Business Green

JULY 6, 2020

E3G's Tom Burke sets out four tests the Chancellor's stimulus package must pass if the government is to deliver on its 'green recovery' promises. For the climate, it directly addresses the need to reduce carbon emissions from heat. The Prime Minister's speech last week was an underwhelming contribution to the green recovery.

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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. He also reiterated the government's plans to make climate action a key plank in its recovery packages.

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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.  Tech-enabled credits continue to constitute a big chunk of an anticipated $1T voluntary carbon market , and Oxy is on a development frenzy.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

We have heard in our evidence sessions that commercial and financial sectors support low carbon ambitions but are looking to government to provide a roadmap to bring forward investible projects. Without this push to low carbon projects, we could find ourselves locked into high carbon dependency with decades long shelf life.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The UK has long lagged behind its European neighbours in encouraging the uptake of low-carbon heating, but the long-awaited Heat and Buildings strategy , published on 19 October, suggests a new level of ambition, with household funding for heat pumps being a standout measure. This is hardly the COP figure the Prime Minister wants to read.”.

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Business Green

JUNE 13, 2021

These various targets have been supported by number of policies and investments, such as support for new electric vehicle charging infrastructure and new zero carbon home standards. It also requires the UK to accelerate a global approach to carbon markets, sustainable finance and the shift to clean power.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

If approved, the package would be widely regarded as a major breakthrough that could deliver significant new funding for the most climate vulnerable nations. And the suggested text invites parties to "consider further actions to reduce by 2030 non-carbon dioxide greenhouse gas emissions, including methane".

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2020

Just a fortnight days ago, I was asking my son's class for their ideas to deliver a zero carbon world. How might a green stimulus package get Britain back on its feet and deliver Net Zero? What should a strong COP-26 aim to deliver and what is business' role in supporting those goals?

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

Sourdough starters, Zoom drinks, online theatre, Joe Wicks' PE sessions, Netflix… whatever it is, and whatever combination, in whatever time you happen to have available to you, it seems as though we've all been putting together our own package of coping mechanisms. Just imagine that. But it will still happen.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2020

Just a fortnnight days ago, I was asking my son's class for their ideas to deliver a zero carbon world. How might a green stimulus package get Britain back on its feet and deliver Net Zero? What should a strong COP-26 aim to deliver and what is business' role in supporting those goals?

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2020

As members of the High Ambition Coalition, the Cartagena Dialogue, and the Carbon Neutrality Coalition. That is why, as hosts of COP26 , the UK wants to ramp up ambition to achieve a climate-resilient, zero-carbon economy. We have worked together to drive climate action across the international community. degree target.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2020

They added that while COP26 and the Pre-COP and Youth4Climate events that had been due to be staged in Italy this summer had been postponed until next year, it remained crucial that governments use the coming months to strengthen their decarbonisation plans. "We degrees," Sharma and Costa added.

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

From Loss and Damage and just transitions to rows over fossil fuel phase outs and carbon markets, we take a look at some of the key lessons for businesses from COP27. Like the World Cup that kicked off within hours of the gavel coming down in Sharm El Sheikh, COPs provide a regular temperature check for global geopolitics.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2020

British diplomats, the UK COP presidency team and Ministers would have been in a whirl of frenetic influencing activity globally (we hope) to drive up ambition, and drive out those new nationally-determined contributions (NDCs) from all the parties to the Paris Agreement. But these are not normal times, and the COP has been delayed by a year.

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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 To achieve our vision, we know that all of society needs to be low carbon, resource efficient and harmonized with nature.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

The wording prompted some observers to speculate "low-emission" energy could be interpreted as including unabated gas power, but others argued it was a reference to nuclear and carbon capture and storage projects. This COP caused deep frustrations but it wasn't for nothing," she said. "It warming target.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The previous timetable for updating NDCs would have meant they would only have been improved once or maybe twice before the available carbon budget for 1.5C A precedent is being set with a new loss and damage framework taking shape and the first, albeit modest, funding packages being announced. of warming was completely burned through.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Documents released this morning strongly suggest significant dividing lines remain on a raft of key issues, including climate finance and adaptation funding, loss and damage, carbon markets, language around the phasing down of fossil fuels, and much more besides. The whole package works together cohesively, or it doesn't at all.".

