Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

Countries across the globe have taken the extraordinary measures to shut down large swathes of their economies in order to combat the coronavirus public health emergency. And now, as we look forward to COP26 next November 2021, our aim is to ramp up ambition towards a climate-resilient, zero-carbon economy. adaptation and resilience.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

That will not happen until true net zero emissions is achieved and a global economy has been built that is resilient to the dangerous new world we have unleashed. Future COPs will re-open this debate and seek to extend it to gas and oil. If COPs did not exist you would have to invent them.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2022

They do not need to go through too many people," Oumaru Aissatou, vice president of the Network of Indigenous and Local Populations for the Sustainable Management of Forest Ecosystems in Central Africa , said through a translator at the FSC Indigenous Foundation event.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Amid myriad social, health and political crises, business sustainability is alive and well and living the Paris Agreement. From Amsterdam, Gellert oversaw the company in Europe, Africa and the Middle East for nearly six years, working before that at outdoor gear maker Black Diamond.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

But more positively, while the gap between adaptation and resilience efforts currently being undertaken, and what is required to safeguard society and ecosystems, remains considerable, such efforts can in fact be very effective, the report suggests. Inaction is a foolish business risk no company can afford.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said on Saturday at the COP27 session titled “Global Fertilizer Challenge: Announcing New Funding for Fertilizer Efficiency and Soil Health.”. These agribusiness interests have had a notable presence at previous UN COP summits, and COP27 is no exception. Vilsack said the U.S.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Healthy ecosystems are more resilient to climate change and provide life-critical services such as food and clean water," said IPCC Working Group II co-chair Hans-Otto Pörtner. "By The scientific evidence is unequivocal: climate change is a threat to human wellbeing and the health of the planet," said Pörtner.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

As such, the COP Presidency should presumably welcome mounting calls for a new era of public-private cooperation on the financial packages that can help developing and emerging economies wean themselves off fossil fuels.

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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

Inclusive and green economies, prosperity, cleaner air and better health are possible for all if we respond to this crisis with solidarity and courage. 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.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

This COP has taken an important step towards justice. We need to drastically reduce emissions now - and this is an issue this COP did not address. Developed countries must make good on the existing US $100bn per year pledge to support low income countries to deliver carbon-cutting policies and increase resilience to climate impacts.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The Egyptian COP Presidency has also yet to release a first draft of the so-called cover texts that provide the overarching statement of agreements and calls to action from the summit, with the latest tentative predictions that it could emerge before the end of Tuesday. alive or this will be the COP where we lose 1.5C," he said.

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2020

As COP26 hosts, the UK government had been working with current COP President Chile, the EU, and a raft of developing countries all of whom want to see a significant ratcheting up of national climate goals to co-ordinate a wave of strengthened NDC submissions in the run up to the Glasgow Summit in November.

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