Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The Sharm El Sheikh Adaptation Agenda, launched in partnership with the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions and the Marrakesh Partnership, provides a checklist of 30 actions required by the end of this decade to enhance the resilience of communities living in climate-vulnerable regions.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2019

While offsets are often seen as a cop-out for industries that don’t want to tackle their own pollution, airlines are clearly uniquely limited in their climate pollution mitigation options. They’d be combating climate change, living up to their promises, and helping farmers and communities across the world.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2021

The UK has singled out adapatation and resilience as a critical priority for the COP26 Climate Summit it will co-host in Glasgow this autumn, amid calls for the government to use its platform to significantly increase the flow of cash to help poorer nations adapt to escalating climate impacts.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Some commentators in the sustainability sphere report a dawning realisation that climate change can no longer be simply “solved”, in the sense of it being possible to slow it down to a degree that will allow our civilization to continue in a more or less recognisable form. A fair COP?

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

For these communities, climate change is existential. We can see this in Indonesia , where the government has fallen back on digital methods to compensate for underinvestment in adapting farming to climate change. Helping smallholders to adapt and respond to climate change is fundamental for climate justice.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

UN approves UK and Italian request for high profile Summit to be postponed by a full year, as co-hosts announce new 'Friends of COP' advisory board. While we rightly focus on fighting the immediate crisis of the Coronavirus, we must not lose sight of the huge challenges of climate change," he said in a statement.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Ahead of COP 26, many of the UK's biggest companies have today warned Boris Johnson he has a 'limited window' to show genuine climate leadership. It also commits the signatories to offering "full support to ensure COP26 delivers real global progress for a net zero economy and climate resilience".

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2020

But terrible though this experience has been for so many families around the world, the brutal truth is that it will be dwarfed by the effects of climate change and environmental degradation unless we act very quickly and decisively. But despite that, they attract just three per cent of global climate funding.

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2021

Ahead of next week's Net Zero Nature Summit, Sarah McDonald, vice president of sustainability at GSK Consumer Healthcare, reveals how the company is collaborating on a call to action to ensure climate and health strategies are better aligned. What's already happening and what's missing? We hope that you'll join us.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The climate vulnerable hotspots - which the charity defined as those with the highest number of UN appeals driven by extreme weather events - have suffered a 123 per cent increase in acute hunger since 2016. The report found that the countries in the climate hotspots were collectively responsible for just 0.13

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2020

One of the most important is our commitment to tackling climate change. We have worked together to drive climate action across the international community. And at this critical moment in the fight against climate change, we want to build on this collaboration. We have shared ambition, expertise and innovation.

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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

APRIL 1, 2020

All the reaction from politicians, green business, academia, NGOs and think tanks on the momentous decision to postpone this year's critical UN climate change summit. In the meantime, we continue to support and to urge nations to significantly boost climate ambition in line with the Paris Agreement.".

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

He also stressed that there was an urgent need for businesses and policymakers to work together to further bolster the UK's reputation for climate action ahead of the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow, which has been delayed by a year until autumn 2021.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

In many ways, the climate change challenge we face in the next 10 years is analogous to the pandemic we’re emerging from. Fortunately, we are already seeing a promising response to the imminent threat posed by climate change; the pivot towards more ESG-driven investment in global markets, for example, is real and happening now.

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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 And we are getting ready for it.??. And, we are working closely with our partners in Italy.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2020

Investors believe the prospects remain strong for Chile's hot renewables market, despite recent social unrest that caused the nation to relinquish hosting climate talks last year. COP 25 was ultimately held in Spain. Violent clashes with police left 29 dead. Although economic activity shrank 5.4

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

World’s top scientists have sounded alarm over intensifying impacts of climate change, warning that nature protection must be at the heart of efforts to tackle the problem. Hoesung Lee, chair of the IPCC, said the findings were a "dire warning" about the consequences of inaction on climate change. "It

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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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Business Green

JULY 14, 2021

To tackle the environmental challenges we face from climate change and biodiversity loss, it is crucial that domestic natural environment projects are able to attract private investment alongside support from the public sector," said Environment Minister Rebecca Pow.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Thousands of the world's leading climate scientists, after over three years of work, today delivered yet another landmark report on the state of the climate and ecological emergency the world now faces. Today's IPCC report is an atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of failed climate leadership.

