Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Whatever the outcome of the ongoing negotiations at COP15 Biodiversity Summit, there are high hopes it will mark a turning point in the understanding of the critical role nature plays in regulating the climate and sustaining the global economy. I wish everyone well because it's hard," she says. It's not on me now - and that's quite nice.".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The Paris Agreement on climate change, signed into life in 2015, may not be perfect. COP talks each year are often fraught and progress remains far too slow, as today's IPCC report on escalating climate impacts will testify. If designed well and properly adhered to, global treaties have a lot going for them.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. Biodiversity. In 2015, developed countries committed to coming up with $100 billion per year by 2020 to tackle climate change in developing countries. Conference of the Parties (COP). Black carbon. Mitigation.

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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. I think there's a parallel here with climate change.

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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

JANUARY 24, 2022

In 2015, countries came together and formed the Paris Agreement. It is because climate is central to geopolitics, that the UK's Integrated Review established tackling climate change and biodiversity loss as the UK's top international priority. Internationally, the coal power pipeline has reduced over 75 percent since 2015.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Laurence Tubiana, European Climate Foundation CEO and key figure in brokering the Paris Agreement in 2015, was even more scathing of the conditions in the final agreement on fossil fuels and encouraging countries to come forward with more ambitions national 2030 climate plans. We should have done much more.".

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 25, 2021

degrees C cap on average warming that governments pledged to aim for when they signed the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement to avoid dangerous climate change. Encouragingly, the official climate COP 26 hosted by the UK in Glasgow in November seems to be leaning in this direction. Global average temperatures are now about 1.2

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

The UK government, as host of the most important climate conference since the Paris Agreement in 2015, must step up its efforts and show climate leadership. It is clear that keeping global warming to 1.5°C We'd also urge all governments, investors and businesses to ensure that climate change isn't approached in isolation.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

That treaty has since been updated, including in 2015 when nations signed the Paris climate agreement. The initial set of emission reduction targets in 2015 was far too weak to limit global warming to 1.5 Another challenge that has derailed past COPs is agreeing on implementing a carbon trading system outlined in the Paris Agreement.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In November, I had the privilege to represent Schneider Electric at the UN's Conference of Parties (COP) on climate change in Glasgow. This COP was unlike the previous 25 iterations, in that it took place during a global pandemic. This COP was unlike the previous 25 iterations, in that it took place during a global pandemic.

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Energy Innovation

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Mangroves, like these pictured in Singapore’s Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, are often considered a biodiverse-rich ecosystem that also affords climate protection. This recent COP, also a pillar of global progress on sustainability, focused not primarily on climate change but on biological diversity. PFAS and other “forever chemicals”).

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2020

As such, the report reveals a 16 per cent year-on-year drop in coal power capacity under construction and in pre-construction development last year, completing a 66 per cent decline in the pipeline since 2015 when the research was first carried out. However, it seems as if his calls are likely to fall on deaf ears in mant key markets.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

COP26 had been slated to be the most important international climate summit since the Paris Agreement was finalised in 2015, with governments tasked with beefing up their national climate action plans and finalising the rulebook for the Paris Accord. It is not the first time a COP summit has faced major logistical difficulties.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 22, 2024

You can make a strong case the age of post-Cold War multilateralism reached a high-water mark at the Paris Agreement of 2015 and has been rapidly ebbing ever since. The annual wave of right-wing condemnation aimed at the COP Summit felt even more visceral than usual this year.

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