Low Impact

AUGUST 11, 2021

The Covid-19 health and economic crisis could make this situation even worse as governments decide on whether to spend trillions on rescue packages for fossil fuel and high-carbon industries as well as on stimulus packages to re-start their economies. The post £3.3

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Fossil fuels Packaging Government Carbon 101

Business Green

JULY 6, 2020

E3G's Tom Burke sets out four tests the Chancellor's stimulus package must pass if the government is to deliver on its 'green recovery' promises. If there is to be any prospect of the government making a success of COP 26 next year it must be seen to walk its climate talk.

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COP Politics Government Investment 73

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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Charged

MARCH 18, 2025

Was the business model robust enough to support a more comprehensive O&M package? Charged : Thats a good point, and maybe when people say, Its because theres all these different companies involved, thats just a cop-out, because theyre not really identifying where the problem lies. Selling an unlimited truck-roll package?

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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 22, 2020

They added that while COP26 and the Pre-COP and Youth4Climate events that had been due to be staged in Italy this summer had been postponed until next year, it remained crucial that governments use the coming months to strengthen their decarbonisation plans. We must also follow the best scientific advice on climate change.".

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Climate change COP Government Resilience 89

Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

Guterres cited new research on G20 recovery packages released this week that shows that twice as much recovery money has been spent on fossil fuels as clean energy. "Some countries have used stimulus plans to prop up oil and gas companies that were already struggling financially," he said.

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2020

Dave Pearson, director of Star Renewable Energy, blasted the policy as a "clear error of judgement" that would be a "major national embarrassment in the run up to COP 26", referring to the UN climate conference set to be hosted by the UK in November 2021. It therefore provides a framework for ensuring installation and product standards.".

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Business Green

JUNE 13, 2021

Against this backdrop business groups and campaigners have become increasingly frustrated at delays to several crucial green policy packages, as well as controversial moves such as the government's decision to axe the Green Homes Grant scheme and its failure to block plans for a new coal mine.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

Economic stimulus packages provide a perfect opportunity to reflect this. 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. Second, we must act quickly and decisively to avert this crisis. Finally, we must share our learnings around the world.

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Business Green

APRIL 27, 2020

Schulze added that ministers at the conference should also address calls to systematically focus their coronavirus recovery and investment packages to tackle climate risks. But so far only seven nations have done so and some have re-submitted existing plans without upgrading their emissions goals.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2020

As COP President Designate, I am committed to a 'whole of society' approach, and we will also use the Summit to create an inclusive and diverse platform. Announcements must show genuine progress from existing policies and Paris targets. We will give priority to the most transformational commitments put forward.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

In his first major speech since the close of UN Climate Summit this afternoon, Sharma is to urge countries to meet the various climate commitments they made last autumn, as he sets out the priorities for the UK's COP Presidency year, which runs until the start of the COP27 Climate Summit in Egypt next November.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2020

In addition to raising ambition, the UK's COP Presidency will focus efforts on 5 areas which need particular attention to achieve our goals. I know that New Zealand is taking action too, with measures like the environmental jobs package, and your investment in conservation and biodiversity. degree target.

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Resilience Carbon-neutral Climate change COP 89

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.??.

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Carbon Resilience COP Climate change 84

Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

COP talks each year are often fraught and progress remains far too slow, as today's IPCC report on escalating climate impacts will testify. As close observers of global climate diplomacy have long argued, if the COP process and the Paris Agreement did not exist you would have to invent them. The US left the treaty altogether briefly.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

Now we have the date for COP, we'd very much like the industry to be seen as one of the leading sectors as we come towards COP," Symons says. "I I think having that date has also acted as quite a good spur for our industry.". Transport emissions require the buy in of absolutely everybody, to change their ways of working.".

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2020

International summits to progress a global oceans treaty and mid-year UNFCCC talks have been postponed, while even more crucially COP26 and the much anticipated 'Biodiversity COP' are now set to take place next year. There is, after all, a limit to what you can achieve on Zoom.

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Carbon Climate change COP Government 71

Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2020

British diplomats, the UK COP presidency team and Ministers would have been in a whirl of frenetic influencing activity globally (we hope) to drive up ambition, and drive out those new nationally-determined contributions (NDCs) from all the parties to the Paris Agreement. But these are not normal times, and the COP has been delayed by a year.

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COP Climate change Investment Packaging 56

Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The decisions included in the Glasgow Package will have a major impact on the global economic recovery, jobs and business growth opportunities. 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? ºC pathway.

