Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The recently-passed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is such a game-changer for domestic climate action that experts at ClimateWeek often referred to it, reflexively, as the Emissions Reduction Act. back into a position of global climate leadership. It aligns U.S. rhetoric and financing and catapults the U.S. degrees Celsius.

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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. It also showed that investing in green sectors returns between £3 and £8 for every £1 committed.

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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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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. Whatever does come out of COP won’t be enough.

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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 19, 2022

Business leaders and environmental campaigners hail the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework as a major - if flawed - breakthrough for nature protection efforts. Andy Howard, Global Head of Sustainable Investment at Schroders, said: "The outcome of CBD COP15 should make financial regulators sit up and listen.

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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. We have shared ambition, expertise and innovation.

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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. This won't just be new money but intelligent use of existing nature budgets as well as unleashing the vast but still largely unrealised potential of private sector investment.

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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

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Companies must both cut emissions and significantly increase investment in nature-based solutions if global climate goals are to be reached, writes Maria Mendiluce, CEO, We Mean Business. Nature-based solutions (NbS) are not a substitute for industrial greenhouse gas emissions reductions. °C mark. Are there risks?

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

Before investing in a given carbon offset program, you need to ensure the scheme is robust and verified to the highest international standards. Yet despite a clear need, the renewable energy sector still faces financial obstacles , which is why continued investment in this sector is necessary.

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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. Tackling climate change requires strong, global and ambitious action. Soon, economies will restart.

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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. Currently, there is a very real risk that key decisions on this will be postponed to a subsequent COP, and COP15 will result in only minimal agreement.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2020

Businesses must continue to make the case for climate ambition and stand against regulatory rollbacks, argues Verisk Maplecroft's Will Nichols. 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.

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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

JULY 19, 2022

As such, he ruled the government had failed to meet its obligations under Climate Change Act 2008 (CCA) and ordered Ministers to update the plan and present it to Parliament by April 2023. This landmark ruling is a huge victory for climate justice and government transparency.

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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.

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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

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 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

MARCH 9, 2020

I would like to thank the Secretary-General for the great leadership he has shown in tackling climate change. Other former COP Presidents, such as Laurent Fabius. Other former COP Presidents, such as Laurent Fabius. Encouragingly, there has been a strong level of agreement that we must act now to tackle climate change.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Acknowledging Indigenous people's critical role in tackling the climate and biodiversity crises may have become the norm in climate circles, but these communities still aren’t being paid for it. 23 event hosted by the international Indigenous rights organisation as part of Climate Week NYC. "We

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Climate action across farming is complex and must be broken down. A roadmap can show exactly what the steps to meeting climate change goals, minimising impacts of the climate crisis and reaping business benefits. It's really beginning to feel like together we can bring about urgent change.

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

They claim the broad-ranging roadmap will deliver hundreds of thousands of new green jobs and unlock tens of billions of pounds of private investment, cementing the UK's place as a leader in multiple clean technologies. Once again, it has failed to recognise that the prudent, responsible choice is to sufficiently invest in a green transition.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The G7's plans to establish a Climate Club and the EU's landmark carbon border adjustment mechanism deal hint at a new era - and deeper tensions - for global trade. As is frequently pointed out, climate change is a crisis of global proportions that can only be addressed through global cooperation.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

The UN Climate Change Conference is only a few months away, and to say that expectations are high would be an understatement. What are the big priorities for COP? She believed good progress was being made on Adaptation (the effort to secure protection for habitats and communities against the effects of climate change).

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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 As such, the communiqué has received a mixed response in climate diplomacy circles.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 25, 2021

Ambitious partnerships on climate action are taking root and bearing fruit Dominic Waughray Mon, 01/25/2021 – 00:30 Buried beneath the dour daily headlines on COVID-19 infections, lockdowns and travel bans, the latest science about our planet released during 2020 makes for tough reading. As with COVID-19, perhaps so with climate?

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

There has been little to no discussion of how the government intends to attract the necessary investment to deliver new nuclear projects, while proposals to fast track planning approval for offshore wind farms and support new hydrogen projects are yet to be confirmed. But this confidence could be severely tested.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Those who contributed least to the climate crisis are reaping the whirlwind sewn by others, and many are blindsided by impacts for which they have no warning or means of preparation. To date, $12bn in public and private finance has been pledged to the cause, with another $4.5bn expected at COP27. Sunak also met with Kenya's new President H.E.

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Grist

JANUARY 17, 2021

The announcement at the One Planet summit, which also saw pledges to invest billions of pounds in the Great Green Wall in Africa and the launch of a new sustainable finance charter called the Terra Carta by Prince Charles, was met with scepticism from some campaigners. So as co-host of the next Climate Cop, the U.K.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

On top of that, the land plays host to much of the planet's biodiversity, providing incalculable benefits to humanity and the global economy, starting with the pollination that underpins the global food system. And then there are the big picture climate threats that poorly managed land can rapidly amplify. Cristiana Pa?ca

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Thousands of the world's leading climate scientists, after over three years of work, today delivered yet another landmark report on the state of the climate and ecological emergency the world now faces. Today's IPCC report is an atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of failed climate leadership.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 18, 2022

While energy decarbonisation has always been the key focus for the climate COPs, the biodiversity COPs have been very clear that their priority has been land use and how humans are driving nature's devastating depletion. It is also estimated that 60 per cent of global biodiversity loss is caused by the food we eat.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 7, 2024

Our biggest existential threat, climate change, is no longer a scientific model of the future; it’s now a relentless daily challenge. Scientists tell us that we’ve pushed the planet beyond its ability to support us in critical areas such as availability of water, biodiversity, and, of course, carbon emissions.

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