Business Green

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

With Climate Week NYC on the horizon, regional and city climate events are reclaiming some of the spotlight taken up by annual UN Climate Summits COPs, offering a chance to set the conversation and break new ground, writes AECOM's Robert Spencer

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2023

This year the two-day event takes place in the middle of the first Glasgow Climate Week with a programme of associated events around the City taking shape. Glasgow Climate Week is a COP26 legacy event and will now become an annual event. Further information on all aspects of the two day event is at www.all-energy.co.uk

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The Guardian: Energy

MARCH 12, 2024

obligations requires clean energy consumption and production to shift together, and that we must find mechanisms to guard against further interruption of both by future geopolitical events. We must break for good the stop-start of Cop agreements so there is follow-through from one to the next. But it is a stark reminder that meeting 1.5C

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

They also suggested that the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, known as the Biodiversity COP, that China is due to host in October and the COP26 UN Climate Summit that the UK is due to host in Glasgow in November could provide effective crucibles for such co-operation.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 28, 2024

During the recent Praxisforum Geothermie Bayern event in Pullach, Germany, several geothermal power and heating plants in the State of Bavaria were recognized based on their notable achievements in performance and efficiency. KG, organizer of the event. “The 24 Bavarian geothermal plants produced around 2.8

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Is the COP27 Summit that kicks off in Sharm El Sheikh this weekend the most important COP meeting yet, and therefore one of the most critical gatherings in the entire history of humanity? It is, by the admission of the Egyptian hosts, an "implementation COP". If COPs did not exist you would need to invent them.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

I attended this COP, my first, to learn more about how businesses can accelerate the transition to net zero and to share the findings of a new report, published today, that is a step-by-step playbook for companies to use to turn net zero pledges into progress. Progress worth celebrating. A new roadmap for the “Decisive Decade”.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

A stratified ocean has multiple negative effects from driving an increase in marine heatwaves and extreme weather events to a reduction in the ocean’s ability to take up carbon and a change in ocean circulation. The paper is being published on the eve of Ocean Day at COP on 4 November. The six proposals in the paper are: 1.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2023

“As we prepare for more extreme weather events, we must use every weapon in our armoury and Natural Flood Management will play an essential role in this.” ” In early December governments from around the world were assembling for COP 15 to agree on how to halt and reverse nature loss. .” What is it?

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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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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2023

December’s COP28 event in Dubai took place against a backdrop of global emissions continuing to rise at a rate of 1.5% Fossil fuels were mentioned for the first time in a COP text two years ago, at COP26 in Glasgow. Commentators were concerned about the decisive role seemingly prepared for carbon removal technologies.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 24, 2022

The event will host energy ecosystem stakeholders to unpack the industry’s priorities including its strategic roadmaps, visionary reforms, low cost capital investments and breakthrough technologies for building India’s long term self-reliance in energy.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2020

Following a tumultuous start to the year for the planning of the COP26 Summit in Glasgow, the inquiry will also focus on the event's preparations and speak to other recent COP host countries in order to attempt "to learn from their experiences", the Committee said.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read. Her work with an NGO on the Pacific island of Vanuatu has made her mindful of what might seem an incommensurable cultural and psychological gulf between indigenous groups and the formalities that perhaps hold sway in a modern, western-dominated forum like COP.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read. Her work with an NGO on the Pacific island of Vanuatu has made her mindful of what might seem an incommensurable cultural and psychological gulf between indigenous groups and the formalities that perhaps hold sway in a modern, western-dominated forum like COP.

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Energy Central

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The UN COP events promises large sums of money to meet those goals; finance is very important but we also need innovation, creativity, and new methods. There is a dire need for creativity and innovation to mitigate climate changes.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

After another full year of global warming events, from droughts to floods, the 196 countries represented in Sharm El-Sheikh failed to achieve even the basics: changing the Glasgow agreement to incorporate measures for combating climate change and reducing fossil fuel use. What do we need to change for the COP summit to be more effective?

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Business Green

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The closed door negotiations spawn a frenzy of side events, business announcements, panels, workshops, and fireside chats that provide a platform for businesses leaders and other 'non-state actors' to tout their climate credentials and discuss decarbonisation challenges. It is almost run in the way a festival is run," Croucher reflected.

