All posts tagged "decarbonisation"

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  Current climate policy ‘doomed to fail’, says former UK PM Tony Blair

  Net zero policies are increasingly viewed as “unaffordable, ineffective, or politically toxic” and efforts to phase out fossil fuels in the short term are “doomed to fail”, according to a

  • Posted May 1, 2025
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  UK’s Net Zero Council relaunched with ‘broader range of voices’

  The UK government has relaunched the Net Zero Council and expanded its membership to include civil society and local government. The council – whose remit is to advise government on

  • Posted February 18, 2025
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  Challenging the accepted wisdom: why economics isn’t ‘up to the job’ of tackling climate change

  Finance leaders are key to the economic and governmental changes required to reach net zero – but the Global Government Finance Summit heard fears that they have not yet understood

  • Posted October 1, 2023
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  People, planet and profit: how can the UK government supercharge the transition to net zero?

  Climate change is one of the world’s biggest and most urgent problems – and tackling it provides a huge economic opportunity. During a webinar hosted by Deloitte, panellists discussed what

  • Posted September 19, 2023
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  From leading public servants through turbulent times to getting the most out of government data: insight from Global Government Forum’s top webinars of 2022

  Global Government Forum’s programme of webinars for public and civil servants brings together officials involved in developing policy and delivering public services to share best practice on how to deliver

  • Posted December 29, 2022
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  How can governments turn COP27 climate change ambition into action?

  To date, 139 countries have made net zero commitments and many agreed at COP26 in Glasgow last year to develop strengthened pledges. To fulfil these promises, governments need to put

  • Posted November 7, 2022
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  UK’s net zero strategy ruled ‘unlawful’ by high court

  The UK high court has ruled that the government’s net zero strategy does not sufficiently detail how it will meet its emissions targets and that as such it has contravened

  • Posted July 27, 2022
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  Saving people and planet: creating a fairer world in the move to low-carbon economies

  As governments focus increasingly on the climate crisis, they must ensure that people and communities are at the centre of policy decisions. At a GGF webinar, Jack Aldane heard experts

  • Posted May 16, 2022
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  How will governments fund net zero?

  It is estimated that half of the world’s population is ‘highly vulnerable’ to the impacts of climate change. Driven in part by COP26 last year, the race to decarbonise economies,

  • Posted May 2, 2022
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  Dawn of a new energy infrastructure

  To reach net zero, countries will have to radically reshape their energy production and distribution infrastructures – reforming policies and regulations in every field from transport to housing. Catherine Early

  • Posted September 29, 2021
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