Smart Energy International

JANUARY 22, 2024

The year 2023 was a record-setting year for investment and growth in clean energy, with the International Energy Agency projecting over 500GW of new renewable capacity to come online by year-end globally. Fortunately, an economy powered by renewable energy is potentially much more secure and resilient than one reliant upon fossil fuels.

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Business Green

JUNE 19, 2022

The partnership centres on an additional $8.5bn commitment from donor countries to catalyse investment in the clean energy infrastructure that would allow the largely coal-dependent emerging economy to swiftly change its energy mix, in the process creating thousands of green jobs across the country.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Highlight the connection between nature and global economics – value the ocean’s natural capital to invest in all our futures. Ocean action must be adequately financed as investment in global resilience, human well-being and sustainability. The paper is being published on the eve of Ocean Day at COP on 4 November.

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Business Green

AUGUST 4, 2020

"To give some scale - the 50GW of planned renewables by 2030 is roughly equal to the current installed renewables capacity in the UK (generating over a quarter of our power over the last year)," Dr John Murton, UK COP 26 envoy, explained on Twitter this morning. It also has pace.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

A new China-US bilateral agreement to cooperate on emissions reductions – another of the apparent consolations to be drawn from a disappointing COP – seemed to include a major commitment to the “deployment and application of technology such as CCUS and DAC”, as market intelligence firm IDTech X noted. What can be done with the captured CO2?

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Ahead of COP 26, many of the UK's biggest companies have today warned Boris Johnson he has a 'limited window' to show genuine climate leadership. As businesses invested in the future of the UK, we know these steps can deliver long-term benefits for people, nature and climate," the letter states. "We

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Business Green

JULY 14, 2021

Natural Environment Investment Readiness Fund provides up to £100,000 to 27 nature-based climate projects across England. Chair of the Environment Agency, Emma Howard Boyd, said the fund would help demonstrate how to create investable, nature-based solutions to the climate emergency ahead of this November's COP 26 Climate Summit.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In mid-December, Vietnam will reveal its just energy transition partnership using public money to leverage private investment, following on from South Africa and Indonesia, and with a cab rank of other countries wanting something similar. The UK must be agile in its post-Brexit international age.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2020

Chile was forced to give up hosting the COP 25 United Nations Climate Change Conference in December after cost-of-living protests that started in the capital, Santiago, in October spread to other cities. COP 25 was ultimately held in Spain. The protests would “only delay some investments," van den Hurk Mir said.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2020

To create fairer, greener and more resilient economies at home and around the world. That is why, as hosts of COP26 , the UK wants to ramp up ambition to achieve a climate-resilient, zero-carbon economy. These are: clean energy, clean transport, nature-based solutions, adaptation and resilience, and underpinning everything, finance.

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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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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

A major theme of this COP — the international climate change conference — is the urgent need to transition from commitments to action. Fortunately, farms have the potential to reduce emissions, sequester carbon and build resilience — but farmers need support to make change at the scale and pace required to avoid major losses.

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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

MARCH 8, 2021

Speech from Energy and Clean Growth Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan - International Champion on Adaptation and Resilience for COP26 - marking International Women's Day, at event organised by COP26 presidency in partnership with Chatham House. There is also evidence of better outcomes when women are brought into adaptation and resilience action.

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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. ADB announces $200m Goal for Water Resilience Programme. The Asia and the Pacific Water Resilience Initiative, also known as RUWR: ARe yoU Water Resilient ? French Senate approves solar car park legislation.

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Specifically, the UK presidency of COP26 wants to see these institutions mobilise increased investment through a series of Just Energy Transition Partnerships that can support developing countries transition away from coal to renewable energy.

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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.??.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2020

COP26 President steps up calls for 'clean, inclusive and resilient recovery' that delivers on the goals of the Paris Agreement, as polling reveals huge support for accelerate climate action. More ambition on adaptation and resilience, more ambition on mitigation, and more ambition on support to vulnerable countries.

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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. That we don't sow seeds of next crisis, but embed resilience to shocks like pandemics & extreme weather events.

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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. What do businesses want to see from the governments that's being discussed at COP? ºC ambition, climate finance, adaptation and resilience. ºC pathway.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Companies must both cut emissions and significantly increase investment in nature-based solutions if global climate goals are to be reached, writes Maria Mendiluce, CEO, We Mean Business. °C without harnessing the power of NbS for both climate mitigation and resilience. °C mark. Are there risks?

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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. degrees. "I

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

It marks the next chapter for the Breakthrough Agenda, which was launched by the UK COP Presidency and the Race to Zero campaign at the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow last year and aims to bring together governments committed to driving the uptake of technologies and solutions that can help decarbonise emissions intensive sectors.

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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

With the delay to COP 26 we can't lose the momentum on climate action, so I'm pleased to see that London organisations are leading the way, showing once again that the capital is a driving force for action nationally and globally," Khan said. We must keep momentum and focus on the transition to a net-zero world," she added.

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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

AUGUST 3, 2020

British diplomats, the UK COP presidency team and Ministers would have been in a whirl of frenetic influencing activity globally (we hope) to drive up ambition, and drive out those new nationally-determined contributions (NDCs) from all the parties to the Paris Agreement. But these are not normal times, and the COP has been delayed by a year.

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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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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Ahead of UN General Assembly meetings this week, and COP 27 in November, leaders especially of rich polluting countries must live up to their promises to cut emissions," she added. "We 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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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 4, 2020

The new campaign will be stewarded by the UK and Chile as incoming and outgoing COP presidents, respectively. Rethinking how businesses use resources and rebuilding the health of nature's ability to both absorb carbon and build resilience to climate risks, are both key components of an effective net zero carbon strategy.".

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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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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. She’s a former VP and ESG analyst at State Street.

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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

This evening Boris Johnson unveiled the government's much anticipated 10 Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution, promising to deliver £12bn of funding in a bid to unlock £36bn of private sector investment in the net zero transition. Business is fully committed to delivering a green and sustainable recovery from the pandemic.

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