DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. The GMA declined to offer a formal comment, however a spokesperson told DeSmog in an email that the group works to “simplify and distil public information” around international events which are “often dominated by an anti-meat narrative”.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

With world leaders about to gather in Dubai, United Arab Emirates for the COP 28 climate summit, the transition to green energy will be one of the key topics on the agenda. Since a microgrid can operate during outages, it reinforces grid resilience and help mitigate disturbances. It can aid in grid control, monitoring and restoration.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2020

COP26 President Alok Sharma's speech yesterday to the Let's Build Back Better event hosted by the British High Commission in Wellington. Thank you to the British High Commission for organising this event. We have shared ambition, expertise and innovation. koutou katoa. We are putting over NZ$1.2

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Business Green

OCTOBER 11, 2022

"Against the backdrop of ongoing global energy security challenges, organisations like the IMF and World Bank must do all they can to help developing countries move further and faster in tackling climate change, to support resilient economies powered by clean, renewable energy systems," he said.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

By partnering with suppliers, new solutions spearheaded by heavy industry will benefit the many small- and medium-sized businesses downstream that don’t have the R&D budgets to drive innovation. Gregory Carli , Executive Advisor – Sustainability Resilience and ESG . This type of cross-industry collaboration is happening.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The climate vulnerable hotspots - which the charity defined as those with the highest number of UN appeals driven by extreme weather events - have suffered a 123 per cent increase in acute hunger since 2016. We cannot fix the climate crisis without fixing the systemic inequalities in our food and energy systems.

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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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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

Other former COP Presidents, such as Laurent Fabius. These events will put human life at risk. billion people have been affected by disasters, 90 per cent of which have been caused by weather and climate related events. By uniting around specific issues, we can spur innovation, scale up solutions and bring down costs.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2021

The UK has singled out adapatation and resilience as a critical priority for the COP26 Climate Summit it will co-host in Glasgow this autumn, amid calls for the government to use its platform to significantly increase the flow of cash to help poorer nations adapt to escalating climate impacts.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

It was, as ever a highly eventful fortnight, characterised by shifting politics, surging levels of green investment, and escalating fears the climate impacts could be approaching catastrophic 'tipping points'. Once an idea enters the vernacular at COP Summits the chance of it being eventually adopted increases dramatically.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 19, 2023

added resilient building consultant and former Passive House Canada board chair Deborah Byrne. We’ve all just been party to an Earth-shaking, world-changing event that will fall on the other side of the ledger, generating lots of tears of the unhappy kind. They need to be innovative and carefully thought out.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

What are the big priorities for COP? But progress was still lacking on Resilience and Energy Transition. Clearly it will be a major achievement for the UK government if the UK can hold a successful COP, so one can only assume the will is there to try to bring it off. Where are the main challenges? Nature and finance.

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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. They also refused to engage with growing calls for a new campaign to encourage people to save energy.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Now almost a year on, it is just 23 days to COP27, the end of the UK's COP Presidency, and the end of my time as COP President. The reality is that these events are becoming increasingly connected. And so today, from the vantage point of the ending of my time as COP President, I want to take stock of where we are.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Some events required a suit and tie, while others felt like next-level science fairs where engineer founders pitch what’s next in climate tech solutions. There were nearly 600 officially affiliated side events , but likely double that many unofficial, individual events scattered across the city throughout the week.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

While the world’s top fertilizer producers report record profits and farmers worldwide face ongoing price spikes for chemical inputs, the agrochemical industry is touting innovation and increased efficiency as its solution to the economic and environmental impacts of its products.

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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

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

"We recognise that this will be no easy task, but we believe our commitment will help spur the growth of zero carbon energy and power solutions, sustainable transportation and agriculture, and other sector transformations, while generating more climate resilient and equitable opportunities for our future.".

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Eliot Whittington, director of the Corporate Leaders Groups, said: "As the range and violence of extreme weather events from around the world reminds us, climate change is a critical and growing business risk, and the IPCC's latest report gives the world the hard numbers showing the state and scale of that risk.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

It's vital the UK shows action at home and leadership abroad to bring other countries with us in making ambitious climate change commitments in the lead up to COP 26 in Glasgow. We know that countryside communities are on the front line of climate change and the extreme weather events it causes. It's time for real climate action.".

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2023

COP Summits can deliver legal frameworks, climate targets, and admirable rhetoric, but their success or failure can only be measured years after the event when it becomes clear if the signals provided to governments and investors have cut through or not. It is also critical to remember the scale of the challenge.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The Prime Minister has not to date shown much leadership on the COP26 agenda, the Summit is over budget and subject to debilitating Whitehall and Holyrood turf wars, and Number 10 knew when it appointed her that O'Neill was not as experienced in the world of high level diplomacy as some of her predecessors in the COP hot seat.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Do the next best thing and read our COP reflections.  Last COP featured the conference’s first nuclear-themed pavilion, and this year boasted eight. A fusion of world powers Scientists have also been chasing nuclear fusion for decades , but again COP could reflect a global paradigm shift. Happy Monday! 

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

That's why we're funding the Plan for Adaptation and Resilience - PREPARE - to help more than a half a billion people in developing countries respond to climate change. "Last year, I committed to work with our Congress to quadruple our climate finance to provide $11bn annually by 2024, including $3bn for adaptation," he said.

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