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. The next step is to translate these political commitments into on the ground action. ??. Alok Sharma is Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and President of COP26.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

But COP26 President-Designate Alok Sharma hit back at the proposed postponement, insisting "COP26 must go ahead this November". In response, Sharma said such measures would be in place. "We COP26 has already been postponed by one year, and we are all too aware climate change has not taken time off," he said in a statement.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

COP26 President Designate Alok Sharma's first major UN speech - in full. 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. I look forward to working with him and the wider UN team in the lead up to COP26. Second, nature.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The PM has already begun spending his Christmas political capital at a rate of knots, clearly hoping he can get the controversy out of the way early (a tactic that Mr Cameron would say can have mixed results). The political storm took out many of the Ministers previously associated with the sector.

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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2021

Alok Sharma has offered to quit his role as Business Secretary in order to concentrate fully on spearheading the UK's international climate diplomacy efforts over the coming year as president of the crucial COP26 UN climate summit in Glasgow, according to reports.

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Terra Infirma

AUGUST 9, 2021

Sharma defences this approach by saying “Future [fossil fuel] licences are going to have to adhere to the fact we have committed to go to net zero by 2050 in legislation. So Sharma and the UK Government need to learn to say ‘No’. So my advice to Mr Sharma and Mr Johnson is to get tough and learn to say ‘No’ to new hydrocarbon sources.

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Business Green

JANUARY 8, 2021

BREAKING: Kwasi Kwarteng promoted to become Business Secretary, as Sharma to step up his focus on preparations for crucial Glasgow Summit. The move follows reports Sharma had urged Number 10 to make the COP26 position, which he has occupied for nearly a year, a full time role in the run up to the Glasgow Climate Summit this autumn.

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JULY 23, 2021

Alok Sharma has met world leaders, putting in important legwork, but the PM also needs to grasp the nettle before it's too late. Glasgow isn't a ribbon cutting event, it requires real political muscle. Such a move threatens Alok Sharma's success in getting international partners to increase their ambition.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The Glasgow Summit ended with a new Climate Pact and COP26 President Alok Sharma's insistence that 1.5C Politicians, businesses, and campaigners all stressed their desire to "keep 1.5 alive", repeatedly reiterating the need to strengthen national climate action plans so as to deliver on the 1.5C alive are faltering.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

FossilFreePolitics campaign letter to #COP26 leaders 130+ civil society organisations call for UK, UN and EU leaders to address the elephant in the room which is holding back global climate ambition: the fossil fuel industry and its #lobbying [link] pic.twitter.com/J0YHx4KBs2 — Fossil Free Politics (@FossilFreeEU) November 4, 2021.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

But now she strikes a more conciliatory tone, arguing the government has pulled itself together over the past 12 months, under Sharma's leadership. I have to credit Alok [Sharma]. Politics is politics - and you end up with all these weird things, like the Prime Minister's decision to have a minister on it," she says.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The line-up for the Net Zero Festival covers almost every facet of the green industrial revolution, including science, technology, finance, politics, and the business leadership that can drive the next phase of the net zero transition," said BusinessGreen editor James Murray.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

It encompasses places where net zero goals are under active political discussion, where leaders have made a political declaration, where legislation is under development, and where targets have been adopted - as well as two countries that are already carbon negative: Bhutan and Suriname.

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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. "It

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2022

Former PM argues a lot of the measures needed to deliver net zero will help curb energy bills, as COP26 President Alok Sharma warns ditching climate action would put UK on a 'road to nowhere'. Yet there are people in politics who think the private sector will deal with the climate emergency.

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Terra Infirma

JULY 18, 2022

I find all this very depressing and, politically, rather confusing. At some point today, the five will be grilled by COP26 President (and Tory MP) Alok Sharma on their environmental policies. That’s more like it, but why the reticence in the debate? The post Week Two of ‘Who wants to be Prime Minister?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

COP26 President Alok Sharma has this afternoon admitted the Glasgow Summit has a "mountain to climb" if it is to result in an ambitious agreement that can deliver on the government's goal of "keeping 1.5C Australia, Brazil, and Russia have also been accused by observers of attempting to block efforts to strengthen the draft cover text.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Spurred on by that support and held to account by national and international media outlets - many of which will be watching how this unfolds more closely as a result of all the political drama - the government has sprung into action to rectify the accusations made on the fate of COP26.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The role of the fossil fuel industry in driving climate change, and distorting politics in their favour, deserves rigorous and sustained scrutiny from the public and governments alike,” Sam Chetan Welsh, political campaigner for Greenpeace UK, said.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

It added that local opposition to new projects was "likely to be intense and politically damaging". But in a series of tweets over the weekend, former COP26 President and Business Secretary Alok Sharma publicly set out the argument against the project. The government has plenty of room to help out.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Speaking at a high-level ministerial round table at the Summit this afternoon, COP26 President Alok Sharma said it was critical that this year's conference saw countries reaffirm their commitment to the 1.5C We must now shift gears and complement the technical discussions with more political, high-level engagement.".

