Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In November, I had the privilege to represent Schneider Electric at the UN's Conference of Parties (COP) on climate change in Glasgow. This COP was unlike the previous 25 iterations, in that it took place during a global pandemic. This COP was unlike the previous 25 iterations, in that it took place during a global pandemic.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The biggest international deal yet to tackle climate change came out of COP21 in 2015, when countries brokered the landmark Paris Agreement. After decades of stalled negotiations on this front, there was finally a breakthrough at last year’s COP. The future of fossil fuels Let’s start with some backstory on COP28.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

The UK government, as host of the most important climate conference since the Paris Agreement in 2015, must step up its efforts and show climate leadership. Mohamed Adow, director of the Nairobi-based think tank Power Shift Africa, said: "Those of us living in Africa have been aware of the urgency of the climate crisis for many years.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Other governments now need to isolate the Saudi delegation if they want this COP to succeed for everyone, not just fossil fuel interests.". However, seasoned observers noted that pretty much all of the 25 previous COP Summits have run over in pursuit of a compromise agreement, sometimes by days.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

That treaty has since been updated, including in 2015 when nations signed the Paris climate agreement. The initial set of emission reduction targets in 2015 was far too weak to limit global warming to 1.5 Another challenge that has derailed past COPs is agreeing on implementing a carbon trading system outlined in the Paris Agreement.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The HAC is widely credited with having played a key role in the brokering of the Paris Agreement in 2015, with its members moving in lockstep to encourage large emerging economies to back the Paris Treaty. Nick Mabey, co-founder and CEO of climate think tank E3G, said the HAC grouping "makes the political weather at COP".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Each of these meetings were known as Conferences of the Parties, or COPs, and they have become synonymous with both the world's admirable intention to tackle the climate crisis and the diplomatic quagmire and geopolitical tensions that have repeatedly stymied efforts to curb global emissions. Paris breakthrough. Business pressure.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Speaking at an event in Milan this month, Thunberg spoke for many when she alleged that COPs have delivered little more than a talking shop since the first Earth Summit in 1992. But for thousands of scientists and campaigners, these pledges are all too little, too late. As such Peters argues that a better way of talking about the 1.5C

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