Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Because 15 years' ago, a COP would not have been like that. They would not have had all the world leaders gathered here, with all the business leaders - all the most powerful people on the planet - so that's a big change. What is your biggest hope or top demand from the Summit? That in itself gives a lot of hope.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

What this context underlines is that companies face huge demands, from multiple stakeholders, to do more to assess, disclose and reduce their biodiversity impacts. Meanwhile, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ( IPBES ) has warned that biodiversity is declining in every global region.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2021

Amber Rudd and Claire O'Neill have called on the government to take steps boost the number of women participating in the crucial COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow this year. At the 2019 Bonn COP there were 27 delegations with no women, the highest it has been in 12 years," they wrote.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Climate negotiations at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, better known as COP, are over for another year. However, as this year’s devastating Pakistan floods showed, the human and economic costs of climate change are already significant at just over 1C of warming—and only expected to rise.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The Climate Change Committee delivers its verdict on COP26, but will the UK government heed its advice for the coming 'crucial' year ahead? Globally, the UK must continue to encourage stronger action on climate and insist on rapid emissions reductions and stronger adaptation through all diplomatic channels.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

With greater scrutiny over emissions from meat and dairy companies, it is not surprising they are stepping up their game to head off any COP outcome that might hinder their operations,” Ben Lilliston, from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy told DeSmog. Outspoken meat lobby groups are also on the ground in Dubai.

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Business Green

JANUARY 12, 2023

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has today announced the leadership team for the COP28 Climate Summit in Dubai later this year, confirming that the CEO of the state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Corporation (ADNOC), Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, has been appointed President-Designate for the conference. There is no other path forward.".

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

However, a 2020 assessment of regenerative agriculture from the World Resources Institute (WRI) found that while good for the environment, it has “limited potential” to mitigate climate change. Nature-based solutions” is one of the only phrases linked to agriculture to be mentioned in the COP cover text.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2020

Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee has launched an inquiry into the UK's foreign diplomacy efforts around environmental issues, with a particular focus on preparations for the crucial COP26 UN climate change summit that is set to take place in Glasgow later this year.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2021

In a letter today to the BoE governor Andrew Bailey, the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) of MPs said the bank should move urgently to align its corporate bond purchasing programme with global climate goals and demand climate disclosures from all companies that it provides with Covid-19 bailouts.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

Evincing a more demanding ideology? That now is the time to get serious about adaptation and preparedness; because, as the world’s leading climate scientists admitted in droves with clear and honourable pain this month, our hopes for preventing or sufficiently mitigating dangerous climate change must now be admitted to have been dashed.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 6, 2022

First and foremost, there will be a much stronger focus on climate adaptation , rather than solely on mitigation. Today, 90% of climate finance is focused on mitigation – stopping the sources of climate change at their origin, rather than adapting to their effects. They are nearly-perfect mirror images.).

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Boris Johnson is set to tentatively commit a further £1bn from the UK overseas aid budget over the next five years towards assisting developing nations with the impacts of climate change, as he delivers a COP26 opening address tomorrow geared at pressuring world leaders to accelerate their climate ambitions.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 10, 2021

India has a target ofd 500 GW of installed non-fossil fuel capacity by 2030, as announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP-26) in Glasgow in November. Current nuclear and large hydropower capacity add up to around 50 GW.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

EY's Steve Varley sets out his expectations and hopes for the pivotal climate talks that kick off on Sunday. Another COP is coming - the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference. There's huge demand for sustainable infrastructure and technology. The resources are there, but disconnected.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2020

"This could turn the existential risks from climate change into the greatest commercial opportunity of our time," he added. Make My Money Matter and our work for COP 26 will help investors disclose how their client's money is supporting these investment needs, so people can decide whether their priorities are being met.

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

So how is the UK public feeling about COP26, climate change, and what the opportunity for business might be? Climate isn't the sole preserve of business, government and activists, but we could be forgiven for sometimes thinking it is. COP26 is fast approaching, yet it feels as distant and difficult to grasp as ever.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Many climate groups believe such practices will provide an excuse for big companies to continue polluting. The predominance of fossil fuel sponsorship at COP27 cuts a stark contrast with demands from countries facing an existential threat from climate change for urgent action to cut emissions. Conflict of interest.

