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.

Fossil fuels 101

Fossil fuels Electricity Carbon Biodiversity 101

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.

COP 36

COP Biodiversity Government Investment 36

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. Attempting to maintain business as usual (which is the only type of solution that will be debated at COP 26) will only make things worse. Whatever does come out of COP won’t be enough.

COP 113

COP Carbon-negative Climate change Government 113

Business Green

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Anyone who remembers the start of 2020 will recall a time when there was to be a climate COP in the UK in November. So long ago was that pre-Covid time, that the COP would have finished by now. The UK has a legal commitment to decarbonise to reach net zero by 2050.

Investment 44

Investment COP Climate change Health 44

Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

It makes clear that most companies will need to cut at least 90-95 per cent of their internal emissions by 2050 to achieve net zero, in addition to setting near-term targets. The standard seeks to create a common understanding of net-zero in a corporate context, and guides companies in setting net zero targets. °C trajectory.

Investment 68

Investment COP Biodiversity Demand 68

Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2020

Last year, the UK and New Zealand became two of the first countries in the world to commit to reaching net zero by 2050. In addition to raising ambition, the UK's COP Presidency will focus efforts on 5 areas which need particular attention to achieve our goals. One of the most important is our commitment to tackling climate change.

Resilience 89

Resilience Carbon-neutral Climate change COP 89

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. Following the hustings, Sam Hall, director of CEN, said it was hugely encouraging that all the candidates had now pledged to honour the UK's net zero by 2050 target.

Climate change 61

Climate change Government Policy Biodiversity 61

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. It's to eradicate the impact of emissions by 2050. This goal is the ultimate.

Agriculture 36

Agriculture Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 36

Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

Planning how to work more cleverly and to prepare for even larger future disruptions such as climate change and biodiversity loss. Industry needs to move far beyond existing government commitment for the UK to double its resource efficiency by 2050 - WSP's research suggests that will happen anyway.

Government 70

Government COP Investment Biodiversity 70

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

Energy Information Administration (EIA) predicts that there will be a sharp increase in the amount of renewable energy generated between 2010 and 2050. Figures show that the current average will increase from 15% of the global energy mix to 28% by 2050. One such project is Aclymate’s Kariba REDD+ Project.

Carbon 148

Carbon Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Methane 148

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

COP 41

COP Aviation Sea level rise Climate change 41

Business Green

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.

Soil 40

Soil Government Agriculture Climate change 40

AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

In the southern Polish city of Katowice last December, news coverage of the UN’s COP 24 meeting on climate change suddenly and dramatically surged, mostly thanks to a three-minute speech given by a Swedish teen activist with Asperger’s syndrome and the amplifying power of social media. billion by 2050 as axiomatic.

Sustainability 52

Sustainability Agriculture Methane Soil 52

Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

It follows a separate communiqué on environmental issues last week, which saw the G20 agree to common objectives on biodiversity, natural capital, more efficient use of resources and sustainable finance. are much lower than at 2C," states. goal without the leadership of the G20.

Fossil fuels 86

Fossil fuels Government Climate change Global warming 86

Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The agreement includes a number of environmental clauses, with Chapter 22 of the FTA published yesterday reaffirming the UK and Australia's commitment to protecting biodiversity and achieving the climate goals contained in the Paris Agreement. of warming to revisit their plans.

Government 67

Government Law COP Retail 67

Business Green

JULY 12, 2022

Using the COP process and international collaboration we should aim for a market, science and technology driven approach which can protect the environment and enhance productivity.". We will continue to meet our net zero target for 2050 but this is a moment of emergency and we have to act like it.".

Climate change 36

Climate change Policy Packaging COP 36

Business Green

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.

Fossil fuels 36

Fossil fuels Packaging Climate change COP 36

Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

warming scenario, target net zero emissions by around 2050, accelerate industrial decarbonisation, and reflect these goals in national strategies submitted under the Paris Agreement, according to terms of reference unveiled yesterday. All members of the club must therefore commit to pursue efforts in line with a 1.5C

Policy 66

Policy Carbon North America Europe 66

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.

