Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The French bank has set a deadline of 2025 for its clients in Brazil to achieve zero deforestation and full traceability in their production and supply chains. Then join us at the Net Zero Finance pathway event , as part of the Net Zero Festival 2021 , which will take place online on March 16th.

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Fairsnape

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The plethora of climate, carbon and biodiversity targets, visions and reports within, and beyond, the built environment, may seem to cause confusion, but there is a core, science based purpose. In 2012 the Construction Vision 2025 called for a 50% reduction in built environment carbon by 2025.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

It is no surprise then that the World Economic Forum Global Risks Report 2021 identifies climate action failure, extreme weather and biodiversity loss, alongside infectious diseases, as the top global risks for the next decade in terms of impact and likelihood. As with COVID-19, perhaps so with climate?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

In October, the CSB, a group of business leaders appointed to advise Defra on how businesses can achieve the government's 25 Year Environment Plan, launched the 'Get Nature Positive Campaign' to rally business efforts to protect biodiversity.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2021

Among the measures set out in the Capital Shift report is a call for ministers to introduce a compulsory nature-related financial disclosure regime in the UK for companies that would see firms assess their exposure to biodiversity-related issues, such as deforestation and habitat loss, just as it has done with climate-related financial risks.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Latest figures from UN add to growing library of evidence that global financial system needs a major revamp if biodiversity and climate goals are to be met. The COP15 Biodiversity Summit, kicking off next Wednesday in Montreal, is set to be no different. UN environment summits are increasingly about money.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

Defra unveils sweeping package of biodiversity and habitat policies, designed to halt species decline and trigger £500m tree planting programme.

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Business Green

AUGUST 4, 2020

By 2025, more than a fifth of capital would be invested in "transition" businesses by 2025, it added. Shell Australia said the deal was the first acquisition for its new nature-based solutions business, which invests in forests, grasslands, wetlands, and other ecosystems that can capture carbon emissions while protecting biodiversity.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2020

COP26 President Alok Sharma's speech yesterday to the Let's Build Back Better event hosted by the British High Commission in Wellington. Thank you to the British High Commission for organising this event. koutou katoa. English translation: Greeting, greetings, greetings to you all).

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The new Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework should drive a step change nature protection natural world - here's why the world's new biodiversity targets matter for businesses. The 10-year plan, with its four broad goals and 23 targets, has a hugely ambitious aim: to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Grasslands, shrublands, peatlands and other carbon and biodiversity-rich ecosystems are also being plowed up too. While the roadmap has 2025 plans for ending deforestation, it lacks cut-off dates for land conversion. Even 2025 seems late and might trigger a destructive land-clearing race over the coming three years.

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Business Green

MARCH 13, 2022

Information on biodiversity impacts is also being requested for the first time by the CDP questionnaire, and the group signalled that in future the scope of its information requests is expected to expand to cover issues such as land, oceans, food, and waste.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2021

His comments came at a virtual event hosted by The B Team in partnership with the We Mean Business Coalition and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) on Wednesday, during which a series of corporate demands for the G7 were emphasised. To do that, policy actions must ensure we have a chance of keeping 1.5C

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

These events will put human life at risk. It will devastate nature and biodiversity. billion people have been affected by disasters, 90 per cent of which have been caused by weather and climate related events. billion over the period from 2021 to 2025. Hurricanes will become stronger and more intense.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Microsoft , a multinational technology company, has put a powerful set of climate commitments into motion, including making its energy supply 100 percent renewable for all its operations by 2025, becoming carbon negative by 2030, removing its historical carbon emissions by 2050, and rolling out a $1 billion climate innovation fund.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Which is why GreenBiz Group is pleased to announce GreenFin 21 , the launch of a new annual event, virtual for now, taking place April 13-14. GreenFin will join our other annual event brands — GreenBiz , Circularity and VERGE — on the sustainability conference calendar. I hope you’ll join us for this landmark event.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Take a look at the " nine planetary boundaries ", the limits that scientists say humans must respect to keep the planet habitable, and you'll see we're already beyond the safe operating space for four of them: climate change; land-system change; biodiversity; and biogeochemical flows of phosphorus and nitrogen.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 25, 2021

It is no surprise then that the World Economic Forum Global Risks Report 2021 identifies climate action failure, extreme weather and biodiversity loss, alongside infectious diseases, as the top global risks for the next decade in terms of impact and likelihood. As with COVID-19, perhaps so with climate?

