Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 16, 2020

We are facing a biodiversity crises and the actions we take this year will determine the fate of life on Earth. Biodiversity loss has a cascade of impacts which is why it is tied to the Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGs ). Biodiversity was a salient theme at the G7 Summit in August.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 3, 2023

I came away with three main takeaways for companies in the food and agriculture sector: It’s time to act 2030 is fast approaching and a changing climate is already here. This year more than ever, food and agriculture sector issues were front of mind in the conversation, given companies even more opportunities and resources to take action.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

We have only until 2030 to get things on track for a net-zero and nature-positive economy — this should sharpen our minds for action. The key for 2021 will be to supersize the good examples of these kinds of efforts and bring them together to help shape a decade of unprecedented partnership and action to 2030.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The world's top diplomat used a speech today at the UN headquarters in New York City to deliver a characteristically stark warning of the impending climate and biodiversity crises facing the world, noting global warming risks "hurtling past" the 1.5C threshold without urgent action this decade. Your core product is our core problem.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

Guterres said the treaty was crucial for addressing the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. "It Governments and civil society must now ensure that the agreement is adopted and rapidly enters into force and is effectively implemented to safeguard high seas biodiversity."

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2023

per year, when they need to be falling by 7% every year to 2030, according to some estimates, to keep alive the hopes of the Paris agreement. Fossil fuels were mentioned for the first time in a COP text two years ago, at COP26 in Glasgow. King continued: “Ensuring 1.5C

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Environmental Audit Committee report also describes government biodiversity efforts to date as 'lacking' and argues ‘bold and ambitious action’ is required. While this issue is bigger than any one person's habits, if we all take action to tackle unsustainable consumption, we can make a lasting impact to halt biodiversity loss.".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The WWF is backing measures to reverse the loss of biodiversity by 2030, such as the Dasgupta Review on the Economics of Biodiversity in the UK and its own campaign for a New Deal for Nature and People.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Obsessing over the conventional talking points – whether or not we should cut emissions by 2050 or 2030 and so on – or what we might term “mitigation”, is no longer going to cut it, they say. A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read. It’s time to pivot to a response that prioritises adaptation.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Obsessing over the conventional talking points – whether or not we should cut emissions by 2050 or 2030 and so on – or what we might term “mitigation”, is no longer going to cut it, they say. A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read. It’s time to pivot to a response that prioritises adaptation.

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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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Business Green

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Business leaders and environmental campaigners hail the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework as a major - if flawed - breakthrough for nature protection efforts. BusinessGreen rounds up the initial reaction to the historic new accord.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2021

This nine-month climate-biodiversity season kicks off with the opening of Biodiversity COP15 from 11th October, moves to the COP26 climate summit later in the month and completes with the second part of COP15 in May 2022. The same process is now starting for biodiversity. per cent and 6.5 per cent respectively.

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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. Nature-based solutions” is one of the only phrases linked to agriculture to be mentioned in the COP cover text. We can expect a similar turnout at this year’s COP, too.

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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

JANUARY 17, 2023

Tony Juniper reflects on the outcome of the COP15 Biodiversity Summit and what is now needed to deliver on the agreement signed by governments in Montreal. Being a five-year plan, the EIP will necessarily focus minds on delivery, which is what we need at this stage of the journey towards 2030.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Whatever the outcome of the ongoing negotiations at COP15 Biodiversity Summit, there are high hopes it will mark a turning point in the understanding of the critical role nature plays in regulating the climate and sustaining the global economy. I wish everyone well because it's hard," she says.

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The IPCC recently conducted a study into the combined effects of all the agreed targets of the countries taking part in the ongoing COP talks. Tucked away in the report is this: “The available NDCs of all 191 Parties taken together imply a sizable increase in global GHG emissions in 2030 compared to 2010, of about 16%”. Conversation?

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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 4, 2020

A higher 2030 NDC target is to be welcomed, but it must be underpinned by plans to protect and restore nature, argues WWF's Gareth Redmond-King. Anyone who remembers the start of 2020 will recall a time when there was to be a climate COP in the UK in November. The UK has a legal commitment to decarbonise to reach net zero by 2050.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The CCC stressed that "this is a crucial 12 months" within a monumentally important decade for the climate if the world is to stand a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C, adding that "only concrete steps by 2030" would close the growing gap between delivery and ambition. of warming by the end of the century.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

If scaled up now, NbS could provide roughly a third of the emissions reductions needed to reach our global climate goals by 2030. Companies need to both work towards science-based targets aligned with halving global emissions by 2030 and invest in protecting, restoring and sustainably managing lands and oceans. Are there risks?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Keep your eye on 2030. Earlier in the Summit an independent analysis had warned that based on current national emissions targets for 2030 the world was still on track for 2.4C This COP caused deep frustrations but it wasn't for nothing," she said. "It The NDCs just don't add up," he warned. That is our horizon.".

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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 27, 2022

Record numbers of delegates from business and finance attended the COP15 Biodiversity Summit, but these actors are not part of official negotiations – so why do they make the trip? But as the dust settles on this month's COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Montreal, observers have noted how the CBD might be on the brink of a new era.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

The deal has been hailed as a major coup for multilateralism , and as a crucial milestone in countries' efforts to meeting the goal, agreed by governments last December , to ensure 30 per cent of the Earth's land and sea are granted protected status by 2030.

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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. A collection of 17 interlinked UN goals intended to be achieved by 2030. But they help reduce economy-wide total emissions. Black carbon. Energy transition.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Despite 2030 and 2050 goals being considerably important, they are distant. The new business strategy rewards farmers for minimising output emissions including in feed, fertiliser efficiency, biogas usage, biodiversity and renewable farming. This saw us most recently launch the Incentive Model, in cooperation with our farmers.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2020

We need all countries to submit more ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions ( NDC ), driving further cuts in carbon emissions by 2030. In addition to raising ambition, the UK's COP Presidency will focus efforts on 5 areas which need particular attention to achieve our goals. degree target.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

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. If we protect biodiversity, we are basically protecting the diversity of DNA," Soubeiran mused.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

They also all stressed that they wanted to do more to tackle biodiversity loss and water pollution, and a number of candidates floated new policy proposals. She told MPs she did not want to change current climate targets, but she said wanted to overhaul the current plan for achieving the targets.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 25, 2021

We have only until 2030 to get things on track for a net-zero and nature-positive economy — this should sharpen our minds for action. The key for 2021 will be to supersize the good examples of these kinds of efforts and bring them together to help shape a decade of unprecedented partnership and action to 2030.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Laurence Tubiana, European Climate Foundation CEO and key figure in brokering the Paris Agreement in 2015, was even more scathing of the conditions in the final agreement on fossil fuels and encouraging countries to come forward with more ambitions national 2030 climate plans.

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Business Green

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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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

Other former COP Presidents, such as Laurent Fabius. It will devastate nature and biodiversity. So, we want all countries to submit more ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions, committing to further cuts in carbon emissions by 2030. Civil society organisations. Corporate leaders and finance executives.

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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. The International Energy Agency has estimated that about 30 million new workers are needed by 2030 to meet increased demand in the clean economy.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

What are the big priorities for COP? Its conclusions have since been endorsed with apparent sincerity by the UK government, which announced in June that it was committing to ensuring that more of the UK’s largest new infrastructure projects “leave nature and biodiversity in an overall better state than before development”.

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