Grist

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The benchmarks are supposed to stave off some of the worst effects of climate change. If countries fully implemented their plans to cut carbon emissions as currently promised under the Paris Agreement framework, the planet will still warm 2.9 The question is, politically, what do countries do about this at COP28?”

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2020

Businesses must continue to make the case for climate ambition and stand against regulatory rollbacks, argues Verisk Maplecroft's Will Nichols. And among the many reasons listed for why global environmental and climate change efforts are currently falling short, a "worldwide pandemic" was a notable absentee. Time to step up.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The UK organisers of the upcoming COP26 climate summit have come under fire for approving just two events that refer to fossil fuels, the primary driver of climate change, in a programme of public events happening alongside the main conference. million tons of carbon dioxide during the year.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Building on the foundations of past conferences, especially Paris, to create a zero-carbon economy which will benefit our children and grandchildren. ??. In this year, the Year of Climate Action, it will be the top international priority for this government.?? In Glasgow, the world must ramp up momentum towards a zero-carbon economy.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

It makes you wonder if what is missing from the UK government's deeply flawed and badly underpowered pursuit of both its climate goals and levelling up agenda, is someone willing to take yesterday's 600 page tome from the Climate Change Committee (CCC) , drop it on a table with a satisfying thud, and declare "this is what we believe".

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

Smith, who won just over half of the 61,000 votes cast, has a history of outspoken comments about climate change and last year slammed the international UN climate conference now due to be held in Glasgow in November, saying “our priorities are all wrong”.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

To grasp the opportunities of net zero and deliver a successful climate change summit in Glasgow, the government must come forward with ambitious policies in 2020, argues the REA's Nina Skorupska. The goings-on behind the scenes of COP 26, or kack thereof, have been well documented over the past few weeks.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Calls for the financial system to wake up to the looming threat of climate change are growing louder by the day. Those calls have been coming most clearly from the Bank of England under Governor Mark Carney, who last week warned the treasury committee of global finance’s role in driving the climate crisis.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

UN approves UK and Italian request for high profile Summit to be postponed by a full year, as co-hosts announce new 'Friends of COP' advisory board. While we rightly focus on fighting the immediate crisis of the Coronavirus, we must not lose sight of the huge challenges of climate change," he said in a statement.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The climate vulnerable hotspots - which the charity defined as those with the highest number of UN appeals driven by extreme weather events - have suffered a 123 per cent increase in acute hunger since 2016. The report found that the countries in the climate hotspots were collectively responsible for just 0.13

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

This means bridging the current political divide over outstanding issues related to finance, capacity building, technology transfer, transparency and especially Article Six. This issue cannot continue to be deferred, COP after COP after COP. We need a political decision," Guterres added. "We or well below 2C.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The outcome of the upcoming talks will have significant implications for businesses around the world who want to tackle climate change, writes the CBI's Tania Kumar. If a week is a long time in politics, a year can feel like a lifetime - and that's almost the exact amount of time that has passed since the UK hosted the COP26 Summit.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. Leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda that calls for governments and industry to work together to find new solutions to climate change–driven food insecurity. rise in temperature that risks tipping the world into irreversible climate breakdown.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Amid myriad social, health and political crises, business sustainability is alive and well and living the Paris Agreement. The Institute for Sustainable Communities , which advances equitable community solutions to climate change, has appointed Deeohn Ferris as president and CEO. Who's news. Advocating. The former U.K.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

They reflect the interests, the conditions, the contradictions and the state of political will in the world today. They take important steps, but unfortunately the collective political will was not enough to overcome some deep contradictions. Put a price on carbon. degree goal alive. "It Phase out coal. degrees. "I

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

Ahead of London Climate Action Week, Mayor urges businesses and politicians to ensure momentum is maintained in run up to delayed COP26 Summit. The comments come amidst growing fears that the UK may struggle to submit its updated climate action plan to the UN by the end of this year, as agreed under the Paris Agreement.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Fears are rapidly mounting that chaotic UN climate talks in Sharm El Sheikh risk backsliding on previous commitments, with ministers from the UK, EU, and Canada jointly meeting with Egypt's COP27 Presidency today to stress that agreements at this week's G20 Summit in Bali to accelerate global climate action "must be a baseline, not a ceiling".

