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. Electrification and the relationship with green energy is booming in Chile.”

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

There was a historic breakthrough in agreeing on a finance facility for loss and damage, but we failed to agree urgent action to help peak emissions in the middle of this decade and secure finance for an unprecedented ramp-up in renewable energy. Labour has also laid out a plan for an $8bn wealth fund from revenues from renewable energy.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

India – the world’s fourth largest CO2 emitter (after China, the US, and the EU) – did set a net zero target for the first time, scheduled for 2070 (compared to 2060 for China, and 2050 for the EU and US), and also pledged to get 50% of its energy from renewables by 2030. COP president Alok Sharma described it as “a fragile win”.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Asked if he would like the job of COP26 President, Gove said "I am very happy with the job that I have and I think there are many, many, many, many talented people who could do the job of COP President better than I could".

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

With greater scrutiny over emissions from meat and dairy companies, it is not surprising they are stepping up their game to head off any COP outcome that might hinder their operations,” Ben Lilliston, from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy told DeSmog. Pesticide company Syngenta’s Foundation came with Ukraine.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

EU energy emissions fall, Rwanda gets its first mini-grid, and Brazil preps a COP bid. The French Senate this week approved new legislation that will require all large car parks in the country to install solar canopies in support of the government's renewable energy drive. French Senate approves solar car park legislation.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The government programme predicts which crops will be resilient to the changing climate and provides drought-resistant seeds, but farmers spread their risk by planting their own choice of crops too. In my own country, Senegal, farmers are working with a mixture of crops in a voluntary climate adaptation programme backed by the government.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2021

Former energy and climate change ministers Amber Rudd and Claire O'Neill have urged the government to insist upon equal gender representation from all country negotiating teams attending the COP26 Climate Summit this autumn. At the 2019 Bonn COP there were 27 delegations with no women, the highest it has been in 12 years," they wrote.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

As with the last summit, the risk continues to be that greenwashing leaves governments with “a vision that tinkers around the edges,”rather than a transformative one that creates food systems that are resilient and restore ecosystems,” as Shefali Sharma, director of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), warned at COP27.

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GreenBiz

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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Business Green

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Specifically, the UK presidency of COP26 wants to see these institutions mobilise increased investment through a series of Just Energy Transition Partnerships that can support developing countries transition away from coal to renewable energy.

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Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2022

It added it has previously been involved in partnerships with the World Economic Forum, UN High Level Climate Change Champions, successive COP presidencies, SBTi (Science Based Targets Initiative), CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project), Breakthrough Energy Catalyst, and First Movers Coalition.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

IEA predicts major gains on energy efficiency in 2022 in response to energy crisis, but BloombergNEF warns current clean energy policies still put world on track for a 2.6C The slowdown came after the global rate of energy efficiency improvement had already fallen from two per cent in the first half of last decade to 1.3

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2021

Speech from Energy and Clean Growth Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan - International Champion on Adaptation and Resilience for COP26 - marking International Women's Day, at event organised by COP26 presidency in partnership with Chatham House. Prioritising gender equality in our mitigation work will help us deliver net zero by 2050.

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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This Conference of Parties (COP) was highly anticipated as a critical inflection point where our economies and societies set forth on an ambitious and clearly defined path to decarbonize by 2050 and keep warming below 1.5 Department of Energy–backed research effort to bring the cost of carbon removal below $100 a ton by 2030.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The former Energy and Climate Change Minister had been slated to serve as COP26 President after playing a critical role in securing hosting duties for the UK. Every year we march businesses up and down - this year it is the wonderful Race to Zero, Race to Resilience [campaign]," she says. "[But] But] we don't revisit it.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2020

To create fairer, greener and more resilient economies at home and around the world. That is why, as hosts of COP26 , the UK wants to ramp up ambition to achieve a climate-resilient, zero-carbon economy. These are: clean energy, clean transport, nature-based solutions, adaptation and resilience, and underpinning everything, finance.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

