Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Talks to deliver a new global pact for nature protection may have got off to a sluggish start at the COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Montreal, but observers remain optimistic the meeting could yet usher in a new era in how the private sector appraises nature. I think there's a parallel here with climate change.

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

We are committed to holding COP 26 in Glasgow, but the Scottish government needs to work with us to make sure this is a successful summit, which showcases the UK as a world leader in tackling climate change and represents value for the UK taxpayer," he was quoted as saying.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Sunak himself, meanwhile, has no plans to attend next month's critical COP27 UN Climate Summit in Egypt, Downing Street has reportedly confirmed today. He has also had stints as a Transport Minister and Health Minister, and served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of State for Climate Change from 2010 to 2011.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

It just shows that this UN process can achieve results, and that the world can recognise the plight of the vulnerable must not be treated as a political football.". This COP caused deep frustrations but it wasn't for nothing," she said. "It Follow-through on the phasedown of coal is not in this text.

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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

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

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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The Climate Action Network (CAN), which represents many of the world's largest environmental groups and boasts members from over 130 countries, today called for a postponement of the substantive negotiations of COP26, arguing that the COP presidency and the UK government had failed to "ensure a safe, equitable and inclusive summit".

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

C above pre-industrial levels , recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change”. It was at COP21, where the Paris Agreement , the most important climate pact to date, was enshrined. Like a chicken and egg dilemma, who came up with these goals first, politics or science?

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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.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Here, BusinessGreen rounds up some of the reaction from across the green econmy: Labour's Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves said: "[The Chancellor] is failing to tackle another huge issue of the day - adapting to climate change. Adapting to climate change presents opportunities - more Jobs, lower bills and cleaner air.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Meanwhile, a late night meeting between US climate envoy John Kerry and his Chinese counterpart Xie Zhenhua has fuelled hopes the two world's largest polluters are poised to announce a fresh collaboration on climate change, in the wake of their leaders' meeting at the G20 this week.

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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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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

In the southern Polish city of Katowice last December, news coverage of the UN’s COP 24 meeting on climate change suddenly and dramatically surged, mostly thanks to a three-minute speech given by a Swedish teen activist with Asperger’s syndrome and the amplifying power of social media. Wide-ranging, radical change.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: "The UK's path to ending our contribution to climate change will be paved with well-paid jobs, billions in investment and thriving green industries - powering our green industrial revolution across the country. Here, BusinessGreen rounds up the reaction to the stategy.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The agreement includes a number of environmental clauses, with Chapter 22 of the FTA published yesterday reaffirming the UK and Australia's commitment to protecting biodiversity and achieving the climate goals contained in the Paris Agreement.

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Grist

JANUARY 17, 2021

environment minister Zac Goldsmith said: “We know there is no pathway to tackling climate change that does not involve a massive increase in our efforts to protect and restore nature. So as co-host of the next Climate Cop, the U.K. So as co-host of the next Climate Cop, the U.K.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

As the world's two biggest economies and emitters, the USA and China have particular responsibility for making such a "historic" Pact a reality, said Guterres, as he called on the two superpowers to come together in the mutual interests of the planet, despite their political differences. "It That's a legacy we could be proud of.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

There are a lot of major oil companies that tend to fill headlines when talking about climate change – BP, Shell, Chevron – any of the ‘big six’ public oil companies. A Guardian investigation found that one in five ads served on search results around climate change were placed by oil firms.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In short, the COP26 Climate Summit was historic in that it did not shy away from naming the fossil fuel problem and should hopefully send a powerful signal to the market that the era of oil, gas, and coal is coming to a close. Climate Change Committee CEO Chris Stark noted in a briefing this morning that the 1.5C

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 17, 2020

To all but the willfully ignorant there is more than ample scientific evidence to indicate that we are facing a biodiversity crisis and a climate emergency. The physics of climate change require us to cut emissions in half by 2030. Only the political will is lacking. That breaks down to 7.6

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Today the world's leading climate scientists delivered the clearest picture yet of the scale of the climate crisis that is already unfolding, as well as the likely impacts of further temperature rises over the course of century. Everything we need to avoid the exponential impacts of climate change is doable.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2021

Boris Johnson to tell Climate Leaders Summit the question of how to reach net zero emissions is 'not so much technical as political'. The UK has shown that it's possible to slash emissions while growing the economy, which makes question of reaching net zero not so much technical as political," he will say. "If

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The final statement from this week's meeting of G20 countries - which include the US, China, EU, UK, Brazil, India, South Africa, Japan Korea, and Indonesia, among others - promises a "steadfast" commitment to delivering on the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change, with Russia the only G20 member not to officially back the communique.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 30, 2022

In the UK, meanwhile, extraordinary levels of political turmoil meant green policy decisions and U-turn after U-turn were overseen by three different Prime Ministers, four different Chancellors, and three different Environment Secretaries within just 12 months. Kirk's departure from HSBC was announced not long after making the remarks.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Climate change and the net zero transition pose huge risks to the financial system unless action is taken, but they also offer massive business opportunities. And by COP in Glasgow we will look to have those types of commitments across the financial sector, right into the private banking sector as well.". It's a net zero COP.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Over two weeks in November, world leaders and national negotiators will meet in Scotland to discuss what to do about climate change. It was the first time the majority of nations formally recognized the need to control greenhouse gas emissions , which cause global warming that drives climate change. 31 through Nov.

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 24, 2021

OK, so we’re talking about a definite break with the current system – and as I’ve said before many times on this blog, system change is something that we do ourselves, or nature will do it for us; and if we wait until nature does it, it won’t be pretty. When Lowimpact started off in 2001, it was much more difficult to engage people.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

The UK government has reportedly written to the UN's climate change secretariat to request a full year delay to the postponed COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow, warning that the spread of the coronavirus pandemic around the world could make an earlier date unviable.

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Andrew Winston

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Climate change will get worse. 2023 has been declared the hottest year on record , and in terms of climate impacts, there’s no going back. Climate chaos will continue to bring us major wildfires, extreme floods and storms, heat waves and droughts, and more. This is mostly about physics, not prophecy.

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CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 11, 2022

The COP 15 biodiversity conference is under way in Montreal, where scientists are saying this may be humanity's last best hope for survival.

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CleanTechnica

JANUARY 7, 2020

It seems like a lifetime ago when at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, I watched more than 100 heads of state and government queue to sign the original documents of the Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Biodiversity Convention and Agenda 21.

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