Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The UK government must focus on strengthening the detail and delivery of its flagship Net Zero Strategy during a "crucial" year ahead for climate action, with major work particularly needed to fill in policy gaps and uncertainties surrounding taxation, trade, adaptation and agriculture.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

For example, a raft of UK supermarkets and retailers have threatened to boycott products from Brazil over a law proposed in Brazil's parliament that environmental campaigners claim could legalise further destruction of the rainforest, and would therefore not be covered by the UK government's currently proposed rule.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The potential is clearly there to create a group of leading economies that sufficiently align their climate policies, taxes, and industrial decarbonisation programmes to create a relatively level playing field. CBAM will be a crucial pillar of European climate policies," he said. "It A win-win situation.".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The prospective UK economic losses match the current combined annual funding for the police, fire service, prisons, and law courts, with the main economic costs stemming from the loss of natural coastal protection services leading to flooding and erosion, alongside the accelerated decline of global fish stocks harming the fishing industry. "We

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

However, setting out the government's revised position on Tuesday, Environment Secretary George Eustice explained that the new clause would enshrine an expectation set out in a policy document by the water industry regulator Ofwat earlier this year into law.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Green Alliance's Shaun Spiers offers his overview of the year just passed, and cause to be optimistic about climate and environmental policy and action next year. How else to explain the environmentally and economically damaging Retained EU Law Bill or the decision to add to the world's surfeit of coal by opening a new mine in Cumbria?

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

Ruling on a case brought by Friends of the Earth, ClientEarth, and the Good Law Project, Mr Justice Holgate agreed the strategy lacked sufficient explanation or quantification as to how the decarbonisation plans set out in the Net Zero Strategy published last autumn would achieve emissions targets for the 2030s and beyond.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Company directors may be convinced of the long-term benefits of a rapid shift to net zero, but their job description, set out in the Companies Act, doesn't give them a level playing field to make truly impactful climate policies. Joanna Allen is CEO at Graze.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

In 2020, after setting in law a target to decarbonise its economy over the next 30 years, and ahead of hosting a meeting of global governments to discuss increasing climate ambition around the world, the UK, more urgently than ever before, needs to set out how it will deliver what is required in the face of a climate emergency.".

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Business Green

JUNE 17, 2021

Report sets out the myriad ways ongoing discussions over Brexit climate and energy policy are affecting the UK's chances of meeting climate goals. As such, it urges the government and other energy organisations to dedicate considerable time and effort trying to try and influence future EU energy policy choices that will affect UK operators.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2022

However, the speech also contained a wealth of consequential legislative and policy proposals for the green economy, covering energy, transport, planning rules, agricultural innovation, and a clamp down on the tactics deployed by environmental protestors such as Extinction Rebellion (XR). Foreign affairs and diplomatic priorities for 2022.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

Formalising these aspirations into law could help you see how your employer is taking action, how your pension manager is deciding where they invest your money and how the UK is rewarding winners and challenging others. UK businesses can make a huge contribution to this effort, and it is an opportunity we cannot afford to miss.

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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. Rachel Kyte, Dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and former World Bank Vice President and Special Envoy for Climate Change, said: "Our economy has to operate within nature.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

And if traders are going for zero illegal deforestation instead of zero gross deforestation (including legal and illegal), then the roadmap isn't more than just reiterating national laws. In my eyes, that certainly doesn't merit a big COP announcement. The roadmap's definitions also bring up a geography question.

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The bipartisan infrastructure bill was signed into law. The COP 26 climate conference took place! Corporate buying commitments are an area where a lot of opportunity exists in the absence of comprehensive climate policy. Infrastructure Month! Here’s a summary from Canary Media. Here’s another summary from the AP.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The UK must respond to the climate emergency with not just urgency but consistency in its net zero policies, argues WWF UK's Gareth Redmond-King. And then November will see Glasgow host the COP climate change summit, taking place five years on from the historic Paris Agreement.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2022

I've been writing about the UK climate policy landscape for 15 years and I genuinely can't recall a reaction like it. Where does this rank in the halls of climate policy infamy? It has helped many other countries develop their own climate laws and net zero strategies based on the UK's pioneering model.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

As such, the Treasury's new commitment to require transition plans from corporates and financiers was warmly welcomed by campaigners and sustainable investment experts across the economy, who argued it could prove to be one of the most consequential policy moves announced as part of the government's 'Net Zero Week'.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Fossil fuels are everywhere at this COP except in the decisions being negotiated by governments,” Nikki Reisch, the director of climate and energy at the Center for International Environmental Law, wrote to DeSmog from Glasgow. For instance, Royal Dutch Shell sent at least six employees under multiple designations.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The Chancery Law Project is bringing together all sections of the legal profession to try and drill climate action into contracts, regulation and national laws. The answer, even if it sounds like a cop out, is at its root a simple one: each of us must do what we can and should probably focus on what we are good at.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

