Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Asked if he would like the job of COP26 President, Gove said "I am very happy with the job that I have and I think there are many, many, many, many talented people who could do the job of COP President better than I could".

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

“With greater scrutiny over emissions from meat and dairy companies, it is not surprising they are stepping up their game to head off any COP outcome that might hinder their operations,” Ben Lilliston, from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy told DeSmog. Pesticide company Syngenta’s Foundation came with Ukraine.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

CCUS was the focus of more than 30 events at COP26, covering areas like policy, business, and social and technical challenges. One of the high-profile award ceremonies at COP, for start-up success stories, went to a company with a technology to convert industrial CO2 emissions into building materials. degrees alive.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

As with the last summit, the risk continues to be that greenwashing leaves governments with “a vision that tinkers around the edges,”rather than a transformative one that creates food systems that are resilient and restore ecosystems,” as Shefali Sharma, director of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), warned at COP27.

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

EU energy emissions fall, Rwanda gets its first mini-grid, and Brazil preps a COP bid. The rules are set to be folowed by a wider policy push to accelerate the development of solar projects on empty land by motorways and railways. ADB announces $200m Goal for Water Resilience Programme.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

"We praise countries for seeking compromises, putting aside differences and delivering a Treaty that will let us protect the oceans, build our resilience to climate change and safeguard the lives and livelihoods of billions of people."

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Businesses have a stake in the COP outcomes for three main reasons - let me explain. By doing so they are also giving government leaders the confidence to step up and set the policies and regulations that will support their efforts on climate and enable them to go further and faster. Business wants to see ambitious policy beyond COP26.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

With world leaders about to gather in Dubai, United Arab Emirates for the COP 28 climate summit, the transition to green energy will be one of the key topics on the agenda. Since a microgrid can operate during outages, it reinforces grid resilience and help mitigate disturbances. It can aid in grid control, monitoring and restoration.

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2021

What we do in the next year will determine whether we build climate and health systems that are resilient - including building resilience to the impacts of air pollution, but also tackling the root causes of air pollution in ways which can also drive connected benefits for health.". What's already happening and what's missing?

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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 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 8, 2021

The former Conservative politicians, who led delegations to previous UN COPs during their respective tenures at the helm of UK climate policy, made the demand in an open letter published in the Times this morning to mark International Women's Day. "We We know that greater representation leads to better policy.

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Business Green

MAY 14, 2021

Alok Sharma intent on holding 'most inclusive COP ever' in Glasgow, but it is not UK's gift alone to make in-person event happen. This is what makes the next United Nations Climate Conference in Glasgow, COP 26, so critical. If we are serious about 1.5C, Glasgow must be the COP that consigns coal power to history," he said. "If

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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This Conference of Parties (COP) was highly anticipated as a critical inflection point where our economies and societies set forth on an ambitious and clearly defined path to decarbonize by 2050 and keep warming below 1.5 degrees C to avoid the worst impacts of climate change — or continue with the status quo.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Energy and Clean Growth minister also served as COP President for the 26th UN Climate Change Conference. Cortney Worrall is the new president and CEO of the nonprofit Waterfront Alliance , which pushes for resilience along the New York and New Jersey coasts. Environmental Protection Agency as a branch chief.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Specifically, we are calling for: New, more ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs); Long-Term Strategies setting out a pathway to net zero emissions; Climate finance commitments to support the most vulnerable; And crucially, ambitious adaptation plans and underlying policies.

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Guterres also took the opportunity to again press countries to ramp up their national pledges to climate action under the Paris Agreement, including action to reduce emissions, boost resilience efforts and increase international finance commitments for more climate vulnerable nations. "We or well below 2C. We need every voice at the table.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Build resilience of vulnerable communities against the here and now impacts of climate change. I also want particularly to thank COP President Alok Sharma who has worked incredibly hard to bring countries together. Greenwashing is the new climate denial, and we have seen too much at play in this COP. Phase out coal.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2019

While offsets are often seen as a cop-out for industries that don’t want to tackle their own pollution, airlines are clearly uniquely limited in their climate pollution mitigation options. In an ideal world, we would have a national climate policy and a national marketplace for these carbon offsets that airlines could buy into.

