Climate, biodiversity and the ‘other COP’
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
What is the 1.5-degree degree equivalent for nature?
Priorities for Success at the Biodiversity COP
NRDC onEarth
OCTOBER 21, 2024
The world has a strategic plan to reverse global biodiversity loss. We must follow through by working with each other to address the critical issues and build a new relationship with nature.
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Bridging the nature-finance gap
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 31, 2025
By Samantha Willis, Biodiversity Consultant at Ramboll In a significant step towards global nature recovery, bridging the Nature-Finance gap was at the heart of negotiations during the recent extended COP 16 session, which concluded in Rome on the 27th February. Samantha Willis of Ramboll.
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What happened at the biodiversity COP, and why it matters to business
GreenBiz
MAY 17, 2022
An ambitious and implementable international agreement on nature will help set the direction for corporate action.
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Global standard for biodiversity impacts moves a step closer
Envirotec Magazine
DECEMBER 5, 2022
A proposed reporting standard that seeks to unlock accountability for the impacts organizations have on the natural world, informing the global response to a deepening biodiversity crisis, has been made available.
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From ambition to biodiversity action: Time to hold actors accountable
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 26, 2021
Scientists have proposed a framework for effective national-level implementation of global biodiversity goals. The German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) writes. Looking back, the international community has repeatedly failed to reach most of its biodiversity targets.
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If we lose biodiversity, we will not address climate change or hunger, warns report
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 7, 2021
If we continue to lose biodiversity, the world’s most vulnerable people will not be able to adapt to climate change nor sustainably produce food, according to a report released on 7 October by the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). We know that large-scale agriculture threatens biodiversity.
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Global Briefing: Colombia to host pre-COP biodiversity summit
Business Green
AUGUST 27, 2021
Colombia to host hybrid Biodiversity PreCOP. The Kunming Summit has been postponed repeatedly in response to the coronavirus crisis, further fuelling fears that governments are not doing enough to enhance biodiversity protection, despite the world missing nearly all the targets it set at the Aichi Summit over a decade ago.
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Danone's Eric Soubeiran: 'The food system is broken'
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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'Path to recovery': Part one of COP15 closes with hopes high for new global biodiversity accord
Business Green
OCTOBER 15, 2021
UN declares virtual talks have set the stage for the adoption of an ambitious post-2020 global biodiversity framework next year. With the conclusion of the first part of COP-15 we have taken a critical step towards writing a new chapter for our planet and for our societies," she said.
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State of the nation
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 13, 2023
The report evaluates the impact of the national Natural Flood Management Programme which received £15 million of government funding, including benefits to communities and to biodiversity alongside protecting homes and businesses from floods. Across 60 pilot projects the programme created an equivalent of 1.6 What is it?
The 2024 COPs and Climate Funding Solutions
Energy Central
OCTOBER 21, 2024
The 2024 COPs and Climate Funding Solutions ROBIN FARRELL Entrepreneur | Investments | Green Finance | Sports & Media October 20, 2024 Monday brings the official start of CBD COP16 in Cali, Colombia, focused on Biodiversity and Nature Finance.
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Time for adaptation?
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
“The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Rupert Read in one of the essays in a new collection, Climate Adaptation. Speaking at the launch of the book in Glasgow on 30 October, he shared some of his views on the measures that might constitute a successful COP, or a not-entirely-disastrous-one, at least.
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Boris Johnson unveils £3bn climate finance push to help safeguard global biodiversity
Business Green
JANUARY 11, 2021
The £3bn funding boost aims to accelerate efforts to protect biodiversity rich land and ocean ecosystems, shift to a more sustainable food system, and support livelihoods in the world's poorest communities, Johnson will say. However, biodiversity is currently declining faster than at any other time in human history.
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Meat, Dairy and Pesticide Lobbyists Return in High Numbers to Climate Summit
DeSmogBlog
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
While the total number has dropped compared to the record highs at COP28, the figures show that climate COPs continue to be a top priority for businesses working in agriculture, a sector that accounts for up to one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions.
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Event - 2020 UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15)
Green Market Oracle
DECEMBER 29, 2019
The 2020 Biodiversity Conference (COP 15) will take place on October 5, 2020 in Kunming, Yunnan, China. It is also anticipated that the final decision on the post-2020 global biodiversity framework will be taken, together with decisions on related topics including capacity building and resource mobilization.
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Climate, biodiversity and the ‘other COP’
AGreenLiving
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
More here: Climate, biodiversity and the ‘other COP’. What is the 1.5-degree degree equivalent for nature?
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Businesses should use their power and budget to build back biodiversity
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
While the news that a date for the UN COP 15 biodiversity summit has been confirmed for December is welcome, the slow progress of the pre-meeting in Nairobi with 196 nations is less so. The UN has collectively proposed that countries commit 30 per cent of natural areas to prevent biodiversity loss.
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'Promote international co-operation in health': UK and China hint at opportunity for COP Summits
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.
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Canada and China's progress toward protecting 30% by 2030
NRDC onEarth
OCTOBER 9, 2024
China and Canada, the co-hosts of the 2022 UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15), will pass the torch to Columbia this year. What progress have they made?
