Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

A new book deals with the psychological, cultural and practical changes many believe will be necessary to avoid climate catastrophe – or, if it’s too late to avoid it, to advance strategies of adaptation. A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read. The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Against this backdrop, and on the eve of the UN Biodiversity COP, I’m pleased that our proposal for a major update to the GRI Biodiversity Topic Standard is available for public comment. Places can be booked now, at 09:00 (CET) or 17:00 (CET).

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 23, 2021

What will it take for the Biden team to stitch it back together before COP negotiations this fall? This week: why the path to net-zero may surprise us once again. Then: America’s climate image on the world stage is in tatters. Finally: a ton of specific policy ideas that can help us expand solar to the people who need it most.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

VIDEO: Leading scientist, policy advisor and author talks to BusinessGreen's James Murray about her new book on everyday climate actions, the challenges of COP negotiations, and the links between climate change and human rights.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

“The fact that climate deniers are allowed space at COP, while Indigenous peoples are fighting to get inside speaks to the performative functions of the COP,” said Jennifer K. Falcon from the Indigenous Environmental Network. But what is noticeable is how these days, almost no-one cares.”.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2021

Boris Johnson will today urge world leaders to seize the opportunity to book their place in the history books as the "generation of leaders that possessed the will to preserve our planet for generations to come".

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The UN Conference of the Parties (COP) climate summits convene world leaders and delegates and draws significant media attention. The question after that is for the UN and other stakeholders to determine if we need stricter rules for who is in the room and around the table at these COPs,” he said.

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The City Fix

AUGUST 24, 2021

Headlines related to recent extreme weather appear to come out of a science fiction book: Even the richest countries in the world can’t control widespread fires — they’re even burning in the Arctic. Deadly flooding in Germany and Belgium in July 2021 completely washed away buildings. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

COP Summits typically bring together upwards of 30,000 ministers, diplomats, officials, journalists, and campaigners from around the world, creating huge logistical and security challenges. It's vital that COP is a success. It's a massive opportunity. We have a duty to do everything we can to make it a success.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

degrees of warming today, 2023 marks the hottest year on the books and greenhouse gas emissions are still rising. After decades of stalled negotiations on this front, there was finally a breakthrough at last year’s COP. Now, that 1.5-degree With around 1.2 In climate negotiations, it’s billed as a fund for “loss and damage.”

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2021

Ahead of COP26, I hope the UK's decisive step towards a cleaner, greener future sends a clear signal to friends around the world that clean power is the way forward," COP 26 President Alok Sharma said.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

E&E News has reported that Curtis “plans at COP to work across the aisle with his frequent legislative collaborator, Rep. ” Oily Money Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Alaska’s senior senator, leads the group with over $2 million in campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry between 2003-2023.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The general consensus amongst seasoned observers of both Whitehall and the UN's COP talks is that there is time to deliver the successful summit that the UK and the wider world so desperately needs, but it has been an disappointing and chaotic start to proceedings and the clock is ticking.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

A network of COP Cities to go with a network of COP forests - or COP copses, if you will - could be one of the most important legacies of the Summit. As the government is now painfully aware a huge amount needs to happen to deliver a successful COP.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2022

This government, which still holds the COP Presidency, continues to share the stage with individuals and organisations that are undermining national and global attempts to tackle the climate crisis, despite UK citizens being shown to be committed to more urgent action”, Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer told DeSmog.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 3, 2021

An excerpt from the VC’s latest book Speed & Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now. Read more: John Doerr: ‘A plan is only as good as its implementation’

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

The UK remains COP President until next November, when it will hand the baton over to Egypt, which is set host the COP27 Summit at the Red Sea beach resort of Sharm-el Sheikh. Indeed, there is no shortage of world-changing points of action for Sharma's COP team to be getting on with over the coming months.

