GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Heading into fall, this batch of career updates from the worlds of sustainability and business is somewhat top-heavy. Amid myriad social, health and political crises, business sustainability is alive and well and living the Paris Agreement. Mattel appointed Pamela Gill-Alabaster as head of global sustainability. Who's news.

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Business Green

AUGUST 4, 2020

The net zero strategy unveiled by BP earlier today has received plaudits from a number of unusual suspects, with Greenpeace, sustainable shareholder group Follow This, think tank Carbon Tracker, and UK envoys to the forthcoming COP26 climate conference all lining up to praise the sweeping new plan. 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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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Today at COP26, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development announced the Banking for Impact on Climate in Agriculture (B4ICA) initiative in partnership with EDF, the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative and the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials.

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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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Business Green

MAY 19, 2021

Ahead of next week's Net Zero Nature Summit, Sarah McDonald, vice president of sustainability at GSK Consumer Healthcare, reveals how the company is collaborating on a call to action to ensure climate and health strategies are better aligned. Sarah McDonald is vice president of sustainability at GSK Consumer Healthcare.

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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? About the authors: James Viray , Global Leader – Sustainability. James has been working on sustainable development for 20 years.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

At a side event at the COP27 Climate Summit today, countries representing more than half of global GDP will set out a number of sector-specific 'Priority Actions' designed to make emissions-intensive industries more sustainable whilst cutting energy costs and boosting food security.

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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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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.??. We are firmly committed to this goal.??

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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

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

It is up to all of us to sustain our lodestar of keeping 1.5 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. Phase out coal. Put a price on carbon. degrees. "I

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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

"In 2022, many countries have experienced unprecedented weather conditions, including heat waves in the UK; wildfires in the US and record temperatures in China," said Steve Bullock, managing director, global head of ESG Innovation and Solutions, S&P Global Sustainable. This is an ethical obligation, not charity.".

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2022

We are within a decade of the deadline for achieving the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), yet significant challenges still lie ahead, and progress is being hampered by the most severe global health pandemic of our age. A new way of looking at the global financial structure is urgent and inevitable.

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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

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 16, 2020

All four companies have "ambitious and credible climate action plans" to drive down their emissions in line with climate science, and will "support the delivery of a successful and ambitious COP next November", the government said today. When it comes to climate action, we all have an important role to play.

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Subscribe to get sustainability food news in your inbox every Thursday. In my eyes, that certainly doesn't merit a big COP announcement. Any company with serious sustainability ambitions needs to also stop these practices, but the roadmap doesn't go there. It requires investment, farmer outreach, training and so forth.

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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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. Rodgers defends meat-eating as sustainable and has spoken against measures to curb its consumption in rich countries. 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.

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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! we’ve probably seen this the most in sustainable aviation fuels so far.

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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 drive to deliver a return on investment and the search for growth areas in the economy. adaptation and resilience. Experience working in the private sector. And you will be welcomed and right to do so.

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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. remained "weak".

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has declared that 2022 could mark a "vital turning point" in the drive to use energy more efficiently, after record investment was directed to measures that reduce consumption of energy, from building renovations to public transport upgrades and electric car infrastructure.

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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.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

But the CCC warns there is little evidence enough action is being taken to support and encourage sustainable transport options coming out of the pandemic so as to lock-in greener behavioural changes for the long-term. Delivering net zero remains an affordable and attractive investment.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2022

For companies and institutions that have made investments in nature-based solutions and/or buying carbon offsets part of their climate strategy, valuing Indigenous people's contributions means investing in their organizations and projects, and paying a fair price for offsets. "We We have the solutions already.".

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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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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2020

The coming months must see a green turbocharging of our decarbonisation policies and investment to maximise our emissions reductions, so that we reach net-zero as soon as possible," states the letter, which has been signed by a raft of civil society groups including WWF, Oxfam, E3G, Greenpeace, and CAFOD.

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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

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Meanwhile, the huge clean tech buying signals from coalitions of large corporates focused on electric vehicles, green steel, renewables, green shipping, and sustainable aviation fuels, all point to how these markets could quickly reach tipping points that trigger the rapid adoption that obliterates fossil fuel demand. trajectory.

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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. 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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