GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

Launched in 2018 with the Canadian and UK Governments, GPAP is now helping countries across ASEAN and West Africa to tackle ocean plastic waste. Encouragingly, the official climate COP 26 hosted by the UK in Glasgow in November seems to be leaning in this direction. Pull Quote.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

At the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow this week, BusinessGreen caught up with the former world F1 champion shortly after his appearance at an event to mark the UN Sports for Climate Action initiative, which called on sports bodies, organisations and clubs to target net zero emissions by 2040. BusinessGreen : What does COP26 mean to you?

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Grist

JANUARY 17, 2021

The announcement at the One Planet summit, which also saw pledges to invest billions of pounds in the Great Green Wall in Africa and the launch of a new sustainable finance charter called the Terra Carta by Prince Charles, was met with scepticism from some campaigners. So as co-host of the next Climate Cop, the U.K.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Of the two exceptions, Denmark and South Africa, the first did not mention Denmark’s role as the largest oil producer in the European Union, while South Africa’s stall was sponsored by the country’s top coal companies. The country’s events programme does not contain the words “fossil fuel” – or coal, oil and gas.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. The GMA declined to offer a formal comment, however a spokesperson told DeSmog in an email that the group works to “simplify and distil public information” around international events which are “often dominated by an anti-meat narrative”.

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Elemental Excelerator

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In a variety of conversations it became clear to me that to some degree, regardless the outcome of COP negotiations, undrilled oil will soon become stranded assets,” Director of Innovation, Mobility & Innovation Gabriel Scheer shared. CarbonCure announced its first deployment in Africa — its 6th continent!

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Fossil fuel PR agencies show up at events like the COP in order to delay progress by claiming their clients are somehow essential and responsible companies.” A senior Azeri COP executive was secretly filmed as he appeared to use his role to set up meetings to explore possible fossil fuel deals.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

billion to turn North Africa into a regional natural gas hub, and $830 million in oil projects over the next two years, the analysis found. body that organises the annual climate negotiations to adopt a conflict of interest policy that would exclude fossil fuel companies and their partners from attending or sponsoring the events.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

So much for the “African COP.” It is the very reason they register in droves for events like COP27 and spend millions every year trying to convince us as we scroll through Twitter and Instagram that they are clean and green. Perhaps no continent demonstrates this better than Africa. It’s yet again a festival of polluters.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Echoing Sharma's defence of the logistical difficulties seen over the past few days, she adds that a lot of the challenges have been a result of Covid and stresses that "this is the biggest global event the UK has had - so it was always going to be hard". It is a one-year thing, it only lasts as long as a COP.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

The Narrative of Fossil Nationalism Noting that “the same kind of rhetoric” was on display during the COP 27 climate summit in Egypt in 2022, King said related strategies include linking fossil fuel use to “human flourishing” and “human freedom” and ensuring that such language seems to emanate from citizen or grassroots entities.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Of particular concern and focus is Africa, where the private finance share in the total financing of climate adaptation efforts is not more than three per cent, or $11.4bn. Seven times that amount will be needed annually until 2030.". "We

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The first few days of COP have ushered in a wave of major announcements and funding pledges. Near-term commitments include 6 GW of clean energy in India alongside considerations for wind and solar in Africa and rural electrification in Latin America. Happy Monday!    And happy COPing to those on the ground in Dubai!

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

I also want particularly to thank COP President Alok Sharma who has worked incredibly hard to bring countries together. Despite the Covid-19 crisis, we have accelerated action, the COP has responded to the IPCC's call to close the gap towards 1.5, Greenwashing is the new climate denial, and we have seen too much at play in this COP.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

However, the decision to postpone now leaves huge question marks about global governments' ability to ramp up climate action in 2020 in order to keep the Paris Agreement on track, and also as to whether Glasgow will remain the host of the event if and when it does eventually take place next year.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Last week he gave his thoughts on the key challenges, opportunities, knowns and unknowns of these final weeks leading up to the Summit at the launch event for BusinessGreen 's upcoming Net Zero Festival - although he was compelled to concede that the negotiations process underpinning the Paris Agreement can be somewhat, well, chaotic. "A

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Worse still, it has now emerged from new undercover reporting that Saudi Arabia is operating a so-called ‘Oil Sustainability Programme’ (OSP) designed to artificially increase demand for oil across Africa and Asia. Now the air pollution from burning fossil fuels alone is estimated to kill more than tobacco smoke.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 11, 2022

At COP26 an $8.5bn agreement just transition deal was brokered between South Africa and a host of industrialised economy governments. After events wrap up in Washington, Sharma is also set to attend the Breakthrough Energy Summit in Seattle, where he is to discuss the importance of energy innovation opportunities in emerging markets.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Scaling up climate finance has been one of my top priorities as COP President," he said. However, Mohamed Adow, director of Nairobi-based think tank Power Shift Africa and a veteran observer of UN climate talks, slammed the announcement as "utterly shameful".

