Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The Financial Times reports the government is in talks with ExCel London about potentially moving the COP26 Summit to the capital. 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.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

With the Paris Agreement requiring governments to update their national climate action plans - or Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) in the UN jargon - every five years, many governments and campaigners fear that nations would only have two more opportunities to present 1.5C-compatible could be burned through in just 11 years.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Dozens of governments from around the world have pledged to work together on a series of initiatives over the coming year that aim to accelerate the decarbonisation of the power, road transport, steel, hydrogen, and agricultural sectors.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2021

Proposals to cut taxes on domestic flights within the UK while potentially increasing the duty paid on long-haul international aviation have been unveiled by the government today, in a move it claimed would help better support the UK's climate and environmental commitments.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2023

. - by Stuart Stone ( @sstone26 ) COP28: Hopes of fossil fuel 'phase out' hit by revelations of Saudi plan to boost oil demand Investigations reveal how Saudi Arabia is working on controversial plan to 'hook' developing economies on oil and gas. -

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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? Green groups have accused the government of marking its own homework on the Strategy by failing to open up the basis of its calculations to scrutiny.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Target to fully decarbonise electricity system by 2035 confirmed as Energy UK calls for end to new unabated gas power in UK. The announcement follows widely-briefed reports earlier this week had indicated the government was set to pull forward its zero carbon grid goal from by a further 15 years from its previous 2050 marker.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Following last year’s chaos in the energy sector, there were fewer big energy stories in 2023. There were major geopolitical events, but they didn’t impact the energy markets the way they did a year ago. This somewhat overshadows that it will be another record year for global EV sales and renewable energy installations.

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Business Green

JANUARY 12, 2023

Al Jaber has served as the UAE's Special Envoy for Climate Change since 2010, and has participated at 10 previous UN COP Summits. As civil society we demand that Al Jaber does the right thing and either stand aside or step down.". Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, has been appointed President-Designate for the conference.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

According to the 2022 BP Statistical Review of World Energy , Venezuela has more proved oil reserves than any other country in the world. The Venezuelan government, led by the late Hugo Chávez, sought a larger share of the revenue as investments made by international oil companies began to pay off. Both are far ahead of U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 28, 2021

A year ago the emergence and subsequent consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic had a tremendous impact on the year’s energy stories. Energy prices soar. Demand has returned, but supply hasn’t caught up. If you live in Europe, this was probably your top energy story of the year. government for the cancellation.

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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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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This is the first COP where participants found themselves face-to-face with the reality of breaching the 1.5 The final wording of the COP28 agreement – which required consensus among all nations and the chair – codified a commitment to transition away from fossil fuels in energy systems.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Michael Gove is hotly tipped to take up the reins of the crucial Glasgow Summit, but has the government truly internalised the scale of the task it now faces. Green kremlinologists have also noted that Gove has been put forward by the government to speak at a major conference in central London tomorrow hosted by think tank Green Alliance.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2020

Chile was forced to give up hosting the COP 25 United Nations Climate Change Conference in December after cost-of-living protests that started in the capital, Santiago, in October spread to other cities. COP 25 was ultimately held in Spain. Electrification and the relationship with green energy is booming in Chile.”

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

With greater scrutiny over emissions from meat and dairy companies, it is not surprising they are stepping up their game to head off any COP outcome that might hinder their operations,” Ben Lilliston, from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy told DeSmog. Dairy companies also found willing hosts in country governments.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2021

But Ministers insist end to financial support for overseas fossil fuel energy projects, £16bn transition plan for North Sea, and climate compatibility test for new projects can put UK on track to net zero emissions. We will not leave oil and gas workers behind in the United Kingdom's irreversible shift away from fossil fuels. "At

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) sent at least 20 officials from its Department of Energy, the state-owned oil company ADNOC, or the publicly listed oil company TAQA. AlOtaibi is registered as a senior consultant on climate change for Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Energy. Others are listed with even less detail. Mohammed A.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 11, 2021

All governments, including the UK, are telling us that they’re laser-focused on reducing carbon emissions. The catasrophic tar sands extraction and fracking industries have subsided for the moment, with the fall in demand and price of oil, but they’ll be back once they’re profitable again. How are they doing?

