Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Projects can range from local planting of trees to the funding of projects that empower families in developing countries to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels. Other offsetting projects enhance biodiversity, improve soil quality, food production or rainwater absorption.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

More than 100 of the UK's top businesses have urged the Prime Minister to take action to accelerate the clean energy transition, arguing a faster shift away from fossil fuels can help tackle the current energy crisis whilst helping the UK reach its longer-term climate and nature goals.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2021

Global demand for biomass is likely to exceed environmentally sustainable supplies in the coming years as the drive to decarbonise takes hold across different industries - a situation which risks undermining climate mitigation efforts and causing major damage to biodiversity and the natural world.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

The European Commission's latest package of classifications for sustainable finance activity published today have been labelled a "crucial" step in the EU's ongoing efforts to tackle greenwashing and meet its 2050 net zero goals by leading investment figures.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

European Commission unveils sweeping biodiversity strategy, plus all the top green business news from around the world this week. Making nature healthy again is key to our physical and mental wellbeing and is an ally in the fight against climate change and disease outbreaks," she said. — Patricia Espinosa C.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

The research synopsis below comes from AGCI Program Director Emily Jack-Scott , and a full list of AGCI’s quarterly research updates covering recent climate change research on clean energy pathways is available online at [link]. administration changes in 2021, long-term climate progress may ultimately be better off with the delay.

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Business Green

JUNE 5, 2020

In a statement to mark World Environment Day, the Prime Minister said that while countries were rightly focused on combatting the pandemic, it was critical not to lose sight of the need to protect the planet "from the devastating threat of climate change and biodiversity loss". We must all do our part," Sharma added. "I

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

While the [EU Commission] report recognises that banks have so far seriously failed to apply effective measures to avoid risk or impacts from climate change and negative social or governance behaviour by corporates they lend to, its recommendations do little to address the issue," Reclaim Finance and Change Finance said in a statement.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

2030 sustainability vision launched today by the beauty giant includes pledges to use only recycled or biobased packaging by the end of the decade and achieve carbon neutrality across its sites by 2025. Planetary boundaries are nine environmental 'red lines' that researchers have warned will compromise life on Earth if crossed.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

The proposed stimulus package calls for a "renovation wave" of buildings and infrastructure in support of the Green Deal, as well as investments in circular economy efforts, renewable energy projects, clean hydrogen infrastructure, green transport networks, and an enhanced Just Transition Fund for workers.

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Andrew Winston

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

This was a frankly scary report from the UN about how humanity is destroying biodiversity. I attempted to lay out some options for how companies should think about this ongoing emergency that runs hand-in-hand with climate change. Understand your biodiversity footprint. Hope comes through action…].

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Andrew Winston

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

This was a frankly scary report from the UN about how humanity is destroying biodiversity. I attempted to lay out some options for how companies should think about this ongoing emergency that runs hand-in-hand with climate change. Understand your biodiversity footprint. [Another piece I didn't post from some months back.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

G20 agrees to submit enhanced Paris Agreement plans ahead of COP26, but fails to agree coal power and fossil fuel subsidy phase outs. Under the Paris Agreement, signatories are expected to ramp up their national climate pledges every five years in order to help limit temperature rise to 1.5C are much lower than at 2C," states.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2020

In a letter sent to Boris Johnson today, more than 50 UK charities warn that preventing the worst impacts of climate change is contingent on a green recovery to the coronavirus crisis. Finally, the signatories write, the government should work with the international community to rapidly reverse the decline of biodiversity and nature.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

For more information, read our full investigation into the meat industry’s messaging on climate change. Animal agriculture isn’t a serious driver of climate change’ Meat industry leaders are increasingly marketing meat as sustainable, arguing that meat production in countries such as the U.S.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2020

From the beginning, our collective message to the world has been that we are on the verge of a Planetary Emergency due to the convergence of the climate crisis with extreme biodiversity loss. Recent research on the ecology of diseases suggests that climate change, biodiversity loss and deforestation are key drivers behind pandemics.

