Business Green

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Together, they will work to finalise a post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). Biodiversity underpins human health, wealth, happiness, and identity. But while this is well understood, the loss of biodiversity and intact ecosystems continues to accelerate. This is not going unnoticed by the business community.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

A number of Aramco’s ads claimed the company “promoted biodiversity” and “protected the planet”. The firm even flew Kwarteng around the country on his two day trip, giving the company the chance to lobby the minister then in charge of UK energy policy. Meanwhile, in the UK, Aramco has been no less busy.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Talks to deliver a new global pact for nature protection may have got off to a sluggish start at the COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Montreal, but observers remain optimistic the meeting could yet usher in a new era in how the private sector appraises nature. Business can help to create certainty," she told BusinessGreen.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

I worked for the United Nations for several years as a law and policy adviser and have been involved in international negotiations. President Joe Biden, and their representatives will gather to demonstrate their political commitment to slowing climate change. What is COP26? staff and other experts. Courtesy: Johannes Plenio /Unsplash.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

UN approves UK and Italian request for high profile Summit to be postponed by a full year, as co-hosts announce new 'Friends of COP' advisory board. The co-hosts also yesterday announced that they have expanded the team of senior figures working on the Summit with the appointment of a new "Friends of COP" advisory board.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

As such officials now believe it would be beneficial to have more time available to reschedule meetings next year and step up efforts to rebuild political momentum ahead of the talks. The Chinese government is currently understood to be exploring new dates for the Summit in the first half of 2021.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

We are committed to holding COP 26 in Glasgow, but the Scottish government needs to work with us to make sure this is a successful summit, which showcases the UK as a world leader in tackling climate change and represents value for the UK taxpayer," he was quoted as saying.

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 17, 2020

To all but the willfully ignorant there is more than ample scientific evidence to indicate that we are facing a biodiversity crisis and a climate emergency. China has begun drafting its next five year plan (FYP), this top-level policy blueprint has been called, "one of the most important documents on the planet" for global sustainability.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The decision comes despite the UK still presently holding the crucial COP Presidency role for another fortnight until it hands the baton to Egypt, and despite the PM having promised to prioritise the environment a speech outside Downing Street earlier this week. But great news for political opponents.". Grim news for nature.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

It is highly likely the row over phasing down or phasing out coal power will return in the coming years and the debate at future COPs will no doubt be extended to address oil and gas. Research published by Climate Action Tracker warned the sum total of policies and actions being taken by governments would deliver roughly 2.4C

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Eliot Whittington, policy director at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), said that beyond the breakthrough on Loss and Damage, the Sharm El Sheikh Implementation Plan "fails to deliver the promise of its name". Even so, business figures also criticised the lack of progress and ambition achieved at COP27.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Against that backdrop, renewable energy, low carbon heating and energy efficiency all rose to the fore, underscored by major climate policy wins - such as the Inflation Reduction Act in the US and REPowerEU in Europe - and rising green investment. UK coal mine approval: Is this the worst ever climate policy decision? (8

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. These companies are stepping up their game because the exposure they are facing is stepping up,” says Jennifer Jacquet, Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Miami. “It rise in temperature that risks tipping the world into irreversible climate breakdown.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

And by COP in Glasgow we will look to have those types of commitments across the financial sector, right into the private banking sector as well.". It's a net zero COP. Meanwhile, there are also growing political pressures. That's the objective. That's the expectation.". The decade of delivery.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Indeed, in one of its recent reports, Chatham House makes the case that such factors could, ultimately, displace people, disrupt markets, undermine political stability, and exacerbate conflict. Though policy choices could reduce this figure, and I would add that it includes investments with long term benefits.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The agreement includes a number of environmental clauses, with Chapter 22 of the FTA published yesterday reaffirming the UK and Australia's commitment to protecting biodiversity and achieving the climate goals contained in the Paris Agreement.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

It follows a separate communiqué on environmental issues last week, which saw the G20 agree to common objectives on biodiversity, natural capital, more efficient use of resources and sustainable finance. are much lower than at 2C," states.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

As ever, scores of leading thinkers and influential organisations in business, finance, economics, academia, science, politics and civil society have offered their views on the IPCC's latest findings today, and here BusinessGreen pulls some of the most insightful. To save both lives and livelihoods, we all need to plan, adapt and thrive.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Just a week after the government finally unleashed its Net Zero Strategy , Heat and Buildings Strategy and the Treasury's Net Zero Review, replete with a flurry of fresh policy and investment, it was now the turn of the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, to set out the government's spending plans for the next year and beyond.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

CBI chief policy director Matthew Fell said: "The Net Zero Strategy and [Spending] Review fills in some of the blanks on how we realise the UK's decarbonisation ambitions. The energy industry has shown what is possible with the right policies in place and is ready to invest further helping create jobs and growth across the country.".

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

All nations, especially the G20 and other major emitters, need to join the net zero emissions coalition and reinforce their commitments with credible, concrete and enhanced Nationally Determined Contributions and policies before COP26 in Glasgow. "We We need immediate action on energy. Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

In the southern Polish city of Katowice last December, news coverage of the UN’s COP 24 meeting on climate change suddenly and dramatically surged, mostly thanks to a three-minute speech given by a Swedish teen activist with Asperger’s syndrome and the amplifying power of social media. But first of all, does it pass the Thunberg test?

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 7, 2024

Scientists tell us that we’ve pushed the planet beyond its ability to support us in critical areas such as availability of water, biodiversity, and, of course, carbon emissions. One memorable headline read, “ Morgan Stanley Doubles Down on ESG Despite the Politics.”

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Andrew Winston

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

We will also see a degradation of natural systems and declines in biodiversity. This rapid expansion is being driven partly by aggressive policy (like the Inflation Reduction Act in the U.S. ). But even if political winds shift, the real momentum now is economics: Renewables are cheaper in most places, so the expansion will continue.

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CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The COP 15 biodiversity conference has wrapped up its work in Montreal. There were smiles all around, but was any progress made?

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CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 11, 2022

The COP 15 biodiversity conference is under way in Montreal, where scientists are saying this may be humanity's last best hope for survival.

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CleanTechnica

JANUARY 7, 2020

It seems like a lifetime ago when at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, I watched more than 100 heads of state and government queue to sign the original documents of the Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Biodiversity Convention and Agenda 21. Negotiations had been tough, and some leaders were more enthusiastic than others.

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