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SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

On Saturday, meanwhile, the government announced plans to plant over 3,000 hectares of new trees along England's rivers and watercourses from Devon to Cumbria by March 2025, in a move aimed at boosting biodiversity, restoring habitats, combatting flood risk and improving water quality.

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JULY 15, 2020

Danone is currently providing training to farmers in France to make the switch to new techniques to meet a goal to rely on 100 per cent regenerative farming in the country to by 2025. If we protect biodiversity, we are basically protecting the diversity of DNA," Soubeiran muses.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2021

I heard someone call COP26 the "business COP" I couldn't find any official reference of that sort, but I'm inclined to agree. Over the weekend, Saturday was 'Nature Day' at COP. That in itself is noteworthy: It's the first time preserving nature and biodiversity has been explicitly singled out as a critical climate issue.

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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. Countries have also agreed to submit their post-2030 climate targets on a five yearly cycle, with 2035 plans due in 2025. temperature target stands tall.

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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. And on finance, last year, the UK committed to doubling its international climate finance contribution to NZ$22 billion over the period 2021 to 2025. degree target.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Elsewhere, the Sharm El Sheikh Implementation Plan - as the final COP27 agreement has been named - included no call for a global peak in greenhouse gas emissions by 2025, as had been proposed by a number of countries that wanted to see the agreement aligned with what climate scientists have said is needed to achieve a 1.5C

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NOVEMBER 11, 2022

In my eyes, that certainly doesn't merit a big COP announcement. Grasslands, shrublands, peatlands and other carbon and biodiversity-rich ecosystems are also being plowed up too. While the roadmap has 2025 plans for ending deforestation, it lacks cut-off dates for land conversion.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Peaking emissions by 2025 is not in this text," he said. This COP caused deep frustrations but it wasn't for nothing," she said. "It This particularly challenging COP brings one piece of hope, especially for the most vulnerable people, with an agreement to set up a Loss and Damage fund," Chiara Martinelli, director at CAN Europe.

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

Another challenge that has derailed past COPs is agreeing on implementing a carbon trading system outlined in the Paris Agreement. So is Brazil, which, under Javier Bolsonaro’s watch, has increased deforestation of the Amazon – the world’s largest rainforest and crucial for biodiversity and removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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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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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

From forecasting a particular number of degrees of warming by 2100, setting net-zero targets for 2025 / 2030 / 2045 / 2050, and the narrative that we have just a decade left to keep future temperatures spiralling above 1.5ºC. Dates tend to loom large in the climate crisis conversation. The formulation of 1.5C/3C

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JULY 20, 2020

Danone is providing training to farmers in France to make the switch to new techniques to meet a goal to rely on 100 percent regenerative farming in the country by 2025. “If we protect biodiversity, we are basically protecting the diversity of DNA,” Soubeiran mused.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2022

But it remains significantly longer - and has been published much later - than previous COP cover texts, meaning negotiators have a major task ahead of them in whittling down options to deliver political consensus.

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MAY 19, 2021

Due to be published just weeks before the UK holds the global COP26 climate summit in November, the strategy is designed in part to show that the nation has a plan for its target, is a credible climate leader and ergo host of the COP. But the state of the UK's nature and wildlife place it bottom of the G7 league table for biodiversity.

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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. It commits us to rapidly scale up climate finance and to double finance for adaptation by 2025. Yet every country at COP has agreed to phase-down coal power.

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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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FEBRUARY 25, 2022

COP talks each year are often fraught and progress remains far too slow, as today's IPCC report on escalating climate impacts will testify. 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. The US left the treaty altogether briefly.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Its membership, which includes major institutional investors such as Allianz, Aviva, AXA, and the Church of England, have committed to ensuring their entire portfolios are free of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, backed by short-term emissions targets every few years starting in 2025. It's a net zero COP. That's the objective.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

It is no surprise then that the World Economic Forum Global Risks Report 2021 identifies climate action failure, extreme weather and biodiversity loss, alongside infectious diseases, as the top global risks for the next decade in terms of impact and likelihood. As with COVID-19, perhaps so with climate?

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FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The Treasury commissioned the Dasgupta review to look at the economics of biodiversity. Professor Katharine Hayhoe, chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy, said: "Loss of biodiversity, stresses on agricultural productivity, human health risks - the themes highlighted by WGII are not new.

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