Business Green

JULY 14, 2021

"Unleashing innovation and growing new sources of finance, such as through the Natural Environment Investment Readiness Fund, are fundamental for delivering nature recovery and developing nature-based solutions to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050.".

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JULY 9, 2020

Finally, he reminded Ministers and officials from around the world that nations must commit to net zero emissions by 2050 and submit more ambitious national climate plans before COP-26 next year. Fossil fuels are increasingly risky business with fewer takers.". Coal has no place in COVID-19 recovery plans," he added.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2021

Speech from Energy and Clean Growth Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan - International Champion on Adaptation and Resilience for COP26 - marking International Women's Day, at event organised by COP26 presidency in partnership with Chatham House. There is also evidence of better outcomes when women are brought into adaptation and resilience action.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

From global leadership in putting climate on the agenda, the passing of the Climate Change Act in 2008, to last year's legislation setting a 2050 deadline to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions, the UK has shown powerful, high-level commitment in addressing the climate challenge.".

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Business Green

MARCH 19, 2021

Secondly, he said the UK would call on "every country to have a credible plan for managing the unpredictable and often damaging weather patterns that are the result of climate change", and would work to increase funding for the technologies and systems that can enhance climate resilience.

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OCTOBER 22, 2024

Food systems approaches that aim to repair, regenerate, and transform our systems toward resilience must address the systemic issues of equity and power,” she said, making reference to the 13 principles to guide food systems transformation drawn up by the UN in a multi-year consultation process.

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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This Conference of Parties (COP) was highly anticipated as a critical inflection point where our economies and societies set forth on an ambitious and clearly defined path to decarbonize by 2050 and keep warming below 1.5 degrees C to avoid the worst impacts of climate change — or continue with the status quo.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

The new campaign will be stewarded by the UK and Chile as incoming and outgoing COP presidents, respectively. We all need to do our part and I would encourage everyone to join the race to zero and commit your region, city or company to reaching net zero by 2050 at the latest.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

All four companies have "ambitious and credible climate action plans" to drive down their emissions in line with climate science, and will "support the delivery of a successful and ambitious COP next November", the government said today. When it comes to climate action, we all have an important role to play.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Banks representing over 40% of global banking assets have already committed to aligning their portfolios with net zero emissions by 2050. A major theme of this COP — the international climate change conference — is the urgent need to transition from commitments to action. The finance sector must invest in climate-smart agriculture.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

It makes clear that most companies will need to cut at least 90-95 per cent of their internal emissions by 2050 to achieve net zero, in addition to setting near-term targets. °C without harnessing the power of NbS for both climate mitigation and resilience. °C trajectory. Are there risks?

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Whether governments use their economic recovery plans to support decarbonisation and long-term economic resilience is now the single biggest question at the top of the climate agenda. 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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Energy Innovation

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Photo: Disha Yadav/ Unsplash For many climate advocates preparing for this year’s COP29 in Baku, it might be a surprise to learn that a different annual Conference of Parties (COP) just wrapped in Cali, Columbia. This analysis covered the period from 1900 to 2050, allowing for both historical and future-oriented exploration.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 3, 2019

degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, reach carbon neutrality by 2050 and cut greenhouse gas emissions by 45 per cent from 2010 levels, by 2030. A path where more fossil fuels remain where they should be – in the ground – and where we are on the way to carbon neutrality by 2050. A path of resolve, of sustainable solutions.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

My Ten Point Plan will create, support and protect hundreds of thousands of green jobs, whilst making strides towards net zero by 2050. We need to ensure resilience is built into these investments and they are delivered in alignment with the UK's net zero goal. "Of

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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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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

The new campaign will be stewarded by the UK and Chile as incoming and outgoing COP presidents, respectively. We all need to do our part and I would encourage everyone to join the race to zero and commit your region, city or company to reaching net zero by 2050 at the latest.".

