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. By doing so they are also giving government leaders the confidence to step up and set the policies and regulations that will support their efforts on climate and enable them to go further and faster.

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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

MAY 19, 2021

However, for many non-health businesses, the investment community, and politicians, the connections between climate and health are less clear, and are often neither meaningful nor tangible. An empowering business narrative and call for health resilient climate action. What's already happening and what's missing? Further Reading.

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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. The rules are set to be folowed by a wider policy push to accelerate the development of solar projects on empty land by motorways and railways. ADB announces $200m Goal for Water Resilience Programme.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2019

While offsets are often seen as a cop-out for industries that don’t want to tackle their own pollution, airlines are clearly uniquely limited in their climate pollution mitigation options. While there are a number of ways that airlines can offset their emissions, the lowest cost option right now is to invest in local farmers.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Energy and Clean Growth minister also served as COP President for the 26th UN Climate Change Conference. Cortney Worrall is the new president and CEO of the nonprofit Waterfront Alliance , which pushes for resilience along the New York and New Jersey coasts. Environmental Protection Agency as a branch chief.

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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This Conference of Parties (COP) was highly anticipated as a critical inflection point where our economies and societies set forth on an ambitious and clearly defined path to decarbonize by 2050 and keep warming below 1.5 degrees C to avoid the worst impacts of climate change — or continue with the status quo. Carbon Negative Shot is a U.S.

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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 17, 2020

Green business groups and campaigners welcome the government's renewed focus on the net zero transition, but warn plan lacks long-term policies and sufficient funding in key areas. It gives a springboard to the huge opportunities for UK-wide investment and green jobs that a true low-carbon economy can bring.

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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 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.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Green business leaders will be hoping Sunak reaffirms his commitment to the UK's net zero target and provide markets with much-needed policy clarity to support the net zero transition following weeks of political turmoil, policy U-turns and economic upheaval.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

IEA predicts major gains on energy efficiency in 2022 in response to energy crisis, but BloombergNEF warns current clean energy policies still put world on track for a 2.6C Dr Fatih Birol, executive director of the IEA, said the world was seeing a repeat of some of the policies that emerged in response to the oil supply crisis of the 1970s.

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2022

In a video address to more than 40 leaders and ministers assembled at the Berlin event this morning, Antonio Guterres slammed political leaders for failing to take adequate action on tackling climate change and mobilising finance to support poorer nations' efforts to decarbonise and bolster their climate resilience.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

Every year since its inception the Climate Change Committee (CCC) offers its verdict on the UK's progress against its climate goals, providing an overview of the country's decarbonisation to date, its latest economic and emissions projections, and the state of the policy landscape. So the government is playing a pretty high stakes game here.

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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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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 . About the authors: James Viray , Global Leader – Sustainability.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

In the UK, we did this on 23 March 2020 and we also launched a series of major policy initiatives to support businesses and individuals through the pandemic. Because finance and investment are the lifeblood of net zero projects - and we can only meet this challenge together. adaptation and resilience. clean transport.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2020

Pressure grows on the government to ramp up net zero policies and diplomatic efforts ahead of COP26. To underpin these efforts, public and private investment for climate action and restoring nature should be ramped up to the equivalent of at least two per cent of the UK's GDP each year, the five-point plan states.

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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

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

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

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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

In my eyes, that certainly doesn't merit a big COP announcement. And for soy, it acknowledges the need for no-conversion policies, but the companies couldn't agree on a definition, let alone strategy. These companies' CEOs are swayed by today's profitable markets rather than longer-term investments in resilient supply chains.

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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

JANUARY 24, 2022

The UK remains COP President until next November, when it will hand the baton over to Egypt, which is set host the COP27 Summit at the Red Sea beach resort of Sharm-el Sheikh. Indeed, there is no shortage of world-changing points of action for Sharma's COP team to be getting on with over the coming months.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

In Canada last month almost 200 countries at COP 15 agreed a set of landmark pledges that will resonate not just through 2023, but to the end of the decade and beyond to the middle of the 21st century. nJanuary is a time for new beginnings and new resolutions to drive self-improvement, and that applies to nations just as much as individuals.

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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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. These companies are stepping up their game because the exposure they are facing is stepping up,” says Jennifer Jacquet, Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Miami. “It rise in temperature that risks tipping the world into irreversible climate breakdown.

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

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Currently, there is a very real risk that key decisions on this will be postponed to a subsequent COP, and COP15 will result in only minimal agreement. Helen Finlay is associate global director of policy engagement at CDP. Parties, including government ministers, must be more ambitious.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

That will not happen until true net zero emissions is achieved and a global economy has been built that is resilient to the dangerous new world we have unleashed. compatible', and instead opts to publicly and loudly highlight how they are advancing policies to deliver on their goals. If COPs did not exist you would have to invent them.

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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. Can the UK afford such a plan while also pushing through tax cuts? But this confidence could be severely tested.

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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

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

MAY 23, 2022

Australia looks set to ditch its climate-laggard global status after voters strongly backed more ambitious green policies – but can the change in government help reignite global climate action, as geopolitical challenges escalate? Moreover, the Coalition government has long been a thorn in the side of successive UN climate talks.

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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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