Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

The government can adapt what has worked well from its swift and immediate response and apply such learning to the economic recovery by putting climate-friendly policies at its core. Next year, as the UK takes on the COP Presidency, the government must play a leading role in setting a global example for green recovery.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The annual COP summit allows negotiators and leaders across the globe to put in place commitments to address the climate crisis and assist the worst-hit countries. We have a situation where fossil fuel lobbyists are better represented at COP than delegates from the poorest countries, or indigenous peoples.”

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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.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Thus far we have not really laid the groundwork for the difficult balancing acts that will go into the diplomacy of the COP. What we will be bringing to the COP table as our ambition will be critically dissected by all these cats whilst they are being herded. warming.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 26, 2022

Planet recently participated in a virtual discussion with US Government leaders focused on leveraging satellite data to improve climate resilience. Specifically in Africa, we’re looking at the horn of Africa and droughts and rainfall measures,” states Cervantes de Blois. “So Planet’s Perspective. We are in the midst of a climate crisis.

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Those are just a tiny fraction of the furious responses to the government's decision to approve plans for the UK's first new deep coal mine in 30 years. I've been writing about the UK climate policy landscape for 15 years and I genuinely can't recall a reaction like it. Where does this rank in the halls of climate policy infamy?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Ministers are facing calls to include international aviation and shipping emissions in its national climate goals, as the government prepares to set out its plans for meeting climate targets in the mid-2030s in the coming months.

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Business Green

JUNE 13, 2021

Business lobby group chief Tony Danker ramps up rhetoric demanding government deliver raft of missing net zero policy on heating, hydrogen and transport. These various targets have been supported by number of policies and investments, such as support for new electric vehicle charging infrastructure and new zero carbon home standards.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 27, 2022

"This is a multilateral institution, it brings together governments," Nele Marien, forest and biodiversity coordinator of Friends of the Earth international, told BusinessGreen. Governments should be here to ensure the wellbeing of all people; this is not about business coming together. There's been a complete shift," he said.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

The Budget on Wednesday will be the first real test of this government's commitment on climate and it needs to drive momentum in the decarbonisation of electricity, heat and transport or it will set us up for a failure on the world stage. With the world watching ahead of COP we cannot afford a COP-out on low carbon.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

When approached for comment, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) distanced itself from the discussions, saying they were “independent of government” and had “not been part of our policy-making process”. “No As the COP host, the U.K. for the climate compatibility checkpoint?. “?Discussions

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

Government's climate agenda marred by uncertainty and delay which risks undermining COP26 and net zero transition, Climate Change Committee warns. As such, the report echoes the growing frustration among businesses and campaigners over myriad green policy decisions that have been long promised but repeatedly delayed by the government.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The new Labour government has committed the UK to investing £22 billion in CCS over the next 25 years, claiming that it will help to create a “new era” of clean energy jobs. Unfortunately governments seem to be misguidedly buying into the hype despite the huge costs to the public purse and the risk that it will delay real climate action.”

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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. We know that greater representation leads to better policy.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

This year’s conference will begin next week (11 November) in Baku, Azerbaijan, and the new UK government has vowed to be an international climate leader, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband both set to attend the talks.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

A ban on diesel truck sales by 2040, a pledge to electrify the government's vehicle fleet by 2027, and a consultation on a zero emission vehicle (ZEV) mandate for automakers are all set to provide the key pillars for the government's long-awaited Transport Decarbonisation Plan, which is now expected to be launched tomorrow.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Green business groups and campaigners welcome the government's renewed focus on the net zero transition, but warn plan lacks long-term policies and sufficient funding in key areas. It is also less than half the amount the Government is committed to spending on new roads.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 5, 2020

With a supportive policy environment, anaerobic digestion (AD) technology could produce 8 billion m3 biomethane/year, enough to heat 6.4 The report sets out the pathway to full deployment by 2030 and identifies policy asks to stimulate growth. million homes, by 2030, according to a new report from the industry group ADBA.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 18, 2024

Europe’s DSO labour and skills shortages identified Emma Pinchbeck: ‘We need an energy workforce that looks like the population we serve’ “As the world emerges from COP with a clear focus on phasing out fossil fuels, as well as tripling renewables in six years, every company in every sector is fully aware that change is coming fast.”

