Business Green

JULY 18, 2022

In a video address to more than 40 leaders and ministers assembled at the Berlin event this morning, Antonio Guterres slammed political leaders for failing to take adequate action on tackling climate change and mobilising finance to support poorer nations' efforts to decarbonise and bolster their climate resilience.

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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. But these are not normal times, and the COP has been delayed by a year.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. The North American Meat Institute will host a side event at the US COP pavilion on December 11, the summit’s Agriculture Day, for example. Past marketing drives run by the AHDB include the £3.5-million The files also detail collaborations planned for the event itself.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

Countries across the globe have taken the extraordinary measures to shut down large swathes of their economies in order to combat the coronavirus public health emergency. And the International Renewable Energy Agency recently found that renewable energy would bring returns of between 3-8 dollars on every dollar invested.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

This should include widespread engagement on the health, economic and environmental co-benefits of cutting food waste and changes in diet.". "This cannot continue if the UK is to reach net zero emissions - the public must be engaged.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 19, 2023

This story was originally published by The Energy Mix Weekender , and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate crisis. added resilient building consultant and former Passive House Canada board chair Deborah Byrne. Who’s the Grown-Up in the Room?

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2020

Arguing that "the time is now" for the UK to be a global climate leader, it calls for immediate policy action to ensure that by 2030 all homes are highly energy efficient, petrol and diesel car sales are phased out, wind and solar generation triples, and 10 million heat pumps are installed in homes.

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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The plan promised to deploy a combination of policy interventions and funding to accelerate the UK development of offshore wind, green hydrogen, nuclear power, electric vehicles, public and active transport, green aviation and shipping, energy efficiency, carbon capture and storage, natural carbon sinks, and clean tech innovation and green finance.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

He also said that Energy Minister Greg Hands had signed off on the Strategy, despite not having the legally required information on how carbon budgets would be met. In my judgment it ought to have done so in order to comply with the language and statutory purposes of s.14 14 of the CCA 2008.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Appointment of Conservative MP as international champion on adaptation and resilience for COP26 set to improve gender balance of government’s previously all-male team. I look forward to working with our partners across the globe to represent and drive our high ambitions on the adaptation and resilience agenda.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

That will not happen until true net zero emissions is achieved and a global economy has been built that is resilient to the dangerous new world we have unleashed. Future COPs will re-open this debate and seek to extend it to gas and oil. If COPs did not exist you would have to invent them.

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2022

We are within a decade of the deadline for achieving the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), yet significant challenges still lie ahead, and progress is being hampered by the most severe global health pandemic of our age. A new way of looking at the global financial structure is urgent and inevitable.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2021

As such some business groups welcomed the deal, including those representing the UK's manufacturing and renewable energy sectors. RenewableUK's CEO Dan McGrail, for example, hailed the trade deal's potential for boosting trade in clean energy products and services between the two countries.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

"We are off track for the Fourth Carbon Budget, we are off track for the Fifth Carbon Budget, and we are off track for the 2030 emissions target, which we submitted to the UN in December - and that is not a great place to be for the UK as COP President," he said. "So So the government is playing a pretty high stakes game here.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Stop digging and drilling He said digging and drilling had to stop, replaced by renewable energy and nature-based solutions to drastically slow climate change. “In One is the path of surrender, where we have sleepwalked past the point of no return, jeopardizing the health and safety of everyone on this planet.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

If we haven't shown the way in which we are going to deliver, then we will in fact not be able to make COP a success, and the whole concept of 'Global Britain' being a leader will in fact be undermined.". We need a rapid re-set to bring policy and action in line with the risks we face.".

