Business Green

AUGUST 4, 2020

It also wants to develop 50GW of renewables by 2030 - that's more than all the renewable electricity capacity installed in the UK to date. BP's aim to reduce its own oil and gas production by 40 per cent by 2030 is significant," campaign group Culture Unstained said on Twitter. But in 2018, BP's production was 2.7m barrels per day.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Obsessing over the conventional talking points – whether or not we should cut emissions by 2050 or 2030 and so on – or what we might term “mitigation”, is no longer going to cut it, they say. A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read. “The The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

With greater scrutiny over emissions from meat and dairy companies, it is not surprising they are stepping up their game to head off any COP outcome that might hinder their operations,” Ben Lilliston, from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy told DeSmog. Pesticide company Syngenta’s Foundation came with Ukraine.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Obsessing over the conventional talking points – whether or not we should cut emissions by 2050 or 2030 and so on – or what we might term “mitigation”, is no longer going to cut it, they say. A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read. It’s time to pivot to a response that prioritises adaptation.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

It is also vital for achieving ocean-related goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework," he said, referring to the so-called 30x30 pledge made at last year's COP15 Summit to protect a third of the world's land and sea for biodiversity by 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

As with the last summit, the risk continues to be that greenwashing leaves governments with “a vision that tinkers around the edges,”rather than a transformative one that creates food systems that are resilient and restore ecosystems,” as Shefali Sharma, director of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), warned at COP27.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

He is an executive director at the International Monetary Fund and has also been UN Special Envoy on Financing for the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda since February 2020. An Egyptian national, Mohieldin boasts more than 30 years' experience in international finance and development.

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2021

The effects of climate change are already causing premature death and worsening health outcomes for many around the world and the expected direct financial costs are predicted to be $2-4bn per year by 2030. An empowering business narrative and call for health resilient climate action. What's already happening and what's missing?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

It marks the next chapter for the Breakthrough Agenda, which was launched by the UK COP Presidency and the Race to Zero campaign at the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow last year and aims to bring together governments committed to driving the uptake of technologies and solutions that can help decarbonise emissions intensive sectors.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2020

To create fairer, greener and more resilient economies at home and around the world. That is why, as hosts of COP26 , the UK wants to ramp up ambition to achieve a climate-resilient, zero-carbon economy. These are: clean energy, clean transport, nature-based solutions, adaptation and resilience, and underpinning everything, finance.

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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This Conference of Parties (COP) was highly anticipated as a critical inflection point where our economies and societies set forth on an ambitious and clearly defined path to decarbonize by 2050 and keep warming below 1.5 Department of Energy–backed research effort to bring the cost of carbon removal below $100 a ton by 2030.

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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, And we are getting ready for it.??. We are firmly committed to this goal.??

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Business Green

MAY 14, 2021

Alok Sharma intent on holding 'most inclusive COP ever' in Glasgow, but it is not UK's gift alone to make in-person event happen. This is what makes the next United Nations Climate Conference in Glasgow, COP 26, so critical. If we are serious about 1.5C, Glasgow must be the COP that consigns coal power to history," he said.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Governments have a unique opportunity to step up climate action to ensure that we can halve global emissions by 2030. Businesses have a stake in the COP outcomes for three main reasons - let me explain. What do businesses want to see from the governments that's being discussed at COP? ºC ambition, energy, finance included.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

All four companies have "ambitious and credible climate action plans" to drive down their emissions in line with climate science, and will "support the delivery of a successful and ambitious COP next November", the government said today. When it comes to climate action, we all have an important role to play.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

°C without harnessing the power of NbS for both climate mitigation and resilience. If scaled up now, NbS could provide roughly a third of the emissions reductions needed to reach our global climate goals by 2030. Simply put, we cannot achieve the Paris Agreement's global climate goals to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

The new campaign will be stewarded by the UK and Chile as incoming and outgoing COP presidents, respectively. That's why all members are demonstrating how they're already in the race to zero, by publishing immediate plans by COP26 and setting interim targets in 2025 and 2030.". campaign, according to the UNFCCC. "Net

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2022

In a video address to more than 40 leaders and ministers assembled at the Berlin event this morning, Antonio Guterres slammed political leaders for failing to take adequate action on tackling climate change and mobilising finance to support poorer nations' efforts to decarbonise and bolster their climate resilience.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

In Canada last month almost 200 countries at COP 15 agreed a set of landmark pledges that will resonate not just through 2023, but to the end of the decade and beyond to the middle of the 21st century. Being a five-year plan, the EIP will necessarily focus minds on delivery, which is what we need at this stage of the journey towards 2030.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Of course, there are deep failures at the heart of the COP process and its politics. And indeed overall, the discussions on adaptation, resilience and damage illustrate how far we all have to go to reckon with the disruptive, damaging effect that climate impacts inevitably involve. These mechanisms have invigorated global action.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

