GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

It's not necessarily that the game of musical chairs has intensified in the C-suite, but you'll note major executive moves at big apparel, food, energy, finance and technology corporations, some of which have enlisted a chief sustainability officer (CSO) or equivalent for the first time. Who's news. The former U.K.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

UN approves UK and Italian request for high profile Summit to be postponed by a full year, as co-hosts announce new 'Friends of COP' advisory board. The co-hosts also yesterday announced that they have expanded the team of senior figures working on the Summit with the appointment of a new "Friends of COP" advisory board.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

Complicating the commonly-held assumption that climate disinformation is “always ideological, that people are spreading falsehoods in order to push a political agenda or enact a worldview,” King said a great deal of climate disinformation is beholden to only one principle: the maintenance of a profitable status quo.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

The proposals are expected to be broadly welcomed by business groups, including the many automakers that have committed tpo switching all their models to zero emission technologies over the next two decades. The EU expects to eventually raise €10bn a year from a carbon tax on imports that it plans to introduce gradually from 2023.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

But in a warning to political leaders, the report suggests the 'low hanging fruit' in the net zero transition may have already been largely secured, meaning the public will need to be more fully engaged with decarbonisation efforts in future.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

George Freeman also confirmed as Minister for Science, Technology, and Innovation, as Mark Spencer reappointed as Environment Minister. Green groups have welcomed the opportunity for a re-set on environmental and climate policy following the Truss administration's chaotic few months in power. But great news for political opponents.".

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

New four word slogan captures government's ambitions for Glasgow Summit, as Tory backbench opposition to climate policies continues to swell. We have the technology and the finance to make a big economic success of this agenda," Johnson argued, pointing to the UK's track record of slashing emissions while expanding the economy. "We

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Clean Energy Trust

JANUARY 28, 2022

Credit: Stripe eadership from corporations to be committed first customers for products that can decarbonize the economy Several announcements around COP 26 highlighted corporates who had made commitments to be early customers for new technology solutions, in order to help create market pull?—?this

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2021

The Strategy, although still lacking details on policy and financial support in certain areas - more of that is now expected in another related policy document next year - envisages hydrogen supporting 9,000 jobs and attracting £4bn investment by 2030, rising to 100,000 jobs by 2050 in an industry potentially worh £13bn.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

There are (admittedly optimistic) reasons to think that if current plans are expanded and translated into near term policy measures the world could soon find itself on a 1.8C It is also worth noting that many of the NDCs do not capture the decarbonisation plans being pursued by corporates and other actors. trajectory. A visual guide.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

They claim the broad-ranging roadmap will deliver hundreds of thousands of new green jobs and unlock tens of billions of pounds of private investment, cementing the UK's place as a leader in multiple clean technologies. Here, BusinessGreen rounds up the reaction to the stategy.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2022

I've been writing about the UK climate policy landscape for 15 years and I genuinely can't recall a reaction like it. It is in no way limited to political opponents and environmental activists whose jobs inherently require a degree of performative hostility towards government ministers. This time there is none of that.

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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 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'. Even the US and China managed to broker something of a détente on matters of climate policy over the past few weeks.

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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

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Dig into the 14 October summary from the UK COP Presidency and there's cautious optimism that a set of deals to stop countries cheating on climate could land in Glasgow. In short, it would entail regular UN-run assessments to see what capitals are up to, how badly they're being hit by impacts, and how successful various policies are.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

What are the big priorities for COP? Alice Bordini Staden, who works on climate finance and policy with National Trust – Europe’s biggest conservation charity – said she thought it was going to go ahead, but likely in a hybrid format. So they have the technology to get the transition underway. Where are the main challenges?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Just a week after the government finally unleashed its Net Zero Strategy , Heat and Buildings Strategy and the Treasury's Net Zero Review, replete with a flurry of fresh policy and investment, it was now the turn of the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, to set out the government's spending plans for the next year and beyond.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Indeed, in one of its recent reports, Chatham House makes the case that such factors could, ultimately, displace people, disrupt markets, undermine political stability, and exacerbate conflict. Though policy choices could reduce this figure, and I would add that it includes investments with long term benefits. Clean is competitive.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

Has anyone ever faced a shorter political honeymoon? Meanwhile, the REA trade body published a separate report suggesting supportive policies could see employment across the UK's renewable energy and clean technology sector increase 85 per cent over the next decade to nearly 240,000.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

In the southern Polish city of Katowice last December, news coverage of the UN’s COP 24 meeting on climate change suddenly and dramatically surged, mostly thanks to a three-minute speech given by a Swedish teen activist with Asperger’s syndrome and the amplifying power of social media. Can 10 technologies save the world?

