Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2021

He was detained most recently during protests in September 2020 and also spent a night in a cell as part of XR demonstrations in October 2019. But given that the UK has the COP presidency this year, we could be setting a good example for other governments to follow. warming limit. Like many people, I've tried to do the right thing.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Wed, 10/07/2020 - 02:01. Amid myriad social, health and political crises, business sustainability is alive and well and living the Paris Agreement. Energy and Clean Growth minister also served as COP President for the 26th UN Climate Change Conference. New leaders at Patagonia, McDonald's, Netflix. Elsa Wenzel. Who's news.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In my first fortnight as COP President, I have been listening to those who have done this before. ??Meeting Meeting people like Paris COP President Laurent Fabius, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed and Patricia Espinosa from the UNFCCC. ??And, But there are some areas which need particular attention in 2020.??

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Business Green

APRIL 26, 2020

The two-day Petersberg Climate Dialogue has long been a key event in the annual climate diplomacy calendar, with environment ministers from around 30 countries typically coming together to thrash out priorities and preparations for the following United Nations COP climate summit.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

— Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP (@grantshapps) February 27, 2020. But this decision risks holding back the very investment in innovation needed to achieve that, and the ambitions of many businesses eager to benefit from greater international connectivity. — Rebecca Long-Bailey (@RLong_Bailey) February 27, 2020.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

During the pandemic-disrupted 2020, UK greenhouse gas emissions plummeted around 13 per cent, amounting to a 48 per cent cut in emissions since 1990. Aviation emissions were down a whopping 60 per cent in 2020, shipping emissions down 24 per cent, and road transport emissions fell 18 per cent.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

"While there might be uncertainty as to which technology is best for clean HGVs, there are low regrets actions that can be taken now, such as investing in energy infrastructure ahead of need and aligning investment with other transport sectors such as the EV rapid charging network," he said. per cent to 0.5

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

Has anyone ever faced a shorter political honeymoon? million barrels a day in 2020, down around 90,000 barrels a day from 2019, although under a pessimistic scenario global demand could fall by 730,000 barrels a day in 2020. The IEA is now predicting global oil demand will fall to 99.9

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

In the UK, we did this on 23 March 2020 and we also launched a series of major policy initiatives to support businesses and individuals through the pandemic. Because finance and investment are the lifeblood of net zero projects - and we can only meet this challenge together. Experience working in the private sector.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

These range from the promise of proposed solutions such as carbon capture and “renewable biogas,” to the role the industry claims to be playing in the energy transition, despite its persistently low investments in anything other than increased fossil fuel production. and Europe. . It’s implicitly calling for a new consensus.”

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

— Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP (@grantshapps) February 27, 2020. — Rebecca Long-Bailey (@RLong_Bailey) February 27, 2020. — Caroline Lucas (@CarolineLucas) February 27, 2020. This Govt won't appeal today's judgement given our manifesto makes clear any #Heathrow expansion will be industry led.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The key missing ingredient is a lack of political will he said: “Political will to put a price on carbon. Political will to stop subsidies on fossil fuels”, or to shift taxation from income to carbon, “taxing pollution instead of people.” Public opinion is waking up everywhere. Primarily, all the main emitters must do more.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Indeed, in one of its recent reports, Chatham House makes the case that such factors could, ultimately, displace people, disrupt markets, undermine political stability, and exacerbate conflict. Though policy choices could reduce this figure, and I would add that it includes investments with long term benefits. Clean is competitive.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The Task Force put out a statement yesterday calling for “responsible investment” in the UK’s oil and gas industry, which it said would “play a vital role in helping the UK to achieve net zero by 2050” by avoiding the import of higher-emission oil and liquified natural gas (LNG) from abroad. As the COP host, the U.K.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

That means investing in industries and infrastructure that can turn the tide on climate change.". Convinced that everything is back on track, that coronavirus no threat to getting net zero done and implementing the various 2020 commitments under the Paris Agreements? Steely determination. More twists in this virus. So - job done?

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

They added: “These pavilions are here to greenwash national reputations, all the while providing latitude for their fossil fuel partners to continue business as usual, polluting politics and planet, and doing their level worst to sink hopes of keeping temperature rise at 1.5C.”. billion in 2020 alone, £66 million of which was coal mining.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The UK is among a host of wealthier nations which have yet to stump up their "fair share" of funding to help developing countries decarbonise their economies and contend with the worsening impacts of climate change, despite a long-held pledge that they would collectively provide $100bn a year in climate funding by 2020.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

Other former COP Presidents, such as Laurent Fabius. And there are some areas which need particular action in 2020. I met with permanent representatives, the UN and NGOs this morning to discuss how we can translate these political commitments into on-the-ground action. Civil society organisations. Second, nature.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Yet given so much economic activity ground to a halt as the coronavirus pandemic struck, the world is now almost two years into the 2020s and worryingly little 'action' has really taken place. But actually the NDC process doesn't require that we wait for COP - countries can act unilaterally on their own pathways.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

