DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 2, 2022

Another year has come and gone, and with it a crucial climate conference and the battle over a controversial new oilfield. The year in British politics has ended in dramatic fashion, with a number of scandals coming hot on the heels of the UK-hosted COP26 summit, and another wave of Covid sweeping through the country.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

The UN COP26 Climate Summit has been officially rescheduled for November next year, after the UN approved plans from the UK and Italian co-hosts for the high profile conference to be delayed by a full year in response to the on-going coronavirus pandemic.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

C, nature-based solutions and the just transition – a pre-climate summit jargon-buster for investors. Ahead of world leaders gathering in Egypt for the COP27 climate summit in November, here is an A-Z of common terms: 1.5°C. The Sixth Assessment Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Former Environment Secretary set to replace Jenrick at helm of Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, as Liz Truss is appointed Foreign Secretary. — UK Prime Minister (@10DowningStreet) September 15, 2021. He takes on cross-government responsibility for levelling up," it said.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2021

of global warming under national climate plans submitted ahead of next week's COP26 Climate Summit. But leaders can still make this a turning point to a greener future instead of a tipping point to climate catastrophe. The time for closing the leadership gap must begin in Glasgow.".

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 13, 2022

All of the remaining contenders were elected in 2019 on the Conservatives’ manifesto pledge to “lead the global fight against climate change by delivering on our world-leading target of Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050”. . Others have failed to mention climate at all. Attorney General. Kemi Badenoch.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

As the planet heats up, allergy seasons are getting longer and the climate crisis is “violating” her “right to health” said Comparelli, a climate activist in her 20s with Fridays for Future Italy. The activist is one of two hundred plaintiffs suing Italy for taking insufficient action to fight climate change.

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Business Green

JUNE 1, 2020

Today's membership boost, announced at the 2020 Investor Summit on Climate Risk, sees the number of finance sector companies signed up to the initiative jump from 10 to 16. As holder of the COP26 presidency, the UK is going further and faster on coal and our energy mix will be totally coal free by 2025," he said. "We

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

All the reaction from politicians, green business, academia, NGOs and think tanks on the momentous decision to postpone this year's critical UN climate change summit. As co-host of COP26 alongside Italy, the UK government had sought to position 2020 as the 'Year of Climate Action' ahead of the November summit.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The Tory MP leading a backbench campaign against the government’s net zero policies is currently employing two aides linked to the UK’s most high-profile climate science denial group, DeSmog can reveal. The NZSG claims to accept climate science and Mackinlay recently said he is “not a climate-change denier”.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2020

The Department for International Development (DfID) is to merge with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), the Prime Minister confirmed today, in a controversial shake-up that could have major ramifications for overseas support for climate-hit regions and the UK's diplomatic efforts ahead of the crucial COP26 Summit.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

This media brief summarizes some of the key topics associated with the 26th Conference of the Parties held in Glasgow, U.K., CLIMATE TARGETS. Because COP26 has been delayed by a year, many countries—including Canada—announced their new five-year targets earlier this year. CLIMATE FINANCE. For comparison, the U.S.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Business Secretary and Glasgow summit President Alok Sharma's speech at the launch of the COP26 Private Finance Agenda in London. With COP26 this year, we want to do what John Croxton did all those centuries ago. ??Leave COP26 will be the biggest summit the UK has ever organised. ?? Our vision for COP26 is clear. ??In

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

In recent years as we have seen the financial sector moving towards sustainability, massive firms like Blackrock have been making noise about moving towards changing their investment strategies to highlight climate change. 2021 represents a milestone year in the UK. Well, this is not a green bond.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Keele University lecturer in media and culture Pawas Bisht assesses recent climate action campaigns launched by the likes of The Sun and the Daily Express. Britain's right-wing tabloids have historically not been champions of action on climate change and other environmental issues. The Daily Express.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

But the alliance of NGOs, academic institutions, and think tanks, argued that "even these leaders are preoccupied with one-off low-carbon projects and are shying away from the urgent structural changes needed to protect and restore nature at scale - including eliminating harmful subsidies and embedding biodiversity in economic plans".

