Low Impact

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The IPCC recently conducted a study into the combined effects of all the agreed targets of the countries taking part in the ongoing COP talks. Attempting to maintain business as usual (which is the only type of solution that will be debated at COP 26) will only make things worse. Whatever does come out of COP won’t be enough.

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Clean Energy Trust

JANUARY 28, 2022

Credit: Stripe eadership from corporations to be committed first customers for products that can decarbonize the economy Several announcements around COP 26 highlighted corporates who had made commitments to be early customers for new technology solutions, in order to help create market pull?—?this

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

More public transport capacity, improved active travel networks, electric vehicle charging infrastructure, and continued R&D investment in low carbon aviation and shipping technologies. And the development of genuinely low carbon industrial hubs based on cutting edge carbon capture and hydrogen technologies.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Ministers are facing calls to include international aviation and shipping emissions in its national climate goals, as the government prepares to set out its plans for meeting climate targets in the mid-2030s in the coming months.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

We have been discussing with the COP26 team over the last several months, because they've been looking at these figures, and attempting to say: 'What could you do at COP, in addition to country commitments, which could move the dial in the 2020s?'" This is where the ETC's six-pronged action plan comes in. "We

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The plan promised to deploy a combination of policy interventions and funding to accelerate the UK development of offshore wind, green hydrogen, nuclear power, electric vehicles, public and active transport, green aviation and shipping, energy efficiency, carbon capture and storage, natural carbon sinks, and clean tech innovation and green finance.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Meanwhile, the huge clean tech buying signals from coalitions of large corporates focused on electric vehicles, green steel, renewables, green shipping, and sustainable aviation fuels, all point to how these markets could quickly reach tipping points that trigger the rapid adoption that obliterates fossil fuel demand. trajectory.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The strategy referenced the decarbonisation of rail, but primarily focused on the role of electric vehicles and sustainable aviation fuels. Which is why HS1 Ltd, with support from Eurostar, hosted a landmark workshop at the World Climate Summit's official COP26 side event - The Investment COP. To achieve all of this, we need help.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Meanwhile, Michigan approves a bundle of clean energy bills, the UN irons out details for the "loss and damages" fund ahead of COP, and Flexport launches a book and claim model for SAFs.    In other news, project cancellation woes abound with NuScale canceling its first-of-a-kind SMR project.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

The proposals are expected to be broadly welcomed by business groups, including the many automakers that have committed tpo switching all their models to zero emission technologies over the next two decades. If we're going to put in the right investment for decarbonising transport, let's do it right and futureproof for the long-term.".

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Transportation Government Policy Carbon 84

Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

There were notable fresh announcements regarding business rates relief for green technology investments, £1.7bn funding for a new nuclear power plant this Parliament, and fresh funding for skills, but these were counterbalanced by a hike in Air Passenger Duty and yet another freeze in fuel duty.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

The Strategy was also criticised for failing to provide sufficient detail on how the government planned to tackle emissions from certain sectors, such as farming and land use and aviation.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

And in the run-up to COP26, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on the UN bodies that regulate the aviation and shipping sectors to adopt "ambitious and credible targets that are truly consistent with the Paris Agreement", noting that current plans would track warming "way above 3C". If the recent COP kept 1.5

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 25, 2021

Given these voter and investor pressures, an unprecedented level of collaboration and innovation is required among leading “real economy” players from industry, technology and finance, to work together and with government and civil society and make big things happen, fast. More than 200 companies and organizations are so far involved.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

To that end, the government yesterday unveiled a new 'Build Back Better' council made up of 30 business leaders covering a range of sectors, from energy and retail to hospitality, finance, and aviation with a view to helping shape the UK's coronavirus recovery plans.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

Moreover, a host of delayed policy roadmaps and whitepapers for heat and buildings, hydrogen, transport, aviation, biomass, and food must also be delivered, it urged, alongside strengthened plans to decarbonise electricity, industry, and North Sea oil and gas.

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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. There are many different ways to gauge the success or otherwise of a COP.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Perhaps angriest of all was the Climate Change Committee, which pulled no punches in its assessment of a "very bad decision - supporting a technology of the past, with a very poor prospectus for new UK jobs". Less the white heat of technology and more the dark smog of nostalgia.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

As a country, we have demonstrated we can both rapidly cut carbon emissions, while creating new jobs, new technologies and future-proof industries that will generate economic growth for decades to come. As host of COP 26, it sends an important signal to other countries around the world that are currently considering their own commitments.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2023

If the CCC's central allegation is that the government is guilty of complacency and a fundamental lack of focus, the official response from the Department of Net Zero and Energy Security amounts to 'it's a fair cop, Guv'. "We

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2023

Despite the marked increase in government ambitions, CO2 emissions have increased in every year since the Paris COP in 2015 (bar 2020)," it continues. Even in the shipping and aviation sectors the report acknowledges that oil demand could be displaced by sustainable alternatives from the 2030s onwards.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

But while Covid-19 may change how the world tackles climate change in the immediate term, the targets, technologies, and pressing need to deliver net zero emissions by the middle of the century remain precisely the same. Stark, too, is clear that state support for aviation and shipping should come with green strings attached. "I

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The "mood music" in the room where it happens is said to be considerably more upbeat than is typical for the closing days of a COP Summit. The companies and countries that demurred risk clinging on to a dirty old technology no one wants anymore. Negotiators reckon the shape of a deal is starting to take shape.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Samuel Abettan, senior economist at ING, said: "Since the COP26 summit, rising carbon and energy prices has already provided a compelling argument for accelerating the transition to low-carbon technologies. As COP president throughout 2022 the UK government has a vital role in leading global efforts to tackle climate change.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Helen Clarkson: I love a bit of COP. I'm not a financier, but it's clear that they have committed money and it hasn't gone where it needs to go, What is businesses role at the COP, and is it pulling its weight in Glasgow? If you had $100bn to invest on a climate technology, where would you spend it? This is a tricky issue.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Other demands include cutting methane emissions by 30 per cent between 2020 and 2030, working to tackle other damaging pollutants, and taking more ambitious action to decarbonise transport such as aviation and shipping. Nick Mabey, co-founder and CEO of climate think tank E3G, said the HAC grouping "makes the political weather at COP".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Ana Musat, head of policy at the Aldersgate Group, expressed hope that COP26 can rally players from around the world to work to transform sectors that had long resisted decarbonisation due to technological or cost barriers. Its stated aim is to collectively slash methane emissions across all sectors by 30 per cent between 2020 and 2030.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Clean technologies are changing the energy and automotive industries beyond recognition; the global innovation pipeline suggests aviation, buildings, shipping, steel, and agricultural industries will soon follow their lead. Over 90 per cent of the global economy is committed to achieving net zero emissions within three or four decades.

Fossil fuels 101

Fossil fuels Pollution Politics Agriculture 101

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. Will enough people turn up to say it's a legitimate COP? Such commitments are being driven all around the world by the plummeting cost of clean technologies.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

But it is important that recovery programmes always keep an eye on the climate, we must not sideline climate but invest in climate technologies.".

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