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Business Green

MAY 14, 2021

Alok Sharma intent on holding 'most inclusive COP ever' in Glasgow, but it is not UK's gift alone to make in-person event happen. This is what makes the next United Nations Climate Conference in Glasgow, COP 26, so critical. If we are serious about 1.5C, Glasgow must be the COP that consigns coal power to history," he said.

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Business Green

APRIL 27, 2020

Delivering the virtual conference's opening remarks, Schulze said that she would like the need to enhance national climate action plans - known as nationally-determined contributions (NDCs) in the UN jargon - to be a "major signal" to come out of the meeting. We all know that climate risks are growing year by year," he said.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2020

Businesses must continue to make the case for climate ambition and stand against regulatory rollbacks, argues Verisk Maplecroft's Will Nichols. And among the many reasons listed for why global environmental and climate change efforts are currently falling short, a "worldwide pandemic" was a notable absentee.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Climate change is the defining challenge of our time, and clean energy and green transport are the keys to addressing it. Less than two decades ago, energy emissions seemed to be spiraling out of control as countries were locked into. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2021

Amber Rudd and Claire O'Neill have called on the government to take steps boost the number of women participating in the crucial COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow this year. At the 2019 Bonn COP there were 27 delegations with no women, the highest it has been in 12 years," they wrote.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Experts say that failing to reform the sector’s polluting practices – such as by cutting the use of pesticides and polluting synthetic fertilisers – will harm global efforts to curb climate change and reverse biodiversity loss. Another high profile, international initiative is slated for 2025.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

The scale of net zero pledges represents a 38 per cent increase on commitments since the UN's last climate conference, held just seven months ago in Madrid, according to the UNFCC. The new campaign will be stewarded by the UK and Chile as incoming and outgoing COP presidents, respectively.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

As the UK readies for the upcoming COP26 Summit in Glasgow in November, the Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change urge government to deliver ambitious net zero strategy. This should include widespread engagement on the health, economic and environmental co-benefits of cutting food waste and changes in diet.".

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The global energy landscape is on the cusp of transformational changes as the migration to clean power gathers pace. With world leaders about to gather in Dubai, United Arab Emirates for the COP 28 climate summit, the transition to green energy will be one of the key topics on the agenda.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Guterres also took the opportunity to again press countries to ramp up their national pledges to climate action under the Paris Agreement, including action to reduce emissions, boost resilience efforts and increase international finance commitments for more climate vulnerable nations. "We We need every voice at the table.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

A major theme of this COP — the international climate change conference — is the urgent need to transition from commitments to action. Fortunately, farms have the potential to reduce emissions, sequester carbon and build resilience — but farmers need support to make change at the scale and pace required to avoid major losses.

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The former Energy and Climate Change Minister had been slated to serve as COP26 President after playing a critical role in securing hosting duties for the UK. Specifically, she's calling for business to be given a more official role at future UN climate talks. "If It is a one-year thing, it only lasts as long as a COP.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

As High-Level Climate Action Champion for COP27, which is due to take place in Sharm el-Sheikh in November, Mohieldin is tasked with helping to bridge the work of governments with the many voluntary and collaborative actions taken by cities, regions, businesses, investors, and civil society to tackle the climate crisis.

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2021

If the oil and gas industry is serious about tackling climate change it must take responsibility for helping to fix it, writes the Oil and Gas Authority's Stuart Payne. With COP 26 taking place in Glasgow later this year, world attention will be focused as never before on our global leadership in this area.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 3, 2019

My message here today is one of hope not of despair” said UN chief António Guterres addressing journalists at a press conference in the Spanish capital on Sunday, after revealing the key takeaways from the World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate report, due to be published during COP25. degrees by the end of this century.

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