EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

From 2020 to 2050, oil and gas must decrease by 67% and 54%, respectively. Decisions about production, trade and emission performance extend beyond the balance sheet to questions of politics, domestic finance and foreign affairs. The UAE isn’t the first oil-rich nation to host a COP.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

To grasp the opportunities of net zero and deliver a successful climate change summit in Glasgow, the government must come forward with ambitious policies in 2020, argues the REA's Nina Skorupska. The goings-on behind the scenes of COP 26, or kack thereof, have been well documented over the past few weeks.

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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. Business pressure.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

But she was unceremoniously and controversially removed from the top job in February 2020, just six months after being appointed to the role. Politics is politics - and you end up with all these weird things, like the Prime Minister's decision to have a minister on it," she says. But I'm just really pleased.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 2, 2021

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change — the folks who organize the annual COP events — defines “climate-related risks” as those: …created by a range of hazards. Policy & Politics. Today, it is part of many companies’ toolkit as they seek to understand the impacts of climate change on their business and society.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Like a chicken and egg dilemma, who came up with these goals first, politics or science? Political Origins of 2°C. The next key moment in the 2°C story is no longer scientific, but political. And we reached the political tipping point around the two-degree mark. But why are both numbers so important? Another time jump.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

This means bridging the current political divide over outstanding issues related to finance, capacity building, technology transfer, transparency and especially Article Six. This issue cannot continue to be deferred, COP after COP after COP. We need a political decision," Guterres added. "We

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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 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

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Branded as the most inclusive COP to date, the reality of COP26 was activists and NGOs left out in the cold, and billionaires and fossil fuel representative sitting at the negotiating table. When cyclone Amphan hit Bangladesh in May 2020, it destroyed over 200,000 homes, killed more than 100 people and displaced millions.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

If we can bank this progress from COP25, negotiators can focus on the handful of sticky issues that require political attention. continued to engage at a technical level throughout the Trump era, they were basically a no show at the political level. In 2020, the ICAO Council decided which credits will be eligible for CORSIA.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

As you know, I'm now devoting all of my time and energies to the role of COP President-designate whilst continuing as a full member of the UK government cabinet. 2020 saw record temperatures. 2020 saw record temperatures. By the end of 2020 net zero was firmly established as the law. We saw fires raging across the world.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2020

Very sad that that the role I was offered by @BorisJohnson last year has now been rescinded as Whitehall "can't cope" with an Indy cop unit. Wishing the cop team every blessing in the climate recovery emergency. — COP26President (@Cop26President) January 31, 2020.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2020

2020 was supposed to be a transformational year for the environment.". But now the race is on to say what happens next - can businesses turn 2020 into the pivotal year we envisioned despite the regulatory and societal upheaval? That's how we started Verisk Maplecroft's Environmental Risk Outlook just last month.

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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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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

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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In 2020, Aramco removed adverts in which it boasted that it was “powering a more sustainable future”, after dozens of complaints to the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). The investigation identified 114 Aramco adverts on the keywords “carbon storage”, “carbon capture” and “energy transition” – one of the largest of any firm.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

London Mayor Sadiq Khan is preparing to kick off the second annual London Climate Action Week from next week with a stark warning for business and political leaders to step up efforts to tackle the looming "climate emergency".

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

President Joe Biden, and their representatives will gather to demonstrate their political commitment to slowing climate change. Wealthy countries promised in 2009 to contribute $100 billion a year by 2020 to help developing nations, a goal that has not been reached. What happens at COP26? The U.S. , Courtesy: Johannes Plenio /Unsplash.

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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. That makes the government's emissions targets a sham," he said.

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

We are committed to holding COP 26 in Glasgow, but the Scottish government needs to work with us to make sure this is a successful summit, which showcases the UK as a world leader in tackling climate change and represents value for the UK taxpayer," he was quoted as saying. — COP26 (@COP26) February 12, 2020. and is where the ??

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Another COP is coming - the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference. In addition, there is growing dismay, and anger in many quarters, that the unmet promises of past COPs, especially in providing finance to those that are suffering loss and damage from climate change, are going to make COP27 even more challenging.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

As such officials now believe it would be beneficial to have more time available to reschedule meetings next year and step up efforts to rebuild political momentum ahead of the talks. The Chinese government is currently understood to be exploring new dates for the Summit in the first half of 2021.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2022

However, the mood at the conference remains downbeat as progress on key issues of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) continue at a sluggish pace amid widespread disagreement on issues such as finance, subsidy reform and nature risk reporting. Without it then you would say we have not had a successful COP," he said."

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Graves, who represents south-central Louisiana, has accepted $759,995 in campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry since he was elected to Congress in 2014, according to Open Secrets, a nonpartisan research group that tracks money in politics. Critics are skeptical on whether the GOP trip will galvanize strong climate action. “It

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 13, 2019

’s general election, achieving a huge majority and breaking the country's political deadlock. hosts the UN’s COP 26 climate negotiations in Glasgow at the end of 2020. The Conservative Party swept to victory in the U.K.’s The current Brexit divorce deal is set to be approved as early as next week.

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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.

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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

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 3, 2021

Other demands include cutting methane emissions by 30 per cent between 2020 and 2030, working to tackle other damaging pollutants, and taking more ambitious action to decarbonise transport such as aviation and shipping. 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

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

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

JUNE 18, 2021

The sense that now near universal support for the net zero transition is struggling to overcome the political constraints applied by coal state senators and hybrid-touting automakers was palpable. The road to COP 26 remains nebulous. Sharma stressed that the final countdown to the crucial Glasgow Summit was now clearly underway. "We

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Business Green

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Together, they will work to finalise a post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). The will from many in the business community is there, it must now be matched with political action. The GBF will provide a roadmap for nations which spans the next decade.

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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. Tim Shipman, political editor of the Sunday Times : Is Britain open for business? It's his chance to shine on the world stage.

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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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