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.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 15, 2021

Countries around the world need to urgently scale up deployment of wind power in order to address the climate emergency, insists the Global Wind Coalition for COP26, which officially launches today (15 June) on Global Wind Day. We need them to get serious about wind”, commented Rebecca Williams, Director of COP26 at GWEC.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

“In its recent Progress Report to Parliament 2021, the UK Committee on Climate Change highlighted the huge gap between the Government’s ambition and policy reality. The UK AD industry has already committed to delivering on its potential to support the UK’s efforts to reduce its GHG emissions.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The focus for all businesses on issues ranging from climate change to social justice has never been more intense. Mergers and Acquisitions Magazine recently published a piece in which they declared "2021 is the year of ESG" and announced their inaugural 2021 PE Innovators in ESG.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Scottish government funded advisory group Zero Waste Scotland is hosting a free virtual event , on Tuesday 5 October, which will see experts come together to discuss a vital topic they insist is missing from the climate change conversation: Consumption.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Indeed, pressure for more action is building ahead of this November’s UN climate change conference – or COP26 summit – which the UK Government will be hosting. Some notable progress has been made, most obviously with power generation, but a greater push is needed soon in other spheres, such as home heating and transport.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Released ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), the latest round of climate talks taking place in Glasgow, the report finds that net zero pledges could make a big difference. C, providing hope that further action could still head off the most-catastrophic impacts of climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Appointments of new COP26 President and Environment Secretary triggers renewed efforts to demonstrate the benefits of biogas for decarbonising the UK and global economies. Ahead of COP26, the UK must show strong leadership and commitment on environmental issues or risk serious embarrassment.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

It first entered the climate justice lexicon back in 1992, during negotiations leading to the original United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), when the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) submitted a proposal for a financial mechanism to address loss and damage from sea level rise.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

A scientific paper published in the peer review Journal, Aquatic Conservation says that measures to address climate change and reach the Paris Agreement will not succeed unless the ocean is taken into account. We need to simultaneously address climate change impacts and reduce all cumulative direct and indirect stressors.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 23, 2024

Today the PR industry propping up the sector is considered one of the biggest obstructions to climate change mitigation. As the medium goes digital and the message becomes more subtle and diffuse, pro-oil marketing is being baked into our social media feeds and infiltrating climate conferences.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

With 67 days to go until COP26, CCAG is urging global leaders to shift emphasis towards net negative emissions targets as the only viable way to ensure greenhouse gas levels can return to pre-industrial levels, in line with the Paris Agreement. C as soon as 2030, taking the world into a zone of dangerous climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Until now, the causes of the 2020 surge in methane – second only to carbon dioxide as a driver of climate change – had been unclear. A team led by a University of Edinburgh scientist used global atmospheric chemistry models to study how lockdown emission changes affected methane levels.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Hon John Gummer, Lord Deben, Chairman of the UK Committee on Climate Change. The Summit provides the largest international platform on which to highlight the value of AD and biogas as solutions to the global challenges of organic waste management, food and energy security, and climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Farming needs to urgently scale and pace the adoption of nature-based solutions for addressing climate change and biodiversity loss or face an uncertain future, warns the Nature Friendly Farming Network, an independent organisation that aims to unite farmers across the UK. The effects of climate change and biodiversity loss.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

In the run up to COP26 the University of Bath’s study not only sets out what is happening but most importantly what could happen to make the UK a leader in innovation and delivery of creative solutions. Providing evidence of Climate Action is critically needed and what Malaby Biogas is planning in Wiltshire is evidence of this.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2020

They say they will also provide concrete tools, share knowledge and exchange best practices for implementing robust climate strategies through the SME Climate Hub. To mitigate against the worst impacts of climate change, it is critical that we halve emissions by 2030.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The report highlights four main policy levers to unlock the full potential of the restoration economy: Implementing global carbon markets: COP26 presents a huge opportunity to create effective carbon markets and help unlock the restoration economy. Now there is a compelling business case for it, too.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Climate change is having a significant impact on biodiversity, with the IPCC’s recent landmark report highlighting the critical levels of concern across the world. 28 October – COP26 Future Policy to Protect Natural Habitats. 24 September – Healthy Connection to Habitats. · 08 October – Habitat by Design. ·

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 7, 2020

The organisers say the decision is even more critical given that COP26, the annual UN hosted national climate summit, is to be postponed until 2021. The decision to postpone COP26 to 2021 was undoubtedly the correct thing to do to allow diplomatic negotiations to take place at a time when they can be given the right level of focus.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2023

The findings, published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, show that most of the strategies submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) do not quantify the amount of carbon ‘removals’ needed in 2050. Strategies also highlight the need for international cooperation.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 2, 2022

Josh Newton, Cities Manager at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation said Bexley’s project “is an exciting example of bold thinking by local government, working in partnership with circular innovators to help households save money, reduce waste, and address the climate crisis at the same time.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

And how can businesses tackle them in order to pursue their climate change goals? Getting any advice is difficult as carbon consultants are busy post COP26 and we, like many businesses nationwide, have limited in-house capacity to do it ourselves – although we’re making changes there!

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

Local and regional leaders appeared at a public event in Birmingham on 13 July to make the case to Government for additional powers to tackle climate change. The Climate Change Committee recently estimated that local authorities can influence around one third of the emissions in their local areas through place shaping and partnerships.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

A new paper from an independent group of climate experts emphasises “the critical importance of a comprehensive financial and regulatory ecosystem incentivising emissions reduction and removal, supported by a properly functioning carbon price.” An alternative approach to carbon pricing.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It is also a strong example to bring to the COP26 summit of how to follow climate change targets with action. That’s the apparent conclusion of a new independent assessment of the Net Zero Strategy published on 26 October by the Climate Change Committee (CCC).

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2022

” Off the back of COP26, there has been a lot of talk about how the world leaders are making changes to keep the global temperature increases within 1.5ºC and if they have committed enough. We want to help raise awareness of climate change and actively focus on small, incremental changes to make a positive impact.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

Six research teams across the UK will develop new tools and approaches which will help trees and woodlands adapt to climate change and enable the UK to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions, it was announced in early August. Study whether trees can adapt effectively to climate change, pests and diseases.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 16, 2022

Not only does biogas have a key role to play in combating climate change, but it is also essential to our energy security in the face of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”. Charlotte Morton, WBA Chief Executive, added: “Our industry can deliver 50% of the Global Methane Pledge targets signed up by over 100 countries after COP26.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 26, 2021

A “clear and present danger” exists to life on earth from the loss of biodiversity, according to the House of Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

The UN Climate Change Conference is only a few months away, and to say that expectations are high would be an understatement. She believed good progress was being made on Adaptation (the effort to secure protection for habitats and communities against the effects of climate change). What are the big priorities for COP?

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

University of Oxford-led water security reserch programme ( REACH ) publishes its interdisciplinary Water Security for Climate Resilience Report. Findings include less visible climate change impacts, including gendered impacts and those on children, as well as the immediate impacts of droughts and floods.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

“With the UK hosting COP26 in Glasgow in 2020, the country’s actions will be under close scrutiny and there will be nowhere to hide if we fall short of doing our part,” said Kiran Sura of PwC. UK leads the G20 having the most rapid decarbonisation rate since 2000, at 3.7%.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 18, 2021

UK industry body sets out plan for government ambition to align with Climate Change Committee recommendations. 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.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

In the year of COP26 , the eyes of the world are on Scotland and The Scottish Green Energy Awards are another opportunity to showcase the critical role and impact the renewable energy industry is playing in our fight against climate change.

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