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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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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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. Unlike the World Cup, there isn't just one winner at COP15," she said.

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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. However, research has found that this is simply not feasible with the current scale of livestock farming.

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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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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 3, 2023

We have the tools to begin While investors and policymakers must support corporate efforts by enabling strong policy and fund innovations to tackle emissions and protect nature in the food & agriculture supply chains, companies can’t wait to take action. Support policy that will deliver incentives to farmers for lower-emitting practices.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

This needs to be backed in the UK with bold policies to cut our global footprint and future trade deals that clearly reject deforestation and other poor agricultural practices.". While richer nations will experience the largest gross impacts, developing nations are expected to shoulder a disproportionately large burden, the report adds.

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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 Jessica Battle, senior global ocean governance and policy expert, said the treaty marked a turning point in governments' approach to the oceans that could result in significant economic benefits.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Domestic Climate Policy Gets Real. There is an obvious and essential social justice dimension to this, and the Egyptian convenors of COP27 have promised to put adaptation in all its forms – including financing, technology and policy – high on the agenda. Here are my four key takeaways: U.S. degrees Celsius. Watch this space!

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

As with the last summit, the risk continues to be that greenwashing leaves governments with “a vision that tinkers around the edges,”rather than a transformative one that creates food systems that are resilient and restore ecosystems,” as Shefali Sharma, director of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), warned at COP27.

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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

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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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

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

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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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. The UK retreated on some climate policies , like delaying a ban on combustion engines in cars to 2035.

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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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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The UK government must focus on strengthening the detail and delivery of its flagship Net Zero Strategy during a "crucial" year ahead for climate action, with major work particularly needed to fill in policy gaps and uncertainties surrounding taxation, trade, adaptation and agriculture.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

A number of Aramco’s ads claimed the company “promoted biodiversity” and “protected the planet”. The firm even flew Kwarteng around the country on his two day trip, giving the company the chance to lobby the minister then in charge of UK energy policy. Meanwhile, in the UK, Aramco has been no less busy.

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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. We are living through challenges that can seem insurmountable.

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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. China has begun drafting its next five year plan (FYP), this top-level policy blueprint has been called, "one of the most important documents on the planet" for global sustainability.

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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. In terms of next steps, countries must now embed these commitments in domestic policy and unlock the role of the private sector.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

The Net Zero Strategy (NZS) was released in autumn 2021, just ahead of the COP26 Climate Summit, and while it contained a raft of policies, targets, and plans designed to curb emissions commentators at the time highlighted how it failed to incorporate detailed modelling showing how much officials expected policies to reduce emissions.

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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. Research published by Climate Action Tracker warned the sum total of policies and actions being taken by governments would deliver roughly 2.4C

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

Planning how to work more cleverly and to prepare for even larger future disruptions such as climate change and biodiversity loss. Business has the same opportunity as we get back to work. UK businesses can make a huge contribution to this effort, and it is an opportunity we cannot afford to miss.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. These companies are stepping up their game because the exposure they are facing is stepping up,” says Jennifer Jacquet, Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Miami. “It rise in temperature that risks tipping the world into irreversible climate breakdown.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

As the government gears up to unveil its 10 point green recovery plan this autumn, an alliance of more than 70 civil society groups have set out which net zero policies they think should make the cut. But will the government deliver the scale of investment and detailed policy frameworks required to unlock real progress?

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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. Yet in the six years since its birth, the Paris Agreement has undoubtedly transformed policy, investment, and economic thinking. The US left the treaty altogether briefly.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2022

But as negotiations enter their second week, many across civil society and business are becoming increasingly wary of slow progress in agreeing an ambitious Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). Recent losses of biodiversity and associated ecosystem services already cost an estimated $4 to 20tr per year and is likely to increase exponentially.

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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. Business can help to create certainty," she told BusinessGreen.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

We are committed to holding COP 26 in Glasgow, but the Scottish government needs to work with us to make sure this is a successful summit, which showcases the UK as a world leader in tackling climate change and represents value for the UK taxpayer," he was quoted as saying. "The

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The potential is clearly there to create a group of leading economies that sufficiently align their climate policies, taxes, and industrial decarbonisation programmes to create a relatively level playing field. CBAM will be a crucial pillar of European climate policies," he said. "It A win-win situation.".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Carbon markets are set to be one of the key issues at the upcoming COP climate talks, with negotiators tasked with finalising the rules for Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, which aims to create a framework for countries and companies to meet their climate goals by trading carbon credits.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Together, they will work to finalise a post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). Biodiversity underpins human health, wealth, happiness, and identity. But while this is well understood, the loss of biodiversity and intact ecosystems continues to accelerate. This is not going unnoticed by the business community.

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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

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

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. And for soy, it acknowledges the need for no-conversion policies, but the companies couldn't agree on a definition, let alone strategy.

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