Business Green

JUNE 25, 2021

Prince Charles has launched a new task force under the banner of his Sustainable Markets Initiative to bring together the CEOs of some of the largest insurance companies to explore how to accelerate the transition to a nature positive and net zero emission economy.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Prince Charles hails 'bristling' number of governments and firms announcing net zero emissions targets in foreward to the report. As such, writing in the foreword Prince Charles argued a managed transition marked by rapid decarbonisation towards net zero emissions by 2050 at the latest "is the safest and most credible way forward".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The Queen was the longest reigning UK monarch, having celebrated her Platinum Jubilee and 96th birthday earlier this year. Monarch passes away at home in Balmoral, just months after celebrating a Platinum Jubilee that sought to highlight the Royal Family's enduring commitment to environmental causes.

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Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2022

The Prince of Wales is set to convene a two-day sustainable business summit in Egypt to coincide with the start of the COP27 Climate Summit in November, with the aim of unlocking increased private sector investment in a "more just, sustainable and affordable future".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

After assessing the progress and impact on regenerative farming in three specific value chains - wheat in the US, basmati rice in India, and potatoes in the UK - the taskforce has set out a number of recommendations for how the approach could be deployed at scale.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2021

Paul Polman, Gordon Brown and the Prince of Wales are among those demanding ambitious green commitments from G7 this weekend – will world leaders listen? I think Boris Johnson would be well served, as I've said many times publicly, to reconsider what was actually enshrined in law in the UK and go back to the 0.7 per cent to 0.5

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Fairsnape

MARCH 11, 2021

The High Ambition Coalition (HAC) for Nature and People, which includes the UK and countries from six continents, pledged to protect at least 30% of the Planet’s land and oceans before the One Planet Summit. It is now clear that building designs will look for more and more nature-based solutions, yet do we understand how nature works?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Juniper, a former executive director of Friends of the Earth who has also co-authored a book on climate change with King Charles when the monarch was Prince of Wales, is scheduled to deliver the speech at Natural England's 'Farming for food and nature' conference in Birmingham today.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2022

Delivered in Her Majesty's absence by Prince Charles, the speech set out the government's legislative agenda and broad political priorities for the coming year, and contained myriad references to economic growth, levelling up, supporting Ukraine's war effort, and tackling rising living costs. UK Infrastructure Bank.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Leading the way, the Aldersgate Group, an alliance of top UK businesses, released a statement this morning calling on governments to deliver a clear pathway to keeping global warming below 1.5C climate target that will save our forests and farms, our oceans and our wildlife," Prince Charles said.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The government is facing pressure to enshrine in law its ambition to plant 30,000 hectares of trees a year by 2025, amid ongoing concerns over the UK's consistent failure to meet existing tree planting goals in recent decades. The initiative has also won the backing of conservation charities Cool Earth and the Woodland Trust.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2022

Standing in for the Queen, the Prince of Wales confirmed "her Majesty's Ministers will bring forward an Energy Bill to deliver the transition to cheaper, cleaner, and more secure energy". Dhara Vyas, director of advocacy at trade body Energy UK, said the inclusion of the new bill in the Queen's Speech was "really good news".

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2022

But while the occasion usually sees the Queen deliver a speech setting out the government's legislative agenda for the coming Parliamentary session, today for the first time in many years Buckingham Palace sent her son, the Prince of Wales, to take up the mantle instead due to the monarch reportedly struggling with her mobility.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The day also saw a number of significant new commitments from leaders, with Modi surprising observers by confirming India would become the latest major economy to set a national net zero emissions goal. In addition, Vietnam also joined the net zero club for the first time today, announcing a net zero target for 2050.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The official opening ceremony marked the formal handover of the COP Presidency from Chile to the UK and Italy, with Alok Sharma taking over the mantle of COP26 President from Chile's Carolina Schmidt, who acted as COP25 President in Madrid two years' ago. world on the table. world on the table. And that work starts today.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2020

JCB Jo Bamford sits down with BusinessGreen to discuss his plans to usher in the UK hydrogen economy through passenger buses. After more than 15 years observing the UK hydrogen sector from afar, he says he felt the time had arrived to get involved.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 5, 2019

More than a dozen countries in Europe recently broke heat records including Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and the UK. After a brutal heatwave in the middle of July, Europe suffered through yet another heatwave as the month drew to a close. Global heat records are also being broken. presidential elections scheduled for November, 2020.

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Low Impact

JUNE 6, 2021

The Knights Templar had opened up trading and pilgrimage networks around Europe and into the Middle East (Charles Greenstreet Addison and Robert Macoy, The Knights Templar History , 1978), where they may well have learnt about the practice of Hawala. Banking becomes the dominant industry in the US and the UK. Credit creation.

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