Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Other demands include cutting methane emissions by 30 per cent between 2020 and 2030, working to tackle other damaging pollutants, and taking more ambitious action to decarbonise transport such as aviation and shipping. Nick Mabey, co-founder and CEO of climate think tank E3G, said the HAC grouping "makes the political weather at COP".

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Gasoline prices are on the way down, and I am seeing a lot of chatter from people who are convinced this is political. As someone whose job it once was to blend gasoline for ConocoPhillips COP , allow me to explain the reasons. But that’s not why prices are falling. Right now, oil prices are falling, and that certainly helps.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

Evincing a more demanding ideology? The media and political leaders unable to hold back the tide. Leaders in the space, such as Christiana Figueres, Naomi Klein, George Monbiot, Greta Thunberg, Vanessa Nakate, Jonathon Porritt, Caroline Lucas: how could they cut through, in 2024? Is it by trying harder? Getting angrier? Using violence?

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

It would be easy at this point to simply list the litany of policy failures and the paucity of political leadership documented by the CCC's almost satirically titled progress report. The growing fears charging infrastructure and public and active transport networks are struggling to keep pace with soaring demand.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Like a chicken and egg dilemma, who came up with these goals first, politics or science? Political Origins of 2°C. The next key moment in the 2°C story is no longer scientific, but political. And we reached the political tipping point around the two-degree mark. But why are both numbers so important? Another time jump.

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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.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

This means bridging the current political divide over outstanding issues related to finance, capacity building, technology transfer, transparency and especially Article Six. This issue cannot continue to be deferred, COP after COP after COP. We need a political decision," Guterres added. "We

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Work on the demand side and robust accounting rules to provide companies and countries with a legitimate avenue to make immediate and meaningful progress on their climate change commitments and to complement, rather than replace, emission reductions taking place within borders and supply chains. These include: Double counting. While the U.S.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2021

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. However, fossil fuel enthusiasts are actually suggesting the opposite, by demanding that the UK should revisit its unsuccessful dalliance with fracking for shale gas.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Branded as the most inclusive COP to date, the reality of COP26 was activists and NGOs left out in the cold, and billionaires and fossil fuel representative sitting at the negotiating table. Millions of people have already been displaced and millions more will lose their homes between now and the next COP.

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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 13, 2021

They reflect the interests, the conditions, the contradictions and the state of political will in the world today. They take important steps, but unfortunately the collective political will was not enough to overcome some deep contradictions. Greenwashing is the new climate denial, and we have seen too much at play in this COP.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

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. It's vital that COP is a success. It's a massive opportunity. We have a duty to do everything we can to make it a success.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 30, 2021

So the big question will be how we take that forward and in 2022 we'll really test the strength of the commitments from the COP and what comes next, both for the UK and around the world. Delivering on the summit outcome means that political will needs to remain strong. This trend has the potential to go even faster by the end of 2022.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

In particular, he will point to the forthcoming publication of the Private Finance Strategy for COP 26 , which will set out a framework ensuring every financial decision takes climate change into account. Progress has been considerable and momentum is growing. Let's seize it.".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

A COP is the biggest global negotiation: 196 countries with very different agendas, very different political backgrounds; fraught with mistrust, with false rumours; highly technical and highly political - and alongside that a massive trade fair," explained Betts. Nobody has got the full picture in a COP.

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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 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

The UN Secretary General has once again called on political leaders to meet their international climate finance promises, as he this morning addressed the launch of a two-day climate conference co-hosted by G7 host Germany and the Egyptian COP27 Presidency. Demand that these banks become fit-for-purpose," Guterres urged. Mitigation.

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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 The crucial question is what happens next?

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 9, 2023

These seven states are all classed as authoritarian by the Economist Intelligence Unit’s 2022 Democracy Index , which is judged according to five measures: electoral process and pluralism, civil liberties, the functioning of government, political participation, and political culture. The world looks set to surpass the key 1.5C

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Demand has returned, but supply hasn’t caught up. Although it will take years for some of these actions to impact oil supplies, the political impact was felt immediately. As an example, ConocoPhillips COP — the largest publicly-traded pure oil and gas produce — is up 80% YTD versus an S&P 500 return of 26%.