We hope to see collaborative advantage take precedence over competition as we approach 2030. While not losing sight of the importance to progress mitigation measures, in the next five to 10 years, world leaders will zone in on adaptation strategies, to help build resiliency in the face of increasingly severe and frequent weather events.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Keep your eye on 2030. Earlier in the Summit an independent analysis had warned that based on current national emissions targets for 2030 the world was still on track for 2.4C This COP caused deep frustrations but it wasn't for nothing," she said. "It The NDCs just don't add up," he warned. That is our horizon.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Build resilience of vulnerable communities against the here and now impacts of climate change. I also want particularly to thank COP President Alok Sharma who has worked incredibly hard to bring countries together. Greenwashing is the new climate denial, and we have seen too much at play in this COP. Phase out coal. degrees. "I

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2020

British diplomats, the UK COP presidency team and Ministers would have been in a whirl of frenetic influencing activity globally (we hope) to drive up ambition, and drive out those new nationally-determined contributions (NDCs) from all the parties to the Paris Agreement. But these are not normal times, and the COP has been delayed by a year.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

It can either be used to reduce carbon emissions or promote ways in which to adapt, mitigate and build resilience to the effects of climate change. Conference of the Parties (COP). COP is the decision-making body responsible for monitoring and reviewing implementation of the UNFCCC. Short-lived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs).

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Beyond these intense negotiations lies a much-broader field of activity, not least to bring the financial system into line with a net zero, nature positive and resilient future. Climate change and the loss of nature are two intersecting crises that face the global economy. per cent and 6.5 per cent respectively.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The appeals underscored how for many nations, the success of the Sharm El Sheikh Summit depends on its ability to deliver real progress towards the launch of a dedicated funding mechanism for Loss and Damage, after the contentious issue made it on to a COP agenda for the first time this year.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

The new campaign will be stewarded by the UK and Chile as incoming and outgoing COP presidents, respectively. That's why all members are demonstrating how they're already in the race to zero, by publishing immediate plans by COP26 and setting interim targets in 2025 and 2030.". campaign, according to the UNFCCC. "Net

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

The UK remains COP President until next November, when it will hand the baton over to Egypt, which is set host the COP27 Summit at the Red Sea beach resort of Sharm-el Sheikh. Indeed, there is no shortage of world-changing points of action for Sharma's COP team to be getting on with over the coming months.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 24, 2022

"We're delighted that [Sunak] signed our pledge to continue the Conservative Party's environmental leadership, deliver net zero by 2050 and halt the decline of nature by 2030," it said in a statement today. Congratulations @RishiSunak ! Read Rishi's message to CEN councillors and supporters: [link].

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Second, if governments are going to start to pay for Loss and Damage the case for bolstering climate resilience in the most vulnerable countries has become more compelling still. Like the World Cup that kicked off within hours of the gavel coming down in Sharm El Sheikh, COPs provide a regular temperature check for global geopolitics.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Alan Jope, CEO at Unilever, said: "As COP15 concludes, the message to the private sector is clear: businesses around the world and from all sectors will need to take large-scale action now to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030. By the next CBD COP in 2024, governments have a lot of homework to turn these agreed goals into actions at home.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Clean power deployment needs to quadruple by 2030, in addition to a major investment in carbon capture and storage, advanced nuclear technologies, and hydrogen. Our net zero scenario shows that a credible pathway to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement still exists, but getting there requires immediate action," he said.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

The International Energy Agency has estimated that $13.5tr of public and private investment in the global energy sector alone will be required between 2015 and 2030 to meet the Paris Agreement targets. Helping our world-leading offshore wind industry reach 40GW by 2030. adaptation and resilience. adaptation and resilience.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Now there is a broad consensus that bolder action is required well before 2030, even if some of the details are still being thrashed out. All over the world not nearly enough is being done to enhance climate resilience, leaving communities and economies exposed. of warming was completely burned through.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2020

Arguing that "the time is now" for the UK to be a global climate leader, it calls for immediate policy action to ensure that by 2030 all homes are highly energy efficient, petrol and diesel car sales are phased out, wind and solar generation triples, and 10 million heat pumps are installed in homes.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Green business groups and campaigners welcome higher 2030 emissions reduction goal, but call for ambitious policy and funding to put the UK on a net zero pathway as soon as possible. Ed Miliband MP, Labour's Shadow Business Secretary said: "We welcome the important strengthening of the 2030 UK target.

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