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. This won't just be new money but intelligent use of existing nature budgets as well as unleashing the vast but still largely unrealised potential of private sector investment.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Companies must both cut emissions and significantly increase investment in nature-based solutions if global climate goals are to be reached, writes Maria Mendiluce, CEO, We Mean Business. It's important to stress this point, because a common criticism of NbS is that we are giving polluters a ‘get out of jail free' card.

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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

DECEMBER 15, 2022

BusinessGreen speaks to delegates at COP15 about how the dash for cash to protect biodiversity will impact investors and business. Finance and Biodiversity Day at the COP15 Biodiversity Summit got off to an explosive start yesterday morning, after developing nations walked out of talks on finance in the wee hours of the morning.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

Before investing in a given carbon offset program, you need to ensure the scheme is robust and verified to the highest international standards. Yet despite a clear need, the renewable energy sector still faces financial obstacles , which is why continued investment in this sector is necessary.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. JBS, the world’s most polluting meat company, will be out in “full force” in Dubai , according to the files. The North American Meat Institute will host a side event at the US COP pavilion on December 11, the summit’s Agriculture Day, for example.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 27, 2022

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.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

Moreover, the ruling comes just weeks after the Climate Change Committee (CCC) published an in-depth progress report warning how on multiple fronts the UK is not on track to meet its emissions goals for the 2030s, and arguing that urgent action is needed to introduce new policies and investments that can accelerate decarbonisation efforts.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

Italian Minister for the Environment, Land and Sea Protection, Sergio Costa: "Whilst we have decided to postpone COP26, including the Pre-COP and ‘Youth for the Climate' event, we remain fully committed to meeting the challenge of climate change. Tackling climate change requires strong, global and ambitious action.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

Other former COP Presidents, such as Laurent Fabius. It will devastate nature and biodiversity. We have heard from you, I have heard from you, that there are opportunities to look at environmental regulation around supply chains and channel finance to invest in nature. Civil society organisations.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Such an arrangement should neutralise long standing concerns over how attempts to accelerate emissions reduction efforts and ramp up carbon taxes in one jurisdiction will simply prompt 'carbon leakage', whereby polluting companies and investors simply relocate to countries with more lax climate regulations. So far, so positive, perhaps.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

COP talks each year are often fraught and progress remains far too slow, as today's IPCC report on escalating climate impacts will testify. Yet in the six years since its birth, the Paris Agreement has undoubtedly transformed policy, investment, and economic thinking. The US left the treaty altogether briefly.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

What are the big priorities for COP? Its conclusions have since been endorsed with apparent sincerity by the UK government, which announced in June that it was committing to ensuring that more of the UK’s largest new infrastructure projects “leave nature and biodiversity in an overall better state than before development”.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

There has been little to no discussion of how the government intends to attract the necessary investment to deliver new nuclear projects, while proposals to fast track planning approval for offshore wind farms and support new hydrogen projects are yet to be confirmed. But this confidence could be severely tested.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 25, 2021

It is no surprise then that the World Economic Forum Global Risks Report 2021 identifies climate action failure, extreme weather and biodiversity loss, alongside infectious diseases, as the top global risks for the next decade in terms of impact and likelihood. As with COVID-19, perhaps so with climate?

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Grist

JANUARY 17, 2021

Scientists have said human activities are driving the sixth mass extinction of life on Earth, and agricultural production, mining, and pollution are threatening the healthy functioning of life-sustaining ecosystems crucial to human civilization. So as co-host of the next Climate Cop, the U.K. As part of the HAC announcement , the U.K.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 18, 2022

While energy decarbonisation has always been the key focus for the climate COPs, the biodiversity COPs have been very clear that their priority has been land use and how humans are driving nature's devastating depletion. At the heart of restoring nature and biodiversity - both in our oceans and on land - is our food system.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

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

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

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. Polluters have been put on notice. Business played a larger and more significant role at the Glasgow COP than any before it.

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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. Over the weekend, Saturday was 'Nature Day' at COP. That in itself is noteworthy: It's the first time preserving nature and biodiversity has been explicitly singled out as a critical climate issue.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The government needs to invest far more in nature - we know that more than £1bn annually is needed to create and restore wild places," said Bennett. "A

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

And there in lies the rub for policymakers, businesses and investors: more ambition and speed is urgently needed, but investing in adaptation efforts works and will help reduce intensifying risks and economic costs, if done correctly, the report suggests. The world's biggest polluters are guilty of arson of our only home.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree By 2030, solar and wind capacity should quadruple and renewable energy investments should triple to maintain a net zero trajectory by mid-century. The climate crisis poses enormous financial risk to investment managers, asset owners, and businesses.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2020

One possible future is a repeat of what China did in response to the global financial crisis in 2008 - a stimulus package targeted at highly polluting smokestack industries, resulting in coal consumption and emissions surging far above pre-crisis levels," Myllyvirta told BusinessGreen. "On

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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. Germany announces €220bn infrastructure investment drive.

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