Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

The government is to "establish tackling climate change and preserving biodiversity as the UK's number one international priority in the decade ahead". In 2021 and beyond, Her Majesty's Government will make tackling climate change and biodiversity loss its number one international priority," Johnson wrote in the foreword to the report.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 12, 2021

The coalition is promoting actions against biodiversity loss and hopes that the pledge will lead to a successful conservation agreement during the Cop15 2021 summit in China. The coalition has pledged to invest billions of pounds in the Great Green Wall of Africa project and the launch of the new Terra Carta by Prince Charles.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2023

That’s about 95 percent of the amount needed to be removed annually to ensure global warming remains below 1.5 According to the study, keeping global warming below 1.5 In Africa, every increase of 100,000 animals in the Serengeti raises the amount of carbon sequestered by 15 percent. degrees Celsius (2.7

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Grist

OCTOBER 17, 2019

As many as five billion people will face hunger and a lack of clean water by 2050 as the warming climate disrupts pollination, freshwater, and coastal habitats, according to new research published last week in Science. People living in South Asia and Africa will bear the worst of it. biodiversity report released this spring.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It is estimated that today’s policy ambitions and targets would likely lead to global warming of around 2.7C Dr Tero Mustonen, Snowchange Cooperative – specialises in Arctic biodiversity and impacts to Indigenous and local communities and nomadic societies of the Arctic.

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Business Green

JANUARY 25, 2021

Reforestation can capture CO2, boost biodiversity, and is a key component of many firms' net zero strategies, but handled incorrectly it can also have disastrous environmental impacts, scientists warn. Tree planting is now a very big deal. Corporate efforts to combat the issue have also largely failed.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The researchers set out to estimate how much of the world’s fossil fuel reserves must remain in the ground in order to limit global warming to 1.5 Meanwhile, in the Middle East, Africa, and parts of Asia, gas production could increase into the 2030s to help those economies grow before peaking. degrees Celsius (2.7

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 12, 2021

” Methane is one of the most potent greenhouse gases contributing to global warming and a leading cause of climate change worldwide. within reach.” The steps we’re taking today are greasing the skids for rapid adoption and action by many stakeholders when the first satellites in our constellation are launched in 2023.”.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

So yeah, there's a little cheat that we did: we took away the hyper-object of global warming, which is so vast and timeless and slow-moving, and we put in a very concrete event, a comet. This risk increases steeply with rises in global temperature. As McKay put it: "No allegory is a perfect fit.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

This is not because food is more expensive in Africa than it is in the United States. Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5 It drives most of the food and beverage industry climate impacts, threatens biodiversity and water, as well as habitat for people and animals. Au contraire, it is the reverse.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 11, 2020

For the longest time, mangrove resources have been used primarily for wood harvesting, barely taking into account the important role they play in biodiversity and shoreline protection. Continued deforestation of mangrove areas disturbs habitats and damages biodiversity, a key effect of this being the decline in fishery yields.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Producers claim their animal feed comes from responsible sources and their livestock use land unsuitable for other uses, all the while supporting biodiversity and capturing carbon from the atmosphere through holistic or other types of “regenerative” grazing.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In its comment to DeSmog, the AHDB spokesperson also used GWP* to claim that “methane from UK livestock since 1990 has not caused global warming”. At no point does the industry acknowledge the serious and public health and environmental harms of livestock, which are also the leading cause of biodiversity loss worldwide.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

And, echoing the demands of many developing nations, Guterres stressed that progress on Loss and Damage - a thorny issue surrounding new forms funding for climate vulnerable nations facing the brunt of global warming impacts - should serve as a "litmus test" for the success of COP27 as a whole. It is a moral imperative.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Yet as the global economy emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic, emissions are on the rise once again, presenting a monumental challenge over the next eight years if the world is to keep to the 1.5C global warming target countries signed up to in the Paris Agreement on the table.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The recently-released United Nations Global Biodiversity Outlook opens with these words: "Humanity stands at a crossroads with regard to the legacy it leaves to future generations.". At the same time, it is also well-recognised that forest conservation delivers significant biodiversity and ecosystem services co-benefits.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

Today has seen some of the starkest warnings yet on how the failure to grasp the severity of the impacts that climate change and biodiversity loss will have for human could trigger conflict, disease, and mass migration - how should businesses respond? warming between 2030 and 2052. warming between 2030 and 2052.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

That report concluded that we have already reached average global warming of 1.1 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. Working in partnership, we can support a truly global transition.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Leaders of the world's biggest economies have today signalled their continued support for an ambitious outcome from the tense on-going climate negotiations at the COP27 Summit, emphasising their support for capping global warming at 1.5C, ramping up climate finance, cutting back on coal power, and phasing out fossil fuel subsidies.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa. This is a companion piece to the the 25 books in The Green Market Oracle's well informed readers list. Climate impacts 2. Climate action 4.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

"Today's stark report from the IPCC is a reminder to the world about how climate change is affecting our planet, underlining that we need to go further and faster to adapt and generate more clean power to reduce countries' exposure to expensive global gas prices, embracing the commitments of the Glasgow Climate Pact. "We

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

This is not because food is more expensive in Africa than it is in the United States. Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5 It drives most of the food and beverage industry climate impacts, threatens biodiversity and water, as well as habitat for people and animals. Au contraire, it is the reverse.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

A pledge by more than 100 countries - including Brazil - to end deforestation by 2030, a critical first step towards carbon sink and biodiversity preservation. degree Celsius warming trajectory. degrees Celsius, not enough to avoid the worst impacts of global warming. Biodiversity and nature-based solutions.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

With the world on the brink of irreversible harm, every fraction of a degree of warming matters to limit the dangers of climate change. It is clear that keeping global warming to 1.5°C The dangerous and costly impacts we are experiencing now will seem mild compared to what we will face if we fail to keep warming to 1.5°C

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

If richer nations can come up with financial support packages for emerging economies to wean them off fossil fuels - as the coal agreement with South Africa announced at the Summit perhaps signposts - then there is hope that the clean energy transition can start to rapidly accelerate in the 2020s. Nature and biodiversity.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It was the first time the majority of nations formally recognized the need to control greenhouse gas emissions , which cause global warming that drives climate change. That agreement set the goal of limiting global warming to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 F), and preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Deforestation and forest degradation are the second leading causes of global warming, responsible for about 15 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions. It addresses not just climate, but also biodiversity, livelihoods, the rights of indigenous peoples, and effective funding. The results are encouraging. Empathy helps.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Though I still fundamentally believe biomass is better than regular fossil fuels, biodiversity and human rights issues are serious challenges when it comes to the production of biomass. Indeed, the prospect of rising demand in Asia and Africa partly explains why the UAE’s Adnoc aims to increase production capacity to five million b/d by 2030.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In either case, this wasn’t on our bingo card… In the news, the British government passed new reforms to speed up interconnection, Colombia launched a $1B biodiversity fund, the US released $6B in funding for climate resiliency, and the US and China made modest progress on methane reduction at APEC.  Or a red herring?

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