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. "If

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Giving evidence at multiple select committees yesterday , Sharma was grilled by MPs on recent government policies designed to ramp up domestic oil and gas extraction, including proposals to lift the ban on fracking in England and hand out 100 licenses for new offshore oil and gas drilling.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

With world leaders about to gather in Dubai, United Arab Emirates for the COP 28 climate summit, the transition to green energy will be one of the key topics on the agenda. The replacement of fossil fuels by green energy is bringing about a revolution in electricity generation and expanding its role across economies.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Continuing to allow extraction may weaken UK diplomacy to encourage other countries to adopt ambitious climate policies," the letter states. "It The CCC has largely rejected the latter argument, noting that any expansion of UK fossil fuel fields would have a "marginal" effect on prices faced by consumers.

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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. Research published by Climate Action Tracker warned the sum total of policies and actions being taken by governments would deliver roughly 2.4C

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

New four word slogan captures government's ambitions for Glasgow Summit, as Tory backbench opposition to climate policies continues to swell. Cars - we want the world to follow the UK lead and abandon fossil fuel internal combustion engine machines.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

My question to my fellow world leaders this afternoon, as we enter the last hours of COP, is: Will you help us do that? As we move into the final stages of the summit, a lot more commitment and action is needed if this is to be a successful COP," said Kiran Sura, sustainability and climate change expert at consulting giant PwC.

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Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2023

I think a lot of the feedback that you hear from any of the COPs is we're not doing enough and we're not doing it fast enough. And I do believe that summits like COP help to crystallize our efforts toward a more balanced relationship with the natural world. Has COP changed your perspective on what Schneider could do?

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk. This report must sound a death knell for coal and fossil fuels, before they destroy our planet.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2021

The pitfalls of that were exemplified by Mark Carney's recent - and widely derided - assertion that the Canadian investment giant he sits on the board of is already a 'net zero' company across its investment portfolio, despite that same portfolio containing billions of dollars of holdings in fossil fuel-related projects.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Do the next best thing and read our COP reflections.  The pledge also calls on international banks to include nuclear in energy lending policies to help finance project-killing infrastructure expenditures. Last COP featured the conference’s first nuclear-themed pavilion, and this year boasted eight. Happy Monday! 

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