EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

A major theme of this COP — the international climate change conference — is the urgent need to transition from commitments to action. Fortunately, farms have the potential to reduce emissions, sequester carbon and build resilience — but farmers need support to make change at the scale and pace required to avoid major losses.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2020

We have shared ambition, expertise and innovation. To create fairer, greener and more resilient economies at home and around the world. That is why, as hosts of COP26 , the UK wants to ramp up ambition to achieve a climate-resilient, zero-carbon economy. In July - we announced a plan to invest the equivalent of over 5.5

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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

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Specifically, the UK presidency of COP26 wants to see these institutions mobilise increased investment through a series of Just Energy Transition Partnerships that can support developing countries transition away from coal to renewable energy.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

How can we radically collaborate to make the right choices – and the right investment decisions – to mobilize global markets and accelerate the establishment of a sustainable, low-carbon economy? Gregory Carli , Executive Advisor – Sustainability Resilience and ESG . This type of cross-industry collaboration is happening.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Lisa Williams , former chief product officer, becomes head of innovation, design and merchandising. has a new chief sustainability and social impact officer, Ellen Jackowski , who has led there for 12 years as global head of sustainability strategy and innovation. That brings former VP Jenna Johnson up to CEO of Patagonia, Inc.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

EU energy emissions fall, Rwanda gets its first mini-grid, and Brazil preps a COP bid. ADB announces $200m Goal for Water Resilience Programme. The Asia and the Pacific Water Resilience Initiative, also known as RUWR: ARe yoU Water Resilient ? French Senate approves solar car park legislation.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Businesses have a stake in the COP outcomes for three main reasons - let me explain. They are already investing in decarbonisation. What do businesses want to see from the governments that's being discussed at COP? ºC ambition, climate finance, adaptation and resilience. ºC pathway.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

It marks the next chapter for the Breakthrough Agenda, which was launched by the UK COP Presidency and the Race to Zero campaign at the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow last year and aims to bring together governments committed to driving the uptake of technologies and solutions that can help decarbonise emissions intensive sectors.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

With the delay to COP 26 we can't lose the momentum on climate action, so I'm pleased to see that London organisations are leading the way, showing once again that the capital is a driving force for action nationally and globally," Khan said.

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Business Green

APRIL 27, 2020

Schulze added that ministers at the conference should also address calls to systematically focus their coronavirus recovery and investment packages to tackle climate risks. This is a problem of confidence, it's a problem of consumption, it's a problem of investment and we are going to need a clear sense of direction," 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 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

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Build resilience of vulnerable communities against the here and now impacts of climate change. I also want particularly to thank COP President Alok Sharma who has worked incredibly hard to bring countries together. Greenwashing is the new climate denial, and we have seen too much at play in this COP. Phase out coal. degrees. "I

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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

"In 2022, many countries have experienced unprecedented weather conditions, including heat waves in the UK; wildfires in the US and record temperatures in China," said Steve Bullock, managing director, global head of ESG Innovation and Solutions, S&P Global Sustainable. This is an ethical obligation, not charity.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

This evening Boris Johnson unveiled the government's much anticipated 10 Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution, promising to deliver £12bn of funding in a bid to unlock £36bn of private sector investment in the net zero transition. Business is fully committed to delivering a green and sustainable recovery from the pandemic.

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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'. BusinessGreen rounds up 10 of the key lessons from a Summit that delivered both major breakthroughs and deep disappointments.

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2022

Today more than ever, substantial investments are needed to ensure that the world is on track towards a resilient, inclusive, and sustainable transition despite the setbacks caused by Covid-19. How can we best channel the flow of investments to have the greatest global impact as we strive to achieve the SDGs by 2030?

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

This includes about $50 billion for resilience, $7.5 So, it is not the major climate legislation that is in the potential reconciliation bill, but a sizable set of investments in its own right. The COP 26 climate conference took place! For example, $7.5 billion or so to electrify their entire bus fleet).

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

The report challenges government, business, and the media to turn COP 26 in Glasgow into a "key milestone moment" that secures widespread support and focus from politicians, businesses, the public, and the media. The call comes ahead of this week's Budget where the government is expected to announce a host of new green policy measures.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

Other former COP Presidents, such as Laurent Fabius. COP26 can be a moment where the world comes together to ramp up momentum towards a climate-resilient, zero-carbon economy. By uniting around specific issues, we can spur innovation, scale up solutions and bring down costs. First, adaptation and resilience.

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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. The files also detail collaborations planned for the event itself.

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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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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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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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DeSmogBlog

JULY 19, 2023

added resilient building consultant and former Passive House Canada board chair Deborah Byrne. We must invest in the energy system of today as unpopular as it sounds,” declared BP CEO Bernard Looney. “If They need to be innovative and carefully thought out. But one that is much more useful, if alarming.”

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

There has been little to no discussion of how the government intends to attract the necessary investment to deliver new nuclear projects, while proposals to fast track planning approval for offshore wind farms and support new hydrogen projects are yet to be confirmed. But this confidence could be severely tested.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

For example, when social distancing regulations were at their most demanding, trips to train farmers on new practices and discuss investment and financing plans became logistically impossible.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Lisa Williams , former chief product officer, becomes head of innovation, design and merchandising. has a new chief sustainability and social impact officer, Ellen Jackowski , who has led there for 12 years as global head of sustainability strategy and innovation. That brings former VP Jenna Johnson up to CEO of Patagonia, Inc.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2022

Nuclear, hydrogen, fracking: none of them can deliver within the next 10 years, and of these only green hydrogen has a real investment case. Investing in fleets of large and small scale stations is essential to securing clean, affordable, British power which will work alongside renewables to cut our dependence on gas.

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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. And so today, from the vantage point of the ending of my time as COP President, I want to take stock of where we are. And navigating this context is our defining challenge.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The overarching plan is aimed at spurring greater alignment of policies, standards, and research and development (R&D) between countries, in addition to helping better coordinate public investments and the mobilisation of private finance, particularly in developing nations, the UK government said. "By

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

While the world’s top fertilizer producers report record profits and farmers worldwide face ongoing price spikes for chemical inputs, the agrochemical industry is touting innovation and increased efficiency as its solution to the economic and environmental impacts of its products.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

Every single sector has to leave no stone unturned in terms of innovation, motivation, and playing its part.". 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 Whereas with the net zero target, there is really nowhere to hide.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

There's no point investing in EVs and running them on clean electricity if the vehicles themselves are constructed out of aluminium coming from coal-fired electricity in China.". At every stage, it's about innovation," Barker muses. It's not just what you create, but what you create it with.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Since the convention’s establishment, the countries involved meet annually during the Conference of the Parties (COP). COP is a supreme decision-making body that aims to promote the effective application of the convention. 30 years later came COP 26 (2021) – held in Glasgow. C) within reach.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

While NYCW has been around for more than a decade , this year the vibe of ~10x the participants and well-curated mini-conferences alongside official UN programming felt almost like a Davos or a mini-COP (which, depending on your take on the efficacy and impact of COP, could be a good or bad thing).

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