Business Green

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Together, they will work to finalise a post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). Biodiversity underpins human health, wealth, happiness, and identity. But while this is well understood, the loss of biodiversity and intact ecosystems continues to accelerate. This is not going unnoticed by the business community.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

UN approves UK and Italian request for high profile Summit to be postponed by a full year, as co-hosts announce new 'Friends of COP' advisory board. He also reiterated the government's plans to make climate action a key plank in its recovery packages.

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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

APRIL 22, 2020

UK Business Secretary and COP26 President Alok Sharma has today called on governments around the world to submit enhanced climate action plans and place clean technologies at the heart of their post-coronavirus economic recovery strategies. It is important to remember, on a day such as this, that all our futures are intrinsically linked.".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

With COP26 President Alok Sharma having also been demoted from cabinet this week, it means there won't be a figure with a specific climate brief attending weekly government meetings chaired by the Prime Minister. Freeman previously served as a BEIS Minister until July this year and the implosion of Boris Johnson's government.

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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

APRIL 13, 2020

There's no shame in being among the ranks of forecasters who didn't anticipate Covid-19 given that group includes every analyst, corporation and government in the world. National and local governments understandably won't have climate change at the top of their priority list right now. Corona eclipses climate. Time to step up.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

It just shows that this UN process can achieve results, and that the world can recognise the plight of the vulnerable must not be treated as a political football.". This COP caused deep frustrations but it wasn't for nothing," she said. "It The phasedown of all fossil fuels is not in this text. The NDCs just don't add up," he warned.

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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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Over 1,500 civil society groups call for postpone COP26, arguing the UK government has failed to ensure a 'safe, equitable and inclusive summit'. But COP26 President-Designate Alok Sharma hit back at the proposed postponement, insisting "COP26 must go ahead this November". In response, Sharma said such measures would be in place. "We

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

As a result, Whittington called on business, investors, and governments to "reflect on how we can urgently raise ambition and accelerate action further, because every time we fall short, we open the door to increased unnecessary economic costs, human suffering and environmental destruction".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Just a week after the government finally unleashed its Net Zero Strategy , Heat and Buildings Strategy and the Treasury's Net Zero Review, replete with a flurry of fresh policy and investment, it was now the turn of the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, to set out the government's spending plans for the next year and beyond.

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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

Indeed, in one of its recent reports, Chatham House makes the case that such factors could, ultimately, displace people, disrupt markets, undermine political stability, and exacerbate conflict. 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

OCTOBER 19, 2021

BusinessGreen rounds up the best of the reaction from the low carbon economy to the government's flagship roadmap for achieving net zero emissions by 2050. While Labour has a bold climate investment pledge of £28bn extra each and every year to 2030, the government offers a tiny fraction of that.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

What are the big priorities for COP? Of course, that’s all assuming it goes ahead, and the UK government haven’t ruled out the possibility of a postponement until Spring 2022. This “would level the playing field,” she said, “and it would be a massive result if we got that done at COP.”. Where are the main challenges?

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Like a chicken and egg dilemma, who came up with these goals first, politics or science? Political Origins of 2°C. The next key moment in the 2°C story is no longer scientific, but political. And we reached the political tipping point around the two-degree mark. But why are both numbers so important? Another time jump.

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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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Grist

JANUARY 17, 2021

So as co-host of the next Climate Cop, the U.K. is absolutely committed to leading the global fight against biodiversity loss and we are proud to act as co-chair of the High Ambition Coalition. “We By promoting action on biodiversity loss, it is hoped early commitments from the HAC will ensure a successful agreement for nature.

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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. But first of all, does it pass the Thunberg test?

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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

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. Business played a larger and more significant role at the Glasgow COP than any before it.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

A number of Aramco’s ads claimed the company “promoted biodiversity” and “protected the planet”. In fact, the firm is one of the biggest spenders on gifts and hospitality for government officials of any major company, according to Global Witness. Meanwhile, in the UK, Aramco has been no less busy.

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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. One memorable headline read, “ Morgan Stanley Doubles Down on ESG Despite the Politics.”

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

As ever, scores of leading thinkers and influential organisations in business, finance, economics, academia, science, politics and civil society have offered their views on the IPCC's latest findings today, and here BusinessGreen pulls some of the most insightful. 2/2) [link]. — Alok Sharma (@AlokSharma_RDG) February 28, 2022.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2021

Boris Johnson to tell Climate Leaders Summit the question of how to reach net zero emissions is 'not so much technical as political'. The UK has shown that it's possible to slash emissions while growing the economy, which makes question of reaching net zero not so much technical as political," he will say. "If

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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. Only the political will is lacking. The fact that these 3 summits have been postponed until 2021 affords an opportunity to elect a new federal government in the U.S.

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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

In the UK, meanwhile, extraordinary levels of political turmoil meant green policy decisions and U-turn after U-turn were overseen by three different Prime Ministers, four different Chancellors, and three different Environment Secretaries within just 12 months. UK coal mine approval: Is this the worst ever climate policy decision? (8

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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. Meanwhile, there are also growing political pressures. That's the objective. That's the expectation.". The decade of delivery.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

President Joe Biden, and their representatives will gather to demonstrate their political commitment to slowing climate change. Another challenge that has derailed past COPs is agreeing on implementing a carbon trading system outlined in the Paris Agreement. What happens at COP26? Courtesy: Johannes Plenio /Unsplash.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

UN widely expected to approve UK government request for crucial Summit to be rescheduled for November 2021. As such officials now believe it would be beneficial to have more time available to reschedule meetings next year and step up efforts to rebuild political momentum ahead of the talks.

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Andrew Winston

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

We will also see a degradation of natural systems and declines in biodiversity. As younger people become a larger part of the workforce and consumer base, pressure for corporate and government action — and the skills and determination to do something about the crisis — will rise. Multitrillion-dollar markets are in play.

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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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