Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

But a loose patchwork of weakly enforced rules governing international waters have meant the majority of the planet's oceans are highly susceptible to exploitation whether through over-fishing, acidification and pollution, or emerging threats such as deep water mining. Ladies and gentlemen, the ship has reached the shore," she said.

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Business Green

JULY 14, 2021

Natural Environment Investment Readiness Fund provides up to £100,000 to 27 nature-based climate projects across England. Chair of the Environment Agency, Emma Howard Boyd, said the fund would help demonstrate how to create investable, nature-based solutions to the climate emergency ahead of this November's COP 26 Climate Summit.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Environmental Audit Committee report also describes government biodiversity efforts to date as 'lacking' and argues ‘bold and ambitious action’ is required. Philip Dunne MP, who chairs the EAC, stressed that government, business, and consumers were all contributing to the widespread destruction of nature and extinction of species.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2022

It is a once-in-a-decade opportunity for the world's governments to sign a global agreement for nature, similar in significance to the Paris Agreement on climate change. Governments have so far been unable to reach agreement on much of the framework, leaving large sections of the draft in brackets. The stakes are high.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Some commentators in the sustainability sphere report a dawning realisation that climate change can no longer be simply “solved”, in the sense of it being possible to slow it down to a degree that will allow our civilization to continue in a more or less recognisable form. A fair COP?

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Some commentators in the sustainability sphere report a dawning realisation that climate change can no longer be simply “solved”, in the sense of it being possible to slow it down to a degree that will allow our civilization to continue in a more or less recognisable form. A fair COP?

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

The study looked at a range of factors including Google search trends, Twitter mentions, and the popularity of green campaigns on the Avaaz website, which EIU said found evidence of significant shifts in behaviour with consumers increasingly demanding solutions to damaging nature and biodiversity loss. million in 2020, the research shows.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Number 10 spokesperson insists government is determined to deliver Glasgow Summit, but warns it must represent 'value for the UK taxpayer'. Earlier this week both Cabinet Secretary Michael Gove and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon called for the two governments to work together to ensure the Summit is a success.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

UN approves UK and Italian request for high profile Summit to be postponed by a full year, as co-hosts announce new 'Friends of COP' advisory board. While we rightly focus on fighting the immediate crisis of the Coronavirus, we must not lose sight of the huge challenges of climate change," he said in a statement.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Climate change and the loss of nature are two intersecting crises that face the global economy. This nine-month climate-biodiversity season kicks off with the opening of Biodiversity COP15 from 11th October, moves to the COP26 climate summit later in the month and completes with the second part of COP15 in May 2022.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In the wake of blazing heat, rising food insecurity and devastating floods, COP28 leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda for the conference, which will call for governments to work with industry to find new solutions. It was included for the first time in 2022, when food also got its first ever mention.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 6, 2022

First and foremost, there will be a much stronger focus on climate adaptation , rather than solely on mitigation. Today, 90% of climate finance is focused on mitigation – stopping the sources of climate change at their origin, rather than adapting to their effects. They are nearly-perfect mirror images.).

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The IPCC recently conducted a study into the combined effects of all the agreed targets of the countries taking part in the ongoing COP talks. I wouldn’t be as impolite, of course, as to call what’s coming at COP26 an ‘ avalanche of climate b t ’, but here’s how I would put it. We can’t solve a problem within the system that caused it.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. Leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda that calls for governments and industry to work together to find new solutions to climate change–driven food insecurity. The files also detail collaborations planned for the event itself.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Business leaders and environmental campaigners hail the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework as a major - if flawed - breakthrough for nature protection efforts. The result will be stronger accountability and better-informed decisions by investors, governments, consumers and businesses themselves.".

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Even so, we haven’t yet made anywhere near the progress required to avoid the worst effects of the climate emergency. Today, under a special program financed by the Norwegian government, Planet’s data helps power the UN’s REDD+ program, a mechanism developed under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The Climate Change Committee delivers its verdict on COP26, but will the UK government heed its advice for the coming 'crucial' year ahead? Globally, the UK must continue to encourage stronger action on climate and insist on rapid emissions reductions and stronger adaptation through all diplomatic channels.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Discussions on nature risk reporting set to start this afternoon, as pressure mounts on governments to reach consensus on broad terms of global deal. What remains ahead of us and ahead of the negotiations is the negotiation and adoption of the new global biodiversity framework," she said.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

Tony Juniper reflects on the outcome of the COP15 Biodiversity Summit and what is now needed to deliver on the agreement signed by governments in Montreal. The government's legally-binding environmental targets published in December while the Montreal summit was underway helped give us a good idea of where we need to get to.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

