Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

A member of the group had been quoted earlier in the quarter speculating that the UK's recent political turmoil had made the deadline "impractical". 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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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Amid soaring energy, food, and living costs, he warned the world now faced rising inequalities, declining political trust, and worsening climate impacts that have left economies facing "rough seas". "A

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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. Such outcomes would trigger huge geo-political risks that could impact the entire global economy.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

“Many of the things that might limit the viability of that as a mitigation technology are not necessarily included in the model, including competition with food, competition with ecosystems, the need to meet biodiversity goals, issues with land rights with respect to indigenous land titles,” Matthews told Grist.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

They point out that already some countries like Mexico, South Africa, and the U.S. The authors highlight the stark shift in politics the COVID-19 pandemic has wrought on governments around the world. They point to the EU’s $1 trillion, 10-year Green New Deal as an example of a climate-friendly, politically right-sized recovery package.

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Andrew Winston

MAY 14, 2018

How can our economic and political systems enhance well-being for all and reduce inequality? In 2014, IBM launched a 10-year, $100 million project to use its Watson cognitive computing system to help Africa solve business and social challenges. We may need some serious help answering these kinds of questions.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Highlands Rewilding's plan is to turn the two estates into biodiverse carbon sinks through "ethically profitable land management", with the close involvement of the local communities, with hopes of then expanding the model to further lands across the region. "And So that's my aspiration."

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Australia and the US are the second and third largest beef exporters globally, and their governments have a strong economic interest in supporting the growth of these industries, which enjoy close political ties. Just seven percent are based in Africa. Meat lobby groups will share a different message at pavilions at COP28.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Kunming, China, which was meant to precede COP26, was recently postponed for a second time and growing numbers of campaigners are arguing that the Glasgow Summit should follow suit. Today, 57 per cent of Europe is fully vaccinated while just about three per cent of Africa is," said Essop.

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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. s head of politics, Rebecca Newsom.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

If the world warms more than 4C by 2100, the number of days with climatically stressful conditions for outdoor workers will increase by up to 250 workdays per year by century's end in some parts of South Asia, tropical sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Central and South America. That's the future our children have to contemplate.

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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 It just shows that this UN process can achieve results, and that the world can recognise the plight of the vulnerable must not be treated as a political football.".

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

It will devastate nature and biodiversity. I met with permanent representatives, the UN and NGOs this morning to discuss how we can translate these political commitments into on-the-ground action. A Uk business called Azuri Technologies is providing solar energy systems to off-grid homes across Africa. Second, nature.

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Business Green

JULY 30, 2021

The crucial COP15 UN biodiversity summit in Kunming, China, which had been set to take place in October is now facing yet another delay, with Covid-19 concerns now likely to now push back the critical nature talks into early 2022, according to reports. South Africa calls for global climate adaptation target.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Earlier this year, for example, Shell struck a deal which will see three million clean cookstoves distributed across East Africa. To date, Verra has accredited more than 1,700 projects, ranging from the Shell cookstoves initiative to a conservation scheme that safeguards a swathe of richly biodiverse rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon.

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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? The report draws on a raft of landmark reports published in recent years.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

As the world's two biggest economies and emitters, the USA and China have particular responsibility for making such a "historic" Pact a reality, said Guterres, as he called on the two superpowers to come together in the mutual interests of the planet, despite their political differences. "It Progress on LEAF.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Indeed, in one of its recent reports, Chatham House makes the case that such factors could, ultimately, displace people, disrupt markets, undermine political stability, and exacerbate conflict. But this is as much a question of economics as security. The Glasgow Climate Pact recognises the science.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2023

Plastic pollution is a global environmental challenge that poses threats to biodiversity, the climate, human rights and the economy. Today, many countries experiencing challenges such as political instability or devastation from natural disasters, simply do not have the capacity to also enact national policies to tackle plastic pollution.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

