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

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 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

OCTOBER 28, 2021

It's important to stress this point, because a common criticism of NbS is that we are giving polluters a ‘get out of jail free' card. If scaled up now, NbS could provide roughly a third of the emissions reductions needed to reach our global climate goals by 2030. There is no get out of jail free card. Are there risks?

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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. Short-lived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs). A collection of 17 interlinked UN goals intended to be achieved by 2030. But they help reduce economy-wide total emissions.

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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

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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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. If we make it cheaper and easier to pollute then we make it even harder to reach net-zero.

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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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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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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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Business Green

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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Grist

JANUARY 17, 2021

A coalition of more than 50 countries has committed to protect almost a third of the planet by 2030 to halt the destruction of the natural world and slow extinctions of wildlife. So as co-host of the next Climate Cop, the U.K. international climate finance to supporting nature and biodiversity over the next five years.

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Business Green

MARCH 19, 2021

Chinese hosts of crucial COP15 Biodiversity Summit announce new October date, lining up a crunch autumn for global efforts to avert environmental disaster. Since the UK took on the COP Presidency, commitments to net zero have grown from around a quarter of the world's economy to 70 per cent," Johnson said.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 18, 2022

While energy decarbonisation has always been the key focus for the climate COPs, the biodiversity COPs have been very clear that their priority has been land use and how humans are driving nature's devastating depletion. At the heart of restoring nature and biodiversity - both in our oceans and on land - is our food system.

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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. Polluters have been put on notice. Countries requested to set tougher 2030 climate plans. temperature target stands tall. or 1.7C, but 1.5C

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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

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. Governments made commitments, too : More than 100 nations — including the United States, Brazil, China and Russia — pledged to end deforestation by 2030. The birds and the trees.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

It comes ahead of next month's critical COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Montreal, where countries are under pressure to agree a global treaty to halt and reverse biodiversity loss. Holding the line on 1.5

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Unchecked carbon pollution is forcing the world's most vulnerable on a frog march to destruction - now. The world's biggest polluters are guilty of arson of our only home. The reality remains that companies need to halve emissions by 2030 if we are to have any chance of limiting global warming.". The facts are undeniable.

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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. to halve food waste by 2030. The way we produce our food is the mother of all sustainability issues.'.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree OECD countries must phase out existing coal by 2030, with all others following suit by 2040. OECD countries must phase out existing coal by 2030, with all others following suit by 2040. "We need immediate action on energy. degree goal will fall quickly out of reach.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2020

As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has stated, coal power use need to fall by 80 per cent by 2030 to give the world a change of limiting average temperature rise to 1.5C by the end of the century, prompting UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to call for no new coal plants to be built from 2020.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2022

COP15 Biodiversity Summit reportedly facing further delays. The COP15 Biodiversity Summit that was slated to take place in Kunming, China in May could be delayed for a fourth time, according to reports in the New Scientist. However, the official decision on this has not yet been taken.". EDF announces plans for new Irish wind farm.

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