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Danone's Eric Soubeiran: 'The food system is broken'

GreenBiz

Danone is providing training to farmers in France to make the switch to new techniques to meet a goal to rely on 100 percent regenerative farming in the country by 2025. The coalition, launched by Danone at last year's UN COP climate conference, counts consumer goods heavyweights L'Oréal, Google, McCain, Walmart, Kellogg, Nestlé and Unilever.

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COP27: New Global Adaptation Agenda aims to establish climate resilience goals

Business Green

The Sharm El Sheikh Adaptation Agenda, launched in partnership with the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions and the Marrakesh Partnership, provides a checklist of 30 actions required by the end of this decade to enhance the resilience of communities living in climate-vulnerable regions.

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COP27: The most important meeting in human history?

Business Green

Is the COP27 Summit that kicks off in Sharm El Sheikh this weekend the most important COP meeting yet, and therefore one of the most critical gatherings in the entire history of humanity? It is, by the admission of the Egyptian hosts, an "implementation COP". If COPs did not exist you would need to invent them.

COP 101
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Resilient dividends and integrated energy: Five things we learnt from BP's net zero strategy

Business Green

"To give some scale - the 50GW of planned renewables by 2030 is roughly equal to the current installed renewables capacity in the UK (generating over a quarter of our power over the last year)," Dr John Murton, UK COP 26 envoy, explained on Twitter this morning. It also has pace.

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Alok Sharma: 'I want to urge all businesses to join the Race to Zero Coalition'

Business Green

To create fairer, greener and more resilient economies at home and around the world. That is why, as hosts of COP26 , the UK wants to ramp up ambition to achieve a climate-resilient, zero-carbon economy. These are: clean energy, clean transport, nature-based solutions, adaptation and resilience, and underpinning everything, finance.

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COP26 President Alok Sharma: 'Our choices will make or break the zero-carbon economy'

Business Green

In my first fortnight as COP President, I have been listening to those who have done this before. ??Meeting Meeting people like Paris COP President Laurent Fabius, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed and Patricia Espinosa from the UNFCCC. ??And, And we are getting ready for it.??. We are firmly committed to this goal.??

Carbon 84
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Big Ag Is Using  ‘Regenerative Agriculture’ to Mask Business-as-Usual

DeSmogBlog

Food systems approaches that aim to repair, regenerate, and transform our systems toward resilience must address the systemic issues of equity and power,” she said, making reference to the 13 principles to guide food systems transformation drawn up by the UN in a multi-year consultation process.