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 7, 2020

It’s not necessarily that the game of musical chairs has intensified in the C-suite, but you’ll note major executive moves at big apparel, food, energy, finance and technology corporations, some of which have enlisted a chief sustainability officer (CSO) or equivalent for the first time. The former U.K.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

On the bright side, however, the crisis has underlined the resilience of Danone's direct sourcing model, he says, which minimized supply chain disruptions caused by the pandemic. You showed evidence that finance can change the world. It is on us, boards and CEOs, CFOs to engage finance on what matters.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

But more positively, while the gap between adaptation and resilience efforts currently being undertaken, and what is required to safeguard society and ecosystems, remains considerable, such efforts can in fact be very effective, the report suggests. "As Inaction is a foolish business risk no company can afford.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Since the convention’s establishment, the countries involved meet annually during the Conference of the Parties (COP). COP is a supreme decision-making body that aims to promote the effective application of the convention. 30 years later came COP 26 (2021) – held in Glasgow. C) within reach.

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

As such, Guterres reiterated his call for coal to have "no place in COVID-19 recovery plans", arguing there was a compelling economic, health, and environmental case for governments to "choose the clean energy route". Or, we can invest in renewable energy, which is reliable, clean and economically smart.".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

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 The scientific evidence is unequivocal: climate change is a threat to human wellbeing and the health of the planet," said Pörtner.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Speaking shortly after that call to BusinessGreen from his makeshift home office - aka his bedroom - Stark is, like many working in the green economy, continuing to wrestle with what coronavirus could mean for the climate fight, alongside the wider fears about public health and economic uncertainty that everyone shares. Building back better.

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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. of warming.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

While NYCW has been around for more than a decade , this year the vibe of ~10x the participants and well-curated mini-conferences alongside official UN programming felt almost like a Davos or a mini-COP (which, depending on your take on the efficacy and impact of COP, could be a good or bad thing). in Europe).

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 18, 2022

But we need them to be cleaner in order to ensure community health and safety and to get industrial emissions on a 1.5 Our compensation package provides staff with financial security through a living wage and health insurance. Additional strategies focused on environmental enforcement, federal trade and energy policy will be needed.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

On the bright side, however, the crisis has underlined the resilience of Danone's direct sourcing model, he says, which minimised supply chain disruptions caused by the pandemic. You showed evidence that finance can change the world. It is on us, boards and CEOs, CFOs to engage finance on what matters.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said on Saturday at the COP27 session titled “Global Fertilizer Challenge: Announcing New Funding for Fertilizer Efficiency and Soil Health.”. These agribusiness interests have had a notable presence at previous UN COP summits, and COP27 is no exception. Vilsack said the U.S.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Business and Energy Secretary and COP26 President Alok Sharma said: "Tackling climate change is the one of the most urgent shared endeavours of our lifetimes, demanding bold action from every nation to prevent catastrophic global warming.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Inclusive and green economies, prosperity, cleaner air and better health are possible for all if we respond to this crisis with solidarity and courage. We need immediate action on energy. Countries should also end all new fossil fuel exploration and production, and shift fossil fuel subsidies into renewable energy.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2020

On the bright side, however, the crisis has underlined the resilience of Danone’s direct sourcing model, he says, which minimized supply chain disruptions caused by the pandemic. “If we protect biodiversity, we are basically protecting the diversity of DNA,” Soubeiran mused.

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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. Recovery means investing in new jobs, cleaner air and improved health.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

This COP has taken an important step towards justice. We need to drastically reduce emissions now - and this is an issue this COP did not address. And the energy text, weakend, in the final minutes. But they were ignored by the Egyptian COP Presidency. Ambition to keep the 1.5 But let's be clear. degrees was weak.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The Egyptian COP Presidency has also yet to release a first draft of the so-called cover texts that provide the overarching statement of agreements and calls to action from the summit, with the latest tentative predictions that it could emerge before the end of Tuesday. alive or this will be the COP where we lose 1.5C," he said.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Inflation, migration, housing shortages, energy and food price volatility, deindustrialisation, extreme weather, economic stagnation, authoritarian aggression, the populist search for scapegoats. Almost every challenge governments are struggling to get a grip on has a climate angle. There is no alternative.

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2020

As COP26 hosts, the UK government had been working with current COP President Chile, the EU, and a raft of developing countries all of whom want to see a significant ratcheting up of national climate goals to co-ordinate a wave of strengthened NDC submissions in the run up to the Glasgow Summit in November.

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