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. “The

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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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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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

With greater scrutiny over emissions from meat and dairy companies, it is not surprising they are stepping up their game to head off any COP outcome that might hinder their operations,” Ben Lilliston, from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy told DeSmog. Pesticide company Syngenta’s Foundation came with Ukraine.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

This is a chance for nations to recover better, to include the most vulnerable in those plans, and a chance to shape the 21st century economy in ways that are clean, green, healthy, just, safe and more resilient. Tackling climate change requires strong, global and ambitious action.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

The new campaign will be stewarded by the UK and Chile as incoming and outgoing COP presidents, respectively. Meanwhile, just this week a breakthrough study from the University of Oxford noted that high levels of private sector ESG performance positively impacts the health of national economies.

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

As such, Guterres reiterated his call for coal to have "no place in COVID-19 recovery plans", arguing there was a compelling economic, health, and environmental case for governments to "choose the clean energy route". Fossil fuels are increasingly risky business with fewer takers.".

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2020

COP26 President steps up calls for 'clean, inclusive and resilient recovery' that delivers on the goals of the Paris Agreement, as polling reveals huge support for accelerate climate action. We will work together to ensure that the linked challenges of public health, climate change and biodiversity are addressed.".

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

As we recover from Covid-19, we can't replace one health emergency with another - we need to come out of this crisis embracing a new normal which puts tackling the climate emergency at the heart of everything we do.". The climate emergency remains one of the biggest threats we face," he added. "As

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

While not losing sight of the importance to progress mitigation measures, in the next five to 10 years, world leaders will zone in on adaptation strategies, to help build resiliency in the face of increasingly severe and frequent weather events. Gregory Carli , Executive Advisor – Sustainability Resilience and ESG .

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for alternative arrangements for preliminary climate negotiations in the run up to November's crucial COP26 global climate summit, arguing upcoming talks will "need to take place virtually" due to health, safety and logistics concerns spurred by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

The new campaign will be stewarded by the UK and Chile as incoming and outgoing COP presidents, respectively. Meanwhile, just this week a breakthrough study from the University of Oxford noted that high levels of private sector ESG performance positively impacts the health of national economies.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

This should include widespread engagement on the health, economic and environmental co-benefits of cutting food waste and changes in diet.". "This cannot continue if the UK is to reach net zero emissions - the public must be engaged.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

Now we have the date for COP, we'd very much like the industry to be seen as one of the leading sectors as we come towards COP," Symons says. "I I think Covid is building on that and making people think harder about the social resilience and public health side of some of this stuff.". he observes. he observes. "I

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Business Green

APRIL 26, 2020

The two-day Petersberg Climate Dialogue has long been a key event in the annual climate diplomacy calendar, with environment ministers from around 30 countries typically coming together to thrash out priorities and preparations for the following United Nations COP climate summit.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. The North American Meat Institute will host a side event at the US COP pavilion on December 11, the summit’s Agriculture Day, for example. Past marketing drives run by the AHDB include the £3.5-million The files also detail collaborations planned for the event itself.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

We should be blazing the trail with a Green New Deal, coordinating international diplomatic efforts in the run-up to COP, and leading by example by setting out plans for the world's most ambitious green recovery - not kicking the can further down the road.".

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2020

British diplomats, the UK COP presidency team and Ministers would have been in a whirl of frenetic influencing activity globally (we hope) to drive up ambition, and drive out those new nationally-determined contributions (NDCs) from all the parties to the Paris Agreement. But these are not normal times, and the COP has been delayed by a year.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Speaking shortly after that call to BusinessGreen from his makeshift home office - aka his bedroom - Stark is, like many working in the green economy, continuing to wrestle with what coronavirus could mean for the climate fight, alongside the wider fears about public health and economic uncertainty that everyone shares. Building back better.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Healthy ecosystems are more resilient to climate change and provide life-critical services such as food and clean water," said IPCC Working Group II co-chair Hans-Otto Pörtner. "By The scientific evidence is unequivocal: climate change is a threat to human wellbeing and the health of the planet," said Pörtner.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

But more positively, while the gap between adaptation and resilience efforts currently being undertaken, and what is required to safeguard society and ecosystems, remains considerable, such efforts can in fact be very effective, the report suggests. Inaction is a foolish business risk no company can afford.