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Grist

MAY 15, 2024

” — Christina Figueres, climate advocate and diplomat, in her 2020 book The Future We Choose The spotlight How do we know that the climate is changing — and that humans are causing it? “For me, intellectually, that always felt like a little bit of a cop-out,” said Jesse Nichols, a video producer at Grist.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It's vital that COP is a success. Recent reports had also highlighted a fraught relationship between Holyrood and Number 10 over several issues, including a row over the Scottish Government reportedly booking up key facilities close to the Summit for the duration of the two-week event. It's a massive opportunity.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Updating the rule book would empower business decision-makers to align profit making with wider social and environmental value. Policymakers should use the momentum from COP to ensure business does better so that future generations don't end up paying our bill. Joanna Allen is CEO at Graze.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In my first fortnight as COP President, I have been listening to those who have done this before. ??Meeting Meeting people like Paris COP President Laurent Fabius, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed and Patricia Espinosa from the UNFCCC. ??And, And we are getting ready for it.??.

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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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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

The COP26 meeting in Glasgow ended the same as every COP: there was clearly progress in what countries committed to, but given the scale of a crisis that the UN Secretary General called “ code red for humanity ,” it was woefully inadequate. Join the Net Positive movement (and find links for where to buy the book all over the world).

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Climate 4.0

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Sessions and informal discussions were rich with talk of Paris 2015, the UN's SDGs, CSR programs morphing into the corporate mainstream, a note by one speaker that Rachel Carson's groundbreaking book “Silent Spring” is now almost 60 years old, and the upcoming COP26 conference in Glasgow.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In any case, Polman believes his talent for making the case for responsible and environmentally sustainable capitalism is best served elsewhere, be it through his various UN and philanthropic ambassadorial roles, green investing or - most recently - co-authoring books. "In There's always a little bit of hype around the COP," Polman reflects.

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Business Green

JUNE 13, 2021

Taking nothing less than unprecedented, unstoppable action in the next five months to ensure the legacy we sow in Glasgow far outlasts our leadership of COP.". With the world soon to be on our doorstep, now is the time for the UK to step up and make the big plays. I don't think that's what we're seeing within this government.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

Writing in a beautiful book called The Future We Choose , architects of the Paris Agreement Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac describe a future in 2050 where we have made the right choices and kept global warming to 1.5C. We share this space, and we need to share it far, far better than now. But it will still happen.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

Fortescue unveiled a green ammonia dual-fuel ship at COP. Our favorite data vis wizard Hannah Ritchie’s new book is Not the end of the world.  The inconvenient truth – clean energy requires trade with China.   Britain is now the world’s fastest-growing wine region. 

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2021

At the same time, negotiating teams will be wrangling with outstanding technical issues in the Paris Agreement rule book around carbon markets, transparency, common timeframes, loss and damage, and climate finance. trajectory.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

As Pete Betts - the recently departed and much missed British diplomat and veteran of countless COPs - used to say of the UN climate talks: "We didn't always agree, but we trusted the other side enough to know that if they said something, it was because they had reasons to say it and you had to listen."

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Presided over by Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber , the head of Abu Dhabi’s state oil company, Adnoc, it is the most industry-influenced COP yet. ” Taking a page from Schmertz’s book, The Washington Post Creative Group — the paper’s internal brand studio — describes on its website how it goes about “influencing the influencers.”

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Mosaic

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Right now, they can quote thirty per cent above what they should, because they only have to land one job in five to fill their book, and I worry about that, too. In his book “ Electrify ,” Griffith writes that a lot of Americans “won’t agree to anything if they believe it will make them uncomfortable or take away their stuff.”

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 7, 2024

Fossil fuel interests now dominate COP, and they’ve inserted into the discussions the language of “abated emissions” — i.e., you can keep burning fossil fuels if you can capture the carbon (a big if). The final language of the COP28 agreement seems to support a fossil fuel phase-out , but we’ll see.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Does he want his premiership to be remembered as pioneering and bold - or left out of the history books because he was no match for the task at hand?". The question for Johnson is the kind of legacy he wants to leave.

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Andrew Winston

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A few times a year — around Earth Day in April, the week of the United Nations General Assembly meetings in September, and the global COP meeting in December — we always see a flood of commitment statements about climate and many more issues. Partnerships to tackle sustainability issues at scale will grow.

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