DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The open letter, organized by the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Clean Creatives campaign, comes just days before the annual UN climate talks (COP27) open in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. The UN Conference of the Parties (COP) climate summits convene world leaders and delegates and draws significant media attention.

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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

JULY 27, 2023

This comes as major polluters are increasingly deploying digital tactics to detract from negative headlines about their record profits and decades-long contribution to climate change. While there’s more knowledge in general around climate change and the harms of fossil fuels, I think that people have a lot of trust in creators.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Fossil fuels are everywhere at this COP except in the decisions being negotiated by governments,” Nikki Reisch, the director of climate and energy at the Center for International Environmental Law, wrote to DeSmog from Glasgow. AlOtaibi is registered as a senior consultant on climate change for Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Energy.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

As the UK readies for the upcoming COP26 Summit in Glasgow in November, the Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change urge government to deliver ambitious net zero strategy. This should include widespread engagement on the health, economic and environmental co-benefits of cutting food waste and changes in diet.".

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Terra Infirma

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

So the COP26 climate change jamboree trundles on, with the leaders now departed and the grunt work continuing on the details, but how is it looking? The post Good COP, Bad COP? It’s not perfect, but life never is perfect, and I’m a big believer in perfection being the enemy of success.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Company directors may be convinced of the long-term benefits of a rapid shift to net zero, but their job description, set out in the Companies Act, doesn't give them a level playing field to make truly impactful climate policies. Joanna Allen is CEO at Graze.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

Ruling on a case brought by Friends of the Earth, ClientEarth, and the Good Law Project, Mr Justice Holgate agreed the strategy lacked sufficient explanation or quantification as to how the decarbonisation plans set out in the Net Zero Strategy published last autumn would achieve emissions targets for the 2030s and beyond.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

Now as we begin to come out of lockdown it's a great opportunity to lock in the good changes - from taking more exercise to spending more time with family. Planning how to work more cleverly and to prepare for even larger future disruptions such as climate change and biodiversity loss.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

And then November will see Glasgow host the COP climate change summit, taking place five years on from the historic Paris Agreement. With the UK holding the COP presidency, top of the agenda will be to encourage countries to ratchet-up climate ambition to get us closer to 1.5C

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Compared to the States, these issues are amplified by the UK's higher population density - as noted by Kwasi Kwarteng in recent days - and landowners have less involvement because our mineral laws give the government the rights over gas exploration. Just this year, we were reminded that the risks of fracking haven't changed.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

Government's climate agenda marred by uncertainty and delay which risks undermining COP26 and net zero transition, Climate Change Committee warns. We're seeing lots of potential for new investment to actually boost the economy to stimulate jobs to stimulate more economic activity within the UK.".

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

This month, we’re highlighting some of the energy and climate provisions in the infrastructure bill, touching on what the international climate conference COP26 was and wasn’t, highlighting the potential impact of corporate buyers coalitions, giving a round of applause to the progress the company NET Power has made, and more!

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2022

And the destruction doesn't stop there, with allegations of attempted evictions of indigenous communities and breaches of slave labour laws all linked to the Brookfield owned farms. Carney will know this Declaration well, having been formally engaged as an adviser to the UK government in the run up to COP.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2022

And the destruction doesn't stop there, with allegations of attempted evictions of indigenous communities and breaches of slave labour laws all linked to the Brookfield owned farms. Carney will know this Declaration well, having been formally engaged as an adviser to the UK government in the run up to COP.

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Business Green

JUNE 17, 2021

The policy brief, dubbed Brexit Implications for UK Decarbonisation Objectives , concludes the ongoing effort to disentangle UK governance from EU laws and regulations is currently hampering efforts to meet the UK's net zero emission goals.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The Chancery Law Project is bringing together all sections of the legal profession to try and drill climate action into contracts, regulation and national laws. As awareness of climate change and its impacts grows, a question frequently asked by many is: what can I do to help?

