Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

We need urgent, global leadership and immediate action to change the way we use land, to invest in the restoration of nature, to cut emissions and critically to stop destroying forests for food production," said Katie White, executive director of advocacy and campaigns at WWF.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

The final deal also saw important progress on other aspects of the global climate finance regime, with all parties agreeing to explore reforms to multilateral development banks and other financial institutions to help stimulate more investment in low carbon and climate resilient infrastructure.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The gas crunch gripping Europe is directly caused by volatile international gas markets that expose the UK to demand surges in Asia and political manipulation by Putin. It would require investment in fossil fuel infrastructure at the time when that system will be winding down - possibly leaving stranded assets behind.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. 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. The files also detail collaborations planned for the event itself. Scoones explains that this can lead to unhelpful discussions.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

Because finance and investment are the lifeblood of net zero projects - and we can only meet this challenge together. I know the drive to deliver a return on investment and the search for growth areas in the economy. Giving global investors the confidence to invest. Experience working in the private sector.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Last year we saw devastating floods across Asia and Europe. Though policy choices could reduce this figure, and I would add that it includes investments with long term benefits. An explanation for this was set out clearly in a letter last week from Larry Fink, to the Chief Executives of companies in which Blackrock invests.

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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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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Chantelle Ludski is serving as the North America and Asia Pacific COO for the Anthesis Group sustainability consultancy. Energy and Clean Growth minister also served as COP President for the 26th UN Climate Change Conference. Thought for Food announced Melissa Ong as its Southeast Asia CEO. The former U.K.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2023

The IPR, which was founded by the UN-affiliate investor group the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), highlighted a raft of significant new climate policy announcements and investment plans from major Western economies in the past three months.

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2021

As such, the UK government is said to be working on plans for a new multibillion-pound green development bank that could both directly fund low carbon infrastructure projects across Asia, Africa, and South America, and underwrite private investment. The voice of vulnerable countries is really important at COPs," he explained.

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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. of warming.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2021

Speculation is continuing to mount over whether the two high profile summits will be able to proceed as planned, given the worsening coronavirus waves currently afflicting parts of Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Guterres added that scaling up investments in adaptation would be "essential for surival" and called on developed nations to ensure that funding flows allocated to projects that delivered emissions reduction were matched by investments that enabled nature and humans to prepare for escalating climate impacts.

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Moreover, it specifically urges nations to halt "inefficient" coal subsidies as soon as possible, and stop investing in unabated coal projects both at home and abroad, in addition to setting an end date for domestic coal power altogether. — Nick Mabey (@Mabeytweet) November 2, 2021.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The announcement was one of the biggest at COP, with splashy headlines , press releases and quotes about protecting nature, but many experts and activists were sceptical, citing the 2014 deal that had failed to slow deforestation at all. With these and other efforts, Asia is on track to get to zero deforestation by 2030.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 6, 2019

About 200 countries are presently convened for the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP 25 in Madrid. The Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Climate Change (COP) is tasked with making sure the agreements under the Paris Climate Accord are met. degrees above if possible. and EU declined.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The company is expected to expand across Asia, Australia, and Europe and is also pushing into Latin American markets. Other Fundings 💨 CarbonCycle , an Irving, TX-based CCS project developer, raised $100M in funding from Grey Rock Investments. Paine Schwartz , a New York, NY-based investment firm, closed a $1.7B

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

of warming, while this week's report from the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) group suggests now 'inevitable' policies could keep temperature increases below 2C. The IEA sketched out a more encouraging scenario where ambitious policies could lead to 2.1C Our hopes and dreams drown in their empty words and promises," she said. "Of

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

His] ambitious actions at home now need to be matched by equally robust investments to advance climate action abroad. Similar deals are reportedly in the works for Vietnam, India, and Senegal, all of which could help boost investment in low carbon infrastructure in major emerging economies.

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