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Energy Innovation

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Photo: Disha Yadav/ Unsplash For many climate advocates preparing for this year’s COP29 in Baku, it might be a surprise to learn that a different annual Conference of Parties (COP) just wrapped in Cali, Columbia. Unfortunately, the climate crisis and biodiversity loss are too often considered separately from one another.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

On the bright side, however, the crisis has underlined the resilience of Danone's direct sourcing model, he says, which minimised supply chain disruptions caused by the pandemic. You showed evidence that finance can change the world. It is on us, boards and CEOs, CFOs to engage finance on what matters.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

That will not happen until true net zero emissions is achieved and a global economy has been built that is resilient to the dangerous new world we have unleashed. Future COPs will re-open this debate and seek to extend it to gas and oil. If COPs did not exist you would have to invent them.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Beyond these intense negotiations lies a much-broader field of activity, not least to bring the financial system into line with a net zero, nature positive and resilient future. We know that the decline in biodiversity is occurring at unprecedented rates, posing severe risks for macroeconomic health. per cent and 6.5

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

Countries across the globe have taken the extraordinary measures to shut down large swathes of their economies in order to combat the coronavirus public health emergency. And now, as we look forward to COP26 next November 2021, our aim is to ramp up ambition towards a climate-resilient, zero-carbon economy. adaptation and resilience.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2020

Before we host the world at COP 26 in November, the UK must get its house in order, and go further and faster to reach net zero as soon as possible," the letter states. "In This is a pivotal year for the planet as we raise our ambition on emissions reductions and build an economy resilient to climate change," a government statement added.

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2022

In a video address to more than 40 leaders and ministers assembled at the Berlin event this morning, Antonio Guterres slammed political leaders for failing to take adequate action on tackling climate change and mobilising finance to support poorer nations' efforts to decarbonise and bolster their climate resilience.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Biodiversity underpins human health, wealth, happiness, and identity. Many are looking to understand how they can identify, measure and value their relationships with nature and apply this information across their decision-making to reduce risk, futureproof against looming legislation and bake resiliency into their operations.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

"We are off track for the Fourth Carbon Budget, we are off track for the Fifth Carbon Budget, and we are off track for the 2030 emissions target, which we submitted to the UN in December - and that is not a great place to be for the UK as COP President," he said. "So So the government is playing a pretty high stakes game here.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Guterres said at least $100 billion dollars must be made available to developing countries for mitigation and adaptation and to take into account their “legitimate expectations to have the resources necessary to build resilience and for disaster response and recovery.” By the end of the coming decade we will be on one of two paths.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

In Canada last month almost 200 countries at COP 15 agreed a set of landmark pledges that will resonate not just through 2023, but to the end of the decade and beyond to the middle of the 21st century. 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 17, 2021

"Agreeing zero tariff, zero quota access with Australia, a climate and nature laggard, is no way to deliver on the commitments the UK government made at COP26 to end deforestation in our supply chains and make the UK stronger, greener and more resilient," she said.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 19, 2023

added resilient building consultant and former Passive House Canada board chair Deborah Byrne. “A very different psychology kicks in, one our brains would normally discount/reject. But one that is much more useful, if alarming.” Coolest and calmest with higher than average air quality!” This is the year future records will be set against.”

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

She also argued that her plan to move green levies to be funded through general taxation could be paid for by the current fiscal headroom in the Treasury's plans and in a surprise move committed to leading a UK delegation to the upcoming COP 15 Biodiversity Summit in Montreal this autumn if elected leader.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

If we haven't shown the way in which we are going to deliver, then we will in fact not be able to make COP a success, and the whole concept of 'Global Britain' being a leader will in fact be undermined.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The appeals underscored how for many nations, the success of the Sharm El Sheikh Summit depends on its ability to deliver real progress towards the launch of a dedicated funding mechanism for Loss and Damage, after the contentious issue made it on to a COP agenda for the first time this year.

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