Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

But a loose patchwork of weakly enforced rules governing international waters have meant the majority of the planet's oceans are highly susceptible to exploitation whether through over-fishing, acidification and pollution, or emerging threats such as deep water mining. per cent of international waters have protected status, with just 0.8

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In recent years, the biggest agricultural polluters and food corporations have embraced this term, which refers to a wide range of farming techniques that improve the environment. All these methods work to improve the soil, reduce air and water pollution, cut emissions, and boost biodiversity.

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GreenBiz

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? Pull Quote.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

The environment has also suffered, in the form of pollution, deforestation, biodiversity reduction, and now, climate change. Making COP26 sound more like COP-OUT26, the report furthermore states that, “Current emissions are incompatible with the Paris Agreement and immediate and deep cuts are absolutely mandatory.”.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2022

In a communique published at the close of a three-day Energy and Environment Ministerial meeting in Berlin this week, the world's largest economies set out their priorities for tackling the intersecting climate, biodiversity, and pollution crises, and responding to the disruption to energy markets wrought by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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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. nJanuary is a time for new beginnings and new resolutions to drive self-improvement, and that applies to nations just as much as individuals.

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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. BusinessGreen rounds up the initial reaction to the historic new accord.

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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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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

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Biodiversity. Conference of the Parties (COP). COP is the decision-making body responsible for monitoring and reviewing implementation of the UNFCCC. Short-lived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs). These reductions cannot be reflected in a product's or an activity's carbon footprint as measured by the greenhouse gases it emits.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

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. There is already a wealth of case studies that are showing the way and we are expecting a raft of announcements at the upcoming COP that will further cement the path forward for NbS.

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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

JULY 19, 2022

They also all stressed that they wanted to do more to tackle biodiversity loss and water pollution, and a number of candidates floated new policy proposals.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

October's Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) summit in China will review the Aichi targets which seek to halt and reverse the catastrophic loss of nature and wildlife that our species is driving across the planet. And then November will see Glasgow host the COP climate change summit, taking place five years on from the historic Paris Agreement.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

Other former COP Presidents, such as Laurent Fabius. It will devastate nature and biodiversity. The UN Oceans Conference in Lisbon, the 15th Conference on Biological Diversity hosted by China, and of course COP26, offer an opportunity to bend the curve of greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss. Third, energy transition.

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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

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. 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.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

Projects are certified by Gold Standard , Verified Carbon Standard , Climate Action Reserve , American Carbon Registry , Plan Vivo , and The Climate, Community, and Biodiversity Alliance. The stoves have improved combustion, reducing household air pollution and the adverse health effects of this.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Meanwhile, a late night meeting between US climate envoy John Kerry and his Chinese counterpart Xie Zhenhua has fuelled hopes the two world's largest polluters are poised to announce a fresh collaboration on climate change, in the wake of their leaders' meeting at the G20 this week.

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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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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

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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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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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. Since the UK took on the COP Presidency, commitments to net zero have grown from around a quarter of the world's economy to 70 per cent," Johnson said.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

But with the COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Montreal fast approaching this winter and the government's sweeping farming subsidy reforms continuing to advance, Truss will soon have to stake out her position. Where do you stand on farming subsidy reforms and what is your strategy for restoring nature? What will you do about all the sewage?

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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

On Saturday, meanwhile, the government announced plans to plant over 3,000 hectares of new trees along England's rivers and watercourses from Devon to Cumbria by March 2025, in a move aimed at boosting biodiversity, restoring habitats, combatting flood risk and improving water quality.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

It comes ahead of next month's critical COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Montreal, where countries are under pressure to agree a global treaty to halt and reverse biodiversity loss. Holding the line on 1.5

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2020

It occupies half the world's habitable land, uses 70 per cent of the freshwater we consume, causes three-quarters of all water pollution, and is the single biggest contributor to biodiversity loss. The way we produce our food is the mother of all sustainability issues.'. In its annual progress report, the Champions 12.3

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Unchecked carbon pollution is forcing the world's most vulnerable on a frog march to destruction - now. The world's biggest polluters are guilty of arson of our only home. The Treasury commissioned the Dasgupta review to look at the economics of biodiversity. Nearly half of humanity is living in the danger zone - now.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree We already know what's needed to secure a safer future: from saying no to polluting fossil fuels like the Cambo oil field, to restoring the natural world, protecting forests and meeting financial promises to support people on the frontline of the climate crisis. "The

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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. However, the official decision on this has not yet been taken.". EDF announces plans for new Irish wind farm.

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