Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

It's hard to think of a greater dereliction of our responsibility as COP hosts.". UK Green Building Council CEO Julie Hirigoyen said: "With the COP 26 conference just days away, the Chancellor's announcements felt like they were from a different planet and a different time. "This wasn't just a failure to address the climate emergency.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

In June 2021, Dryad was named as a cool vendor in Gartner’s Cool Vendors in IoT Thingification report. 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. percent of the GDP of the USA.

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Business Green

JANUARY 3, 2022

Post-COP26 the world risks taking its foot off the pedal of climate action in 2021, but businesses must not let that happen, writes Pinwheel's Rob Cheesewright. A significant feature of COP was businesses joining with activists to demand faster progress. Not only that, but they're linked problems, with linked solutions.

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The City Fix

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The need to set aggressive goals, backed by meaningful numbers, is an obvious starting point in the fight against climate change. It’s common knowledge that if global warming exceeds 1.5C, we face the prospect of everything from increasingly extreme weather. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Putting the planet on a sustainable course will require significant changes to almost every sector of the global economy, including energy, transport, industry, agriculture, cities, finance, and land-use. We need just such a guidance system for the Earth itself, to safely navigate the sustainability transition. All Rights Reserved.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Biodiversity. Conference of the Parties (COP). COP is the decision-making body responsible for monitoring and reviewing implementation of the UNFCCC. The name for the agreement reached at the 2021 UN climate conference in Glasgow, COP26. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Black carbon. Energy transition.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Acknowledging Indigenous people's critical role in tackling the climate and biodiversity crises may have become the norm in climate circles, but these communities still aren’t being paid for it. The idea is to help create self-sustaining communities that thrive on their own terms, Pineda said. A rip-off of a price.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 6, 2022

BusinessGreen breaks down the myriad ways negotiations kicking off in Montreal this week will impact businesses committed to building a more sustainable world. What makes this COP so special? As such the expectations for the COP15 Biodiversity Summit are high, fuelled by the extra-long lead up to the talks.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

The voluntary carbon offset market is rocketing, with the Ecosystem Marketplace reporting an annual market value of ~$1 billion in 2021, which was an all-time high. A significant proportion of the project’s shares are invested in general activities to promote and guarantee the project’s sustainability.

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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. As with COVID-19, perhaps so with climate?

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

Other former COP Presidents, such as Laurent Fabius. It will devastate nature and biodiversity. The UN Oceans Conference in Lisbon, the 15th Conference on Biological Diversity hosted by China, and of course COP26, offer an opportunity to bend the curve of greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss. Third, energy transition.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Around the world, 2021 saw troops mobilise, violence erupt, and relations between old friends and allies strained. 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. And indeed, some thought we were.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

It follows a separate communiqué on environmental issues last week, which saw the G20 agree to common objectives on biodiversity, natural capital, more efficient use of resources and sustainable finance. — Alok Sharma (@AlokSharma_RDG) July 25, 2021. alive, adaptation, finance, negotiations, and loss and damage.

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Grist

JANUARY 17, 2021

Scientists have said human activities are driving the sixth mass extinction of life on Earth, and agricultural production, mining, and pollution are threatening the healthy functioning of life-sustaining ecosystems crucial to human civilization. So as co-host of the next Climate Cop, the U.K. As part of the HAC announcement , the U.K.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

Eric Soubeiran, the company's vice-president of nature and water cycle, explains that weaning the company off intensive farming is at the core of its new sustainability mission. If you really want to do sustainability well in a company, you need to know your business well," Soubeiran says.

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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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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. China has begun drafting its next five year plan (FYP), this top-level policy blueprint has been called, "one of the most important documents on the planet" for global sustainability.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The company is one of the industry’s biggest spenders on Google advertising and spent $317,710 in 2021 and 2022 on greenwashing adverts targeting users searching for information on renewable energy companies and carbon capture. A number of Aramco’s ads claimed the company “promoted biodiversity” and “protected the planet”.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In November 2021 world leaders will gather in Glasgow for the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, popularly known as COP26. The way we produce our food is the mother of all sustainability issues.'. In its annual progress report, the Champions 12.3 to halve food waste by 2030.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In April 2021, the Government committed to adopting fisheries management for all its MPAs by 2024, following legal issues raised by Oceana. 3] ‘Protecting the global ocean for biodiversity, food and climate’ [link]. This is in contravention of the Habitats Regulations and Marine Acts and could make them illegal under UK law1.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Investors managing portfolios worth trillions of dollars are now backing net zero ahead of COP26 - could 2021 prove a transformative year for financial markets? Not so much for the words themselves, which few would argue offer a breathtakingly original insight in 2021, but because of the person who wrote them: Larry Fink.

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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.".

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

There must be no new coal plants built after 2021. As we move forward to COP26 it is essential that global powers and major emitters heed the scientific evidence and take action to ensure an equitable and sustainable future for us all.". Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree degree goal will fall quickly out of reach.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Oliver Griffith explains how a Wildlife Works Carbon forest conservation project is helping to both protect the environment while also sustaining local livelihoods in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Moreover, the people that depend on it are getting access to health, education, food security, and sustainable livelihoods.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

A new date for the summit in 2021 is now due to be set out "in due course" after further discussion with all parties, the UK government said. In contrast, insiders and close observers of the UN process are increasingly hopeful that delaying COP26 until 2021 could increase the chances of a successful outcome on multiple fronts.

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