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WWF: Environmental degradation on course to cost global economy £8tr

Business Green

Continuing current rates of environmental degredation will result in costs of at least £368bn a year, the WWF's Global Futures report calculates, leading to total losses of £8tr by 2050. The study also estimates economic costs arising from the loss of specific ecosystem services.

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Looking back on the future

Envirotec Magazine

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.

COP 130
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Looking back on the future

Envirotec Magazine

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.

COP 130
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Faster, Further, Fairer - how business can lead a green recovery

Business Green

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.

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Next Prime Minister to face legal requirement to beef up Net Zero Strategy

Business Green

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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Urgency and consistency must be the watchwords for UK climate action in 2020

Business Green

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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'Unwelcome Christmas present': UK-Australia trade deal sparks deforestation fears

Business Green

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.