DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Investors in foreign development projects have “weaponized” a system of secretive tribunals, delaying progress on climate change and other environmental crises and having “enormous impacts on human rights,” according to a new report by a United Nations expert. Boyd is calling on states to reform or leave these treaties.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The first, the Nature Restoration Law, includes plans to restore 20 percent of degraded ecosystems in the EU. The findings come at a crucial time for nature-friendly laws in Europe, which scientists say are critical to securing the bloc’s food supply and tackling both climate breakdown and biodiversity collapse.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2022

Fluctuating temperatures and extreme weather events are creating an ever-increasing cocktail of risk for companies, including volatile commodity and energy prices, stranded assets, increased political and litigation risks and distinct new demands. These factors influence how business is conducted and, consequently, how lawyers must practice.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 18, 2019

The key findings on climate change have claimed it to be the biggest peril to the present generation and the future generations with the last three decades being successively warmer at the Earth’s surface (IPCC “climate change 2014”). 2. The Challenge of Climate Change. 3. Application of Ethics.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 14, 2023

In spite of a political will to prevent renewable developments from leading figures and inconsistent policy directions, the sector is picking up huge momentum and we expect this to deliver huge strides in 2023. Mark Rowcroft. We need to develop projects that address decarbonisation and restoration targets together.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

But when it comes to climate change, adults have left the next generation with more questions than answers. Now, more than 30 years later, the critical moment is upon us to confront global climate change. These are some of the young climate leaders who are pushing hard for environmental action. Our own kids.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Veteran sustainable food and farming experts welcomed the strategy as one that just might have a genuine shot at transforming the agriculture sector and result in better public health, contribute to ending the vertiginous decline of biodiversity, and lower greenhouse gas pollution. Reforms Will Jeopardise Food Production’.

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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. Brazil's new political leadership may help to converge these agendas, showing its possible to grow and overcome inequalities having nature as an ally.".

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 9, 2021

Under the heading “Transformative effort to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss,” the seven economies: Commit to a multi-year effort to meet our net-zero commitments and environmental objectives in a way that is positive for jobs, growth, competitiveness and fairness.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

For a start, when all the sectoral targets are tallied up, they represent – at best – a 43 per cent reduction, according to the government’s own Climate Change Advisory Council (CCAC). After the painful financial crash of 2008/9, the political atmosphere in Ireland ahead of the lifting of quotas was febrile.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. South, which is already bearing the brunt of climate change effects. . “As Wed, 10/21/2020 - 00:45.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The Assembly is a network of social, environmental, and political groups that have banded together to oppose offshore oil drilling along Argentina’s Atlantic coast. There is no way that the oil industry can guarantee a low ‘risk’ or impact on biodiversity and, consequently, on the population,” he said. The move was highly unpopular.

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2020

And we will not be able to hide behind EU law when there are difficult decisions to make or indeed blame the EU when things don't work. Instead we must level with people about difficult decisions and take responsibility for delivering the change that is required.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2023

The company may be headquartered thousands of miles away in California, but it has been involved in the broader campaign to save the "blue heart of Europe" - the river and biodiversity rich Balkans - being led by a network of local NGOs for more than half a decade. But the picture is much more complicated.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

In the recent high profile report by esteemed economist Professor Partha Dasgupta that was commissioned by the government - The Dasgupta Review on the Economics of Biodiversity - the key finding was clear: we must properly reflect the value of nature in our measures of economic success in order to counter the global decline in biodiversity.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2022

These natural assets are also fundamental tools in making places more resilient to the shocks of climate change and in locking away carbon. We have legislated through the Environment Act and will continue to improve our regulations and wildlife laws in line with our ambitious vision.".

