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

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

JULY 19, 2022

The Net Zero Strategy (NZS) was released in autumn 2021, just ahead of the COP26 Climate Summit, and while it contained a raft of policies, targets, and plans designed to curb emissions commentators at the time highlighted how it failed to incorporate detailed modelling showing how much officials expected policies to reduce emissions.

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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. What's in the energy support package, and who is going to pay for it?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

There are (admittedly optimistic) reasons to think that if current plans are expanded and translated into near term policy measures the world could soon find itself on a 1.8C A precedent is being set with a new loss and damage framework taking shape and the first, albeit modest, funding packages being announced. trajectory.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Lucy Gilliam, shipping policy officer at campaigning organisation Seas At Risk, told the Guardian the meeting had delivered "miniscule progress", warning the world had 10 years to bring emissions down. "We If the recent COP kept 1.5 But in the meantime, we're still working on policies. This is unacceptable.

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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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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

Reports vary on the percentage of those companies that re-started donations to insurrectionists (some say only 23% have kept the policy ). The gap between science and policy is an opportunity, and a responsibility, for business to take a bigger role. Concern about plastics and packaging, for example, was a huge issue in 2019.

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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

MARCH 9, 2020

In the past few days a flurry of major reports have again highlighted how the UK can realise major economic benefits from stepping up low carbon investment and supportive net zero policies, while green business leaders have urged Sunak and Johnson to make good on their environmental pledges.

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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

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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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). The UK retreated on some climate policies , like delaying a ban on combustion engines in cars to 2035.

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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 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 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. Yet in the six years since its birth, the Paris Agreement has undoubtedly transformed policy, investment, and economic thinking. The US left the treaty altogether briefly.

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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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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. .

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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

APRIL 4, 2022

The third in a trilogy of reports over the past year or so, today's - dubbed Climate Change 2022: The Mitigation of Climate Change - was particularly highly anticipated due to its focus on solutions to the aforementioned crisis the world currently faces, in terms of technologies, policies, nature-based measures and finances. on the table.

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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. But will the government deliver the scale of investment and detailed policy frameworks required to unlock real progress?

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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. But with economies only tentatively easing lockdown conditions, many major recovery plans have yet to emerge.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

"It will require people to step up and make positive choices and it will require activist investors, it will require proactive leadership from business, and it will require very clear policy choices from politicians.". 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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Grist

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The Growing Climate Solutions Act is a step in the right direction,” said Giana Amador, co-founder of Carbon180, a nonprofit that advocates for policies that support removing carbon from the atmosphere. One review of sequestration strategies found it is “practically achievable” for U.S.

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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

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. Natural capital thinking is one of a number of policy ideas jostling for position as governments consider how best to tackle accelerating levels of environmental damage.

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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.

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Applying a climate lens improves every policy and instils greater optimism and better returns in every project. There are reasons why President Biden called his green stimulus package the Inflation Reduction Act. Climate action is the only viable path out of these dangerous decades. There is no alternative. There is a deal to be done.

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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

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. And despite recent indications that it will review its overseas coal financing policy, Japan remains a major funder of coal capacity abroad, currently financing 24.7GW of coal power outside its borders.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2022

A spokesperson for the secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the UN body behind the COP15 summit, told New Scientist : "The COP [conference of the parties] bureau, at its last meeting, discussed that the UN Biodiversity Conference could be moved to the third quarter. Coal India touts net zero operations goal.

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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. Pull together'.

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Green Market Oracle

JUNE 23, 2020

We have already seen significant changes in policing policy all across the country. However, many want to see national standards in policy, law and training for all of the 18,000 police agencies in the U.S. However, many want to see national standards in policy, law and training for all of the 18,000 police agencies in the U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2020

Battle lines drawn in Congress this week look set to be repeated around the world, as calls grow for economic rescue packages to prioritise climate action and avoid "locking in" a new wave of fossil fuel infrastructure. But all around the world calls are growing for the recovery packages to deliver low carbon infrastructure.

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