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. In the meantime, we continue to support and to urge nations to significantly boost climate ambition in line with the Paris Agreement.".

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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

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

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

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

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. We all know that climate risks are growing year by year," he said.

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. The GCP was not a total loss, however.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

Against this backdrop, green industry groups and think tanks are warning the case for bolder climate action is more compelling than ever. This is the government's opportunity, in the year of the COP, to show true global leadership on the climate crisis," Miliband said. "We

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Business Green

MARCH 19, 2021

He said that firstly the UK would "urge all countries to set 2030 emissions reductions targets that put us on a path to net zero" and call on them to introduce policies to deliver on such targets, such as bans on the sale of internal combustion engine cars and the introduction of ambitious green recovery packages.

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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

JUNE 24, 2020

The plan now is to entice even more businesses, large and small to the fold over the coming year in order to position the environmental services sector as an exemplar industry ahead of the rescheduled COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow. Transport emissions require the buy in of absolutely everybody, to change their ways of working.".

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

And more sustainable approaches to procurement should be welcomed by businesses and consumers, who Barker predicts will be more concerned with resilience and sustainability in the wake of the pandemic. "In

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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. trajectories, they added.

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2021

To do that, the West needs to come up with a meaningful package of support that includes some pretty serious amounts of money. The voice of vulnerable countries is really important at COPs," he explained. Repurposing some existing development aid simply isn't going to cut it.".

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 18, 2022

In the last year we’ve seen increasing recognition of the importance of steel decarbonization, with net-zero announcements from five of the six largest steel companies in the world, new government initiatives flowing from COP 26 and a range of new studies proposing technical and policy pathways. Collaboration – We build inclusive spaces.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2020

Letter to the Prime Minister by government climate advisers adds further weight to cross-sector calls for coronavirus stimulus packages to eschew carbon-intensive practices in favour of low-carbon, climate-resilient industries and projects. The actions needed to tackle climate change are central to rebuilding our economy.

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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.". However, seasoned observers noted that pretty much all of the 25 previous COP Summits have run over in pursuit of a compromise agreement, sometimes by days.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Climate change then becomes the economy's way of overcompensating for its rampant insecurity. There are reasons why President Biden called his green stimulus package the Inflation Reduction Act. But this theory is subsumed by the climate theory of everything. The foundations of our way of life have been fracked.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

Given this is an evolving situation we are keeping the situation under careful review and are in frequent contact with the UN, Chile (as current COP president) and other partners.". That the ruling party makes this one of the major pledges for the coming election is a significant change.".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Speaking at an event in Milan this month, Thunberg spoke for many when she alleged that COPs have delivered little more than a talking shop since the first Earth Summit in 1992. For Mabey, Glasgow is the most crucial UN meeting on climate change since Paris. Global carbon emissions fell by a record 5.8

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

The UK government has today called for Covid-19 recovery plans to bolster the fight against climate change, with Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab telling global leaders at a major climate summit that it is "duty of every responsible government" to reboot economies along climate-resilient lines.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2020

Battle lines drawn in Congress this week look set to be repeated around the world, as calls grow for economic rescue packages to prioritise climate action and avoid "locking in" a new wave of fossil fuel infrastructure. But all around the world calls are growing for the recovery packages to deliver low carbon infrastructure.

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