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

MAY 27, 2022

In a communique published at the close of a three-day Energy and Environment Ministerial meeting in Berlin this week, the world's largest economies set out their priorities for tackling the intersecting climate, biodiversity, and pollution crises, and responding to the disruption to energy markets wrought by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

It is no surprise then that the World Economic Forum Global Risks Report 2021 identifies climate action failure, extreme weather and biodiversity loss, alongside infectious diseases, as the top global risks for the next decade in terms of impact and likelihood. As with COVID-19, perhaps so with climate? Pull Quote.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2024

During September’s Climate Week in New York City, the world’s major food companies lined up to share their pro-nature credentials, claiming that they are embracing “regenerative agriculture” practices that will reduce their massive carbon footprint.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Commentators were concerned about the decisive role seemingly prepared for carbon removal technologies. remains viable will require total commitment to a range of far-reaching measures, including full fossil fuel phase-out, massive investment in nature, transformation of global food systems, and carbon removal on a massive scale.”

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

A new consensus on forests from the world’s leading carbon market governing body marks a significant turning point for voluntary carbon market (VCM) buyers. The ICVCM’s Core Carbon Principles (CCP) label is emerging as a global marker of carbon credit quality. Why Should Corporate Buyers Care About the ICVCM?

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Regenerative Agriculture Often accompanied with: carbon storage, no till, crop rotation With host country the UAE spearheading a new “Regenerative Landscapes” project in close partnership with the likes of Pepsico, Nestlé and fertilizer giant Yara, the term “ regenerative agriculture ” is likely to be a hot topic at COP28.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Key impacts include loss of natural coastal and flooding protection, disappearance of natural carbon storage sinks, and steep rises in prices of key commodities. The study also estimates economic costs arising from the loss of specific ecosystem services.

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The IPCC recently conducted a study into the combined effects of all the agreed targets of the countries taking part in the ongoing COP talks. Has there been any progress in reducing global carbon emissions since Paris in 2015? It’s our economic activity that’s causing climate change and biodiversity loss.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

For a food company, that means knowing how and where you source your ingredients, what your customers want, and understanding the provenance of your direct and indirect carbon emissions. Concretely, when you look at Danone, 60 per cent of our carbon footprint is from agriculture," Soubeiran acknowledges.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2020

International summits to progress a global oceans treaty and mid-year UNFCCC talks have been postponed, while even more crucially COP26 and the much anticipated 'Biodiversity COP' are now set to take place next year. There is, after all, a limit to what you can achieve on Zoom. Time to step up.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The world's top diplomat used a speech today at the UN headquarters in New York City to deliver a characteristically stark warning of the impending climate and biodiversity crises facing the world, noting global warming risks "hurtling past" the 1.5C threshold without urgent action this decade. 2023 is a year of reckoning," said Guterres. "It

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Business Green

JULY 14, 2021

To tackle the environmental challenges we face from climate change and biodiversity loss, it is crucial that domestic natural environment projects are able to attract private investment alongside support from the public sector," said Environment Minister Rebecca Pow.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 3, 2023

A whopping 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide in the near term, nitrous oxide emissions account for 46% of GHG emissions from agricultural soils, largely from soil and nutrient management such as tillage and fertilizer application.

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Business Green

JULY 12, 2021

University vows to deliver net zero emissions by 2035 and establish UK's 'most biodiverse campus'. • Reach net zero by 2035 - including both direct and indirect carbon emissions. • Create the UK's most biodiverse campus - setting aside up to half of the site for nature.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

The ocean is the world's largest carbon sink and contains 95 per cent of the planet's biosphere. Guterres said the treaty was crucial for addressing the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. "It Ladies and gentlemen, the ship has reached the shore," she said.

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Business Green

MARCH 19, 2021

Chinese hosts of crucial COP15 Biodiversity Summit announce new October date, lining up a crunch autumn for global efforts to avert environmental disaster. Since the UK took on the COP Presidency, commitments to net zero have grown from around a quarter of the world's economy to 70 per cent," Johnson said.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 6, 2022

to a carbon free economy by 2050, experts at Bloomberg and Princeton estimate that the US will have to build enough solar and wind farms to fill an area roughly five times the size of South Dakota. Finally, there was a lot of discussion at ClimateWeek and UNGA about the “other” COP – COP15, which is convening in December in Montreal.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The most important biodiversity conference in a generation is kicking off this week, with negotiating teams from around the world convening on Montreal, Canada to hammer out the terms of a new global pact for nature. What makes this COP so special? It has never happened in the history of the Convention.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

VCM Global Dialogue publishes its conclusions on how to shape the voluntary carbon market from the perspective of developing countries. Today's report stresses that voluntary carbon markets must complement, rather than replace, corporate and governmental efforts to slash absolute emissions.

