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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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

JULY 19, 2022

The Net Zero Strategy (NZS) was released in autumn 2021, just ahead of the COP26 Climate Summit, and while it contained a raft of policies, targets, and plans designed to curb emissions commentators at the time highlighted how it failed to incorporate detailed modelling showing how much officials expected policies to reduce emissions.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Specifically, we are calling for: New, more ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs); Long-Term Strategies setting out a pathway to net zero emissions; Climate finance commitments to support the most vulnerable; And crucially, ambitious adaptation plans and underlying policies.

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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

MARCH 11, 2021

COP26 President reiterates that he has strong support across cabinet for net zero agenda, despite mixed green policy messaging in recent weeks. 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.

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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 There are (admittedly optimistic) reasons to think that if current plans are expanded and translated into near term policy measures the world could soon find itself on a 1.8C

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

They call on countries to deliver a 40 per cent reduction in the carbon intensity of shipping by 2030 and halve the sector's absolute emissions by 2050, compared to a 2008 baseline. If the recent COP kept 1.5 We need to be halving emissions by 2030," she said. This is unacceptable.

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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 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

JULY 12, 2022

Using the COP process and international collaboration we should aim for a market, science and technology driven approach which can protect the environment and enhance productivity.". Ever more drought, widespread flooding, threats to food security and mass migration flows would be an environmental and economic disaster," he wrote. "So

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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 11, 2021

New four word slogan captures government's ambitions for Glasgow Summit, as Tory backbench opposition to climate policies continues to swell. Cash - we want the richest nations which have historically produced so much of the world's carbon to recommit to supporting the rest of the planet to go green with funds of $100bn a year.

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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 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

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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

But despite an interminable number of husting events and countless miles of column inches, the policy platform of the new administration remains remarkably opaque on a host of critical economic and environmental issues. What's in the energy support package, and who is going to pay for it?

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2022

I've been writing about the UK climate policy landscape for 15 years and I genuinely can't recall a reaction like it. Where does this rank in the halls of climate policy infamy? Those are just a tiny fraction of the furious responses to the government's decision to approve plans for the UK's first new deep coal mine in 30 years.

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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

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. The EU showing it is committed to deliver and reduce more of our greenhouse gas emissions is a positive sign," said Sven Harmeling, international climate policy expert at CAN Europe.

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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 9, 2020

In the past few days a flurry of major reports have again highlighted how the UK can realise major economic benefits from stepping up low carbon investment and supportive net zero policies, while green business leaders have urged Sunak and Johnson to make good on their environmental pledges.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

Yesterday's communiqué agrees to "phase-out and rationalise, over the medium term, inefficient fossil fuel subsidies", and makes no direct reference to coal power, instead calling for investment in carbon capture and similar technologies to abate the emissions of fossil fuels. goal without the leadership of the G20. "I

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2020

Low Carbon Farming, Black Mountain and Zero Carbon Yorkshire have joined a campaign that calls on the government to revise its low carbon heat strategy to support the development of large-scale heat pumps, a sector they contend could help the UK drive a green recovery to the pandemic.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 17, 2020

We have to act much, much faster and go further in reducing the carbon footprint. New strategies will have to be created to align the company goals with the most basic climate-related requirements, such as setting targets to reduce carbon emissions. “Policy on CCUS is for government. Glasgow will host the U.N.’s

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Grist

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The Growing Climate Solutions Act, supported by climate advocates and farmers alike, was devised to get the nation’s growers to adopt climate-friendly practices by encouraging their participation in the carbon market. croplands to soak up 250 million metric tons of carbon per year, or about 4 percent of what the country emitted in 2020.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 7, 2024

Scientists tell us that we’ve pushed the planet beyond its ability to support us in critical areas such as availability of water, biodiversity, and, of course, carbon emissions. For examples, South Carolina steel-maker Nucor is working to make low-carbon steel and set a goal for net zero across value chain by 2050.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2023

The CCC's annual report is scathing on the lack of policy progress over the past year - the UK cannot afford another 12 months of inaction No aspect of the Climate Change Committee's (CCC) absolutely damning assessment of the UK's decarbonisation efforts over the past year is as dispiriting as the government's response to it.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

alive or this will be the COP where we lose 1.5C," he said. You need to work out how you want future generations to look upon this COP and each of us individually as countries. goal, arguing that "every fraction of a degree matters". We'll either leave Egypt having kept 1.5C It is really up to us to decide.".

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Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2023

Schneider is the leading global renewable energy, carbon, and sustainability advisor to large corporations, actively representing over 60TWh of global demand for renewable energy - equivalent to nearly half the electricity demand in all of Egypt. ºC be reaffirmed in the package of decisions between parties.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In November, I had the privilege to represent Schneider Electric at the UN's Conference of Parties (COP) on climate change in Glasgow. This COP was unlike the previous 25 iterations, in that it took place during a global pandemic. One aim of the conference was to 'keep 1.5 degree Celsius warming trajectory. Bottom Line for Business.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Business and policy leaders reflect on the major wins from the Glasgow Summit, what needs to happen next, and why COPs could look and feel difficult from now on. As Frontier Economics' Matthew Bell put it, Glasgow was arguably the first COP conference where the means to decarbonise were discussed alongside the end goals.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Row brewing over Boris Johnson's G7 plans to promote carbon border tariffs. The Australian government has signalled it will oppose proposals for a new international agreement in support of carbon border tariff adjustments, labelling the move a form of protectionism. Charles de Gaulle airport expansion plans scrapped on climate grounds.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

The London Metal Exchange confirmed earlier this month it intends to give low-carbon aluminium its own trading platform, meaning that for the first time in the trading hub's near 150-year history a commodity will be traded based on its environmental footprint. Rusal, the aluminium company majority owned by EN+ Group, produces aluminium at 2.9

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

The third in a trilogy of reports over the past year or so, today's - dubbed Climate Change 2022: The Mitigation of Climate Change - was particularly highly anticipated due to its focus on solutions to the aforementioned crisis the world currently faces, in terms of technologies, policies, nature-based measures and finances. on the table.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

As the government gears up to unveil its 10 point green recovery plan this autumn, an alliance of more than 70 civil society groups have set out which net zero policies they think should make the cut. But will the government deliver the scale of investment and detailed policy frameworks required to unlock real progress?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

COP talks each year are often fraught and progress remains far too slow, as today's IPCC report on escalating climate impacts will testify. Yet in the six years since its birth, the Paris Agreement has undoubtedly transformed policy, investment, and economic thinking. The US left the treaty altogether briefly.

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