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

JULY 18, 2022

In a video address to more than 40 leaders and ministers assembled at the Berlin event this morning, Antonio Guterres slammed political leaders for failing to take adequate action on tackling climate change and mobilising finance to support poorer nations' efforts to decarbonise and bolster their climate resilience. Mitigation.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

At a side event at the COP27 Climate Summit today, countries representing more than half of global GDP will set out a number of sector-specific 'Priority Actions' designed to make emissions-intensive industries more sustainable whilst cutting energy costs and boosting food security.

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Defend Our Future

DECEMBER 16, 2019

I had the privilege of attending the event. Representing diverse ethnicities and expertise, the youth leaders on hand took an active part in all areas of climate action under discussion – adaptation, resilience, mitigation. And we must continue to demand action from our leaders to make them do it.

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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 8, 2022

The appeals underscored how for many nations, the success of the Sharm El Sheikh Summit depends on its ability to deliver real progress towards the launch of a dedicated funding mechanism for Loss and Damage, after the contentious issue made it on to a COP agenda for the first time this year.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Build resilience of vulnerable communities against the here and now impacts of climate change. I also want particularly to thank COP President Alok Sharma who has worked incredibly hard to bring countries together. Greenwashing is the new climate denial, and we have seen too much at play in this COP. Phase out coal. degrees. "I

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

During a packed event at Chatham House where he unveiled the UK Presidency's priorities for the year ahead, the Cabinet Minister said the collective spirit that helped to forge the Glasgow Climate Pact in November was now needed to ensure the climate promises made at the conference are honoured.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

The final deal also saw important progress on other aspects of the global climate finance regime, with all parties agreeing to explore reforms to multilateral development banks and other financial institutions to help stimulate more investment in low carbon and climate resilient infrastructure.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

In my eyes, that certainly doesn't merit a big COP announcement. This bears the risk of displacing conversion to other regions if demand doesn't budge. These companies' CEOs are swayed by today's profitable markets rather than longer-term investments in resilient supply chains. But land won't rehabilitate itself. 6-7, online.].

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 19, 2023

added resilient building consultant and former Passive House Canada board chair Deborah Byrne. We’ve all just been party to an Earth-shaking, world-changing event that will fall on the other side of the ledger, generating lots of tears of the unhappy kind. But one that is much more useful, if alarming.” On Monday, July 3, the U.S.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

But with greater climate ambition from the government the decarbonisation challenge becomes more demanding, which in turn requires deeper scrutiny of the UK's progress to date from its internationally-respected, independent climate advisory body. So the government is playing a pretty high stakes game here.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

But despite an interminable number of husting events and countless miles of column inches, the policy platform of the new administration remains remarkably opaque on a host of critical economic and environmental issues. Are you prepared to strengthen the package again, if Russia blocks all gas exports and prices rise further still?

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Guterres said at least $100 billion dollars must be made available to developing countries for mitigation and adaptation and to take into account their “legitimate expectations to have the resources necessary to build resilience and for disaster response and recovery.” Let us open our ears to the multitudes who are demanding change.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In November, I had the privilege to represent Schneider Electric at the UN's Conference of Parties (COP) on climate change in Glasgow. This COP was unlike the previous 25 iterations, in that it took place during a global pandemic. In reality, the current pledges align more closely to 2.7 Bottom Line for Business.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Healthy ecosystems are more resilient to climate change and provide life-critical services such as food and clean water," said IPCC Working Group II co-chair Hans-Otto Pörtner. "By Climate resilience will become impossible in some regions if temperature rise exceeds 2C, the report warns.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Such businesses better meet the demands of the regulatory environment while coming into alignment with investor, consumer, and employee preferences. Since the convention’s establishment, the countries involved meet annually during the Conference of the Parties (COP). 30 years later came COP 26 (2021) – held in Glasgow.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The team and the Scottish government are in an extraordinary state of stand-off and… you are considering re-locating the event to an English location," the letter states. "I However, she alleged the team is "miles off track" to deliver the agenda.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

While the transition will inevitably be complex and difficult, it is essential to building a more resilient economy that benefits more people.". 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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

"I'm not sure whether this technicality around a ratchet is something we would push for or would be in the final text, but it is often the case that when you have these annual events that is sort of implicit anyway, and there is a lot of referring back to previous agreements.".

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Business and Energy Secretary and COP26 President Alok Sharma said: "Tackling climate change is the one of the most urgent shared endeavours of our lifetimes, demanding bold action from every nation to prevent catastrophic global warming. Leadership demands consistency. Now, the hard work begins. We look forward to theirs.".

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Eliot Whittington, director of the Corporate Leaders Groups, said: "As the range and violence of extreme weather events from around the world reminds us, climate change is a critical and growing business risk, and the IPCC's latest report gives the world the hard numbers showing the state and scale of that risk.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Clean energy generation is close to outstripping increases in energy demand. The fast-expanding pipeline of renewables projects and surging demand for electric vehicles will then destroy demand for coal, oil, and gas far faster than the industry realises. Deep down almost everyone knows this - even the world's petrostates.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

With plenty of personal animus in the mix and professional reputations at stake the ousted President of COP26 was always going to demand a full explanation for the political hit job that unfurled late on Friday afternoon while the country's attention was fixated upon Brexit celebrations/commiserations.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Whether or not the move indicates a softening of China's long term support for decarbonisation is contested, but it has highlighted how the transition away from fossil fuels is likely to lead to significant price volatility and energy security concerns, as economies battle to match supply and demand. No chance to keep 1.5C

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

That's why we're funding the Plan for Adaptation and Resilience - PREPARE - to help more than a half a billion people in developing countries respond to climate change. "Last year, I committed to work with our Congress to quadruple our climate finance to provide $11bn annually by 2024, including $3bn for adaptation," he said.

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