GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

Buried beneath the dour daily headlines on COVID-19 infections, lockdowns and travel bans, the latest science about our planet released during 2020 makes for tough reading. 2020 was, along with 2016, the joint hottest year on record ever — closing out the warmest decade on record ever. Dominic Waughray. Mon, 01/25/2021 - 00:30.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The 30×30 target is a leading international commitment that the UK spear-headed at COP-15. Matt Shardlow, CEO of Buglife, said: “In 2020 the Government committed to increase by 10 times the land area of protected wildlife habitat in England by 2030 – boosting the area to 30% from the current 3%.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read. And we should be wary of politicians talking about adaptation in the manner of Australian premier Scott Morrison in 2020, as a prelude to abandoning or watering down mitigation. ” Apocalyptic scenarious are not new to Pacific islanders either.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read. And we should be wary of politicians talking about adaptation in the manner of Australian premier Scott Morrison in 2020, as a prelude to abandoning or watering down mitigation. ” Apocalyptic scenarious are not new to Pacific islanders either.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 6, 2022

This will also be the first African COP in several years, and Egypt has promised to champion African interests, which perfectly encapsulates the issues raised above. Finally, there was a lot of discussion at ClimateWeek and UNGA about the “other” COP – COP15, which is convening in December in Montreal. degrees Celsius.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

But in the last year or so, 2020 has loomed large as a key date. This is because world leaders are due to come together several times in 2020 to review and increase ambition on some exceptionally important issues. Key to deilvering such a deal will be two other critical 2020 UN meetings. The formulation of 1.5C/3C

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

All these methods work to improve the soil, reduce air and water pollution, cut emissions, and boost biodiversity. However, a 2020 assessment of regenerative agriculture from the World Resources Institute (WRI) found that while good for the environment, it has “limited potential” to mitigate climate change.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2022

In a communique published at the close of a three-day Energy and Environment Ministerial meeting in Berlin this week, the world's largest economies set out their priorities for tackling the intersecting climate, biodiversity, and pollution crises, and responding to the disruption to energy markets wrought by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

A commercial business with sustainability and tech for good at its core, Dryad was set up in 2020 with a mission to digitize the forest and help protect and regrow the world’s largest carbon sinks. And in California in 2018, wildfires caused $150 billion in economic damage , equivalent to 0.7 percent of the GDP of the USA.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Together, they will work to finalise a post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). Biodiversity underpins human health, wealth, happiness, and identity. But while this is well understood, the loss of biodiversity and intact ecosystems continues to accelerate. This is not going unnoticed by the business community.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Talks to deliver a new global pact for nature protection may have got off to a sluggish start at the COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Montreal, but observers remain optimistic the meeting could yet usher in a new era in how the private sector appraises nature. Business can help to create certainty," she told BusinessGreen.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2020

2020 was supposed to be a transformational year for the environment.". But now the race is on to say what happens next - can businesses turn 2020 into the pivotal year we envisioned despite the regulatory and societal upheaval? That's how we started Verisk Maplecroft's Environmental Risk Outlook just last month.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2022

BusinessGreen speaks to delegates at COP15 about how the dash for cash to protect biodiversity will impact investors and business. Finance and Biodiversity Day at the COP15 Biodiversity Summit got off to an explosive start yesterday morning, after developing nations walked out of talks on finance in the wee hours of the morning.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The most important biodiversity conference in a generation is kicking off this week, with negotiating teams from around the world convening on Montreal, Canada to hammer out the terms of a new global pact for nature. What makes this COP so special? It has never happened in the history of the Convention.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Anyone who remembers the start of 2020 will recall a time when there was to be a climate COP in the UK in November. So long ago was that pre-Covid time, that the COP would have finished by now. Of course, that parallel universe doesn't exist and instead, due to the impacts of the pandemic, we're now a year out from COP26.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

The crucial UN climate change summit due to take place in Glasgow in November 2020 has been postponed until next year, amid huge uncertainty and public safety concerns surrounding the escalating coronavirus pandemic, the United Nations alongside the UK and Italian governments confirmed today. — Joss Garman (@jossgarman) April 1, 2020.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Biodiversity. In 2015, developed countries committed to coming up with $100 billion per year by 2020 to tackle climate change in developing countries. Conference of the Parties (COP). COP is the decision-making body responsible for monitoring and reviewing implementation of the UNFCCC. Black carbon. Energy transition.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

We are committed to holding COP 26 in Glasgow, but the Scottish government needs to work with us to make sure this is a successful summit, which showcases the UK as a world leader in tackling climate change and represents value for the UK taxpayer," he was quoted as saying. — COP26 (@COP26) February 12, 2020. and is where the ??

