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

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

as the key target for the Paris Agreement and reiterates last year's promise to deliver a "phasing down" of unabated coal power and a "phasing out" of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies. in reach, global emissions must peak before 2025 at the latest. It also "requests parties that have not yet done so.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Fossil fuels get named and shamed. For the first time in 25 years of UN climate talks, coal and fossil fuel subsidies have been singled out in an official document. Countries have also agreed to submit their post-2030 climate targets on a five yearly cycle, with 2035 plans due in 2025. on the table," he said.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

But it remains significantly longer - and has been published much later - than previous COP cover texts, meaning negotiators have a major task ahead of them in whittling down options to deliver political consensus. We can only really perhaps get the highest ambition on mitigation if we also see a strong breakthrough on loss and damage.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Documents released this morning strongly suggest significant dividing lines remain on a raft of key issues, including climate finance and adaptation funding, loss and damage, carbon markets, language around the phasing down of fossil fuels, and much more besides.

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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. Crucially, it signalled the fossil fuel economy is coming to a close - albeit a slower one than is needed, with its explicit targetting of fossil fuel subsidies and coal power.

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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. It calls on countries to phase-down unabated coal power and phase-out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2021

Here, BusinessGreen rounds up the reaction from a host of leading figures and organisations from across politics, business, NGOs, academia and think tanks offer their views on the Strategy and its many implications for the UK's net zero transition. We are working at pace.

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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

APRIL 4, 2022

And so today's report's conclusion that while the scale of the challenge is monumental - the world must peak emissions by 2025, before halving them by 2030 - it also encouragingly makes clear that the world already has all of the tools it needs to achieve these aims, in order to keep the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

As ever, scores of leading thinkers and influential organisations in business, finance, economics, academia, science, politics and civil society have offered their views on the IPCC's latest findings today, and here BusinessGreen pulls some of the most insightful. Continued dependence on fossil fuels will cost lives.

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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. In addition, £65.5m And the UK government's actual record is sending a different signal.

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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

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

However, at the same time many countries were left disappointed at the failure to secure a more ambitious agreement on phasing down the use of fossil fuels and accelerating global decarbonisation efforts. It gives the key political signals that indicate the phasedown of all fossil fuels is happening. "We

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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. Another challenge that has derailed past COPs is agreeing on implementing a carbon trading system outlined in the Paris Agreement. What happens at COP26? Courtesy: Johannes Plenio /Unsplash.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 22, 2023

But American politics is crazy and unpredictable, so it’s hard to say for sure, but given that incentives are going to Republican states, some of it, if not all of it, will remain intact regardless of the outcome of the election. An Article 6 agreement at COP could be the wildcard here. They want the jobs. Joshua : No!

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