And I think the same argument would hold for other goals like reversing the decline of biodiversity and trying to become so-called 'nature positive' by 2030. It is sad that we don't always have better political leadership, but I suspect everybody throughout recent history would have had the same lament most of the time," he says. "At

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa. By focusing on how these institutions are sites of coproduction of knowledge and policy, this work brings to light the politics of science advice and details how these committees are contributing to an emerging global environmental constitutionalism.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

On top of that, she will also take control of the UK's net zero and biodiversity agendas as Europe struggles with an energy crisis largely spurred by the Russia's invasion of Ukraine and countries around the world gear up for the crucial COP27 and COP15 UN summits this autumn. "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

Boris Johnson to tell Climate Leaders Summit the question of how to reach net zero emissions is 'not so much technical as political'. The UK has shown that it's possible to slash emissions while growing the economy, which makes question of reaching net zero not so much technical as political," he will say. "If

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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. Some progress on adaptation finance.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Nations which fail to come up with the goods in 2022 will have some explaining to do, both to their own citizens and the global political and business community. Nature and biodiversity. But the Australian government also faces an election next year and public shaming over climate inaction is an increasingly powerful tool.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

Number 10 made a decision to brief media on the nuclear deterrant, defence and cyber aspects of the review, but the commitment to climate is clear from PM Johnson in the foreword: "In 2021 and beyond, Her Majesty's Government will make tackling climate change and biodiversity loss its number one international priority.". per cent, maize by 7.4

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The City Fix

JANUARY 24, 2024

Last year shattered global heat records. The world witnessed the effects of rising temperatures in the form of devastating wildfires, severe flooding, extreme heatwaves and more. Poor countries and communities who have contributed the least to causing the climate crisis.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

As ever, scores of leading thinkers and influential organisations in business, finance, economics, academia, science, politics and civil society have offered their views on the IPCC's latest findings today, and here BusinessGreen pulls some of the most insightful. To save both lives and livelihoods, we all need to plan, adapt and thrive.

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The City Fix

AUGUST 31, 2023

Climate change is already having a significant impact on Africa’s ecosystems, economy and society. This year alone, 1.8 million Africans were displaced during a prolonged drought, the Democratic Republic of Congo experienced catastrophic flooding, and Cyclone Freddy left a trail of destruction in Malawi and Mozambique.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Chris Venables, head of politics at Green Alliance, said: "While this report should set off alarm bells around the world, the worry is that politicians will yet again hit the snooze button. With COP26 in Glasgow looming, it's past time to cease the political horse-trading and nationalistic posturing.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

President Joe Biden, and their representatives will gather to demonstrate their political commitment to slowing climate change. Other developing nations such as Indonesia, Malaysia, South Africa and Mexico are important. Get The Conversation’s most important politics headlines, in our Politics Weekly newsletter. ].

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Grist

JULY 23, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic — with its partisan infighting over masks and economic and political meltdown — feels like a bad dream. Governments could also start new programs of surveillance, monitoring particular “hotspots” like West Africa and Southeast Asia, where new diseases are most likely to emerge. Imagine that it’s 2035.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2022

People have gotten so excited about taking on climate change by planting trees everywhere — with plans underway to grow a forest across the whole width of Africa , cover a third of India in forests, and plant 1 trillion trees around the world by 2030 — that the world is approaching a seed shortage. When tree planting goes wrong.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 28, 2024

Ultimately, Oreskes points out that the climate crisis is not a scientific problem, but a political, economic, and social issue. The Planet: Critical podcast uncovers the big picture of the climate crisis by mapping the energy, economic, and political crises surrounding it. The whole interview can be heard by visiting Planet: Critical.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Even as our thirst for oil seems insatiable, it is becoming politically and environmentally toxic. 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.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

She’s an advocate of " Absolute Sustainability, " a Quantis philosophy that challenges businesses to take planetary boundaries into account not just for carbon emissions but also for biodiversity, land use, freshwater consumption, the phosphorus cycle and the nitrogen cycle. . Africa counts more entrepreneurs than any other continent.

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