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Connections, coffee, and campaigns: What businesses get from a COP

Business Green

Record numbers of delegates from business and finance attended the COP15 Biodiversity Summit, but these actors are not part of official negotiations – so why do they make the trip? In recent years, UN climate summits have become a key fixture in the annual calendar for the CEOs of many large companies.

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Danone's Eric Soubeiran: 'The food system is broken'

GreenBiz

Danone, founded more than a century ago and famously declared an asset of national importance by the French government in 2005, has long prided itself on being a purpose-led business. If you really want to do sustainability well in a company, you need to know your business well," Soubeiran said.

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Danone’s Eric Soubeiran: ‘The food system is broken’

AGreenLiving

Danone, founded more than a century ago and famously declared an asset of national importance by the French government in 2005, has long prided itself on being a purpose-led business. “If you really want to do sustainability well in a company, you need to know your business well,” Soubeiran said.

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Coal power in 2019: Global capacity grows, but pipeline slows sharply

Business Green

For the fourth year running the number of coal-fired power plants under development around the world declined steeply in 2019, as the CO2-intensive fossil energy source continued to face an increasingly chilly reception from many governments and investors won over by competition from low cost green energy.

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COP26 delay speculation mounts, as calls grow for green stimulus blitz

Business Green

A government spokesperson said the situation was being monitored closely. "We Given this is an evolving situation we are keeping the situation under careful review and are in frequent contact with the UN, Chile (as current COP president) and other partners.".