Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The prospective UK economic losses match the current combined annual funding for the police, fire service, prisons, and law courts, with the main economic costs stemming from the loss of natural coastal protection services leading to flooding and erosion, alongside the accelerated decline of global fish stocks harming the fishing industry.

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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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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It’s a complex process that can be hard to make sense of from the outside, but it’s how international law and institutions help solve problems that no single country can fix on its own. I worked for the United Nations for several years as a law and policy adviser and have been involved in international negotiations.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

For example, a raft of UK supermarkets and retailers have threatened to boycott products from Brazil over a law proposed in Brazil's parliament that environmental campaigners claim could legalise further destruction of the rainforest, and would therefore not be covered by the UK government's currently proposed rule.

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Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2023

I think a lot of the feedback that you hear from any of the COPs is we're not doing enough and we're not doing it fast enough. And I do believe that summits like COP help to crystallize our efforts toward a more balanced relationship with the natural world. Has COP changed your perspective on what Schneider could do?

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

This so-called ‘Glasgow declaration on sustainable bioenergy’ is not an official COP document,” Sally Clark, from biomass campaign group Biofuelwatch, told DeSmog. “It The company has now converted four of its six plants to biomass, which is categorised as a renewable energy under UK law.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Those markets can be either regulated (reflecting laws requiring companies to secure credits in proportion to their emissions) or voluntary (where buyers choose to acquire credits generated by carbon-reducing activities). Conference of the Parties (COP). A collection of 17 interlinked UN goals intended to be achieved by 2030.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Compared to the States, these issues are amplified by the UK's higher population density - as noted by Kwasi Kwarteng in recent days - and landowners have less involvement because our mineral laws give the government the rights over gas exploration. On track to net zero.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Alan Jope, CEO at Unilever, said: "As COP15 concludes, the message to the private sector is clear: businesses around the world and from all sectors will need to take large-scale action now to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030. WWF is particularly encouraged to see the language on species has improved substantially in the final agreement.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

Fortescue unveiled a green ammonia dual-fuel ship at COP. The nitrogenous fertilizer market rose 12 percent in 2021 to $193B and is expected to reach $240B by 2030. A 20% coal co-firing rate emits 5X the greenhouse gas needed to reach IEA’s 2030 net zero scenario. Nitrous oxide also increases smog and acid rain levels.

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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.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2021

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) - the folks who organise the annual COP events - defines "climate-related risks" as those: ". Today, it is part of many companies' toolkit as they seek to understand the impacts of climate change on their business and society. created by a range of hazards.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an ‘entreprise à mission', a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. An additional stream of financing is targeted at helping farmers improve the quality of what they are producing while keeping prices down for the customer, Soubeiran explains.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Fossil fuels are everywhere at this COP except in the decisions being negotiated by governments,” Nikki Reisch, the director of climate and energy at the Center for International Environmental Law, wrote to DeSmog from Glasgow.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

I’ve definitely copped a lot of criticism for it [working with Shell],” he said, yet adding that Shell offered him, “a younger person”, the opportunity to “feel represented” and “build more trust” in their so-called “nature based solutions”. “Yet million views.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

That is the urgent warning from the government's independent climate advisory body, the Climate Change Committee (CCC), which today offered a withering assessment of Westminster's progress against its net zero agenda since the landmark target was passed into law almost exactly two years' ago.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2021

After all, Carney - who also serves as the UN's Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance - has made clear that he envisages the crucial UN climate summit in Glasgow as a "net zero COP" for financial firms, where he is expected to spearhead a new cross-sectoral finance initiative. We wanted to help unblock that process.".

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

Ruling on a case brought by Friends of the Earth, ClientEarth, and the Good Law Project, Mr Justice Holgate agreed the strategy lacked sufficient explanation or quantification as to how the decarbonisation plans set out in the Net Zero Strategy published last autumn would achieve emissions targets for the 2030s and beyond.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

And the last thing I'll say about that is that there'll be legislation in the summer which will seek to put into law the sixth carbon budget targets that were put forward by the CCC.". "But there are lots and lots of policies, lots of things that we have to delivery on to close that gap.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In other updates on global climate talks, Russia will oppose a pre-COP 28 agreement to phase out fossil fuels. Reaching net-zero by 2050 will require $2T in investments per year by 2030—5x the current rate. "[T]he world is nearing the point of falling power sector emissions," the NGO wrote.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 2, 2021

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change — the folks who organize the annual COP events — defines “climate-related risks” as those: …created by a range of hazards. Today, it is part of many companies’ toolkit as they seek to understand the impacts of climate change on their business and society.

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Mosaic

DECEMBER 27, 2022

And even getting new construction to go electric is a trial—as attorney general, Healey had no choice but to rule that state law prohibited town ordinances from banning gas hookups in new buildings. Under the legislation, statewide emissions are supposed to drop seventy per cent by 2030, and to net zero by 2050. “It

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AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2020

Danone’s Eric Soubeiran: ‘The food system is broken’ Cecilia Keating Mon, 07/20/2020 – 00:30 Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an “enterprise à mission,” a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. “You showed evidence that finance can change the world.

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