Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

A scientific paper published in the peer review Journal, Aquatic Conservation says that measures to address climate change and reach the Paris Agreement will not succeed unless the ocean is taken into account. We need to simultaneously address climate change impacts and reduce all cumulative direct and indirect stressors.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2020

The move also came on the same day as a global poll revealed an overwhelming majority of people believe climate change is as serious a crisis as Covid-19 and support the delivery of green economic recovery plans. The world needs to see more ambition to tackle the climate crisis," he said. "It

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2023

The approach must be a core part of the UK’s defence against flooding and climate change, he said. ” In early December governments from around the world were assembling for COP 15 to agree on how to halt and reverse nature loss. Across 60 pilot projects the programme created an equivalent of 1.6 What is it?

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 16, 2020

We are facing a biodiversity crises and the actions we take this year will determine the fate of life on Earth. The combination of habitat loss, pollution, exploitation of natural resources, population growth, environmental degradation, and climate change have pushed the creatures that inhabit this planet to the brink.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

Boris Johnson and Xi Jinping agree to continued co-operation in face of coronavirus crisis and hint at plans for climate and biodiversity summits. The UK supports the WHO in playing an important role and hopes that parties will deepen cooperation within the G20 and other multilateral frameworks," he added.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

DeSmog’s renewed focus on agriculture comes ahead of a pivotal and eventful year for climate, and food politics, with major summits related to biodiversity, energy and food due over the coming months in Colombia and Azerbaijan this year. This year an extreme weather phenomenon made harsher and more frequent by climate change killed 7.1

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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

MARCH 6, 2023

Guterres said the treaty was crucial for addressing the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. "It Wide-ranging new rules on how to fairly share ocean resources have also been agreed through the new treaty.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Some commentators in the sustainability sphere report a dawning realisation that climate change can no longer be simply “solved”, in the sense of it being possible to slow it down to a degree that will allow our civilization to continue in a more or less recognisable form. A fair COP? Drought in Kenya.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Some commentators in the sustainability sphere report a dawning realisation that climate change can no longer be simply “solved”, in the sense of it being possible to slow it down to a degree that will allow our civilization to continue in a more or less recognisable form. A fair COP? Drought in Kenya.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Environmental Audit Committee report also describes government biodiversity efforts to date as 'lacking' and argues ‘bold and ambitious action’ is required. While this issue is bigger than any one person's habits, if we all take action to tackle unsustainable consumption, we can make a lasting impact to halt biodiversity loss.".

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

The Systems Change Alliance share our view at Lowimpact.org that the climate change problem can’t be solved within the current economic system, which requires and generates perpetual growth and wealth concentration.

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Grist

JANUARY 17, 2021

environment minister Zac Goldsmith said: “We know there is no pathway to tackling climate change that does not involve a massive increase in our efforts to protect and restore nature. So as co-host of the next Climate Cop, the U.K. So as co-host of the next Climate Cop, the U.K.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

The study looked at a range of factors including Google search trends, Twitter mentions, and the popularity of green campaigns on the Avaaz website, which EIU said found evidence of significant shifts in behaviour with consumers increasingly demanding solutions to damaging nature and biodiversity loss. million in 2020, the research shows.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Climate change and the loss of nature are two intersecting crises that face the global economy. This nine-month climate-biodiversity season kicks off with the opening of Biodiversity COP15 from 11th October, moves to the COP26 climate summit later in the month and completes with the second part of COP15 in May 2022.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Experts say that failing to reform the sector’s polluting practices – such as by cutting the use of pesticides and polluting synthetic fertilisers – will harm global efforts to curb climate change and reverse biodiversity loss. Another high profile, international initiative is slated for 2025.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 6, 2022

First and foremost, there will be a much stronger focus on climate adaptation , rather than solely on mitigation. Today, 90% of climate finance is focused on mitigation – stopping the sources of climate change at their origin, rather than adapting to their effects. They are nearly-perfect mirror images.).

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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. This week, we set out that tackling climate change will be our number one priority on the international stage in the decade ahead," he said.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

Despite the reductions in air travel and the global economic slowdown caused by the pandemic, climate change sadly has not slowed down this past year. 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. Pull Quote.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 18, 2022

While energy decarbonisation has always been the key focus for the climate COPs, the biodiversity COPs have been very clear that their priority has been land use and how humans are driving nature's devastating depletion. It is also estimated that 60 per cent of global biodiversity loss is caused by the food we eat.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

All these methods work to improve the soil, reduce air and water pollution, cut emissions, and boost biodiversity. However, a 2020 assessment of regenerative agriculture from the World Resources Institute (WRI) found that while good for the environment, it has “limited potential” to mitigate climate change.

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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. While we rightly focus on fighting the immediate crisis of the Coronavirus, we must not lose sight of the huge challenges of climate change," he said in a statement.

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Grist

MAY 15, 2024

The vision “Denying climate change is tantamount to saying you don’t believe in gravity.” ” — Christina Figueres, climate advocate and diplomat, in her 2020 book The Future We Choose The spotlight How do we know that the climate is changing — and that humans are causing 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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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Adjusting to current or expected effects of climate change, such as building defences to protect against rising sea-levels, to reduce risk or benefit from opportunities where possible. The Sixth Assessment Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Biodiversity. Black carbon.

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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. I wouldn’t be as impolite, of course, as to call what’s coming at COP26 an ‘ avalanche of climate b t ’, but here’s how I would put it. Whatever does come out of COP won’t be enough.

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Even so, we haven’t yet made anywhere near the progress required to avoid the worst effects of the climate emergency. Today, under a special program financed by the Norwegian government, Planet’s data helps power the UN’s REDD+ program, a mechanism developed under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

While there was a lot of media buzz recently about the activists that could not - or, understandably, would not - participate in this year's COP, the voices of the most important are missing at nearly all important decision fora. It's not just a COP issue, it's a power issue. And if we look to forests, there is so much biodiversity.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

On top of that, the land plays host to much of the planet's biodiversity, providing incalculable benefits to humanity and the global economy, starting with the pollination that underpins the global food system. And then there are the big picture climate threats that poorly managed land can rapidly amplify. Cristiana Pa?ca

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

There are a lot of major oil companies that tend to fill headlines when talking about climate change – BP, Shell, Chevron – any of the ‘big six’ public oil companies. A Guardian investigation found that one in five ads served on search results around climate change were placed by oil firms.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Business leaders and environmental campaigners hail the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework as a major - if flawed - breakthrough for nature protection efforts. BusinessGreen rounds up the initial reaction to the historic new accord.

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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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

C above pre-industrial levels , recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change”. It was at COP21, where the Paris Agreement , the most important climate pact to date, was enshrined. Everything had changed forever. That paragraph, in article 2, paragraph 2.a.,

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Business Green

JANUARY 3, 2022

Post-COP26 the world risks taking its foot off the pedal of climate action in 2021, but businesses must not let that happen, writes Pinwheel's Rob Cheesewright. Businesses have often been blamed for sluggish progress on climate change - yet at COP26 it was the progress that governments made that felt frustratingly slow.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 7, 2024

Our biggest existential threat, climate change, is no longer a scientific model of the future; it’s now a relentless daily challenge. 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.

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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

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Anyone who remembers the start of 2020 will recall a time when there was to be a climate COP in the UK in November. So long ago was that pre-Covid time, that the COP would have finished by now. Healthy ecosystems have the capacity to capture greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere, helping us to fight climate change.

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