Biodiversity 91

Biodiversity Climate change Government Resilience 91

Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

It's hard to think of a greater dereliction of our responsibility as COP hosts.". UK Green Building Council CEO Julie Hirigoyen said: "With the COP 26 conference just days away, the Chancellor's announcements felt like they were from a different planet and a different time. "This wasn't just a failure to address the climate emergency.

Government 66

Government Investment Climate change Innovation 66

Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

BusinessGreen rounds up the best of the reaction from the low carbon economy to the government's flagship roadmap for achieving net zero emissions by 2050. Overall, the global goal of net-zero by 2050 needs to be matched by an equally clear global goal of net positivity for nature.".

Government 44

Government Carbon-negative Investment Climate change 44

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

Biodiversity 81

Biodiversity Climate change Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability 81

Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In November, I had the privilege to represent Schneider Electric at the UN's Conference of Parties (COP) on climate change in Glasgow. This COP was unlike the previous 25 iterations, in that it took place during a global pandemic. In reality, the current pledges align more closely to 2.7 Bottom Line for Business.

COP 46

COP Climate change Fossil fuels Biodiversity 46

Andrew Winston

JANUARY 7, 2024

Scientists tell us that we’ve pushed the planet beyond its ability to support us in critical areas such as availability of water, biodiversity, and, of course, carbon emissions. For examples, South Carolina steel-maker Nucor is working to make low-carbon steel and set a goal for net zero across value chain by 2050.

Sustainability 148

Sustainability Fossil fuels Law Climate change 148

Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

WWF, National Trust, RSPB, Greenpeace, and Friends of the Earth are among the 70 charities behind the climate wish list published this morning, which sets out 10 major policy areas that campaigners believe are critical to the UK's hopes of achieving net zero emissions by 2050 and engineering a 'green recovery' from the ongoing economic crisis.

Fossil fuels 76

Fossil fuels Government Policy Climate change 76

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2021

However, at the current rate of progress – only 4 MPAs in 2 years – the most destructive and unselective fishing method could continue to be licensed in British protected areas until 2050. 3] ‘Protecting the global ocean for biodiversity, food and climate’ [link].

Government 130

Government Climate change Carbon COP 130

Business Green

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.

Investment 95

Investment Climate change COP Fossil fuels 95

Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

You cannot claim to be green while your plans and projects undermine the 2050 net-zero target and ignore the major emissions cuts that must occur this decade. "As The Treasury commissioned the Dasgupta review to look at the economics of biodiversity. "Those in the private sector still financing coal must be held to account.

Climate change 67

Climate change Resilience Fossil fuels Government 67

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.

Plastics 81

Plastics Pollution Waste Waste 81

Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Taking immediate action to slash emissions towards net zero by 2050 could make a monumental difference to the level, frequency, and breadth of growing climate impacts, the scientists emphasise. If the world slashes carbon dioxide emissions now and reduces them to net zero by 2050 we would keep the global temperature rise close to 1.5

Sea level rise 82

Sea level rise Climate change Fossil fuels Government 82

Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Elsewhere, there were further signs of how quickly net zero targets are being adopted and accelerated, with the Prime Minister of India's neighbour Nepal, Sher Bahadur Deuba, today announcing a fresh commitment to pull forward the country's net zero emissions target to 2045, five years' earlier than its previous 2050 goal. Every year.

COP 49

COP Fossil fuels Biodiversity Carbon 49

Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

If countries can cut global emissions to “ net zero ” by 2050, that could bring warming back to under 1.5 Another challenge that has derailed past COPs is agreeing on implementing a carbon trading system outlined in the Paris Agreement. However, there remains a narrow window of opportunity. C in the second half of the 21st century.

Climate change 88

Climate change Global warming Politics Law 88

Business Green

APRIL 2, 2020

Indeed, the Paris Agreement calls for delivery of three key things - NDCs, long-term decarbonisation plans to 2050, and financial support worth $100bn per year - 'by 2020', not 'by COP26'. Right now, it seems like a long time until summer 2021 (and yes, I'm assuming both biodiversity and climate COPs will be in summer.).

Climate change 45

Climate change COP Government Asia 45