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Disruption and Refocusing: COVID Response and the Climate Crisis at Transforming Transportation 2021

The City Fix

Logistics networks were broken and then reshaped. 2020 brought tremendous disruption to the global transportation sector. As the world coped with a pandemic, millions began working from home and millions more lost their jobs. All while the planet experienced the. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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'We saw real acceleration of ambition': Claire O'Neill makes pitch for greater business involvement at climate talks

Business Green

Echoing Sharma's defence of the logistical difficulties seen over the past few days, she adds that a lot of the challenges have been a result of Covid and stresses that "this is the biggest global event the UK has had - so it was always going to be hard". It is a one-year thing, it only lasts as long as a COP.

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Keeping 1.5C alive: What to expect from a critical autumn for the net zero mission?

Business Green

A COP is the biggest global negotiation: 196 countries with very different agendas, very different political backgrounds; fraught with mistrust, with false rumours; highly technical and highly political - and alongside that a massive trade fair," explained Betts. Nobody has got the full picture in a COP. This is the risk of COP.".

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'Climate action is finally coming home on African soil': COP27 closes with historic deal on climate Loss and Damage

Business Green

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 meeting was also set apart from previous COPs due to minimal activist presence around the Summit.

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'COP26 must go ahead': Alok Sharma hits back at calls to postpone Glasgow Climate Summit

Business Green

The diplomatic and logistical challenge faced by the British government as it prepares to host the COP26 Climate Summit intensified further today, as a coalition of over 1,500 civil society groups called for the meeting to be postponed. Today, 57 per cent of Europe is fully vaccinated while just about three per cent of Africa is," said Essop.

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COP26: Nations set out climate demands as crunch Glasgow talks step-up a gear

Business Green

Nick Mabey, co-founder and CEO of climate think tank E3G, said the HAC grouping "makes the political weather at COP". — Nick Mabey (@Mabeytweet) November 2, 2021.

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'On the winning camp': The business guide to COP26 and why it matters

Business Green

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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