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

Between 2021 and 2025, Euratom agreed to provide 532 million euros to the JRC. The briefing also states that the nuclear lobby Foratom is a JRC partner for “training and recruitment structures, technology platforms and joint events.”.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

  In other news the EU parliament passed a law to restore 20% of the EU’s land and sea by 2030, England requires all new buildings to improve biodiversity, and the US Congress finds something they can agree on with nuclear policy, while the SEC may be set to announce watered down rules on reporting. 

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Peaking emissions by 2025 is not in this text," he said. The inclusion could deliver a modest boost to the upcoming COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Montreal, which is hoping to deliver a sweeping new international treaty to ramp up nature protection efforts globally. Follow-through on the phasedown of coal is not in this text.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2022

You can now sign up to attend the virtual Net Zero Finance Summit, which will take place live and interactive on Tuesday 29 March and will be available on demand for delegates after the event.

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Business Green

JUNE 1, 2021

The UK has already set out measures to implement mandatory rules requiring climate risk disclosures across all major segments of the economy by 2025, with a significant proportion of UK major companies set to start reporting on climate risk 2023.

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Business Green

APRIL 16, 2021

The summit is seen as a crucial building block for international climate diplomacy momentum this year in the run up to upcoming G20 and G7 summits, as well as the critical COP26 UN climate summit being hosted by the UK later this year, although concerns are rising as to whether the Glasgow event will be able to go ahead in person.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Where people's ability to feed their families becomes precarious and extreme weather and diseases wipe out livelihoods, people may be forced from their homes, and civil unrest may ferment, events that can undermine fragile government, and reverberate around the globe. But this is as much a question of economics as security.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

When the voice of African farmers and communities is not brought to the negotiating table, we end up with flawed initiatives like Aim4C,” said Anne Maina, from the Biodiversity and Biosafety Association of Kenya. “A Aim4C will have a presence at the summit and is expected to hold a reception, run events in the U.S. subsidiary.

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Planet Pulse

AUGUST 8, 2023

Latin America is home to some of the world’s most biodiverse regions, like the Amazon rainforest and the Galapagos Islands. Earth observation plays a crucial role in monitoring and conserving these invaluable ecosystems, supporting initiatives related to biodiversity conservation, forest management, and wildlife preservation.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And we all need to recognise the relationship between climate, biodiversity, economics and livelihoods is intertwined. We know that a changing climate contributes to biodiversity loss, as habitats are threatened. Biodiversity loss in turn contributes to climate change, as carbon sinks are destroyed. We all have a part to play.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

That in itself is noteworthy: It's the first time preserving nature and biodiversity has been explicitly singled out as a critical climate issue. The World Economic Forum launched a campaign "to increase private-sector investment in natural climate solutions to the tune of one gigaton of emission reductions per year by 2025."

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

Speaking at the same event, European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde argued that mandatory reporting rules were required alongside new standards, warning that the current voluntary approach to TCFD reporting was reminiscent of the "light touch" and "self regulatory principles" that dominated in the run up to the 2008 financial crisis.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

Its conclusions have since been endorsed with apparent sincerity by the UK government, which announced in June that it was committing to ensuring that more of the UK’s largest new infrastructure projects “leave nature and biodiversity in an overall better state than before development”.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

His speech comes just weeks before thousands of global diplomates are expected to descend on Glasgow for the crucial UN summit, which I set to be one of the largest political events ever held on British soil, and at which UK as host is under major pressure to rally countries together behind ambitious climate action.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

On top of that, she will also take control of the UK's net zero and biodiversity agendas as Europe struggles with an energy crisis largely spurred by the Russia's invasion of Ukraine and countries around the world gear up for the crucial COP27 and COP15 UN summits this autumn.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2021

Every year it is the top event in the calendar for gadget geeks and cutting-edge tech enthusiasts, featuring an array of innovations from both global brands and one-man-band start-ups alike. GM is investing $27bn in EV and autonomous vehicles through to 2025, with a plan to launch 30 new EVs globally by that date.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Subscribe Now 📩 Submit deals, announcements, events & opportunities, or general curiosities for the newsletter at hello@ctvc.co. Superorganism , a SF and NY-based venture fund, launched to focus on biodiversity and nature startups. Bio-based plastics alternatives bring in $70M and earth observation lands (hah) $50M.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2021

Every year it is the top event in the calendar for gadget geeks and cutting-edge tech enthusiasts, featuring an array of innovations from both household names and one-man-band start-ups alike. GM is investing $27bn in EV and autonomous vehicles through to 2025, with a plan to launch 30 new EVs globally by that date.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 4, 2021

In addition, local authorities are increasingly looking to utilise natural flood management tools to help cope with high precipitation events rather than building infrastructure which transfers the problem elsewhere (downstream). An ESNET (Environmental Sensor NETwork) continuous water quality monitoring system.

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