The year ahead in ESG: Pledges, politics and biodiversity
GreenBiz
JANUARY 4, 2023
Is 2023 the year the pens writing pledges get put down and the finance sector gets to work in investing towards a net-zero future?
Shifting political winds threaten Europe’s progress on green goals
GreenBiz
JANUARY 8, 2024
Shaken by global instability and a populist backlash, European nations are retreating from plans to reduce greenhouse gases, promote sustainable farming practices and boost biodiversity.
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This proxy season, shareholders will have their say on AI, biodiversity and corporate political activity
Impact Alpha
MARCH 20, 2024
Ethical guidelines for artificial intelligence and biodiversity protections for deep sea mining are among the newcomers among the environmental and social issues on. The post This proxy season, shareholders will have their say on AI, biodiversity and corporate political activity appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
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Treat climate change and biodiversity loss as one, says European science advisory group
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 19, 2021
Meanwhile the hidden crisis of biodiversity loss continues with the loss of forests to land clearance, exacerbated by the recent fires. The group highlights priorities that should inform both the UN Glasgow Climate Summit and the Biodiversity Summit in China this autumn. Michael Norton, EASAC’s Environment Programme Director.
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Treat climate change and biodiversity loss as one, says European science advisory group
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 24, 2021
Meanwhile the hidden crisis of biodiversity loss continues with the loss of forests to land clearance, exacerbated by the recent fires. The group highlights priorities that should inform both the UN Glasgow Climate Summit and the Biodiversity Summit in China this autumn. Michael Norton, EASAC’s Environment Programme Director.
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Humanity’s greatest threat: Cascading impacts of climate, biodiversity, food and water crises
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
Conducted international sustainability research network Future Earth, the survey identifies five global risks — failure of climate change mitigation and adaptation; extreme weather events; major biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse; food crises; and water crises — as the most severe in terms of impact.
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Australia’s renewable energy goals can’t come at the cost of biodiversity – we need a strategic approach | Hugh Possingham
The Guardian: Energy
JANUARY 11, 2024
The climate crisis we know well; the second, less appreciated threat to humanity is biodiversity loss. We need solutions to this conundrum quickly, otherwise there will be lost opportunities, expensive mistakes and even more extinctions. Humanity faces two existential crises.
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Why growing numbers of firms think mandatory biodiversity risk reporting is needed
Business Green
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
As governments prepare to weigh proposals for mandatory corporate nature disclosure rules at the COP15 Biodiversity Summit next week, the latest data from environmental disclosure platform CDP has highlighted the shortfalls of the currently purely voluntary approach.
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Some Thoughts on Business & Biodiversity
Terra Infirma
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Last week, the Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group (CoSM) considered the topic of business and biodiversity. The post Some Thoughts on Business & Biodiversity appeared first on Terra Infirma.
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Cost of biodiversity action will double if delayed until 2030, researchers warn
Business Green
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Putting off action to protect biodiversity will double the cost and result in the extinction of many more species when compared to acting now to curb global impacts, according to sobering findings published by Vivid Economics and the Natural History Museum this morning. If action is delayed, it may not be feasible at all, it warns.
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'Path to recovery': Part one of COP15 closes with hopes high for new global biodiversity accord
Business Green
OCTOBER 15, 2021
UN declares virtual talks have set the stage for the adoption of an ambitious post-2020 global biodiversity framework next year. The loss of biodiversity and ecosystem degradation pose a major risk to human survival and development. At present, the rate of global species extinction is accelerating," he said. "At
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ZSL urges leaders to tackle twin biodiversity and climate crises
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
A new report finds that an integrated approach to tackling biodiversity and climate change could unlock more effective solutions the interlocking crises. The level of interconnectedness between the climate change and biodiversity crises is high and should not be underestimated.
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'Save our life support systems': World leaders commit to fresh biodiversity efforts ahead of COP15
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
World leaders announce new biodiversity commitments as they declare upcoming nature summit a global priority. In addition, a new accelerator for action on biodiversity was announced by the Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development of Colombia on behalf of the President of Colombia.
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UNEP calls on finance sector to boost biodiversity ambition and engagement
Business Green
JUNE 29, 2020
The brewing industry is among the nine critical sectors identified in a report published today by UNEP and the Natural Capital Finance Alliance that highlights need for banks, investors and insurers to set firm targets to reduce biodiversity loss.
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Biodiversity recovery: Boris Johnson pledges to protect 30 per cent of UK land by 2030
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
In plans set to be announced later today, Prime Minister Boris Johnson will pledge to protect 30 per cent of the UK's land by 2030 in a bid to put "nature and biodiversity on a road to recovery". We cannot afford dither and delay because biodiversity loss is happening today and it is happening at a frightening rate.
