Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

New four word slogan captures government's ambitions for Glasgow Summit, as Tory backbench opposition to climate policies continues to swell. The comments came as Number 10's preparations for COP26 faced fresh logistical and political challenges. We lack only one thing and that is time, we must accelerate the global transformation.".

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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'. Even the US and China managed to broker something of a détente on matters of climate policy over the past few weeks.

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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. It is in no way limited to political opponents and environmental activists whose jobs inherently require a degree of performative hostility towards government ministers. This time there is none of that.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Business and policy leaders reflect on the major wins from the Glasgow Summit, what needs to happen next, and why COPs could look and feel difficult from now on. As Frontier Economics' Matthew Bell put it, Glasgow was arguably the first COP conference where the means to decarbonise were discussed alongside the end goals.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The first full negotiating texts are still not expected until later this evening, or potentially even tomorrow, according to Egypt's COP Presidency. The EU showing it is committed to deliver and reduce more of our greenhouse gas emissions is a positive sign," said Sven Harmeling, international climate policy expert at CAN Europe.

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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 9, 2020

Has anyone ever faced a shorter political honeymoon? Meanwhile, the REA trade body published a separate report suggesting supportive policies could see employment across the UK's renewable energy and clean technology sector increase 85 per cent over the next decade to nearly 240,000.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

"I intend to use the opportunity of the upcoming UN General Assembly high-level session [in September] to bring leaders together to reach a political understanding on these critical elements of the package needed for Glasgow," Guterres said.

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2020

Dubbed the 'Pump it Up' campaign, the new initiative was launched today by an alliance of companies working on large-scale heat pump projects in response to policy proposals that would remove government support for large scale heat pumps that can help slash emissions in many non-domestic settings.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2023

The CCC's annual report is scathing on the lack of policy progress over the past year - the UK cannot afford another 12 months of inaction No aspect of the Climate Change Committee's (CCC) absolutely damning assessment of the UK's decarbonisation efforts over the past year is as dispiriting as the government's response to it.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

alive or this will be the COP where we lose 1.5C," he said. You need to work out how you want future generations to look upon this COP and each of us individually as countries. We must now shift gears and complement the technical discussions with more political, high-level engagement.". We'll either leave Egypt having kept 1.5C

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 7, 2024

One memorable headline read, “ Morgan Stanley Doubles Down on ESG Despite the Politics.” The UK retreated on some climate policies , like delaying a ban on combustion engines in cars to 2035. We’ve also seen some serious citizen pushback in a number of countries to policies that are perceived to raise the cost of living.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

The third in a trilogy of reports over the past year or so, today's - dubbed Climate Change 2022: The Mitigation of Climate Change - was particularly highly anticipated due to its focus on solutions to the aforementioned crisis the world currently faces, in terms of technologies, policies, nature-based measures and finances. on the table.

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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. That's the biggest risk.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

After a marathon 48 hours of pre-Summit talks, the agenda for the official negotiations was confirmed yesterday and in an early breakthrough for developing economies Loss and Damage was included on the agenda for a COP Summit for the first time. And the UK government's actual record is sending a different signal.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

"It will require people to step up and make positive choices and it will require activist investors, it will require proactive leadership from business, and it will require very clear policy choices from politicians.". But the political spin cycle moves even quicker and quicker and I have had my go. I was very fortunate.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 18, 2022

In the last year we’ve seen increasing recognition of the importance of steel decarbonization, with net-zero announcements from five of the six largest steel companies in the world, new government initiatives flowing from COP 26 and a range of new studies proposing technical and policy pathways. This is where we step in. .

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2021

To do that, the West needs to come up with a meaningful package of support that includes some pretty serious amounts of money. The voice of vulnerable countries is really important at COPs," he explained. Repurposing some existing development aid simply isn't going to cut it.".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Notably, the survey supported by The Body Shop showed that interest in including more youth in decision-making is cross-generational: The data show that people across all age groups believe including more young voices and perspectives in policy development would improve political systems, according to The Body Shop's Davis.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

As such, the COP Presidency should presumably welcome mounting calls for a new era of public-private cooperation on the financial packages that can help developing and emerging economies wean themselves off fossil fuels.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2024

The agreement promised a degree of broad regulatory and policy alignment on issues such as climate action and environmental hazards, but it also left plenty of room for divergence. For Brexiters, divergence meant sovereignty. Four years on, the predictable and predicted consequences of that deal are starting to be felt.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2021

While there are important issues to be negotiated by political leaders and diplomats at COP26, panellists stressed the aim of the summit is not to hammer out a fresh global deal. Decarbonisation] is good for business," he said.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

John Howard has just won an election through a combination of populism, misinformation, and the stoking of anti-immigrant feeling, providing a cynicism-soaked playbook that dominates anglosphere politics to this day. The conversation drifts towards politics and fear. Growing numbers of political and business leaders get this.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

With plenty of personal animus in the mix and professional reputations at stake the ousted President of COP26 was always going to demand a full explanation for the political hit job that unfurled late on Friday afternoon while the country's attention was fixated upon Brexit celebrations/commiserations.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

Fortescue unveiled a green ammonia dual-fuel ship at COP. The former Secretary of State brought gravitas, political experience, and influence to a position typically filled by diplomats.   The state aid package marks the first time the EU has allowed individual state aid to match IRA subsidies.    U.S.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

As such officials now believe it would be beneficial to have more time available to reschedule meetings next year and step up efforts to rebuild political momentum ahead of the talks. The Chinese government is currently understood to be exploring new dates for the Summit in the first half of 2021.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

Given this is an evolving situation we are keeping the situation under careful review and are in frequent contact with the UN, Chile (as current COP president) and other partners.". In my view, this is not a reason to celebrate because emissions reduction should be the result of right energy policies.".

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Green Market Oracle

JUNE 23, 2020

We have already seen significant changes in policing policy all across the country. However, many want to see national standards in policy, law and training for all of the 18,000 police agencies in the U.S. However, many want to see national standards in policy, law and training for all of the 18,000 police agencies in the U.S.

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