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The European Union’s scientific and political communities are locked in a battle over whether gas and nuclear can be considered green investments. I think that’s the typical example of that political exchange that went on.” IIGCC has published an open letter calling for gas to be excluded from the EU #taxonomy. "The

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2022

So, fast forward a few years from now, could the same trend be repeated for nature-related risks such as biodiversity loss and habitat destruction? But the complexity of measuring the disparate risks from various forms of nature and biodiversity damage has proved to be hugely challenging.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2022

The truth is that the climate crisis is about the economy and the environment, which is to say it is about everything. Our political leaders bear a genuinely world historic responsibility to try and drive the development of a net zero emission economy in less than three decades and end the obliteration of nature. Are you scared?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

MPs are urging the government to use the upcoming Budget to usher in a major transformation of the tax system to align the UK's spending plans with its net zero and biodiversity commitments, warning time is running short to deliver on its promise of a green economic recovery from the coronavirus crisis.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

It is in this context that this week's highly contentious but hugely wide-ranging Dasgupta Review of the Economics of Biodiversity might just become the breakthrough moment that is so desperately needed. You would be hard pressed to argue the Treasury suddenly adopted a climate hawk mentality in the wake of its publication.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Like many corporations, the global COVID-19 pandemic and lack of usual in-person events meant they had to get creative about how to shape the political debate and find new allies to support their agendas. The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Listen and take action on the information Indigenous peoples have to share As Houska pointed out, Indigenous people make up only 5 percent of the world’s population, yet Indigenous lands and territories hold 80 percent of the world’s biodiversity. If you have money to violate the law, you can go ahead and do it.”

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

However, Environment Secretary Thérèse Coffey, who announced the new goals today at the critical COP15 UN biodiversity summit currently taking place in Montreal, insisted the targets were "ambitious" and would be "challenging to achieve". "We Charles Watson, chairman at campaign group River Action, was similarly unimpressed. "We

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2023

Previously, the CCC recommended an "ambitious" climate pathway for Northern Ireland that would see it achieve an 83 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 against 1990 levels, with carbon removal efforts then required across Britain for the UK as a whole to achieve its net zero by 2050 target.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

It provides a steer on the solutions and services that policymakers have - nominally at least - pledged to support as part of their response to the climate crisis, and it provides a helpful summary of the various ways climate change will impact the ecosystems, infrastructure, and workers all businesses rely on.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

“We urgently need to scale up finance for projects to mitigate climate change, and carbon markets could be part of the architecture for doing this,” Derik Broekhoff, senior scientist at the Stockholm Environment Institute and a member of the expert panel, told DeSmog. “We ” – Yeb Saño.

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Business Green

MAY 25, 2022

The money behind INEOS and Borealis , argues demand for plastic is set to fall in the coming years due to incoming laws aimed at curbing plastic use, and that therefore banks are putting their investments at risk. The study, Who finances the plastic flood?

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Business Green

JULY 31, 2021

Sometimes described as the 'lungs of the planet', the Amazon is one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth and is also a major store of carbon, which is released into the atmosphere when the rainforest is burned, further exacerbating climate change. Meat and dairy account for around 14.5 Reign of fire.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

struggled to present of itself on climate at the COP26 conference in Glasgow. The paper suggests that all of this might have happened in violation of federal law. For one thing, central Appalachia is stunningly high in biodiversity. The new research highlights how, even as the U.S. The diamond darter. He is also the U.S.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2021

Discussions leading up to the hotly-anticipated summit are already said to have delivered hugely significant commitments on fossil fuels and clean energy , company climate risk disclosure , and global minimum corporate tax levels. Such decisions, he said, threatened to undermine the chances of a successful outcome in Glasgow in November. "I

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2023

Calls for the government to match its ambitious goals with stronger regulations to crack down on pollution and greater investment in nature recovery are only set to mount as the Chancellor preps his first Budget and the government proceeds with its controversial plans to strip out EU law from the UK's statute book.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

Business and Energy Secretary Grant Shapps said: "With a wealth of talent and expertise, and a track record to be proud of, the UK is well placed to ensure that tackling climate change also brings new jobs and investment for businesses and communities. "I Plaudits for focusing on the essential topic of ‘delivery'.

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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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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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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 26, 2022

It was not until the early 1990s that political leaders realized the need for change, to significantly improve the environmental and social systems that the country’s economy relied on. The UN recognized the country’s role in protecting nature and commitment to ambitious policies to combat climate change.

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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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