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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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

Unfortunately, as the economic effects of COVID-19 cause government debts to rise sharply, there is now much less public money available for activities like climate protection or ecosystem restoration — this should sharpen our appetite for innovation. How then to make the shift to a net-zero, nature-positive economy within the decade?

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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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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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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. However, speaking in the Commons last week Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab acknowledged a postponement was possible, but insisted the government would prefer to proceed with the Summit as planned.

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Business Green

JULY 14, 2021

Less than 48 hours after flooding caused commuter chaos across parts of London and the South East, the government is launching a 'pioneering' new fund to deliver investment in flood risk management schemes proposed by 27 innovative nature-positive projects.

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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. Philip Dunne MP, who chairs the EAC, stressed that government, business, and consumers were all contributing to the widespread destruction of nature and extinction of species.

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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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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

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Environment ministers from the world are set to descend on Montreal tomorrow to try and galvanise faltering talks to agree a global deal to halt biodiversity loss by 2030. UK Environment Secretary Therese Coffey and international environment minister Zac Goldsmith are both set to attend.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

This week, as business and government leaders, investors and campaigners gather for New York Climate Week, DeSmog is relaunching its big agriculture series, which will scrutinise the power of food and farming companies. After last year’s COP, meat industry bosses left the summit galvanised for what’s to come and vowed to “keep pushing”.

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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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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

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. Finally, he said the government's fourth goal would see it work with "communities, governments, third-sector organisations and businesses to accelerate the global move to net zero".

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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

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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Major report calls for rapid action to be taken by government and business to deliver subsidy reform. Nature is declining at an alarming rate, and we have never lived on a planet with so little biodiversity," she said. The analysis stresses there is a strong incentive for businesses to push for subsidy reform.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

But a loose patchwork of weakly enforced rules governing international waters have meant the majority of the planet's oceans are highly susceptible to exploitation whether through over-fishing, acidification and pollution, or emerging threats such as deep water mining. Ladies and gentlemen, the ship has reached the shore," she said.

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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. Attempting to maintain business as usual (which is the only type of solution that will be debated at COP 26) will only make things worse. Going for a walk? Conversation? It’s magical thinking.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In 2018 the World Bank and others agreed significant funding to help governments boost the resilience of communities, including things like the Green Climate Fund, intended to provide support for lower income countries. A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In 2018 the World Bank and others agreed significant funding to help governments boost the resilience of communities, including things like the Green Climate Fund, intended to provide support for lower income countries. A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read.

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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. He also reiterated the government's plans to make climate action a key plank in its recovery packages.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In the wake of blazing heat, rising food insecurity and devastating floods, COP28 leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda for the conference, which will call for governments to work with industry to find new solutions. We can expect a similar turnout at this year’s COP, too.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Number 10 spokesperson insists government is determined to deliver Glasgow Summit, but warns it must represent 'value for the UK taxpayer'. Earlier this week both Cabinet Secretary Michael Gove and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon called for the two governments to work together to ensure the Summit is a success.

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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 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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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

The pioneering governance structure will see the food giant officially entrench environmental, social, and societal objectives into its bylaws, alongside more typical profit goals. If we protect biodiversity, we are basically protecting the diversity of DNA," Soubeiran muses.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2020

UK Business Secretary and COP26 President Alok Sharma has today called on governments around the world to submit enhanced climate action plans and place clean technologies at the heart of their post-coronavirus economic recovery strategies. It is important to remember, on a day such as this, that all our futures are intrinsically linked.".

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2022

It is a once-in-a-decade opportunity for the world's governments to sign a global agreement for nature, similar in significance to the Paris Agreement on climate change. Governments have so far been unable to reach agreement on much of the framework, leaving large sections of the draft in brackets. The stakes are high.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 6, 2022

This will also be the first African COP in several years, and Egypt has promised to champion African interests, which perfectly encapsulates the issues raised above. Finally, there was a lot of discussion at ClimateWeek and UNGA about the “other” COP – COP15, which is convening in December in Montreal. degrees Celsius.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2021

Reports suggest UK government is facing calls to scale back in-person component of high profile Climate Summit, as concerns over coronavirus risks continue. 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.". — Leo Hickman (@LeoHickman) March 25, 2021.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Around 100 countries have since backed the 30 by 30 including the UK, although the government has suggested that meeting the goal would require only a further four per cent of UK land to be protected, given 26 per cent of UK land is already made up of National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

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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 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. Leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda that calls for governments and industry to work together to find new solutions to climate change–driven food insecurity.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2021

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. The same process is now starting for biodiversity. per cent and 6.5 per cent respectively.

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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. Tropical deforestation is a leading driver of global climate change and a source of climate risk in many corporate value chains. Consider joining the LEAF Coalition. methodology.

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Two of the big stories we’ll be sharing at COP26 – our work measuring deforestation across the tropics with the Norwegian government and UNFAO , and measuring GHG emissions with our partners Climate TRACE and Carbon Mapper – each speak to the role data can play in driving climate-positive systems change. . All Rights Reserved.

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