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

She also espoused continuing support for the EU Green Deal and a bloc-wide commitment and plan to reach net zero emissions by 2050. And just yesterday, in a video message sent on behalf of Prime Minister Boris Johnson to the closing session of the Petersberg Dialogue, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab was even more forthright. So - job done?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Healthy ecosystems are more resilient to climate change and provide life-critical services such as food and clean water," said IPCC Working Group II co-chair Hans-Otto Pörtner. "By Climate resilience will become impossible in some regions if temperature rise exceeds 2C, the report warns. If global warming transiently exceeds 1.5C

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

But more positively, while the gap between adaptation and resilience efforts currently being undertaken, and what is required to safeguard society and ecosystems, remains considerable, such efforts can in fact be very effective, the report suggests. Those in the private sector still financing coal must be held to account.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 24, 2022

"We're delighted that [Sunak] signed our pledge to continue the Conservative Party's environmental leadership, deliver net zero by 2050 and halt the decline of nature by 2030," it said in a statement today. Congratulations @RishiSunak ! Read Rishi's message to CEN councillors and supporters: [link].

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2021

Obviously we're all conscious about where we all need to get to - the trillions of dollars that need to flow into zero carbon goods and services and into resilience, and to support the 'just transition'. Commitments to net zero financed emissions have begun to come in thick and fast in recent months.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2020

Before we host the world at COP 26 in November, the UK must get its house in order, and go further and faster to reach net zero as soon as possible," the letter states. "In This is a pivotal year for the planet as we raise our ambition on emissions reductions and build an economy resilient to climate change," a government statement added.

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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

JUNE 24, 2021

And since 2018, the Committee has beefed up its analysis and advice, judging the government's efforts against the legally-binding, overarching goal to transition one of the world's largest economies to net zero emissions by 2050. So the government is playing a pretty high stakes game here.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The two per cent improvement is a welcome acceleration compared to underpowered improvements seen in recent years, but achieving climate goals by 2050 calls for a four per cent improvement annually this decade, according to the IEA's net zero scenario. gigatonnes of CO2 per year, meaning that emissions would fall by just 29 per cent by 2050.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

She also argued that her plan to move green levies to be funded through general taxation could be paid for by the current fiscal headroom in the Treasury's plans and in a surprise move committed to leading a UK delegation to the upcoming COP 15 Biodiversity Summit in Montreal this autumn if elected leader. We need to look at the plan.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Bank of America has become the latest financial powerhouse to announce new decarbonisation plans, setting out the initial steps it will take in support of its new goal to deliver net zero emissions across its financing activities, operations, and supply chain before 2050.

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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

JUNE 24, 2021

If we haven't shown the way in which we are going to deliver, then we will in fact not be able to make COP a success, and the whole concept of 'Global Britain' being a leader will in fact be undermined.". Yes there are costs to net zero… but those costs are very, very small in comparison to the size of our economy," Stark said.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2021

In October, he finally caved to growing international pressure and announced a 2050 net zero target for the country , but the plan was roundly criticised for lacking details on how the new target can be met. The UK is COP President for another year, with the job of building on the legacy of the Glasgow climate conference," she said.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

It's hard to think of a greater dereliction of our responsibility as COP hosts.". UK Green Building Council CEO Julie Hirigoyen said: "With the COP 26 conference just days away, the Chancellor's announcements felt like they were from a different planet and a different time. "This wasn't just a failure to address the climate emergency.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

Morrison was eventually pressured into announcing a 2050 net zero target for Australia last year, but critics were quick to point out that the plan for getting there lacked detail or credibility. Moreover, the Coalition government has long been a thorn in the side of successive UN climate talks.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Taking immediate action to slash emissions towards net zero by 2050 could make a monumental difference to the level, frequency, and breadth of growing climate impacts, the scientists emphasise. If the world slashes carbon dioxide emissions now and reduces them to net zero by 2050 we would keep the global temperature rise close to 1.5

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2022

There's a huge opportunity for a win-win here which the government is passing up" UK Nuclear Industry Association chief executive Tom Greatrex said: "The new nuclear target of 24GW by 2050 is a vital step forward for UK energy security and our net zero future. This was a crucial test of Johnson's leadership - and he's flunked it."

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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. COP is and remains, fundamentally, a policy event. Bottom Line for Business.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Ed Matthew, COP26 co-director for The Climate Coalition said: "It is notable that the UK has set a 2030 target which is a step up in ambition and in line with its legal duty to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. This is important progress but not sufficient. And the Treasury must provide the support necessary to enable them to deliver.

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