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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Terra Infirma

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The post Who’s to blame for the climate COP out in Glasgow? Sustainability is all about change management and change management is all about psychology. appeared first on Terra Infirma.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Amid myriad social, health and political crises, business sustainability is alive and well and living the Paris Agreement. Energy and Clean Growth minister also served as COP President for the 26th UN Climate Change Conference. Who's news. The former U.K.

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The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 10, 2023

This came as the president of the Cop, Sultan Al Jaber, convened a majlis – a meeting in the traditional form of an elders’ conference in the United Arab Emirates – between all countries late on Sunday in an attempt to reach consensus on points of deadlock, including whether fossil fuels should be phased out or phased down.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The latest round of virtual talks delivered a wave of new funding pledges for nature protection and broad political support for a new set of global targets that would serve to curb rates of biodiversity loss over the next decade. At present, the rate of global species extinction is accelerating," he said.

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Renew Economy

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Up to 100,000 people — most of whom derive their professional status and income from climate-related politics, advocacy and business — flew into Dubai for COP28. The result was an unmitigated disaster. The post COP28 a “tragedy for the planet” as Stockholm Syndrome took hold appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Read more: COP25: Diving into the first Blue COP. There’s a new tide of global awareness rising about the critical role of our oceans in climate mitigation and adaptation.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Because it's not about the COP, it's about 'can you see the CO2 emissions curve start to inflect and go down?'". With industrialised economies' commitment to helping emerging economies achieve a net zero transition central to the success of the COP, the government's decision to axe the 0.7 per cent aid budget to 0.5

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Energy Central

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Highlights of the Observations of Several Energy and Climate Experts Attending COP28 Including Pros and Cons of Climate Finance Models In a bylined article titled “May Day at COP28” appearing online in the politically conservative American Thinker, nuclear engineer Joseph Somsel offered his personal views after the first week of being on (..)

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In tears, the British COP26 President Alok Sharma accepted, to avoid depriving the United Kingdom of the political success he had envisioned. This promise of financial support, amounting to $100bn per year, has been floated every year at recent COP conferences without that target ever having been reached.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

It would be easy at this point to simply list the litany of policy failures and the paucity of political leadership documented by the CCC's almost satirically titled progress report. The main thing stopping it happening at the pace and scale required is short termist, outdated, economic thinking, and a lack of political nerve.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

This claim comes as evidence mounts that major agribusiness polluters are using their sizeable economic and political clout to block environmental legislation worldwide – and as the emissions footprints of the largest meat and dairy firms’ continue to grow.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2020

Economically, environmentally and politically no other investment gives you anything like as big a political bang for your public buck. 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. The government is already committed to these goals.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

The world’s political elite will fly in and out of Glasgow later in the year but the city’s many challenges will remain the day after the circus leaves town,” he said at the time. The best thing government could do for Glasgow is to ditch hosting the COP and instead invest the money in dealing with the state of the city.”. “We

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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

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Like a chicken and egg dilemma, who came up with these goals first, politics or science? Political Origins of 2°C. The next key moment in the 2°C story is no longer scientific, but political. And we reached the political tipping point around the two-degree mark. But why are both numbers so important? Another time jump.

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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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Grist

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The emissions gap report is an annual assessment conducted by the United Nations Environment Programme and published in the lead-up to the United Nations climate conference, or COP, which is scheduled to begin at the end of this month in Dubai. The question is, politically, what do countries do about this at COP28?”

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Making COP26 sound more like COP-OUT26, the report furthermore states that, “Current emissions are incompatible with the Paris Agreement and immediate and deep cuts are absolutely mandatory.”. As the IPCC report states, we need to, once and for all, realize that capitalism is unsustainable.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The government could yet relocate the COP26 Climate Summit to London, according to reports this morning, amid claims of spiralling costs and political rows over the current Glasgow venue. It's vital that COP is a success. It's a massive opportunity. We have a duty to do everything we can to make it a success.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Such a position would align the Bank with its own rhetoric, the tri-partisan policy of all major political parties in the U.K., gears up to host the next round of COP climate talks in Glasgow, which may be the first COP to run ‘coal free.’ and with investors across the globe. ’ The role of U.K.-based

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

They reflect the interests, the conditions, the contradictions and the state of political will in the world today. They take important steps, but unfortunately the collective political will was not enough to overcome some deep contradictions. Greenwashing is the new climate denial, and we have seen too much at play in this COP.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2021

At the same event, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab and COP President Alok Sharma will convene a roundtable on the Clean Power Transition with the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, bringing together ministers from eight African and European countries.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

This means bridging the current political divide over outstanding issues related to finance, capacity building, technology transfer, transparency and especially Article Six. This issue cannot continue to be deferred, COP after COP after COP. We need a political decision," Guterres added. "We

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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. The co-hosts also yesterday announced that they have expanded the team of senior figures working on the Summit with the appointment of a new "Friends of COP" advisory board.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Politics is politics - and you end up with all these weird things, like the Prime Minister's decision to have a minister on it," she says. It is a one-year thing, it only lasts as long as a COP. But I'm just really pleased. We are seeing real commitment and momentum that was really needed.".

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The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Climate change minister’s effort to convince Ankara to drop out underlines push for ‘Pacific Cop’ Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The climate change minister, Chris Bowen, made a whistle-stop visit to Turkey on Friday night in an attempt to reach a deal for Australia to host tens of thousands of people at a major UN climate (..)

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

The media and political leaders unable to hold back the tide. Why it will shift perceptions more radically than ever before. Why it will for the first time in a long time give us…a chance. For what you are then picturing is the game being changed. Soft denial being punctured. Naming the Truth Can this really make sense?

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Energy Innovation

APRIL 1, 2021

“I am excited they will join our efforts to promote cost-effective climate solutions that ensure equitably distributed decarbonization benefits, build new economic opportunities, and work across political lines.”. plays a leadership role tackling the climate crisis at home.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The role of the fossil fuel industry in driving climate change, and distorting politics in their favour, deserves rigorous and sustained scrutiny from the public and governments alike,” Sam Chetan Welsh, political campaigner for Greenpeace UK, said.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

London Mayor Sadiq Khan is preparing to kick off the second annual London Climate Action Week from next week with a stark warning for business and political leaders to step up efforts to tackle the looming "climate emergency".

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

degrees C target was initially established as a target in Paris in 2015 after a push by developing nations at a previous COP, to bring attention to the fact that global warming does not impact all nations equally. For context, it has taken the world more than a century to warm a little more than 1 degree C, according to NASA.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2020

Very sad that that the role I was offered by @BorisJohnson last year has now been rescinded as Whitehall "can't cope" with an Indy cop unit. Wishing the cop team every blessing in the climate recovery emergency. A shame we haven't had one Climate cabinet meeting since we formed.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Branded as the most inclusive COP to date, the reality of COP26 was activists and NGOs left out in the cold, and billionaires and fossil fuel representative sitting at the negotiating table. Millions of people have already been displaced and millions more will lose their homes between now and the next COP.

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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. degrees," Sharma and Costa added.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Big polluters and a surge of nationalism scuttled any meaning results from two intense weeks of U.N. climate negotiations.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Former Environment Minister Rebecca Pow returned to Defra as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, after stepping down amidst the summer's political chaos, while Lord Benyon was promoted to Minister of State at the department.

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