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Fighting deforestation should be a top priority for 2021, and here’s how it can be

GreenBiz

Brazil, for example, recently recorded its highest rate of deforestation since 2008 during the period from August 2019 to July, an increase of 9.5 I think the headline would be: Don’t work alone," Yoann Regent, biodiversity and animal welfare specialist with Kering, told me in an interview. Map your sourcing.

Policy 545
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What policies are needed to put the whole financial sector on track to deliver net zero?

Business Green

Ahead of COP26 in November, where mobilising green finance will rightly be one of the four key themes, the UK government has announced a number of exciting initiatives to mobilise capital towards tackling climate change and biodiversity loss whilst delivering a green economic recovery to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Policy 75
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Next Prime Minister to face legal requirement to beef up Net Zero Strategy

Business Green

As such, he ruled the government had failed to meet its obligations under Climate Change Act 2008 (CCA) and ordered Ministers to update the plan and present it to Parliament by April 2023. 14 of the CCA 2008.". In my judgment it ought to have done so in order to comply with the language and statutory purposes of s.14

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Looking back on the future

Envirotec Magazine

In 2018 the World Bank and others agreed significant funding to help governments boost the resilience of communities, including things like the Green Climate Fund, intended to provide support for lower income countries. There is also much more processing and packaging involved.

COP 130
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Looking back on the future

Envirotec Magazine

In 2018 the World Bank and others agreed significant funding to help governments boost the resilience of communities, including things like the Green Climate Fund, intended to provide support for lower income countries. There is also much more processing and packaging involved.

COP 130
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Fighting deforestation should be a top priority for 2021, and here’s how it can be

AGreenLiving

Brazil, for example, recently recorded its highest rate of deforestation since 2008 during the period from August 2019 to July, an increase of 9.5 The vast majority of that destruction (up to 80 percent) is linked to commodities such as palm oil, soy, beef, leather, timber, and pulp and paper. “Map your sourcing.

Policy 28
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'An important step': G7 nations back mandatory climate risk reporting push

Business Green

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.