DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

These family-owned and often impoverished producers each manage only a few hectares of land, but they provide a third of the world’s food and up to 80 percent of food in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. They are more open to sustainable practices than older generations. percent of climate finance.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Rania Al Mashat, Egypt's minister for international cooperation, recently said : "For us, what we want this COP[27] to be about is moving from pledges to implementation. And now, more than ever, technology will be the catalyst to help them accelerate and succeed as sustainable enterprises.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In mid-December, Vietnam will reveal its just energy transition partnership using public money to leverage private investment, following on from South Africa and Indonesia, and with a cab rank of other countries wanting something similar. That requires more and better diplomacy, not less. The relationship with India is critical.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The VCM Global Dialogue group, which aims to represent the interests of the stakeholders on the supply-side of voluntary carbon markets, yesterday set out guidance for how the emerging sector can best support sustainable development and climate action in developing counties.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The first few days of COP have ushered in a wave of major announcements and funding pledges. In deals, major funding includes $116M for hydrogen-powered aviation, $44M for sustainability software, and $75M in project finance investment for SAFs. sustainable infra fund.  Happy Monday!  Execution questions marks.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2021

The Prince of Wales has today launched a new initiative geared at fast tracking finance for improving water services in water-stressed regions in Africa and South East Asia. This initiative aims to reach 50 million people, in some of the world's most marginalised communities, with reliable and sustainable water services," he said. "As

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Business Green

JUNE 22, 2022

Thiaw and the secretariat during this transition and you may rest assured of the secretariat's continued commitment to provide high quality support to you as we prepare for COP 27 in Sharm el-Sheikh in November," Espinosa wrote.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 6, 2022

World leaders, CEOs, climate advocates, scientists and sustainable development specialists from around the world converged on New York City last week, for the annual, concurrent rituals of the United Nations General Assembly and ClimateWeek. According to the African Development Bank, Africa has received less than 5.5% degrees Celsius.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 24, 2022

Part of the world’s largest series of energy sector events spread across North America, Europe, Australia, Africa & South East Asia, this even brings together over 200 exhibitors and 8000 qualified professionals from the entire value chain of the global power generation, transmission and distribution under one roof.

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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

JANUARY 24, 2022

With World Economic Forum's annual get-together delayed, key discussions over climate and sustainability discussions may also have to wait, warn S30 co-chairs Steve Varley from EY and Freuds' CEO Dr Arlo Brady. The focuses of just some of those would have included: accelerating vaccination programmes in Africa and developing nations.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Speaking to BusinessGreen from a busy conference floor on Wednesday afternoon, O'Neill admits to being "little bit relieved" that she's at the conference in her new role as climate and energy lead for the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and not as chair of the talks. "In In a way I feel quite liberated," she says.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

Launched in 2018 with the Canadian and UK Governments, GPAP is now helping countries across ASEAN and West Africa to tackle ocean plastic waste. Encouragingly, the official climate COP 26 hosted by the UK in Glasgow in November seems to be leaning in this direction. Pull Quote.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

Dryad is now working on ten proof-of-concept deployments with forest owners in the US, Europe, Australia, Indonesia and Africa. A commercial business with sustainability and tech for good at its core, Dryad was set up in 2020 with a mission to digitize the forest and help protect and regrow the world’s largest carbon sinks.

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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

OCTOBER 11, 2022

At COP26 an $8.5bn agreement just transition deal was brokered between South Africa and a host of industrialised economy governments. Sharma is hoping further such deals could be announced at COP27 with other large emerging economies, but significant financial backing is required to enable such transition programmes.

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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. Big companies which have previously accessed COP in this way include JBS, which came in with the Brazilian delegation for COP27 in Egypt.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Worse still, it has now emerged from new undercover reporting that Saudi Arabia is operating a so-called ‘Oil Sustainability Programme’ (OSP) designed to artificially increase demand for oil across Africa and Asia.

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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Of particular concern and focus is Africa, where the private finance share in the total financing of climate adaptation efforts is not more than three per cent, or $11.4bn. Seven times that amount will be needed annually until 2030.". "We

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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

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Water shortages and a decline in pollinators will affect agricultural production levels, trade, and food prices across Eastern and Western Africa, central Asia and parts of South America, the study predicts. The study also estimates economic costs arising from the loss of specific ecosystem services.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In my first fortnight as COP President, I have been listening to those who have done this before. ??Meeting Meeting people like Paris COP President Laurent Fabius, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed and Patricia Espinosa from the UNFCCC. ??And, And we are getting ready for it.??. The first Green Simba bond.

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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

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

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 4, 2022

UN Secretary General and COP Presidency warn progress on funding for addressing climate-related damage is critical to success of pivotal climate talks kicking off this Sunday. That is the best guarantee for this COP process to survive and achieve its objective.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Meanwhile, the huge clean tech buying signals from coalitions of large corporates focused on electric vehicles, green steel, renewables, green shipping, and sustainable aviation fuels, all point to how these markets could quickly reach tipping points that trigger the rapid adoption that obliterates fossil fuel demand.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The first full negotiating texts are still not expected until later this evening, or potentially even tomorrow, according to Egypt's COP Presidency. The new NDC, as well, largely falls short of reflecting the country's capabilities to transform, to achieve sustainable development.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

But we've also seen pictures of lions and elephants enjoying the warmth of unused tarmac roads in South Africa's Kruger National park, watched clips of curious deer wandering suburban streets, and heard that giant pandas in Hong Kong's zoo have rediscovered passion for one another in the absence of their usual visitors.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Sustainable investments have now reached 4 trillion dollars. This is just the beginning - the tectonic shift towards sustainable investing is still accelerating. When my team and I established priorities in 2020, with the support of our Friends of COP group, we questioned whether we were setting ourselves up to fail.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

BlackRock found that in the first quarter of 2020, during the pandemic, 94 per cent of a set of sustainable funds outperformed their non-sustainable counterparts. In January this year, I helped launch East Africa's first ‘green bond' on the Nairobi securities exchange, followed by its dual listing on the London Stock Exchange.

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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. A rip-off of a price.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

Other former COP Presidents, such as Laurent Fabius. A Uk business called Azuri Technologies is providing solar energy systems to off-grid homes across Africa. The OECD estimates that we will need nearly 7 trillion dollars a year up to 2030 to meet the Paris Agreement, as well as the Sustainable Development Goals.

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

alive" by "undertaking rapid, deep and sustained cuts" in greenhouse gas emissions. alive or this will be the COP where we lose 1.5C," he said. You need to work out how you want future generations to look upon this COP and each of us individually as countries. goal, arguing that "every fraction of a degree matters".

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2022

And for its part, the UK announced the launch of a new programme designed to tackle the destruction of nature and biodiversity across sub-Saharan Africa, South-East Asia and South Asia. The summit has seen record attendance from companies and financial institutions.

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