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Business Green

JULY 14, 2021

To tackle the environmental challenges we face from climate change and biodiversity loss, it is crucial that domestic natural environment projects are able to attract private investment alongside support from the public sector," said Environment Minister Rebecca Pow.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

What is carbon accounting? Carbon accounting – also known as a carbon or greenhouse gas inventory – is the process of measuring the amount of carbon dioxide, or other greenhouse gases (GHG), an organization emits. The aim is to help the entity understand its climatic impact.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Fossil Fuel Companies Made Bold Promises to Capture Carbon. By Michael Buchsbaum and Edward Donnelly Carbon capture and storage got so much buzz this year, but our reporters went beyond the hype. That figure doesn’t include a $10 billion federal carbon capture tax credit announced during COP28. Here’s What Actually Happened.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 3, 2019

My message here today is one of hope not of despair” said UN chief António Guterres addressing journalists at a press conference in the Spanish capital on Sunday, after revealing the key takeaways from the World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate report, due to be published during COP25. degrees “is still within reach.”

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Darren Woods, the CEO of Exxon, celebrates the potential of carbon capture to dramatically reduce global emissions. According to Saudi Aramco’s podcast, the fossil fuel industry is innovating new climate solutions, and BP’s podcast proclaims more of the same. It’s implicitly calling for a new consensus.”

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

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.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Green businesses, politicians, and environmental groups react to Court of Appeal's momentous ruling against a third Heathrow runway on climate change grounds. This judgment has exciting wider implications for keeping climate change at the heart of all planning decisions. The Court has said very clearly that was illegal.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Money continued to dominate the agenda on the final day of the World's Leaders Summit at COP27, with heads of state using their moment in the spotlight to hammer home the need to deliver more financial support for climate-vulnerable counties. And this all happened despite our very low carbon footprints.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The gas crunch gripping Europe is directly caused by volatile international gas markets that expose the UK to demand surges in Asia and political manipulation by Putin. This crisis highlights the benefits of weaning ourselves off fossil fuels - to stabilise our energy market, whilst achieving our climate goals. No backtracking.

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Business Green

APRIL 26, 2020

The two-day Petersberg Climate Dialogue has long been a key event in the annual climate calendar, with environment ministers from around 30 countries typically coming together to thrash out priorities and preparations for the following United Nations COP climate summit.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND – Only two of the 35 stalls lauding countries’ green credentials at the COP26 UN climate summit mention the need to cut fossil fuel production — the chief cause of the carbon emissions driving climate change. . Greenwashing’. South Africa struck a deal on Tuesday for £6.2

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Green businesses, politicians, and environmental groups react to Court of Appeal's momentous ruling against a third Heathrow runway on climate change grounds. This judgment has exciting wider implications for keeping climate change at the heart of all planning decisions. The Court has said very clearly that was illegal.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The company said it would host and participate in events and talks at the summit detailing how it reduced its carbon footprint 42 per cent in the past 16 years, despite growing as a business by 46 per cent. "We Tackling climate change requires transformational thinking across industry and government and a willingness to collaborate globally.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

As the UK readies for the upcoming COP26 Summit in Glasgow in November, the Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change urge government to deliver ambitious net zero strategy. This should include widespread engagement on the health, economic and environmental co-benefits of cutting food waste and changes in diet.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

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.". The breakthrough came after multiple calls - led by Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Mottley - for the world to make the financial system fit for an era of climate shocks.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Climate change is the defining challenge of our time, and clean energy and green transport are the keys to addressing it. Less than two decades ago, energy emissions seemed to be spiraling out of control as countries were locked into. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

revisit and strengthen" their 2030 climate targets by the end of next year, in a move that would put pressure on countries to ramp up their decarbonisation ambitions after more than 150 countries failed to do so ahead of COP27. and recognise the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] finding that to keep 1.5C

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

At the COP26 Summit in Glasgow in November we need every other country to follow the lead of the UK and commit to net zero carbon emission by the middle of the century," he said, adding that big emitting countries also needed to come forward with specific plans to slash their emissions. pic.twitter.com/75KPmyjXFj.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Indeed, a number of key figures, including some directly involved in the talks, have over the past 24 hours hit out at the lack of ambition in the final COP27 text on how to tackle near-term emissions, curb reliance on fossil fuels, and expand natural carbon sinks.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

I would like to thank the Secretary-General for the great leadership he has shown in tackling climate change. Other former COP Presidents, such as Laurent Fabius. Other former COP Presidents, such as Laurent Fabius. Encouragingly, there has been a strong level of agreement that we must act now to tackle climate change.

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