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Year: 2021
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FleishmanHillard COP26 Daily Digest: Day 10
November 9, 2021
FleishmanHillard COP26 Daily Digest, Day 10: Tuesday 9th November 2021 On Monday, COP26 welcomed the star power of former U.S. President Barack Obama, who issued a call to action to young people to engage in politics to have an impact upon the climate crisis, while also challenging the decision by Russia and China’s leaders not to attend the summit. Simultaneously, vulnerable nations continued to demand greater, faster progress on climate finance commitments, while the UK Government...
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Connecting to COP26 – View from Latin America
November 9, 2021
COP26 – The view from Latin America from Jorge Diaz de Villegas, Senior Partner, and Denise Rockenbach, Senior Vice President, FleishmanHillard Latin America. WHILE THE REST OF LATIN AMERICA HOPES FOR RELIEF TO FINANCE CLIMATE INITIATIVES, ALL EYES ARE ON BRAZIL AND MEXICO | COP26 – The view from Latin America When representatives of Latin American countries, the United States and the UK gathered for a regional summit in the leadup to COP26, Brazil and...
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FleishmanHillard COP26 Daily Digest: Day 9
November 8, 2021
FleishmanHillard COP26 Daily Digest, Day 9: Monday 8th November 2021 As week two at COP26 moves ahead, the United States is sending heavyweight political leaders to the negotiations to reinforce its ambitions and push for further action from its peers. Meanwhile, the UK Government’s Environment Secretary again raised prospects of a UK carbon border tax, while the COP26 Presidency programme will examine climate finance to aid with adaptation, loss and damage caused by climate change. Today’s...
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Connecting to COP26 – View from Brussels
November 8, 2021
COP26 – The view from Brussels from Jane Gimber, Associate Director, Financial Services and Head of Sustainability, and Maximo Miccinilli, Senior Vice President and Head of Energy and Climate, FleishmanHillard Brussels GETTING ‘FIT FOR 55’ TO BECOME THE FIRST CARBON-NEUTRAL CONTINENT | COP26 – The view from Brussels The EU entered the COP26 negotiations with its 2030 goals clearly laid out on the table: a milestone package of binding legislation - ‘Fit for 55’...
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COP26 Daily Digest: Day 6
November 5, 2021
FleishmanHillard COP26 Daily Digest, Day 6: Friday 5th November 2021 As we approach the halfway point of COP26, organisations are beginning to assess the potential impact of commitments made at the summit. The International Energy Agency reports that if all pledges are delivered in full, global heating could be limited to 1.8 degrees Celsius, but the University of Melbourne predicts heating of 2 degrees Celsius, increasingly seen as unacceptable. We also highlight the impact of the...
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Connecting to COP26 – View from Canada
November 5, 2021
COP26 – The view from Canada from Pierre Cyr, Senior Vice President at FleishmanHillard HighRoad in Ottawa. OILPATCH BUBBLES IN RESPONSE TO TRUDEAU’S CLIMATE AMBITIONS | COP26 - The view from Canada Having made his speeches and climate commitments, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau concluded his participation in the COP26 climate conference on Tuesday along with other heads of state and government. Now the real climate negotiations begin as diplomats carry out their leaders’ marching...
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Jim Donaldson to judge the ICCO Global Awards
November 5, 2021
FleishmanHillard CEO UK and Middle East, Jim Donaldson has been announced as a judge of this year's ICCO Global Awards! Entries into the ICCO Global Awards are judged by a carefully selected elite panel of top international PR practitioners from across the globe who will consider the excellence and effectiveness of PR and communications work from across the world. The awards are globally recognised by PR trade associations representing 70 countries worldwide. They are open...
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Connecting to COP26 – View from Gen Z
November 5, 2021
COP26 – The View from Gen Z With today’s COP26 agenda dedicated to discussion around youth and public empowerment, we hand the megaphone over to five Gen Z colleagues at FleishmanHillard UK, to get their thoughts on the conference thus far. As our Purposeful Business and Youth & Culture teams found overwhelmingly in their recent report, 'The Voice of the Climate Generation', Gen Z is ready to be heard on issues related to the climate...
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Connecting to COP26 – View from Berlin
November 4, 2021
Connecting to COP26 – the view from Berlin from Dr Sebastian Schwark, Partner and Head of Corporate Reputation at FleishmanHillard, Berlin. AFTER MERKEL, THE SEARCH FOR CLIMATE LEADERSHIP | COP26 - The view from Berlin In Germany, climate change is front and centre of political and public debate. With COP26 viewed as the last, best hope, the German public is obsessed with decarbonization and the net-zero transition, and as Chancellor Merkel departs after 16 years...
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COP26 Daily Digest: Day 5
November 4, 2021
FleishmanHillard COP26 Daily Digest, Day 5: Thursday 4 November 2021 Wednesday’s finance-focused agenda at COP26 saw new commitments to ramp up climate finance and shift away from the financing of fossil fuel production, though not without scepticism. The financial sector has been criticised for continuing to enable the expansion of non-renewable energy sources, as well as not developing adequate mechanisms to make climate finance more accessible for developing countries. Progress in both areas is seen...