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State of the nation

Envirotec Magazine

The report evaluates the impact of the national Natural Flood Management Programme which received £15 million of government funding, including benefits to communities and to biodiversity alongside protecting homes and businesses from floods. Across 60 pilot projects the programme created an equivalent of 1.6 What is it?

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Planet Arrives at COP26 to Enable Systems Change, Take Climate Action, and Make the Invisible Visible

Planet Pulse

Since the signing of the Paris Climate Agreement six years ago, the nations of the world have slowly begun to bend the curve on emissions, due largely to spectacular advances in renewable energy. Our technologies are designed to monitor and classify changes everywhere on Earth, every day, in high resolution.

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Connections, coffee, and campaigns: What businesses get from a COP

Business Green

Record numbers of delegates from business and finance attended the COP15 Biodiversity Summit, but these actors are not part of official negotiations – so why do they make the trip? But as the dust settles on this month's COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Montreal, observers have noted how the CBD might be on the brink of a new era.

COP 41
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Preparing for COP26

Envirotec Magazine

What are the big priorities for COP? But progress was still lacking on Resilience and Energy Transition. Clearly it will be a major achievement for the UK government if the UK can hold a successful COP, so one can only assume the will is there to try to bring it off. Where are the main challenges? Nature and finance.

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1.5 and 2°C: A Journey Through the Temperature Target That Haunts the World

DeSmogBlog

Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. It was 1988, and the expert was already warning about the existence of anthropogenic global warming and how it was influencing extreme events such as heat waves. Even so, it was a major breakthrough as the first COP to mention the temperature goals we are all familiar with today.

COP 96
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SDG15: The fight for life on land

Business Green

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