Business Green

JUNE 13, 2021

Against this backdrop business groups and campaigners have become increasingly frustrated at delays to several crucial green policy packages, as well as controversial moves such as the government's decision to axe the Green Homes Grant scheme and its failure to block plans for a new coal mine.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

Sourdough starters, Zoom drinks, online theatre, Joe Wicks' PE sessions, Netflix… whatever it is, and whatever combination, in whatever time you happen to have available to you, it seems as though we've all been putting together our own package of coping mechanisms. We share this space, and we need to share it far, far better than now.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2020

British diplomats, the UK COP presidency team and Ministers would have been in a whirl of frenetic influencing activity globally (we hope) to drive up ambition, and drive out those new nationally-determined contributions (NDCs) from all the parties to the Paris Agreement. But these are not normal times, and the COP has been delayed by a year.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Other support packages include the £150 million Home Upgrade Grant, which is intended to assist emissions reductions with households not currently on the gas grid. This is hardly the COP figure the Prime Minister wants to read.”. The plan also mentions a 2028 minimum target of installing 600,000 heat pumps per year.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

COP talks each year are often fraught and progress remains far too slow, as today's IPCC report on escalating climate impacts will testify. As close observers of global climate diplomacy have long argued, if the COP process and the Paris Agreement did not exist you would have to invent them. The US left the treaty altogether briefly.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

However, France, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, and Finland - all of which signed a Declaration on Zero Emission Shipping by 2050 at COP26 - did not endorse the resolution, despite advocating for the goal in principle on the conference floor. If the recent COP kept 1.5 This is unacceptable.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2021

The government insisted the sweeping package made the UK the first G7 country to agree a landmark deal to support the oil and gas industry's transition to clean, green energy, while supporting 40,000 jobs and mobilising £16bn of public and private sector investment through to 2030 in emission reduction efforts.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 7, 2024

For examples, South Carolina steel-maker Nucor is working to make low-carbon steel and set a goal for net zero across value chain by 2050. A fascinating McKinsey study shows that products with ESG claims on packaging experienced faster sales growth. Consumers may finally become a force for sustainability.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

warming goal of the Paris Agreement, building on existing targets to achieve 'carbon neutrality' at all its business sites by fiscal 2030 and achieve an 80 per cent reduction in CO2 emissions across the company's value chain by fiscal 2050 compared to 2010. "We The company said it would align its business with the 1.5C

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Encouragingly, word from the EU Commission suggests it remains steadfast in its 2050 net zero ambitions and that combatting climate change should feature strongly in economic recovery packages. Only today British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the Commons that "our determination to get to net zero by 2050 remains undiminished".

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

Virtually all of the world’s largest companies now issue a sustainability report and set goals; more than 2,000 companies have set a science-based carbon target; and about one-third of Europe’s largest public companies have pledged to reach net zero by 2050. Concern about plastics and packaging, for example, was a huge issue in 2019.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2021

The French government recently won plaudits for reportedly making bailout packages for airlines conditional on the scrapping of some short haul routes where rail offered a viable alternative. This kind of announcement makes its protestations about delivering a green industrial revolution ring hollow.".

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The Green Deal fiasco and Boris Johnson's repeated failure to deliver on his promise of a 'Rooseveltian' green stimulus package represented huge-missed opportunities. Many of the leading figures in this government are young enough to still be around in 2050 and the deadline for achieving a net zero emission economy.

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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

MARCH 11, 2021

I want to put on the record that we are very keen that we ensure we are delivering a physical COP at Glasgow," he said. That is what the Parties want and I think that's what will help us in achieving our outcomes and goals at the end of the day as well.".

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

In a statement yesterday, he reiterated his calls for countries worldwide to commit to net zero by 2050, present more ambitious 2030 emissions reduction plans ahead of COP26, and to bring an end to fossil fuel subsidies and new coal power developments as soon as possible. "I goal without the leadership of the G20.

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Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2023

I think a lot of the feedback that you hear from any of the COPs is we're not doing enough and we're not doing it fast enough. And I do believe that summits like COP help to crystallize our efforts toward a more balanced relationship with the natural world. ºC be reaffirmed in the package of decisions between parties.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

As such, the court order presents a major challenge to the next Prime Minister, who will be under immediate pressure to both strengthen the UK's net zero plans and deliver a more ambitious package to help households cope with soaring energy bills this winter. I think that the target itself is a bit of a red herring," she added. "We

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The high profile move came after the government attached climate conditions to bailout packages for French airlines, ordered the cancellation of some short haul routes, and provided a major funding boost for R&D into hydrogen and electric aircraft. Bank of America unveils new net zero plans.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

It argues that the government is already spending around £17bn a year on climate and environment-related areas, but would need to push spending up to £50bn - or just over two per cent of GDP - to deliver on the UK's net zero emissions by 2050 target.