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'Total breakdown imminent': COP15 biodiversity talks on the brink over finance and subsidy reform row
Business Green
DECEMBER 14, 2022
Environment ministers from the world are set to descend on Montreal tomorrow to try and galvanise faltering talks to agree a global deal to halt biodiversity loss by 2030. That is not the political signal that we need to go to the world to save this planet.".
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State of Green Business 2023
GreenBiz
JANUARY 23, 2023
For all that those 12 months threw at us — a still-raging pandemic, a global economic downturn, major supply-chain chokepoints, political upheavals, climate exacerbated natural disasters and a global energy crisis spurred by Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine — there’s no turning back for sustainability professionals.
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Boris Johnson unveils £3bn climate finance push to help safeguard global biodiversity
Business Green
JANUARY 11, 2021
The £3bn funding boost aims to accelerate efforts to protect biodiversity rich land and ocean ecosystems, shift to a more sustainable food system, and support livelihoods in the world's poorest communities, Johnson will say. However, biodiversity is currently declining faster than at any other time in human history.
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RSPB warns of 'nature disaster' if next Prime Minister fails to boost biodiversity laws
Business Green
AUGUST 25, 2022
Early in the campaign both Truss and Sunak signed a pledge orchestrated by the Conservative Environment Network, which saw them commit to supporting the UK's net zero goals and delivering on wider environmental and biodiversity goals.
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Protecting biodiversity: The corporate response
Business Green
JUNE 22, 2021
Biodiversity loss driven by climate change, habitat degradation and the introduction of invasive species is now recognised by firms as a widespread systemic risk, writes S&P Global Ratings' Michael Wilkins. Another factor preventing biodiversity from climbing the corporate agenda is that climate change currently dominates.
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Food is political. And no breakfast without nature.
Ideas 4 Sustainability
DECEMBER 18, 2023
Cereals and fruits for Breakfast, salad and bread for Lunch, vegetables and pasta for Dinner – our lives deeply depend on food. This shows: We as humans are closely interlinked with nature. The way we produce our food affects nature. The way we distribute it raises questions of equality.
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England housing strategy could consume over 100% of the nation’s carbon budget
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 23, 2022
As well as potentially conflicting with England’s carbon budget, housing expansion also may well conflict with England’s national biodiversity targets. Yet they recognise that this strategy would face an unfavourable political economy and structural economic barriers. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2022.107562. 2022.107562.
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Online Event - Unlocking Human Potential for Biodiversity Virtual Conference
Green Market Oracle
MAY 31, 2020
Unlocking Human Potential for Biodiversity is an opportunity to reflect on how can we better understand the human potential to preserve biodiversity, get closer to nature and guide our future actions. Unlocking Human Potential for Biodiversity is the first phase of a vast project designed to find and implement solutions for the future.
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‘No evidence’ that the Government is on track to meet crucial 2030 nature target
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 10, 2023
It is vital that all political parties commit to a rapid programme of investment and expansion for important wildlife habitats and protected sites.” We need political leaders who will shoot for the moon in tackling the existential challenges we face, not bury their heads in the sand.
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231 Event - 2020 UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15)
Green Market Oracle
DECEMBER 29, 2019
The 2020 Biodiversity Conference (COP 15) will take place on October 5, 2020 in Kunming, Yunnan, China. It is also anticipated that the final decision on the post-2020 global biodiversity framework will be taken, together with decisions on related topics including capacity building and resource mobilization. Subscribe in a reader
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Poll: Young Britons want post-Covid focus on tackling the climate and biodiversity crises
Business Green
JUNE 6, 2021
Ruth Marvel, chief executive of the Duke of Edinburgh Awards, said business and political leaders had an important role to play in ensuring young people's priorities are heard as we come out of a pandemic that has hit young people's lives particularly hard. and meaningfully engaged by decision-makers across politics and business.?If
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Global Briefing: UN summit confronts global biodiversity crisis
Business Green
OCTOBER 2, 2020
UN summit confronts Global biodiversity crisis. Global leaders gathered virtually this week to discuss the environmental crisis that is devastating the world's ecosystems, at the inaugural UN Summit on Biodiversity, a event designed as a primer for the delayed, crucial COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Kunming, China, next year.
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Could abandoned agricultural lands help save the planet?
GreenBiz
JANUARY 14, 2020
Some researchers contend there is an opportunity for ecological restoration that could help fight climate change and stem the loss of biodiversity.
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What the G7 meeting means for boards of directors
GreenBiz
JUNE 9, 2021
Under the heading "Transformative effort to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss," the seven economies: Commit to a multi-year effort to meet our net-zero commitments and environmental objectives in a way that is positive for jobs, growth, competitiveness and fairness. Policy & Politics. Pull Quote. Corporate Governance.
