Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Discussions on nature risk reporting set to start this afternoon, as pressure mounts on governments to reach consensus on broad terms of global deal. What remains ahead of us and ahead of the negotiations is the negotiation and adoption of the new global biodiversity framework," she said.

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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. The government's legally-binding environmental targets published in December while the Montreal summit was underway helped give us a good idea of where we need to get to.

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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.

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Business Green

JANUARY 3, 2022

Businesses have often been blamed for sluggish progress on climate change - yet at COP26 it was the progress that governments made that felt frustratingly slow. A significant feature of COP was businesses joining with activists to demand faster progress. Not only that, but they're linked problems, with linked solutions.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

The deal has been hailed as a major coup for multilateralism , and as a crucial milestone in countries' efforts to meeting the goal, agreed by governments last December , to ensure 30 per cent of the Earth's land and sea are granted protected status by 2030.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

As Tory leadership candidates yesterday signalled their support for the UK’s net zero goals, the High Court ruled the government must do more to explain how it intends to decarbonise the economy. This landmark ruling is a huge victory for climate justice and government transparency.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The most important biodiversity conference in a generation is kicking off this week, with negotiating teams from around the world convening on Montreal, Canada to hammer out the terms of a new global pact for nature. What makes this COP so special? It has never happened in the history of the Convention.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The UK government said it expected the deal to unlock £10.4bn of additional trade, while "setting new global standards in digital and services" and reducing restrictions on travel and work between the two nations. This is just the start as we get on the front foot and seize the seismic opportunities that await us on the world stage.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

UN climate change chief Simon Stiell similarly reiterated calls for governments to now come forward with more ambitious national climate action plans, known as Nationally Determined Contributions in the UN jargon. This COP caused deep frustrations but it wasn't for nothing," she said. "It was weak, and it remains on life support.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

COP27's focus this year circled similar essence, on holding organisations accountable to their commitments and demanding to see gradual, yet impactful change. COP27 put significant pressure on both organisations and governments to urgently act now. We agree that we, and the world around us, simply cannot afford to wait around.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

The pioneering governance structure will see the food giant officially entrench environmental, social and societal objectives into its bylaws, alongside more typical profit goals. If we protect biodiversity, we are basically protecting the diversity of DNA," Soubeiran mused.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

As such, business leaders, investors, and campaigners, not to mention the wider public, are crying out for some much-needed clarity after several months of stasis from the government. She is also expected to retain the government's support for the Sizewell C nuclear project, which outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson signed off on next week.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

It follows a separate communiqué on environmental issues last week, which saw the G20 agree to common objectives on biodiversity, natural capital, more efficient use of resources and sustainable finance. are much lower than at 2C," states. Over the next two days we will discuss the vital issues of: keeping 1.5C

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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. By contrast the OBR estimates that if we act now, the transition to net zero could add around 21 per cent of GDP to government debt by mid-century.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Previous iterations of a potential final agreement at COP27 had also failed to set out clear demands for countries to come forward next year with stronger national climate plans, although the calls did end up being reflected in the final agreement that was gavelled through yesterday.

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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

But green groups were left underwhelmed, after the government confirmed its commitment today to treble climate adaptation funding and support a series of new forest protection projects would come from existing climate finance budgets. It is either a Climate Solidarity Pact - or a Collective Suicide Pact," Guterres warned.

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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. At the heart of restoring nature and biodiversity - both in our oceans and on land - is our food system.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

A task force has been established to finalise the precise governance and workings of the Climate Club, backed by an interim secretariat led by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), with a view to the group fully launching ahead of COP28 next year.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

A decade later, in 2005 and 2007, EU heads of government would confirm this path. Even so, it was a major breakthrough as the first COP to mention the temperature goals we are all familiar with today. It ended without much of a story, with the parties being called to the COP the following year. degree limit as the main demand.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Major report calls for rapid action to be taken by government and business to deliver subsidy reform. Nature is declining at an alarming rate, and we have never lived on a planet with so little biodiversity," she said. The analysis stresses there is a strong incentive for businesses to push for subsidy reform.

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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. Essentially, without biodiversity, we would not exist, let alone develop". Cristiana Pa?ca

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

The pioneering governance structure will see the food giant officially entrench environmental, social, and societal objectives into its bylaws, alongside more typical profit goals. If we protect biodiversity, we are basically protecting the diversity of DNA," Soubeiran muses.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Forward-thinking businesses and financiers are set to be agents of change as governments look for ways to turn ambition into action - a role that is clearly not lost on the many business leaders represented at the SEC Centre in Glasgow. Polluters have been put on notice. temperature target stands tall. The less good news is that the 1.5C

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In November, I had the privilege to represent Schneider Electric at the UN's Conference of Parties (COP) on climate change in Glasgow. This COP was unlike the previous 25 iterations, in that it took place during a global pandemic. In reality, the current pledges align more closely to 2.7 The GCP was not a total loss, however.

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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.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 7, 2024

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. But these new rules also demand discussion of impacts on water, biodiversity, human rights, and more. But it was China that blew everyone away.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

As the government gears up to unveil its 10 point green recovery plan this autumn, an alliance of more than 70 civil society groups have set out which net zero policies they think should make the cut. The 10 point plan set out today should serve "litmus test" for the government commitment's to net zero.".

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In the run up to Glasgow next year governments must step up to the plate by targeting food waste in their net zero plans, argues WRAP CEO Marcus Gover. But we also know that changing the world demands actions, not just words, particularly when we're talking about food. But knowing where to focus efforts is only the first step.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

COP talks each year are often fraught and progress remains far too slow, as today's IPCC report on escalating climate impacts will testify. As close observers of global climate diplomacy have long argued, if the COP process and the Paris Agreement did not exist you would have to invent them. "It Everybody would sign up to that.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2020

The pioneering governance structure will see the food giant officially entrench environmental, social and societal objectives into its bylaws, alongside more typical profit goals. “If we protect biodiversity, we are basically protecting the diversity of DNA,” Soubeiran mused.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

I count on government leaders and all stakeholders to ensure COP26 is a success.". Sensible and forward-looking businesses know they need to act now to change the way they do business and more and more governments are putting in place the plans and actions to deliver a resilient, net zero economy. window shutting.".

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Business Green

DECEMBER 30, 2022

And then, somewhere along the way, 2022 also found time for two major UN COP summits - one on climate change, the other on biodiversity - both of which proved momentous in different ways. Study: Insulation and heat pumps can deliver UK energy security more quickly than domestic gas fields. (10

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

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. One of our roles as an investor is to create that market place, and I think government has a really important part to play in that.". "One That's the objective.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 19, 2022

History was made this morning in a conference room in Montreal, after world governments adopted the most ambitious international commitment on biodiversity conservation ever seen, pledging to protect 30 per cent of the Earth by the end of the decade.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

However, it remains to be seen if leaders can live up to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's plea for governments to emulate James Bond as they wrestle with the climate "bomb". "We Let's have no illusions: if commitments fall short by the end of this COP, countries must revisit their national climate plans and policies," Guterres said.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2021

At the UN's recent COP 26, over 140 world leaders promised to end deforestation by 2030, pledging over $19bn to do so. It addresses not just climate, but also biodiversity, livelihoods, the rights of indigenous peoples, and effective funding. Stopping deforestation does not happen in government offices.

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