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Businesses and investors need to roll up their sleeves and join the race to revive biodiversity

Corporate Knights

The Living Planet Report 2022 shows an average decline of 69% in wildlife populations since 1970, thus emphasizing the dual crises of biodiversity loss and climate change driven by human activities. Unlike the climate crisis that led to the signing of the Paris Agreement , biodiversity loss has received little attention until now.

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From Ambition to Action

Chris Hall

Each country will need to submit National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plans (NBSAPs) – akin to nationally determined contributions under the Paris Agreement – and National Biodiversity Finance Plans (NBFPs) before the meetings begin on 21 October. It also recommended policy actions for risk mitigation.

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At long last, Canada restricts oil and gas subsidies (except for all the loopholes)

Corporate Knights

Environment and Climate Minister Steven Guilbeault has unveiled detailed plans to phase out “inefficient” oil and gas subsidies, based on guidelines released yesterday morning that take effect immediately and are meant to fulfill a 14-year-old pledge by G20 countries. We are bending the curve on Canada’s fight on pollution.”

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Five Reasons Your Company Needs A Climate Transition Action Plan

We Mean Business Coalition

Countries are starting to bend the curve of global greenhouse emissions downwards, according to the UN , and the latest International Energy Agency data suggests global emissions from energy may be starting to plateau. C and avoid the most disastrous impacts of climate change. However, only 0.4%

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3 Sustainability Leaders (That Are Saving The World)

Carlos Sanchez

Climate Change agreement in Paris. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Christiana injected a unique sense of optimism that steered world leaders to reach the Paris Agreement in 2015. “The Woman Who Could Stop Climate Change” Elizabeth Kolbert , The New Yorker.

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Technology Collaborations and Innovations to Accelerate Climate Progress

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: The annual United Nations Climate Change report - coinciding with the 27 th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt - concludes that while countries are bending the curve of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions downward, accelerated progress and collaboration are critical to our planet’s future.