Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

This is a chance for nations to recover better, to include the most vulnerable in those plans, and a chance to shape the 21st century economy in ways that are clean, green, healthy, just, safe and more resilient. Tackling climate change requires strong, global and ambitious action.

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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

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

APRIL 13, 2020

Planning time and funding that would have been assigned to climate resilience or mitigation will be eaten up by pandemic responses. Most of all, we need corporates to stand against regulatory rollbacks - such as those seen in the US - and advocate for economic rescue packages to have green strings attached.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

The final deal also saw important progress on other aspects of the global climate finance regime, with all parties agreeing to explore reforms to multilateral development banks and other financial institutions to help stimulate more investment in low carbon and climate resilient infrastructure.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

All over the world not nearly enough is being done to enhance climate resilience, leaving communities and economies exposed. 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.

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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. COP26 can be a moment where the world comes together to ramp up momentum towards a climate-resilient, zero-carbon economy. At COP26, the world must seek to agree a package which takes forward the Paris Agreement and powers the UN climate process onwards.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 19, 2022

This should include setting a clear policy and regulatory framework, and working with the business community to drive investment in nature, which will be critical to provide clarity for businesses and create a level playing field. The package is by no means flawless but this is not the end.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

What's in the energy support package, and who is going to pay for it? A sweeping support package has been promised, potentially worth up to £100bn, but what will be in it and why were these proposals such a closely guarded secret throughout the leadership campaign? But this confidence could be severely tested.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

Moreover, the ruling comes just weeks after the Climate Change Committee (CCC) published an in-depth progress report warning how on multiple fronts the UK is not on track to meet its emissions goals for the 2030s, and arguing that urgent action is needed to introduce new policies and investments that can accelerate decarbonisation efforts.

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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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Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

We can go back to where we were, or we can invest in a better, more sustainable future. "We We can invest in fossil fuels, whose markets are volatile and whose emissions lead to lethal air pollution. Or, we can invest in renewable energy, which is reliable, clean and economically smart.".

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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

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

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

MAY 12, 2020

Whether governments use their economic recovery plans to support decarbonisation and long-term economic resilience is now the single biggest question at the top of the climate agenda. Building back better. But with economies only tentatively easing lockdown conditions, many major recovery plans have yet to emerge.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The UK will only be successful in galvanising global climate action ahead of COP 26 if it gets its own house in order," said Clara Goldsmith, campaigns director of the Climate Coalition. But will the government deliver the scale of investment and detailed policy frameworks required to unlock real progress? trajectories, they added.

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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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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. Bank of America unveils new net zero plans.

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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 8, 2021

Other governments now need to isolate the Saudi delegation if they want this COP to succeed for everyone, not just fossil fuel interests.". However, seasoned observers noted that pretty much all of the 25 previous COP Summits have run over in pursuit of a compromise agreement, sometimes by days.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The Prime Minister has not to date shown much leadership on the COP26 agenda, the Summit is over budget and subject to debilitating Whitehall and Holyrood turf wars, and Number 10 knew when it appointed her that O'Neill was not as experienced in the world of high level diplomacy as some of her predecessors in the COP hot seat.

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

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

of warming, while this week's report from the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) group suggests now 'inevitable' policies could keep temperature increases below 2C. But analysts fear he is running out of time to deliver on his promises and may land in Glasgow with an underpowered domestic package. Climate finance.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

The UK government has today called for Covid-19 recovery plans to bolster the fight against climate change, with Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab telling global leaders at a major climate summit that it is "duty of every responsible government" to reboot economies along climate-resilient lines.

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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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