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Understanding Biodiversity Loss In A Changing Climate
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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More than 50 countries commit to protecting 30% of Earth’s land and oceans
Grist
JANUARY 17, 2021
So as co-host of the next Climate Cop, the U.K. is absolutely committed to leading the global fight against biodiversity loss and we are proud to act as co-chair of the High Ambition Coalition. “We By promoting action on biodiversity loss, it is hoped early commitments from the HAC will ensure a successful agreement for nature.
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‘No evidence’ that the Government is on track to meet crucial 2030 nature target
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 10, 2023
The 30×30 target is a leading international commitment that the UK spear-headed at COP-15. It’s therefore deeply worrying that three years later the Government is unable to provide robust evidence about progress towards the 30×30 goal.
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IEMA launches #GreenSkillsAtCOP campaign ahead of COP Summits
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
Business groups urge governments at upcoming COP16 Biodiversity Summit and COP29 Climate Summit to prioritise tackling looming global green skills gap
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'COP of implementation': UN Biodiversity Summit kicks off in Colombia
Business Green
OCTOBER 21, 2024
UN Secretary General urges negotiators to make COP16 the summit where promises on nature are finally converted into action
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'Eco-awakening': WWF study reveals huge rise in consumer demand for sustainable products
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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Connections, coffee, and campaigns: What businesses get from a COP
Business Green
DECEMBER 27, 2022
Record numbers of delegates from business and finance attended the COP15 Biodiversity Summit, but these actors are not part of official negotiations – so why do they make the trip? But as the dust settles on this month's COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Montreal, observers have noted how the CBD might be on the brink of a new era.
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MPs call for UK ban on trade and financing of deforestation-linked goods
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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Looking back on the future
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read. Her work with an NGO on the Pacific island of Vanuatu has made her mindful of what might seem an incommensurable cultural and psychological gulf between indigenous groups and the formalities that perhaps hold sway in a modern, western-dominated forum like COP.
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Looking back on the future
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read. Her work with an NGO on the Pacific island of Vanuatu has made her mindful of what might seem an incommensurable cultural and psychological gulf between indigenous groups and the formalities that perhaps hold sway in a modern, western-dominated forum like COP.
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'A great step forward for history': Nations promise to protect 30 per cent of Earth by 2030
Business Green
DECEMBER 19, 2022
History was made this morning in a conference room in Montreal, after world governments adopted the most ambitious international commitment on biodiversity conservation ever seen, pledging to protect 30 per cent of the Earth by the end of the decade. The package is by no means flawless but this is not the end," she said. "By
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Looking Ahead to COP: Climate Week Takeaways for Food & Agriculture
EDF + Business
OCTOBER 3, 2023
Explore these resources to learn how your company can start taking bold action for climate and nature today: Explore the Enteric Methane Solutions Market SBTi’s FLAG Guidance Tools and metrics also exist for companies to develop nature strategies that align with climate frameworks: Global Biodiversity Framework Science Based Nature Targets Taskforce (..)
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Big Ag Is Using ‘Regenerative Agriculture’ to Mask Business-as-Usual
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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UN chief: Fossil fuel firms without credible net zero plans 'should not be in business'
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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WWF: Environmental degradation on course to cost global economy £8tr
Business Green
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
The WWF is backing measures to reverse the loss of biodiversity by 2030, such as the Dasgupta Review on the Economics of Biodiversity in the UK and its own campaign for a New Deal for Nature and People.
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COP15 Biodiversity Summit: A business guide to the critical UN talks
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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'Financing our own extinction': $1.8tr in subsidies funding nature destruction every year, global study finds
Business Green
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
Nature is declining at an alarming rate, and we have never lived on a planet with so little biodiversity," she said. Transformative action on incentives and subsidies harmful for biodiversity will be decisive this decade to bend the curve of biodiversity loss," she said. "I
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High Seas Treaty: UN member states seal historic deal to protect international waters
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 Governments and civil society must now ensure that the agreement is adopted and rapidly enters into force and is effectively implemented to safeguard high seas biodiversity."
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A Guide to Six Greenwashing Terms Big Ag Is Bringing to COP28
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
All these methods work to improve the soil, reduce air and water pollution, cut emissions, and boost biodiversity. Nature-based solutions” is one of the only phrases linked to agriculture to be mentioned in the COP cover text. We can expect a similar turnout at this year’s COP, too.
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Tortuous progress: Key takeaways from COP28
Envirotec Magazine
DECEMBER 20, 2023
Fossil fuels were mentioned for the first time in a COP text two years ago, at COP26 in Glasgow. Oxford University’s Professor Myles Allen FRS, even chided the climate establishment for taking umbrage at COP president Sultan Al Jaber’s comments during the event, that there is no science behind demands for a fossil fuel-phase out. “To
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Sustainable Sussex: University debuts sweeping new sustainability strategy
Business Green
JULY 12, 2021
University vows to deliver net zero emissions by 2035 and establish UK's 'most biodiverse campus'. • Create the UK's most biodiverse campus - setting aside up to half of the site for nature. • Reach net zero by 2035 - including both direct and indirect carbon emissions.
New government fund backs natural solutions for tackling escalating climate risks
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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Danone's Eric Soubeiran on regenerative farming and fixing the 'broken' food system
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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G7 nations pledge to deliver near-zero carbon electricity grids by 2035
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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