Business Green

APRIL 26, 2020

The two-day Petersberg Climate Dialogue has long been a key event in the annual climate 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

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

The decisions included in the Glasgow Package will have a major impact on the global economic recovery, jobs and business growth opportunities. Businesses have a stake in the COP outcomes for three main reasons - let me explain. What do businesses want to see from the governments that's being discussed at COP? ºC pathway.

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

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

As COP President Designate, I am committed to a 'whole of society' approach, and we will also use the Summit to create an inclusive and diverse platform. Only by coming together can we build the zero carbon, climate resilient future that is essential for our people and our planet.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2020

Picking up where we were before the turmoil of the past month to keep delivering a resilient, prosperous, sustainable society. How might a green stimulus package get Britain back on its feet and deliver Net Zero? What should a strong COP-26 aim to deliver and what is business' role in supporting those goals?

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

This is a chance for nations to recover better, to include the most vulnerable in those plans, and a chance to shape the 21st century economy in ways that are clean, green, healthy, just, safe and more resilient. Tackling climate change requires strong, global and ambitious action.

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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

MARCH 31, 2020

Picking up where we were before the turmoil of the past month to keep delivering a resilient, prosperous, sustainable society. How might a green stimulus package get Britain back on its feet and deliver Net Zero? What should a strong COP-26 aim to deliver and what is business' role in supporting those goals?

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2020

British diplomats, the UK COP presidency team and Ministers would have been in a whirl of frenetic influencing activity globally (we hope) to drive up ambition, and drive out those new nationally-determined contributions (NDCs) from all the parties to the Paris Agreement. But these are not normal times, and the COP has been delayed by a year.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2020

Planning time and funding that would have been assigned to climate resilience or mitigation will be eaten up by pandemic responses. Most of all, we need corporates to stand against regulatory rollbacks - such as those seen in the US - and advocate for economic rescue packages to have green strings attached.

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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. But so far only seven nations have done so and some have re-submitted existing plans without upgrading their emissions goals.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2022

The final deal also saw important progress on other aspects of the global climate finance regime, with all parties agreeing to explore reforms to multilateral development banks and other financial institutions to help stimulate more investment in low carbon and climate resilient infrastructure.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Second, if governments are going to start to pay for Loss and Damage the case for bolstering climate resilience in the most vulnerable countries has become more compelling still. Like the World Cup that kicked off within hours of the gavel coming down in Sharm El Sheikh, COPs provide a regular temperature check for global geopolitics.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

All over the world not nearly enough is being done to enhance climate resilience, leaving communities and economies exposed. 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.

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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

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. At COP26, the world must seek to agree a package which takes forward the Paris Agreement and powers the UN climate process onwards.

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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

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?

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DECEMBER 19, 2022

The package is by no means flawless but this is not the end. By the next CBD COP in 2024, governments have a lot of homework to turn these agreed goals into actions at home. Today's outcome demonstrates that position can forge global progress.

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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 We need a significantly tougher UK target for 2030 put in place this year to encourage other countries to follow and a budget that puts tackling the climate emergency at its heart.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In November, I had the privilege to represent Schneider Electric at the UN's Conference of Parties (COP) on climate change in Glasgow. This COP was unlike the previous 25 iterations, in that it took place during a global pandemic. In reality, the current pledges align more closely to 2.7 Bottom Line for Business.

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

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. "Some countries have used stimulus plans to prop up oil and gas companies that were already struggling financially," he said.

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JUNE 24, 2020

Now we have the date for COP, we'd very much like the industry to be seen as one of the leading sectors as we come towards COP," Symons says. "I I think Covid is building on that and making people think harder about the social resilience and public health side of some of this stuff.". he observes. he observes. "I

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MARCH 19, 2021

He said that firstly the UK would "urge all countries to set 2030 emissions reductions targets that put us on a path to net zero" and call on them to introduce policies to deliver on such targets, such as bans on the sale of internal combustion engine cars and the introduction of ambitious green recovery packages.

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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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MAY 12, 2020

Whether governments use their economic recovery plans to support decarbonisation and long-term economic resilience is now the single biggest question at the top of the climate agenda. Building back better. But with economies only tentatively easing lockdown conditions, many major recovery plans have yet to emerge.

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JUNE 18, 2020

And more sustainable approaches to procurement should be welcomed by businesses and consumers, who Barker predicts will be more concerned with resilience and sustainability in the wake of the pandemic. "In limit outlined in the Paris Agreement.

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The UK will only be successful in galvanising global climate action ahead of COP 26 if it gets its own house in order," said Clara Goldsmith, campaigns director of the Climate Coalition. The 10 point plan set out today should serve "litmus test" for the government commitment's to net zero.". trajectories, they added.

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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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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

MAY 5, 2020

Letter to the Prime Minister by government climate advisers adds further weight to cross-sector calls for coronavirus stimulus packages to eschew carbon-intensive practices in favour of low-carbon, climate-resilient industries and projects.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The high profile move came after the government attached climate conditions to bailout packages for French airlines, ordered the cancellation of some short haul routes, and provided a major funding boost for R&D into hydrogen and electric aircraft. Bank of America unveils new net zero plans. "We

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Other governments now need to isolate the Saudi delegation if they want this COP to succeed for everyone, not just fossil fuel interests.". However, seasoned observers noted that pretty much all of the 25 previous COP Summits have run over in pursuit of a compromise agreement, sometimes by days.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The Prime Minister has not to date shown much leadership on the COP26 agenda, the Summit is over budget and subject to debilitating Whitehall and Holyrood turf wars, and Number 10 knew when it appointed her that O'Neill was not as experienced in the world of high level diplomacy as some of her predecessors in the COP hot seat.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

There are reasons why President Biden called his green stimulus package the Inflation Reduction Act. If you are going to build more homes, you want those homes to be ultra-efficient, clean tech adorned, climate resilient, and located in walkable communities. There are reasons why the EU and the UK's Labour opposition want to copy him.

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