Business Green

APRIL 21, 2022

Sharma is in Washington DC to attend the Spring Meetings of the World Bank and the IMF where he will attend a series of meetings with finance ministers, including from India, Indonesia, and South Africa, heads of MDBs, and US Climate Envoy John Kerry. The South Africa Just Energy Transition partnership is a great example of this.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2019

It emphasises the urgency of action to curb global carbon emissions, coupled with an adaptive approach to the management of our ocean resources in order to tackle an expected rise in socioeconomic inequities. Such a response would not only improve resilience and future-proof these vital industries, but could also improve profits.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

The review itself also pledged to "lead sustained international action to accelerate progress towards net zero emissions by 2050 and build global climate resilience, starting with our presidency of COP26 in 2021 and our International Climate Finance commitment of £11.6bn". Urgent action is needed to limit global warming to 1.5°C

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

So yeah, there's a little cheat that we did: we took away the hyper-object of global warming, which is so vast and timeless and slow-moving, and we put in a very concrete event, a comet. This risk increases steeply with rises in global temperature. As McKay put it: "No allegory is a perfect fit.

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Grist

MAY 14, 2024

For over 60 years, the laboratory has studied whether nuclear technologies can be used to breed new and more resilient varieties of crops, and the seeds from the space capsule were its newest venture. In the United States, natural disasters, many made worse by climate change, caused $21.5 billion in agricultural losses in 2022 alone.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Climate change is "landing blow after blow on humanity" yet the world is still failing to mobilise the hundreds of billions of dollars of investment needed to better prepare for and guard against the myriad worsening impacts of global warming. These impacts are being experienced at just 1.1C

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

New report warns world is 'heading in wrong direction' post-pandemic resulting in a 48 per cent chance the global 1.5C There is now a near 50-50 chance of global warming temporarily rising above the totemic 1.5C Prolonged and severe droughts in China, the Horn of Africa and the United States. Heatwaves in Europe.

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Business Green

AUGUST 23, 2022

Access to appliances will also help off- and weak-grid communities in developing countries, which are often disproportionately affected by climate change, to adapt to global warming and build resilience to external shocks.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

This is not because food is more expensive in Africa than it is in the United States. Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5 What gives you hope and optimism when you look at the future of our global food system? What gives you hope and optimism when you look at the future of our global food system?

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

In contrast, Australia had its driest year on record, and Southern Africa, Central America, and parts of South America received abnormally low rains. Specifically, he argued that the Summit should aim to secure more ambitious national climate plans that will keep global warming to 1.5

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This would mean a doubling of the urban environment and equivalent to 70 million people moving to cities every year for the next three decades, with close to 90 per cent of this increase taking place in Asia and Africa.

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Business Green

JANUARY 25, 2021

Deforestation and fires have soared in the Amazon Rainforest in recent years, while huge global demand for products such as palm oil, soy, and timber is also driving destruction of critical forests in Asia, Africa, and beyond. Corporate efforts to combat the issue have also largely failed.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Heatwaves are scorching Europe, the United States, North Africa, Siberia, and some parts of the Middle East and China. The month before, extreme rainfall and floods in South Africa killed more than 400 people. Many companies were aware of the potential effects of increasing greenhouse gas emissions and global temperatures on climate.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In its comment to DeSmog, the AHDB spokesperson also used GWP* to claim that “methane from UK livestock since 1990 has not caused global warming”. Just seven percent are based in Africa. It’s notable that the solutions pursued by some of the GMA members are not always in the interests of Global South producers.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

An all you need to know guide for businesses to the IPCC’s guidebook on building climate resilience and adaptation. Even in a world with low greenhouse gas emissions - warming below 1.6C World must urgently slash emissions, as well as boost resilience to climate impacts. As such, there are plenty of key takeaways for businesses.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

of warming. And it includes a call for industrialised nations to double adaptation finance by 2025 and work with the private sector to further mobilise investment in climate resilience. WWF's global deputy lead Vanessa Perez-Cirera welcomed a new reference to nature's key role in achieving the Paris Agreement temperature goal.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Build resilience of vulnerable communities against the here and now impacts of climate change. But today's agreement is a big step forward and, critically, we have the first ever international agreement to phase down coal and a roadmap to limit global warming to 1.5 Phase out coal. Put a price on carbon. Right now, at 1.2

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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 report confirms global temperatures are currently 1.1C If global warming transiently exceeds 1.5C