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

With the World Economic Forum's main event postponed until late spring / early summer following the postponement of Davos 2021, this seems an appropriate moment to question how much the world is losing without its annual get together at a tiny resort in the Swiss Alps. But this year will have to be different, again.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Now almost a year on, it is just 23 days to COP27, the end of the UK's COP Presidency, and the end of my time as COP President. The reality is that these events are becoming increasingly connected. And so today, from the vantage point of the ending of my time as COP President, I want to take stock of where we are.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

How to achieve this is the focus of the conversations throughout COP. In Egypt, the challenges in accessing finance have come up in nearly every event and meeting we participated in, from the importance of adaptation investment to industrial decarbonisation in Africa. Financers are here to speak to governments.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

These announcements may generate headlines but assessing their true worth is hugely difficult, especially at speed during a COP meeting. The UK's COP Presidency's assessment of the opening few days of the Summit stressed that the event had so far demonstrated that world leaders had "sent a clear signal that COP26 must keep 1.5C

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

It comes despite Sunak's promise to prioritise environmental issues as Prime Minister on the steps of Downing Street earlier this week, and is likely to ruffle feathers on the global stage given UK will still holds the COP Presidency until it passes on the baton to Egypt at the summit.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

It notes that extreme weather events and sea level rise around the world has caused havoc with urban energy and transportation systems, as well as property and critical infrastrucutre, and calls for policymakers to work with all stakeholders to scale solutions that can make cities more resilient in a warming world.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

Other former COP Presidents, such as Laurent Fabius. These events will put human life at risk. billion people have been affected by disasters, 90 per cent of which have been caused by weather and climate related events. A Uk business called Azuri Technologies is providing solar energy systems to off-grid homes across Africa.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Another COP is coming - the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference. COP27 in Egypt is going to be taking place alongside war in Europe, concerns about energy security, and significant weather events occurring in both developed and developing countries. It's not too late for optimism.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Mohamed Adow, director of think tank Power Shift Africa said the achievement came after three decades of appeals for help from climate impacted nations. "To This COP caused deep frustrations but it wasn't for nothing," she said. "It The meeting was also set apart from previous COPs due to minimal activist presence around the Summit.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The appeals underscored how for many nations, the success of the Sharm El Sheikh Summit depends on its ability to deliver real progress towards the launch of a dedicated funding mechanism for Loss and Damage, after the contentious issue made it on to a COP agenda for the first time this year. Negotiations continue.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

Good afternoon everyone and thank you to the London Stock Exchange for organising this event. In January this year, I helped launch East Africa's first ‘green bond' on the Nairobi securities exchange, followed by its dual listing on the London Stock Exchange. Helping to fund environmentally friendly housing in Nairobi.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Rania Al Mashat, Egypt's minister for international cooperation, recently said : "For us, what we want this COP[27] to be about is moving from pledges to implementation. We don't need to go back in history to look for the most impactful and devastating climate events.

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2022

In a video address to more than 40 leaders and ministers assembled at the Berlin event this morning, Antonio Guterres slammed political leaders for failing to take adequate action on tackling climate change and mobilising finance to support poorer nations' efforts to decarbonise and bolster their climate resilience.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Eliot Whittington, director of the Corporate Leaders Groups, said: "As the range and violence of extreme weather events from around the world reminds us, climate change is a critical and growing business risk, and the IPCC's latest report gives the world the hard numbers showing the state and scale of that risk. Reaching 1.5C

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Where people's ability to feed their families becomes precarious and extreme weather and diseases wipe out livelihoods, people may be forced from their homes, and civil unrest may ferment, events that can undermine fragile government, and reverberate around the globe. Yet every country at COP has agreed to phase-down coal power.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2022

23 event hosted by the international Indigenous rights organisation as part of Climate Week NYC. "We Indigenous contributions were officially acknowledged at COP26 in November, where for the first time in COP history, their leaders found themselves drawn into the inner circle of decision-making. We have the solutions already.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The first full negotiating texts are still not expected until later this evening, or potentially even tomorrow, according to Egypt's COP Presidency. But we are hoping that everyone will rise to the occasion by the end of COP, and realise that while the national interest is very important, something greater than that is at stake.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

It was, as ever a highly eventful fortnight, characterised by shifting politics, surging levels of green investment, and escalating fears the climate impacts could be approaching catastrophic 'tipping points'. Once an idea enters the vernacular at COP Summits the chance of it being eventually adopted increases dramatically.

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