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Business Green

JANUARY 3, 2022

Post-COP26 the world risks taking its foot off the pedal of climate action in 2021, but businesses must not let that happen, writes Pinwheel's Rob Cheesewright. Businesses have often been blamed for sluggish progress on climate change - yet at COP26 it was the progress that governments made that felt frustratingly slow.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The global energy landscape is on the cusp of transformational changes as the migration to clean power gathers pace. With world leaders about to gather in Dubai, United Arab Emirates for the COP 28 climate summit, the transition to green energy will be one of the key topics on the agenda.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The government needs to dramatically step up efforts to reverse biodiversity loss, and trading or investing in commodities that drive deforestation should be made illegal, MPs on the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) have demanded today. Biodiversity has a major role to play in helping to achieve net zero emissions," he said.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2021

The plan, which was confirmed by Energy and Climate Change Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan this morning following a consultation period late last year, brings forward the official phase-out date for coal power in the UK's electricity system by a year, from a previous target of October 2025 that was established in 2017.

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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. The files also detail collaborations planned for the event itself.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2020

Investors believe the prospects remain strong for Chile's hot renewables market, despite recent social unrest that caused the nation to relinquish hosting climate talks last year. COP 25 was ultimately held in Spain. Violent clashes with police left 29 dead.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Global markets have long demanded clarity from governments on establishing a policy foundation for an emissions trading system that maintains environmental integrity and puts a global price on carbon.". This issue cannot continue to be deferred, COP after COP after COP. or well below 2C. We need every voice at the table.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

While there was a lot of media buzz recently about the activists that could not - or, understandably, would not - participate in this year's COP, the voices of the most important are missing at nearly all important decision fora. It's not just a COP issue, it's a power issue. We also need a counternarrative about what is important.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

Since these standards were developed, the demand for carbon offsets has increased over the years. These include the Puro Standards , Verified Carbon Standard , Gold Standard , and the Climate Action Reserve. Yet, having energy efficiency projects running in parallel will reduce the overall energy demand in the first place.

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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. Last week two landmark reports from the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and UN Environment Agency demanded our attention.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Build resilience of vulnerable communities against the here and now impacts of climate change. And make good on the $100 billion climate finance commitment to support developing countries. "We I also want particularly to thank COP President Alok Sharma who has worked incredibly hard to bring countries together.

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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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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This Conference of Parties (COP) was highly anticipated as a critical inflection point where our economies and societies set forth on an ambitious and clearly defined path to decarbonize by 2050 and keep warming below 1.5 degrees C to avoid the worst impacts of climate change — or continue with the status quo.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

On the plus side, the pact reaffirmed the central importance of 1.5C (our best chance to avoid the worst impacts of climate change), mentions coal and fossil fuels for the first time, and calls for countries to “revisit and strengthen” 2030 climate pledges by the end of 2022 instead of waiting another five years.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

“The aim of the MicroCarb mission is to accurately measure the atmospheric concentration of CO2 across the globe, as well as improve our understanding of the mechanisms through which global climate change unfolds,” said François Buisson, MicroCarb project manager at CNES. MicroCarb is the first mission of its kind in Europe.

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Grist

JUNE 21, 2023

But then, about four years ago, she discovered that she could continue to be a climate advocate — at work, rather than outside of it. “A member approached the president of our local [union chapter] and said, ‘You know, climate change is something that I’m really concerned about,’” McLaren recalls.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

At a side event at the COP27 Climate Summit today, countries representing more than half of global GDP will set out a number of sector-specific 'Priority Actions' designed to make emissions-intensive industries more sustainable whilst cutting energy costs and boosting food security.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

EU energy emissions fall, Rwanda gets its first mini-grid, and Brazil preps a COP bid. The report confirms "demand for fossil fuels is falling due to high prices and strong wind and solar output, contrary to fears of a resurgence due to the energy crisis". Brazil to offer to host future COP.

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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. Target setting, wind power, and clean technology signals.

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