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2025

This point was hammered home yesterday by an easily overlooked component of the sweeping package of pro-growth policies and investments announced by Reeves, many of which were overshadowed by the political row that will inevitably triggered by the government's Heathrow expansion plans.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This was inspired by when we arrived (at) COP 25 in Madrid three years ago and understood that this is where the world is going," said Lee Recht, VP of sustainability at Aleph Farms, at the VERGE Net Zero virtual event early in December. What led these lean startups to bind themselves to net zero targets?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Speaking to journalists this morning, Timmermans said it would back the package on the condition that countries committed to ambitious emissions mitigation programme. We will insist on this: if this proposal by the EU on the [loss and damage] fund is to be accepted, [it will be a] package deal with a serious, serious plan on mitigation.

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Business Green

JULY 12, 2022

Using the COP process and international collaboration we should aim for a market, science and technology driven approach which can protect the environment and enhance productivity.". We will continue to meet our net zero target for 2050 but this is a moment of emergency and we have to act like it.".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

WWF calculates in a new Global Futures report that environmental degradation, if it continues at current rates, will cost the global economy a minimum of £368bn a year, leading to total losses of £8tr by 2050. Meanwhile, product innovation in everything from packaging to proteins is helping to curb land use impacts.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Now such an opportunity presented itself when countries rolled out stimulus packages to help kick-start economies as we faced the COVID-19 pandemic. The next climate COP must bring more-ambitious climate pledges and long-term strategies for 2050 to help drive such shifts. But on the 'green scorecard', we failed - loud and clear.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In November, I had the privilege to represent Schneider Electric at the UN's Conference of Parties (COP) on climate change in Glasgow. This COP was unlike the previous 25 iterations, in that it took place during a global pandemic. In reality, the current pledges align more closely to 2.7 Bottom Line for Business.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Large Wall Street banks including Goldman Sachs, Citibank, and 12 others announced their support for the COP28 pledge of tripling nuclear capacity by 2050. What we heard off-stage NYCW attracted more participants than usual this year, as many are skipping this year’s COP in Azerbaijan.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

Fortescue unveiled a green ammonia dual-fuel ship at COP. Cargo ships are expected to run on majority ammonia fuels by 2050. The state aid package marks the first time the EU has allowed individual state aid to match IRA subsidies. and its juicy IRA incentives).

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2021

We need to leave Glasgow with a balanced package of decisions that reflects the positions of all countries.". "We Israel became the latest nation to announce a net zero emissions target for 2050, following the same pledge from Thailand two days ago. We have no choice but to make COP26 a success," Espinosa said.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2020

It's the first time that both conventions have had 'super-summits' in the same year, with China due to host the CBD in October and the UK the climate COP in November. And so, perhaps, will the Glasgow COP. See where I'm going with this? That's right. The wording is very explicit: these things should happen 'by 2020', not 'by COP26'.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 10, 2023

🧪 Cove , a Los Angeles, CA-based biomaterials and packaging developer, raised $7M in Series A funding from Valor Siren Ventures. 📦 FlexSea , a London, United Kingdom-based seaweed-derived biomaterial for packaging platform, raised $4M in Seed funding from Indico Capital Partners and Grant funding from Innovate UK.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 17, 2025

A cross-sector pledge — including Google, Amazon, and 31 countries — aims to triple global nuclear capacity by 2050. The Amazon rainforest was cut down to build a highway for this year’s COP climate summit in Brazil. Nuclear: Back to the future Nuclear is making a serious comeback.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

Given this is an evolving situation we are keeping the situation under careful review and are in frequent contact with the UN, Chile (as current COP president) and other partners.". "We continue to work towards hosting the event in Glasgow in November, which is eight months away," she said.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

However, the conference also delivered encouraging signs that some governments are responding to growing calls for them to strengthen their climate action plans and deliver green economic recovery packages.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Speaking at an event in Milan this month, Thunberg spoke for many when she alleged that COPs have delivered little more than a talking shop since the first Earth Summit in 1992. But governments now mainly aim to achieve net zero by 2050 or 2060 at the absolute latest. Will enough people turn up to say it's a legitimate COP?

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