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Carbon Mapper satellite rendering @ 2021, Planet Labs, Inc. But of course, those old-growth forests are not just some valueless raw material or natural resource, but home to countless Indigenous peoples, vast biodiversity, and the living machinery that not only stores carbon we emit but also helps make breathing on this planet possible.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 7, 2024

Scientists tell us that we’ve pushed the planet beyond its ability to support us in critical areas such as availability of water, biodiversity, and, of course, carbon emissions. For examples, South Carolina steel-maker Nucor is working to make low-carbon steel and set a goal for net zero across value chain by 2050.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In the past, the company has under-reported its carbon footprint by as much as 50 percent in an effort to attract investors. However, evidence of the efficacy of carbon capture technology at scale is highly dubious. And the captured carbon is often merely used to extract more oil. And its plans for a long-term $10.4

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

UN approves UK and Italian request for high profile Summit to be postponed by a full year, as co-hosts announce new 'Friends of COP' advisory board. The co-hosts also yesterday announced that they have expanded the team of senior figures working on the Summit with the appointment of a new "Friends of COP" advisory board.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

When well managed the land helps regulate water and air quality, sequester and store carbon, and minimise flood and soil erosion risks. Essentially, without biodiversity, we would not exist, let alone develop". And those are the only the most obvious essential services provided by the land. Cristiana Pa?ca

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

A commercial business with sustainability and tech for good at its core, Dryad was set up in 2020 with a mission to digitize the forest and help protect and regrow the world’s largest carbon sinks. This is the perfect basis for identifying bad air quality or early fire detection.”. Dryad previously received seed funding of €1.8m

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2020

As members of the High Ambition Coalition, the Cartagena Dialogue, and the Carbon Neutrality Coalition. That is why, as hosts of COP26 , the UK wants to ramp up ambition to achieve a climate-resilient, zero-carbon economy. We have worked together to drive climate action across the international community. degree target.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2020

They added that while COP26 and the Pre-COP and Youth4Climate events that had been due to be staged in Italy this summer had been postponed until next year, it remained crucial that governments use the coming months to strengthen their decarbonisation plans. "We degrees," Sharma and Costa added. "We

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

It is highly likely the row over phasing down or phasing out coal power will return in the coming years and the debate at future COPs will no doubt be extended to address oil and gas. Rules on carbon markets finally wrapped. Polluters have been put on notice. temperature target stands tall.

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Business Green

JANUARY 3, 2022

A significant feature of COP was businesses joining with activists to demand faster progress. The most forward-thinking are taking a rounded approach by ensuring that they are not just looking at carbon, but also tackling interdependent issues. It also risks limiting the effectiveness of vital carbon sinks like mangrove forests.

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Grist

MAY 15, 2024

And the greenhouse effect (the mechanism by which carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases trap heat in the Earth’s atmosphere) is taught in many basic science classes. “For me, intellectually, that always felt like a little bit of a cop-out,” said Jesse Nichols, a video producer at Grist. Watch the full video here.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. Several of these arguments reference the idea that grazing livestock can help maintain healthy soils which can store carbon.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Having officially taken the reins of the COP Presidency in Glasgow, Alok Sharma and his diplomatic team are now tasked with steering global climate discussions over the next year ahead of COP27 in Egypt, and the CCC today urged the UK to lead by example with ambitious climate efforts at home.

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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. This year the EU is also implementing its carbon border mechanism which will impose taxes on imports from countries who are not doing enough to address climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Nordhaus published an article in the American Economic Review entitled Can We Control Carbon Dioxide? 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.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

Italian Minister for the Environment, Land and Sea Protection, Sergio Costa: "Whilst we have decided to postpone COP26, including the Pre-COP and ‘Youth for the Climate' event, we remain fully committed to meeting the challenge of climate change. Tackling climate change requires strong, global and ambitious action.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

NbS will play a critical role in achieving our climate goals because many of them both cut emissions from land-use and remove carbon from the atmosphere. Investment in high-integrity NbS, including investment through carbon markets, is an essential component of corporate leadership on climate action in addition to emission reductions.

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