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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Grist

JULY 17, 2023

And, of course, fungi threaten humans, too — not just by decimating the biodiversity of the world around us, but also by infiltrating our bodies and causing new illnesses. Candida auris, a drug-resistant yeast, emerged in 2009 on three continents simultaneously. But it is also one of the newest emergent fungal diseases.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 8, 2021

The industry’s environmental problems — waste, greenhouse gases, biodiversity loss — are real. food policy. In 2009, scientists at the China Agricultural University moved their research to a village in Hebei province. food policy. food policy. But so are the solutions. These kinds of processes aren’t pretty.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

West Cumbria suffered a " once-in-a-thousand-year " flood in 2009. Scientists, climate policy experts and campaigners had argued the mine was inconsistent with the government's own aim to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. And then again in 2015. No, it's not that meteorologists can't count. Read the original article.

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 23, 2019

But fourth, and perhaps most importantly, the world faces enormous, thorny challenges that business is feeling: climate change, growing inequality (and awareness that these CEOs make hundreds of times more than their employees), water and resource scarcity, soil degradation and loss of biodiversity, and more.

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 23, 2019

But fourth, and perhaps most importantly, the world faces enormous, thorny challenges that business is feeling: climate change, growing inequality (and awareness that these CEOs make hundreds of times more than their employees), water and resource scarcity, soil degradation and loss of biodiversity, and more.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

Gordon Brown and David Cameron attended the 2009 and 2015 summits, but otherwise it's left to ministers and officials. This week the government published what's billed as the 'largest review' of the UK's foreign, defence, security and development policy since the end of the Cold War. Is all that about to change?

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 9, 2020

Manhattan’s elevated linear park, created from an old New York Central Railroad spur, has attracted a constant stream of locals and tourists since opening in 2009. The NYBG is on a serious sustainability mission, providing research to support government policy and protecting the world’s flora and biodiversity. mile High Line.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Instead, communities hosting wood pellet facilities are not only further burdened by pollution and other local dangers, they are also entangled in yet another climate damaging trend — the destruction of biodiverse hardwood forests and the rise of monoculture tree plantations to produce energy that appears to pose climate threats similar to coal.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Every policy, law, regulation, study, analysis, proposal or action that has the climate crisis in mind is built on the basis of those two figures: 1.5 It is 2009 and the 35th G8 Summit. At the end of 2009, the Copenhagen climate summit, COP15 , was held in Copenhagen. That paragraph, in article 2, paragraph 2.a.,

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

Alice Bordini Staden, who works on climate finance and policy with National Trust – Europe’s biggest conservation charity – said she thought it was going to go ahead, but likely in a hybrid format. Of course, that’s all assuming it goes ahead, and the UK government haven’t ruled out the possibility of a postponement until Spring 2022.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Aviation does not rule out the use of first generation biofuels from crops , which are proven to cause very serious environmental and social impacts such as biodiversity loss, rising food prices and water scarcity. For example, in 2009, the International Air Transport Organisation (IATA) was aiming for 10% biofuels by 2017 (see link p.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

Businesses leaders urge EU committees to champion Nature Restoration Law An alliance of 12 major business networks is this week urging key European Parliament committees to support and strengthen a proposed Nature Restoration Law, which if passed would set out legally binding goals for restoring ecosystems and biodiversity.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Melissa Moore, Head of UK Policy at Oceana in Europe, said: “We need an immediate ban on trawling and dredging in all offshore Marine Protected Areas as well as the inshore zone. 3] ‘Protecting the global ocean for biodiversity, food and climate’ [link]. 2]’Trawl fishing ban off Sussex coast aims to restore seaweed forests’ [link]. [3]

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Research published by Climate Action Tracker warned the sum total of policies and actions being taken by governments would deliver roughly 2.4C The less good news is that the 1.5C target is hanging on by a thread, with COP26 President Alok Sharma noting over the weekend that the goal was "still in reach but its pulse is weak".

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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. These interactions are based on months of prior discussions, policy papers and proposals prepared by groups of states, U.N. What is COP26? staff and other experts. The U.S. ,

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Business Green

MAY 26, 2020

Company shares jumped two per cent in the wake of the announcement to hit a record high in February, and influential CNBC financial analyst Jim Cramer mulled a "shocking paradigm shift" where capitalism was increasingly trying to "regulate itself" despite a climate policy vacuum at a national level in the US.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Rees-Mogg was also the first cabinet minister to endorse the campaign to reverse the UK’s ban on fracking, spearheaded by the backbench Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), the parliamentary wing of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

When it comes to those shaping the corporate climate movement — either from within companies or as part of NGOs and policy organizations that recognize the critical role businesses must play in addressing the climate emergency — I’m grateful to say it’s becoming easier to find women with a seat at the decision-making table.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

In 2009, developed countries made a collective commitment to mobilize $100 billion a year in climate finance for developing countries between 2020 and 2025. Biden promised to "fully integrate climate change into foreign policy." Policy & Politics. This provides the baseline from which the Biden administration must build.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

In 2009, developed countries made a collective commitment to mobilize $100 billion a year in climate finance for developing countries between 2020 and 2025. Integrate climate throughout all development funding Biden promised to “fully integrate climate change into foreign policy.” Pull Quote It is time for the U.S.

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