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

OCTOBER 10, 2021

This nine-month climate-biodiversity season kicks off with the opening of Biodiversity COP15 from 11th October, moves to the COP26 climate summit later in the month and completes with the second part of COP15 in May 2022. The same process is now starting for biodiversity. per cent and 6.5 per cent respectively.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In 2018 the World Bank and others agreed significant funding to help governments boost the resilience of communities, including things like the Green Climate Fund, intended to provide support for lower income countries. A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In the wake of blazing heat, rising food insecurity and devastating floods, COP28 leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda for the conference, which will call for governments to work with industry to find new solutions. We can expect a similar turnout at this year’s COP, too.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Business leaders and environmental campaigners hail the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework as a major - if flawed - breakthrough for nature protection efforts. The result will be stronger accountability and better-informed decisions by investors, governments, consumers and businesses themselves.".

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2020

COP26 President steps up calls for 'clean, inclusive and resilient recovery' that delivers on the goals of the Paris Agreement, as polling reveals huge support for accelerate climate action. We will work together to ensure that the linked challenges of public health, climate change and biodiversity are addressed.".

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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

AUGUST 3, 2020

To create fairer, greener and more resilient economies at home and around the world. Today, governments and businesses are, rightly, focussing on their response to the coronavirus pandemic. That is why, as hosts of COP26 , the UK wants to ramp up ambition to achieve a climate-resilient, zero-carbon economy.

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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. The government's legally-binding environmental targets published in December while the Montreal summit was underway helped give us a good idea of where we need to get to.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

The crucial UN climate change summit due to take place in Glasgow in November 2020 has been postponed until next year, amid huge uncertainty and public safety concerns surrounding the escalating coronavirus pandemic, the United Nations alongside the UK and Italian governments confirmed today.

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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

JULY 19, 2022

As Tory leadership candidates yesterday signalled their support for the UK’s net zero goals, the High Court ruled the government must do more to explain how it intends to decarbonise the economy. This landmark ruling is a huge victory for climate justice and government transparency.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

The pioneering governance structure will see the food giant officially entrench environmental, social and societal objectives into its bylaws, alongside more typical profit goals. If we protect biodiversity, we are basically protecting the diversity of DNA," Soubeiran mused.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

UN climate change chief Simon Stiell similarly reiterated calls for governments to now come forward with more ambitious national climate action plans, known as Nationally Determined Contributions in the UN jargon. This COP caused deep frustrations but it wasn't for nothing," she said. "It was weak, and it remains on life support.".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

As such, business leaders, investors, and campaigners, not to mention the wider public, are crying out for some much-needed clarity after several months of stasis from the government. She is also expected to retain the government's support for the Sizewell C nuclear project, which outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson signed off on next week.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Acknowledging Indigenous people's critical role in tackling the climate and biodiversity crises may have become the norm in climate circles, but these communities still aren’t being paid for it. But Indigenous communities have their own systems - systems of government, systems for solving problems, and economies - that work well for them.

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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. But progress was still lacking on Resilience and Energy Transition. Where are the main challenges? Nature and finance. Problems and solutions.

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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. We believe that we have a plan," she said. "We

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Business Green

MARCH 19, 2021

Chinese hosts of crucial COP15 Biodiversity Summit announce new October date, lining up a crunch autumn for global efforts to avert environmental disaster. A six week period this autumn could go a long way to determining humanities prospects over the next century and beyond.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

But more positively, while the gap between adaptation and resilience efforts currently being undertaken, and what is required to safeguard society and ecosystems, remains considerable, such efforts can in fact be very effective, the report suggests. 2/2) [link]. — Alok Sharma (@AlokSharma_RDG) February 28, 2022.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

The pioneering governance structure will see the food giant officially entrench environmental, social, and societal objectives into its bylaws, alongside more typical profit goals. If we protect biodiversity, we are basically protecting the diversity of DNA," Soubeiran muses.

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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. Polluters have been put on notice. temperature target stands tall. The less good news is that the 1.5C

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In November, I had the privilege to represent Schneider Electric at the UN's Conference of Parties (COP) on climate change in Glasgow. This COP was unlike the previous 25 iterations, in that it took place during a global pandemic. In reality, the current pledges align more closely to 2.7 The GCP was not a total loss, however.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

As the government gears up to unveil its 10 point green recovery plan this autumn, an alliance of more than 70 civil society groups have set out which net zero policies they think should make the cut. The 10 point plan set out today should serve "litmus test" for the government commitment's to net zero.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

I heard someone call COP26 the "business COP" I couldn't find any official reference of that sort, but I'm inclined to agree. Governments made commitments, too : More than 100 nations — including the United States, Brazil, China and Russia — pledged to end deforestation by 2030. The birds and the trees.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2020

The pioneering governance structure will see the food giant officially entrench environmental, social and societal objectives into its bylaws, alongside more typical profit goals. “If we protect biodiversity, we are basically protecting the diversity of DNA,” Soubeiran mused.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

While NYCW has been around for more than a decade , this year the vibe of ~10x the participants and well-curated mini-conferences alongside official UN programming felt almost like a Davos or a mini-COP (which, depending on your take on the efficacy and impact of COP, could be a good or bad thing).

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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

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

While the transition will inevitably be complex and difficult, it is essential to building a more resilient economy that benefits more people.". 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

APRIL 1, 2020

BREAKING: With key Glasgow venue set to be turned into a field hospital, UN and UK government conclude crucial climate summit must be delayed until next year. A new date for the summit in 2021 is now due to be set out "in due course" after further discussion with all parties, the UK government said.

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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. But who knows what those will be.

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