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

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

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In terms of next steps, countries must now embed these commitments in domestic policy and unlock the role of the private sector. Andy Howard, Global Head of Sustainable Investment at Schroders, said: "The outcome of CBD COP15 should make financial regulators sit up and listen.

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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? But this confidence could be severely tested.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

The Net Zero Strategy (NZS) was released in autumn 2021, just ahead of the COP26 Climate Summit, and while it contained a raft of policies, targets, and plans designed to curb emissions commentators at the time highlighted how it failed to incorporate detailed modelling showing how much officials expected policies to reduce emissions.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

Reports vary on the percentage of those companies that re-started donations to insurrectionists (some say only 23% have kept the policy ). The gap between science and policy is an opportunity, and a responsibility, for business to take a bigger role. with the most spending on climate investment in history.

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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

MARCH 24, 2021

But today's wide-ranging sector deal with the oil and gas industry combines plans for increased investment in the technologies and skills that will enable a transition to cleaner energy sources with proposals that leaves the door open for a new wave of exploration licenses, if projects can pass a new Climate Compatibility Checkpoint.

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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'. Even the US and China managed to broker something of a détente on matters of climate policy over the past few weeks.

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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. Even more controversial policies commanded significant support, with 35 per cent supporting the planned ban on the sale of petrol and diesel cars, compared to 32 per cent who were opposed.

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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 A precedent is being set with a new loss and damage framework taking shape and the first, albeit modest, funding packages being announced. trajectory.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Funding support is also forthcoming for district heating, via a £338 million investment in the Heat Network Transformation Programme set to take place between 2022 and 2025. 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. “For

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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

MARCH 9, 2020

In the past few days a flurry of major reports have again highlighted how the UK can realise major economic benefits from stepping up low carbon investment and supportive net zero policies, while green business leaders have urged Sunak and Johnson to make good on their environmental pledges.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 17, 2020

Our energy systems must keep improving at pace, to become cleaner and more efficient, and this requires ambitious thinking, capital investment and bold leadership. ” The threat to investment is a very real one. ’s COP 26 climate negotiations in November; Eggar said demonstrable action should be underway before then.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2022

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? Michael Gove and Rishi Sunak are guilty of the worst climate policy decision of modern times. They deserve all the criticism heading their way.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2021

The French government recently won plaudits for reportedly making bailout packages for airlines conditional on the scrapping of some short haul routes where rail offered a viable alternative. It's easier for households to invest in burning coal than roof-top solar panels," he said.

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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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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2020

Dubbed the 'Pump it Up' campaign, the new initiative was launched today by an alliance of companies working on large-scale heat pump projects in response to policy proposals that would remove government support for large scale heat pumps that can help slash emissions in many non-domestic settings.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2022

However, among industrialised economies in particular there is also a growing consensus around the need to push biodiversity finance firmly out of the realm of its traditional home as a subset of aid policy and into the world of private finance. The summit has seen record attendance from companies and financial institutions.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

Yesterday's communiqué agrees to "phase-out and rationalise, over the medium term, inefficient fossil fuel subsidies", and makes no direct reference to coal power, instead calling for investment in carbon capture and similar technologies to abate the emissions of fossil fuels.

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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

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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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 7, 2024

Some in the investment community even pushed back on anti-ESG laws — partly because, as one analysis concluded, those state laws could cost taxpayers $708 million. The UK retreated on some climate policies , like delaying a ban on combustion engines in cars to 2035. Consumers may finally become a force for sustainability.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

COP talks each year are often fraught and progress remains far too slow, as today's IPCC report on escalating climate impacts will testify. Yet in the six years since its birth, the Paris Agreement has undoubtedly transformed policy, investment, and economic thinking. The US left the treaty altogether briefly.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

The third in a trilogy of reports over the past year or so, today's - dubbed Climate Change 2022: The Mitigation of Climate Change - was particularly highly anticipated due to its focus on solutions to the aforementioned crisis the world currently faces, in terms of technologies, policies, nature-based measures and finances. on the table.

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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.". In the UK, he says, the government should use its recovery package to ramp up energy efficiency efforts crucial to the country reaching its net zero ambition.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

After a marathon 48 hours of pre-Summit talks, the agenda for the official negotiations was confirmed yesterday and in an early breakthrough for developing economies Loss and Damage was included on the agenda for a COP Summit for the first time. In addition, £65.5m And the UK government's actual record is sending a different signal.

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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. But will the government deliver the scale of investment and detailed policy frameworks required to unlock real progress?

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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 The mood music in Whitehall is encouraging for the environmental services sector and suggests significant new investment could flow towards low carbon infrastructure in the coming months.

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2021

As such, the UK government is said to be working on plans for a new multibillion-pound green development bank that could both directly fund low carbon infrastructure projects across Asia, Africa, and South America, and underwrite private investment. The voice of vulnerable countries is really important at COPs," he explained.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 18, 2022

In the last year we’ve seen increasing recognition of the importance of steel decarbonization, with net-zero announcements from five of the six largest steel companies in the world, new government initiatives flowing from COP 26 and a range of new studies proposing technical and policy pathways. This is where we step in. .

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Encouragingly, word from the EU Commission suggests it remains steadfast in its 2050 net zero ambitions and that combatting climate change should feature strongly in economic recovery packages. But with economies only tentatively easing lockdown conditions, many major recovery plans have yet to emerge.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

“The Growing Climate Solutions Act is a step in the right direction,” said Giana Amador, co-founder of Carbon180, a nonprofit that advocates for policies that support removing carbon from the atmosphere. The Biden administration’s climate strategy includes investing in so-called nature-based solutions like storing carbon in soil.

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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

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The high profile move came after the government attached climate conditions to bailout packages for French airlines, ordered the cancellation of some short haul routes, and provided a major funding boost for R&D into hydrogen and electric aircraft. Charles de Gaulle airport expansion plans scrapped on climate grounds.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2024

The agreement promised a degree of broad regulatory and policy alignment on issues such as climate action and environmental hazards, but it also left plenty of room for divergence. For Brexiters, divergence meant sovereignty. Four years on, the predictable and predicted consequences of that deal are starting to be felt.

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