Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

He has long defended the scientific consensus on climate change, and having been a fervent critic of the outgoing Liberal-National coalition government's weak green policies over the past three years, he touted this weekend's election results as "an opportunity to end the climate wars in Australia".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

World’s top scientists have sounded alarm over intensifying impacts of climate change, warning that nature protection must be at the heart of efforts to tackle the problem. Hoesung Lee, chair of the IPCC, said the findings were a "dire warning" about the consequences of inaction on climate change. "It

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Thousands of the world's leading climate scientists, after over three years of work, today delivered yet another landmark report on the state of the climate and ecological emergency the world now faces. Today's IPCC report is an atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of failed climate leadership.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

And, echoing the demands of many developing nations, Guterres stressed that progress on Loss and Damage - a thorny issue surrounding new forms funding for climate vulnerable nations facing the brunt of global warming impacts - should serve as a "litmus test" for the success of COP27 as a whole. It is a moral imperative.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

.” – UNFCCC , What is the United Nations Framework on Climate Change? Although this level was not defined by the convention, the aim was to allow ecosystems and society to adapt naturally to climate change, which means slowing global warming down. 30 years later came COP 26 (2021) – held in Glasgow.

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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. In reality, the current pledges align more closely to 2.7

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Today the world's leading climate scientists delivered the clearest picture yet of the scale of the climate crisis that is already unfolding, as well as the likely impacts of further temperature rises over the course of century. Everything we need to avoid the exponential impacts of climate change is doable.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, said: "We have proven we can reduce our emissions and create hundreds of thousands of jobs in the process - uniting businesses, academics, NGOs and local communities in a common goal to go further and faster to tackle climate change.

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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.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

We have determined a way forward on a decades-long conversation on funding for loss and damage - deliberating over how we address the impacts on communities whose lives and livelihoods have been ruined by the very worst impacts of climate change. "In degree limit alive and pull humanity back from the climate cliff.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

warming trajectory. Scientists have made clear that global emissions cuts of 45 per cent by 2030 are needed to stand a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C, yet UN analysis suggests that present national commitments would see emissions rise by 16 per cent by the end of the decade, compared to 2010.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

On almost all of the key issues - ramping up climate finance for developing nations, doubling adaptation finance, agreeing a new loss and damage fund to support countries suffering the fallout from climate impacts, establishing certain rules governing global carbon markets, and ensuring ambitious language around the 1.5C

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Alok Sharma is set to call for major reform of the global financial system in order to accelerate flows of finance towards helping developing countries decarbonise and prepare for the worsening impacts of global warming, in his expected to be his final major speech as COP26 President.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The pledge was framed by the UN and COP26 Presidency as a critical mechanism to encourage nations to ratchet up underpowered climate plans in order to give the world a fighting chance of capping average global temperature rise at 1.5C The fact that only 24 new or updated climate plans were submitted since COP 26 is disappointing.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The pledge was framed by the UN and COP26 Presidency as a critical mechanism to encourage nations to ratchet up underpowered climate plans in order to give the world a fighting chance of capping average global temperature rise at 1.5C The fact that only 24 new or updated climate plans were submitted since COP 26 is disappointing.

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2021

Clearly, ahead of such a large and important summit, much preparatory negotiating work needs doing, and each year this usually take place at the UN premises in Bonn, Germany, in the months leading up to the Climate Summit. 2C global warming threshold target of the accord.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The Glasgow Climate Summit is unlikely to bring the world into line with the Paris Agreement's goals, but there is growing optimism it can deliver a lot more than 'blah, blah, blah'. Global carbon emissions fell by a record 5.8 For Mabey, Glasgow is the most crucial UN meeting on climate change since Paris.

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