Business Green

JULY 24, 2020

Governments worldwide are largely failing to heed calls from the United Nations, green groups, leading economists and energy experts to gear the estimated $11.8tr-worth of Covid-19 support packages unveiled in recent months towards supporting the environment and net zero transition, according to new analysis.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The minigrid funding commitment from international donor organizations is “in the billions,” says Daniel Kitwa, energy access finance advisor at the Africa Minigrid Developers Association (AMDA). billion allocated to sub-Saharan Africa. This requires skills that would command a premium anywhere, and even more so in Africa.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The group has set a target of unlocking $100bn in public and private capital to improve access to clean power across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. A new climate finance package agreed last week should put industrialised nations on track to deliver over $100bn a year, but the target is unlikely to be met until 2023.

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Business Green

JUNE 1, 2020

We are therefore writing to ask that the economic recovery plans you are developing align with the UK's wider goals and deliver a clean, just recovery, that creates quality employment and builds a more sustainable, inclusive and resilient UK economy for the future. Paul Margetts, Chairman of the Country Board, Capgemini UK plc.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2022

COP26 President to attend World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings in a bid to rally support for a new wave of green finance packages for developing economies. The South Africa Just Energy Transition partnership is a great example of this. What we now need to do is support developing countries to make this transition.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Episode 235: The value of informal waste collectors, reusable packaging prevails Heather Clancy Fri, 09/04/2020 – 02:00 Week in Review Stories discussed this week (4:08). Why placing environment, social and governance principles at the center of COVID-19 recovery places makes sense for resilience and the bottom line.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2021

One company doing this is Mondi , a global leader in packaging and paper and this year one of only 14 companies on CDP's prestigious ‘Triple A List' for tackling climate change, protecting forests and water security. The company works across the value chain, from growing trees to manufacturing pulp and producing packaging and paper.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The UK government will today announce a new £290m funding package to bolster climate resilience and adaptation measures in developing countries, as it hosts a meeting of ministers from around the world to discuss how to further boost flows of climate adaptation funding.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 14, 2021

The rise of renewables is forcing utilities and other energy stakeholders to make the grid smarter, more resilient and efficient. Program applicants were asked to pitch ideas that would create additional revenue streams for the country’s severely indebted utilities or help improve grid resilience. The view from Sangam Ventures.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The Cures for Carbon: Elemental is committed to advancing emerging technologies in deep decarbonization that leverages Earth’s natural resources of air, oceans and soil to achieve necessary carbon removal levels by 2030 and beyond while fostering resilience and sustainability for communities on the frontlines.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Agreeing a package that delivers the Paris Agreement and powers the UN climate process forward.?? First, adaptation and resilience, helping people, economies and the environment adapt and prepare for the impacts of climate change. Last month, I helped launch East Africa's first ‘green bond' on the Nairobi securities exchange.

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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

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Developed nations must work harder to build trust with their developing world counterparts at COP27 by meeting existing climate finance commitments and mobilising more funds to help poorer nations decarbonise their economies and enhance their climate resilience. The money is there: it just needs to be mobilised.".

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Business Green

MAY 13, 2022

It is time for all of us to take necessary steps to strengthen Europe's energy security and resilience by accelerating the green transition. According to reports from Euractiv this week , the Commission is considering strengthening the EU's renewable energy target for 2030 as it looks to finalise the package.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2021

Demand for such products continues to grow rapidly around the world and is widely blamed for fuelling mass deforestation - both legal and illegal - in Asia, Africa, and South America, where forests are frequently cleared to make way for commodity cultivation and production.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

To work in solar, you need to be resilient, adaptable and committed to acting on climate science. We're currently developing a 5GW pipeline across Europe, Africa and Latin America, and are on site constructing more than 600MW of solar capacity in Spain and the Netherlands.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

This is a chance for nations to recover better, to include the most vulnerable in those plans, and a chance to shape the 21st century economy in ways that are clean, green, healthy, just, safe and more resilient. That we don't sow seeds of next crisis, but embed resilience to shocks like pandemics & extreme weather events.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Debra Roberts, Head of the Sustainable and Resilient City Initiatives Unit in eThekwini Municipality, Durban, South Africa. To here create your own unique registration package. Kathy Kinloch, President, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada Sharon Gil, United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), Cities Unit, France.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Ghana's President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, meanwhile, called for a "radical restructuring of global financial architecture" and warned that "no one will win if Africa loses". And a new carbon markets initiative was launched dedicated to driving more climate finance to countries on the frontlines of climate change. Negotiations continue.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

While the rate of annual deforestation slowed to about 25 million acres between 2015 and 2020, the trendlines in several regions — especially countries in Africa and South America — aren’t moving in the right direction. Soybean production and cattle raising activities are linked to deforestation in Brazil's Cerrado region.

