Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The government has promised a raft of hotly-anticipated plans and policies in the coming months, including the Heat and Buildings Strategy, Food Strategy White Paper, Treasury Net Zero Review, and an overarching Net Zero Strategy, all of which should help unlock billions of pounds of green investment. This is the risk of COP.".

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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. Mobil ran these pieces, which Schmertz described as “political pamphlets,” in the Times every week for decades.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) acting director Sepi Golzari-Munro said: "This strategy is an economic and political plan as well as a climate one. By providing clarity on the key next steps on the path to net zero, it sets businesses and the economy in the right direction.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2021

"It's going to be an ongoing conversation," she says of the questions around how the government intends to deliver a covid-secure international event at a time when the pace of vaccine roll outs globally varies massively, "but absolutely the intention and the focus is on being able to deliver an in person COP.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Lending high-level economic and political credence to that growing public clamour for action, the work of Chris Stark and his small team at the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) in driving the issue up the agenda should not be forgotten. Suddenly, barely days into 2020, a new paradigm began to take shape. That's the biggest risk.".

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Setting a higher climate ambition has been widely called for by businesses, political figures and green campaigners alike, and is seen as a hugely important diplomatic gesture to encourage other nations around the world to follow suit in the run up to COP26 in Glasgow next year.

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