Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Thanks to the actions of the Climate Champions in Glasgow, COPs are fast becoming more multistakeholder - Glasgow being the most diverse COP to date. The focuses of just some of those would have included: accelerating vaccination programmes in Africa and developing nations.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

Dryad is now working on ten proof-of-concept deployments with forest owners in the US, Europe, Australia, Indonesia and Africa. The firm says it is now gearing up to secure Series A funding, spurred on by being named as a finalist in Greenbackers’ 26 for COP 26 program, which connects startups with climate-focused investors.

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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 27, 2021

Carbon markets are set to be one of the key issues at the upcoming COP climate talks, with negotiators tasked with finalising the rules for Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, which aims to create a framework for countries and companies to meet their climate goals by trading carbon credits.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. The North American Meat Institute will host a side event at the US COP pavilion on December 11, the summit’s Agriculture Day, for example. Just seven percent are based in Africa. The files also detail collaborations planned for the event itself.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Mohamed Adow, director of think tank Power Shift Africa said the achievement came after three decades of appeals for help from climate impacted nations. "To This COP caused deep frustrations but it wasn't for nothing," she said. "It The agreement was hailed by activists and developing countries as a major breakthrough.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Acknowledging Indigenous people's critical role in tackling the climate and biodiversity crises may have become the norm in climate circles, but these communities still aren’t being paid for it.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The Climate Action Network (CAN), which represents many of the world's largest environmental groups and boasts members from over 130 countries, today called for a postponement of the substantive negotiations of COP26, arguing that the COP presidency and the UK government had failed to "ensure a safe, equitable and inclusive summit".

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

Italian Minister for the Environment, Land and Sea Protection, Sergio Costa: "Whilst we have decided to postpone COP26, including the Pre-COP and ‘Youth for the Climate' event, we remain fully committed to meeting the challenge of climate change. Tackling climate change requires strong, global and ambitious action.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

It is because climate is central to geopolitics, that the UK's Integrated Review established tackling climate change and biodiversity loss as the UK's top international priority. When my team and I established priorities in 2020, with the support of our Friends of COP group, we questioned whether we were setting ourselves up to fail.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

Other former COP Presidents, such as Laurent Fabius. It will devastate nature and biodiversity. The UN Oceans Conference in Lisbon, the 15th Conference on Biological Diversity hosted by China, and of course COP26, offer an opportunity to bend the curve of greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss. Third, energy transition.

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Grist

JANUARY 17, 2021

The announcement at the One Planet summit, which also saw pledges to invest billions of pounds in the Great Green Wall in Africa and the launch of a new sustainable finance charter called the Terra Carta by Prince Charles, was met with scepticism from some campaigners. So as co-host of the next Climate Cop, the U.K.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 25, 2021

It is no surprise then that the World Economic Forum Global Risks Report 2021 identifies climate action failure, extreme weather and biodiversity loss, alongside infectious diseases, as the top global risks for the next decade in terms of impact and likelihood. As with COVID-19, perhaps so with climate?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This COP must agree on a clear, timebound roadmap reflective of the scale and urgency of the challenge, and that roadmap must deliver effective institutional arrangements for financing.". Progress on LEAF. That's why this first agreements with Ecuador is so significant.

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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.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The landmark $8bn-plus agreement with South Africa to support a just transition away from coal power also provides an exciting template for how emerging economies can be provided with support as they attempt to move onto cleaner development pathways. Business played a larger and more significant role at the Glasgow COP than any before it.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The final statement from this week's meeting of G20 countries - which include the US, China, EU, UK, Brazil, India, South Africa, Japan Korea, and Indonesia, among others - promises a "steadfast" commitment to delivering on the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change, with Russia the only G20 member not to officially back the communique.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2021

As such, he is set to directly call on the 40 heads of major economies who are slated to attend the virtual meeting to come to the Kunming Biodiversity Summit in October and the Glasgow Climate Summit in November "armed with ambitious targets and the plans required to reach them".

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

While NYCW has been around for more than a decade , this year the vibe of ~10x the participants and well-curated mini-conferences alongside official UN programming felt almost like a Davos or a mini-COP (which, depending on your take on the efficacy and impact of COP, could be a good or bad thing). in Europe).

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The Treasury commissioned the Dasgupta review to look at the economics of biodiversity. Professor Katharine Hayhoe, chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy, said: "Loss of biodiversity, stresses on agricultural productivity, human health risks - the themes highlighted by WGII are not new.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Mohamed Adow, director of the Nairobi-based think tank Power Shift Africa, said: "Those of us living in Africa have been aware of the urgency of the climate crisis for many years. We won't forget the promises that have been made, nor will future generations.".

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Another challenge that has derailed past COPs is agreeing on implementing a carbon trading system outlined in the Paris Agreement. Other developing nations such as Indonesia, Malaysia, South Africa and Mexico are important. Courtesy: Johannes Plenio /Unsplash. Are countries on track to meet the international climate goals?

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Business Green

APRIL 2, 2020

It's worth noting that we still have little idea of how Covid-19 will impact the world's poorest countries, in sub-Sarahan Africa and South Asia. 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.). So what happens now? Not that long away.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2021

At the UN's recent COP 26, over 140 world leaders promised to end deforestation by 2030, pledging over $19bn to do so. It addresses not just climate, but also biodiversity, livelihoods, the rights of indigenous peoples, and effective funding. To limit the global temperature rise to 1.5 The results are encouraging. Empathy helps.

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