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2020

In addition to raising ambition, the UK's COP Presidency will focus efforts on 5 areas which need particular attention to achieve our goals. billion New Zealand dollars into improving the energy efficiency of homes and public buildings in 2020/21. degree target. Here in the UK, we are taking action in each of these areas.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Mon, 07/20/2020 - 00:30. And in order to encourage the approach beyond its supply chain, Danone recently founded the One Planet Business for Biodiversity (OP2B) initiative, a cross-sector effort to improve the private sector's approach to biodiversity. Danone's Eric Soubeiran: 'The food system is broken'. Cecilia Keating.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 25, 2021

Ambitious partnerships on climate action are taking root and bearing fruit Dominic Waughray Mon, 01/25/2021 – 00:30 Buried beneath the dour daily headlines on COVID-19 infections, lockdowns and travel bans, the latest science about our planet released during 2020 makes for tough reading. Global average temperatures are now about 1.2

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

Other former COP Presidents, such as Laurent Fabius. It will devastate nature and biodiversity. And there are some areas which need particular action in 2020. Last week, I joined the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, at the launch of the COP 26 Finance Action Plan. Civil society organisations.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

It is because climate is central to geopolitics, that the UK's Integrated Review established tackling climate change and biodiversity loss as the UK's top international priority. When my team and I established priorities in 2020, with the support of our Friends of COP group, we questioned whether we were setting ourselves up to fail.

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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

DECEMBER 13, 2022

As such, news this week the world's seven largest economies have agreed to club together to establish greater cooperation and dialogue on climate change, the net zero transition, and the decarbonising heavy industry should be widely welcomed.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Nature is declining at an alarming rate, and we have never lived on a planet with so little biodiversity," she said. Transformative action on incentives and subsidies harmful for biodiversity will be decisive this decade to bend the curve of biodiversity loss," she said. "I

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Even so, it was a major breakthrough as the first COP to mention the temperature goals we are all familiar with today. It ended without much of a story, with the parties being called to the COP the following year. For the first time at a COP , a target of 1.5 ” A year later came COP16 in Cancún. However, the exact 1.5°C

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This COP must agree on a clear, timebound roadmap reflective of the scale and urgency of the challenge, and that roadmap must deliver effective institutional arrangements for financing.". Climate finance. Indeed, climate finance - and specifically how to attract flows of funding into developing nations - loomed large over today's proceedings.

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Grist

MAY 15, 2024

” — Christina Figueres, climate advocate and diplomat, in her 2020 book The Future We Choose The spotlight How do we know that the climate is changing — and that humans are causing it? “For me, intellectually, that always felt like a little bit of a cop-out,” said Jesse Nichols, a video producer at Grist.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

It is highly likely the row over phasing down or phasing out coal power will return in the coming years and the debate at future COPs will no doubt be extended to address oil and gas. If there's one theme that really comes out loud and clear from this COP, it is about money," said former Energy and Climate Change Secretary Amber Rudd.

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 17, 2020

To all but the willfully ignorant there is more than ample scientific evidence to indicate that we are facing a biodiversity crisis and a climate emergency. A June 2020 study on species loss warns that their results "reemphasize the extreme urgency of taking massive global actions to save humanity’s crucial life-support systems."

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Oceana analysis found that of the 68,000 hours of fishing with damaging bottom-towed gear that took place in UK offshore benthic MPAs in 2020, 39% was by UK vessels, especially off Scotland, 35% by French, and the rest by other EU states. 3] ‘Protecting the global ocean for biodiversity, food and climate’ [link].

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AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2020

Danone’s Eric Soubeiran: ‘The food system is broken’ Cecilia Keating Mon, 07/20/2020 – 00:30 Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an “enterprise à mission,” a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

A number of Aramco’s ads claimed the company “promoted biodiversity” and “protected the planet”. In 2020, Aramco removed adverts in which it boasted that it was “powering a more sustainable future”, after dozens of complaints to the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2020

It occupies half the world's habitable land, uses 70 per cent of the freshwater we consume, causes three-quarters of all water pollution, and is the single biggest contributor to biodiversity loss. The way we produce our food is the mother of all sustainability issues.'. In its annual progress report, the Champions 12.3

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The UK will only be successful in galvanising global climate action ahead of COP 26 if it gets its own house in order," said Clara Goldsmith, campaigns director of the Climate Coalition. The 10 point plan set out today should serve "litmus test" for the government commitment's to net zero.". warming trajectory is urgently needed.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

During 2020, 81 per cent of a globally-representative selection of sustainable indexes outperformed their parent benchmarks, according to Fink. And by COP in Glasgow we will look to have those types of commitments across the financial sector, right into the private banking sector as well.". It's a net zero COP.

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