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

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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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2021

When biodiversity is protected, and ecosystems are healthy and diverse, farmers are more productive and more resilient to climate change.”. In Burkina Faso, a range of agroecological techniques and tree planting has improved yields, climate resilience and contributed to storage of over 1.7 million tons of carbon dioxide. “If

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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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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Energy and Clean Growth minister also served as COP President for the 26th UN Climate Change Conference. Cortney Worrall is the new president and CEO of the nonprofit Waterfront Alliance , which pushes for resilience along the New York and New Jersey coasts.

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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

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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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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Renew Economy

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Albanese government contributes a foundational $100m to the Pacific Resilience Facility and rejoins Green Climate Fund with a $50m offering. The post Australia mends Pacific ties with climate fund millions, but keeps coal alive appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Food and agriculture businesses have a tremendous opportunity to act now to drive down emissions, protect nature, and increase supply chain resiliency. Collaboration will be key to driving down emissions and creating a climate stable future.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

With greater scrutiny over emissions from meat and dairy companies, it is not surprising they are stepping up their game to head off any COP outcome that might hinder their operations,” Ben Lilliston, from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy told DeSmog. Pesticide company Syngenta’s Foundation came with Ukraine.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 22, 2024

AI as an ally of energy transition DNV forecasts $12tn into grid and renewables in US and Canada by 2050 Looking ahead to 2024, we anticipate: Concrete policy commitments for clean energy deployment In 2024, countries will promulgate specific plans and targets to accelerate policy momentum and achieve the ambitious targets set at COP 28.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The government programme predicts which crops will be resilient to the changing climate and provides drought-resistant seeds, but farmers spread their risk by planting their own choice of crops too. 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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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. It also commits the signatories to offering "full support to ensure COP26 delivers real global progress for a net zero economy and climate resilience".

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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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

As with the last summit, the risk continues to be that greenwashing leaves governments with “a vision that tinkers around the edges,”rather than a transformative one that creates food systems that are resilient and restore ecosystems,” as Shefali Sharma, director of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), warned at COP27.

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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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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2019

While offsets are often seen as a cop-out for industries that don’t want to tackle their own pollution, airlines are clearly uniquely limited in their climate pollution mitigation options. One answer is for executives to offset their airlines’ emissions through carbon mitigation and sequestration projects.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2020

To create fairer, greener and more resilient economies at home and around the world. That is why, as hosts of COP26 , the UK wants to ramp up ambition to achieve a climate-resilient, zero-carbon economy. These are: clean energy, clean transport, nature-based solutions, adaptation and resilience, and underpinning everything, finance.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

They could be being transported into the Celtic Sea and Bristol Channel, or even further out into the Atlantic and north to Scotland, potentially in time for the UNFCCC CoP in November.

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

Finally, he reminded Ministers and officials from around the world that nations must commit to net zero emissions by 2050 and submit more ambitious national climate plans before COP-26 next year. Fossil fuels are increasingly risky business with fewer takers.".

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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.??. We are firmly committed to this goal.??

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Business Green

JULY 14, 2021

Chair of the Environment Agency, Emma Howard Boyd, said the fund would help demonstrate how to create investable, nature-based solutions to the climate emergency ahead of this November's COP 26 Climate Summit. However, in the face of the ongoing climate and ecological emergencies I want to go much further and faster.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

This is a chance for nations to recover better, to include the most vulnerable in those plans, and a chance to shape the 21st century economy in ways that are clean, green, healthy, just, safe and more resilient. That we don't sow seeds of next crisis, but embed resilience to shocks like pandemics & extreme weather events.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Food systems approaches that aim to repair, regenerate, and transform our systems toward resilience must address the systemic issues of equity and power,” she said, making reference to the 13 principles to guide food systems transformation drawn up by the UN in a multi-year consultation process.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

With the delay to COP 26 we can't lose the momentum on climate action, so I'm pleased to see that London organisations are leading the way, showing once again that the capital is a driving force for action nationally and globally," Khan said.

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Business Green

JUNE 19, 2022

The program aims to provide technical assistance to South African government stakeholders working on just transition sector job resilience, climate transition pathways for reaching net zero in various economic sectors, and energy sector decarbonisation.

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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This Conference of Parties (COP) was highly anticipated as a critical inflection point where our economies and societies set forth on an ambitious and clearly defined path to decarbonize by 2050 and keep warming below 1.5 degrees C to avoid the worst impacts of climate change — or continue with the status quo.

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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. Rethinking how businesses use resources and rebuilding the health of nature's ability to both absorb carbon and build resilience to climate risks, are both key components of an effective net zero carbon strategy.".

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

With world leaders about to gather in Dubai, United Arab Emirates for the COP 28 climate summit, the transition to green energy will be one of the key topics on the agenda. Since a microgrid can operate during outages, it reinforces grid resilience and help mitigate disturbances. It can aid in grid control, monitoring and restoration.

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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. Only by coming together can we build the zero carbon, climate resilient future that is essential for our people and our planet.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

We praise countries for seeking compromises, putting aside differences and delivering a Treaty that will let us protect the oceans, build our resilience to climate change and safeguard the lives and livelihoods of billions of people."

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Notably, the document makes the case for businesses having a much more significant role at future COPs, through the introduction of corporate determined contributions (CDCs) that would mirror the nationally determined contributions (NDCs) that parties signed up to the Paris Agreement must produce every five years. But] we don't revisit it.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

We can focus in the Commonwealth on driving financial flows into resilience and green growth - what does the Commonwealth stand for today if not that? The UK must be agile in its post-Brexit international age. That requires more and better diplomacy, not less.

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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.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2021

The former Conservative politicians, who led delegations to previous UN COPs during their respective tenures at the helm of UK climate policy, made the demand in an open letter published in the Times this morning to mark International Women's Day. "We

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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 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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