AGreenLiving

JULY 10, 2020

20 must-read books about food systems Danielle Nierenberg Fri, 07/10/2020 – 00:50 With record high unemployment , a reeling global economy and concerns of food shortages , the world as we know it is changing. Focusing on the concept of dude foods, the book follows the evolution of food marketing for men. ” by Ashanté M.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

A new report finds that an integrated approach to tackling biodiversity and climate change could unlock more effective solutions the interlocking crises. The level of interconnectedness between the climate change and biodiversity crises is high and should not be underestimated. "The

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2022

The UK's premier sustainable business summit will this autumn bring together some of the world's foremost thinkers on what it takes to accelerate and expand the net zero transition, and you can now reserve your place. As such, delegates can now book their ticket through the Net Zero Festival website. "At The Net Zero Festival is back!

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2022

Labour’s Shadow Business Secretary hails the social and economic virtues of the net zero transition at last night's BusinessGreen Leaders Awards. We face a pivotal moment - although every moment is a pivotal moment in this decisive decade and in the years after that," Miliband said.

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Business Green

JANUARY 12, 2021

The Prime Minister says nations most 'go further' to protect nature, in addition to fighting carbon emissions, in his address to world leaders at the UN-backed One Planet Summit hosted by the French government on Monday. But the problem is that we are destroying species and habitat at an absolutely unconscionable rate.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Ahead of the COP27 UN climate summit, hundreds of scientists are calling on the PR firm in charge of the event’s communications, Hill+Knowlton, to cut ties with its fossil fuel industry clients, which include major oil companies Aramco, ExxonMobil, and Shell as well as an industry coalition called the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

Thanks to the support of BCG, Schroders, SNC Lavalin, ENGIE, Bank of America, Drax, Derwent London, and Energy Saving Trust a limited number of free passes to attend the three day Net Zero Festival virtual summit are now available.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The Treasury said the green gilt was both the largest inaugural green issuance by any sovereign, while also attracting the largest ever order book for a sovereign green transaction. Earlier this year the Treasury said the debut green bond was a "core part" of the Chancellor's vision to establish the UK as a leader in sustainable finance.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The UK’s new climate minister has pulled out of an event hosting two of the world’s most prominent climate science deniers, DeSmog can reveal. climate science denial activist. Climate Science Deniers. climate science denial activist. We need a government that understands the actions needed to reach net zero.”.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

According to Saudi Aramco’s podcast, the fossil fuel industry is innovating new climate solutions, and BP’s podcast proclaims more of the same. ” However, climate advocates argue that when it comes to a complex and politicized issue like the climate crisis, the media should re-think this practice.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

Trends in corporate sustainability have been mostly consistent — an expanding climate crisis, lightning-speed growth in clean tech, rising pressure from many stakeholders, and more. Global climate meeting falls short. Here are the 6 big themes I drew from the last year, and 6 things to look out for in 2022]. Here we go.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The Financial Times reports the government is in talks with ExCel London about potentially moving the COP26 Summit to the capital. The government could yet relocate the COP26 Climate Summit to London, according to reports this morning, amid claims of spiralling costs and political rows over the current Glasgow venue.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Join world leaders, policymakers, activists and innovators online as they sketch out the future we want to see, and discuss the best way to get there. Doctors, scientists, politicians and data experts will gather at Web Summit to plan the way forward. Climate change We need drastic action – and fast. Subscribe in a reader

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Michael Gove is hotly tipped to take up the reins of the crucial Glasgow Summit, but has the government truly internalised the scale of the task it now faces. What is going on? It is 10 days since the COP26 President Claire O'Neill was unceremoniously sacked , creating a vacancy that is still yet to be filled.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Scotland's First Minister calls for 'reset' of relationship between Holyrood and Westminster to aid action at UN climate summit in Glasgow. It's vital that COP is a success. It's a massive opportunity. We have a duty to do everything we can to make it a success.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Statement by Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the UN High-Level summit on biodiversity. We are on the brink of a world in which the orangutan and the black rhino can be found not in the jungles of Borneo or the savannahs of Africa, but confined to the pages of a history book. There is the very fact of this summit, the first of its kind.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

On the morning of October 12th BusinessGreen will stage the Net Zero Skills Summit in association with National Grid , bringing together top experts, business leaders, education practitioners, and graduates and apprentices to explore how the UK can best ensure it has the skills base necessary to accelerate the net zero transition.