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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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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

But despite some welcome progress in recent years, the UK currently remains off track to meet its net zero goals, with the country on course to miss its carbon budgets for the mid-2030s and beyond without more ambitious policy measures, according to the latest update from the Climate Change Committee (CCC) this summer.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The EU's plan for a new fund marks a major step forward for the strained negotiations in Sharm el-Sheikh, which have been deadlocked on a number of fronts, including the contentious issue of Loss and Damage funding for climate-vulnerable nations. Mitigation, adaptation and loss and damage all go together. That is our final offer.".

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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

DECEMBER 18, 2020

French President Emmanuel Macron this week pledged to hold a referendum on changing the country's constitution to include a commitment to tackle climate change and protect the environment. The move was welcomed by NGO the Climate Alliance, but it also stepped up calls for the bank to divest from other fossil fuel assets.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

But group of petrostates resist calls to phase down fossil fuels and accelerate decarbonisation efforts. The so-called High Ambition Coalition of nations argued the draft text should include a commitment to phase down all fossil fuels and clearer commitments to accelerate the roll out of renewables.

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The City Fix

JUNE 2, 2020

EU officials have said that 25% of the stimulus package will be set. On May 27, the European Union unveiled a €750 billion ($826 billion) recovery proposal as a centerpiece of its economic response to the coronavirus crisis, while also increasing its existing budget. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Grist

APRIL 17, 2024

The spotlight It’s no secret that climate change poses a threat to our agricultural systems. And today, a new wave of startups is entering the coffee-imitation game, motivated by the threat climate change poses to the world’s coffee supply. If arabica is Goldilocks, climate change is an angry bear.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

BASF’s wine tasting is just one example of many such pandemic-style lobbying efforts by the European agriculture industry since the EU has attempted to pass sweeping new policies to combat climate change through measures included in its “Green Deal,” first presented in December 2019.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

On top of that, she will also take control of the UK's net zero and biodiversity agendas as Europe struggles with an energy crisis largely spurred by the Russia's invasion of Ukraine and countries around the world gear up for the crucial COP27 and COP15 UN summits this autumn. When Liz Truss enters No.10

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In the letter, the parliamentarians called on the UK's new government to accelerate the roll out of renewables, deliver a nationwide home insulation programme, and champion the protection of nature on the global stage ahead of the COP15 Biodiversity Summit, which is taking place in Montreal later this year.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The new Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework should drive a step change nature protection natural world - here's why the world's new biodiversity targets matter for businesses. The 10-year plan, with its four broad goals and 23 targets, has a hugely ambitious aim: to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

George Monbiot's latest book, Regenesis , is the latest in a string of studies to warn how essentially extractive agricultural practices are damaging soils and biodiversity to such an extent that food security is being threatened. We face a growing crisis of climate change and nature loss, and we all need to take action with urgency.".

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

Policymakers must step up efforts to deliver major 'structural shift' away from fossil fuels across all societal and economic activities, report warns. Policymakers must significantly ramp up their efforts to tackle climate change by working together to deliver a "structural shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy", REN21 warned.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

From an unprecedented pandemic to a global economic downturn to the intensifying impacts of climate change, we can’t say we’ll miss 2020. In the $500 billion-per-year cosmetics space, small-scale packaging leads to large-scale single-use plastic waste. But there were many valuable lessons learned over the past 12 months. .

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

What's in the energy support package, and who is going to pay for it? A sweeping support package has been promised, potentially worth up to £100bn, but what will be in it and why were these proposals such a closely guarded secret throughout the leadership campaign?

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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

APRIL 4, 2022

BusinessGreen's quick guide to the IPCC's landmark Working Group III report on climate solutions. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has this afternoon published a landmark guide to climate change solutions, the first report of its type in more than six years. is now lower than it was in 2018.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 12, 2021

.” For the vast majority of countries, recovery spending has been relatively low and not particularly green, according to the report, with any benefits from the greener elements contained in stimulus packages often undermined by concurrent fossil fuel and consumer-focused spending program. trillion of the $4.6

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Ahead of the Prime Minister's promised new green recovery package, a new report from the business advocacy group outlines a raft of near-term policy interventions that could put the UK on track to reaching net zero emissions. The gap between the government's net zero rhetoric and its policy agenda remains.

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Business Green

JULY 21, 2022

But an official update on Defra's performance over the past decade, released this week, points to the continued decline in biodiversity, the flatlining waste and recycling rates, and the growing concerns over water pollution, all of which were evident under Truss' watch. Policy proposals.

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