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Rishi Sunak to take reins as Prime Minister amid growing calls to accelerate net zero and nature agenda

Business Green

"We're delighted that [Sunak] signed our pledge to continue the Conservative Party's environmental leadership, deliver net zero by 2050 and halt the decline of nature by 2030," it said in a statement today. Congratulations @RishiSunak ! Read Rishi's message to CEN councillors and supporters: [link].

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'Half measures won't halve emissions': The green economy reacts to IPCC's climate solutions report

Business Green

And so today's report's conclusion that while the scale of the challenge is monumental - the world must peak emissions by 2025, before halving them by 2030 - it also encouragingly makes clear that the world already has all of the tools it needs to achieve these aims, in order to keep the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C

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Global Briefing: Top investors urge SEC to deliver sweeping climate disclosure rules

Business Green

The latest postponement would mean that COP15, which is expected to deliver a raft of new biodiversity protection targets for 2030, would take place almost two years later than originally scheduled. Climate Home News reported that government planner He Lifeng said China intended to bring the giant projects online by 2030.

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'On the winning camp': The business guide to COP26 and why it matters

Business Green

Each of these meetings were known as Conferences of the Parties, or COPs, and they have become synonymous with both the world's admirable intention to tackle the climate crisis and the diplomatic quagmire and geopolitical tensions that have repeatedly stymied efforts to curb global emissions. Business pressure.

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From Climate Exhortation to Climate Execution

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And we don’t have much time—the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that the United States must cut emissions in half by 2030 in order to keep on track to meet the targets set in the 2016 Paris climate accords. Under the legislation, statewide emissions are supposed to drop seventy per cent by 2030, and to net zero by 2050. “It