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? But next week's Sharm El Sheikh Summit lacks the grand diplomatic goal that governments faced in Glasgow and Paris, or Copenhagen and Kyoto before that.

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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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Business Green

JULY 23, 2020

Defra and DfID minister Lord Goldsmith's speech at the Chatham House’s Global Forum on Forest Governance. So far, governments around the world have committed $9tr to Covid recovery. Or we can choose to make environmental sustainability and resilience the lens through which we map out our recovery. That makes zero sense.

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Business Green

JULY 14, 2021

Less than 48 hours after flooding caused commuter chaos across parts of London and the South East, the government is launching a 'pioneering' new fund to deliver investment in flood risk management schemes proposed by 27 innovative nature-positive projects.

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2020

Low Carbon Farming, Black Mountain and Zero Carbon Yorkshire have joined a campaign that calls on the government to revise its low carbon heat strategy to support the development of large-scale heat pumps, a sector they contend could help the UK drive a green recovery to the pandemic.

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Business Green

JUNE 19, 2022

Sharma will this week meet with South African government ministers, communities, business leaders and officials involved in delivering the country's just energy transition for South Africa, while also confirming an additional £1.5m of support in 2022-2023 through the UK's Partnering for Accelerated Climate Transitions (PACT) program.

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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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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. We all know that climate risks are growing year by year," he 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

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

MARCH 21, 2021

Water Aid-led Resilient Water Accelerator launched as UN-backed Race to Zero campaign urges water utilities around the world to commit to net zero emissions. 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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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

DECEMBER 19, 2023

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. 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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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In 2018 the World Bank and others agreed significant funding to help governments boost the resilience of communities, including things like the Green Climate Fund, intended to provide support for lower income countries. A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read. “The

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

She also warns that poor relations between Number 10 and the Scottish government risk jeopardising the Summit. The team and the Scottish government are in an extraordinary state of stand-off and… you are considering re-locating the event to an English location," the letter states. "You

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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. He also reiterated the government's plans to make climate action a key plank in its recovery packages.

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Business Green

AUGUST 4, 2020

"To give some scale - the 50GW of planned renewables by 2030 is roughly equal to the current installed renewables capacity in the UK (generating over a quarter of our power over the last year)," Dr John Murton, UK COP 26 envoy, explained on Twitter this morning. It also has pace.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

But a loose patchwork of weakly enforced rules governing international waters have meant the majority of the planet's oceans are highly susceptible to exploitation whether through over-fishing, acidification and pollution, or emerging threats such as deep water mining. Ladies and gentlemen, the ship has reached the shore," she said.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

A new China-US bilateral agreement to cooperate on emissions reductions – another of the apparent consolations to be drawn from a disappointing COP – seemed to include a major commitment to the “deployment and application of technology such as CCUS and DAC”, as market intelligence firm IDTech X noted. What can be done with the captured CO2?

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2020

COP26 President steps up calls for 'clean, inclusive and resilient recovery' that delivers on the goals of the Paris Agreement, as polling reveals huge support for accelerate climate action. More ambition on adaptation and resilience, more ambition on mitigation, and more ambition on support to vulnerable countries.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In 2018 the World Bank and others agreed significant funding to help governments boost the resilience of communities, including things like the Green Climate Fund, intended to provide support for lower income countries. A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read.

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

EU energy emissions fall, Rwanda gets its first mini-grid, and Brazil preps a COP bid. The French Senate this week approved new legislation that will require all large car parks in the country to install solar canopies in support of the government's renewable energy drive. ADB announces $200m Goal for Water Resilience Programme.

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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. "If

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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

APRIL 26, 2020

The two-day Petersberg Climate Dialogue has long been a key event in the annual climate calendar, with environment ministers from around 30 countries typically coming together to thrash out priorities and preparations for the following United Nations COP climate summit.

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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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In the wake of blazing heat, rising food insecurity and devastating floods, COP28 leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda for the conference, which will call for governments to work with industry to find new solutions. We can expect a similar turnout at this year’s COP, too.

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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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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

The pioneering governance structure will see the food giant officially entrench environmental, social and societal objectives into its bylaws, alongside more typical profit goals. Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an "enterprise à mission," a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law.

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2021

There is also a critical social equity dimension to the climate and health nexus which all actors from business to government would benefit from understanding in greater depth. An empowering business narrative and call for health resilient climate action. What's already happening and what's missing? We hope that you'll join us.

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Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2022

In its role as a partner for the summit, BCG said it will support Egypt's COP27 Presidency by providing analytical capabilities and industry insights from its extensive experience helping companies, governments, and multilateral organisations accelerate their climate strategies.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2020

To create fairer, greener and more resilient economies at home and around the world. Today, governments and businesses are, rightly, focussing on their response to the coronavirus pandemic. That is why, as hosts of COP26 , the UK wants to ramp up ambition to achieve a climate-resilient, zero-carbon economy.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Governments have a unique opportunity to step up climate action to ensure that we can halve global emissions by 2030. Businesses have a stake in the COP outcomes for three main reasons - let me explain. What do businesses want to see from the governments that's being discussed at COP? °C trajectory within reach.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2020

Chile was forced to give up hosting the COP 25 United Nations Climate Change Conference in December after cost-of-living protests that started in the capital, Santiago, in October spread to other cities. 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 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 A bond which UK government funding helped to develop. ??Raising And we are getting ready for it.??.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

The new campaign will be stewarded by the UK and Chile as incoming and outgoing COP presidents, respectively. Today's campaign is the latest in a flurry of appeals from private and public sectors actors for governments to engineer a recovery from the coronavirus pandemic that delivers on global climate goals.

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