Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2021

Commitment to help protect land and ocean ecosystems that are critical to combating climate change will be announced by Prime Minister at today's One Planet Summit. The money will be allocated from the UK's existing commitment of £11.6bn for international climate finance.

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GreenBiz

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. Policy & Politics. What this means for boards.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 14, 2020

Some researchers contend there is an opportunity for ecological restoration that could help fight climate change and stem the loss of biodiversity.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2022

Lawyer and activist Farhana Yamin considers XR’s cultural, political, and business impact three years after it drove London to a standstill in 2019. The world is in a fractious state - geopolitically, economically, and climatically.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 13, 2021

“We don’t control what is happening on the climate change agenda but science is telling us this is what we can bring to the issues,” van Havre said. Original post: UN outlines biodiversity plan to reverse climate change. Via The Guardian Lead image via Pixabay.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2020

Earlier in August, it launched a drive for investors to help in the fight against climate change, with a £100,000 share release. It then finds and develops habitats to plant trees and enhance biodiversity as part of a sustainable cycle.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

In plans set to be announced later today, Prime Minister Boris Johnson will pledge to protect 30 per cent of the UK's land by 2030 in a bid to put "nature and biodiversity on a road to recovery". We cannot afford dither and delay because biodiversity loss is happening today and it is happening at a frightening rate.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Proposed Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill would see international aviation, shipping, and consumption fall within the UK's 2050 net zero target, while putting climate assemblies on a formal standing. Based on the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to 1.5C

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Neither nature nor global politics has been especially kind to the U.N. In the past year major investment leaders at the global level have pushed themselves and others to take stronger stands (and produced better measurable results) on climate change, diversity, gender equity and corporate responsibility generally.

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Business Green

JUNE 22, 2021

Biodiversity loss driven by climate change, habitat degradation and the introduction of invasive species is now recognised by firms as a widespread systemic risk, writes S&P Global Ratings' Michael Wilkins. Another factor preventing biodiversity from climbing the corporate agenda is that climate change currently dominates.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

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. "I People should think about mechanisms for climate change adaptation and mitigation and how to move it toward alignment of sustaining of life. GreenBiz 21.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2020

The move also came on the same day as a global poll revealed an overwhelming majority of people believe climate change is as serious a crisis as Covid-19 and support the delivery of green economic recovery plans. The world needs to see more ambition to tackle the climate crisis," he said. "It degrees," Sharma and Costa added.

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GreenBiz

JULY 10, 2020

These 20 books provide insight into food access and justice in Black communities, food relief and school nutrition programs, the effects of technology on global food supply chains, the relationship between climate change and food production, and much more. Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato " by Rebecca Earle.

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 31, 2020

Unlocking Human Potential for Biodiversity is an opportunity to reflect on how can we better understand the human potential to preserve biodiversity, get closer to nature and guide our future actions. Unlocking Human Potential for Biodiversity is the first phase of a vast project designed to find and implement solutions for the future.

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

As the world struggles to combat climate change, the need for a sustainable economy is more urgent than ever. It’s leading to increased greenhouse gas emissions which are affecting our ecosystems and contributing to climate change. Techniques, such as organic farming and biodiversity can make all the difference.

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Business Green

JUNE 6, 2021

The document calls for the new 'future generations law' to ensure that "any proposed new laws are assessed for how they might affect young people's lives in the future", alongside greater action on climate change and more specialist mental health support in schools. But that energy must be?actively?encouraged?and encouraged?and

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Defend Our Future

JANUARY 12, 2023

Defend Our Future has officially been accepted as a delegate to YOUNGO, the Official Children Youth Constituency of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)! Climate change is a global problem — that’s why we need to work together across the globe to fight for solutions.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2022

The final scheduled negotiation was hoped to conclude a multi-year process to bring protection to marine biodiversity through a new, High Seas Treaty. Governments will really need to step up the pace and political will to get a strong treaty over the finish line this year.” said Fabienne McLellan, Managing Director at OceanCare.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Fresh analysis from think tank Bright Blue has today criticised the government for its "discretionary planning system", which it argues has made it harder to create sustainable settlements and has instead led to "urban sprawl", which it described as land-hungry, car-dependant, and politically unpopular. We are not building enough homes.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

After decades of sowing doubt about climate change and its causes, the fossil fuel industry is now shifting to a new strategy: presenting itself as the source of solutions. Science, politics, religion or just plain interesting articles: Check out The Conversation’s weekly newsletters.]. A Proven Method: Trees, Plants, and Soil.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 13, 2022

In practice, this means that money will go towards meeting only the most basic of environmental standards instead of ring-fencing funds to reward landowners who want to take a more ambitious and large-scale approach to producing environmental and climate goods on their land.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 31, 2023

The ocean will play a key role in efforts to tackle the climate crisis, according to scientists and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The use of so-called “negative emissions technologies” to enhance carbon sequestration and storage in the ocean is increasingly being discussed.

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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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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Today’s children are facing climate crisis-related health issues, warns The Lancet ’s Countdown on Health and Climate Change, the annual research collaboratively conducted by 35 global institutions. The Lancet Via EurekAlert Image via Shutterstock.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

Warming temperatures from climate change are now expanding the northern limit of the fescue belt, and the grass is marching into new areas, taking root on disturbed land, such as pastures. A 2014 study showed that climate change could increase the endophyte’s toxicity. The southeastern U.S.,

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The Earth's biodiversity is dying as the ecological web of life is breaking down. We have already witnessed significant decreases in the number of birds and insects including pollinators like bees and the future for these and many other species is bleak unless we rapidly change course. We are facing the end of civilization.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

The UK is the latest country whose government environmental groups have sued for failing to take sufficient action on climate change. Most modelled pathways for meeting the Paris Agreement's goal of averting dangerous climate change involve scaling up carbon removal. So what does a good net zero strategy look like?

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Nine philanthropic organisations have collectively pledged to provide $5bn for projects that advance progress towards a goal of protecting 30 per cent of land and ocean by 2030, in a donation that has been touted as the largest-ever private funding commitment for biodiversity.

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2024

Major new analysis from the Potsdam Institute warns climate impacts through to 2050 could do significantly more economic damage than previously expected How bad could it get? One of the biggest uncertainties surrounding climate change is precisely how severe climate impacts could prove to be.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 11, 2021

As first part of landmark COP15 UN biodiversity summit kicks off, string of reports makes case for more drastic action to protect biodiversity. Let's make the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework the starting blocks to a nature-positive world by 2030.

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Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

Climate change and global warming are issues that define our times. What does this boy care about climate change? How much is to be invested for climate change? Environments and weather systems the world over are being altered, threatened and destroyed. There are millions of people like him in this world.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

The biggest risks to food security stem from climate change and the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services,” said the letter, which was sent to all Members of the European Parliament. “We Furthermore the effect on climate change is minimal.” It is also the leading cause of biodiversity loss in the world.

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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. Indeed, nothing short of economic systems change can save us now.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Climate change transcends environmental concerns; it's a complex interplay of political, social, and economic factors. Climate change transcends environmental concerns; it's a complex interplay of political, social, and economic factors.

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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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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2022

UN Secretary General António Guterres has announced plans to hold a global Climate Ambition Summit next September in a bid to "accelerate the pace of change" ahead of the COP28 Climate Summit in Dubai next November, as he warned the totemic 1.5C global warming goal "is gasping for breath".

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