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. This won't just be new money but intelligent use of existing nature budgets as well as unleashing the vast but still largely unrealised potential of private sector investment.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

Before investing in a given carbon offset program, you need to ensure the scheme is robust and verified to the highest international standards. Since these standards were developed, the demand for carbon offsets has increased over the years. Assuming energy demand does not change, this reduces the amount of carbon dioxide emitted.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

The high seas cover some 42 per cent of the Earth's surface, are a major carbon sink, and home to vast amounts of biodiversity. The first Conference of the Parties (COP) summit to bring together countries that have endorsed the high seas deal is unlikely to occur for at least four or five years.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

In my eyes, that certainly doesn't merit a big COP announcement. This bears the risk of displacing conversion to other regions if demand doesn't budge. Grasslands, shrublands, peatlands and other carbon and biodiversity-rich ecosystems are also being plowed up too. It requires investment, farmer outreach, training and so forth.

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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

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

The final deal also saw important progress on other aspects of the global climate finance regime, with all parties agreeing to explore reforms to multilateral development banks and other financial institutions to help stimulate more investment in low carbon and climate resilient infrastructure.

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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. The new business strategy rewards farmers for minimising output emissions including in feed, fertiliser efficiency, biogas usage, biodiversity and renewable farming.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

Moreover, the ruling comes just weeks after the Climate Change Committee (CCC) published an in-depth progress report warning how on multiple fronts the UK is not on track to meet its emissions goals for the 2030s, and arguing that urgent action is needed to introduce new policies and investments that can accelerate decarbonisation efforts.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. The North American Meat Institute will host a side event at the US COP pavilion on December 11, the summit’s Agriculture Day, for example. Typically, the talk is about demand side interventions, like you can get schools or, or individuals to give up meat,” she says.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

And in order to encourage the approach beyond its supply chain, Danone recently founded the One Planet Business for Biodiversity (OP2B) initiative, a cross-sector effort to improve the private sector's approach to biodiversity. If we protect biodiversity, we are basically protecting the diversity of DNA," Soubeiran mused.

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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. Though policy choices could reduce this figure, and I would add that it includes investments with long term benefits. I agree - that is indeed the question for business.

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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

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Developing nations that are not currently included in the club will be wondering where they can get the support and investment they need to help comply with increasingly strict standards on industrial products that may emerge in the coming years if they want to do business with the G7. Such concerns aren't without merit.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

How will the government justify an approach that is both poorly targeted, benefitting rich and poor households alike, and dampens the price signal that would help curb energy demand at a time of deteriorating energy security? Are you prepared to strengthen the package again, if Russia blocks all gas exports and prices rise further still?

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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. As such, the communiqué has received a mixed response in climate diplomacy circles.

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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

And, echoing the demands of many developing nations, Guterres stressed that progress on Loss and Damage - a thorny issue surrounding new forms funding for climate vulnerable nations facing the brunt of global warming impacts - should serve as a "litmus test" for the success of COP27 as a whole. Sunak also met with Kenya's new President H.E.

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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

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Nature is declining at an alarming rate, and we have never lived on a planet with so little biodiversity," she said. Transformative action on incentives and subsidies harmful for biodiversity will be decisive this decade to bend the curve of biodiversity loss," she said. "I

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

And in order to encourage the approach beyond its supply chain, Danone recently founded the One Planet Business for Biodiversity (OP2B) initiative, a cross-sector effort to improve the private sector's approach to biodiversity. If we protect biodiversity, we are basically protecting the diversity of DNA," Soubeiran muses.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

It is highly likely the row over phasing down or phasing out coal power will return in the coming years and the debate at future COPs will no doubt be extended to address oil and gas. If there's one theme that really comes out loud and clear from this COP, it is about money," said former Energy and Climate Change Secretary Amber Rudd.

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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

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. Yet in the six years since its birth, the Paris Agreement has undoubtedly transformed policy, investment, and economic thinking. The US left the treaty altogether briefly.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Against that backdrop, renewable energy, low carbon heating and energy efficiency all rose to the fore, underscored by major climate policy wins - such as the Inflation Reduction Act in the US and REPowerEU in Europe - and rising green investment. Octopus Energy makes first investment in UK offshore wind farm. (28

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As CEO of the world's biggest asset manager, BlackRock, which looks after a whopping $8.67tr investments worldwide, Fink's words matter a great deal. 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.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The UK will only be successful in galvanising global climate action ahead of COP 26 if it gets its own house in order," said Clara Goldsmith, campaigns director of the Climate Coalition. But will the government deliver the scale of investment and detailed policy frameworks required to unlock real progress?

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AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2020

And in order to encourage the approach beyond its supply chain, Danone recently founded the One Planet Business for Biodiversity (OP2B) initiative, a cross-sector effort to improve the private sector’s approach to biodiversity. The strained food production system is begging for reform, argued Soubeiran.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

By 2030, solar and wind capacity should quadruple and renewable energy investments should triple to maintain a net zero trajectory by mid-century. The climate crisis poses enormous financial risk to investment managers, asset owners, and businesses. These risks should be measured, disclosed and mitigated.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2020

Global power generation from coal fell by a record amount in 2019, as renewable energy grew and power demand slowed down," she explained. As a result, new coal plants are looking an ever more risky bet for investors, warned Christine Shearer, lead author of the report and director of the Global Energy Monitor's coal programme.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2022

COP15 Biodiversity Summit reportedly facing further delays. The COP15 Biodiversity Summit that was slated to take place in Kunming, China in May could be delayed for a fourth time, according to reports in the New Scientist. Germany announces €220bn infrastructure investment drive.

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