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2020

Spain, Ireland, Germany, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa have already established such commissions, or something similar, to provide insight into what rapid decarbonisation will mean for society and the economy. doing all we can to boost resilience by shaping economies that can withstand everything nature throws at us".

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Business Green

MAY 26, 2020

It's applied in packaging facilities or warehouses using a water-based formula. The new funding is aimed at helping enable Apeel to continue is international expansion, especially in places such as sub-Saharan Africa, Central America and South America - places where there are higher rates of both food waste and food insecurity, it explained.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The tech giant is increasingly confident it can, and this week unveiled a sweeping package of new investments and initiatives designed to slash emissions across its sprawling global supply chain. Can Apple deliver on its hugely ambitious net zero targets?

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2022

Luckily, regenerative practices - like planting cover crops, minimising tillage and synthetic input use, and diversifying crop rotations - build soils and farm resilience while reducing emissions and sequestering soil carbon. you cannot dictate a specific package of practices on all farms globally.

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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. degrees C food system looks like, and define how their business model will need to shift to guarantee not only that we can stay within planetary boundaries, but also to ensure their business’ long term resilience. Au contraire, it is the reverse.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

All over the world not nearly enough is being done to enhance climate resilience, leaving communities and economies exposed. A precedent is being set with a new loss and damage framework taking shape and the first, albeit modest, funding packages being announced. But at the same time there has been progress.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Second, if governments are going to start to pay for Loss and Damage the case for bolstering climate resilience in the most vulnerable countries has become more compelling still. Firstly, some Loss and Damage funding will now start to flow and that should create economic opportunities. Carbon offset fears persist.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

COP26 can be a moment where the world comes together to ramp up momentum towards a climate-resilient, zero-carbon economy. At COP26, the world must seek to agree a package which takes forward the Paris Agreement and powers the UN climate process onwards. First, adaptation and resilience.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Plummeting bus and train ridership, lost jobs, overflowing warehouses, more inequality: 2020’s disruptions to the transport sector were widespread and deep. Speaking at Transforming Transportation 2021, co-hosted by WRI and the World Bank, sustainable mobility leaders from around the world. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Lotspeich gave the example of projects in West Africa where survival rates are only about 20 per cent or for carbon accounting certain thresholds have to be met if that tree is to count against a company's emissions. An entire package. Not all tree planting projects are equal and neither are all trees.

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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 The agreement was hailed by activists and developing countries as a major breakthrough.

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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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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

In addition to an emergency package to offer immediate support to consumers, the best way to do this is to rapidly lower the UK's dependence on volatile fossil fuels. This will require the rapid finalisation of ambitious targets under the Environment Act and putting in place a new ambitious Environment Improvement Plan by the start of 2023.".

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

And more sustainable approaches to procurement should be welcomed by businesses and consumers, who Barker predicts will be more concerned with resilience and sustainability in the wake of the pandemic. "In The company's aluminium is, after all, produced by minerals mined in the Caribbean and West Africa and refined in Ireland. "At

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2021

At Mondi, sustainability is at the heart of what we do, creating packaging and paper that is sustainable by design. million hectares of natural forestry landholdings in Russia and 254,000 hectares of plantation forestry landholdings in South Africa. We have a responsibility in ensuring forests are protected and managed sustainably.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

While the rate of annual deforestation slowed to about 25 million acres between 2015 and 2020, the trendlines in several regions — especially countries in Africa and South America — aren’t moving in the right direction. percent. Soybean production and cattle raising activities are linked to deforestation in Brazil’s Cerrado region.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

A growing number food firms are seeking to diversify the ingredients they use in their products to help build a more sustainable, climate resilient food system, according to the Future 50 Food initiative.

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