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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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. In Jamaica Hurricane Beryl destroyed over $6.4

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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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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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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2023

December’s COP28 event in Dubai took place against a backdrop of global emissions continuing to rise at a rate of 1.5% Fossil fuels were mentioned for the first time in a COP text two years ago, at COP26 in Glasgow. Commentators were concerned about the decisive role seemingly prepared for carbon removal technologies.

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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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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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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. The announcement from the CBD on the new plans for COP15 came as the UK co-hosts of the COP26 Summit this week announced their objectives for the event.

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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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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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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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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2021

They don't want it to be virtual but even if it's not as big as previous COPs, they feel it must be done face-to-face.". BusinessGreen reached out to both UNFCCC and the Cabinet's COP unit for comment on the latest reports and was awaiting a response at the time of going to press. — Leo Hickman (@LeoHickman) March 25, 2021.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. The GMA declined to offer a formal comment, however a spokesperson told DeSmog in an email that the group works to “simplify and distil public information” around international events which are “often dominated by an anti-meat narrative”.

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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

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

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.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2020

COP26 President Alok Sharma's speech yesterday to the Let's Build Back Better event hosted by the British High Commission in Wellington. Thank you to the British High Commission for organising this event. koutou katoa. English translation: Greeting, greetings, greetings to you all). degree target.

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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. Essentially, without biodiversity, we would not exist, let alone develop". Cristiana Pa?ca

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

A number of Aramco’s ads claimed the company “promoted biodiversity” and “protected the planet”. An organiser of the 2032 Olympics sits on the board of Aramco, despite the event being billed as “climate positive”.

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 17, 2020

Time is growing perilously short but key events in the coming year could put us on track to deal with the multiple interconnected crises we face. 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. That breaks down to 7.6

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

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. The future of the planet can’t wait.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2020

What's more, key international events we assumed would consolidate progress made to date and accelerate ambition have been pushed back. Plus, populist governments in the US, India, Brazil and others are itching for any excuse to cut 'green tape' and roll back environmental standards in a push for lighter touch regulation.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

It was 1988, and the expert was already warning about the existence of anthropogenic global warming and how it was influencing extreme events such as heat waves. Even so, it was a major breakthrough as the first COP to mention the temperature goals we are all familiar with today. For the first time at a COP , a target of 1.5

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Grist

MAY 15, 2024

“For me, intellectually, that always felt like a little bit of a cop-out,” said Jesse Nichols, a video producer at Grist. By analyzing small scrapes of coral from each of the different bands, scientists have been able to track changes over time that align with world events. percent of scientists agree that it is.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

However, the decision to postpone now leaves huge question marks about global governments' ability to ramp up climate action in 2020 in order to keep the Paris Agreement on track, and also as to whether Glasgow will remain the host of the event if and when it does eventually take place next year.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Asked yesterday about reports the government was in talks with the ExCel London centre as a potential alternative venue for the Glasgow Summit, a spokesman for Number 10 told reporters that it was "standard practice to carry out contingency planning for major international events at this scale".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

COP talks each year are often fraught and progress remains far too slow, as today's IPCC report on escalating climate impacts will testify. As close observers of global climate diplomacy have long argued, if the COP process and the Paris Agreement did not exist you would have to invent them. The US left the treaty altogether briefly.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

I heard someone call COP26 the "business COP" I couldn't find any official reference of that sort, but I'm inclined to agree. Over the weekend, Saturday was 'Nature Day' at COP. That in itself is noteworthy: It's the first time preserving nature and biodiversity has been explicitly singled out as a critical climate issue.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

With the World Economic Forum's main event postponed until late spring / early summer following the postponement of Davos 2021, this seems an appropriate moment to question how much the world is losing without its annual get together at a tiny resort in the Swiss Alps. But this year will have to be different, again.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

Other former COP Presidents, such as Laurent Fabius. These events will put human life at risk. It will devastate nature and biodiversity. billion people have been affected by disasters, 90 per cent of which have been caused by weather and climate related events. Civil society organisations. Third, energy transition.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2022

BusinessGreen speaks to delegates at COP15 about how the dash for cash to protect biodiversity will impact investors and business. Finance and Biodiversity Day at the COP15 Biodiversity Summit got off to an explosive start yesterday morning, after developing nations walked out of talks on finance in the wee hours of the morning.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

It follows a separate communiqué on environmental issues last week, which saw the G20 agree to common objectives on biodiversity, natural capital, more efficient use of resources and sustainable finance. are much lower than at 2C," states.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

In my eyes, that certainly doesn't merit a big COP announcement. Grasslands, shrublands, peatlands and other carbon and biodiversity-rich ecosystems are also being plowed up too. Check out VERGE Net Zero , a free online event, Dec. The roadmap's definitions also bring up a geography question. 6-7, online.].

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

This COP caused deep frustrations but it wasn't for nothing," she said. "It The inclusion could deliver a modest boost to the upcoming COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Montreal, which is hoping to deliver a sweeping new international treaty to ramp up nature protection efforts globally.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Acknowledging Indigenous people's critical role in tackling the climate and biodiversity crises may have become the norm in climate circles, but these communities still aren’t being paid for it. 23 event hosted by the international Indigenous rights organisation as part of Climate Week NYC. "We We have the solutions already.".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

But despite an interminable number of husting events and countless miles of column inches, the policy platform of the new administration remains remarkably opaque on a host of critical economic and environmental issues. They also refused to engage with growing calls for a new campaign to encourage people to save energy.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Even in the context of an eventful past five years, it is fair to say 2022 was another rollercoaster. And then, somewhere along the way, 2022 also found time for two major UN COP summits - one on climate change, the other on biodiversity - both of which proved momentous in different ways.

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