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

And, echoing the demands of many developing nations, Guterres stressed that progress on Loss and Damage - a thorny issue surrounding new forms funding for climate vulnerable nations facing the brunt of global warming impacts - should serve as a "litmus test" for the success of COP27 as a whole. It is a moral imperative.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The situation, too, is only set to worsen as the planet warms, underscoring the urgent need to simultaneously drive down greenhouse gas emissions while also boosting preparedness for droughts, wildfires, storms, floods, coastal erosion, sea level rise, resource shortages and much, much more.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Renewables capacity in Europe and North America grew by 57.3GW and 29.1GW, respectively, while Africa added 2.7GW of capacity, delivering a marginal year-on-year increase. Francesco La Camera, director general at IRENA, said the "continued record growth shows the resilience of renewable energy amidst the lingering energy crisis".

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

This is not because food is more expensive in Africa than it is in the United States. Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5 What gives you hope and optimism when you look at the future of our global food system? What gives you hope and optimism when you look at the future of our global food system?

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa. This is a companion piece to the the 25 books in The Green Market Oracle's well informed readers list. Climate impacts 2. Climate action 4.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Sensible and forward-looking businesses know they need to act now to change the way they do business and more and more governments are putting in place the plans and actions to deliver a resilient, net zero economy. It is clear that keeping global warming to 1.5°C °C by the end of this century. "The No one is safe.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2022

Six months ago, negotiators at the United Nations' Glasgow Climate Summit celebrated a series of new commitments to lower global greenhouse gas emissions and build resilience to the impacts of climate change. Meanwhile, severe famines have hit Yemen and the Horn of Africa. Today, the world looks ever more complex.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

The spectre of such impacts should be galvanising urgent action, it adds, warning that climate-induced mass migrations, pandemics, and conflicts over resources will be inevitable unless sweeping measures are taken to slash emissions and bolster climate resilience. warming between 2030 and 2052.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

A variety of smaller, but significant, commitments on accelerating the energy transition, net zero steel production, fossil fuel phase-outs globally and specifically in South Africa, EV ambitions, and exploration of nuclear power and carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies. degree Celsius warming trajectory.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

It is by now well recognised that nature-based climate solutions can provide more than a third of the carbon reductions needed to keep global warming below 2C, the target agreed at the Paris climate talks. Avoided deforestation is a the mos impactful nature-based solution for achieving the Paris Agreement targets.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

If richer nations can come up with financial support packages for emerging economies to wean them off fossil fuels - as the coal agreement with South Africa announced at the Summit perhaps signposts - then there is hope that the clean energy transition can start to rapidly accelerate in the 2020s. Adaptation, resilience, loss and damage.

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Business Green

JUNE 17, 2022

Most notably, the conference completed the first technical dialogue of the Global Stocktake , a new process designed to review collective progress towards achieving the Paris Agreement's goal to limit global warming to 1.5C. COP27 has the potential to further hammer home these stark realities.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

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. The most contentious issue was on funding to address the loss and damage caused by climate change impacts in poor countries in Africa and around the world.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

World leaders have delivered a raft of crucial climate commitments at the UN General Assembly this week, with China, the US, and South Africa among countries coming forward with fresh pledges that will fuel hopes the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow in November could yet mark a step change in global decarbonisation efforts.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Alok Sharma is set to call for major reform of the global financial system in order to accelerate flows of finance towards helping developing countries decarbonise and prepare for the worsening impacts of global warming, in his expected to be his final major speech as COP26 President.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

warming trajectory. Scientists have made clear that global emissions cuts of 45 per cent by 2030 are needed to stand a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C, yet UN analysis suggests that present national commitments would see emissions rise by 16 per cent by the end of the decade, compared to 2010.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The strategy covers climate resilience, energy, transport, industry, cities, agriculture and forests, while also emphasising the need for external finance to support the transition. While the UK alongside the likes of the USA, EU and the bloc of 47 Least Developed Countries (LDCs) are resolute in their desire to reaffirm 1.5C has dwindled.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow next month is likely to fall short of putting the world on track to avert dangerous levels of global warming, but diplomats and analysts are cautiously optimistic it could deliver several breakthroughs and broadly deliver on the UK hosts' stated goal of 'keeping 1.5C No one likes to say 1.5C

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In either case, this wasn’t on our bingo card… In the news, the British government passed new reforms to speed up interconnection, Colombia launched a $1B biodiversity fund, the US released $6B in funding for climate resiliency, and the US and China made modest progress on methane reduction at APEC.  SPAC valuation ).

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