Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Inconsistencies in the definition of deforestation: The roadmap uses different meanings of eliminating deforestation throughout. In my eyes, that certainly doesn't merit a big COP announcement. The roadmap's definitions also bring up a geography question. It limits action to forests and peatlands for palm oil.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

This COP has taken an important step towards justice. We need to drastically reduce emissions now - and this is an issue this COP did not address. But we also wanted to take a definitive steps forward. "We But they were ignored by the Egyptian COP Presidency. Ambition to keep the 1.5 But let's be clear.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

There was definitely some spin and duplication of effort going on, but the vast majority of the announcements point to how decarbonisation efforts can be drastically accelerated. All over the world not nearly enough is being done to enhance climate resilience, leaving communities and economies exposed.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2021

But for all the flurry of net zero activity among such financial heavyweights, there is no clear definition or roadmap for delivering on these ambitious goals. The key thing now is for all of the parts of the finance sector to start to make this a reality," Preston tells BusinessGreen.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

As is the European Commission, according to its First Vice-President Frans Timmermans, who declared in the Petersberg Dialogue that the EU should show leadership across the climate change agenda "…by sticking to the agenda as though a COP would take place in November this year.". More twists in this virus. So - job done?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

That will not happen until true net zero emissions is achieved and a global economy has been built that is resilient to the dangerous new world we have unleashed. Future COPs will re-open this debate and seek to extend it to gas and oil. If COPs did not exist you would have to invent them.

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Fossil fuels Government COP Policy 98

Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

And now, as we look forward to COP26 next November 2021, our aim is to ramp up ambition towards a climate-resilient, zero-carbon economy. adaptation and resilience. And ahead of COP, we want to see investors take crucial actions, such as setting a target for net zero and publishing a clear transition plan on how to achieve this.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

And by definition, a commodity has no value or very limited value. On the bright side, however, the crisis has underlined the resilience of Danone's direct sourcing model, he says, which minimised supply chain disruptions caused by the pandemic.

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Biodiversity Agriculture Business Energy Monitoring Carbon 96

Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

But overnight the FT reported one Whitehall official as saying "nothing is definite yet but from my vantage point I would bet on it being cancelled pretty soon". Given this is an evolving situation we are keeping the situation under careful review and are in frequent contact with the UN, Chile (as current COP president) and other partners.".

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

And more sustainable approaches to procurement should be welcomed by businesses and consumers, who Barker predicts will be more concerned with resilience and sustainability in the wake of the pandemic. "In The steps made by the LME is only the beginning of the journey and more needs to be done," he says.

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Carbon Government Sustainability Investment 67

AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2020

And by definition, a commodity has no value or very limited value. On the bright side, however, the crisis has underlined the resilience of Danone’s direct sourcing model, he says, which minimized supply chain disruptions caused by the pandemic.

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Biodiversity Agriculture Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability 28

Andrew Winston

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A few times a year — around Earth Day in April, the week of the United Nations General Assembly meetings in September, and the global COP meeting in December — we always see a flood of commitment statements about climate and many more issues. They will definitely happen in a world this complex and interconnected.

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