Low Impact

AUGUST 11, 2021

All governments, including the UK, are telling us that they’re laser-focused on reducing carbon emissions. On paper, global leaders and governments are recognising the urgency of the climate challenge and the G20 countries have all made ambitious commitments to scale down fossil fuel development and transition to a low-carbon economy.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2021

Proposals to cut taxes on domestic flights within the UK while potentially increasing the duty paid on long-haul international aviation have been unveiled by the government today, in a move it claimed would help better support the UK's climate and environmental commitments.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Governments have a unique opportunity to step up climate action to ensure that we can halve global emissions by 2030. The decisions included in the Glasgow Package will have a major impact on the global economic recovery, jobs and business growth opportunities. This is because business is demanding clearer policies.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2021

Campaigners had hoped that in the wake of the UK's binding net zero emission target and Denmark's recent decision to end the issuance of new oil and gas exploration licenses, the government could set out a clear strategy for ending fossil fuel extraction from the North Sea basin.

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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. He also reiterated the government's plans to make climate action a key plank in its recovery packages.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Governments participating in a major UN shipping summit may have just flunked the first major test of their climate credentials following the agreement of the Glasgow Climate Pact earlier this month, further fuelling fears that the maritime industry is not doing nearly enough to curb its greenhouse gas emissions. If the recent COP kept 1.5

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The government is expected to unveil a raft of major new green programmes as part of next month's Budget, as Ministers move to "carbon test" new policy measures against the UK's net zero emissions target. However, a number of significant green policy interventions are said to be under consideration.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2021

COP26 President reiterates that he has strong support across cabinet for net zero agenda, despite mixed green policy messaging in recent weeks. I want to put on the record that we are very keen that we ensure we are delivering a physical COP at Glasgow," he said.

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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

JULY 19, 2022

As Tory leadership candidates yesterday signalled their support for the UK’s net zero goals, the High Court ruled the government must do more to explain how it intends to decarbonise the economy. This landmark ruling is a huge victory for climate justice and government transparency.

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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. What's in the energy support package, and who is going to pay for it?

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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

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The result will be stronger accountability and better-informed decisions by investors, governments, consumers and businesses themselves.". In terms of next steps, countries must now embed these commitments in domestic policy and unlock the role of the private sector.

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

New four word slogan captures government's ambitions for Glasgow Summit, as Tory backbench opposition to climate policies continues to swell. Boris Johnson has provided the clearest indication yet of the government's priorities for the crucial COP26 Climate Summit, urging countries to deliver bold action on "coal, cars, cash, trees".

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The COP Presidency and host nation Canada convened a special meeting of heads of delegation at 11am on Wednesday in a bid to smooth out some of the deadlocked issues ahead of the arrival of ministers. "We all know that the means of implementation are quite important in putting the framework into practice, but the process has been wildly slow.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Specifically, we are calling for: New, more ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs); Long-Term Strategies setting out a pathway to net zero emissions; Climate finance commitments to support the most vulnerable; And crucially, ambitious adaptation plans and underlying policies.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Separately, Bloomberg reported that fossil fuel producers are also seeing a spike in the cost of capital driven in large part by international climate policy efforts. There is a general feeling that carbon markets come out of the COP process reinforced," he said. per cent, respectively, in Hong Kong trading.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The new funding package for the 2020 to 2025 period does mark an increase on previous levels of climate finance, but the failure to meet the 2020 deadline was still widely interpreted as a major blow to the long-running international climate negotiations that are set to resume at next week's COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow.

