Business Green

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The Global Biodiversity Framework is set to provide the political certainty that all large businesses and financial institutions will be required to assess and disclose risks and impacts on nature. The package is by no means flawless but this is not the end. Today's outcome demonstrates that position can forge global progress.

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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

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

AUGUST 11, 2021

The comments came as Number 10's preparations for COP26 faced fresh logistical and political challenges. The new goal is expected to feature in the upcoming Heat and Buildings Strategy, which is expected to be published next month following intense wrangling within Whitehall over the potential cost of the new package.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

A precedent is being set with a new loss and damage framework taking shape and the first, albeit modest, funding packages being announced. trajectory. But at the same time there has been progress. It looks as if adaptation funding will be doubled and will be better channelled to the countries that need it. is barely alive.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

Has anyone ever faced a shorter political honeymoon? Again, some environmentalists may welcome the resulting fall in emissions, but the prospect of global recession and reduced tax revenues brings with it the prospect of governments and businesses seeing a sharp curtailment in their ability to invest in green projects.

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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

MARCH 9, 2020

Other former COP Presidents, such as Laurent Fabius. At COP26, the world must seek to agree a package which takes forward the Paris Agreement and powers the UN climate process onwards. We all need to invest in the innovation which will help us accelerate the transition to clean energy. Civil society organisations.

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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. We must now shift gears and complement the technical discussions with more political, high-level engagement.". We'll either leave Egypt having kept 1.5C

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2023

If the CCC's central allegation is that the government is guilty of complacency and a fundamental lack of focus, the official response from the Department of Net Zero and Energy Security amounts to 'it's a fair cop, Guv'. "We But the overall picture is unremittingly bleak. COP26 feels a very long time ago.

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2020

Dave Pearson, director of Star Renewable Energy, blasted the policy as a "clear error of judgement" that would be a "major national embarrassment in the run up to COP 26", referring to the UN climate conference set to be hosted by the UK in November 2021. It therefore provides a framework for ensuring installation and product standards.".

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

"They are choking our planet, based on their vested interests and historic investments in fossil fuels, when cheaper, renewable solutions provide green jobs, energy security, and greater price stability. Investing in new fossil fuels infrastructure is moral and economic madness. But it doesn't have to be this way.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Lending high-level economic and political credence to that growing public clamour for action, the work of Chris Stark and his small team at the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) in driving the issue up the agenda should not be forgotten. Suddenly, barely days into 2020, a new paradigm began to take shape. That's the biggest risk.".

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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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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. One memorable headline read, “ Morgan Stanley Doubles Down on ESG Despite the Politics.” Consumers may finally become a force for sustainability.

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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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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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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2022

It is in no way limited to political opponents and environmental activists whose jobs inherently require a degree of performative hostility towards government ministers. The Green Deal fiasco and Boris Johnson's repeated failure to deliver on his promise of a 'Rooseveltian' green stimulus package represented huge-missed opportunities.

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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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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. We take time to unplug and recharge.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2024

This reality was highlighted this week by a new report from verification platform Compare Ethics , which calculates how the EU's sweeping Green Deal package of rules and regulations could impact £193bn of UK exports a year. Four years on, the predictable and predicted consequences of that deal are starting to be felt.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2021

While there are important issues to be negotiated by political leaders and diplomats at COP26, panellists stressed the aim of the summit is not to hammer out a fresh global deal. This ground work was already laid at COP21 six years ago, when the Paris Agreement was brokered.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

Join us for a webinar Jan 25th on Sightline Climate’s 2023 investment trends, insights, and discussion. Fortescue unveiled a green ammonia dual-fuel ship at COP. 🔋 NineDot Energy , a Brooklyn, NY-based energy storage developer, raised $225m in funding from Manulife Investment Management and Carlyle.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

John Howard has just won an election through a combination of populism, misinformation, and the stoking of anti-immigrant feeling, providing a cynicism-soaked playbook that dominates anglosphere politics to this day. The conversation drifts towards politics and fear. Growing numbers of political and business leaders get this.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

With plenty of personal animus in the mix and professional reputations at stake the ousted President of COP26 was always going to demand a full explanation for the political hit job that unfurled late on Friday afternoon while the country's attention was fixated upon Brexit celebrations/commiserations.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

As such officials now believe it would be beneficial to have more time available to reschedule meetings next year and step up efforts to rebuild political momentum ahead of the talks. The Chinese government is currently understood to be exploring new dates for the Summit in the first half of 2021.

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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 continue to work towards hosting the event in Glasgow in November, which is eight months away," she said.

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