Business Green

MARCH 23, 2021

The French government recently won plaudits for reportedly making bailout packages for airlines conditional on the scrapping of some short haul routes where rail offered a viable alternative. Demand for domestic flights is very price sensitive. Cost goes up and demand little changed - no change in CO2 [link].

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The scheme could see direct funding to enhance the energy efficiency of social housing, schools, and hospitals, alongside a package of incentives to encourage other households to enhance their efficiency.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

This COP caused deep frustrations but it wasn't for nothing," she said. "It Writing on Twitter, Tan Copsey at consultancy Climate Nexus, said: "The fossil fuel lobby and friendly countries have made their presence felt at COP, but it's clear momentum is still only going in one direction - towards a clean energy economy.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

If approved, the package would be widely regarded as a major breakthrough that could deliver significant new funding for the most climate vulnerable nations. Including a specific mention of methane in the final agreement has been a leading demand of parties such as the UK and EU over the past week.

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Fossil fuels COP Methane Carbon 69

Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2023

Powers, vice president for global cleantech and renewables at Schneider Electric, who explores how public-private sector collaboration can help unshackle the surging demand for renewable energy. I think a lot of the feedback that you hear from any of the COPs is we're not doing enough and we're not doing it fast enough. And I agree.

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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

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 12, 2021

Meanwhile, the huge clean tech buying signals from coalitions of large corporates focused on electric vehicles, green steel, renewables, green shipping, and sustainable aviation fuels, all point to how these markets could quickly reach tipping points that trigger the rapid adoption that obliterates fossil fuel demand.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

The COP26 meeting in Glasgow ended the same as every COP: there was clearly progress in what countries committed to, but given the scale of a crisis that the UN Secretary General called “ code red for humanity ,” it was woefully inadequate. Concern about plastics and packaging, for example, was a huge issue in 2019.

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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

MARCH 24, 2021

The government insisted the sweeping package made the UK the first G7 country to agree a landmark deal to support the oil and gas industry's transition to clean, green energy, while supporting 40,000 jobs and mobilising £16bn of public and private sector investment through to 2030 in emission reduction efforts.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

And yet fears remain that these calls could yet be drowned out by the even more insistent demands for the Treasury to do whatever it takes to avoid the short term economic damage caused by the coronavirus crisis and related oil price slump. The IEA is now predicting global oil demand will fall to 99.9

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

As such, the court order presents a major challenge to the next Prime Minister, who will be under immediate pressure to both strengthen the UK's net zero plans and deliver a more ambitious package to help households cope with soaring energy bills this winter.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

If the recent COP kept 1.5 However, attempts to encourage the IMO to adopt more ambitious decarbonisation policies have been repeatedly stymied by a coalition of countries that have warned that more demanding emissions targets and standards could drive up costs and unfair;ly penalise poorer nations. This is unacceptable.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

"I intend to use the opportunity of the upcoming UN General Assembly high-level session [in September] to bring leaders together to reach a political understanding on these critical elements of the package needed for Glasgow," Guterres said.

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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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COP Climate change Fossil fuels Biodiversity 46

Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Business and policy leaders reflect on the major wins from the Glasgow Summit, what needs to happen next, and why COPs could look and feel difficult from now on. As Frontier Economics' Matthew Bell put it, Glasgow was arguably the first COP conference where the means to decarbonise were discussed alongside the end goals.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

COP talks each year are often fraught and progress remains far too slow, as today's IPCC report on escalating climate impacts will testify. As close observers of global climate diplomacy have long argued, if the COP process and the Paris Agreement did not exist you would have to invent them. The US left the treaty altogether briefly.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 7, 2024

In what may be the single biggest sustainability headline of the year, China’s national oil company, Sinopec, said the country had reached peak gasoline demand (in part by radically increasing sales of EVs). But these new rules also demand discussion of impacts on water, biodiversity, human rights, and more.

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

Guterres cited new research on G20 recovery packages released this week that shows that twice as much recovery money has been spent on fossil fuels as clean energy. "Some countries have used stimulus plans to prop up oil and gas companies that were already struggling financially," he said.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

After a marathon 48 hours of pre-Summit talks, the agenda for the official negotiations was confirmed yesterday and in an early breakthrough for developing economies Loss and Damage was included on the agenda for a COP Summit for the first time.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Encouragingly, word from the EU Commission suggests it remains steadfast in its 2050 net zero ambitions and that combatting climate change should feature strongly in economic recovery packages. The legwork on diplomacy for COP is the piece that needs to ride alongside the domestic efforts to cut emissions," Stark explains.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2023

If the CCC's central allegation is that the government is guilty of complacency and a fundamental lack of focus, the official response from the Department of Net Zero and Energy Security amounts to 'it's a fair cop, Guv'. "We

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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

JUNE 18, 2020

As such, Barker recently joined leaders of 154 other major corporations to support a major UN-backed campaign that demanded that governments align their coronavirus economic aid and recovery efforts with the latest climate science. limit outlined in the Paris Agreement. limit outlined in the Paris Agreement.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

As such, the COP Presidency should presumably welcome mounting calls for a new era of public-private cooperation on the financial packages that can help developing and emerging economies wean themselves off fossil fuels.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

And through behaviour change to address the demand side of the equation. Now such an opportunity presented itself when countries rolled out stimulus packages to help kick-start economies as we faced the COVID-19 pandemic. Through backing nature in our landscapes, oceans and cities. This month, not next month. The answer is net zero.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Some of the methods analyzed included planting crops in the off season to pull more carbon into the soil, a practice called cover copping; reducing tillage , which can limit the carbon-releasing decay of organic matter in the soil; and converting cropland to grasses or other perennials.

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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. This is where we step in. . Who We Are : .

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The UK will only be successful in galvanising global climate action ahead of COP 26 if it gets its own house in order," said Clara Goldsmith, campaigns director of the Climate Coalition. The 10 point plan set out today should serve "litmus test" for the government commitment's to net zero.". A 'net zero' Treasury. trajectories, they added.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Take urgent action to end poaching and trafficking of protected species of flora and fauna and address both demand and supply of illegal wildlife products. They are turning a blind eye to deforestation caused by demand for the commodities they use and failing to publicly recognise their responsibility to act.".

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Biodiversity Climate change Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability 81

Business Green

DECEMBER 19, 2022

A lengthy row over the best way to finance the landmark package of measures resulted in significant delays and left some negotiators disappointed in the final outcome. However, calls from some business groups for the text to demand 'mandatory' disclosure of nature-related risks from corporates appear to have been resisted.

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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. When you have both the economy and the environment on the same side of the scales, the debate is over.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

Fortescue unveiled a green ammonia dual-fuel ship at COP.   Ammonia demand for fertilizer and other existing uses by IEA scenario (Source: IEA ) Shipping fuel: Maritime shipping, which accounts for 3% of CO2 emissions, is betting big on ammonia. tons of CO2 per ton of production—accounting for 1.8% of global emissions. 

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

There are reasons why President Biden called his green stimulus package the Inflation Reduction Act. How to ensure that the clean energy revolution accelerates at sufficient pace that fossil fuel demand can fall both rapidly and in lockstep with constrained supply. There is no alternative. The problem is how to get from here to there.

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Fossil fuels Pollution Politics Agriculture 101

Business Green

MARCH 25, 2020

Global power generation from coal fell by a record amount in 2019, as renewable energy grew and power demand slowed down," she explained. As a result, new coal plants are looking an ever more risky bet for investors, warned Christine Shearer, lead author of the report and director of the Global Energy Monitor's coal programme.

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