Peter Cripps

• COP28: Coal plant shut-down deal takes significant step forward, but will still operate until 2035

  07 December 2023

  From Peter Cripps at COP28 in Dubai

• VOX COP: Pierre Abadie - renewables pledge 'is big deal'

  05 December 2023

  An agreement to treble investments in renewable energy and double investment in energy efficiency has made COP28 the most important UN climate summit for years, according to Pierre Abadie, group climate director at impact investor Tikehau Capital.

• COP28: Opening ceremony invokes spirit of Yoda

  30 November 2023

  The curtain was raised on the COP28 climate jamboree today, with a colourful session in which its President made the case for including fossil fuels and a top UN climate chief invoked the wisdom of Yoda.

  

• COP28: 'Unrealistic' to expect agreement to phase out fossil fuels, says Deutsche Bank

  30 November 2023

  The COP28 climate talks kicking off today in Dubai are unlikely to result in an agreement to phase out fossil fuels, given its setting in one of the world's biggest oil and gas producing countries, warned Deutsche Bank.

• Exclusive: Innovative carbon credit that pays to decommission oil fields in $10m funding round

  22 November 2023

  A carbon market firm is looking to raise $10 million to enable it to roll out a new type of carbon credit that will pay oil companies not to extract reserves.

• The Future of ESG Data, Asia: conference round-up

  21 November 2023

  The region faces unique challenges, including that many SMEs are not able or willing to report the ESG data being demanded of them. Peter Cripps reports

  

• The Future of ESG Data Asia conference: Does APAC need ISSB-Lite?

  17 November 2023

  The Asia-Pacific region might require a slimmed down version of the sustainability standards drawn up by the IFRS's International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), a conference heard.

• Future of ESG Data Asia: Why one company is reducing its sustainability reporting to just nine metrics

  17 November 2023

  A real estate firm plans to reduce the number of sustainability indicators it will report - from more than 300 to just nine - amid concerns the costs of assuring them could exceed those of its financial audit.

• Phoenix Group: Time for the UK government to form its own transition plan

  09 November 2023

  The UK government would help to catalyse investment in climate solutions if it produced its own transition plan, Phoenix Group has argued.

• Environmental rating firm hopes to raise €15m amid revamp

  09 November 2023

  An ESG data provider is hoping to raise €15 million ($16 million) to help it roll out its newly enhanced dataset.