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The G7's plans to establish a Climate Club and the EU's landmark carbon border adjustment mechanism deal hint at a new era - and deeper tensions - for global trade. As is frequently pointed out, climate change is a crisis of global proportions that can only be addressed through global cooperation.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The agreement includes a number of environmental clauses, with Chapter 22 of the FTA published yesterday reaffirming the UK and Australia's commitment to protecting biodiversity and achieving the climate goals contained in the Paris Agreement.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Rachel Kyte, Dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and former World Bank Vice President and Special Envoy for Climate Change, said: "Our economy has to operate within nature. By the next CBD COP in 2024, governments have a lot of homework to turn these agreed goals into actions at home.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

C above pre-industrial levels , recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change”. It was at COP21, where the Paris Agreement , the most important climate pact to date, was enshrined. Everything had changed forever. That paragraph, in article 2, paragraph 2.a.,

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

A few months later, corporate giants also spoke out against state laws meant to restrict voting. Global climate meeting falls short. I never would have imagined companies picking sides — they want influence in both parties. But the threat to democracy was real, so American Express, Marriott, Dow, and dozens more took a stand.

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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. Most famously, the governor of Florida kept battling one of the world’s most beloved brands, Disney, over the company’s position on state laws targeting the LGBTQ+ community.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

Kwarteng conceded there was a "gap" in policies needed to meet the UK's fourth and fifth carbon budgets for the late 2020s onwards, but insisted the government was "working closely" with the independent advisory body the Climate Change Committee (CCC) to flesh out new policies to be introduced over the coming year.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

As you know, I'm now devoting all of my time and energies to the role of COP President-designate whilst continuing as a full member of the UK government cabinet. By the end of 2020 net zero was firmly established as the law. And I hope I speak for all of us when I say welcome back to the USA in our shared fight against climate change.

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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. Has COP changed your perspective on what Schneider could do?

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

So much for the “African COP.” As the world watches, expecting action from world leaders, the question has to be posed: How can COP27 succeed when those responsible for the climate crisis are allowed in? It’s yet again a festival of polluters. The reality is they are anything but.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

UK monarch hits out at those who 'talk but don't do' when it comes to climate change, amid reports several world leaders will not be attending the Glasgow Summit. Extraordinary isn't it - I've been hearing all about COP," the Queen appears to say. Still don't know who is coming. We only know about people who are not coming.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2021

To continue to license this destructive activity, when we know the damage it causes and that it is illegal under various environmental laws, beggars belief. We need to protect our marine habitats and in return many will also help protect us from climate change by sequestering and storing carbon.”?.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

This so-called ‘Glasgow declaration on sustainable bioenergy’ is not an official COP document,” Sally Clark, from biomass campaign group Biofuelwatch, told DeSmog. “It The company has now converted four of its six plants to biomass, which is categorised as a renewable energy under UK law.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

While NYCW has been around for more than a decade , this year the vibe of ~10x the participants and well-curated mini-conferences alongside official UN programming felt almost like a Davos or a mini-COP (which, depending on your take on the efficacy and impact of COP, could be a good or bad thing). The government is in full support.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The COP insiders who feel responsible for maintaining an artificial sense of suspense can relax and tell the truth: There will be no breakthrough agreement because delegates have never had the power to deliver one and never will, until most citizens in their home countries demand it. As it sinks in that the crucial 1.5C

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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 3, 2021

Climate change and the net zero transition pose huge risks to the financial system unless action is taken, but they also offer massive business opportunities. And by COP in Glasgow we will look to have those types of commitments across the financial sector, right into the private banking sector as well.". It's a net zero COP.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

It was both a success and a missed opportunity, and blah blah blah – readers will be well-versed in the platitudes and endless “more must be done” variants that pepper politicians’ speeches after the more-or-less annual UN Climate Change Conference. This one – the 27th – seemed not to depart radically from the standard script.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2021

After all, Carney - who also serves as the UN's Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance - has made clear that he envisages the crucial UN climate summit in Glasgow as a "net zero COP" for financial firms, where he is expected to spearhead a new cross-sectoral finance initiative. We wanted to help unblock that process.".

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GreenBiz

JUNE 2, 2021

Over the past few years, the term "climate risk" has risen to the fore , taking up residency inside the world's biggest banks and investors. Today, it is part of many companies’ toolkit as they seek to understand the impacts of climate change on their business and society. And it’s not just climate.

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