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SSE Renewables boss Stephen Wheeler: It takes too long to get planning decisions for green projects

The managing director of SSE Renewables said he planned to tell Cop28 about the company’s frustrating experience of progressing Ireland’s energy transition

Cop conferences are primary about negotiations between states. Picture: Getty

There’s no doubt many of you have seen countless headlines over the past several weeks about Cop28. Most of the spotlight is rightly reserved for state actors representing the parties that signed up to the UN Climate Change Convention in 1992.

This is because at their core, Cop conferences are about negotiations between states. However, this momentous annual gathering has grown over almost three decades to become a wider coming together of civil society and ...