Business Green

MAY 27, 2022

On climate finance, the G7 ministers have confirmed their intent to replicate the 'just energy transition partnership' brokered between rich nations and South Africa at the COP26 Climate Summit in other regions that need additional financial support to help them transition away from fossil fuels.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 11, 2022

At COP26 an $8.5bn agreement just transition deal was brokered between South Africa and a host of industrialised economy governments. After events wrap up in Washington, Sharma is also set to attend the Breakthrough Energy Summit in Seattle, where he is to discuss the importance of energy innovation opportunities in emerging markets.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. Rodgers defends meat-eating as sustainable and has spoken against measures to curb its consumption in rich countries. The North American Meat Institute will host a side event at the US COP pavilion on December 11, the summit’s Agriculture Day, for example.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Another COP is coming - the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference. In addition, there is growing dismay, and anger in many quarters, that the unmet promises of past COPs, especially in providing finance to those that are suffering loss and damage from climate change, are going to make COP27 even more challenging.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Using an innovative methodology developed by the WWF, the Global Trade Analysis Project, and the Natural Capital Project, the study compares the costs associated with the decline in natural assets across 140 countries. The study also estimates economic costs arising from the loss of specific ecosystem services.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Oil and gas has dominated discussions at past COPs, which have focused on the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the energy and transport sectors to tackle dangerous levels of global warming. Or, will it lock in an “innovation”-focused, industry-led plan to produce more food, with a slightly lower footprint?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

EU energy emissions fall, Rwanda gets its first mini-grid, and Brazil preps a COP bid. The transformative potential and power of mini-grids in Rwanda, across Africa, and emerging markets more widely, is hugely exciting. "As Brazil to offer to host future COP. French Senate approves solar car park legislation.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

It is up to all of us to sustain our lodestar of keeping 1.5 I also want particularly to thank COP President Alok Sharma who has worked incredibly hard to bring countries together. Despite the Covid-19 crisis, we have accelerated action, the COP has responded to the IPCC's call to close the gap towards 1.5, degrees. "I

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Nick Robins is professor in practice for sustainable finance at LSE’s Grantham Research Institute, and Dr Ma Jun is special advisor to the governor of the People’s Bank of China. Climate change and the loss of nature are two intersecting crises that face the global economy. per cent and 6.5 per cent respectively.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The appeals underscored how for many nations, the success of the Sharm El Sheikh Summit depends on its ability to deliver real progress towards the launch of a dedicated funding mechanism for Loss and Damage, after the contentious issue made it on to a COP agenda for the first time this year. Negotiations continue.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

I have witnessed agricultural innovation, to reduce emissions and boost productivity, in Brazil. Sustainable investments have now reached 4 trillion dollars. This is just the beginning - the tectonic shift towards sustainable investing is still accelerating. Yet every country at COP has agreed to phase-down coal power.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

Other former COP Presidents, such as Laurent Fabius. By uniting around specific issues, we can spur innovation, scale up solutions and bring down costs. We all need to invest in the innovation which will help us accelerate the transition to clean energy. Civil society organisations. Corporate leaders and finance executives.

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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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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 7, 2020

New leaders at Patagonia, McDonald’s, Netflix Elsa Wenzel Wed, 10/07/2020 – 02:01 Heading into fall, this batch of career updates from the worlds of sustainability and business is somewhat top-heavy. Amid myriad social, health and political crises, business sustainability is alive and well and living the Paris Agreement.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

While the world’s top fertilizer producers report record profits and farmers worldwide face ongoing price spikes for chemical inputs, the agrochemical industry is touting innovation and increased efficiency as its solution to the economic and environmental impacts of its products. Credit: Stella Levantesi.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Now almost a year on, it is just 23 days to COP27, the end of the UK's COP Presidency, and the end of my time as COP President. And so today, from the vantage point of the ending of my time as COP President, I want to take stock of where we are. And navigating this context is our defining challenge.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Policymakers, activists, investors, founders, and corporate sustainability teams alike descended upon NYC, where we were on the ground geeking out at climate “ Burning Man ” to workshop and network on this burning planet. for onshore wind in Africa relative to 3.3% It’s tough to truly prepare for NY Climate Week.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

Aluminium, which is infinitely recyclable, is a critical component to technologies essential to decarbonisation, clean energy production, and boosting energy efficiency, as well as being a major contender as a more sustainable alternative to plastic bottles. At every stage, it's about innovation," Barker muses.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2024

Campaigners and climate scientists had hoped the summit – which was billed as a “Food COP” due to its focus on farming – would see governments agree to ambitious action to transform food systems in line with the goals of the Paris climate agreement. Burr added that COPs provided an opportunity for U.S.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

As we move forward to COP26 it is essential that global powers and major emitters heed the scientific evidence and take action to ensure an equitable and sustainable future for us all.". Every government should now be focused on the investments and innovation required to reach net zero emissions as quickly as possible.

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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. But they were ignored by the Egyptian COP Presidency. Ambition to keep the 1.5 degree limit alive and pull humanity back from the climate cliff. But let's be clear.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Do the next best thing and read our COP reflections.  Last COP featured the conference’s first nuclear-themed pavilion, and this year boasted eight. Italy installed its National Platform for Sustainable Nuclear Power in September. For now, the swirl of COP nuclear activity represents a dip of the toe.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Meanwhile, Reuters reported that the UN food agency aims to launch a plan within the year to make the global food system more sustainable. The details of the plan are set to be announced during G20 meetings taking place in Bali next week.

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