GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

These include the risk of weak offtaker finances leading to power purchase agreement renegotiations (as in South Africa and India) and rock-bottom auction prices (mostly in Gulf Cooperation Council countries) setting unrealistically low price expectations from governments in more challenging markets. Reflecting on the 2010s.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

These family-owned and often impoverished producers each manage only a few hectares of land, but they provide a third of the world’s food and up to 80 percent of food in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. In my own country, Senegal, farmers are working with a mixture of crops in a voluntary climate adaptation programme backed by the government.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Governments often hire PR teams to create content, provide media training, and handle press at high level conferences. 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.” The Saudi government, which has worked to hinder U.N.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2021

The Prince of Wales has today launched a new initiative geared at fast tracking finance for improving water services in water-stressed regions in Africa and South East Asia. As we head into the crucial climate negotiations at COP in Glasgow later this year, this work will show that practical solutions to the water and climate crisis exist.".

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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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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2020

O'Neill, a former Energy and Clean Growth Minister who stepped down from Parliament at the General Election last month, suggested the government "can't cope" with an independent COP26 unit and that there had been no dedicated climate change meetings within cabinet to date, despite Johnson's promise last year to begin chairing such meetings.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2022

In addition, the climate ministers pledged to end all direct public support for overseas unabated fossil fuel energy projects by the end of 2022, declaring that all government support for unabated thermal coal-fired power generation overseas had come to an end in 2021.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. Leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda that calls for governments and industry to work together to find new solutions to climate change–driven food insecurity.

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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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Business Green

JANUARY 16, 2023

COP28 Climate Summit President Sultan Ahmed al Jaber has called for a tripling of clean energy generation by 2030 and a doubling of low-carbon hydrogen capacity by 2030, as he used his first address since being appointed to lead this year's global climate talks to promise a "COP of action". target within reach. "We

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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. South Africa, Australia, UK, and Germany. South Africa struck a deal on Tuesday for £6.2

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In this year, the Year of Climate Action, it will be the top international priority for this government.?? In my first fortnight as COP President, I have been listening to those who have done this before. ??Meeting Last month, I helped launch East Africa's first ‘green bond' on the Nairobi securities exchange.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Over the next two years, governments must determine what money will flow into what kind of compensation fund, managed by who, and with which beneficiaries. Our private sector, the City, NGO leadership, and government, in partnership, have and can continue to put flags in the sand and ask the world to rally around.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

So much for the “African COP.” Public relations for this year’s COP is in fact being conducted by Hill+Knowlton, the PR firm notorious for inventing the “tobacco playbook,” which the fossil fuel industry then adopted to discredit the science regarding the harms of burning fossil fuels. It’s yet again a festival of polluters.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The government cannot and will not regulate us to net zero.". But now she strikes a more conciliatory tone, arguing the government has pulled itself together over the past 12 months, under Sharma's leadership. It has been great to see the government leading from the front over the last few days." I have to credit Alok [Sharma].

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

For example Africa and Asia are seen as becoming net exporters of clean electricity with their export revenue offsetting the increased system costs, while the greatest savings are seen in North America with interconnectors between the US and Canada. Rather in sub-Saharan Africa a balance of interconnectors and mini grids is needed.

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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

JUNE 22, 2022

"I trust that you will lend your full support and cooperation to Mr. Thiaw and the secretariat during this transition and you may rest assured of the secretariat's continued commitment to provide high quality support to you as we prepare for COP 27 in Sharm el-Sheikh in November," Espinosa wrote.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 6, 2022

This will also be the first African COP in several years, and Egypt has promised to champion African interests, which perfectly encapsulates the issues raised above. According to the African Development Bank, Africa has received less than 5.5% degrees Celsius. Toward a Global Deal for Nature.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Agenda is billed as 'first comprehensive global plan' to rally companies, governments, and NGOs behind a shared set of adaptation best practices. 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.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In fairness to the government it has resisted the temptation to spin the Summit as an unqualified success. But within hours of it being signed the pollution-loving Australian government signalled it had no intention to strengthen its disgracefully weak 2030 emissions targets. This criticism is understandable and even necessary.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

The crucial UN climate change summit due to take place in Glasgow in November 2020 has been postponed until next year, amid huge uncertainty and public safety concerns surrounding the escalating coronavirus pandemic, the United Nations alongside the UK and Italian governments confirmed today.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

depends on governments doing what they have said they will do, strengthening their plans further, and catalysing the fastest and widest industrial revolution in history. And even now, certain governments are determined to bury 1.5C Pushing warming projections down towards 1.5C

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Carbon markets are set to be one of the key issues at the upcoming COP climate talks, with negotiators tasked with finalising the rules for Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, which aims to create a framework for countries and companies to meet their climate goals by trading carbon credits.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The UK government conceded it was "disappointing that the goal has not been met so far", despite recent pledges this year to increase climate finance from the UK, Canada, Germany, and others. Scaling up climate finance has been one of my top priorities as COP President," he said. This is an emergency," he argued.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 11, 2022

COP26 President Alok Sharma will today call on governments and financial institutions to ramp up flows of finance into those nations most vulnerable to climate impacts ahead of the COP27 Climate Summit at key International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank meetings taking place this week.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The government has promised a raft of hotly-anticipated plans and policies in the coming months, including the Heat and Buildings Strategy, Food Strategy White Paper, Treasury Net Zero Review, and an overarching Net Zero Strategy, all of which should help unlock billions of pounds of green investment. Nobody has got the full picture in a COP.

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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 8, 2022

The facility is expected to be the first integrated green hydrogen plant in Africa, and when fully developed it is set to boast 100MW of electrolyzers, powered by 260MW of solar and wind capacity.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Forward-thinking businesses and financiers are set to be agents of change as governments look for ways to turn ambition into action - a role that is clearly not lost on the many business leaders represented at the SEC Centre in Glasgow. Business played a larger and more significant role at the Glasgow COP than any before it.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

Better oversight over the metal's embodied emissions will be a boon to climate-sensitive governments looking to invest heavily in infrastructure to reboot coronavirus-damaged economies in an environmentally responsible manner. You need a really strong government, and it needs government investment.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Financers are here to speak to governments. 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.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

However, observers were quick to stress that the new projections were entirely dependent on governments now delivering on their decarbonisation promises, with experts stressing there was little detail to back up many of the new net zero commitments. C A big step forward, but much more needed! — Fatih Birol (@fbirol) November 4, 2021.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Saudi Arabia is set to win the role of top sponsor of international football’s governing body, FIFA, after openly admitting that one of the reasons it engages in sponsorship is to ‘sportswash’ its national reputation for economic benefit. and they face no official sanction for saying so. Sound far-fetched?

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

It's that time of year when heads of government, the leaders of large businesses and influential investors traditionally gather in the snowy wonderland of Davos. Thanks to the actions of the Climate Champions in Glasgow, COPs are fast becoming more multistakeholder - Glasgow being the most diverse COP to date.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Rishi Sunak will not attend the COP27 Climate Summit in Egypt next month in order to concentrate instead on the government's upcoming Budget, Downing Street confirmed today. The UK is set to hand over the COP Presidency to Egypt at COP27, which is set to take place from 6 until 18 November at the Red Sea beach resort of Sharm El Sheikh.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

I count on government leaders and all stakeholders to ensure COP26 is a success.". Sensible and forward-looking businesses know they need to act now to change the way they do business and more and more governments are putting in place the plans and actions to deliver a resilient, net zero economy. window shutting.".

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