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

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Sophie Punte from the We Mean Business Coalition sets out the top demands from business leaders at the Glasgow Climate Summit. Governments have a unique opportunity to step up climate action to ensure that we can halve global emissions by 2030. Businesses have a stake in the COP outcomes for three main reasons - let me explain.

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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. Violent clashes with police left 29 dead. Although economic activity shrank 5.4

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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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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.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Guterres also took the opportunity to again press countries to ramp up their national pledges to climate action under the Paris Agreement, including action to reduce emissions, boost resilience efforts and increase international finance commitments for more climate vulnerable nations. "We or well below 2C. We need every voice at the table.

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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 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

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In fairness to the government it has resisted the temptation to spin the Summit as an unqualified success. But within hours of it being signed the pollution-loving Australian government signalled it had no intention to strengthen its disgracefully weak 2030 emissions targets. This criticism is understandable and even necessary.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

Tony Juniper reflects on the outcome of the COP15 Biodiversity Summit and what is now needed to deliver on the agreement signed by governments in Montreal. The government's legally-binding environmental targets published in December while the Montreal summit was underway helped give us a good idea of where we need to get to.

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

This includes about $50 billion for resilience, $7.5 The COP 26 climate conference took place! Paraphrasing, there was an insufficient amount of government action and commitment to address climate change, but things are happening. How do people feel about the outcomes?

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

In what is a crucial year for climate action in 2021, there CCC has today given the government much food - but little time - for thought - here are its top takeaways. So the government is playing a pretty high stakes game here. There is a limited window to change behaviours," the report states.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

The UK remains COP President until next November, when it will hand the baton over to Egypt, which is set host the COP27 Summit at the Red Sea beach resort of Sharm-el Sheikh. Indeed, there is no shortage of world-changing points of action for Sharma's COP team to be getting on with over the coming months. remained "weak".

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Its profile has grown over the past year as governments, particularly in Europe, have looked to find ways to boost their energy independence and curb soaring energy bills in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent fossil fuel supply crunch.

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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. Decarbonised heating and cooling add another 7,000.

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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

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The UK government said it expected the deal to unlock £10.4bn of additional trade, while "setting new global standards in digital and services" and reducing restrictions on travel and work between the two nations. of warming to revisit their plans. of warming to revisit their plans.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

As Tory leadership candidates yesterday signalled their support for the UK’s net zero goals, the High Court ruled the government must do more to explain how it intends to decarbonise the economy. This landmark ruling is a huge victory for climate justice and government transparency.

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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 was weak, and it remains on life support.".

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

Consequently, perennial calls for the government to deliver a major green stimulus and turbocharge the UK's net zero transition have now reached a crescendo. The IEA is now predicting global oil demand will fall to 99.9 Has anyone ever faced a shorter political honeymoon?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

depends on governments doing what they have said they will do, strengthening their plans further, and catalysing the fastest and widest industrial revolution in history. All over the world not nearly enough is being done to enhance climate resilience, leaving communities and economies exposed.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

As such, business leaders, investors, and campaigners, not to mention the wider public, are crying out for some much-needed clarity after several months of stasis from the government. She is also expected to retain the government's support for the Sizewell C nuclear project, which outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson signed off on next week.

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2022

Today more than ever, substantial investments are needed to ensure that the world is on track towards a resilient, inclusive, and sustainable transition despite the setbacks caused by Covid-19. Investors globally are rightly demanding greater transparency and information on the quality and impact of their investments.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 19, 2023

added resilient building consultant and former Passive House Canada board chair Deborah Byrne. “A very different psychology kicks in, one our brains would normally discount/reject. But one that is much more useful, if alarming.” Coolest and calmest with higher than average air quality!” This is the year future records will be set against.”

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2022

BusinessGreen rounds up the leading reaction to the government's plan for shoring up British energy independence in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. For perhaps the first time, the government has made commitments that clearly go beyond CCC proposals in key low-carbon technologies: offshore wind, nuclear, hydrogen.

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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.” Soon it will be too deep to escape.” We are all in this together.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

But green groups were left underwhelmed, after the government confirmed its commitment today to treble climate adaptation funding and support a series of new forest protection projects would come from existing climate finance budgets. It is either a Climate Solidarity Pact - or a Collective Suicide Pact," Guterres warned.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

The pioneering governance structure will see the food giant officially entrench environmental, social and societal objectives into its bylaws, alongside more typical profit goals. Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an "enterprise à mission," a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law.

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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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Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

António Guterres warns governments risk squandering the opportunity to deliver a 'green recovery' that accelerates the net zero transition. Finally, he reminded Ministers and officials from around the world that nations must commit to net zero emissions by 2050 and submit more ambitious national climate plans before COP-26 next year.

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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

MAY 12, 2020

At the start of a decade when the climate crisis was set to become a genuine priority for political and corporate leaders, another global crisis of even more pressing proportions for governments, businesses, and citizens stormed over the horizon. Building back better.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Forward-thinking businesses and financiers are set to be agents of change as governments look for ways to turn ambition into action - a role that is clearly not lost on the many business leaders represented at the SEC Centre in Glasgow. Polluters have been put on notice. temperature target stands tall. The less good news is that the 1.5C

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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 The GCP was not a total loss, however.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

temperature goal agreed by governments. 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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

As the government gears up to unveil its 10 point green recovery plan this autumn, an alliance of more than 70 civil society groups have set out which net zero policies they think should make the cut. The 10 point plan set out today should serve "litmus test" for the government commitment's to net zero.".

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

Better oversight over the metal's embodied emissions will be a boon to climate-sensitive governments looking to invest heavily in infrastructure to reboot coronavirus-damaged economies in an environmentally responsible manner. You need a really strong government, and it needs government investment.

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