Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In my first fortnight as COP President, I have been listening to those who have done this before. ??Meeting Meeting people like Paris COP President Laurent Fabius, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed and Patricia Espinosa from the UNFCCC. ??And, And we are getting ready for it.??. Promoting nature-based solutions.??.

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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

JUNE 25, 2020

London Mayor Sadiq Khan is preparing to kick off the second annual London Climate Action Week from next week with a stark warning for business and political leaders to step up efforts to tackle the looming "climate emergency". We must keep momentum and focus on the transition to a net-zero world," she added.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Amid myriad social, health and political crises, business sustainability is alive and well and living the Paris Agreement. Energy and Clean Growth minister also served as COP President for the 26th UN Climate Change Conference. Who's news. She’s a former VP and ESG analyst at State Street.

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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The charity criticised the leaders of these nations for continuing to support "mega-rich" polluting companies that are often big supporters of their political campaigns. She also suggested that cancelling debt could help developing economy governments free up resources to invest in climate mitigation and resilience measures.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

But in a warning to political leaders, the report suggests the 'low hanging fruit' in the net zero transition may have already been largely secured, meaning the public will need to be more fully engaged with decarbonisation efforts in future.

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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. So, if companies can't expect clear political direction, will the upsurge in climate activism keep corporate minds focused? You want the banks to be saved, then stop investing in fossil fuel expansion.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

It just shows that this UN process can achieve results, and that the world can recognise the plight of the vulnerable must not be treated as a political football.". This COP caused deep frustrations but it wasn't for nothing," she said. "It It achieved a significant breakthrough for the most vulnerable countries.

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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. By the next CBD COP in 2024, governments have a lot of homework to turn these agreed goals into actions at home.

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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

JUNE 18, 2020

Because finance and investment are the lifeblood of net zero projects - and we can only meet this challenge together. I know the role finance can play in delivering this change, having worked in corporate finance myself for over 15 years before I came into politics. adaptation and resilience. clean transport.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

"We are off track for the Fourth Carbon Budget, we are off track for the Fifth Carbon Budget, and we are off track for the 2030 emissions target, which we submitted to the UN in December - and that is not a great place to be for the UK as COP President," he said. "So Delivering net zero remains an affordable and attractive investment.

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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

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

All over the world not nearly enough is being done to enhance climate resilience, leaving communities and economies exposed. But whether or not the historic reference to fossil fuels is retained, this has been the COP where governments, investors, and businesses made it clearer than ever that the fossil fuel age is slowly drawing to a close.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

If we haven't shown the way in which we are going to deliver, then we will in fact not be able to make COP a success, and the whole concept of 'Global Britain' being a leader will in fact be undermined.". But the silence is really noticeable… Something needs to fill the vacuum that we have from the Treasury on this at the moment.".

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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 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

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. First, adaptation and resilience. We all need to invest in the innovation which will help us accelerate the transition to clean energy.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The key missing ingredient is a lack of political will he said: “Political will to put a price on carbon. Political will to stop subsidies on fossil fuels”, or to shift taxation from income to carbon, “taxing pollution instead of people.” Public opinion is waking up everywhere.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

That means investing in industries and infrastructure that can turn the tide on climate change.". And just yesterday, in a video message sent on behalf of Prime Minister Boris Johnson to the closing session of the Petersberg Dialogue, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab was even more forthright. Steely determination. More twists in this virus.

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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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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

As the world's two biggest economies and emitters, the USA and China have particular responsibility for making such a "historic" Pact a reality, said Guterres, as he called on the two superpowers to come together in the mutual interests of the planet, despite their political differences. "It We believe that we have a plan," she said. "We

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

Although the case for shifting away from expensive, risky fossil fuels towards greener sources of energy and EVs has scarcely been clearer, political priorities have shifted towards bolstering national security and tackling inflation, and as such there has been a renewed policy push in many countries to expanding domestic fossil fuel resources.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

But more positively, while the gap between adaptation and resilience efforts currently being undertaken, and what is required to safeguard society and ecosystems, remains considerable, such efforts can in fact be very effective, the report suggests. Inaction is a foolish business risk no company can afford.

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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. Our global political economy, built on fossil fuels for the last century, is in a state of flux. But as serious as these crises are, we must also recognise a seismic structural shift that is underway.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Amid myriad social, health and political crises, business sustainability is alive and well and living the Paris Agreement. Energy and Clean Growth minister also served as COP President for the 26th UN Climate Change Conference. She’s a former VP and ESG analyst at State Street.

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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. Building back better.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

However, beyond the political row O'Neill's letter presents a litany of concerns over the preparations for the COP26 Summit. O'Neill signs off by indicating that she intends to continue to play a role in supporting and critiquing the Summit and the government's climate record from a position "free from political patronage".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Healthy ecosystems are more resilient to climate change and provide life-critical services such as food and clean water," said IPCC Working Group II co-chair Hans-Otto Pörtner. "By Climate resilience will become impossible in some regions if temperature rise exceeds 2C, the report warns.

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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.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

It is highly likely the row over phasing down or phasing out coal power will return in the coming years and the debate at future COPs will no doubt be extended to address oil and gas. If there's one theme that really comes out loud and clear from this COP, it is about money," said former Energy and Climate Change Secretary Amber Rudd.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

From Rio to Glasgow: The political recognition of our climate crisis increases On the 9th of May, 1992, the United Nations Framework Convention on Change (UNFCCC) was adopted. Since the convention’s establishment, the countries involved meet annually during the Conference of the Parties (COP). C) within reach.

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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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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.". You need a really strong government, and it needs government investment. It's not just what you create, but what you create it with.

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