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Business Green

AUGUST 20, 2021

XR is demanding "crisis talks" with the Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Chancellor Rishi Sunak, COP26 President-designate Alok Sharma, Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng and Environment Secretary George Eustice, on climate action and the upcoming UN summit in Glasgow. We will occupy spaces in London, whether it be buildings or roads.".

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

COP26 is hurtling towards us, but the debate is being dominated by talk about the event itself and the politics surrounding it. To engender real change, conversations around COP need to be lifted out from the mechanics of the conference. The UK cannot see its role as complete once the two weeks in Glasgow are over.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The research has been published in the hope of informing a working meeting of the UN Convention of Biological Diversity early next month, the treaty through which countries come together to hold regular COP meetings aimed at delivering a global treaty to reverse biodiversity loss.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

However, beyond the political row O'Neill's letter presents a litany of concerns over the preparations for the COP26 Summit. However, she alleged the team is "miles off track" to deliver the agenda. She also warns that poor relations between Number 10 and the Scottish government risk jeopardising the Summit. "And

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

If a week is a long time in politics, a year can feel like a lifetime - and that's almost the exact amount of time that has passed since the UK hosted the COP26 Summit. Last week two landmark reports from the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and UN Environment Agency demanded our attention. degree dream alive.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The general consensus amongst seasoned observers of both Whitehall and the UN's COP talks is that there is time to deliver the successful summit that the UK and the wider world so desperately needs, but it has been an disappointing and chaotic start to proceedings and the clock is ticking. But you can't do that at a COP.

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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

AUGUST 26, 2021

Among its various demands, Extinction Rebellion is calling on the government introduce an immediate ban on new fossil fuel investments, arguing the move would help the world stay within the Paris Agreement's 1.5 But given that the UK has the COP presidency this year, we could be setting a good example for other governments to follow.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

For all the evidence the Paris Agreement has catalysed an era-defining array of clean tech innovations and a remarkable shift in public opinion, there have been baseless arguments that the entire COP process is an exercise in futility. The UK does not set out its expectations, demand they are met, and then declare success or failure.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Another COP is coming - the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference. In addition, there is growing dismay, and anger in many quarters, that the unmet promises of past COPs, especially in providing finance to those that are suffering loss and damage from climate change, are going to make COP27 even more challenging.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

It just shows that this UN process can achieve results, and that the world can recognise the plight of the vulnerable must not be treated as a political football.". This COP caused deep frustrations but it wasn't for nothing," she said. "It It achieved a significant breakthrough for the most vulnerable countries.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Saudi Arabia and Australia are assumed to be working hard to strip any mention of fossil fuels from the final text, in line with COP tradition, while reports this afternoon indicated China was fiercely opposed to any mention of a coal phase out. Fossil fuels have long been a politically loaded term within the UN climate change process.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Lending high-level economic and political credence to that growing public clamour for action, the work of Chris Stark and his small team at the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) in driving the issue up the agenda should not be forgotten. Suddenly, barely days into 2020, a new paradigm began to take shape. That's the biggest risk.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

These announcements may generate headlines but assessing their true worth is hugely difficult, especially at speed during a COP meeting. The UK's COP Presidency's assessment of the opening few days of the Summit stressed that the event had so far demonstrated that world leaders had "sent a clear signal that COP26 must keep 1.5C

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

"I help politicians, and I have a lot of time for them, but I'm a little bit of a political orphan.". Paul Polman is ruminating on whether, after a long and distinguished career in business, venture capital, and sustainability campaigning, he would ever consider moving into politics. pic.twitter.com/I1C5xHWbin.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

While there was a lot of media buzz recently about the activists that could not - or, understandably, would not - participate in this year's COP, the voices of the most important are missing at nearly all important decision fora. It's not just a COP issue, it's a power issue. We also need a counternarrative about what is important.

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