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. While we rightly focus on fighting the immediate crisis of the Coronavirus, we must not lose sight of the huge challenges of climate change," he said in a statement.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

The government can adapt what has worked well from its swift and immediate response and apply such learning to the economic recovery by putting climate-friendly policies at its core. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has warned us that time is running out for countries around the world to limit their warming to 1.5°C,

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Governments have a unique opportunity to step up climate action to ensure that we can halve global emissions by 2030. The decisions included in the Glasgow Package will have a major impact on the global economic recovery, jobs and business growth opportunities. ºC ambition, climate finance, adaptation and resilience.

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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

AUGUST 3, 2020

British diplomats, the UK COP presidency team and Ministers would have been in a whirl of frenetic influencing activity globally (we hope) to drive up ambition, and drive out those new nationally-determined contributions (NDCs) from all the parties to the Paris Agreement. But these are not normal times, and the COP has been delayed by a year.

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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

APRIL 1, 2020

All the reaction from politicians, green business, academia, NGOs and think tanks on the momentous decision to postpone this year's critical UN climate change summit. Tackling climate change requires strong, global and ambitious action. Soon, economies will restart.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2020

One of the most important is our commitment to tackling climate change. We have worked together to drive climate action across the international community. And at this critical moment in the fight against climate change, we want to build on this collaboration. We have shared ambition, expertise and innovation.

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Business Green

JUNE 13, 2021

Against this backdrop business groups and campaigners have become increasingly frustrated at delays to several crucial green policy packages, as well as controversial moves such as the government's decision to axe the Green Homes Grant scheme and its failure to block plans for a new coal mine. Does capitalism need to change?

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Business Green

APRIL 27, 2020

Delivering the virtual conference's opening remarks, Schulze said that she would like the need to enhance national climate action plans - known as nationally-determined contributions (NDCs) in the UN jargon - to be a "major signal" to come out of the meeting.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

UN climate change chief Simon Stiell similarly reiterated calls for governments to now come forward with more ambitious national climate action plans, known as Nationally Determined Contributions in the UN jargon. This COP caused deep frustrations but it wasn't for nothing," she said. "It

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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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Business Green

JULY 23, 2020

But terrible though this experience has been for so many families around the world, the brutal truth is that it will be dwarfed by the effects of climate change and environmental degradation unless we act very quickly and decisively. Politicians everywhere are designing their economic recovery packages.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In this year, the Year of Climate Action, it will be the top international priority for this government.?? In my first fortnight as COP President, I have been listening to those who have done this before. ??Meeting Agreeing a package that delivers the Paris Agreement and powers the UN climate process forward.??

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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

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Tackling climate change requires transformational thinking across industry and government and a willingness to collaborate globally. A senior climate campaigner who has informally advised the UK government told Politico : "The COP26 communications team is hamstrung by a lack of political leadership at No.

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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. The whole package works together cohesively, or it doesn't at all.".

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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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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

"Trees - we want COP26… to commit to restoring nature and habitat and ending the massacre of the forts, because trees are among our best natural defences against climate change. The @IPCC_CH report couldn't be clearer: humans are causing potentially catastrophic climate change. pic.twitter.com/75KPmyjXFj.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Richer nations have yet again failed to meet their pledge to collectively provide $100bn a year to those developing nations worst impacted by the climate crisis from 2020 onwards, with the "totemic" target now not expected to be met until 2023. Scaling up climate finance has been one of my top priorities as COP President," he said.

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Business Green

JULY 12, 2022

Using the COP process and international collaboration we should aim for a market, science and technology driven approach which can protect the environment and enhance productivity.". As far as I'm concerned, the future progress on climate change hangs in the balance. We have two weeks to save net zero.".

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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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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

MARCH 4, 2020

The multi-million pound funding package will invest £30m towards creating four new "state-of-the-art" industrial research and development centres across England, Wales, and Scotland, and a further £6.7m The government is inching towards greener fuels, but the UK is still way off track to meet its climate targets," he said. "If

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

I would like to thank the Secretary-General for the great leadership he has shown in tackling climate change. Other former COP Presidents, such as Laurent Fabius. Other former COP Presidents, such as Laurent Fabius. Encouragingly, there has been a strong level of agreement that we must act now to tackle climate change.

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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 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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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

Sourdough starters, Zoom drinks, online theatre, Joe Wicks' PE sessions, Netflix… whatever it is, and whatever combination, in whatever time you happen to have available to you, it seems as though we've all been putting together our own package of coping mechanisms. Gareth Redmond-King is head of climate change at WWF UK.

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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

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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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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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

JULY 26, 2021

above pre-industrial levels and stress the need to accelerate action to achieve this temperature limit across mitigation, adaptation, and finance during the critical decade of the 2020s, recognizing that the impacts of climate change at 1.5C are much lower than at 2C," states.

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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

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. The package is by no means flawless but this is not the end. Nature is not a line item on societies' balance sheet.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This was inspired by when we arrived (at) COP 25 in Madrid three years ago and understood that this is where the world is going," said Lee Recht, VP of sustainability at Aleph Farms, at the VERGE Net Zero virtual event early in December. What led these lean startups to bind themselves to net zero targets?

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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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