As the world's two biggest economies and emitters, the USA and China have particular responsibility for making such a "historic" Pact a reality, said Guterres, as he called on the two superpowers to come together in the mutual interests of the planet, despite their political differences. "It Sunak also met with Kenya's new President H.E.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Now almost a year on, it is just 23 days to COP27, the end of the UK's COP Presidency, and the end of my time as COP President. Our global political economy, built on fossil fuels for the last century, is in a state of flux. But as serious as these crises are, we must also recognise a seismic structural shift that is underway.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 7, 2020

New leaders at Patagonia, McDonald’s, Netflix Elsa Wenzel Wed, 10/07/2020 – 02:01 Heading into fall, this batch of career updates from the worlds of sustainability and business is somewhat top-heavy. Amid myriad social, health and political crises, business sustainability is alive and well and living the Paris Agreement.

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 17, 2020

In a Time article Justin Worland says that from where we stand today 2020 may seem like the year "an unknown virus spun out of control, killed hundreds of thousands and altered the way we live day to day," but in the future we may see 2020 as "the year we decided to keep driving off the climate cliff–or to take the last exit."

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

It is highly likely the row over phasing down or phasing out coal power will return in the coming years and the debate at future COPs will no doubt be extended to address oil and gas. If there's one theme that really comes out loud and clear from this COP, it is about money," said former Energy and Climate Change Secretary Amber Rudd.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Lending high-level economic and political credence to that growing public clamour for action, the work of Chris Stark and his small team at the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) in driving the issue up the agenda should not be forgotten. Suddenly, barely days into 2020, a new paradigm began to take shape. That's the biggest risk.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

After a marathon 48 hours of pre-Summit talks, the agenda for the official negotiations was confirmed yesterday and in an early breakthrough for developing economies Loss and Damage was included on the agenda for a COP Summit for the first time. But the US provided just $7.6bn in climate funding. In addition, £65.5m

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

billion investment in clean energy projects for the Middle East, and $187 billion domestically, is dwarfed by the annual income of Aramco from oil extraction. What’s more, carbon capture investments displace money and attention that could otherwise be devoted to developing proven renewable energy sources.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

From Rio to Glasgow: The political recognition of our climate crisis increases On the 9th of May, 1992, the United Nations Framework Convention on Change (UNFCCC) was adopted. Since the convention’s establishment, the countries involved meet annually during the Conference of the Parties (COP). ppm in 2020. C) within reach.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 13, 2019

’s general election, achieving a huge majority and breaking the country's political deadlock. He said his party would deliver "colossal new investments in infrastructure, in science, using our incredible technological advantages to make this country the cleanest, greenest on earth with the most far-reaching environmental program.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As CEO of the world's biggest asset manager, BlackRock, which looks after a whopping $8.67tr investments worldwide, Fink's words matter a great deal. During 2020, 81 per cent of a globally-representative selection of sustainable indexes outperformed their parent benchmarks, according to Fink. The trailblazers.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The research has been published in the hope of informing a working meeting of the UN Convention of Biological Diversity early next month, the treaty through which countries come together to hold regular COP meetings aimed at delivering a global treaty to reverse biodiversity loss.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2021

After all, many of the world's largest economies are already signed up to sweeping net zero emissions targets and are preparing increasingly ambitious national decarbonisation strategies centred on the phasing out of coal power and internal combustion engines, coupled with a surge in clean technology and infrastructure investment.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Setting a higher climate ambition has been widely called for by businesses, political figures and green campaigners alike, and is seen as a hugely important diplomatic gesture to encourage other nations around the world to follow suit in the run up to COP26 in Glasgow next year.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2021

It's going to be an ongoing conversation," she says of the questions around how the government intends to deliver a covid-secure international event at a time when the pace of vaccine roll outs globally varies massively, "but absolutely the intention and the focus is on being able to deliver an in person COP.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The ghost at the feast - a certain orange-hued Florida-based frequently racist social media addict and the political party he has hijacked - casts a shadow over everything, undermining confidence the US political system can ever deliver on Joe Biden's ambitious net zero promises. Where then are the causes for optimism?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Moreover, it specifically urges nations to halt "inefficient" coal subsidies as soon as possible, and stop investing in unabated coal projects both at home and abroad, in addition to setting an end date for domestic coal power altogether.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2021

While there are important issues to be negotiated by political leaders and diplomats at COP26, panellists stressed the aim of the summit is not to hammer out a fresh global deal. Its stated aim is to collectively slash methane emissions across all sectors by 30 per cent between 2020 and 2030.

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