Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

COP talks each year are often fraught and progress remains far too slow, as today's IPCC report on escalating climate impacts will testify. As close observers of global climate diplomacy have long argued, if the COP process and the Paris Agreement did not exist you would have to invent them. The US left the treaty altogether briefly.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

Italian Minister for the Environment, Land and Sea Protection, Sergio Costa: "Whilst we have decided to postpone COP26, including the Pre-COP and ‘Youth for the Climate' event, we remain fully committed to meeting the challenge of climate change. Tackling climate change requires strong, global and ambitious action.

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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

AUGUST 11, 2021

Meanwhile, on the domestic front Tory backbench opposition to some of the key planks of the UK government's climate strategy continued to build, with The Sun reporting today that MPs in a WhatsApp group of northern MPs had responded angrily to polling suggesting that owners of polluting cars disproportionately backed the Conservatives.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2022

The government support package is delivering help right now but it's clear the new Prime Minister will need to act further to tackle the impact of the price rises that are coming in October and next year. I talk to customers regularly and I know that today's news will be very worrying for many.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This was inspired by when we arrived (at) COP 25 in Madrid three years ago and understood that this is where the world is going," said Lee Recht, VP of sustainability at Aleph Farms, at the VERGE Net Zero virtual event early in December. Each company projects a clean, tech-forward image, embracing principles of circularity and zero emissions.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The Department for Transport (DfT) confirmed previously proposed plans to accompany the 2030 date for ending the sale of new internal combustion engine cars and vans with a similar target for HGVs for 2040. From our roads to the skies, the transition to zero emission transport has reached a tipping point," said Transport Secretary Grant Shapps. "We

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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. But we also need to help empower developing countries to leapfrog the polluting options of the past and embrace the clean energy of the future.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2021

The government insisted the sweeping package made the UK the first G7 country to agree a landmark deal to support the oil and gas industry's transition to clean, green energy, while supporting 40,000 jobs and mobilising £16bn of public and private sector investment through to 2030 in emission reduction efforts.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

The COP26 meeting in Glasgow ended the same as every COP: there was clearly progress in what countries committed to, but given the scale of a crisis that the UN Secretary General called “ code red for humanity ,” it was woefully inadequate. Concern about plastics and packaging, for example, was a huge issue in 2019.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

What's in the energy support package, and who is going to pay for it? A sweeping support package has been promised, potentially worth up to £100bn, but what will be in it and why were these proposals such a closely guarded secret throughout the leadership campaign? What will you do about all the sewage?

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

As such, the court order presents a major challenge to the next Prime Minister, who will be under immediate pressure to both strengthen the UK's net zero plans and deliver a more ambitious package to help households cope with soaring energy bills this winter.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 19, 2022

IFIs now need to lead for the transformation of how we manage wealth and wellbeing as an essential component of tackling the crises of biodiversity loss, climate and pollution and waste.". 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 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. goal, arguing that "every fraction of a degree matters". We'll either leave Egypt having kept 1.5C It is really up to us to decide.".

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Dozens of countries have said they will not back any global pact on nature and its various provisions around pollution and nature protection without agreement on a new international financing commitment. As such, it is impossible to underestimate the importance of money to the Montreal talks.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

This is the government's opportunity, in the year of the COP, to show true global leadership on the climate crisis," Miliband said. "We This will take investment but making these decisions will create hundreds of thousands of jobs, improve our natural environment, cut air pollution and make Britain a better place to live.

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

We can invest in fossil fuels, whose markets are volatile and whose emissions lead to lethal air pollution. Guterres cited new research on G20 recovery packages released this week that shows that twice as much recovery money has been spent on fossil fuels as clean energy.

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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. The difference between the two outcomes is the difference between a multilateral process and a polluters' process," he said.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2022

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. And in the end all it had to offer was the brief revival of an extractive, polluting, and declining industry. We should be getting clean.

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MARCH 19, 2021

Hopes are building that countries could reach an agreement over new targets, including proposals to conserve 30 per cent of the world's oceans and land by 2030, while also introducing controls on invasive species and new measures to reduce plastics pollution. "An That's promising, but we need more countries to pick up the baton.

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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. Through transforming our cities into green and clean spaces.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Soil erosion, wildfires, floods, monocultures, and pollution can all pose a serious threat to life and the viability of the economies and communities that are dependent on the land. Public interest about the environment is very driven by how horrified people are by the damage caused by things like plastic pollution," she says.

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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. This is where we step in. . Who We Are : .

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The entire global economy is made inherently unstable by its reliance on fuels where the price can be manipulated and the polluting externalities are not accounted for. There are reasons why President Biden called his green stimulus package the Inflation Reduction Act. It just is. The foundations of our way of life have been fracked.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2020

One possible future is a repeat of what China did in response to the global financial crisis in 2008 - a stimulus package targeted at highly polluting smokestack industries, resulting in coal consumption and emissions surging far above pre-crisis levels," Myllyvirta told BusinessGreen. "On

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2022

A spokesperson for the secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the UN body behind the COP15 summit, told New Scientist : "The COP [conference of the parties] bureau, at its last meeting, discussed that the UN Biodiversity Conference could be moved to the third quarter. Coal India touts net zero operations goal.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

However, the conference also delivered encouraging signs that some governments are responding to growing calls for them to strengthen their climate action plans and deliver green economic recovery packages.

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