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Business Green

MARCH 19, 2021

He said that firstly the UK would "urge all countries to set 2030 emissions reductions targets that put us on a path to net zero" and call on them to introduce policies to deliver on such targets, such as bans on the sale of internal combustion engine cars and the introduction of ambitious green recovery packages.

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Biodiversity Climate change Government Resilience 92

Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

EUA prices, which effectively increase costs of carbon intensive businesses providing them with a clear financial incentive to curb emissions, have been rising steadily since the EU launched its latest climate package and pushed through reforms to the carbon market to tackle a long-standing oversupply of credits.

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Carbon Fossil fuels COP Packaging 69

Business Green

MARCH 31, 2020

How might a green stimulus package get Britain back on its feet and deliver Net Zero? What should a strong COP-26 aim to deliver and what is business' role in supporting those goals? In due course we'll be developing some clear recommendations on next steps. Are there new long-term ways of working that are better than before?

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COP Packaging Sustainability Resilience 48

Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

A precedent is being set with a new loss and damage framework taking shape and the first, albeit modest, funding packages being announced. But at the same time there has been progress. It looks as if adaptation funding will be doubled and will be better channelled to the countries that need it.

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Fossil fuels COP Carbon Pollution 101

Business Green

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The new funding package for the 2020 to 2025 period does mark an increase on previous levels of climate finance, but the failure to meet the 2020 deadline was still widely interpreted as a major blow to the long-running international climate negotiations that are set to resume at next week's COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

Sourdough starters, Zoom drinks, online theatre, Joe Wicks' PE sessions, Netflix… whatever it is, and whatever combination, in whatever time you happen to have available to you, it seems as though we've all been putting together our own package of coping mechanisms. We share this space, and we need to share it far, far better than now.

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Health Packaging Carbon Global warming 70

Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The scheme could see direct funding to enhance the energy efficiency of social housing, schools, and hospitals, alongside a package of incentives to encourage other households to enhance their efficiency.

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Carbon Electricity Government Policy 72

Business Green

APRIL 26, 2020

The two-day Petersberg Climate Dialogue has long been a key event in the annual climate diplomacy 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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Resilience COP Government Politics 65

Business Green

MARCH 31, 2020

How might a green stimulus package get Britain back on its feet and deliver Net Zero? What should a strong COP-26 aim to deliver and what is business' role in supporting those goals? In due course we'll be developing some clear recommendations on next steps. Are there new long-term ways of working that are better than before?

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COP Packaging Sustainability Resilience 41

Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

Italian Minister for the Environment, Land and Sea Protection, Sergio Costa: "Whilst we have decided to postpone COP26, including the Pre-COP and ‘Youth for the Climate' event, we remain fully committed to meeting the challenge of climate change. Tackling climate change requires strong, global and ambitious action.

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Climate change Resilience Health Government 72

Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

If approved, the package would be widely regarded as a major breakthrough that could deliver significant new funding for the most climate vulnerable nations. The COP decision must put the world on a path to phasing out all fossil fuels and an urgent, just transition to renewables.".

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Fossil fuels COP Methane Carbon 69

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Other support packages include the £150 million Home Upgrade Grant, which is intended to assist emissions reductions with households not currently on the gas grid. This is hardly the COP figure the Prime Minister wants to read.”. The plan also mentions a 2028 minimum target of installing 600,000 heat pumps per year.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The COP Presidency and host nation Canada convened a special meeting of heads of delegation at 11am on Wednesday in a bid to smooth out some of the deadlocked issues ahead of the arrival of ministers. Without it then you would say we have not had a successful COP," he said."

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 7, 2024

Fossil fuel interests now dominate COP, and they’ve inserted into the discussions the language of “abated emissions” — i.e., you can keep burning fossil fuels if you can capture the carbon (a big if). A fascinating McKinsey study shows that products with ESG claims on packaging experienced faster sales growth.

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Sustainability Fossil fuels Law Climate change 148

Business Green

JULY 23, 2020

Politicians everywhere are designing their economic recovery packages. As co-hosts of the next climate COP, we will be asking other countries to do the same. So far, governments around the world have committed $9tr to Covid recovery. And how they choose to spend those funds will have ramifications for decades.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

10, and until No 10 can demonstrate what this meeting is about and its importance, the COP communications team will struggle to deliver a coherent story.". A senior climate campaigner who has informally advised the UK government told Politico : "The COP26 communications team is hamstrung by a lack of political leadership at No.

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Carbon-neutral Government Retail Climate change 65

Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

COP Summits rarely, if ever, finish on time, but seasoned observers have warned the current talks appear to be badly behind schedule. In contrast, developing nations are continuing to push for a well-funded new funding package focused on Loss and Damage to be introduced with near immediate effect.

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