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? You want the banks to be saved, then stop investing in fossil fuel expansion.

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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. In July - we announced a plan to invest the equivalent of over 5.5 billion New Zealand dollars into improving the energy efficiency of homes and public buildings in 2020/21.

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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

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

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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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. We all need to invest in the innovation which will help us accelerate the transition to clean energy. Civil society organisations. Lead to population displacement.

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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. Though policy choices could reduce this figure, and I would add that it includes investments with long term benefits. Clean is competitive.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Developing nations that are not currently included in the club will be wondering where they can get the support and investment they need to help comply with increasingly strict standards on industrial products that may emerge in the coming years if they want to do business with the G7. Such concerns aren't without merit.

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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.". To date, $12bn in public and private finance has been pledged to the cause, with another $4.5bn expected at COP27. Climate finance.

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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

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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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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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As CEO of the world's biggest asset manager, BlackRock, which looks after a whopping $8.67tr investments worldwide, Fink's words matter a great deal. During 2020, 81 per cent of a globally-representative selection of sustainable indexes outperformed their parent benchmarks, according to Fink. The trailblazers.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

billion investment in clean energy projects for the Middle East, and $187 billion domestically, is dwarfed by the annual income of Aramco from oil extraction. What’s more, carbon capture investments displace money and attention that could otherwise be devoted to developing proven renewable energy sources.

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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. But will the government deliver the scale of investment and detailed policy frameworks required to unlock real progress?

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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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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2020

Yet, at the same time, global coal power capacity still expanded by 34.1GW overall, as a decline in new capacity additions elsewhere around the world was offset by large numbers of new coal plants coming online in China, which observers now fear is still looking to ramp up coal development in 2020.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

The Guardian also reported this morning that the UN is keen to see the Biodiversity COP in China, which has also been postponed from its original autumn 2020 date, precede COP26. The Chinese government is currently understood to be exploring new dates for the Summit in the first half of 2021.

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CleanTechnica

JANUARY 7, 2020

It seems like a lifetime ago when at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, I watched more than 100 heads of state and government queue to sign the original documents of the Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Biodiversity Convention and Agenda 21. Negotiations had been tough, and some leaders were more enthusiastic than others.

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