Business Green

MARCH 31, 2020

UK Director of Sustainability at WSP, David Symons, argues the UK environmental movement has to come out of this crisis in one piece, 'ready to crack on when the time is right'. Picking up where we were before the turmoil of the past month to keep delivering a resilient, prosperous, sustainable society.

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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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Business Green

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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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

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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Meanwhile, the huge clean tech buying signals from coalitions of large corporates focused on electric vehicles, green steel, renewables, green shipping, and sustainable aviation fuels, all point to how these markets could quickly reach tipping points that trigger the rapid adoption that obliterates fossil fuel demand.

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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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Business Green

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Andy Howard, Global Head of Sustainable Investment at Schroders, said: "The outcome of CBD COP15 should make financial regulators sit up and listen. 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.

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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? At what price would any new price cap be set?

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

We can go back to where we were, or we can invest in a better, more sustainable future. "We 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. As we design and implement these recovery plans, we have a choice.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

On one hand a sustained low oil price will make a raft of new oil projects uneconomic and further highlight the need for producer countries to diversify their economies in favour of cleaner energy sources. This is the government's opportunity, in the year of the COP, to show true global leadership on the climate crisis," Miliband said. "We

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

Environmental Industries Commission executive director Matthew Farrow and WSP director of sustainability David Symons talk to BusinessGreen about Pledge to Zero, the campaign to get the UK's environmental services industry to back science-based emissions reductions. The shift to net zero has been "quite a psychological one", he reflects.

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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

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 18, 2020

Aluminium, which is infinitely recyclable, is a critical component to technologies essential to decarbonisation, clean energy production, and boosting energy efficiency, as well as being a major contender as a more sustainable alternative to plastic bottles. Rusal, the aluminium company majority owned by EN+ Group, produces aluminium at 2.9

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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 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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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

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. "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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

That the levels of inequality and injustice, the reliance on an extractive, exploitative, neo-colonial model is unsustainable, and therefore it cannot be sustained. There are reasons why President Biden called his green stimulus package the Inflation Reduction Act. But this theory is subsumed by the climate theory of everything.

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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

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.". We can build a safer and more resilient economy if we start building the new and not just prop up the old.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Speaking at an event in Milan this month, Thunberg spoke for many when she alleged that COPs have delivered little more than a talking shop since the first Earth Summit in 1992. But analysts fear he is running out of time to deliver on his promises and may land in Glasgow with an underpowered domestic package.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2020

Battle lines drawn in Congress this week look set to be repeated around the world, as calls grow for economic rescue packages to prioritise climate action and avoid "locking in" a new wave of fossil fuel infrastructure. But all around the world calls are growing for the recovery packages to deliver low carbon infrastructure.

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