The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Australia’s climate minister says summit must aim to keep 1.5C goal alive so Pacific countries are not ‘swallowed by the seas’ The Australian climate change minister, Chris Bowen, has told nearly 200 countries at the Cop28 summit that the use of fossil fuels in energy systems must end.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 30, 2021

A year of climate conversation and action in 2021 culminated in two intense weeks of negotiations at COP26, with many feeling a renewed sense of hope and belief for the decades ahead as the summit came to a close. Delivering on the summit outcome means that political will needs to remain strong. In the short term.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

Statement from world leaders show climate action is firmly still on the international agenda, but how that plays out remains to be seen, writes ECIU's Richard Black. That means investing in industries and infrastructure that can turn the tide on climate change.". Steely determination. More twists in this virus. So - job done?

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

The Systems Change Alliance share our view at Lowimpact.org that the climate change problem can’t be solved within the current economic system, which requires and generates perpetual growth and wealth concentration. Indeed, nothing short of economic systems change can save us now.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The landmark Paris climate agreement called for nations to keep global temperature increase to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius, with an aspiration of limiting it to 1.5 The benchmarks are supposed to stave off some of the worst effects of climate change. The question is, politically, what do countries do about this at COP28?”

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

To grasp the opportunities of net zero and deliver a successful climate change summit in Glasgow, the government must come forward with ambitious policies in 2020, argues the REA's Nina Skorupska. The goings-on behind the scenes of COP 26, or kack thereof, have been well documented over the past few weeks.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Regardless of how interesting face-to-face meetings with heads of state may be, their speeches still are nothing more than empty words as they follow one another to the podium during the first formal plenary session at COP climate talks. This year is no different from past COP climate summits.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

Smith, who won just over half of the 61,000 votes cast, has a history of outspoken comments about climate change and last year slammed the international UN climate conference now due to be held in Glasgow in November, saying “our priorities are all wrong”.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The UK organisers of the upcoming COP26 climate summit have come under fire for approving just two events that refer to fossil fuels, the primary driver of climate change, in a programme of public events happening alongside the main conference.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2021

Commitment to help protect land and ocean ecosystems that are critical to combating climate change will be announced by Prime Minister at today's One Planet Summit. He will address a session on Financing for Biodiversity, calling on others to mobilise public and private finance to support sustainable solutions to climate change.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The former Energy and Climate Change Minister had been slated to serve as COP26 President after playing a critical role in securing hosting duties for the UK. Specifically, she's calling for business to be given a more official role at future UN climate talks. "If It is a one-year thing, it only lasts as long as a COP.

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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 29, 2022

It makes you wonder if what is missing from the UK government's deeply flawed and badly underpowered pursuit of both its climate goals and levelling up agenda, is someone willing to take yesterday's 600 page tome from the Climate Change Committee (CCC) , drop it on a table with a satisfying thud, and declare "this is what we believe".

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 19, 2023

The coalition’s findings come nearly two years after a report by the UN’s climate science body, which found for the first time that “vested interests” were delaying efforts to tackle climate change. Climate denial tropes such as ‘climate actors are alarmist’ and ‘climate change is a hoax’ also featured.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Calls for the financial system to wake up to the looming threat of climate change are growing louder by the day. Those calls have been coming most clearly from the Bank of England under Governor Mark Carney, who last week warned the treasury committee of global finance’s role in driving the climate crisis.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

This means bridging the current political divide over outstanding issues related to finance, capacity building, technology transfer, transparency and especially Article Six. This issue cannot continue to be deferred, COP after COP after COP. We need a political decision," Guterres added. "We

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The climate vulnerable hotspots - which the charity defined as those with the highest number of UN appeals driven by extreme weather events - have suffered a 123 per cent increase in acute hunger since 2016. The report found that the countries in the climate hotspots were collectively responsible for just 0.13

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

So how is the UK public feeling about COP26, climate change, and what the opportunity for business might be? Climate isn't the sole preserve of business, government and activists, but we could be forgiven for sometimes thinking it is. COP26 is fast approaching, yet it feels as distant and difficult to grasp as ever.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

EY's Steve Varley sets out his expectations and hopes for the pivotal climate talks that kick off on Sunday. Another COP is coming - the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference. Despite this backdrop, it is vital that we have a high ambition for what we will achieve together.