At a side event at the COP27 Climate Summit today, countries representing more than half of global GDP will set out a number of sector-specific 'Priority Actions' designed to make emissions-intensive industries more sustainable whilst cutting energy costs and boosting food security.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In my first fortnight as COP President, I have been listening to those who have done this before. ??Meeting Meeting people like Paris COP President Laurent Fabius, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed and Patricia Espinosa from the UNFCCC. ??And, And we are getting ready for it.??. Promoting nature-based solutions.??.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Businesses have a stake in the COP outcomes for three main reasons - let me explain. per cent in global emissions from energy and industrial processes over the same period. per cent use of electricity from renewable sources and reduced total energy consumption from fossil fuel sources by 86 per cent compared to 2017.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

This is a chance for nations to recover better, to include the most vulnerable in those plans, and a chance to shape the 21st century economy in ways that are clean, green, healthy, just, safe and more resilient. Tackling climate change requires strong, global and ambitious action.

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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

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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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

While not losing sight of the importance to progress mitigation measures, in the next five to 10 years, world leaders will zone in on adaptation strategies, to help build resiliency in the face of increasingly severe and frequent weather events. Gregory Carli , Executive Advisor – Sustainability Resilience and ESG .

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

This month, we’re highlighting some of the energy and climate provisions in the infrastructure bill, touching on what the international climate conference COP26 was and wasn’t, highlighting the potential impact of corporate buyers coalitions, giving a round of applause to the progress the company NET Power has made, and more! For example, $7.5

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2019

While offsets are often seen as a cop-out for industries that don’t want to tackle their own pollution, airlines are clearly uniquely limited in their climate pollution mitigation options. In the case of farms that grow food and energy crops, they could also be enhancing the productivity for renewable jet fuel supplies.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

After hours of tense negotiations and dramatic interventions on the conference floor a compromise deal was reached that rejected the proposed reference to phasing down fossil fuels, and broadened the focus of the energy section of the agreement beyond renewables. The text on energy was weakened but is at least in. warming target.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2020

As COP President Designate, I am committed to a 'whole of society' approach, and we will also use the Summit to create an inclusive and diverse platform. Only by coming together can we build the zero carbon, climate resilient future that is essential for our people and our planet. The above speech was delivered on 27 October 2020.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Clutch of energy and banking firms are first partners for crucial UN climate summit, as major undersea cable project is announced. Only by continuing to come together can we build the zero carbon, climate resilient future that is essential for our people and our planet.".

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

The new campaign will be stewarded by the UK and Chile as incoming and outgoing COP presidents, respectively. Rethinking how businesses use resources and rebuilding the health of nature's ability to both absorb carbon and build resilience to climate risks, are both key components of an effective net zero carbon strategy.".

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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.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Second, if governments are going to start to pay for Loss and Damage the case for bolstering climate resilience in the most vulnerable countries has become more compelling still. Like the World Cup that kicked off within hours of the gavel coming down in Sharm El Sheikh, COPs provide a regular temperature check for global geopolitics.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Ahead of UN General Assembly meetings this week, and COP 27 in November, leaders especially of rich polluting countries must live up to their promises to cut emissions," she added. "We We cannot fix the climate crisis without fixing the systemic inequalities in our food and energy systems. This is an ethical obligation, not charity.".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

It can either be used to reduce carbon emissions or promote ways in which to adapt, mitigate and build resilience to the effects of climate change. Conference of the Parties (COP). COP is the decision-making body responsible for monitoring and reviewing implementation of the UNFCCC. Energy transition. Energy transition.

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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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CleanTech Alliance

AUGUST 30, 2019

Santiago, Chile | November 18-22 TBD Washington State is planning to lead a delegation to Santiago prior to COP-25. The delegation will include State government representatives and, ideally, 5-10 companies.

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Business Green

APRIL 27, 2020

Investments could be funnelled towards energy efficiency, electric road and rail programmes, redesigning cities, and protecting natural capital, he said. He specifically called for governments to step up efforts to accelerate the transitions that are already underway to deliver clean energy and transport infrastructure.

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