Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

EU energy emissions fall, Rwanda gets its first mini-grid, and Brazil preps a COP bid. The French Senate this week approved new legislation that will require all large car parks in the country to install solar canopies in support of the government's renewable energy drive. French Senate approves solar car park legislation.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Saudi Arabia is set to win the role of top sponsor of international football’s governing body, FIFA, after openly admitting that one of the reasons it engages in sponsorship is to ‘sportswash’ its national reputation for economic benefit. and they face no official sanction for saying so. Sound far-fetched?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Mohamed Adow, director of think tank Power Shift Africa said the achievement came after three decades of appeals for help from climate impacted nations. "To This COP caused deep frustrations but it wasn't for nothing," she said. "It The agreement was hailed by activists and developing countries as a major breakthrough.

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Business Green

JUNE 9, 2022

As such, it had been widely expected that the next appointment would come from a developing economy in Africa or Asia. We need to see the standards the world's governments set for international carbon markets in Glasgow become widely and consistently applied, including in the voluntary carbon market.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

Many people across the world are looking to governments during this global emergency to provide leadership and clarity to overcome the unprecedented challenges that we are facing. The UK government will fund the best projects and approaches to be deployed globally, and share UK expertise to support others with their own green recovery.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Last year we saw devastating floods across Asia and Europe. Where people's ability to feed their families becomes precarious and extreme weather and diseases wipe out livelihoods, people may be forced from their homes, and civil unrest may ferment, events that can undermine fragile government, and reverberate around the globe.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2022

But fears are growing that the talks could become deadlocked on the issue of funding, after reports emerged this morning that the French government is blocking proposals from developing countries for a new specific international fund for biodiversity and pressuring the EU to do likewise. Business is merely one of them.".

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 7, 2020

From Amsterdam, Gellert oversaw the company in Europe, Africa and the Middle East for nearly six years, working before that at outdoor gear maker Black Diamond. Chantelle Ludski is serving as the North America and Asia Pacific COO for the Anthesis Group sustainability consultancy. The former U.K.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

As such, the COP Presidency should presumably welcome mounting calls for a new era of public-private cooperation on the financial packages that can help developing and emerging economies wean themselves off fossil fuels.

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2021

UK government to try and build support for new Clean Green Initiative to fund developing world climate projects, but observers warn plan requires proper funding. One government source told the paper that that unless Johnson overruled Chancellor Rishi Sunak there was a risk that the initiative would prove counterproductive.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2021

The Prime Minister is scheduled to address the opening session of the Climate Leaders Summit, which is being hosted by the Biden administration to coincide with Earth Day and step up pressure on governments around the world to strengthen their national climate action plans ahead of the crucial COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow this autumn.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

temperature goal agreed by governments. Blagojevic said the UK had a responsibility as COP president to push the international community to respond to the report's warnings. Hoesung Lee, chair of the IPCC, said the findings were a "dire warning" about the consequences of inaction on climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2024

Campaigners and climate scientists had hoped the summit – which was billed as a “Food COP” due to its focus on farming – would see governments agree to ambitious action to transform food systems in line with the goals of the Paris climate agreement. Burr added that COPs provided an opportunity for U.S.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

This COP has taken an important step towards justice. We need to drastically reduce emissions now - and this is an issue this COP did not address. Following on from COP27, the Government must not only progress our own climate change agenda but continue to promote and strengthen that coordinated global action. But let's be clear.

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Business Green

APRIL 2, 2020

In truth, since the full scale of Covid-19's impact on Europe, East Asia and North America started becoming clear, the decision to postpone this year's United Nations climate change summit into next year has only been a matter of time. The request for an early decision on postponement came from the UK government. So what happens now?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The HAC statement stresses that Coalition countries are "alarmed" by the latest IPCC report setting out the scale of the climate crisis now facing the planet, and therefore calls for more ambitious action from governments, noting with "deep concern" the gap between existing national climate commitments and a 1.5C warming pathway.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Getting three big holdouts from a previous deforestation commitment in 2014 — Brazil, Russia and China — was a big win, although India, Saudi Arabia and South Africa are still absent. With these and other efforts, Asia is on track to get to zero deforestation by 2030. Country-level changes.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Late last month Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg's offered an inimitable assessment of the climate talks to date, dismissing them as "blah, blah, blah", as she again decried the failure of governments to actually curb global emissions. With just a few days to go until COP26 kicks off, her pessimism is widely shared. is closing fast.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

For example, the AIM for Climate initiative, which works to increase investments in "climate-smart" agriculture, announced it had amassed $8m of fresh investment from government partners, including the UK, US, Australia, and European Commission.

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