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COP15 Reaction: 'The message to the private sector is clear'

Business Green

Business leaders and environmental campaigners hail the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework as a major - if flawed - breakthrough for nature protection efforts. BusinessGreen rounds up the initial reaction to the historic new accord.

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COP15: Why business is in the spotlight as debates around nature funding intensify

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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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Next Prime Minister to face legal requirement to beef up Net Zero Strategy

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As such, the court order presents a major challenge to the next Prime Minister, who will be under immediate pressure to both strengthen the UK's net zero plans and deliver a more ambitious package to help households cope with soaring energy bills this winter.

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'Our final offer': EU proposes Loss and Damage compromise to break deadlocked COP27 negotiations

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Speaking to journalists this morning, Timmermans said it would back the package on the condition that countries committed to ambitious emissions mitigation programme. We will insist on this: if this proposal by the EU on the [loss and damage] fund is to be accepted, [it will be a] package deal with a serious, serious plan on mitigation.

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Alok Sharma: We want to see all nations committing to reaching net zero emissions as soon as possible

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Other former COP Presidents, such as Laurent Fabius. It will devastate nature and biodiversity. At COP26, the world must seek to agree a package which takes forward the Paris Agreement and powers the UN climate process onwards. Civil society organisations. Corporate leaders and finance executives. Third, energy transition.

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COP26 postponed: The reaction

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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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Can a global plastics treaty help tackle the pollution crisis?

Business Green

COP talks each year are often fraught and progress remains far too slow, as today's IPCC report on escalating climate impacts will testify. As close observers of global climate diplomacy have long argued, if the COP process and the Paris Agreement did not exist you would have to invent them. The US left the treaty altogether briefly.