Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In my first fortnight as COP President, I have been listening to those who have done this before. ??Meeting Meeting people like Paris COP President Laurent Fabius, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed and Patricia Espinosa from the UNFCCC. ??And, And we are getting ready for it.??. The first Green Simba bond.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

This is a chance for nations to recover better, to include the most vulnerable in those plans, and a chance to shape the 21st century economy in ways that are clean, green, healthy, just, safe and more resilient. That we don't sow seeds of next crisis, but embed resilience to shocks like pandemics & extreme weather events.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In mid-December, Vietnam will reveal its just energy transition partnership using public money to leverage private investment, following on from South Africa and Indonesia, and with a cab rank of other countries wanting something similar. The UK must be agile in its post-Brexit international age. The relationship with India is critical.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Notably, the document makes the case for businesses having a much more significant role at future COPs, through the introduction of corporate determined contributions (CDCs) that would mirror the nationally determined contributions (NDCs) that parties signed up to the Paris Agreement must produce every five years. But] we don't revisit it.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. The North American Meat Institute will host a side event at the US COP pavilion on December 11, the summit’s Agriculture Day, for example. Just seven percent are based in Africa. The files also detail collaborations planned for the event itself.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Build resilience of vulnerable communities against the here and now impacts of climate change. I also want particularly to thank COP President Alok Sharma who has worked incredibly hard to bring countries together. Greenwashing is the new climate denial, and we have seen too much at play in this COP. Phase out coal. degrees. "I

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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. Sharma is hoping further such deals could be announced at COP27 with other large emerging economies, but significant financial backing is required to enable such transition programmes.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

All over the world not nearly enough is being done to enhance climate resilience, leaving communities and economies exposed. But whether or not the historic reference to fossil fuels is retained, this has been the COP where governments, investors, and businesses made it clearer than ever that the fossil fuel age is slowly drawing to a close.

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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.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Beyond these intense negotiations lies a much-broader field of activity, not least to bring the financial system into line with a net zero, nature positive and resilient future. Climate change and the loss of nature are two intersecting crises that face the global economy. per cent and 6.5 per cent respectively.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

EU energy emissions fall, Rwanda gets its first mini-grid, and Brazil preps a COP bid. The transformative potential and power of mini-grids in Rwanda, across Africa, and emerging markets more widely, is hugely exciting. "As ADB announces $200m Goal for Water Resilience Programme.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

That will not happen until true net zero emissions is achieved and a global economy has been built that is resilient to the dangerous new world we have unleashed. Future COPs will re-open this debate and seek to extend it to gas and oil. If COPs did not exist you would have to invent them.

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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. Inaction is a foolish business risk no company can afford.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

And now, as we look forward to COP26 next November 2021, our aim is to ramp up ambition towards a climate-resilient, zero-carbon economy. adaptation and resilience. 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.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The landmark $8bn-plus agreement with South Africa to support a just transition away from coal power also provides an exciting template for how emerging economies can be provided with support as they attempt to move onto cleaner development pathways. Business played a larger and more significant role at the Glasgow COP than any before it.

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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. 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. And navigating this context is our defining challenge. So I'm going to be frank.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

Other former COP Presidents, such as Laurent Fabius. COP26 can be a moment where the world comes together to ramp up momentum towards a climate-resilient, zero-carbon economy. First, adaptation and resilience. A Uk business called Azuri Technologies is providing solar energy systems to off-grid homes across Africa.

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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

JUNE 18, 2020

And more sustainable approaches to procurement should be welcomed by businesses and consumers, who Barker predicts will be more concerned with resilience and sustainability in the wake of the pandemic. "In The company's aluminium is, after all, produced by minerals mined in the Caribbean and West Africa and refined in Ireland. "At

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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 agreement was hailed by activists and developing countries as a major breakthrough.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

As such, the COP Presidency should presumably welcome mounting calls for a new era of public-private cooperation on the financial packages that can help developing and emerging economies wean themselves off fossil fuels.

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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

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Second, if governments are going to start to pay for Loss and Damage the case for bolstering climate resilience in the most vulnerable countries has become more compelling still. Like the World Cup that kicked off within hours of the gavel coming down in Sharm El Sheikh, COPs provide a regular temperature check for global geopolitics.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2022

They do not need to go through too many people," Oumaru Aissatou, vice president of the Network of Indigenous and Local Populations for the Sustainable Management of Forest Ecosystems in Central Africa , said through a translator at the FSC Indigenous Foundation event. We have ways that work.".

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

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. We won't forget the promises that have been made, nor will future generations.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This COP must agree on a clear, timebound roadmap reflective of the scale and urgency of the challenge, and that roadmap must deliver effective institutional arrangements for financing.". Progress on LEAF.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 7, 2020

From Amsterdam, Gellert oversaw the company in Europe, Africa and the Middle East for nearly six years, working before that at outdoor gear maker Black Diamond. Energy and Clean Growth minister also served as COP President for the 26th UN Climate Change Conference. He’s at the helm of Patagonia Works, the parent company.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Are governments going to be promoting a vision that tinkers around the edges, or one that is transformative, creating food systems that are resilient and restoring ecosystems?”. These agribusiness interests have had a notable presence at previous UN COP summits, and COP27 is no exception.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

This COP has taken an important step towards justice. We need to drastically reduce emissions now - and this is an issue this COP did not address. Developed countries must make good on the existing US $100bn per year pledge to support low income countries to deliver carbon-cutting policies and increase resilience to climate impacts.

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Other governments now need to isolate the Saudi delegation if they want this COP to succeed for everyone, not just fossil fuel interests.". However, seasoned observers noted that pretty much all of the 25 previous COP Summits have run over in pursuit of a compromise agreement, sometimes by days.

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2021

As such, the UK government is said to be working on plans for a new multibillion-pound green development bank that could both directly fund low carbon infrastructure projects across Asia, Africa, and South America, and underwrite private investment. The voice of vulnerable countries is really important at COPs," he explained.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

While NYCW has been around for more than a decade , this year the vibe of ~10x the participants and well-curated mini-conferences alongside official UN programming felt almost like a Davos or a mini-COP (which, depending on your take on the efficacy and impact of COP, could be a good or bad thing). in Europe).

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The Egyptian COP Presidency has also yet to release a first draft of the so-called cover texts that provide the overarching statement of agreements and calls to action from the summit, with the latest tentative predictions that it could emerge before the end of Tuesday. alive or this will be the COP where we lose 1.5C," he said.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Sharma's appeal for a transformation of financial institutions is set to form part of a broader speech setting out climate finance priorities of the COP27 Climate Summit, where the UK will officially hand over the COP Presidency to host nation Egypt.

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2020

As COP26 hosts, the UK government had been working with current COP President Chile, the EU, and a raft of developing countries all of whom want to see a significant ratcheting up of national climate goals to co-ordinate a wave of strengthened NDC submissions in the run up to the Glasgow Summit in November.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Do the next best thing and read our COP reflections.  Last COP featured the conference’s first nuclear-themed pavilion, and this year boasted eight. A fusion of world powers Scientists have also been chasing nuclear fusion for decades , but again COP could reflect a global paradigm shift. Happy Monday! 

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