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. koutou katoa. English translation: Greeting, greetings, greetings to you all). degree target.

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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 20, 2022

Peaking emissions by 2025 is not in this text," he said. This COP caused deep frustrations but it wasn't for nothing," she said. "It This particularly challenging COP brings one piece of hope, especially for the most vulnerable people, with an agreement to set up a Loss and Damage fund," Chiara Martinelli, director at CAN Europe.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2022

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. We don't need to go back in history to look for the most impactful and devastating climate events. As of June 2022, we are on course to meet this goal.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Meanwhile, Michigan approves a bundle of clean energy bills, the UN irons out details for the "loss and damages" fund ahead of COP, and Flexport launches a book and claim model for SAFs.    In other news, project cancellation woes abound with NuScale canceling its first-of-a-kind SMR project. To whom do we owe the credit?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

In my eyes, that certainly doesn't merit a big COP announcement. While the roadmap has 2025 plans for ending deforestation, it lacks cut-off dates for land conversion. Even 2025 seems late and might trigger a destructive land-clearing race over the coming three years. Check out VERGE Net Zero , a free online event, Dec.

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2022

In a video address to more than 40 leaders and ministers assembled at the Berlin event this morning, Antonio Guterres slammed political leaders for failing to take adequate action on tackling climate change and mobilising finance to support poorer nations' efforts to decarbonise and bolster their climate resilience.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

By 2025, this could represent 1.2 Which is why HS1 Ltd, with support from Eurostar, hosted a landmark workshop at the World Climate Summit's official COP26 side event - The Investment COP. At the moment, we are accelerating the development of the London-Amsterdam service on the busiest international air route in Europe.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The UK government last year pledged £11.6bn ($16.1bn) in climate finance between 2021 and 2025, but that would still see the UK falling short of its 'fair share' of the promised $100bn total, amounting to just 71 per cent of what the UK should be providing, according to the ODI.

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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. billion over the period from 2021 to 2025. Civil society organisations.

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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. Yet every country at COP has agreed to phase-down coal power.

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Business Green

AUGUST 4, 2020

"To give some scale - the 50GW of planned renewables by 2030 is roughly equal to the current installed renewables capacity in the UK (generating over a quarter of our power over the last year)," Dr John Murton, UK COP 26 envoy, explained on Twitter this morning. It also has pace.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

Good afternoon everyone and thank you to the London Stock Exchange for organising this event. And ahead of COP, we want to see investors take crucial actions, such as setting a target for net zero and publishing a clear transition plan on how to achieve this. This, in turn, will mobilise further finance from public and private sources.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

In a wide-ranging appearance before the BEIS Committee, Kwarteng also defended the government's support for nuclear power, reiterating hopes that Hinkley Point C would come online by 2025 and act as a forerunner for another major nuclear project, as well as a fleet of small modular rectors developed in future.

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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. This “would level the playing field,” she said, “and it would be a massive result if we got that done at COP.”.

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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. Seemingly tepid stuff — particularly at a global event where the phrase "last best chance to save the planet" seems to be uttered roughly 24/7.

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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. Encouragingly, the official climate COP 26 hosted by the UK in Glasgow in November seems to be leaning in this direction.

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2023

The new projections pull BP's estimates more into line with those of the International Energy Agency, which has said it now expects to see global emissions peak by 2025. 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.

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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

JANUARY 30, 2023

Despite the marked increase in government ambitions, CO2 emissions have increased in every year since the Paris COP in 2015 (bar 2020)," it continues. The events of the past year have served as a reminder to us all that the transition also needs to take account of the security and affordability of energy.

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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

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. As COP president throughout 2022 the UK government has a vital role in leading global efforts to tackle climate change.

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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. Secretary-General António Guterres called the report a “code red for humanity.”. staff and other experts.

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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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