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Only new fiscal rules will avoid a Budget carbon COP out

Business Green

The Budget on Wednesday will be the first real test of this government's commitment on climate and it needs to drive momentum in the decarbonisation of electricity, heat and transport or it will set us up for a failure on the world stage. This Budget is a real opportunity to show leadership on carbon pricing.

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Preparing for COP26

Envirotec Magazine

What are the big priorities for COP? But progress was still lacking on Resilience and Energy Transition. 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. Where are the main challenges? Nature and finance.

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COP27: Unshackling the demand for renewables

Business Green

Powers, vice president for global cleantech and renewables at Schneider Electric, who explores how public-private sector collaboration can help unshackle the surging demand for renewable energy. I think a lot of the feedback that you hear from any of the COPs is we're not doing enough and we're not doing it fast enough.

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Forget 2050: As COP26 Starts, Five Immediate Priorities for Oil and Gas

EDF + Business

Blanton, a Senior Research Scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy , and Ben Ratner, Associate Vice President at EDF. For all the attention to corporate net zero by 2050 commitments, the reality is that actions in this decade will be decisive for both the planet’s warming trajectory and energy firms’ viability in the energy transition.

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Digital technology can turn corporate sustainability goals into action

Business Green

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. Understanding the energy and carbon footprint of a firm's assets can be complex. But we have only scratched the surface on the changes that can be made.

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Danone's Eric Soubeiran: 'The food system is broken'

GreenBiz

Danone is providing training to farmers in France to make the switch to new techniques to meet a goal to rely on 100 percent regenerative farming in the country by 2025. The coalition, launched by Danone at last year's UN COP climate conference, counts consumer goods heavyweights L'Oréal, Google, McCain, Walmart, Kellogg, Nestlé and Unilever.

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COP26 Climate Summit: From fossil fuels to forests - 10 things we learned in Glasgow

Business Green

And it sees countries back a "phase down" of unabated coal power, after a dramatic 11th hour intervention from India on the conference floor saw the initial "phase out" phrasing weakened. Countries have also agreed to submit their post-2030 climate targets on a five yearly cycle, with 2035 plans due in 2025. on the table," he said.