Africa Construction COP Resilience 
Climate Tech VC
DECEMBER 8, 2023
Maybe it was the offer of warm sun in December, but this year’s COP drew 100K attendees, almost double the size of COP15 in Paris. Climate tech played its biggest role ever at COP this year. The oil & gas COP. This was the COP of the climate and O&G juxtaposition. The greenwashing was unavoidable.
Business Green
JUNE 8, 2021
As such, the UK government is said to be working on plans for a new multibillion-pound green development bank that could both directly fund low carbon infrastructure projects across Asia, Africa, and South America, and underwrite private investment. The voice of vulnerable countries is really important at COPs," he explained.
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Business Green
JUNE 18, 2020
There's no point investing in EVs and running them on clean electricity if the vehicles themselves are constructed out of aluminium coming from coal-fired electricity in China.". The company's aluminium is, after all, produced by minerals mined in the Caribbean and West Africa and refined in Ireland. "At
Business Green
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
The Egyptian COP Presidency has also yet to release a first draft of the so-called cover texts that provide the overarching statement of agreements and calls to action from the summit, with the latest tentative predictions that it could emerge before the end of Tuesday. alive or this will be the COP where we lose 1.5C," he said.
Business Green
APRIL 14, 2020
As COP26 hosts, the UK government had been working with current COP President Chile, the EU, and a raft of developing countries all of whom want to see a significant ratcheting up of national climate goals to co-ordinate a wave of strengthened NDC submissions in the run up to the Glasgow Summit in November.
Climate Tech VC
DECEMBER 11, 2023
Do the next best thing and read our COP reflections. Last COP featured the conference’s first nuclear-themed pavilion, and this year boasted eight. A fusion of world powers Scientists have also been chasing nuclear fusion for decades , but again COP could reflect a global paradigm shift. Happy Monday!
Business Green
OCTOBER 20, 2021
Speaking at an event in Milan this month, Thunberg spoke for many when she alleged that COPs have delivered little more than a talking shop since the first Earth Summit in 1992. Of course we need constructive dialogue, but they have now had 30 years of blah blah blah. Will enough people turn up to say it's a legitimate COP?
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