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? Good COP, Bad COP

Climate Tech VC

Like Disneyland, at COP28 you can choose your own adventure – from hubs on energy transition and climate finance, to side events and roundtables in swanky hotel ballrooms, or serious negotiations in the sectioned-off blue zone. Climate tech played its biggest role ever at COP this year. The oil & gas COP.

COP 69
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COP27: New Global Adaptation Agenda aims to establish climate resilience goals

Business Green

The Sharm El Sheikh Adaptation Agenda, launched in partnership with the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions and the Marrakesh Partnership, provides a checklist of 30 actions required by the end of this decade to enhance the resilience of communities living in climate-vulnerable regions.

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Company leadership at COP 26, and what’s next in this Decisive Decade

EDF + Business

I attended this COP, my first, to learn more about how businesses can accelerate the transition to net zero and to share the findings of a new report, published today, that is a step-by-step playbook for companies to use to turn net zero pledges into progress. Progress worth celebrating. A new roadmap for the “Decisive Decade”.

COP 52
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Environment Agency chair: 'We must build climate resilience into everything we do'

Business Green

Emma Howard Boyd concedes flood defences 'cannot prevent flooding everywhere, all of the time' and calls instead for more resilient infrastructure. It is likely that we will see similar events, in more places across the country, due to climate change.".

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State of the nation

Envirotec Magazine

million m3 of water storage and increased flood resilience to 15,000 homes, said a statement. “As we prepare for more extreme weather events, we must use every weapon in our armoury and Natural Flood Management will play an essential role in this.” Across 60 pilot projects the programme created an equivalent of 1.6

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COP27: The most important meeting in human history?

Business Green

Is the COP27 Summit that kicks off in Sharm El Sheikh this weekend the most important COP meeting yet, and therefore one of the most critical gatherings in the entire history of humanity? It is, by the admission of the Egyptian hosts, an "implementation COP". If COPs did not exist you would need to invent them.

COP 101
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Observers reflect on a disappointing COP26

Envirotec Magazine

CCUS was the focus of more than 30 events at COP26, covering areas like policy, business, and social and technical challenges. One of the high-profile award ceremonies at COP, for start-up success stories, went to a company with a technology to convert industrial CO2 emissions into building materials. degrees alive.

COP 130