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2021

The government insisted the sweeping package made the UK the first G7 country to agree a landmark deal to support the oil and gas industry's transition to clean, green energy, while supporting 40,000 jobs and mobilising £16bn of public and private sector investment through to 2030 in emission reduction efforts.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2020

As COP President Designate, I am committed to a 'whole of society' approach, and we will also use the Summit to create an inclusive and diverse platform. Only by coming together can we build the zero carbon, climate resilient future that is essential for our people and our planet.

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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 4, 2022

UN Secretary General and COP Presidency warn progress on funding for addressing climate-related damage is critical to success of pivotal climate talks kicking off this Sunday. That is the best guarantee for this COP process to survive and achieve its objective.".

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

Italian Minister for the Environment, Land and Sea Protection, Sergio Costa: "Whilst we have decided to postpone COP26, including the Pre-COP and ‘Youth for the Climate' event, we remain fully committed to meeting the challenge of climate change. Tackling climate change requires strong, global and ambitious action.

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2020

Politicians everywhere are designing their economic recovery packages. We can stick with the status quo; bailing out high-carbon, environmentally damaging industries and locking in decades of emissions. As co-hosts of the next climate COP, we will be asking other countries to do the same.

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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. But we are hoping that everyone will rise to the occasion by the end of COP, and realise that while the national interest is very important, something greater than that is at stake.

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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.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

He also said that Energy Minister Greg Hands had signed off on the Strategy, despite not having the legally required information on how carbon budgets would be met. Sunak also hinted that he wanted to see more investment in natural carbon sinks, describing peat restoration as a "pet project". 14 of the CCA 2008.".

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Terra Infirma

OCTOBER 14, 2019

He sets out a code of ethics which blows away the whole “just doing my job/following orders” cop-out. Engineers designed the cars, the planes, the power stations and the factories which pump out carbon dioxide. Somebody designed that packaging knowing it would end up in landfill for 1000 years.

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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 diplomacy 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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Speaking to journalists this morning, Timmermans said it would back the package on the condition that countries committed to ambitious emissions mitigation programme. We will insist on this: if this proposal by the EU on the [loss and damage] fund is to be accepted, [it will be a] package deal with a serious, serious plan on mitigation.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This was inspired by when we arrived (at) COP 25 in Madrid three years ago and understood that this is where the world is going," said Lee Recht, VP of sustainability at Aleph Farms, at the VERGE Net Zero virtual event early in December. What led these lean startups to bind themselves to net zero targets? What sets its net zero roadmap apart?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The new funding package for the 2020 to 2025 period does mark an increase on previous levels of climate finance, but the failure to meet the 2020 deadline was still widely interpreted as a major blow to the long-running international climate negotiations that are set to resume at next week's COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2020

The government has unveiled further steps to curb the climate impact of transport, today announcing £37m of investment in developing electric cars, ships, and planes in the UK, alongside separate proposals to introduce lower carbon petrol at filling stations up and down the country.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

Virtually all of the world’s largest companies now issue a sustainability report and set goals; more than 2,000 companies have set a science-based carbon target; and about one-third of Europe’s largest public companies have pledged to reach net zero by 2050. Maersk even advocated for a $150 per ton carbon tax on shipping fuel.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2021

The French government recently won plaudits for reportedly making bailout packages for airlines conditional on the scrapping of some short haul routes where rail offered a viable alternative. This kind of announcement makes its protestations about delivering a green industrial revolution ring hollow.".

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2021

I want to put on the record that we are very keen that we ensure we are delivering a physical COP at Glasgow," he said. That is what the Parties want and I think that's what will help us in achieving our outcomes and goals at the end of the day as well.".

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