Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read. Her work with an NGO on the Pacific island of Vanuatu has made her mindful of what might seem an incommensurable cultural and psychological gulf between indigenous groups and the formalities that perhaps hold sway in a modern, western-dominated forum like COP.
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read. Her work with an NGO on the Pacific island of Vanuatu has made her mindful of what might seem an incommensurable cultural and psychological gulf between indigenous groups and the formalities that perhaps hold sway in a modern, western-dominated forum like COP.
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Business Green
JUNE 13, 2021
Against this backdrop business groups and campaigners have become increasingly frustrated at delays to several crucial green policy packages, as well as controversial moves such as the government's decision to axe the Green Homes Grant scheme and its failure to block plans for a new coal mine.
Business Green
JULY 19, 2022
As such, he ruled the government had failed to meet its obligations under Climate Change Act 2008 (CCA) and ordered Ministers to update the plan and present it to Parliament by April 2023. 14 of the CCA 2008.". In my judgment it ought to have done so in order to comply with the language and statutory purposes of s.14
Andrew Winston
JANUARY 5, 2022
The COP26 meeting in Glasgow ended the same as every COP: there was clearly progress in what countries committed to, but given the scale of a crisis that the UN Secretary General called “ code red for humanity ,” it was woefully inadequate. Concern about plastics and packaging, for example, was a huge issue in 2019.
Business Green
NOVEMBER 25, 2021
They call on countries to deliver a 40 per cent reduction in the carbon intensity of shipping by 2030 and halve the sector's absolute emissions by 2050, compared to a 2008 baseline. If the recent COP kept 1.5 degrees alive, the IMO's decision to not set a target of zero by 2050 has gone a long way to killing it," he said.
Business Green
MAY 12, 2020
Encouragingly, word from the EU Commission suggests it remains steadfast in its 2050 net zero ambitions and that combatting climate change should feature strongly in economic recovery packages. The legwork on diplomacy for COP is the piece that needs to ride alongside the domestic efforts to cut emissions," Stark explains.
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