Business Green

APRIL 13, 2020

International summits to progress a global oceans treaty and mid-year UNFCCC talks have been postponed, while even more crucially COP26 and the much anticipated 'Biodiversity COP' are now set to take place next year. So, if companies can't expect clear political direction, will the upsurge in climate activism keep corporate minds focused?

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

COP Summits rarely, if ever, finish on time, but seasoned observers have warned the current talks appear to be badly behind schedule. In contrast, developing nations are continuing to push for a well-funded new funding package focused on Loss and Damage to be introduced with near immediate effect.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

If approved, the package would be widely regarded as a major breakthrough that could deliver significant new funding for the most climate vulnerable nations. The COP decision must put the world on a path to phasing out all fossil fuels and an urgent, just transition to renewables.".

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The COP Presidency and host nation Canada convened a special meeting of heads of delegation at 11am on Wednesday in a bid to smooth out some of the deadlocked issues ahead of the arrival of ministers. "For That is not the political signal that we need to go to the world to save this planet.".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

A senior climate campaigner who has informally advised the UK government told Politico : "The COP26 communications team is hamstrung by a lack of political leadership at No. 10, and until No 10 can demonstrate what this meeting is about and its importance, the COP communications team will struggle to deliver a coherent story.".

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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

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

A precedent is being set with a new loss and damage framework taking shape and the first, albeit modest, funding packages being announced. But at the same time there has been progress. It looks as if adaptation funding will be doubled and will be better channelled to the countries that need it. The counter to all of this is that 1.5C

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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. The package is by no means flawless but this is not the end. Today's outcome demonstrates that position can forge global progress.

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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'. Once an idea enters the vernacular at COP Summits the chance of it being eventually adopted increases dramatically.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Speaking to journalists this morning, Timmermans said it would back the package on the condition that countries committed to ambitious emissions mitigation programme. We will insist on this: if this proposal by the EU on the [loss and damage] fund is to be accepted, [it will be a] package deal with a serious, serious plan on mitigation.

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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. There has been movement but I would be exaggerating if I said it was matching exactly what the political statements are," said Aboulmagd.

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

The comments came as Number 10's preparations for COP26 faced fresh logistical and political challenges. The new goal is expected to feature in the upcoming Heat and Buildings Strategy, which is expected to be published next month following intense wrangling within Whitehall over the potential cost of the new package.

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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

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

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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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

Other former COP Presidents, such as Laurent Fabius. At COP26, the world must seek to agree a package which takes forward the Paris Agreement and powers the UN climate process onwards. Last week, I joined the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, at the launch of the COP 26 Finance Action Plan. Second, nature.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

Has anyone ever faced a shorter political honeymoon? With the government's commitment to achieving Net Zero by 2050 we can see that there is political will, however, this needs to be backed up by policy for the renewable energy and clean technology sector.".

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2023

If the CCC's central allegation is that the government is guilty of complacency and a fundamental lack of focus, the official response from the Department of Net Zero and Energy Security amounts to 'it's a fair cop, Guv'. "We The crucial question is what happens next?

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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

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. It therefore provides a framework for ensuring installation and product standards.".

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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

APRIL 4, 2022

Now such an opportunity presented itself when countries rolled out stimulus packages to help kick-start economies as we faced the COVID-19 pandemic. The next climate COP must bring more-ambitious climate pledges and long-term strategies for 2050 to help drive such shifts. The only thing we lack is the political will to deliver them. ?.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 7, 2024

One memorable headline read, “ Morgan Stanley Doubles Down on ESG Despite the Politics.” Fossil fuel interests now dominate COP, and they’ve inserted into the discussions the language of “abated emissions” — i.e., you can keep burning fossil fuels if you can capture the carbon (a big if).

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2022

It is in no way limited to political opponents and environmental activists whose jobs inherently require a degree of performative hostility towards government ministers. The Green Deal fiasco and Boris Johnson's repeated failure to deliver on his promise of a 'Rooseveltian' green stimulus package represented huge-missed opportunities.

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JANUARY 29, 2021

The event is currently expected to bring together around 30,000 people, including thousands of campaigners, business people, and journalists, as well as political leaders and officials. However, speculation is mounting that some elements of the Summit could be scaled back to allow diplomats and ministers to meet in person.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

In the UK, he says, the government should use its recovery package to ramp up energy efficiency efforts crucial to the country reaching its net zero ambition. Chancellor Rishi Sunak is set to unveil an economic stimulus package in July that reports claim is set to create thousands of jobs in clean energy and energy efficiency.

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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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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. We take time to unplug and recharge.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2024

This reality was highlighted this week by a new report from verification platform Compare Ethics , which calculates how the EU's sweeping Green Deal package of rules and regulations could impact £193bn of UK exports a year. 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. This ground work was already laid at COP21 six years ago, when the Paris Agreement was brokered.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2020

For close followers of Westminster Village dramas Claire O'Neill's appearance before the BEIS Select Committee of MPs yesterday morning was pure political box office. Claire O'Neill's blistering testimony yesterday was full of Westminster Village drama, but it also raised serious questions for the government's climate agenda.

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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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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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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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