Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2020

COP26 President Alok Sharma's speech yesterday to the Let's Build Back Better event hosted by the British High Commission in Wellington. Thank you to the British High Commission for organising this event. As members of the High Ambition Coalition, the Cartagena Dialogue, and the Carbon Neutrality Coalition. koutou katoa.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Machine learning, AI, automation and other solutions can slash firms' carbon emissions and energy usage while boosting their productivity, writes IBM's Ana Paula Assis. Rania Al Mashat, Egypt's minister for international cooperation, recently said : "For us, what we want this COP[27] to be about is moving from pledges to implementation.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

The new campaign will be stewarded by the UK and Chile as incoming and outgoing COP presidents, respectively. That's why all members are demonstrating how they're already in the race to zero, by publishing immediate plans by COP26 and setting interim targets in 2025 and 2030.". campaign, according to the UNFCCC.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

million people per year to use the HS1 line, which means a staggering 450,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide could be prevented from being released into the atmosphere every year, and there could be an additional £427m of economic benefit for the UK. By 2025, this could represent 1.2 To achieve all of this, we need help.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

The wording prompted some observers to speculate "low-emission" energy could be interpreted as including unabated gas power, but others argued it was a reference to nuclear and carbon capture and storage projects. Peaking emissions by 2025 is not in this text," he said. warming target. was weak, and it remains on life support.".

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Business Green

AUGUST 4, 2020

The net zero strategy unveiled by BP earlier today has received plaudits from a number of unusual suspects, with Greenpeace, sustainable shareholder group Follow This, think tank Carbon Tracker, and UK envoys to the forthcoming COP26 climate conference all lining up to praise the sweeping new plan. BP's plan has scale. It also has pace.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

In my eyes, that certainly doesn't merit a big COP announcement. Grasslands, shrublands, peatlands and other carbon and biodiversity-rich ecosystems are also being plowed up too. While the roadmap has 2025 plans for ending deforestation, it lacks cut-off dates for land conversion. I thought we'd be doing better than this by now.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

Other former COP Presidents, such as Laurent Fabius. These events will put human life at risk. billion people have been affected by disasters, 90 per cent of which have been caused by weather and climate related events. Safeguarding ecosystems, protecting natural habitats and keeping carbon out of the atmosphere.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The new funding package for the 2020 to 2025 period does mark an increase on previous levels of climate finance, but the failure to meet the 2020 deadline was still widely interpreted as a major blow to the long-running international climate negotiations that are set to resume at next week's COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

Good afternoon everyone and thank you to the London Stock Exchange for organising this event. Building the first fully-deployed carbon capture storage cluster by the mid-2020s. Supporting energy intensive industries as they move to low-carbon techniques. Helping our world-leading offshore wind industry reach 40GW by 2030.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

As Professor Rebecca Willis, a leading opponent of the mine, observed on Twitter this afternoon: "the untold story of this mine is the absolute failure of govt (both central and local) to help the local area and community develop a vibrant, zero carbon economic strategy".

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Where people's ability to feed their families becomes precarious and extreme weather and diseases wipe out livelihoods, people may be forced from their homes, and civil unrest may ferment, events that can undermine fragile government, and reverberate around the globe. Actions and ambitions towards de-carbonization have also increased.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

What are the big priorities for COP? 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. One solution might be carbon pricing, and the imposition of such a measure was Bordini-Staden’s “biggest hope” for COP26.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 25, 2021

GPAP in Indonesia is helping the government deliver its national target to reduce ocean plastic waste in Indonesia 70 percent by 2025 and to be plastic waste-free by 2040. by 2030, and committed to supporting actions such as mapping technology and carbon finance worth billions of dollars.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

I heard someone call COP26 the "business COP" I couldn't find any official reference of that sort, but I'm inclined to agree. Over the weekend, Saturday was 'Nature Day' at COP. That includes "activities across forests, agricultural and coastal lands that strengthen nature's ability to absorb carbon and reduce emissions".

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2023

BP said it now expects global carbon emissions to peak in the 2020s and fall to 37.8 BP said it now expects global carbon emissions to peak in the 2020s and fall to 37.8 The events of the past year have highlighted the complexity and interconnectedness of the global energy system," said Spencer Dale, chief economist at BP.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Business and policy leaders reflect on the major wins from the Glasgow Summit, what needs to happen next, and why COPs could look and feel difficult from now on. As Frontier Economics' Matthew Bell put it, Glasgow was arguably the first COP conference where the means to decarbonise were discussed alongside the end goals.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Alongside executives from Iberdrola and its subsidiary ScottishPower – a COP26 “principal partner” – the event organising team includes figures from the UNFCCC, the Scottish government, the International Energy Agency and WWF. We have existing combined cycle [gas] plants operating in Mexico”, he said.

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2023

The most important line in today's new Energy Outlook from BP is the stark admission that "the carbon budget is running out". Despite the marked increase in government ambitions, CO2 emissions have increased in every year since the Paris COP in 2015 (bar 2020)," it continues.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

COP talks each year are often fraught and progress remains far too slow, as today's IPCC report on escalating climate impacts will testify. As close observers of global climate diplomacy have long argued, if the COP process and the Paris Agreement did not exist you would have to invent them. The US left the treaty altogether briefly.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Unchecked carbon pollution is forcing the world's most vulnerable on a frog march to destruction - now. As current events make all too clear, our continued reliance on fossil fuels makes the global economy and energy security vulnerable to geopolitical shocks and crises. Nearly half of humanity is living in the danger zone - now.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Its membership, which includes major institutional investors such as Allianz, Aviva, AXA, and the Church of England, have committed to ensuring their entire portfolios are free of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, backed by short-term emissions targets every few years starting in 2025. It's a net zero COP. That's the objective.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The IPCC’s scientists explain how climate change has been fueling extreme weather events and flooding , severe heat waves and droughts , loss and extinction of species , and the melting of ice sheets and rising of sea levels. One key goal of COP26 is to ratchet up these targets to reach net-zero carbon emissions by the middle of the century.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

With regards to the talks in Glasgow themselves, the statement released overnight laments the failure of richer nations to deliver on their collective $100bn a year climate finance promise to developing nations, and calls for this goal to be met and for discussions to begin on a new climate finance target beyond 2025 to be agreed.

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2021

As if pressure on the UK to help steer the world towards more ambitious climate commitments this year wasn't already high enough, the government now looks increasingly isolated in its determination to hold COP26 - that most crucial of events on the climate calendar - in Glasgow as planned later this year. The Paris Rulebook.

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