Criticism has also been levelled at Ministers for the on-going policy gap that needs to be bridged to get the UK on track to meet its short, medium, and long-term statutory emissions targets, with businesses awaiting a raft of key net zero strategies covering home heating, transport, heavy industry, and a raft of other areas.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

A few months later, corporate giants also spoke out against state laws meant to restrict voting. Reports vary on the percentage of those companies that re-started donations to insurrectionists (some say only 23% have kept the policy ). This is an important story if only for how far it expands the role of business in society.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2021

However, Australia has long been seen as a laggard on the world stage when it comes to environmental action, with the country's PM Scott Morrison having faced significant criticism for his repeated failure to come forward with bolder climate policies.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 7, 2024

Most famously, the governor of Florida kept battling one of the world’s most beloved brands, Disney, over the company’s position on state laws targeting the LGBTQ+ community. Some in the investment community even pushed back on anti-ESG laws — partly because, as one analysis concluded, those state laws could cost taxpayers $708 million.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Every policy, law, regulation, study, analysis, proposal or action that has the climate crisis in mind is built on the basis of those two figures: 1.5 Even so, it was a major breakthrough as the first COP to mention the temperature goals we are all familiar with today. That paragraph, in article 2, paragraph 2.a.,

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an "enterprise à mission," a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. That's why Danone has signed the green recovery appeal at the European level, because we believe the transformation and the renegotiation of the agriculture policy is instrumental to that.".

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

So much for the “African COP.” Public relations for this year’s COP is in fact being conducted by Hill+Knowlton, the PR firm notorious for inventing the “tobacco playbook,” which the fossil fuel industry then adopted to discredit the science regarding the harms of burning fossil fuels. It’s yet again a festival of polluters.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

“We are calling on Scottish Ministers to take urgent action to ban bottom-towed fishing gear in all of Scotland’s Marine Protected Areas and reinstate the 3 nautical mile inshore trawl and dredge ban,” said Melissa Moore, head of UK policy at Oceana. “As Scotland needs to step up and protect its rich and diverse marine life.

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Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2023

I think a lot of the feedback that you hear from any of the COPs is we're not doing enough and we're not doing it fast enough. And I do believe that summits like COP help to crystallize our efforts toward a more balanced relationship with the natural world. Has COP changed your perspective on what Schneider could do?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

As you know, I'm now devoting all of my time and energies to the role of COP President-designate whilst continuing as a full member of the UK government cabinet. By the end of 2020 net zero was firmly established as the law. 2020 saw record temperatures. So I want to thank you, every one of you, who took part. This isn't new.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The bill’s backers hope the law will make it easier for farmers and landowners to get paid for storing carbon in their fields and forests. But it’s unclear how the law will address farmers’ biggest concerns. They’re also worried about being fairly compensated.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

This so-called ‘Glasgow declaration on sustainable bioenergy’ is not an official COP document,” Sally Clark, from biomass campaign group Biofuelwatch, told DeSmog. “It The company has now converted four of its six plants to biomass, which is categorised as a renewable energy under UK law.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an ‘entreprise à mission', a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. The pioneering governance structure will see the food giant officially entrench environmental, social, and societal objectives into its bylaws, alongside more typical profit goals.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

While NYCW has been around for more than a decade , this year the vibe of ~10x the participants and well-curated mini-conferences alongside official UN programming felt almost like a Davos or a mini-COP (which, depending on your take on the efficacy and impact of COP, could be a good or bad thing).

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Melissa Moore, Head of UK Policy at Oceana in Europe, said: “We need an immediate ban on trawling and dredging in all offshore Marine Protected Areas as well as the inshore zone. To continue to license this destructive activity, when we know the damage it causes and that it is illegal under various environmental laws, beggars belief.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2021

After all, Carney - who also serves as the UN's Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance - has made clear that he envisages the crucial UN climate summit in Glasgow as a "net zero COP" for financial firms, where he is expected to spearhead a new cross-sectoral finance initiative. We wanted to help unblock that process.".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

And by COP in Glasgow we will look to have those types of commitments across the financial sector, right into the private banking sector as well.". It's a net zero COP. Much more action, both in terms of investment signals and firm policy measures, is expected in the run up to COP26 and beyond. That's the objective.

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