Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Carbon markets are set to be one of the key issues at the upcoming COP climate talks, with negotiators tasked with finalising the rules for Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, which aims to create a framework for countries and companies to meet their climate goals by trading carbon credits.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

In my eyes, that certainly doesn't merit a big COP announcement. Grasslands, shrublands, peatlands and other carbon and biodiversity-rich ecosystems are also being plowed up too. The roadmap's definitions also bring up a geography question. It limits action to forests and peatlands for palm oil.

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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 18, 2022

But it remains significantly longer - and has been published much later - than previous COP cover texts, meaning negotiators have a major task ahead of them in whittling down options to deliver political consensus. The cover document does retain some of the key breakthroughs delivered at last year's COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Even so, it was a major breakthrough as the first COP to mention the temperature goals we are all familiar with today. The outcome document took into account “the scientific view that global temperature increase should remain below 2°C.” For the first time at a COP , a target of 1.5 Everything had changed forever.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

What are the big priorities for COP? Finance will obviously be the enabling factor in making the kind of transition that is required, so it’s a problem if accounting systems continue to act as if nature is “free to use”, a key issue pinpointed earlier this year by The Dasgupta Review , hailed at the time as a landmark document.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

For the first time in 25 years of UN climate talks, coal and fossil fuel subsidies have been singled out in an official document. 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.

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 17, 2020

To all but the willfully ignorant there is more than ample scientific evidence to indicate that we are facing a biodiversity crisis and a climate emergency. China has begun drafting its next five year plan (FYP), this top-level policy blueprint has been called, "one of the most important documents on the planet" for global sustainability.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2021

As we face a climate and ecological crisis, and with the UK having just hosted COP 26, Oceana believes there is additional impetus for the UK government to show leadership and to act at once to manage this damaging activity in all MPAs. 3] ‘Protecting the global ocean for biodiversity, food and climate’ [link].

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The Treasury commissioned the Dasgupta review to look at the economics of biodiversity. Professor Katharine Hayhoe, chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy, said: "Loss of biodiversity, stresses on agricultural productivity, human health risks - the themes highlighted by WGII are not new.

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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. However, the official decision on this has not yet been taken.". EDF announces plans for new Irish wind farm.

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CleanTechnica

JANUARY 7, 2020

It seems like a lifetime ago when at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, I watched more than 100 heads of state and government queue to sign the original documents of the Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Biodiversity Convention and Agenda 21. Negotiations had been tough, and some leaders were more enthusiastic than others.

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