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2024

Campaigners and climate scientists had hoped the summit – which was billed as a “Food COP” due to its focus on farming – would see governments agree to ambitious action to transform food systems in line with the goals of the Paris climate agreement. Burr added that COPs provided an opportunity for U.S.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

She also warns that poor relations between Number 10 and the Scottish government risk jeopardising the Summit. 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. "You

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

Your governments have failed you. Evincing a more demanding ideology? For the energy which will become available once we stop rather desperately staving off grief, depression, despair at the state of our world and the extent of our common failure, …the energy that then becomes available to us is incalculably huge.

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2023

Both BP and BNEF have confirmed the clean energy transition is accelerating much faster than previously thought - has Putin inadvertently pulled forward the end game for the oil and gas industry? It is crucial to start any discussion of clean energy tipping points with an enormous caveat. The world is still on track for well over 1.5C

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2021

The government has confirmed it has brought forward the official date for the phase out of coal-fired electricity in the UK to October 2024, touting the move as evidence of the country's global leadership on power system decarbonisation. Coal accounted for just 1.8

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

trillion could deliver savings of $3 trillion in the net zero transition by 2040, new analysis based on the Future Energy Outlook shows. Moreover, governments need to grasp that a decision not to invest in the grid, is a decision to build more expensive capacity, such as nuclear and biomass.” 1.5TW of new transmission at a cost of $1.7

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2020

Announced on Friday, the probe will examine how the government conducts green diplomacy, and how closely it works with other government departments - including the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and Defra - on climate and environmental issues affecting both the UK and the rest of the world, the Committee said.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The attempt to brand the UAE Consensus as a success or failure misses the point - its impact depends on what governments and businesses do next Like Wile E. Clean energy generation is close to outstripping increases in energy demand. This means global emissions will peak within the next few years and begin to fall.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In the wake of blazing heat, rising food insecurity and devastating floods, COP28 leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda for the conference, which will call for governments to work with industry to find new solutions. We can expect a similar turnout at this year’s COP, too.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2023

The CCC's annual report is scathing on the lack of policy progress over the past year - the UK cannot afford another 12 months of inaction No aspect of the Climate Change Committee's (CCC) absolutely damning assessment of the UK's decarbonisation efforts over the past year is as dispiriting as the government's response to it.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 18, 2022

While energy decarbonisation has always been the key focus for the climate COPs, the biodiversity COPs have been very clear that their priority has been land use and how humans are driving nature's devastating depletion. At the heart of the debate on nature and land is the food system.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Don't listen to the fossil fuel enthusiasts pushing fracking as a solution for the UK's currently volatile energy market, argues ECIU's Dr Simon Cran-McGreehin. The gas crunch gripping Europe is directly caused by volatile international gas markets that expose the UK to demand surges in Asia and political manipulation by Putin.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The government is expected to publish its long-awaited Net Zero Strategy and accompanying Heat and Buildings Strategy this week, with the plans expected to fuel both hopes of a fresh surge in green investment and concerns the Treasury could derail the UK's efforts to meet its climate goals.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Environmental Audit Committee report also describes government biodiversity efforts to date as 'lacking' and argues ‘bold and ambitious action’ is required. Philip Dunne MP, who chairs the EAC, stressed that government, business, and consumers were all contributing to the widespread destruction of nature and extinction of species.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Each of these meetings were known as Conferences of the Parties, or COPs, and they have become synonymous with both the world's admirable intention to tackle the climate crisis and the diplomatic quagmire and geopolitical tensions that have repeatedly stymied efforts to curb global emissions. Paris breakthrough.

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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Government leaders, scientists and researchers, corporate executives, entrepreneurs, investors, and activists spent the last two weeks in Glasgow, Scotland at COP26. degrees C to avoid the worst impacts of climate change — or continue with the status quo. Elemental’s portfolio companies are poised to accelerate progress on pledges.

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

António Guterres warns governments risk squandering the opportunity to deliver a 'green recovery' that accelerates the net zero transition. Or, we can invest in renewable energy, which is reliable, clean and economically smart.". Per kilowatt hour, solar energy is now cheaper than coal in most countries," Guterres said. "If

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

IEA predicts major gains on energy efficiency in 2022 in response to energy crisis, but BloombergNEF warns current clean energy policies still put world on track for a 2.6C The slowdown came after the global rate of energy efficiency improvement had already fallen from two per cent in the first half of last decade to 1.3

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