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altenergymag

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

The co-located events, marking All-Energy's 20th anniversary, will be staged at Glasgow's SEC on 13 and 14 May 2020, just six months before the UN's COP 26 at the same venue

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

The series of events that make up London Climate Action Week have switched to virtual platforms in response to the pandemic and Khan said he was "proud to see that it's back in 2020, despite the huge challenges posed by Coronavirus". We must keep momentum and focus on the transition to a net-zero world," she added. "We

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Former UK energy and climate minister Claire O’Neill’s World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is running a series of events at the conference on private sector efforts to tackle climate change. She is not listed in the group’s delegation but has been chairing events.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

Encouragingly, the official climate COP 26 hosted by the UK in Glasgow in November seems to be leaning in this direction. Pull Quote. The key for 2021 will be to supersize the good examples of these kinds of efforts and bring them together to help shape a decade of unprecedented partnership and action to 2030.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2021

They don't want it to be virtual but even if it's not as big as previous COPs, they feel it must be done face-to-face.". BusinessGreen reached out to both UNFCCC and the Cabinet's COP unit for comment on the latest reports and was awaiting a response at the time of going to press. — Leo Hickman (@LeoHickman) March 25, 2021.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The United Arab Emirates has been criticised for promoting oil and gas as a clean source of energy, and for backing “false solutions” such as carbon capture technology, at the UN COP27 climate summit in Egypt, ahead of hosting the event next year.

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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. We need to see strong UK leadership built on a foundation of credible domestic action to carry the COP to a successful outcome.". The case for action is urgent, and stark.".

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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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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. At the end of the day, as Dawn wrote in FastCompan y, “The real value of COP is what comes next.”

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

It's normal for an event of this magnitude to have contingency measures," they told the paper. "We COP Summits typically bring together upwards of 30,000 ministers, diplomats, officials, journalists, and campaigners from around the world, creating huge logistical and security challenges. It's vital that COP is a success.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2021

The Prime Minister will make the announcement at the One Planet Summit this afternoon, a virtual event convened by the French government. It is fantastic to see billions of pounds pledged today to support efforts to reduce deforestation and degradation, and to accelerate the transition to clean energy," said COP President Alok Sharma. "By

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The COP26 summit - which is being co-hosted by the UK and Italy - is seen as a critical event for securing more ambitious progress towards the Paris Agreement goal of limiting average temperature rise to 1.5C This issue cannot continue to be deferred, COP after COP after COP. or well below 2C.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

Applications are now open for volunteers interested in taking part in the COP26, the pivotal climate conference set to take place in Glasgow this autumn that is being billed as one of the biggest global events the UK has ever hosted. This is an exciting opportunity to volunteer in Glasgow and help us all tackle climate change.".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Government says events are designed to 'put a spotlight on how all parts of society and the global economy drives ambitious climate action’. Other events will focus on accelerating the shift from coal to clean power and the findings of the latest IPCC report, according to the programme.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The goings-on behind the scenes of COP 26, or kack thereof, have been well documented over the past few weeks. But despite the worrying progress of COP planning, all is far from being lost. With the new President in place COP will hopefully be back on track, allowing everyone to continue speculating what the conference will look like.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Front and Centre At Climate Week in New York last month, Bayer, Danone, and fertliser company Yara were among the multinationals that organised events and “fireside chats” about regenerative agriculture. Another high profile, international initiative is slated for 2025.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

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. They shouldn’t be allowed to greenwash their image through their presence at COPs.”.

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2021

We are using COP 26, and events that lead-up to the Glasgow Summit, to support a call to action for business to respond to the climate and public health crisis in ways that drive systemic change. We hope that you'll join us. Sarah McDonald is vice president of sustainability at GSK Consumer Healthcare.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2020

Fears are growing that the UK's ability to host the latest round of climate talks in Glasgow are being severely hindered by the battle to control the pandemic, with some commentators suggesting the event may have to be postponed or relocated if the crisis continues. Hearing COP looking increasingly likely to be cancelled/postponed.

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