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Business Green

JULY 12, 2022

The move came after Sajid Javid also signalled he would continue to support the UK's net zero target, while arguing that the government should look to "minimise the costs of transition to net zero". So we must take a reinvigorated approach to seize the huge opportunities of new industries and renewable technologies.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

he COP27 Climate Summit finally closed early on Sunday morning , delivering both an historic deal to introduce a new Loss and Damage fund and recriminations over governments' continuing failure to accept unabated fossil fuels need to be phase out in the coming decades. Petrostates are still not fully onboard with the Paris Agreement.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

There are (admittedly optimistic) reasons to think that if current plans are expanded and translated into near term policy measures the world could soon find itself on a 1.8C depends on governments doing what they have said they will do, strengthening their plans further, and catalysing the fastest and widest industrial revolution in history.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Other support packages include the £150 million Home Upgrade Grant, which is intended to assist emissions reductions with households not currently on the gas grid. This is hardly the COP figure the Prime Minister wants to read.”. The plan also mentions a 2028 minimum target of installing 600,000 heat pumps per year.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

COP Summits rarely, if ever, finish on time, but seasoned observers have warned the current talks appear to be badly behind schedule. In contrast, developing nations are continuing to push for a well-funded new funding package focused on Loss and Damage to be introduced with near immediate effect.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Those are just a tiny fraction of the furious responses to the government's decision to approve plans for the UK's first new deep coal mine in 30 years. I've been writing about the UK climate policy landscape for 15 years and I genuinely can't recall a reaction like it. Where does this rank in the halls of climate policy infamy?

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2020

Low Carbon Farming, Black Mountain and Zero Carbon Yorkshire have joined a campaign that calls on the government to revise its low carbon heat strategy to support the development of large-scale heat pumps, a sector they contend could help the UK drive a green recovery to the pandemic.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

Consequently, perennial calls for the government to deliver a major green stimulus and turbocharge the UK's net zero transition have now reached a crescendo. The IEA is now predicting global oil demand will fall to 99.9 The impact of the coronavirus on oil markets may be temporary," Birol said.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

"I intend to use the opportunity of the upcoming UN General Assembly high-level session [in September] to bring leaders together to reach a political understanding on these critical elements of the package needed for Glasgow," Guterres said. Over the next two days we will discuss the vital issues of: keeping 1.5C pic.twitter.com/cNIQsu1SEr.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2022

But fears are growing that the talks could become deadlocked on the issue of funding, after reports emerged this morning that the French government is blocking proposals from developing countries for a new specific international fund for biodiversity and pressuring the EU to do likewise. Business is merely one of them.".

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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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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

The discussion around what most now call “ESG” (environmental, social, and governance) has become far more common than I’ve ever seen in my 20 years in the field. Reports vary on the percentage of those companies that re-started donations to insurrectionists (some say only 23% have kept the policy ). There’s more like this to come.

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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. The EU showing it is committed to deliver and reduce more of our greenhouse gas emissions is a positive sign," said Sven Harmeling, international climate policy expert at CAN Europe.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 19, 2021

As we emerge from COP26 and a year in which we've seen a number of important global moments, from the UN Food Systems Summit to part one of the Convention on Biological Diversity COP in China, the jury is still out on what the tangible outcomes will be. But let's be frank: our efforts continue to fall well short of what's needed.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2023

The CCC's annual report is scathing on the lack of policy progress over the past year - the UK cannot afford another 12 months of inaction No aspect of the Climate Change Committee's (CCC) absolutely damning assessment of the UK's decarbonisation efforts over the past year is as dispiriting as the government's response to it.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 17, 2020

’s COP 26 climate negotiations in November; Eggar said demonstrable action should be underway before then. “Well in advance of COP 26, the industry needs to have developed and gone public on a compelling package of measures which demonstrates real, genuine leadership and commitment to net-zero [carbon].

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

alive or this will be the COP where we lose 1.5C," he said. You need to work out how you want future generations to look upon this COP and each of us individually as countries. goal, arguing that "every fraction of a degree matters". We'll either leave Egypt having kept 1.5C It is really up to us to decide.".

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Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2023

I think a lot of the feedback that you hear from any of the COPs is we're not doing enough and we're not doing it fast enough. And I do believe that summits like COP help to crystallize our efforts toward a more balanced relationship with the natural world. ºC be reaffirmed in the package of decisions between parties.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

As the government gears up to unveil its 10 point green recovery plan this autumn, an alliance of more than 70 civil society groups have set out which net zero policies they think should make the cut. The 10 point plan set out today should serve "litmus test" for the government commitment's to net zero.".

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