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2022

In a video address to more than 40 leaders and ministers assembled at the Berlin event this morning, Antonio Guterres slammed political leaders for failing to take adequate action on tackling climate change and mobilising finance to support poorer nations' efforts to decarbonise and bolster their climate resilience.

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Business Green

APRIL 27, 2020

And the steps we take now to rebuild our economies can have a profound impact on our societies' future sustainability, resilience and, ultimately, wellbeing of humans, but of course, nature as well.". There can be no going back," Stern said. "We We all know that climate risks are growing year by year," he said.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Green business leaders will be hoping Sunak reaffirms his commitment to the UK's net zero target and provide markets with much-needed policy clarity to support the net zero transition following weeks of political turmoil, policy U-turns and economic upheaval.

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Defend Our Future

DECEMBER 16, 2019

At COP25 and around the world, young people have been advocating for a just transition to a 100% clean economy, inclusive decision making, robust policies, capacity building and structured financial support for youth engagement – action that, so far, global leaders have not delivered. At COP25 and Around the Globe, Emerging Youth Leadership.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 26, 2022

Planet recently participated in a virtual discussion with US Government leaders focused on leveraging satellite data to improve climate resilience. Department of State to share how their organizations are assessing climate risk and building climate resilience. Planet’s Perspective. We are in the midst of a climate crisis.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

IEA predicts major gains on energy efficiency in 2022 in response to energy crisis, but BloombergNEF warns current clean energy policies still put world on track for a 2.6C Dr Fatih Birol, executive director of the IEA, said the world was seeing a repeat of some of the policies that emerged in response to the oil supply crisis of the 1970s.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

Every year since its inception the Climate Change Committee (CCC) offers its verdict on the UK's progress against its climate goals, providing an overview of the country's decarbonisation to date, its latest economic and emissions projections, and the state of the policy landscape. So the government is playing a pretty high stakes game here.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

The UK remains COP President until next November, when it will hand the baton over to Egypt, which is set host the COP27 Summit at the Red Sea beach resort of Sharm-el Sheikh. Indeed, there is no shortage of world-changing points of action for Sharma's COP team to be getting on with over the coming months.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Green Alliance's Shaun Spiers offers his overview of the year just passed, and cause to be optimistic about climate and environmental policy and action next year. The climate and nature COPs were underpowered. This has been a year of three UK Prime Ministers, the first since 1852 (I gift you that pub quiz question).

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Green business groups and campaigners welcome the government's renewed focus on the net zero transition, but warn plan lacks long-term policies and sufficient funding in key areas. More, ambitious policy may be needed to support jobs in sectors such as automotive and deliver a fair, green transition.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2020

Pressure grows on the government to ramp up net zero policies and diplomatic efforts ahead of COP26. Before we host the world at COP 26 in November, the UK must get its house in order, and go further and faster to reach net zero as soon as possible," the letter states. "In There is no time for delay.".

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

The Net Zero Strategy (NZS) was released in autumn 2021, just ahead of the COP26 Climate Summit, and while it contained a raft of policies, targets, and plans designed to curb emissions commentators at the time highlighted how it failed to incorporate detailed modelling showing how much officials expected policies to reduce emissions.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

While not losing sight of the importance to progress mitigation measures, in the next five to 10 years, world leaders will zone in on adaptation strategies, to help build resiliency in the face of increasingly severe and frequent weather events. Gregory Carli , Executive Advisor – Sustainability Resilience and ESG .

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Beyond these intense negotiations lies a much-broader field of activity, not least to bring the financial system into line with a net zero, nature positive and resilient future. Climate change and the loss of nature are two intersecting crises that face the global economy.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

The report challenges government, business, and the media to turn COP 26 in Glasgow into a "key milestone moment" that secures widespread support and focus from politicians, businesses, the public, and the media. The call comes ahead of this week's Budget where the government is expected to announce a host of new green policy measures.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. These companies are stepping up their game because the exposure they are facing is stepping up,” says Jennifer Jacquet, Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Miami. “It rise in temperature that risks tipping the world into irreversible climate breakdown.

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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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