Low Impact

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

The environment has also suffered, in the form of pollution, deforestation, biodiversity reduction, and now, climate change. Making COP26 sound more like COP-OUT26, the report furthermore states that, “Current emissions are incompatible with the Paris Agreement and immediate and deep cuts are absolutely mandatory.”.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Branded as the most inclusive COP to date, the reality of COP26 was activists and NGOs left out in the cold, and billionaires and fossil fuel representative sitting at the negotiating table. How can we have just climate policy when the most affected communities are shut out of decision-making while the worst polluters are welcomed in?

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2021

At the same event, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab and COP President Alok Sharma will convene a roundtable on the Clean Power Transition with the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, bringing together ministers from eight African and European countries. "We

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

They reflect the interests, the conditions, the contradictions and the state of political will in the world today. They take important steps, but unfortunately the collective political will was not enough to overcome some deep contradictions. Greenwashing is the new climate denial, and we have seen too much at play in this COP.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In contrast, Oxfam found that polluting industrialised nations such as those of the G20 - which control 80 per cent of the world's economy - are together responsible for over three-quarters of the world's carbon emissions. Increasing taxation on super polluters could easily cover the cost. This is an ethical obligation, not charity.".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The gas crunch gripping Europe is directly caused by volatile international gas markets that expose the UK to demand surges in Asia and political manipulation by Putin. The IPCC recently confirmed the gas to be a major climate threat , and the US and EU have pledged in the run-up to COP to curb emissions of methane by 30 per cent by 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Environmental campaigners say the lack of focus on fossil fuel extraction is an example of how the subject has been “taboo” at UN climate talks and accuse the countries of “greenwashing” their polluting activities. The COP teams for Saudi Arabia and Denmark have been contacted for comment. Greenwashing’.

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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.??. Promoting nature-based solutions.??.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. JBS, the world’s most polluting meat company, will be out in “full force” in Dubai , according to the files. The North American Meat Institute will host a side event at the US COP pavilion on December 11, the summit’s Agriculture Day, for example.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

But whether or not the historic reference to fossil fuels is retained, this has been the COP where governments, investors, and businesses made it clearer than ever that the fossil fuel age is slowly drawing to a close. The counter to all of this is that 1.5C is barely alive. will surely die. 2C could swiftly follow it.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

The news comes on the same day as Siemens Mobility published a new analysis warning the UK's net zero goals could be at risk if the government fails to accelerate efforts to phase out polluting diesel trains. per cent to 0.5 per cent of GDP on the upcoming international climate summit. Hear Sharma into No 10 today for meeting with PM 2/.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Lord Randall of Uxbridge, former Conservative MP and climate adviser to Prime Minister Theresa May: "This is an opportunity for Boris Johnson to put Heathrow expansion to bed and focus on the most important diplomatic event of his premiership, the COP climate summit in Glasgow later this year. It's his chance to shine on the world stage.

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Aviation Climate change Government Policy 78

Business Green

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The Global Biodiversity Framework is set to provide the political certainty that all large businesses and financial institutions will be required to assess and disclose risks and impacts on nature. 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

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. The difference between the two outcomes is the difference between a multilateral process and a polluters' process," he said.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Lord Randall of Uxbridge, former Conservative MP and climate adviser to Prime Minister Theresa May: "This is an opportunity for Boris Johnson to put Heathrow expansion to bed and focus on the most important diplomatic event of his premiership, the COP climate summit in Glasgow later this year. It's his chance to shine on the world stage.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Big polluters and a surge of nationalism scuttled any meaning results from two intense weeks of U.N. climate negotiations. Excerpt from: COP25 and the tyranny of low expectations.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Fossil Fuel Giants Are Using British Influencers to Go Viral By Dimitris Dimitriadis, Joey Grostern, and Sam Bright The world now turns to the tune of 30- second videos – a fact that doesn’t seem to have escaped some of the globe’s biggest polluters. to Malaysia, in campaigns that have reached billions of people.