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

I intend to use the opportunity of the upcoming UN General Assembly high-level session [in September] to bring leaders together to reach a political understanding on these critical elements of the package needed for Glasgow," Guterres said. Sharma stressed that a 1.5C — Alok Sharma (@AlokSharma_RDG) July 25, 2021.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Giant puppets entered the political arena in the 1960s. Peter Schumann, founder of Bread and Puppet Theater, has written that since puppets aren’t taken seriously, they work well as lowbrow vehicles for political performance. In 1963, New York City’s Bread and Puppet Theater took on landlords, police and the Vietnam War.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

The bill is a political stunt rather than a serious proposal on energy security,” said Merlin Hyman, chief executive at climate nonprofit Regen. The NSTA’s own figures , included in the press release, show that UK gas production releases more than double the CO2 emissions than “pipeline [gas] imports from Norway”.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2022

The meeting will be co-chaired by COP26 President Alok Sharma and Egyptian Foreign Minister and COP27 President-Designate Sameh Shoukry, with Denmark's Minister of Climate and Energy Dan Jørgensen hosting the event.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Chaired by COP26 President, Alok Sharma, the Council met virtually late last week to agree a series of actions and best practices designed to overcome some of the key challenges in the transition to zero emission vehicles.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The pace at which climate action has slipped down the political and media agenda, even as polling continues to show that it is a top priority for an overwhelming majority of the public , has been genuinely dizzying. If the world's 1.5C It is important to keep this despondency in check.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Government argues coal mine would be compatible with net zero goals, but MPs across political spectrum condemn move as a 'backward step' for UK climate action. Opening a coalmine in the UK now is a serious mistake: economic, social, environmental, financial and political," he said.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2020

Key architect of the 2008 Climate Change Act returns to frontline politics, as Sir Keir Starmer unveils Labour's new front bench team. We must also return to climate change as the unavoidable long-term issue of our time, including with a recovery based on providing economic justice through a Green New Deal.".

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

…requests with which the UK, according to Alok Sharma, is already on board. What outcomes those statements by Merkel, Raab, Sharma, Timmermans and others ought logically to lead to is a theme we'll be returning to in the coming months - probably quite often, I would think.

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JULY 13, 2021

But political opponents and some of the Chancellor's own allies fear he could block the genuinely ambitious decarbonisation policies experts insist are needed to put the UK on track to meet its net zero emissions goals. Hear Sharma into No 10 today for meeting with PM 2/. per cent to 0.5 per cent to 0.5

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FEBRUARY 8, 2021

COP26 President Alok Sharma's speech arguing need for 'creative ways of conducting our discussions' in order to turn Paris Agreement negotiations into climate action. The aim is to convert the political commitment generated through the call to action, which I was part of launching in 2019 at UNCAS, into practical reality.

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MARCH 2, 2020

But that support for new land-based wind and solar projects is even politically possible now is a big victory for the sector. 's Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy minister Alok Sharma will have the final say on whether the site is granted approval and must make the decision within three months.

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Business Green

AUGUST 20, 2021

XR is demanding "crisis talks" with the Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Chancellor Rishi Sunak, COP26 President-designate Alok Sharma, Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng and Environment Secretary George Eustice, on climate action and the upcoming UN summit in Glasgow.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Our global political economy, built on fossil fuels for the last century, is in a state of flux. So I have to say this very frankly to you friends, that there does remain a big deficit in political will. But as serious as these crises are, we must also recognise a seismic structural shift that is underway.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2021

This means bridging the current political divide over outstanding issues related to finance, capacity building, technology transfer, transparency and especially Article Six. We need a political decision," Guterres added. "We This year cannot simply be a repeat of the last, as the Secretary-General has outlined," Sharma said. "We

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JULY 20, 2020

MPs from across the political divide have called on the government to harness its Covid-19 recovery plans to accelerate the transition to net zero, today setting out a 10-point programme of policy recommendations "the government needs to urgently adopt to get the UK on track".

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