Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

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.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

It would be easy at this point to simply list the litany of policy failures and the paucity of political leadership documented by the CCC's almost satirically titled progress report. The lack of action on domestic energy efficiency that has now been evident for so long it has become a point of cliché for campaigners to point it out.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Dubbed the Glasgow Climate Pact, the agreement crucially puts pressure on countries to come foward next year with updated climate plans, promises more funding for climate adaptation, and for the first time ever includes explicit references to the need to drive down coal and phase out fossil fuel subsidies. degree goal alive.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Don't listen to the fossil fuel enthusiasts pushing fracking as a solution for the UK's currently volatile energy market, argues ECIU's Dr Simon Cran-McGreehin. The gas crunch gripping Europe is directly caused by volatile international gas markets that expose the UK to demand surges in Asia and political manipulation by Putin.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

degrees C target was initially established as a target in Paris in 2015 after a push by developing nations at a previous COP, to bring attention to the fact that global warming does not impact all nations equally. For context, it has taken the world more than a century to warm a little more than 1 degree C, according to NASA.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2021

Among its various demands, Extinction Rebellion is calling on the government introduce an immediate ban on new fossil fuel investments, arguing the move would help the world stay within the Paris Agreement's 1.5 warming limit. That makes the government's emissions targets a sham," he said.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Meanwhile, the huge clean tech buying signals from coalitions of large corporates focused on electric vehicles, green steel, renewables, green shipping, and sustainable aviation fuels, all point to how these markets could quickly reach tipping points that trigger the rapid adoption that obliterates fossil fuel demand.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

But group of petrostates resist calls to phase down fossil fuels and accelerate decarbonisation efforts. 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.". The phasedown of all fossil fuels is not in this text.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 9, 2023

UK fossil fuel imports from authoritarian petrostates surged to £19.3 Petrostates are countries that are economically heavily dependent on fossil fuel production. billion on fossil fuel imports from the year beginning February 2022. billion on fossil fuel imports from the year beginning February 2022.

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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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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Statements to Parliament do send a market signal, but the sharpest call would be a statement in the marketplace: that the BoE will no longer purchase stocks connected with fossil fuels, starting with coal. Such a position would align the Bank with its own rhetoric, the tri-partisan policy of all major political parties in the U.K.,

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The government has promised a raft of hotly-anticipated plans and policies in the coming months, including the Heat and Buildings Strategy, Food Strategy White Paper, Treasury Net Zero Review, and an overarching Net Zero Strategy, all of which should help unlock billions of pounds of green investment. Nobody has got the full picture in a COP.

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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

JULY 26, 2021

G20 agrees to submit enhanced Paris Agreement plans ahead of COP26, but fails to agree coal power and fossil fuel subsidy phase outs. Under the Paris Agreement, signatories are expected to ramp up their national climate pledges every five years in order to help limit temperature rise to 1.5C

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The Task Force put out a statement yesterday calling for “responsible investment” in the UK’s oil and gas industry, which it said would “play a vital role in helping the UK to achieve net zero by 2050” by avoiding the import of higher-emission oil and liquified natural gas (LNG) from abroad. As the COP host, the U.K.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Another COP is coming - the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference. In addition, there is growing dismay, and anger in many quarters, that the unmet promises of past COPs, especially in providing finance to those that are suffering loss and damage from climate change, are going to make COP27 even more challenging.

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Business Green

AUGUST 20, 2021

It has also reiterated its challenge for the UK press to "tell the truth" about the scale of the climate crisis, and for all new investment in fossil fuels to be stopped immediately, in line with the recommendations of International Energy Agency earlier this year.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

From Loss and Damage and just transitions to rows over fossil fuel phase outs and carbon markets, we take a look at some of the key lessons for businesses from COP27. From Loss and Damage and just transitions to rows over fossil fuel phase outs and carbon markets, we take a look at some of the key lessons for businesses from COP27.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

If a week is a long time in politics, a year can feel like a lifetime - and that's almost the exact amount of time that has passed since the UK hosted the COP26 Summit. Even as we face huge global economic challenges, the climate fund remains an essential investment for all of our futures.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Green business leaders will be hoping Sunak reaffirms his commitment to the UK's net zero target and provide markets with much-needed policy clarity to support the net zero transition following weeks of political turmoil, policy U-turns and economic upheaval.

