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. alive and to build climate-resilient communities. Mitigation. Adaptation.

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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

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

APRIL 22, 2020

COP26 President steps up calls for 'clean, inclusive and resilient recovery' that delivers on the goals of the Paris Agreement, as polling reveals huge support for accelerate climate action. More ambition on adaptation and resilience, more ambition on mitigation, and more ambition on support to vulnerable countries.

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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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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. Build resilience of vulnerable communities against the here and now impacts of climate change.

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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

APRIL 13, 2020

Planning time and funding that would have been assigned to climate resilience or mitigation will be eaten up by pandemic responses. What's more, key international events we assumed would consolidate progress made to date and accelerate ambition have been pushed back. There is, after all, a limit to what you can achieve on Zoom.

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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 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 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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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. First, adaptation and resilience. Civil society organisations. The risk of crops failing will increase.

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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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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.” Public opinion is waking up everywhere. The signs are unmissable. Ice caps are melting.

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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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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

Good afternoon everyone and thank you to the London Stock Exchange for organising this event. I know the role finance can play in delivering this change, having worked in corporate finance myself for over 15 years before I came into politics. adaptation and resilience. Experience working in the private sector. clean transport.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

Partnering on the UN's largest roving event would demonstrate solidarity with Pacific neighbours but it must be accompanied by more support including re-joining the Green Climate Fund.". The incoming government has said it will bid to host a climate conference in two years and coordination with Pacific nations," he said.

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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

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. Our global political economy, built on fossil fuels for the last century, is in a state of flux. The reality is that these events are becoming increasingly connected.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

As you know, I'm now devoting all of my time and energies to the role of COP President-designate whilst continuing as a full member of the UK government cabinet. The aim is to convert the political commitment generated through the call to action, which I was part of launching in 2019 at UNCAS, into practical reality.

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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 Climate resilience will become impossible in some regions if temperature rise exceeds 2C, the report warns.

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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. The team and the Scottish government are in an extraordinary state of stand-off and… you are considering re-locating the event to an English location," the letter states. "I

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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. Oil and gas giants - and their underwriters - are also on notice.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

From Rio to Glasgow: The political recognition of our climate crisis increases On the 9th of May, 1992, the United Nations Framework Convention on Change (UNFCCC) was adopted. Since the convention’s establishment, the countries involved meet annually during the Conference of the Parties (COP). C) within reach.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

While the transition will inevitably be complex and difficult, it is essential to building a more resilient economy that benefits more people.". And by COP in Glasgow we will look to have those types of commitments across the financial sector, right into the private banking sector as well.". It's a net zero COP.

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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

Setting a higher climate ambition has been widely called for by businesses, political figures and green campaigners alike, and is seen as a hugely important diplomatic gesture to encourage other nations around the world to follow suit in the run up to COP26 in Glasgow next year. It's time for real climate action.".

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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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

lawmakers have access to the “Blue Zone,” a UN-sponsored area at the conference center where attendees can attend unofficial events and network. lawmakers have access to the “Blue Zone,” a UN-sponsored area at the conference center where attendees can attend unofficial events and network. ” Oily Money Republican Sen.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

We continue to work towards hosting the event in Glasgow in November, which is eight months away," she said. Given this is an evolving situation we are keeping the situation under careful review and are in frequent contact with the UN, Chile (as current COP president) and other partners.".

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