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Liz Truss Book Calls for Climate Laws to be Abolished and Boasts of Effort to Cancel UK COP Summit

DeSmogBlog

and EU to drop their landmark climate change laws, spreads falsehoods about green policies, and fondly recalls an attempt to cancel a major climate conference. Truss writes that current environmental policies should be scrapped in favour of a “free market” approach. Truss writes that “we should cancel the COP gravy train”.

COP 122
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? Good COP, Bad COP

Climate Tech VC

  Maybe it was the offer of warm sun in December, but this year’s COP drew 100K attendees, almost double the size of COP15 in Paris. Climate tech played its biggest role ever at COP this year. At any point in the day this meant events on the global south, climate policy, ESG reporting, youth activism, and more.

COP 69
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Good Cop, bad Cop: what the Cop28 agreement says and what it means

The Guardian: Energy

Results-based payments for policy approaches and positive incentives for activities relating to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries.

COP 105
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UK Accused of Running ‘Most Exclusionary COP Ever’ as Activists Face Covid Barriers

DeSmogBlog

The UK has been accused of shutting out activists who hail from countries “battered” by extreme weather events from the upcoming UN climate summit, with campaigners warning it could be “the most exclusionary COP ever”. She said: “Inequality is a root cause of the climate crisis and it also permeates important decision making spaces like COP.

COP 97
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COP28: Hot air or real climate progress? Yes and yes

Clean Energy Canada

This is the first COP where we are face-to-face with the reality of breaching the 1.5C It was also the first to be chaired by an oil and gas executive, putting a crude spotlight on the conflicting interests that have become entrenched in the COP process. And this year’s COP finally looked it in the eye. It’s not surprising.

COP 108
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Company leadership at COP 26, and what’s next in this Decisive Decade

EDF + Business

I attended this COP, my first, to learn more about how businesses can accelerate the transition to net zero and to share the findings of a new report, published today, that is a step-by-step playbook for companies to use to turn net zero pledges into progress. Progress worth celebrating.

COP 52
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Looking Ahead to COP: Climate Week Takeaways for Food & Agriculture

EDF + Business

We have the tools to begin While investors and policymakers must support corporate efforts by enabling strong policy and fund innovations to tackle emissions and protect nature in the food & agriculture supply chains, companies can’t wait to take action. Support policy that will deliver incentives to farmers for lower-emitting practices.