Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

It has been compared to the hugely influential Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change 15 years ago, which famously framed global warming as the greatest and most wide-ranging market failure ever seen. Sir David Attenborough said: "The survival of the natural world depends on maintaining its complexity, its biodiversity.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2022

The throwaway global economy is fuelling the climate crisis with more than half a trillion tonnes of virgin materials consumed since the 2015 Paris Agreement, according to a report from impact organisation Circle Economy launched on 19 January. But we can only do it by joining forces.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

” Ali Rowe, a campaigner from Extinction Rebellion added: “ It is unconscionable that the Science Museum is taking money from Adani without balancing the impact Adani’s current investments have on the climate crisis and biodiversity loss.” degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels”. billion in the coal industry.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2022

She called for coordinated action from world governments and international agencies to mitigate pollution while also addressing other threats such as climate change and biodiversity loss. The progress update builds on previous data compiled by the Lancet commission, which showed that pollution was responsible for 9 million deaths in 2015.

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Business Green

JUNE 6, 2022

The UK must rally the international community behind the to drive to protect nature at the upcoming UN Biodiversity Summit, argues Henry Smith MP. Our once green and pleasant land is increasingly devoid of biodiversity. The 2015 Paris climate change agreement set a headline target to limit global warming to 1.5

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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

The main drivers of change are the demand for food, water, and natural resources, in the face of severe biodiversity loss and changes in ecosystem services. Biosphere (biodiversity) integrity: infinite human activities affecting eco-systems risk disintegration of natural biodiversity. 2009; Steffen, W.,

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. The hope is that limiting global warming to 1. Biodiversity. In 2015, developed countries committed to coming up with $100 billion per year by 2020 to tackle climate change in developing countries.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 4, 2020

Forest dynamics being disrupted like this spells trouble for ecosystem equilibrium and biodiversity. ” Conservationists subsequently admonish that continuing with business as usual will only worsen the conditions that increase tree mortality rates and the accompanying biodiversity crisis. Science Via NPR and PNNL.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 18, 2019

It has been highlighted that any increase in the present-level global warming (1°C > pre-industrial periods) will likely be trailed by adverse consequences to food and water ecosystems, human security and peace, and economic well-being. This dramatic shift can lead to nonlinear loss in biodiversity and human-kind.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Collated and published each year before the international negotiations of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), The Lancet ’s Countdown strongly emphasizes that tackling climate change would be a significant global health opportunity.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

And then again in 2015. To limit global warming to 1.5C global emissions must start to fall immediately, and 10 per cent of the carbon dioxide generated from the continued use of fossil fuels must be injected back into the Earth's crust by 2030, with 50 per cent injected by 2040 and 100 per cent by 2050.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Anger is building over the failure to secure much-needed commitments towards phasing out unabated fossil fuels and tackling near-term emissions as part of the final agreement brokered at COP27 over the weekend, with critics warning the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C are hanging by the thinnest of threads.

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 13, 2020

Recent studies from from the world’s top climate modeling groups suggest that high clouds that shade the Earth during the day may burn off as the world warms increasing global warming. These threats are not new, in 2015 it was clear that climate change was real and demanded urgent action. Or maybe we won't. "It

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2021

It marks a slow-burning success story for the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), the Mark Carney-backed initiative established by the Financial Stability Board in 2015. Biodiversity and nature is a lot more complex than climate, in terms of financial disclosures," he tells BusinessGreen.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 9, 2019

As part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Paris Agreement , first enacted in 2016, countries across the globe — and their respective cities, some of which are members of the C40 — have agreed to decrease global warming by keeping the collective planet-wide temperature rise to no more than 1.5

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GreenBiz

MAY 25, 2021

trillion into fossil fuel projects — almost three times more than total bonds and loans backing green projects since COP21 in 2015. Within 48 hours of the IEA report, the G7 countries vowed to stop new financing for overseas coal projects and to make "accelerated efforts" to limit global warming to 1.5 financial system.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

In 2015, nearly 200 countries agreed to “Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C For the first time, it proposed encompassing all the gases that cause global warming in a single indicator.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

On top of that, the land plays host to much of the planet's biodiversity, providing incalculable benefits to humanity and the global economy, starting with the pollination that underpins the global food system. Essentially, without biodiversity, we would not exist, let alone develop". Cristiana Pa?ca

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

In 2015, countries came together and formed the Paris Agreement. And in it they agreed to limit global heating to well below 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels by the end of this century, pursuing efforts to limit this rise to 1.5 That report concluded that we have already reached average global warming of 1.1

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

Today has seen some of the starkest warnings yet on how the failure to grasp the severity of the impacts that climate change and biodiversity loss will have for human could trigger conflict, disease, and mass migration - how should businesses respond? warming between 2030 and 2052. warming between 2030 and 2052.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

That figure could rise further with more dangerous levels of global warming." For example, regenerative agricultural practices typically reduce carbon emissions, as well as improving soil health, biodiversity, and water management. For example, Sunyer flags a relatively new challenge posed by the rise of climate litigation.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. It reveals the behind-the-scenes action that takes place to convert the rhetoric of climate change into the action on the ground that actually reduces the GHG emissions and global warming. Climate impacts 2.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

This COP was unlike the previous 25 iterations, in that it took place during a global pandemic. A pledge by more than 100 countries - including Brazil - to end deforestation by 2030, a critical first step towards carbon sink and biodiversity preservation. degree Celsius warming trajectory. So, what happened?

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

With the world on the brink of irreversible harm, every fraction of a degree of warming matters to limit the dangers of climate change. It is clear that keeping global warming to 1.5°C The dangerous and costly impacts we are experiencing now will seem mild compared to what we will face if we fail to keep warming to 1.5°C

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

If designed well and properly adhered to, global treaties have a lot going for them. The Paris Agreement on climate change, signed into life in 2015, may not be perfect. As close observers of global climate diplomacy have long argued, if the COP process and the Paris Agreement did not exist you would have to invent them. "It

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AGreenLiving

MAY 25, 2021

trillion into fossil fuel projects — almost three times more than total bonds and loans backing green projects since COP21 in 2015. Within 48 hours of the IEA report, the G7 countries vowed to stop new financing for overseas coal projects and to make “accelerated efforts” to limit global warming to 1.5

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It was the first time the majority of nations formally recognized the need to control greenhouse gas emissions , which cause global warming that drives climate change. That treaty has since been updated, including in 2015 when nations signed the Paris climate agreement. F), and preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 17, 2021

We laid out technical research and knowledge supporting soil-based initiatives for climate adaptation of agriculture, provision of clean water, protection of biodiversity, and the sustainability of agricultural communities. Source: Kane et al. Climate projections include increasingly frequent and severe droughts. The Kane et al.

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Green Market Oracle

APRIL 15, 2020

In the wake of the signing of the Paris Climate Agreement at the end of 2015 there was so much hope. They are destroying the Earth's biodiversity and killing the web of life upon which we all depend. Shortly thereafter Congress passed the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

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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). They are all choosing growth. So should we.”.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The earth has warmed by 1 degree Celsius since pre-industrial times and is likely to heat up by another 2 degrees Celsius by the turn of the century — overshooting the targets of the 2015 Paris climate agreement. A 2018 UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report showed warming beyond 1.5

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