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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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

What are the big priorities for COP? Alice Bordini Staden, who works on climate finance and policy with National Trust – Europe’s biggest conservation charity – said she thought it was going to go ahead, but likely in a hybrid format. Where are the main challenges? How do you fix the gap?”

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Every policy, law, regulation, study, analysis, proposal or action that has the climate crisis in mind is built on the basis of those two figures: 1.5 Even so, it was a major breakthrough as the first COP to mention the temperature goals we are all familiar with today. That paragraph, in article 2, paragraph 2.a., The year was 2008.

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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

Melissa Moore, Head of UK Policy at Oceana in Europe, said: “We need an immediate ban on trawling and dredging in all offshore Marine Protected Areas as well as the inshore zone. 3] ‘Protecting the global ocean for biodiversity, food and climate’ [link]. 2]’Trawl fishing ban off Sussex coast aims to restore seaweed forests’ [link]. [3]

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Nick Molho, executive director of the Aldersgate Group, said: "Today's report from the IPCC makes it crystal clear that adapting to the impacts of climate change cannot be an afterthought and must be a priority across all areas of government policy. The Treasury commissioned the Dasgupta review to look at the economics of biodiversity.

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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. China unveils plan for giant Gobi Desert renewables projects, plots new carbon-saving policies.

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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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