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

They added: “These pavilions are here to greenwash national reputations, all the while providing latitude for their fossil fuel partners to continue business as usual, polluting politics and planet, and doing their level worst to sink hopes of keeping temperature rise at 1.5C.”. Greenwashing’.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The climate crisis may have stayed near the top of the political and corporate agenda, net zero commitments have come thick and fast, and renewable and electric vehicle investment may have toppled records, but there is barely a country on the planet on track to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. Lord Turner tells BusinessGreen. "In

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Presided over by Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber , the head of Abu Dhabi’s state oil company, Adnoc, it is the most industry-influenced COP yet. As COP28 president, Al Jaber has backed these technologies in the lead-up to the summit. The rest of the industry quickly followed suit and the practice has continued ever since.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Trevelyan said the two countries would "continue to work together in addressing shared challenges in global trade, climate change and technological changes in the years ahead". The UK is COP President for another year, with the job of building on the legacy of the Glasgow climate conference," she said.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The UK said the aim of the goals was to make clean technologies "the most affordable, accessible, and attractive choice" across the world's most polluting sectors by the end of the decade, in a move which if successful would deliver a huge boost to the global green economy and net zero transition.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2022

Delivered in Her Majesty's absence by Prince Charles, the speech set out the government's legislative agenda and broad political priorities for the coming year, and contained myriad references to economic growth, levelling up, supporting Ukraine's war effort, and tackling rising living costs.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

Yesterday's communiqué agrees to "phase-out and rationalise, over the medium term, inefficient fossil fuel subsidies", and makes no direct reference to coal power, instead calling for investment in carbon capture and similar technologies to abate the emissions of fossil fuels. goal without the leadership of the G20. "I

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Ministers have said the UK should continue to develop gas projects that can act as a "bridge" to a net zero emission economy in conjunction with carbon capture and storage technologies. Continuing to allow extraction may weaken UK diplomacy to encourage other countries to adopt ambitious climate policies," the letter states. "It

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2023

The CCC's annual report is scathing on the lack of policy progress over the past year - the UK cannot afford another 12 months of inaction No aspect of the Climate Change Committee's (CCC) absolutely damning assessment of the UK's decarbonisation efforts over the past year is as dispiriting as the government's response to it.

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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

APRIL 4, 2022

The third in a trilogy of reports over the past year or so, today's - dubbed Climate Change 2022: The Mitigation of Climate Change - was particularly highly anticipated due to its focus on solutions to the aforementioned crisis the world currently faces, in terms of technologies, policies, nature-based measures and finances.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

For all the evidence the Paris Agreement has catalysed an era-defining array of clean tech innovations and a remarkable shift in public opinion, there have been baseless arguments that the entire COP process is an exercise in futility. There are many different ways to gauge the success or otherwise of a COP. It is one of the few (only?)

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The announcement of a £50m funding competition to create England's first all-electric bus town is precisely the sort of policy intervention the government should be pursuing. A network of COP Cities to go with a network of COP forests - or COP copses, if you will - could be one of the most important legacies of the Summit.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 7, 2020

It’s not necessarily that the game of musical chairs has intensified in the C-suite, but you’ll note major executive moves at big apparel, food, energy, finance and technology corporations, some of which have enlisted a chief sustainability officer (CSO) or equivalent for the first time. The former U.K.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Climate change is the defining challenge of our time, and clean energy and green transport are the keys to addressing it. Less than two decades ago, energy emissions seemed to be spiraling out of control as countries were locked into. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

One of Saudi Arabia’s main justifications for Aramco’s increase in oil extraction is the promise to use carbon capture technology to create a “circular” carbon economy in which emissions are stored or used rather than released into the atmosphere. However, evidence of the efficacy of carbon capture technology at scale is highly dubious.

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