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Global Briefing: Colombia to host pre-COP biodiversity summit

Business Green

Colombia to host hybrid Biodiversity PreCOP. The Kunming Summit has been postponed repeatedly in response to the coronavirus crisis, further fuelling fears that governments are not doing enough to enhance biodiversity protection, despite the world missing nearly all the targets it set at the Aichi Summit over a decade ago.

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Looking Ahead to COP: Climate Week Takeaways for Food & Agriculture

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A whopping 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide in the near term, nitrous oxide emissions account for 46% of GHG emissions from agricultural soils, largely from soil and nutrient management such as tillage and fertilizer application. Support policy that will deliver incentives to farmers for lower-emitting practices.

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G7 nations pledge to deliver near-zero carbon electricity grids by 2035

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In a communique published at the close of a three-day Energy and Environment Ministerial meeting in Berlin this week, the world's largest economies set out their priorities for tackling the intersecting climate, biodiversity, and pollution crises, and responding to the disruption to energy markets wrought by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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High Seas Treaty: UN member states seal historic deal to protect international waters

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The ocean is the world's largest carbon sink and contains 95 per cent of the planet's biosphere. Guterres said the treaty was crucial for addressing the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. "It Ladies and gentlemen, the ship has reached the shore," she said.

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A Guide to Six Greenwashing Terms Big Ag Is Bringing to COP28

DeSmogBlog

As with the last summit, the risk continues to be that greenwashing leaves governments with “a vision that tinkers around the edges,”rather than a transformative one that creates food systems that are resilient and restore ecosystems,” as Shefali Sharma, director of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), warned at COP27.

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Voluntary carbon markets can boost sustainable development in host countries, report argues

Business Green

VCM Global Dialogue publishes its conclusions on how to shape the voluntary carbon market from the perspective of developing countries. Today's report stresses that voluntary carbon markets must complement, rather than replace, corporate and governmental efforts to slash absolute emissions.

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From ClimateWeek to COP27, COP15, and Beyond: Notes on the Road Ahead

Planet Pulse

Domestic Climate Policy Gets Real. to a carbon free economy by 2050, experts at Bloomberg and Princeton estimate that the US will have to build enough solar and wind farms to fill an area roughly five times the size of South Dakota. Here are my four key takeaways: U.S. For example, to fully transition the U.S. degrees Celsius.