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Business Green

JUNE 13, 2021

A national delivery body is also needed to coordinate the retrofitting of almost one million homes a year through to 2050 if climate goals are to be kept on track, the CBI will say, warning the UK currently lacks the financial, regulatory or delivery frameworks to meet heat pump installation and other green building targets. "By

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

COP26 President argues 'historic' commitments made by countries, investors, and companies at COP26 Climate Summit must now be honoured. Climate is a space where national and global interests align," he said. Twelve weeks on from the start of that summit, those same leaders who came to Glasgow have a choice to make.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Interviewer Thomas Kolster, the author of the book “Goodvertising: Creative advertising that cares”, opens with a softball: “Yannick, advertising and climate can seem like quite an oxymoron. So why do you care about the climate?” billion euros (around $2.49

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Andrew Winston

APRIL 16, 2019

[I've been watching, with some joy, the rise of the youth climate movement. A month ago, a couple million kids took to the streets to protest inaction on climate change which, as they see it, threatens their entire future. million students in 300 cities around the world walked out of school to march for climate action.

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 11, 2020

The Collective Resilience Summit will take place May 12 - 17, 2020. This free, online and highly interactive summit will explore how to develop and sustain the individual and collective resilience we need to meet our increasingly complex global challenges with wisdom, skill and compassion.

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Andrew Winston

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

I attempted to lay out some options for how companies should think about this ongoing emergency that runs hand-in-hand with climate change. Second, this report is, according to one author , the most “exhaustive” look at interrelated challenges of species loss, water stress, food demand, and climate change. What’s new here?

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Andrew Winston

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

I attempted to lay out some options for how companies should think about this ongoing emergency that runs hand-in-hand with climate change. Second, this report is, according to one author , the most “exhaustive” look at interrelated challenges of species loss, water stress, food demand, and climate change. Hope comes through action.].

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Liz Truss restated her commitment to net zero, renewables, and nuclear power, as well as North Sea oil and gas, in her keynote speech to the Conservative Party conference this morning, which saw the embattled Prime Minister decry climate activists who briefly interrupted her from the audience as "anti-growth".

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

McDonough: Last year, I opened the G20 in two tracks: climate and energy. And so, for example, the end of all the sessions for the G20, when the leaders adopted this protocol we had put forward, the message that came with it was, "Let us all put down all sharp instruments now. Joel Makower: Well, Bill, first of all, happy birthday.

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Defend Our Future

JUNE 22, 2023

Youth and Future Generations Young individuals often experience intense climate anxiety as they confront the consequences of inherited environmental degradation. In Liberia, over 60 youth organizations collaborated to create a collective position on the nation’s climate goals, urging political leaders to act.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 28, 2023

And with September fast approaching, that means it’s almost time for conference season - in particular, the annual whirlwind that is New York Climate Week! Where we’ll be at NY Climate Week New York Climate Week is so, well, New York. Is it just us starting to get that back to school feeling? Let us know !

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Grist

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The 90-year-old man, the oldest person to go to space, said humans can’t continue “burying our heads in the sand” about climate change, and that “we’re at a tipping point.”. In recent years, astronauts have become fixtures at international climate negotiations, bringing their big-picture perspective with them.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Even so, many green groups were quick to highlight the optics of a Budget speech so light on climate and net zero rhetoric coming only days ahead of the biggest and most important climate summit ever held on British soil, where world leaders are set to attend crucial talks geared at putting the world on a 1.5C

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 18, 2021

A New Year’s resolution for Bill Gates John Elkington Mon, 01/18/2021 – 00:45 Bill Gates has a new book in the pipeline, ” How to Avoid a Climate Disaster.” ” Vital reading, particularly in a year that should see Glasgow hosting the COP26 climate summit.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2020

The 10th annual BusinessGreen Leaders Awards has officially launched today and is now seeking entries from the UK's most exciting and innovative green businesses, projects, executives, and campaigners. Organisations and individuals wishing to enter this year's awards now have until 5pm on Friday March 27th to submit their entries.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

The wide-ranging report urges the UK to strengthen its climate action efforts in order to spur wider international action ahead of the crucial COP26 summit next year. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) was considering a request for comment on the new report at the time of going to press.

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Business Green

APRIL 12, 2022

Shortlisted companies can now reserve their place at the BusinessGreen Leaders Awards 2022, which will take place in central London on the evening of 22 June. CCEP - Action on Climate Now Programme. BT - Big Sofa Summit. GoCardless - 12 Gifts For Climate Action. ITV - Making climate action accessible. Zouk Capital.

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Business Green

JANUARY 29, 2021

International Olympics Committee unveils new climate goals. In addition to embracing measures to reduce its emissions, the Committee said that it would offset more than 100 per cent of its remaining carbon emissions by 2024 through the Olympic Forest Project with a view to becoming "climate positive".

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

The Committee on Climate Change has today set out its detailed green recovery recommendations – here is BusinessGreen's need-to-know guide. This wasn't quite the year that we ordered," noted Committee on Climate Change CEO, Chris Stark, yesterday. He isn't wrong.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2022

Waltham Forest Borough Council has launched a campaign to raise awareness of individual behaviours that can support climate action. For anyone working in climate policy, whether in the private or public sector, public engagement and behaviour change are always front of mind. Waltham Forest Borough Council is one of them.

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