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Energy Innovation

APRIL 1, 2021

Energy Innovation is extremely pleased to announce Mary Anne Hitt and Rekha Rao will join the firm’s Climate Imperative project, which aims to avoid the worst impacts of climate change through focused, effective policy design. plays a leadership role tackling the climate crisis at home.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The UN climate talks hosted in Dubai this month will shine a bright light on the pivotal role national oil companies, like UAE’s Abu Dhabi National Company (ADNOC), can and ultimately must play in the fight against climate change – particularly the urgent need to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas supply chain.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The outcome of the upcoming talks will have significant implications for businesses around the world who want to tackle climate change, writes the CBI's Tania Kumar. If a week is a long time in politics, a year can feel like a lifetime - and that's almost the exact amount of time that has passed since the UK hosted the COP26 Summit.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

This story was originally published by The Energy Mix , and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate crisis. The post Expert Panel Warns Journalists of Coordinated Climate Disinformation Campaigns appeared first on DeSmog.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Fears are rapidly mounting that chaotic UN climate talks in Sharm El Sheikh risk backsliding on previous commitments, with ministers from the UK, EU, and Canada jointly meeting with Egypt's COP27 Presidency today to stress that agreements at this week's G20 Summit in Bali to accelerate global climate action "must be a baseline, not a ceiling".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

They reflect the interests, the conditions, the contradictions and the state of political will in the world today. They take important steps, but unfortunately the collective political will was not enough to overcome some deep contradictions. Build resilience of vulnerable communities against the here and now impacts of climate change.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Amid myriad social, health and political crises, business sustainability is alive and well and living the Paris Agreement. The Institute for Sustainable Communities , which advances equitable community solutions to climate change, has appointed Deeohn Ferris as president and CEO. Who's news. Advocating. The former U.K.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The government could yet relocate the COP26 Climate Summit to London, according to reports this morning, amid claims of spiralling costs and political rows over the current Glasgow venue. It's vital that COP is a success. It's a massive opportunity. We have a duty to do everything we can to make it a success.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2020

O'Neill, a former Energy and Clean Growth Minister who stepped down from Parliament at the General Election last month, suggested the government "can't cope" with an independent COP26 unit and that there had been no dedicated climate change meetings within cabinet to date, despite Johnson's promise last year to begin chairing such meetings.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

A COP is the biggest global negotiation: 196 countries with very different agendas, very different political backgrounds; fraught with mistrust, with false rumours; highly technical and highly political - and alongside that a massive trade fair," explained Betts. Nobody has got the full picture in a COP.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

Ahead of London Climate Action Week, Mayor urges businesses and politicians to ensure momentum is maintained in run up to delayed COP26 Summit. The comments come amidst growing fears that the UK may struggle to submit its updated climate action plan to the UN by the end of this year, as agreed under the Paris Agreement.

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2022

UN chief calls on countries to meet their climate finance promises, as global leaders meet in Berlin to lay groundwork for COP27 Climate Summit. alive and to build climate-resilient communities. Ministers at the Petersberg Dialogue must rescue ambition for climate action and just transitions in the lead up to the COP," she said.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. Leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda that calls for governments and industry to work together to find new solutions to climate change–driven food insecurity. The files also detail collaborations planned for the event itself.

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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

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 20, 2022

While there was a lot of media buzz recently about the activists that could not - or, understandably, would not - participate in this year's COP, the voices of the most important are missing at nearly all important decision fora. It's not just a COP issue, it's a power issue. We also need a counternarrative about what is important.

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Business Green

JULY 14, 2021

To tackle the environmental challenges we face from climate change and biodiversity loss, it is crucial that domestic natural environment projects are able to attract private investment alongside support from the public sector," said Environment Minister Rebecca Pow.

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