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Business Green
NOVEMBER 13, 2022
Regardless of how interesting face-to-face meetings with heads of state may be, their speeches still are nothing more than empty words as they follow one another to the podium during the first formal plenary session at COP climate talks. What do we need for a successful COP? One example of what's going on?
Business Green
NOVEMBER 20, 2022
While there was a lot of media buzz recently about the activists that could not - or, understandably, would not - participate in this year's COP, the voices of the most important are missing at nearly all important decision fora. It's not just a COP issue, it's a power issue. We also need a counternarrative about what is important.
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Business Green
NOVEMBER 13, 2021
I am grateful to the UNFCCC for working with us to deliver a successful COP26. As I said at the opening, we must accelerate action to keep the 1.5 It is time to go into emergency mode — or our chance of reaching net zero will itself be zero. I reaffirm my conviction that we must end fossil fuels subsidies.
Business Green
OCTOBER 16, 2022
I want to start by thanking Ambassador Green, and Ambassador Quinville, for the warm welcome that I've had here at the Wilson Center. I want to reflect back to nearly a year ago when the world came together, and we forged together the historic Glasgow Climate Pact. Good morning everyone. It's a pleasure to be here. The pulse of 1.5
Business Green
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
For all the evidence the Paris Agreement has catalysed an era-defining array of clean tech innovations and a remarkable shift in public opinion, there have been baseless arguments that the entire COP process is an exercise in futility. I dunno - survivable summer temperatures? I'm always pretty loath to criticise other journalists.
Business Green
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
BusinessGreen's Michael Holder and Cecilia Keating are on the ground in Sharm El-Sheikh this week reporting on the crucial developments from the UN talks, but I am not physically at this year's COP. That said, judging by some of the noises coming out of COP27 this week I am not alone in being decidedly underwhelmed thus far.
Business Green
NOVEMBER 20, 2022
This COP has taken an important step towards justice. I welcome the decision to establish a loss and damage fund and to operationalize it in the coming period. All the reaction to the historic deal on Loss and Damage and negligible progress on climate mitigation. It's fitting. Climate chaos is a crisis of biblical proportions.
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