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

And what we do or refuse to do to protect the endangered diamond darter could also have significant consequences for humanity’s own critical habitat, under threat from the climate crisis and the burning of fossil fuels. struggled to present of itself on climate at the COP26 conference in Glasgow.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The report released today stresses the links between multiple "self-inflicted" environmental challenges - the climate crisis, biodiversity loss, and pollution - and the world's societal development challenges, which have left 1.3 Climate disruption, biodiversity loss and pollution threaten our viability as a species.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Think tank Green Alliance today provided a broad overview of the current state of UK climate policy, with the publication of its latest report on progress against the country's short term carbon budgets and long term net zero goals. The UK must keep up with the pace of change," said TUC General Secretary Frances O'Grady.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2021

All the reaction from green groups, businesses, political figures to Rishi Sunak's hugely important pandemic-recovery, pre-COP26 Budget announcement. Chris Stark, chief executive of the Climate Change Committee, said: Not much to say about this Budget - a comment in itself. — Chris Stark (@ChiefExecCCC) March 3, 2021.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 3, 2019

My message here today is one of hope not of despair” said UN chief António Guterres addressing journalists at a press conference in the Spanish capital on Sunday, after revealing the key takeaways from the World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate report, due to be published during COP25. “My

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Grist

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The 90-year-old man, the oldest person to go to space, said humans can’t continue “burying our heads in the sand” about climate change, and that “we’re at a tipping point.”. In recent years, astronauts have become fixtures at international climate negotiations, bringing their big-picture perspective with them.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

per cent - a move that sparked immediate fears that it could undermine the UK's negotiating position in the run up to the crucial COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow next year. With [the] global problems of COVID and climate change, we need more solidarity - not less," he added. per cent of GDP to 0.5

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2021

As the pandemic continues to wreak havoc globally, climate change and its impacts again made waves around the world – with a surge in extreme weather events preventing anyone from looking away. This was especially visible in the build-up to the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, postponed a year due to Covid.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

On Sunday, COP26, the 26th United Nations climate change summit, will kick off in Glasgow, Scotland, in what John Kerry, the U.S. special envoy on climate, has called humanity’s “last best chance” to curb the climate catastrophe. There’s no question that climate change is here — and accelerating.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The tidal wave of broadly positive announcements at the COP26 Climate Summit this week has been met by a storm surge of molten hot media takes, far too many of which have singularly failed to engage with the historic significance of what might be happening in Glasgow. I'm always pretty loath to criticise other journalists.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Roundup of reaction from politicians, NGOs, and business figures as the world's top climate scientists serve up latest evidence on scale of potential climate cataclysm ahead. But the report is also at pains to stress that the future extent of the climate crisis will be determined by the choices societies take over the next few years.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

A bioenergy declaration signed by Drax during COP26 is further proof of the company’s “greenwashing”, campaigners have claimed. This so-called ‘Glasgow declaration on sustainable bioenergy’ is not an official COP document,” Sally Clark, from biomass campaign group Biofuelwatch, told DeSmog. “It Drax Presence at COP26.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 6, 2022

Amid this fast-changing political landscape, DeSmog takes a look at the current cabinet’s movers, leavers and shakers, and how they position themselves on climate. She has mentioned “climate change” twice in speeches to parliament, according to the parliamentary record, Hansard.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The UK will soon have one of the most stretching near-term climate goals of any developed nation, with Boris Johnson today confirming a target to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 68 per cent below 1990 levels over the next decade.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) offers a potential model for harnessing the financial world to reach net zero, explains Athabasca University's F. GFANZ offers hope because it is taking on climate change from a global rather than a narrow national perspective. Haider Alvi. Global South hit hard.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The aim is to help the entity understand its climatic impact. Such businesses better meet the demands of the regulatory environment while coming into alignment with investor, consumer, and employee preferences. It’s a relatively new discipline born from the collective awareness that carbon dioxide emissions are impacting our climate.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

WWF, National Trust, RSPB, Greenpeace, and Friends of the Earth are among the 70 charities behind the climate wish list published this morning, which sets out 10 major policy areas that campaigners believe are critical to the UK's hopes of achieving net zero emissions by 2050 and engineering a 'green recovery' from the ongoing economic crisis.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Chancellor Rishi Sunak today reiterated the Treasury's commitment to delivering on the UK's net zero emissions goal, announcing plans for a new National Infrastructure Bank, record investment in new infrastructure and R&D projects, and changes to how the government assesses spending decisions in light of escalating climate risks.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Based in the north of England, it is envisaged the Bank will replace some of the activities of the European Investment Bank in the UK once the Brexit transition period ends, with a view to becoming operational from spring 2021. But the decision to cut overall ODA funding suggests maintaining climate funding could lead to cuts elsewhere.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

Launched more than six months ago, in a different era, before the first recorded case of the coronavirus and when the prospect of the worst global economic recession in decades seemed remote, some 50 firms in the environment sector have now signed up to the pledge. per cent of the UK's GDP, according to EIC stats. he observes. "I

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Over two weeks in November, world leaders and national negotiators will meet in Scotland to discuss what to do about climate change. Here’s what’s happening behind closed doors and why people are concerned that COP26 might not meet its goals. What is COP26? F), to avoid catastrophic climate change.

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