Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The agreement includes a number of environmental clauses, with Chapter 22 of the FTA published yesterday reaffirming the UK and Australia's commitment to protecting biodiversity and achieving the climate goals contained in the Paris Agreement.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

And in order to encourage the approach beyond its supply chain, Danone recently founded the One Planet Business for Biodiversity (OP2B) initiative, a cross-sector effort to improve the private sector's approach to biodiversity. If we protect biodiversity, we are basically protecting the diversity of DNA," Soubeiran mused.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Corporate disclosures to CDP show a steady increase in the number of companies disclosing potential substantive litigation risks, almost quadrupling since 2018. The Treasury commissioned the Dasgupta review to look at the economics of biodiversity. Climate litigation cases have soared in recent years.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 25, 2021

Unprecedented wildfires raged across Australia and California, with the Australia fires releasing about three-quarters of the CO2 that the country’s industry emitted in 2018-19. Launched in 2018 with the Canadian and UK Governments, GPAP is now helping countries across ASEAN and West Africa to tackle ocean plastic waste.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

In the southern Polish city of Katowice last December, news coverage of the UN’s COP 24 meeting on climate change suddenly and dramatically surged, mostly thanks to a three-minute speech given by a Swedish teen activist with Asperger’s syndrome and the amplifying power of social media.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

That year, the American economist and 2018 Nobel laureate William D. Even so, it was a major breakthrough as the first COP to mention the temperature goals we are all familiar with today. It ended without much of a story, with the parties being called to the COP the following year. For the first time at a COP , a target of 1.5

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

And in order to encourage the approach beyond its supply chain, Danone recently founded the One Planet Business for Biodiversity (OP2B) initiative, a cross-sector effort to improve the private sector's approach to biodiversity. If we protect biodiversity, we are basically protecting the diversity of DNA," Soubeiran muses.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. In 2018, the Irish company came under fire for “astro-turfing” after it was revealed to be employed by pesticide firms to run a pro-glyphosate campaign, which it had represented as a grassroots-led effort by farmers. The files also detail collaborations planned for the event itself.

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 17, 2020

To all but the willfully ignorant there is more than ample scientific evidence to indicate that we are facing a biodiversity crisis and a climate emergency. Time is growing perilously short but key events in the coming year could put us on track to deal with the multiple interconnected crises we face.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2020

And in order to encourage the approach beyond its supply chain, Danone recently founded the One Planet Business for Biodiversity (OP2B) initiative, a cross-sector effort to improve the private sector’s approach to biodiversity. The strained food production system is begging for reform, argued Soubeiran.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

Wildfires are responsible for around 20% of annual global CO2 emissions, displace tens of thousands of people, endanger people’s health due to the inhalation of fine particulate matter, and have a devastating impact on biodiversity: in Australia during the 2019-2020 bushfire season alone, more than three billion animals were killed or displaced.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2020

The number of coal power plants that started construction was also down five per cent from 2018, and 66 per cent from 2015, the report states.

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