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Q&A: Delivering sustainable solutions to solve water challenges
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 22, 2023
There are multiple drivers, encompassing influence from the regulatory and political spheres along with social and environmental issues, and each one is inextricably linked to the others. Politically, there are now several key figures in the media with a passionate interest in issues like river quality and pollution.
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Episode 247: Biden wish lists, supporting 'intersectional environmentalists'
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 4, 2020
Biodiversity in fashion (37:35) . Policy & Politics. Without Congressional control, President-elect Joe Biden will find it tough to pass ambitious climate action, but he can do much by aligning financial policies to address risks associated with climate-fueling activities. GreenBiz Senior Energy Analyst Sarah Golden offers details. .
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New EU nutrient directive essential to halt ecosystem breakdown
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 9, 2022
The ongoing nitrogen crisis in the Netherlands and Flanders illustrates how ineffective management of nutrients can lead to both serious ecological damage and political and societal upheaval. This directive must go beyond the current, inadequate regulations by taking into account nutrient balances and accounting for regional differences.
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'There will be no business on a dead planet': Calls grow for COP15 breakthrough on biodiversity as crucial talks kick off
Business Green
OCTOBER 11, 2021
As first part of landmark COP15 UN biodiversity summit kicks off, string of reports makes case for more drastic action to protect biodiversity. Let's make the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework the starting blocks to a nature-positive world by 2030.
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4 things we can learn from Indigenous wisdom
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
As Houska pointed out, Indigenous people make up only 5 percent of the world's population, yet Indigenous lands and territories hold 80 percent of the world's biodiversity. "I Our society's utilitarian mindset has given us a need to create metrics of success in all aspects of life, including political movements.
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'We put climate change back on the political agenda': Assessing Extinction Rebellion's impact three years on
Business Green
MAY 5, 2022
Lawyer and activist Farhana Yamin considers XR’s cultural, political, and business impact three years after it drove London to a standstill in 2019. The global political order had already been fraying at the edges thanks to creeping authoritarianism, populism, inequality, and post-Covid economic headwinds.
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Harder but not impossible: COVID-19 and the Sustainable Development Goals
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
Neither nature nor global politics has been especially kind to the U.N. In 2015, the world, acting through the United Nations, set in place a system of 17 very ambitious goals to guide humanity’s development toward sustainability through 2030. Now it is 2021. There are no silver linings in a global pandemic. Virtuous cycles can turn vicious.
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20 must-read books about food systems
GreenBiz
JULY 10, 2020
Biodiversity, Food and Nutrition: A New Agenda for Sustainable Food Systems " by Danny Hunter, Teresa Borelli and Eliot Gee. Leading professionals from Bioversity International examine the positive impacts of biodiversity on nutrition and sustainability. Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato " by Rebecca Earle.
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Report is most comprehensive to date on challenges and solutions to the phosphorus crisis
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 13, 2022
Meanwhile, overuse of fertilisers and sewage pollution pump millions of tonnes of phosphorus into lakes and rivers each year, damaging biodiversity and affecting water quality. Global food security remains threatened as many farmers struggle to afford sufficient phosphorus fertiliser for their crops.
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Time for adaptation?
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
In the article ‘Ten Tests for COP’ Tina Rothery and Rupert Read outline recommended measures including the restoration of natural biodiverse flood defences such as mangroves. What’s needed, he suggests, is a form of transformational adaptation, that “acknowledges the need for system change”.
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Land redevelopment and rewilding firm hires 20 environmental consultants
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 24, 2020
It then finds and develops habitats to plant trees and enhance biodiversity as part of a sustainable cycle. Political ecologist Dr Scott Leatham said: “As local authorities and communities look to rebuild and reconnect, there is increasing evidence that people want to see a green recovery.
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Ocean protection further delayed as UN negotiations close without treaty
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 23, 2022
The final scheduled negotiation was hoped to conclude a multi-year process to bring protection to marine biodiversity through a new, High Seas Treaty. Governments will really need to step up the pace and political will to get a strong treaty over the finish line this year.” ” Richard Page, Campaigns Director, RISE UP.
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Global economic policy overlooks huge value of nature, UN experts warn
Business Green
JULY 11, 2022
IPBES research calls for science-based valuation of nature to be placed at the heart of economic decision-making in order to reverse the biodiversity crisis. This is largely because our current approach to political and economic decisions does not sufficiently account for the diversity of nature's values.".
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Ocean-based negative-emissions technologies present many challenges
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 31, 2023
Foresight key to good governance According to the researchers, a foresight-oriented approach is needed in order to comprehensively and effectively regulate the use of these technologies in the future.
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Two Sessions: EVs dominate Chinese provincial plans
Eco-Business
MARCH 6, 2024
Ahead of the country’s most important annual political gatherings, local governments pledged to accelerate electric vehicle growth and protect biodiversity.
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