Business Green

MARCH 24, 2021

But Ministers insist end to financial support for overseas fossil fuel energy projects, £16bn transition plan for North Sea, and climate compatibility test for new projects can put UK on track to net zero emissions. We will not leave oil and gas workers behind in the United Kingdom's irreversible shift away from fossil fuels.

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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.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

In his first major speech since the close of UN Climate Summit this afternoon, Sharma is to urge countries to meet the various climate commitments they made last autumn, as he sets out the priorities for the UK's COP Presidency year, which runs until the start of the COP27 Climate Summit in Egypt next November.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The moves came as the first glimpse of negotiating parties' positions was provided this morning, pointing to significant divergence between countries on a host of key issues - including climate finance, loss and damage, and the critical overarching 1.5C The future of humanity, without exaggeration, is at stake.

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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. Speaking on behalf of the group, Tina Stege, climate envoy of the Marshall Islands, said: "The COP27 decision must reflect that we hold fast to our commitment to 1.5C

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The EU's plan for a new fund marks a major step forward for the strained negotiations in Sharm el-Sheikh, which have been deadlocked on a number of fronts, including the contentious issue of Loss and Damage funding for climate-vulnerable nations. Mitigation, adaptation and loss and damage all go together. That is our final offer.".

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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.

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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

AUGUST 11, 2021

In addition, Johnson revealed the UK government plans to be "extremely bold" at COP26 and call for the world to make "big commitments to change in four specific areas: "Coal - we want the developed world to kick the coal habit entirely by 2030 and the developing world by 2040. pic.twitter.com/75KPmyjXFj.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Other support packages include the £150 million Home Upgrade Grant, which is intended to assist emissions reductions with households not currently on the gas grid. This is hardly the COP figure the Prime Minister wants to read.”. The plan also mentions a 2028 minimum target of installing 600,000 heat pumps per year.

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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.  The European Union Climate Change Committee agreed on rules for including maritime shipping in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS ).

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

As such, he ruled the government had failed to meet its obligations under Climate Change Act 2008 (CCA) and ordered Ministers to update the plan and present it to Parliament by April 2023. This landmark ruling is a huge victory for climate justice and government transparency. We need to look at the plan.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

None of this equates with actual action to reduce emissions or tackle inequality, but it’s clearly not fringe anymore (which fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil found out when activist investors forced it to take on sustainability-friendly board members). Global climate meeting falls short. There’s more like this to come.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

What's in the energy support package, and who is going to pay for it? A sweeping support package has been promised, potentially worth up to £100bn, but what will be in it and why were these proposals such a closely guarded secret throughout the leadership campaign?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

To support its argument, the government today published new research it commissioned with Bloomberg New Energy Finance, which shows how 31 per cent of the global passenger vehicle market is now covered by vehicle manufacturer commitments to end sales of fossil fuel-powered vehicles, up from a near zero share of the market at the start of 2021.

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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. It needs equity, and it needs climate justice to be integrated in the work.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 7, 2024

Our biggest existential threat, climate change, is no longer a scientific model of the future; it’s now a relentless daily challenge. Banks are also making more money from loans and underwriting to clean energy than to fossil fuels. This was a rough year. Great news all around. But it was China that blew everyone away.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 19, 2021

As we emerge from COP26 and a year in which we've seen a number of important global moments, from the UN Food Systems Summit to part one of the Convention on Biological Diversity COP in China, the jury is still out on what the tangible outcomes will be. The pandemic has also created huge dynamism in all of the systems we rely on.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2022

The government support package is delivering help right now but it's clear the new Prime Minister will need to act further to tackle the impact of the price rises that are coming in October and next year. I talk to customers regularly and I know that today's news will be very worrying for many.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Yet while that very broad assessment certainly remains true, today's intervention from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was always going to be a little different. This report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a litany of broken climate promises. And it is damning.

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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. The cumulative impact of all the newly submitted national climate plans fell far short of meeting the 1.5C

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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

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Industry Voice: Schneider Electric's Amy Haddon ponders whether the UN Climate Change Summit delivered on businesses' hopes. In November, I had the privilege to represent Schneider Electric at the UN's Conference of Parties (COP) on climate change in Glasgow. Bottom Line for Business.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

An 'ambitious' new 2030 emissions reduction target, a 2030 phase out date for fossil fuel vehicles, and a major home energy retrofit programme are all on the Climate Coalition's short list, along with a raft of wider proposals designed to accelerate emissions reductions efforts over the coming decade. Lots more clean energy.

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Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2023

I think a lot of the feedback that you hear from any of the COPs is we're not doing enough and we're not doing it fast enough. And I do believe that summits like COP help to crystallize our efforts toward a more balanced relationship with the natural world. ºC be reaffirmed in the package of decisions between parties.

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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 7, 2022

After a marathon 48 hours of pre-Summit talks, the agenda for the official negotiations was confirmed yesterday and in an early breakthrough for developing economies Loss and Damage was included on the agenda for a COP Summit for the first time. The question today is: can we summon the collective will to deliver on those promises? "I

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Committee on Climate Change CEO discusses infrastructure, airline bailouts, COP26 and making the best of a bad situation. Climate change and our collective response has once again - albeit understandably this time - found itself playing second fiddle to a more immediate crisis, the full ramifications of which remain far from clear.

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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. Perhaps angriest of all was the Climate Change Committee, which pulled no punches in its assessment of a "very bad decision - supporting a technology of the past, with a very poor prospectus for new UK jobs".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The Paris Agreement on climate change, signed into life in 2015, may not be perfect. COP talks each year are often fraught and progress remains far too slow, as today's IPCC report on escalating climate impacts will testify. If designed well and properly adhered to, global treaties have a lot going for them.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 18, 2022

Unlike fossil fuels, we don’t want to stop using steel and cement; we need these materials more than ever. We are committed to ensuring that communities most impacted by climate change have resources, access and decision-making power. . Heavy industry is the foundation of modern society – literally.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

"Other governments now need to isolate the Saudi delegation if they want this COP to succeed for everyone, not just fossil fuel interests.". The largest national delegation is Brazil, which has brought 479 representatives to COP26.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Almost every challenge governments are struggling to get a grip on has a climate angle. All these issues are either caused or exacerbated by our reliance on fossil fuels and the climate impacts that result. Climate change then becomes the economy's way of overcompensating for its rampant insecurity.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2022

Seventy-five investors with $4.7tr of assets under management (AUM) this week sent a letter to the commissioners at the US Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) to call on them to ensure new climate change disclosure rules are as wide-ranging and robust as possible. Coal India touts net zero operations goal.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The combination of competition with China and downplaying climate change is also making EV-bashing a common refrain from Republican presidential candidates. 🧪 Cove , a Los Angeles, CA-based biomaterials and packaging developer, raised $7M in Series A funding from Valor Siren Ventures.

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