As Tory leadership candidates yesterday signalled their support for the UK’s net zero goals, the High Court ruled the government must do more to explain how it intends to decarbonise the economy. This landmark ruling is a huge victory for climate justice and government transparency.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2020

And among the many reasons listed for why global environmental and climate change efforts are currently falling short, a "worldwide pandemic" was a notable absentee. There's no shame in being among the ranks of forecasters who didn't anticipate Covid-19 given that group includes every analyst, corporation and government in the world.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

All the reaction from politicians, green business, academia, NGOs and think tanks on the momentous decision to postpone this year's critical UN climate change summit. As co-host of COP26 alongside Italy, the UK government had sought to position 2020 as the 'Year of Climate Action' ahead of the November summit.

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Business Green

JANUARY 3, 2022

Post-COP26 the world risks taking its foot off the pedal of climate action in 2021, but businesses must not let that happen, writes Pinwheel's Rob Cheesewright. Businesses have often been blamed for sluggish progress on climate change - yet at COP26 it was the progress that governments made that felt frustratingly slow.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2020

One of the most important is our commitment to tackling climate change. We have worked together to drive climate action across the international community. And at this critical moment in the fight against climate change, we want to build on this collaboration. But the climate crisis remains as acute as ever.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

With COP26 President Alok Sharma having also been demoted from cabinet this week, it means there won't be a figure with a specific climate brief attending weekly government meetings chaired by the Prime Minister. Freeman previously served as a BEIS Minister until July this year and the implosion of Boris Johnson's government.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Anyone who remembers the start of 2020 will recall a time when there was to be a climate COP in the UK in November. So long ago was that pre-Covid time, that the COP would have finished by now. Healthy ecosystems have the capacity to capture greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere, helping us to fight climate change.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

Now as we begin to come out of lockdown it's a great opportunity to lock in the good changes - from taking more exercise to spending more time with family. Planning how to work more cleverly and to prepare for even larger future disruptions such as climate change and biodiversity loss. Climate risk reporting.

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2020

Defra and DfID minister Lord Goldsmith's speech at the Chatham House’s Global Forum on Forest Governance. But terrible though this experience has been for so many families around the world, the brutal truth is that it will be dwarfed by the effects of climate change and environmental degradation unless we act very quickly and decisively.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Over 1,500 civil society groups call for postpone COP26, arguing the UK government has failed to ensure a 'safe, equitable and inclusive summit'. COP26 has already been postponed by one year, and we are all too aware climate change has not taken time off," he said in a statement. "The

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2021

ECIU's Matt Williams assesses the government's recent trees and peat action plans, and how they might fit into the government's wider net zero strategy. A raft of sector plans and strategies are due out this year which will piece together to make up the government's Net Zero Strategy expected in September. How to grow a forest.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Just a week after the government finally unleashed its Net Zero Strategy , Heat and Buildings Strategy and the Treasury's Net Zero Review, replete with a flurry of fresh policy and investment, it was now the turn of the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, to set out the government's spending plans for the next year and beyond.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

UN climate change chief Simon Stiell similarly reiterated calls for governments to now come forward with more ambitious national climate action plans, known as Nationally Determined Contributions in the UN jargon. This COP caused deep frustrations but it wasn't for nothing," she said. "It

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Second, that inaction or delayed action on climate will create immense risks and costs,and populations across the world demand leaders to respond - and to respond now. In short, climate is a space where national and global interests align. Climate change does not recognise borders. degrees limit within two decades.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

COP27's focus this year circled similar essence, on holding organisations accountable to their commitments and demanding to see gradual, yet impactful change. COP27 put significant pressure on both organisations and governments to urgently act now. Climate action across farming is complex and must be broken down.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

above pre-industrial levels and stress the need to accelerate action to achieve this temperature limit across mitigation, adaptation, and finance during the critical decade of the 2020s, recognizing that the impacts of climate change at 1.5C are much lower than at 2C," states. pic.twitter.com/cNIQsu1SEr.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The frustration was immediately clear in the plenary hall as the Summit drew to a close in the early hours of Sunday morning, when various countries and negotiating blocs that had spent the past fortnight pushing for far more ambition on efforts to mitigate climate change gave their views on the final outcome.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The most important biodiversity conference in a generation is kicking off this week, with negotiating teams from around the world convening on Montreal, Canada to hammer out the terms of a new global pact for nature. What makes this COP so special? It has never happened in the history of the Convention.

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