blue carbon @conservationorg 🌊🌱🪸 previously head of climate, energy and nature @UKinSingapore and climate attaché for the South Pacific at @UKinFiji
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I met my hero today - ‘Her Deepness’ @SylviaEarle! 🌊 Her dedication to ocean preservation inspired my own career climate change. Grateful for the opportunity to meet Sylvia and share the impact she’s had on my life. Together, we can protect our oceans! 💙 #NoBlueNoGreen
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Dr. Sultan Al Jaber thanked Joseph Teo and Alison Campbell, GST Joint Contact Group Co-Chairs, for their hard work and leadership in laying the foundations for an ambitious Global Stocktake decision. Global climate leaders are working together with Global Stocktake Chairs to deliver a robust response and raise ambitions for a positive outcome at COP28.
#COP28
#climateaction
@AlisonC_UK
@JosephTeoSG
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🇬🇧 £500m Blue Planet Fund (bit.ly/3pVJe6L) giving important 🛠️ for @ASEAN countries and beyond to build 🌊 economies. We were pleased to collaborate with @NUSingapore, @MSEsingapore 's NCCS and others to deliver this week's Blue Carbon Policy & Finance Workshop in 🇸🇬
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👀 Coming soon
🌍 15 new #EarthshotPrize Finalists
🗓️ September 19th
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The UK has signed a new strategic partnership with Singapore.
This partnership will:
📈 Grow the UK’s economy
💻 Enhance expertise in new technologies
💼 Create more jobs
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It demonstrates our shared commitment to free trade, international law & the rules-based multilateral system. It will increase cooperation across trade & investment, defence & security, digital & cybersecurity, science & technology, education, culture and sustainable development.
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@RishiSunak & @leehsienloong met at G20. They announced the new #UKSGStrategicPartnership, setting & unlocking an ambitious direction for the relationship & its benefits for the UK and SG. Read more here: bit.ly/45XDZYg
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🇬🇧 pleased to be one of the first countries to support the new Global Biodiversity Fund, with a £10m contribution announced here. tinyurl.com/3945e9w8. US$44 trillion (> 1/2 of 🌏 GDP) is linked to biodiversity, supporting livelihoods of communities
#GEFcouncil64:
1⃣ launched 💥 Global Biodiversity Fund to deliver on CBD COP15💥
2⃣ approved largest ever work programme. 12 of 45 new projects for @ASEAN.
Follows 30% ⏫ in 💰for @theGEF since previous round. 🇬🇧 provides ~10% of the $5.33bn
Details: thegef.org/projects-operatio…
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📢🇬🇧 SE Asia climate team is hiring a new Energy and Industrial Decarbonisation specialist to join the team in Jakarta or Singapore📢
Apply tinyurl.com/nh9ebrv5 if you're in Jakarta
OR if you're in Singapore, here tinyurl.com/2ddujda6
@UKinIndonesia @UKinSingapore
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"The UK sees #carbonmarkets as playing a crucial role in achieving climate targets. The UK has put carbon market collaboration with #Singapore at the heart of our efforts" opening address #CMISNGforum Tom Moody, Director #SEAsia Climate & Technology
@FCDOGovUK #ClimateAction
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“It seems like we’re asking the carbon price to do a lot of the heavy lifting on impact and finance. Are we missing something? Should be be looking more to blended finance?” Just one of many insightful questions our first plenary of the day considered.
#CMISNGforum
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We were delighted to host Hannah Jones, CEO of The @EarthshotPrize, along with previous winners, Earthshot partners GenZero and @ConservationOrg, and stakeholders across the sustainability sector, for a reception at Eden Hall this week.
100 days of GEF 🙌🏼💚🇬🇧🇸🇬
An exciting milestone but with much more to look forward to as we develop the Work Plan with @MTI_Sg colleagues, businesses, academia, and other climate change thought leaders.
We’re focusing on:
✅ Consulting and collaborating with industry and academia to ensure we deliver outcomes that make it easier for you to do business, to innovate, and to maximise the UK and Singapore’s climate credentials
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✅ Promoting activities and opportunities for 🇬🇧🇸🇬 businesses, universities and investors supported by the GEF, such as business matching, research workshops and partnerships, and industry forums
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✅ Working with Government to ensure tangible and concrete deliverables under the 3 Pillars of Green Transport; Low Carbon Energy Technologies; and Carbon Markets are defined, including through policy and regulation, standards, skills development and capacity building
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We’re focusing on:
✅ Consulting and collaborating with industry and academia to ensure we deliver outcomes that make it easier for you to do business, to innovate, and to maximise the UK and Singapore’s climate credentials
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How realistic is @NetflixUK’s The Diplomat?
Here’s my reaction.
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Very exciting. Bringing Earthshot to a region hugely impacted by climate change and also very likely to innovate to develop solutions is a great idea. Delighted to support the awards and the week.
Introducing #EarthshotSingapore2023 🇸🇬
We are so excited to be heading to Southeast Asia this November for our third annual awards ceremony, taking place during the first ever #EarthshotWeek
✨Find out more: earthshotprize.org/singapore…
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🇸🇬 The #EarthshotPrize 2023 is going to be held in Singapore later this year.
Why Singapore, you ask?
As the Prize travels to a third continent, here are 4 reasons why Southeast Asia is the perfect place to celebrate our innovators and their extraordinary solutions.
Let’s go:
