Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The first phase of the COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Kunming, China closed today with the UN expressing confidence the week long talks had helped set the stage for the adoption of a new international treaty next year to ramp up global biodiversity protection. At present, the rate of global species extinction is accelerating," he said.

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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. COP15 must close the loop and turn interest into action.".

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Business Green

JANUARY 12, 2021

New High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People established in support of '30 by 30' goal, which comes ahead of crucial COP15 biodiversity summit this year. I am hopeful our joint ambition will curb the global decline of the natural environment, so vital to the survival of our planet.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The extension of the scheme is being supported with a campaign to encourage more food brands and farmers to adopt the certification in the run-up to the COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Montreal next month, where governments are hoping to broker a global deal to significantly strengthen nature protection worldwide.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Financial giants ramp up pressure on negotiators at COP15 with call for clear mandate in treaty requiring finance sector to align activities with nature goals. We need Parties to support the alignment of financial flows with the goals and targets of the Global Biodiversity Framework.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

In addition, 11 philanthropies yesterday joined forces to form the Protecting Our Planet challenge and pledged to double their support for nature conservation to $5bn, with the potential to increase funding further if the COP15 Summit delivers an ambitious new treaty. "A

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

If retained EU legislation is replaced with weaker alternatives, our natural environment will be left unprotected while rewriting regulations will cause unacceptable delay.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Stanley Johnson among group of high profile campaigners calling for government to set a legally-binding nature protection target ahead of pivotal COP15 UN nature talks. The Environment Bill would be a perfect place for the government to support or bring forward a 2030 target for nature.".

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Business Green

JUNE 1, 2022

The Stockholm+50 conference has been organised to mark 50 years since the historic United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in 1972, and is expected to see rafts of global politicians, CEOs and civil society leaders in attendance, alongside the launch of a number of fresh environmental commitments.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2022

CDP's Helen Finlay talks makes the case for why any deal agreed at COP15 should make nature disclosures mandatory at large companies. COP15 could be a historic moment. Currently, there is a very real risk that key decisions on this will be postponed to a subsequent COP, and COP15 will result in only minimal agreement.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Three coalitions, representing organisations including National Trust, Friends of the Earth and Woodland Trust, have submitted a letter of complaint to the government’s environment department urging it to publish these targets as soon as possible. The setting of new legal targets is a key part of the Environment Act 2021.

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Fairsnape

JANUARY 24, 2023

Nature isn’t protected and biodiversity decline isn’t reversed by COP15 promises alone … What the COP15 agreement should mean for the built environment What is Regeneration Life Centric Design 2023 / 2022 LookForward LookBack A prediction for 2023 & a look back at 2022 most read Regen Notes A Paris moment for nature.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Rishi Sunak is facing mounting pressure to attend the critical COP15 Biodiversity Summit which is set to kick off next Wednesday in Montreal, with campaigners calling on the Prime Minister demonstrate his support for an ambitious outcome from the high-profile UN meeting.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

A report by the Committee today, which comes just weeks ahead of the vital COP15 UN biodiversity summit in China, describes the UK government's response towards tackling devastasting biodiversity loss to date as "lacking", and sets out a host of demands for Minister to ramp up their efforts.

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Business Green

JULY 11, 2022

The boss of the Environment Agency, Sir James Bevan, is to deliver a speech later today warning how the biodiversity crisis poses an existential threat to the human race if left unaddressed. Sir James Bevan expected to warn later today that England faces a ‘silent spring’ without action on nature loss.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2022

The chair of UN panel on net zero goals sits down with BusinessGreen to talk climate, deforestation and nature goals at COP15 in Montreal. COP15 comes just a month after the United Nations fired a warning shot to businesses of the need to harmonise climate and nature action. We can't have that.". It's related to climate.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Earlier this morning, COP15 President Huang Runqiu gavelled through the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, formally adopting a new international target to "put nature on a pathway to recovery" and ensure 30 per cent of the Earth has protected status by the end of the decade.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

UK Environment Secretary Thérèse?Coffey Lord Goldsmith, Minister for International Environment, Climate, Forests & Energy, said the new funding would support efforts to accelerate emissions reductions worldwide. UK government to provide £30m for new fund launched to mark 'Biodiversity Day' at COP27 Climate Summit.

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Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2021

Host nation China and the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) yesterday announced that the long-awaited COP15 biodiversity summit - which had been set to take place in person in October - will now be split into two parts, in a bid to minimise Covid risks and travel challenges for delegates.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Talks to deliver a new global pact for nature protection may have got off to a sluggish start at the COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Montreal, but observers remain optimistic the meeting could yet usher in a new era in how the private sector appraises nature.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In a briefing, the agency said the first two days of COP15 had "gave reason to timidly raise hopes" after the pre-conference talks had resulted in more disagreements than consensus. In other conference news, the official account for the COP15 summit was briefly suspended by Twitter yesterday. RT to urge leaders to take action NOW.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Around 330 corporates call on global heads of state to ensure mandatory nature risk rules form part of UN global nature loss treaty set to be discussed at COP15 summit in December. Eva Zabey, executive director for Business for Nature, said today's statement from businesses sent a "clear message" to governments ahead of COP15.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Conservative peer Zac Goldsmith has been sacked as environment minister and will no longer attend Cabinet, prompting fears of a watering down of environmental and animal welfare standards by the new government. But great news for political opponents.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Serious concerns are mounting about the government's rush to ditch or amend hundreds of EU-derived laws by the end of next year, with both leading business groups and the UK's green watchdog urging Ministers to rethink their approach amid fears the proposed legislative bonfire poses risks to both the environment and the economy.

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Business Green

MAY 26, 2021

The long-delayed Environment Bill finally returns to Parliament today after, putting the cornerstone of the government's post-Brexit environmental legislation on track to becoming law in the autumn, although calls continue to come for the inclusion of stronger measures on deforestation and trade.

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Business Green

MAY 26, 2022

Environment and energy ministers from world’s leading seven economies meet in Berlin this week to amid pressure to ramp up climate and nature commitments. Hopes have been pinned on the summit delivering an international treaty committing countries to halting and reversing the catastrophic, ongoing decline in nature and biodiversity worldwide.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2021

UN Secretary-General António Guterres urges nations to consider the costs of economic profit against damage to the environment. Could the world be about to move 'beyond GDP'? Critics argue that governments' focus on the metric drives the pursuit of unsustainable economic growth that leads to environmental and climate destruction.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Countries are facing a barrage of appeals from UN leaders to agree an ambitious and pragmatic global deal for nature at the critical COP15 Biodiversity Summit, as the vital talks kicked into action in Montreal yesterday. A cost we measure in lost jobs, hunger, disease and deaths.".

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2021

The new framework is also expected to feed in to decision-making at two crucial UN Summit's later this year - the COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Kunming and the COP26 Glasgow Climate Summit. It can help us bring about a rapid and lasting shift toward sustainability for both people and the environment.".

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

Backed by the UK's International Chamber of Commerce (ICC UK), the UK Business and Biodiversity Forum aims to bring the UK private sector deeper into discussions on biodiversity loss in advance of both the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow in November and the UN COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Kunming in May.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Agriculture alone is the identified threat to 24,000 of the 28,000 species deemend to be at risk of extinction, according to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). Over the past half century, the conversion of natural ecosystems for crop production or pasture has been the principal cause of habitat loss, which in turn reduces biodiversity.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

Publishing its annual progress report, the statutory environmental watchdog concluded the government's flagship 25 Year Environment Plan "has so far failed to bring about the changes needed at the pace and scale required", adding that the strategy "lacked clarity and commitment". But there is clear opportunity to change course."

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Environment Secretary announces funding as she arrives at Montreal Summit to negotiate terms of global deal for nature. Environment Secretary Therese Coffey has today announced the UK has earmarked £34m in new funding to support developing countries in their efforts to protect and restore nature.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The 13 goals confirmed today are trained on a range of target dates from the late 2030s through to 2042, and are intended to align with both the government's Environment Act ambition to improve the state of the land and sea environment and the UK's legally-binding net zero commitments.

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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

OCTOBER 19, 2022

That is the stark conclusion of a new report from the Wildlife and Countryside Link group of conservation NGOs, which accuses the government of delivering "no appreciable progress" against its 30x30 goal, despite its continuing to call on other nations to adopt similar targets ahead of the upcoming COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Montreal.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In an announcement earlier today, the Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) said it had not been possible to stick to the original October deadline due to the significant quantity of responses it had received to a consultation on the draft targets.

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