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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

The world’s political elite will fly in and out of Glasgow later in the year but the city’s many challenges will remain the day after the circus leaves town,” he said at the time. The best thing government could do for Glasgow is to ditch hosting the COP and instead invest the money in dealing with the state of the city.”.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

In 2018, 89 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions came from fossil fuels and industry. The role of the fossil fuel industry in driving climate change, and distorting politics in their favour, deserves rigorous and sustained scrutiny from the public and governments alike,” Sam Chetan Welsh, political campaigner for Greenpeace UK, said.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

Details of Transport Decarbonisation Plan revealed to Financial Times, as separate report suggest ministers are continuing to lock horns over the best way to introduce new carbon pricing mechanisms. The EU expects to eventually raise €10bn a year from a carbon tax on imports that it plans to introduce gradually from 2023.

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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 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. and coal is in the text.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The government has promised a raft of hotly-anticipated plans and policies in the coming months, including the Heat and Buildings Strategy, Food Strategy White Paper, Treasury Net Zero Review, and an overarching Net Zero Strategy, all of which should help unlock billions of pounds of green investment. Nobody has got the full picture in a COP.

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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. Energy and Clean Growth minister also served as COP President for the 26th UN Climate Change Conference. Who's news. The former U.K. Environmental Protection Agency as a branch chief.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The ministers added that "the last thing anyone wants is for this COP to end without consensus". The latest developments follow the release this morning by Egypt's COP Presidency of texts that provide a sketch of a potential final agreement. warming limit goal.

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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. The co-hosts also yesterday announced that they have expanded the team of senior figures working on the Summit with the appointment of a new "Friends of COP" advisory board.

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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

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Branded as the most inclusive COP to date, the reality of COP26 was activists and NGOs left out in the cold, and billionaires and fossil fuel representative sitting at the negotiating table. How can we have just climate policy when the most affected communities are shut out of decision-making while the worst polluters are welcomed in?

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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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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

Every year since its inception the Climate Change Committee (CCC) offers its verdict on the UK's progress against its climate goals, providing an overview of the country's decarbonisation to date, its latest economic and emissions projections, and the state of the policy landscape.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Green business leaders will be hoping Sunak reaffirms his commitment to the UK's net zero target and provide markets with much-needed policy clarity to support the net zero transition following weeks of political turmoil, policy U-turns and economic upheaval.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

That, in our view, is legally fatal to the [policy] in its present form. The consequence of our decision is that the government will now have the opportunity to reconsider the ANPS [National Policy Statement] in accordance with the clear statutory requirements that Parliament has imposed.". It's his chance to shine on the world stage.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. Scientists say that unless swift action is taken, methane from agriculture alone will take us beyond a 1.5C

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

That is what the massed ranks of business leaders, investors, policy wonks, campaigners, and officials who make up the UK's climate community want to know as the clock ticks down to the globally critical COP26 Summit in Glasgow. But you can't do that at a COP. What is going on?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

A separate analysis just yesterday from a group of leading climate scientists warned global emissions were once again rising fast in the wake of the year of Covid-related lockdowns and as such the remaining carbon budget for keeping temperature increases below 1.5C COP26Glasgow is in danger of drowning the UNFCCC in announcement blitz.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

But in a warning to political leaders, the report suggests the 'low hanging fruit' in the net zero transition may have already been largely secured, meaning the public will need to be more fully engaged with decarbonisation efforts in future.

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

That, in our view, is legally fatal to the [policy] in its present form. John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace UK: "The court has decided that the Airports National Policy Statement is fatally undermined by ignoring climate commitments, but we still need the government to permanently ground Heathrow's expansion plans.

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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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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

AUGUST 17, 2021

The Strategy, although still lacking details on policy and financial support in certain areas - more of that is now expected in another related policy document next year - envisages hydrogen supporting 9,000 jobs and attracting £4bn investment by 2030, rising to 100,000 jobs by 2050 in an industry potentially worh £13bn.

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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. 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.

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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

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. of warming looks even slimmer than it did a fortnight ago.

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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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Darren Woods, the CEO of Exxon, celebrates the potential of carbon capture to dramatically reduce global emissions. 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.

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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

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. It is in no way limited to political opponents and environmental activists whose jobs inherently require a degree of performative hostility towards government ministers. This time there is none of that.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Dig into the 14 October summary from the UK COP Presidency and there's cautious optimism that a set of deals to stop countries cheating on climate could land in Glasgow. In short, it would entail regular UN-run assessments to see what capitals are up to, how badly they're being hit by impacts, and how successful various policies are.

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Business Green

JUNE 17, 2021

Report sets out the myriad ways ongoing discussions over Brexit climate and energy policy are affecting the UK's chances of meeting climate goals. While the UK now has a carbon price, at £50 per tonne, the UK ETS remains in a temporary format and lacks definition, they warn. Brexit, it turns out, did not "get done".

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

The Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) - all of which have already committed to end their carbon emissions by 2050 - were particularly strong on that point, declaring : 'Action must begin now and increased ambition must be communicated now.'. More twists in this virus. So - job done?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

BusinessGreen rounds up the best of the reaction from the low carbon economy to the government's flagship roadmap for achieving net zero emissions by 2050. CBI chief policy director Matthew Fell said: "The Net Zero Strategy and [Spending] Review fills in some of the blanks on how we realise the UK's decarbonisation ambitions.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

Australia looks set to ditch its climate-laggard global status after voters strongly backed more ambitious green policies – but can the change in government help reignite global climate action, as geopolitical challenges escalate? Moreover, the Coalition government has long been a thorn in the side of successive UN climate talks.

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