Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Echoing Sharma's defence of the logistical difficulties seen over the past few days, she adds that a lot of the challenges have been a result of Covid and stresses that "this is the biggest global event the UK has had - so it was always going to be hard". It is a one-year thing, it only lasts as long as a COP.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Each has an internal brand studio that creates advertising content for fossil fuel majors that range from podcasts to newsletters, videos, and advertorials, and some allow fossil fuel companies to sponsor their events. All four are also some of the fossil fuel industry’s favorite partners for advertising and events.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The goings-on behind the scenes of COP 26, or kack thereof, have been well documented over the past few weeks. But despite the worrying progress of COP planning, all is far from being lost. With the new President in place COP will hopefully be back on track, allowing everyone to continue speculating what the conference will look like.

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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

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 normal for an event of this magnitude to have contingency measures," they told the paper. "We We are pretty committed to Scotland.".

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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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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

London Mayor Sadiq Khan is preparing to kick off the second annual London Climate Action Week from next week with a stark warning for business and political leaders to step up efforts to tackle the looming "climate emergency". We must keep momentum and focus on the transition to a net-zero world," she added. "We

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Last week he gave his thoughts on the key challenges, opportunities, knowns and unknowns of these final weeks leading up to the Summit at the launch event for BusinessGreen 's upcoming Net Zero Festival - although he was compelled to concede that the negotiations process underpinning the Paris Agreement can be somewhat, well, chaotic. "A

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 19, 2023

Jennie King, head of climate research and response at the non-profit Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) think tank, which led the Intelligence Unit, said the events of 2022 had “turbocharged a global ecosystem of disinformation”. This research shows that climate disinformation isn’t going away and, in fact, it’s getting worse.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2021

The Prime Minister will make the announcement at the One Planet Summit this afternoon, a virtual event convened by the French government. It is fantastic to see billions of pounds pledged today to support efforts to reduce deforestation and degradation, and to accelerate the transition to clean energy," said COP President Alok Sharma. "By

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

If there is a Brexit dividend, it is certainly not political stability. It is easy to be gloomy about events of the past year. Too much politics meant too little action on climate and nature. The climate and nature COPs were underpowered. This has political consequences. But that was then.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

Complicating the commonly-held assumption that climate disinformation is “always ideological, that people are spreading falsehoods in order to push a political agenda or enact a worldview,” King said a great deal of climate disinformation is beholden to only one principle: the maintenance of a profitable status quo.

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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

MAY 29, 2020

UN approves UK and Italian request for high profile Summit to be postponed by a full year, as co-hosts announce new 'Friends of COP' advisory board. The co-hosts also yesterday announced that they have expanded the team of senior figures working on the Summit with the appointment of a new "Friends of COP" advisory board.

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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.

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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. We must rebuild trust and come together - to keep 1.5 Mitigation. Adaptation.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Asked yesterday about reports the government was in talks with the ExCel London centre as a potential alternative venue for the Glasgow Summit, a spokesman for Number 10 told reporters that it was "standard practice to carry out contingency planning for major international events at this scale".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Speaking in London this afternoon, Scotland's First Minister acknowledged recent speculation that there had been tensions between the Scottish Government and Downing Street around preparations for the crucial Glasgow summit in November, but stressed it was "vital" make the event a success. "I It's vital that COP is a success.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The retailer joins a growing band of commercial partners for the event, including media powerhouse Sky, banking giant NatWest, and leading energy firms National Grid, SSE, and ScottishPower. It will also support its efforts to deliver net zero emissions from its operations by 2040, which the firm will showcase at COP26.

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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. In the short term.

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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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

In a few cases, staff referred DeSmog to events they were holding at the summit that they said might cover fossil fuels, or offered to arrange a call or meeting with someone who could provide more information. The country’s events programme does not contain the words “fossil fuel” – or coal, oil and gas. Greenwashing’.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Another COP is coming - the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference. COP27 in Egypt is going to be taking place alongside war in Europe, concerns about energy security, and significant weather events occurring in both developed and developing countries.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2020

They added that while COP26 and the Pre-COP and Youth4Climate events that had been due to be staged in Italy this summer had been postponed until next year, it remained crucial that governments use the coming months to strengthen their decarbonisation plans. degrees," Sharma and Costa added.

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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

APRIL 13, 2020

What's more, key international events we assumed would consolidate progress made to date and accelerate ambition have been pushed back. So, if companies can't expect clear political direction, will the upsurge in climate activism keep corporate minds focused? There is, after all, a limit to what you can achieve on Zoom.

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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 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 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 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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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

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

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The first full negotiating texts are still not expected until later this evening, or potentially even tomorrow, according to Egypt's COP Presidency. There has been movement but I would be exaggerating if I said it was matching exactly what the political statements are," said Aboulmagd.

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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. The UK and Italy will be co-hosting the summit, but success at this event will belong to the whole world.

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

The comments came as Number 10's preparations for COP26 faced fresh logistical and political challenges. Malik Amin Aslam, Pakistan's climate minister, similarly warned the proposed arrangements were "totally unfair and inequitable given the global nature of the event".

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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

The key missing ingredient is a lack of political will he said: “Political will to put a price on carbon. Political will to stop subsidies on fossil fuels”, or to shift taxation from income to carbon, “taxing pollution instead of people.” Let us show we also have the political will that people demand from us.

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