Low Impact

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

The Systems Change Alliance share our view at Lowimpact.org that the climate change problem can’t be solved within the current economic system, which requires and generates perpetual growth and wealth concentration.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

Despite the reductions in air travel and the global economic slowdown caused by the pandemic, climate change sadly has not slowed down this past year. degrees C cap on average warming that governments pledged to aim for when they signed the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement to avoid dangerous climate change. Pull Quote.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Adjusting to current or expected effects of climate change, such as building defences to protect against rising sea-levels, to reduce risk or benefit from opportunities where possible. The Sixth Assessment Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Biodiversity. Black carbon.

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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. nJanuary is a time for new beginnings and new resolutions to drive self-improvement, and that applies to nations just as much as individuals.

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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. BusinessGreen rounds up the initial reaction to the historic new accord.

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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

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. We need to look at the plan.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

It's important to stress this point, because a common criticism of NbS is that we are giving polluters a ‘get out of jail free' card. Climate change is a stock problem, and the current projections from the IPCCC show that if action is not increased to the scale needed we will overshoot the 1.5°C °C mark.

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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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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

Projects are certified by Gold Standard , Verified Carbon Standard , Climate Action Reserve , American Carbon Registry , Plan Vivo , and The Climate, Community, and Biodiversity Alliance. The stoves have improved combustion, reducing household air pollution and the adverse health effects of this.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

October's Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) summit in China will review the Aichi targets which seek to halt and reverse the catastrophic loss of nature and wildlife that our species is driving across the planet. And then November will see Glasgow host the COP climate change summit, taking place five years on from the historic Paris Agreement.

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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. So far, so positive, perhaps.

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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

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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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

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The Paris Agreement on climate change, signed into life in 2015, may not be perfect. COP talks each year are often fraught and progress remains far too slow, as today's IPCC report on escalating climate impacts will testify. If designed well and properly adhered to, global treaties have a lot going for them.

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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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Grist

JANUARY 17, 2021

Scientists have said human activities are driving the sixth mass extinction of life on Earth, and agricultural production, mining, and pollution are threatening the healthy functioning of life-sustaining ecosystems crucial to human civilization. So as co-host of the next Climate Cop, the U.K.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Before Boris Johnson's government imploded the Climate Change Committee issued a sobering update detailing how on numerous key fronts the UK was off track to meet its medium and long-term emissions goals. Where do you stand on farming subsidy reforms and what is your strategy for restoring nature? What will you do about all the sewage?

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Business Green

MARCH 19, 2021

Chinese hosts of crucial COP15 Biodiversity Summit announce new October date, lining up a crunch autumn for global efforts to avert environmental disaster. This week, we set out that tackling climate change will be our number one priority on the international stage in the decade ahead," he said.

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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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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. With fact upon fact, this report reveals how people and the planet are getting clobbered by climate change.

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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. Polluters have been put on notice. temperature target stands tall. Some progress on adaptation finance.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

I heard someone call COP26 the "business COP" I couldn't find any official reference of that sort, but I'm inclined to agree. Over the weekend, Saturday was 'Nature Day' at COP. That in itself is noteworthy: It's the first time preserving nature and biodiversity has been explicitly singled out as a critical climate issue.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

On Saturday, meanwhile, the government announced plans to plant over 3,000 hectares of new trees along England's rivers and watercourses from Devon to Cumbria by March 2025, in a move aimed at boosting biodiversity, restoring habitats, combatting flood risk and improving water quality.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In November 2021 world leaders will gather in Glasgow for the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, popularly known as COP26. WRAP knows that when it comes to protecting the planet from catastrophic climate change, there is no such thing as too ambitious. to halve food waste by 2030.

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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. Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree We need immediate action on energy.

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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

MARCH 25, 2020

The influential report, which marks the fifth annual survey of the coal plant pipeline undertaken by the groups, paints a picture of mixed progress against the decarbonisation goals stet out in the Paris Agreement on climate change.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2022

Seventy-five investors with $4.7tr of assets under management (AUM) this week sent a letter to the commissioners at the US Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) to call on them to ensure new climate change disclosure rules are as wide-ranging and robust as possible. COP15 Biodiversity Summit reportedly facing further delays.

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