Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

Nature is crucial for our survival, our mental health, and also our economy, argues WWF's Gareth Redmond-King. Part of my coping package involves nature and its positive impact on my mental health. We have a necessary, and understandable delay to the next climate COP, which was due to take place in November, in Glasgow.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. The North American Meat Institute will host a side event at the US COP pavilion on December 11, the summit’s Agriculture Day, for example. Just seven percent are based in Africa. Past marketing drives run by the AHDB include the £3.5-million

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Carbon markets are set to be one of the key issues at the upcoming COP climate talks, with negotiators tasked with finalising the rules for Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, which aims to create a framework for countries and companies to meet their climate goals by trading carbon credits.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

Countries across the globe have taken the extraordinary measures to shut down large swathes of their economies in order to combat the coronavirus public health emergency. In January this year, I helped launch East Africa's first ‘green bond' on the Nairobi securities exchange, followed by its dual listing on the London Stock Exchange.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2021

We know that the decline in biodiversity is occurring at unprecedented rates, posing severe risks for macroeconomic health. Recent research from the World Bank suggests that a collapse of ecosystem services in 2030 would have a serious impact on global GDP, with three billion people in Sub-Saharan Africa and India facing a loss of GDP of 9.7

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Future COPs will re-open this debate and seek to extend it to gas and oil. The trail-blazing partnership with South Africa to help fund a transition away from coal power that could provide a template for others to follow. If COPs did not exist you would have to invent them.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

As such, the COP Presidency should presumably welcome mounting calls for a new era of public-private cooperation on the financial packages that can help developing and emerging economies wean themselves off fossil fuels.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

2020 brought tremendous disruption to the global transportation sector. As the world coped with a pandemic, millions began working from home and millions more lost their jobs. Logistics networks were broken and then reshaped. All while the planet experienced the. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The appeals underscored how for many nations, the success of the Sharm El Sheikh Summit depends on its ability to deliver real progress towards the launch of a dedicated funding mechanism for Loss and Damage, after the contentious issue made it on to a COP agenda for the first time this year. Negotiations continue.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The scientific evidence is unequivocal: climate change is a threat to human wellbeing and the health of the planet," said Pörtner. Blagojevic said the UK had a responsibility as COP president to push the international community to respond to the report's warnings. The report confirms global temperatures are currently 1.1C

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2022

In addition, Guterres called on countries to revise their 2030 climate targets and for countries to work together on Just Energy Transition Partnerships, akin to the deal signed at COP26 by developed nations to provide financing to help South Africa transition its energy system and workers away from coal power plants.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The Climate Action Network (CAN), which represents many of the world's largest environmental groups and boasts members from over 130 countries, today called for a postponement of the substantive negotiations of COP26, arguing that the COP presidency and the UK government had failed to "ensure a safe, equitable and inclusive summit".

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Moreover, the people that depend on it are getting access to health, education, food security, and sustainable livelihoods. At the UN's recent COP 26, over 140 world leaders promised to end deforestation by 2030, pledging over $19bn to do so. Health is like the sun that illuminates the entire village." - African proverb.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Professor Katharine Hayhoe, chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy, said: "Loss of biodiversity, stresses on agricultural productivity, human health risks - the themes highlighted by WGII are not new. As COP president throughout 2022 the UK government has a vital role in leading global efforts to tackle climate change.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Inclusive and green economies, prosperity, cleaner air and better health are possible for all if we respond to this crisis with solidarity and courage. Mohamed Adow, director of the Nairobi-based think tank Power Shift Africa, said: "Those of us living in Africa have been aware of the urgency of the climate crisis for many years.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2022

They do not need to go through too many people," Oumaru Aissatou, vice president of the Network of Indigenous and Local Populations for the Sustainable Management of Forest Ecosystems in Central Africa , said through a translator at the FSC Indigenous Foundation event. A rip-off of a price.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2022

And for its part, the UK announced the launch of a new programme designed to tackle the destruction of nature and biodiversity across sub-Saharan Africa, South-East Asia and South Asia. As such, it is impossible to underestimate the importance of money to the Montreal talks.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Amid myriad social, health and political crises, business sustainability is alive and well and living the Paris Agreement. From Amsterdam, Gellert oversaw the company in Europe, Africa and the Middle East for nearly six years, working before that at outdoor gear maker Black Diamond. The former U.K.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said on Saturday at the COP27 session titled “Global Fertilizer Challenge: Announcing New Funding for Fertilizer Efficiency and Soil Health.”. These agribusiness interests have had a notable presence at previous UN COP summits, and COP27 is no exception. Vilsack said the U.S.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

This COP has taken an important step towards justice. We need to drastically reduce emissions now - and this is an issue this COP did not address. But they were ignored by the Egyptian COP Presidency. Ambition to keep the 1.5 degree limit alive and pull humanity back from the climate cliff. But let's be clear.

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Business Green

APRIL 2, 2020

The biggest problem isn't the health risk of assembling tens of thousands of people in a crowded conference venue at a time of the year when coronavirus may be making a wintertime resurgence - although that is big enough. But they will be back as soon as Covid-19 allows and COP replacement dates start being bandied around.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

While NYCW has been around for more than a decade , this year the vibe of ~10x the participants and well-curated mini-conferences alongside official UN programming felt almost like a Davos or a mini-COP (which, depending on your take on the efficacy and impact of COP, could be a good or bad thing). in Europe).

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The Egyptian COP Presidency has also yet to release a first draft of the so-called cover texts that provide the overarching statement of agreements and calls to action from the summit, with the latest tentative predictions that it could emerge before the end of Tuesday. alive or this will be the COP where we lose 1.5C," he said.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2024

Campaigners and climate scientists had hoped the summit – which was billed as a “Food COP” due to its focus on farming – would see governments agree to ambitious action to transform food systems in line with the goals of the Paris climate agreement. Burr added that COPs provided an opportunity for U.S.

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2020

As COP26 hosts, the UK government had been working with current COP President Chile, the EU, and a raft of developing countries all of whom want to see a significant ratcheting up of national climate goals to co-ordinate a wave of strengthened NDC submissions in the run up to the Glasgow Summit in November.

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