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

This week, as business and government leaders, investors and campaigners gather for New York Climate Week, DeSmog is relaunching its big agriculture series, which will scrutinise the power of food and farming companies. After last year’s COP, meat industry bosses left the summit galvanised for what’s to come and vowed to “keep pushing”.

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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. Eight-one of the UK's largest businesses have signed the letter, which calls on the government to provide the "strong domestic leadership that can help deliver global progress on climate change".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

It comes just a day after the government published 1,200-word defence of its decision to vote against stricter legal controls on pumping raw sewage into rivers and seas.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Michael Gove is hotly tipped to take up the reins of the crucial Glasgow Summit, but has the government truly internalised the scale of the task it now faces. Green kremlinologists have also noted that Gove has been put forward by the government to speak at a major conference in central London tomorrow hosted by think tank Green Alliance.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The government has promised to "double-down" on wind, solar, hydrogen, nuclear and carbon capture and storage over the next 15 years, as it today confirmed it is targeting a fully decarbonised electricity system across the UK by 2035.

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Business Green

APRIL 27, 2020

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, a representative of the UK government, and United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres will speak publicly in a "high-level segment" of the conference tomorrow, which marks the second and final day of the conference. There can be no going back," Stern said.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2022

It is a once-in-a-decade opportunity for the world's governments to sign a global agreement for nature, similar in significance to the Paris Agreement on climate change. Governments have so far been unable to reach agreement on much of the framework, leaving large sections of the draft in brackets. COP15 could be a historic moment.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Environmental groups argue government's decision to frame coal mine as a 'local issue' turns blind eye to global impacts of burning coal, as calls grow for government to intervene while it still can. In their letter, the environmental groups argued the government's thinking was flawed and turned a blind eye to basic climate science.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2021

Proposals to cut taxes on domestic flights within the UK while potentially increasing the duty paid on long-haul international aviation have been unveiled by the government today, in a move it claimed would help better support the UK's climate and environmental commitments.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In other words, even when tech-based policies are designed with smallholders in mind, their real, basic needs are rarely met. 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.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

MPs on Parliament's Work and Pensions Committee (WPC) have urged the government to lead a global push to align pension schemes with climate goals when it hosts world leaders in Glasgow next month for the COP26 UN climate summit. The Committee also said government policy must "prioritise good pension scheme stewardship over divestment".

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

No one government or company can solve climate change alone, which is why they get together at COP each year, and why the market and policy signals sent out from the event – the positive and negative - have widespread, critical implications for business. And how to drive that process without countries meeting?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Number 10 spokesperson insists government is determined to deliver Glasgow Summit, but warns it must represent 'value for the UK taxpayer'. Earlier this week both Cabinet Secretary Michael Gove and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon called for the two governments to work together to ensure the Summit is a success.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

The firm has published a whitepaper which outlines eight steps that would help reach the transition goals, including involving the OECD in the creation of the IPCF, updating existing corporate governance principles, and getting the IMF and the World Bank involved in making sustainability and climate a key consideration in their work.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 17, 2020

’s COP 26 climate negotiations in November; Eggar said demonstrable action should be underway before then. “Well in advance of COP 26, the industry needs to have developed and gone public on a compelling package of measures which demonstrates real, genuine leadership and commitment to net-zero [carbon].

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

To grasp the opportunities of net zero and deliver a successful climate change summit in Glasgow, the government must come forward with ambitious policies in 2020, argues the REA's Nina Skorupska. The goings-on behind the scenes of COP 26, or kack thereof, have been well documented over the past few weeks.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2022

With the government facing a crescendo of interlocking crises - the war in Ukraine, soaring energy bills, inflation, ongoing Covid-19 disruption to global supply chains, and warnings of a looming recession - the stakes were certainly high for this year's Queen's Speech. Energy Security Bill.

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