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

JULY 19, 2022

As such, the court order presents a major challenge to the next Prime Minister, who will be under immediate pressure to both strengthen the UK's net zero plans and deliver a more ambitious package to help households cope with soaring energy bills this winter.

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

As such, Guterres reiterated his call for coal to have "no place in COVID-19 recovery plans", arguing there was a compelling economic, health, and environmental case for governments to "choose the clean energy route". Some countries have used stimulus plans to prop up oil and gas companies that were already struggling financially," he said.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

Now we have the date for COP, we'd very much like the industry to be seen as one of the leading sectors as we come towards COP," Symons says. "I I think Covid is building on that and making people think harder about the social resilience and public health side of some of this stuff.". he observes. he observes. "I

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Speaking shortly after that call to BusinessGreen from his makeshift home office - aka his bedroom - Stark is, like many working in the green economy, continuing to wrestle with what coronavirus could mean for the climate fight, alongside the wider fears about public health and economic uncertainty that everyone shares. Building back better.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 18, 2022

But we need them to be cleaner in order to ensure community health and safety and to get industrial emissions on a 1.5 Our compensation package provides staff with financial security through a living wage and health insurance. C-aligned trajectory. . We take time to unplug and recharge.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

As such, the COP Presidency should presumably welcome mounting calls for a new era of public-private cooperation on the financial packages that can help developing and emerging economies wean themselves off fossil fuels.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2020

Letter to the Prime Minister by government climate advisers adds further weight to cross-sector calls for coronavirus stimulus packages to eschew carbon-intensive practices in favour of low-carbon, climate-resilient industries and projects. Recovery means investing in new jobs, cleaner air and improved health.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

There are reasons why President Biden called his green stimulus package the Inflation Reduction Act. If you are going to build more homes, you want those homes to be ultra-efficient, clean tech adorned, climate resilient, and located in walkable communities. There are reasons why the EU and the UK's Labour opposition want to copy him.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

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.". We can build a safer and more resilient economy if we start building the new and not just prop up the old.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2020

Battle lines drawn in Congress this week look set to be repeated around the world, as calls grow for economic rescue packages to prioritise climate action and avoid "locking in" a new wave of fossil fuel infrastructure. But all around the world calls are growing for the recovery packages to deliver low carbon infrastructure.

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