set out assess progress to date and future challenges on its road to net zero.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 23, 2022

During the 2019-2020 Australian bushfires, more than 24 million hectares of land was burnt and 33 people died, followed by a further 450 fatalities from illnesses linked to smoke inhalation. What are Australia’s stated net zero goals? Australia adopted an economy-wide target of net zero emissions by 2050 in the run-up to COP26.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), US$4 trillion needs to be invested in renewable energy globally every year by 2030 to achieve net zero by 2050. South Africa signed a JETP at COP26 in Glasgow, which committed France, Germany, the UK, the EU and the US to supporting its clean energy transition through US$8.5

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Besides, the pandemic has postponed the momentum towards COP26 or climate change movements like Greta Thunberg’s Friday’s for future. As an example, heavy GHG emitters countries as China pledged for net-zero emissions by 2060, and the Paris Agreement became one of the issues driving voters to vote in the US presidential election.

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Sustainable Development Network

JULY 30, 2021

In June 2021, the EU adopted a European Climate Law , establishing the aim of reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in the EU by 2050. 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. in 2010 to 9.3%

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