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

APRIL 1, 2020

The crucial UN climate change summit due to take place in Glasgow in November 2020 has been postponed until next year, amid huge uncertainty and public safety concerns surrounding the escalating coronavirus pandemic, the United Nations alongside the UK and Italian governments confirmed today.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Over 1,500 civil society groups call for postpone COP26, arguing the UK government has failed to ensure a 'safe, equitable and inclusive summit'. But COP26 President-Designate Alok Sharma hit back at the proposed postponement, insisting "COP26 must go ahead this November". In response, Sharma said such measures would be in place. "We

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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

JANUARY 24, 2022

Where people's ability to feed their families becomes precarious and extreme weather and diseases wipe out livelihoods, people may be forced from their homes, and civil unrest may ferment, events that can undermine fragile government, and reverberate around the globe. But this is as much a question of economics as security.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 25, 2021

Unfortunately, as the economic effects of COVID-19 cause government debts to rise sharply, there is now much less public money available for activities like climate protection or ecosystem restoration — this should sharpen our appetite for innovation. How then to make the shift to a net-zero, nature-positive economy within the decade?

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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. But Indigenous communities have their own systems - systems of government, systems for solving problems, and economies - that work well for them.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

But green groups were left underwhelmed, after the government confirmed its commitment today to treble climate adaptation funding and support a series of new forest protection projects would come from existing climate finance budgets. We believe that we have a plan," she said. "We

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Forward-thinking businesses and financiers are set to be agents of change as governments look for ways to turn ambition into action - a role that is clearly not lost on the many business leaders represented at the SEC Centre in Glasgow. Polluters have been put on notice. temperature target stands tall. The less good news is that the 1.5C

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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 The GCP was not a total loss, however.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

A UK government spokesperson said: "The UK is leading the world in tackling climate change, decarbonising our economy faster than any country in the G20, and helping over 90 per cent of the global economy set net zero targets during our COP26 Presidency - up from 30 per cent two years ago. "We 2/2) [link].

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2021

The Prime Minister is scheduled to address the opening session of the Climate Leaders Summit, which is being hosted by the Biden administration to coincide with Earth Day and step up pressure on governments around the world to strengthen their national climate action plans ahead of the crucial COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow this autumn.

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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

AUGUST 9, 2021

I count on government leaders and all stakeholders to ensure COP26 is a success.". Sensible and forward-looking businesses know they need to act now to change the way they do business and more and more governments are putting in place the plans and actions to deliver a resilient, net zero economy. window shutting.".

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Business Green

APRIL 2, 2020

With governments focussed on safeguarding the health of their citizens and their economies through the Covid-19 crisis, bandwidth for international engagement and national policymaking on climate change was very clearly in short supply. The request for an early decision on postponement came from the UK government. So what happens now?

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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. However, governments are also facing another challenge this fall that could affect how they respond: Energy supply shortages have left Europe and China with price spikes for natural gas, coal and oil.

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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. Stopping deforestation does not happen in government offices.

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