Grist

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Bringing those technologies to the market will not happen if we leave everything to energy markets,” said Fatih Birol, the executive director of the International Energy Agency, at the press conference on Friday. “We We need governments to push the button of innovation here.”. The bill includes $3.5

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Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Happening simultaneously at Greentown HQ, Greentown Houston, and via livestream on Nov. I’m excited to welcome folks, those live in Somerville today and those with us via livestream here in the Boston area, in Houston, and around the world. To date, our startup companies have raised more than $2.2

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Business Green

APRIL 29, 2020

But all too often they the ignore the action when it materialises, either willfully or simply because they have been distracted by the next shiny new story. What focus has been assigned to environmental issues was likely aimed at the Petersberg Dialogue and growing calls for a climate-focused stimulus programme.

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

This month, we’re highlighting some of the energy and climate provisions in the infrastructure bill, touching on what the international climate conference COP26 was and wasn’t, highlighting the potential impact of corporate buyers coalitions, giving a round of applause to the progress the company NET Power has made, and more!

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

COP26 President Alok Sharma's speech urging international cooperation on climate as he lays out UK Presidency's priorities for the year ahead. Yet, in a temporary structure on the banks of the River Clyde, 197 countries came together, at COP26. Wars, dragged mercilessly on, and tensions mounted between some of the world's great powers.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

The Committee on Climate Change has today set out its detailed green recovery recommendations – here is BusinessGreen's need-to-know guide. That's a better scorecard than we had last year - it's important to say that - but very clearly we need to see more delivery in what is now a very difficult year ahead, to put it mildly," observed Stark.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2021

Whilst it is increasingly clear that the UK's future generation profile will involve large amounts of variable renewables it is less clear what the flexibility mix will look like. What do we mean by this? Once again, this is already happening to some extent with Octopus and OVO leading the way in the UK.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

What I would love to do is to communicate as much as possible the jeopardy, the moment you see the vulnerability of everything,” he told Bezos. There’s an irony here: In order to gain this more-than-sky-high perspective, astronauts and space tourists have had to take an incredibly polluting journey. Was that death? Whoop and it’s gone.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 18, 2021

” Vital reading, particularly in a year that should see Glasgow hosting the COP26 climate summit. But if I could propose one additional New Year’s resolution for Gates, it would be to send another book to all COP26 delegates: Kim Stanley Robinson’s ” The Ministry for the Future.”

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GreenBiz

MAY 25, 2021

I’m not talking about the anticipated rise of wildfires, droughts, floods and other natural disasters, although we’re bracing for the worst of what Mother Nature will throw at us this year. process, although those may be forthcoming in the run-up to COP26 in November. What a remarkable moment we’re in. First, the sticks.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Here are the five biggest stories from the year past, and why they'll matter months and years into the future. First, the United States and the European Union agreed to use embodied emissions as a metric when importing steel in what the White House calls "the world's first carbon-based sectoral arrangement."

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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 dunno - survivable summer temperatures?

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AGreenLiving

MAY 26, 2021

Globally, with both the COP26 on Climate Change and COP15 on Biological Diversity happening this year, the urgency couldn’t be more clear. Our results show progress, but the transition towards a kinder and more sustainable world needs to happen fast. View original post here: The textile companies creating material change.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Outgoing COP26 President makes one of his last major speeches before handing over the reins to Egypt at COP27 next month. It's a pleasure to be here. I want to start by thanking Ambassador Green, and Ambassador Quinville, for the warm welcome that I've had here at the Wilson Center. Good morning everyone. The pulse of 1.5

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

This week's COP26 launch may have got off to a tempestuous start, but all the elements are there for a genuinely transformative and historic Summit, the Prime Minister just needs to articulate the net zero narrative. Now, that's more like it.

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Business Green

JUNE 28, 2022

That was the year of COP26, so we expected progress. We've called this shocking - and that's what it is. It is perfectly true that we haven't changed the story, but what we have done is given the kind of urgency to it that recent events have emphasised," Lord Deben said. "We

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AGreenLiving

MAY 25, 2021

I’m not talking about the anticipated rise of wildfires, droughts, floods and other natural disasters, although we’re bracing for the worst of what Mother Nature will throw at us this year. process, although those may be forthcoming in the run-up to COP26 in November. What a remarkable moment we’re in. First, the sticks.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The task becomes more confusing still when you consider that there is not yet an agreed definition of what anet zero portfolio. What then should investors do if they want to deliver a credible net zero portfolio that genuinely helps minimise climate-related risks and drive an economy-wide net zero transition. Metrics battle.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

It gives the key political signals that indicate the phasedown of all fossil fuels is happening. "We It will inform what everybody, every single day, everywhere in the world, needs to do, to avert the climate crisis". Alok Sharma, COP26 President, said: "It hasn't been easy. We have ultimately reiterated that call here.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Frankly, I don't think we've had enough of that debate - enough of that scrutiny - of the many, many choices that are before us here in the UK," he said. That happens from around 2030. So let's just see what happens.". There is such a positive story of progress to tell here," he said. "I

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2021

Trials and tribulations It seems each story announcing a fresh net zero pledge now sparks outraged warnings on social media that "net zero is not zero" or heartfelt explanations as to why net zero commitments are meaningless 'greenwash' and what is needed is "real zero", like, yesterday. So, what is going on here?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Amid the gloom - there is hope, which I'll get to - but for context, here's a quick rundown of the headwinds five weeks out from COP27. Yet as COP26 president Alok Sharma tweeted , only 23 countries have hiked their climate plans this year - Australia, Indonesia, India and the UK being the G20 entries. They shouldn't have been.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2020

It is far from the norm for climate experts to proffer what could be termed, all things considered, fairly positive news. But indeed, now in the last three months, I have been positively surprised by what's possible.". That's why I think there's a kind of domino effect or wave that is happening," Höhne explains.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

More sustainable than a COP26 zoom meeting. When we last gathered here just over two years ago for the ninth BusinessGreen Leaders Awards it happened to coincide with the very same day that the UK's net zero target passed onto the statute book. James Murray's speech to the BusinessGreen Leaders Awards 2021 - in full.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

What lies beneath is equally precious, both for the ecosystem and the climate. Indonesia: A nation in transformation Central to APRIL's story are the rapid political and economic shifts that have taken place in Indonesia since the country gained independence from Japan and the Netherlands in the 1940s.

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Grist

JANUARY 4, 2022

This is exactly what scientists said would happen with uncontrolled warming. The Puffin Project also helped to revive other bird species, including the tern, pictured here. It’s like we’re all out here screaming to get attention,” she said. Every puffin out here is a miracle.” My heart ached that this can’t be.

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