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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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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.” And the fossil fuel industry is not alone. degrees Celsius.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The charity criticised the leaders of these nations for continuing to support "mega-rich" polluting companies that are often big supporters of their political campaigns. She also suggested that cancelling debt could help developing economy governments free up resources to invest in climate mitigation and resilience measures.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Last week's Autumn Statement made clear that our government has chosen to pursue devastating austerity cuts in the name of political ideology, not economic necessity. One feature you may have missed is the little-known ‘Investment Allowance'. Let's remind ourselves of these fossil fuel company profits.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2020

International summits to progress a global oceans treaty and mid-year UNFCCC talks have been postponed, while even more crucially COP26 and the much anticipated 'Biodiversity COP' are now set to take place next year. So, if companies can't expect clear political direction, will the upsurge in climate activism keep corporate minds focused?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Fossil fuels get named and shamed. For the first time in 25 years of UN climate talks, coal and fossil fuel subsidies have been singled out in an official document. Here, we've picked out 10 key takeaways for business leaders from the Glasgow Climate Pact and COP26 Summit: 1.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

That means investing in industries and infrastructure that can turn the tide on climate change.". And then there's fossil fuel production - most of which, across the world, is state-owned and therefore has hands directly on the levers of power. Steely determination. More twists in this virus. So - job done?

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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

AUGUST 17, 2021

The Strategy, although still lacking details on policy and financial support in certain areas - more of that is now expected in another related policy document next year - envisages hydrogen supporting 9,000 jobs and attracting £4bn investment by 2030, rising to 100,000 jobs by 2050 in an industry potentially worh £13bn.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Just a week after the government finally unleashed its Net Zero Strategy , Heat and Buildings Strategy and the Treasury's Net Zero Review, replete with a flurry of fresh policy and investment, it was now the turn of the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, to set out the government's spending plans for the next year and beyond.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

Although Labor has refused to back a phase out of coal use or block the opening of new coal mines in Australia - which remains one of the world's biggest exporters of the carbon-intensive fossil fuel - the party has promised to adopt more ambitious emissions targets and turn the nation into a global renewable energy 'superpower'.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Indeed, in one of its recent reports, Chatham House makes the case that such factors could, ultimately, displace people, disrupt markets, undermine political stability, and exacerbate conflict. Though policy choices could reduce this figure, and I would add that it includes investments with long term benefits. Clean is competitive.

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

Cars - we want the world to follow the UK lead and abandon fossil fuel internal combustion engine machines. The comments came as Number 10's preparations for COP26 faced fresh logistical and political challenges. We lack only one thing and that is time, we must accelerate the global transformation.".

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. The North American Meat Institute will host a side event at the US COP pavilion on December 11, the summit’s Agriculture Day, for example. We need the animal agriculture equivalent of ‘keep it in the ground’ for fossil fuels,” she adds. “It’s

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

Meanwhile, the government is continuing to anger environmental campaigners with its ongoing support for new fossil fuel infrastructure, as evidenced by this week's decision it is set to green light plans for a major new oil field development in the North Sea.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The international agreement that comes out of COP26 will not be ambitious enough, but it could still drive the real world progress that will slash fossil fuel demand over the coming years. The "mood music" in the room where it happens is said to be considerably more upbeat than is typical for the closing days of a COP Summit.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The climate crisis may have stayed near the top of the political and corporate agenda, net zero commitments have come thick and fast, and renewable and electric vehicle investment may have toppled records, but there is barely a country on the planet on track to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. Lord Turner tells BusinessGreen. "In

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