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

The comments came as Number 10's preparations for COP26 faced fresh logistical and political challenges. Johnson acknowledged the "coal, cars, cash, trees" goals were "hugely ambitious and will require a massive effort of global diplomacy and imagination".

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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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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The key missing ingredient is a lack of political will he said: “Political will to put a price on carbon. Political will to stop subsidies on fossil fuels”, or to shift taxation from income to carbon, “taxing pollution instead of people.” Let us show we also have the political will that people demand from us.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

Other former COP Presidents, such as Laurent Fabius. I met with permanent representatives, the UN and NGOs this morning to discuss how we can translate these political commitments into on-the-ground action. Last week, I joined the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, at the launch of the COP 26 Finance Action Plan.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

What are the big priorities for COP? Clearly it will be a major achievement for the UK government if the UK can hold a successful COP, so one can only assume the will is there to try to bring it off. Putting a price on pollution. Where are the main challenges?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Meanwhile, a late night meeting between US climate envoy John Kerry and his Chinese counterpart Xie Zhenhua has fuelled hopes the two world's largest polluters are poised to announce a fresh collaboration on climate change, in the wake of their leaders' meeting at the G20 this week.

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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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Max Boykoff, who contributed research and analysis on the media’s role in climate action to the most recent report on reducing carbon pollution from the UN-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), says the media plays a fundamental role in shaping the public’s and policymakers’ understanding of climate issues.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

Has anyone ever faced a shorter political honeymoon? With the government's commitment to achieving Net Zero by 2050 we can see that there is political will, however, this needs to be backed up by policy for the renewable energy and clean technology sector.". It makes economic and environmental sense.".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Now almost a year on, it is just 23 days to COP27, the end of the UK's COP Presidency, and the end of my time as COP President. Our global political economy, built on fossil fuels for the last century, is in a state of flux. They are reimagining ways of working on sustainability, rather than plastics, pollution and waste.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

On the one hand, Labor has backed a range of policies to support renewable energy infrastructure, strengthen an emissions-capping system for the nation's biggest polluters, and build out electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure. These commitments represent a major improvement on the previous government's policies, but also must be strengthened.".

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 9, 2023

These seven states are all classed as authoritarian by the Economist Intelligence Unit’s 2022 Democracy Index , which is judged according to five measures: electoral process and pluralism, civil liberties, the functioning of government, political participation, and political culture. The world looks set to surpass the key 1.5C

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

They want the biggest, heaviest-polluting nations to do something about it. Stipulating the phaseout of “unabated fossil fuels” in a deal means that polluters can continue using coal, oil, and gas as long as they install controversial new technologies for capturing CO2 emissions that have yet to prove effective at scale.

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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. People who love pollution?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

As fears of a 'COP flop' get an airing, the battle to define what constitutes a successful Glasgow Summit is hotting up. But most of the dramas surrounding the Summit to date have related to either the logistics or domestic politics. COP26 is having its first major wobble. Hasn't the high stakes caravan been wobbling since the get go?

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Grist

JANUARY 17, 2021

Scientists have said human activities are driving the sixth mass extinction of life on Earth, and agricultural production, mining, and pollution are threatening the healthy functioning of life-sustaining ecosystems crucial to human civilization. So as co-host of the next Climate Cop, the U.K. s head of politics, Rebecca Newsom.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

It is highly likely the row over phasing down or phasing out coal power will return in the coming years and the debate at future COPs will no doubt be extended to address oil and gas. Polluters have been put on notice. Business played a larger and more significant role at the Glasgow COP than any before it.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

” Each year, hundreds of thousands of people die due to coal pollution. For one thing, two of the world’s biggest polluters, China and the US, have agreed to cooperate more with the global community over the next few decades. Coal is the single biggest contributor to global climate change. gap is closed”.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

The next climate COP must bring more-ambitious climate pledges and long-term strategies for 2050 to help drive such shifts. It's time to pick a side - the fossil fuel polluters and those who bankroll them, or the future of humanity. The only thing we lack is the political will to deliver them. ?. This month, not next month.

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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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