Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In this year, the Year of Climate Action, it will be the top international priority for this government.?? In my first fortnight as COP President, I have been listening to those who have done this before. ??Meeting The next step is to translate these political commitments into on the ground action. ??.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Another COP is coming - the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference. In addition, there is growing dismay, and anger in many quarters, that the unmet promises of past COPs, especially in providing finance to those that are suffering loss and damage from climate change, are going to make COP27 even more challenging.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

he COP27 Climate Summit finally closed early on Sunday morning , delivering both an historic deal to introduce a new Loss and Damage fund and recriminations over governments' continuing failure to accept unabated fossil fuels need to be phase out in the coming decades. Petrostates are still not fully onboard with the Paris Agreement.

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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

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 It just shows that this UN process can achieve results, and that the world can recognise the plight of the vulnerable must not be treated as a political football.".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Over 1,500 civil society groups call for postpone COP26, arguing the UK government has failed to ensure a 'safe, equitable and inclusive summit'. Today, 57 per cent of Europe is fully vaccinated while just about three per cent of Africa is," said Essop. In response, Sharma said such measures would be in place. "We

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

depends on governments doing what they have said they will do, strengthening their plans further, and catalysing the fastest and widest industrial revolution in history. And even now, certain governments are determined to bury 1.5C Pushing warming projections down towards 1.5C The counter to all of this is that 1.5C is barely alive.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

However, observers were quick to stress that the new projections were entirely dependent on governments now delivering on their decarbonisation promises, with experts stressing there was little detail to back up many of the new net zero commitments. C A big step forward, but much more needed! — Fatih Birol (@fbirol) November 4, 2021.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Indeed, in one of its recent reports, Chatham House makes the case that such factors could, ultimately, displace people, disrupt markets, undermine political stability, and exacerbate conflict. By contrast the OBR estimates that if we act now, the transition to net zero could add around 21 per cent of GDP to government debt by mid-century.

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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. I know the role finance can play in delivering this change, having worked in corporate finance myself for over 15 years before I came into politics.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The first full negotiating texts are still not expected until later this evening, or potentially even tomorrow, according to Egypt's COP Presidency. There has been movement but I would be exaggerating if I said it was matching exactly what the political statements are," said Aboulmagd.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

But green groups were left underwhelmed, after the government confirmed its commitment today to treble climate adaptation funding and support a series of new forest protection projects would come from existing climate finance budgets. It is either a Climate Solidarity Pact - or a Collective Suicide Pact," Guterres warned.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

alive or this will be the COP where we lose 1.5C," he said. You need to work out how you want future generations to look upon this COP and each of us individually as countries. We must now shift gears and complement the technical discussions with more political, high-level engagement.". We'll either leave Egypt having kept 1.5C

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Can governments broker a deal to phase out the oil, coal, and gas causing climate change? Now that governments are supposed to adjust their plans according to the stocktake, there’s a push for them to finally explicitly commit to ax fossil fuels. Namely, should they even have a future? He has denied the allegations , of course.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Now almost a year on, it is just 23 days to COP27, the end of the UK's COP Presidency, and the end of my time as COP President. Our global political economy, built on fossil fuels for the last century, is in a state of flux. But as serious as these crises are, we must also recognise a seismic structural shift that is underway.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Amid myriad social, health and political crises, business sustainability is alive and well and living the Paris Agreement. 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. The former U.K.

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Grist

JANUARY 17, 2021

The announcement at the One Planet summit, which also saw pledges to invest billions of pounds in the Great Green Wall in Africa and the launch of a new sustainable finance charter called the Terra Carta by Prince Charles, was met with scepticism from some campaigners. So as co-host of the next Climate Cop, the 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. The countries where these polluting assets are located are under significant pressure to phase down these polluting assets.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Forward-thinking businesses and financiers are set to be agents of change as governments look for ways to turn ambition into action - a role that is clearly not lost on the many business leaders represented at the SEC Centre in Glasgow. Business played a larger and more significant role at the Glasgow COP than any before it.

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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

Boris Johnson to tell Climate Leaders Summit the question of how to reach net zero emissions is 'not so much technical as political'. The UK has shown that it's possible to slash emissions while growing the economy, which makes question of reaching net zero not so much technical as political," he will say. "If

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

Better oversight over the metal's embodied emissions will be a boon to climate-sensitive governments looking to invest heavily in infrastructure to reboot coronavirus-damaged economies in an environmentally responsible manner. You need a really strong government, and it needs government investment.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

As ever, scores of leading thinkers and influential organisations in business, finance, economics, academia, science, politics and civil society have offered their views on the IPCC's latest findings today, and here BusinessGreen pulls some of the most insightful. 2/2) [link]. — Alok Sharma (@AlokSharma_RDG) February 28, 2022.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

I count on government leaders and all stakeholders to ensure COP26 is a success.". Sensible and forward-looking businesses know they need to act now to change the way they do business and more and more governments are putting in place the plans and actions to deliver a resilient, net zero economy. window shutting.".

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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. "By

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

It gives the key political signals that indicate the phasedown of all fossil fuels is happening. "We This COP has taken an important step towards justice. Clearly this will not be enough, but it is a much-needed political signal to rebuild broken trust. We have a series of milestones ahead. Ambition to keep the 1.5

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

President Joe Biden, and their representatives will gather to demonstrate their political commitment to slowing climate change. Another challenge that has derailed past COPs is agreeing on implementing a carbon trading system outlined in the Paris Agreement. What happens at COP26? Courtesy: Johannes Plenio /Unsplash.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

On almost all of the key issues - ramping up climate finance for developing nations, doubling adaptation finance, agreeing a new loss and damage fund to support countries suffering the fallout from climate impacts, establishing certain rules governing global carbon markets, and ensuring ambitious language around the 1.5C

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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

APRIL 14, 2020

The postponement of COP26 may have given governments the space to defer work on their climate strategies, as they divert all available resources to combat the escalating coronavirus pandemic. The upgraded plan was broadly welcomed by green groups and other governments.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Each of these meetings were known as Conferences of the Parties, or COPs, and they have become synonymous with both the world's admirable intention to tackle the climate crisis and the diplomatic quagmire and geopolitical tensions that have repeatedly stymied efforts to curb global emissions. Business pressure.

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