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.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

AXA Investment Management and energy giant Engie have acquired minority stakes in a new French company that plans to scale nature-based solutions within the forestry and agriculture sectors, they announced yesterday.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 9, 2021

New golf course developments in Asia, the Middle East and Africa are incorporating sustainability into the design and implementation phases of their projects. Issues of diversity and inclusion in the game are garnering more attention as investments are made in supporting golf programs managed by historically Black colleges and universities.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The launch of the UN biodiversity talks in Montreal this week has prompted yet another report that attempts to put a financial value on the services nature provides to the global economy. A new report has pinned the overall value of nature markets at a huge $10tr - but will it cut through with decision makers at COP15?

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 18, 2024

Its path is a multifaceted quest for resilience, clean energy and sustainable growth, supported by regional cooperation and private investment. The journey is marked by efforts to balance economic disparities, preserve biodiversity and foster public-private partnerships amidst global energy shifts and the critical need for structural changes.

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2023

Investors have a responsibility to ensure future generations are left with a planet rich in biodiversity, argues ShareAction's Eve Gleeson The emeritus defender of our planet and its species, Sir David Attenborough, has returned to our screens in recent weeks to talk about the wonders of British wildlife.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Catherine Nakalembe to discuss how satellite data can provide critical insights for food production and management in Africa. These outputs can now support innovative and bespoke climate-resilient policy solutions for a variety of regions in Africa. .

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The ‘owl-some’ drive to encourage wildlife alongside the strategic road network has led to a £6 million investment from National Highways to create the Network for Nature Programme. These birds are summer visitors to the UK and winter in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2021

Major new international funding programme designed to help protect tropical rainforests and catalyse £850m of private sector investment. The government said the funding would help cut millions of tonnes of carbon emissions and improve the lives of over 600,000 people in tropical forest communities across Africa, Asia and Latin America.

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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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Business Green

JULY 1, 2020

More than 70 per cent of large-scale farmers in the US, France, China, Brazil, India and across much of Africa harbour significant concerns about the impact of climate change on their crops and business over the next five years, the findings of a major new Ipsos Mori poll have shown. warming trajectory.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

Corporate investment in carbon offsets is helping to fund a project in West Africa that is delivering on multiple Sustainable Development Goals through its protection of precious forest habitats and its services for local communities. The Upper Guinean Forest of West Africa is one of only three forested biodiversity hotspots in Africa.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The question of how to finance nature goals has dominated the UN biodiversity talks, which are expected to culminate in a new strategic plan, or post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, for how countries can work together to stop the alarming decline of nature around the world. the letter states.

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GreenBiz

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 26, 2020

The report from the Blended Finance Taskforce warns that without fundamental reforms to the food system sectors linked to biodiversity loss, deforestation, and climate change are set to see their value rapidly eroded by consumer trends, new regulations, and net zero commitments.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

We need urgent, global leadership and immediate action to change the way we use land, to invest in the restoration of nature, to cut emissions and critically to stop destroying forests for food production," said Katie White, executive director of advocacy and campaigns at WWF.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2023

remains viable will require total commitment to a range of far-reaching measures, including full fossil fuel phase-out, massive investment in nature, transformation of global food systems, and carbon removal on a massive scale.” King continued: “Ensuring 1.5C

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 6, 2024

Egypt’s Geographic Advantages in Green Hydrogen Development Egypt’s Strategic Location Egypt stands at the crossroads of Africa and the Middle East, bordering the Mediterranean and the Red Seas. This governmental backing is vital in offering a consistent regulatory atmosphere and drawing investment into the sector.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 16, 2023

Urgent action is needed to shift food and agriculture from a driver of climate change and biodiversity loss to a solution, with positive outcomes for producers, companies and consumers. We cannot choose between food security and environmental sustainability – they are one and the same. The good news?

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2021

The public-private PCFV partnership campaign sought to provide technical assistance and raise awareness of the dangers of Tetraethyllead, in addition to "overcoming local challenges and resistance from local oil dealers and producers of lead, as well as investing in refinery upgrades", according to UNEP.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2022

Given the fundamental importance of the ocean to all life on Earth, it is striking that there has not yet been a serious scientific assessment at scale of marine chemical pollution and its impact on biodiversity and marine ecosystems, and the overall health of the ocean. A coordinated approach.

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The UK-based firm revealed later last week it is investing £40m in the project, which is situated at Tiln Farm near Retford and once completed is expected to generate enough electricity to power the needs of over 14,200 homes.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

In strongly worded address to UN General Assembly, Antonio Guterres aims latest stinging criticism at fossil fuel firms and 'their enablers' in the PR and investment industries. And it includes the massive public relations machine tanking in billions to shield the fossil fuel industry from scrutiny.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

European Commission unveils sweeping biodiversity strategy, plus all the top green business news from around the world this week. University of California fossil fuel-free after ditching $1bn of investments. EU Commission unveils strategy to 'fix broken relationship with nature'. Rwanda ramps up Paris Agreement pledge.

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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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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Both companies already have commitments to eliminate deforestation, but the investment firm would like to see them become even more aggressive with members of their soy supply chains. I think the headline would be: Don’t work alone," Yoann Regent, biodiversity and animal welfare specialist with Kering, told me in an interview.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

Announcing the new tie-up yesterday, the partners said they aimed to channel more than $2bn of private sector investment towards 20 new forestry projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America that would be developed in collaboration with local communities. without significant support from global businesses," he said.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

A version of this article first appeared at Sustainable Investment. Perhaps keen to sugar the pill of the taxonomy delays, she announced £7.2m of funding for a new Nature Positive Economy programme.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Nearly $370b in tax credits, clean energy incentives, and investments in green innovation are intended to dramatically accelerate domestic decarbonization in sectors from energy to manufacturing. According to the African Development Bank, Africa has received less than 5.5% It aligns U.S. rhetoric and financing and catapults the U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 14, 2022

Incremental improvements to production efficiency will not be enough to turn the tide on biodiversity loss. Many of the risks related to fats and oils, such as human rights abuses, biodiversity loss, carbon emissions and poor working conditions, are recurring features of agricultural commodity supply chains.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

Announcing the new tie-up yesterday, the partners said they aimed to channel more than £2bn of private sector investment towards 20 new forestry projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America that would be developed in collaboration with local communities. without significant support from global businesses," he said.

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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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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

  Lots of spice for clean investment this week. The US Clean Investment Monitor published its annual report for 2023, which saw clean investment total $239bn, up 38% from 2022. 14% of total investment came from the feds, with $33.7B 14% of total investment came from the feds, with $33.7B Happy Monday! 

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Tech and retail giant announces raft of new renewables investments during New York Climate Week. The company announced its latest green investments at New York Climate Week, confirming plans for its first project in South America in the form of a solar farm in Brazil, as well as its first solar farms in India and Poland. "We

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2024

Strong income reductions are projected for the majority of regions, including North America and Europe, with South Asia and Africa being most strongly affected," said PIK scientist and co-author of the study, Maximilian Kotz.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2021

Among the measures set out in the Capital Shift report is a call for ministers to introduce a compulsory nature-related financial disclosure regime in the UK for companies that would see firms assess their exposure to biodiversity-related issues, such as deforestation and habitat loss, just as it has done with climate-related financial risks.

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