Climate Change The New Economy
Climate Change, Environment
"It is the absence of broad-based business activity, not its presence, which condemns much of humanity to suffering. Indeed, what is utopian is the notion that poverty can be overcome without the active engagement of business." - Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary-General, 14 June 2005 What is the 2030 Agenda & Origins
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The European Council has adopted a set of conclusions on climate diplomacy, highlighting the need for urgent implementation of the Paris Agreement on climate change and the SDGs, and reiterating the EU’s commitment to climate action at all levels. In its conclusions, the Council highlights the EU’s leadership role in “the
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In April 2016 the United Nations Secretary-General and President of the World Bank Group convened a High Level Panel on Water (HLPW), consisting of 11 sitting Heads of State and Government and one Special Adviser, to provide the leadership required to champion a comprehensive, inclusive and collaborative way of developing
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UN Climate Change News, 8 March 2018- Today we celebrate International Women’s Day. This year’s theme “Time is Now: Rural and urban activists transforming women’s lives” is an important opportunity to look at women’s and girls’ rights in the context of climate change, as well as equality and justice with an
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"Behind every global risk there’s an opportunity." That has been the mantra of the Global Opportunity Report since we at Sustainia launched the project in 2014, in partnership with DNV GL and the United Nations Global Compact. As a counterpart to World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report, which outlines the world’s
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Unprecedented levels of coordination are needed to face the combined challenges of rising global greenhouse gas emissions, weather-related disasters, and achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. This is the key finding of a UN report summing up the views of experts who gathered in Bonn, Germany, to discuss how countries can
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Nairobi, 5 December 2017 – Six inspirational environmental leaders today received the United Nations' highest environmental honour, the Champions of the Earth award, during the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya. President of Chile Michelle Bachelet, Paul A. Newman and his team at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, American filmmaker Jeff Orlowski,
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The new technology industrial revolution will provide a major boost to speed up climate action but only if business commits to it and governments back it with stable policy and new incentives, delegates at the COP23 Innovation Day said on Tuesday. In an example that embodies all these essential components of
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“.. ensuring the full implementation of the Paris Climate Change Agreement and Sustainable Development goals together…represents the one chance the world has to avoid the worst” Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary, UNFCCC CLIMATE CHANGE – the New Economy (CCTNE), is the leading climate change publication supporting the COP23 Summit. CCTNE’s COP23 Edition –
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12 October 2017 – Recent devastating natural events – from hurricanes in the Caribbean to floods in South Asia and earthquakes in Mexico – have again shone a spotlight on the importance of efforts to reduce disaster risk, and how impossible it is to achieve global development goals without addressing
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