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'Covid-19 has made risk everybody's business': Agencies urge world leaders to beef up extreme weather warning systems
'Covid-19 has made risk everybody's business': Agencies urge world leaders to beef up extreme weather warning systems

UN-backed report calls on policymakers to dramatically increase funding for early warning systems that can boost nations' resilience to extreme weather events in response to rising threat from extreme storms, droughts, floods, and wildfires

  • Risk
  • 13 October 2020
Biodiversity recovery: Boris Johnson pledges to protect 30 per cent of UK land by 2030
Biodiversity recovery: Boris Johnson pledges to protect 30 per cent of UK land by 2030

Prime Minister sets out fresh nature recovery targets for UK as he joins leaders of Germany, France, Bangladesh, and Mexico in backing Leaders Pledge for Nature, a 10-point plan geared at reversing global nature loss

  • Biodiversity
  • 28 September 2020
UN Secretary-General: Coal has no place in COVID-19 recovery plans
UN Secretary-General: Coal has no place in COVID-19 recovery plans

António Guterres warns governments risk squandering the opportunity to deliver a 'green recovery' that accelerates the net zero transition

  • Infrastructure
  • 09 July 2020
'The opportunity to do things right': UN Secretary-General backs green recovery
'The opportunity to do things right': UN Secretary-General backs green recovery

Antonio Guterres argues leaders must act decisively to deal with both the coronavirus and climate crisis - just hours after President Trump vows to bail out the US oil industry

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  • 22 April 2020
How Covid-19 is refocussing sustainable finance
How Covid-19 is refocussing sustainable finance

A broader focus of sustainable finance is needed to support sustainable business models covering both environmental and social elements, argues Constance Chalchat from BNP Paribas CIB

  • Investment
  • 16 April 2020
COP26 postponed: The reaction
COP26 postponed: The reaction

All the reaction from politicians, green business, academia, NGOs and think tanks on the momentous decision to postpone this year's critical UN climate change summit

  • Climate change
  • 01 April 2020
Alok Sharma: We want to see all nations committing to reaching net zero emissions as soon as possible
Alok Sharma: We want to see all nations committing to reaching net zero emissions as soon as possible

COP26 President Designate Alok Sharma's first major UN speech - in full

  • Policy
  • 09 March 2020
'We are watching you': Activists demand faster progress on UN Sustainable Development Goals
'We are watching you': Activists demand faster progress on UN Sustainable Development Goals

An open letter to world leaders calling for bolder progress on the SDGs has been signed by 20 leading activists and backed by 2,000 high-profile supporters, as a new online toolkit aims to help businesses develop SDG strategies

  • Policy
  • 30 January 2020
UN draft plan aims to beef up global biodiversity protection
UN draft plan aims to beef up global biodiversity protection

Proposals intended to replace a 2010 framework are set to be discussed by diplomats at a major UN summit in China in October

  • Policy
  • 15 January 2020
Developing countries lead charge to step up climate action
Developing countries lead charge to step up climate action

UN data reveals more than 100 countries plan to submit new climate action plans in 2020

  • Policy
  • 14 January 2020
'Betrayal and insult': COP25 reaction
'Betrayal and insult': COP25 reaction

BusinessGreen rounds up all the key responses to the conclusion of the UN climate talks in Madrid yesterday

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  • 16 December 2019
'Wake-up call': Europe off track on all Sustainable Development Goals, report warns
'Wake-up call': Europe off track on all Sustainable Development Goals, report warns

UN-backed assessment urges incoming EU Commission to place the SDG agenda front and centre of its policies and investment strategies

  • Policy
  • 22 November 2019
A Climate Change:  An unstoppable movement takes hold
A Climate Change: An unstoppable movement takes hold

As part of the Covering Climate Now initiative António Guterres issues a fresh call for more businesses and government's to join the fast-expanding climate movement

  • Politics
  • 03 October 2019
After a New York setback, can Glasgow revive international climate efforts?
After a New York setback, can Glasgow revive international climate efforts?

Ed King reflects on seven lessons from a bruising UN Climate Action Summit that ultimately failed to deliver the breakthrough that was both desperately hoped for and urgently needed

  • Politics
  • 01 October 2019
'We are still not on track': UN warns lack of cash stalling progress on SDGs
'We are still not on track': UN warns lack of cash stalling progress on SDGs

Uneven economic growth, rising debt levels and falling direct foreign investment threatening UN's Sustainable Development vision

  • Investment
  • 01 October 2019
Business leaders call out the climate action resisters among them
Business leaders call out the climate action resisters among them

  • Climate change
  • 27 September 2019
UN Climate Action Summit: Quotes of the Day
UN Climate Action Summit: Quotes of the Day

The best soundbites from politicians, activists and business leaders in New York

  • Policy
  • 24 September 2019
'How dare you': Greta Thunberg blasts world leaders for 'failing' on climate change
'How dare you': Greta Thunberg blasts world leaders for 'failing' on climate change

Swedish teenage activist delivers angry and emotional speech to world leaders at UN Climate Action Summit, as emissions pledges start to stack up

  • Climate change
  • 23 September 2019
'Everybody wins in the long term': 130 banks worth $47tr to align with Paris Agreement
'Everybody wins in the long term': 130 banks worth $47tr to align with Paris Agreement

More than 130 major banks holding assets of $47tr pledge to align strategies with the Paris Agreement and UN Sustainable Development Goals

  • Investment
  • 22 September 2019
Economic growth tied to consumption is 'overwhelming' the planet, UN warns
Economic growth tied to consumption is 'overwhelming' the planet, UN warns

Progress on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals is 'in danger' of going backwards, warns the UN

  • Policy
  • 13 September 2019
From personal insults to 'Vorsprung Durch Technik': G7 climate action intensifies as divisions deepen
From personal insults to 'Vorsprung Durch Technik': G7 climate action intensifies as divisions deepen

The latest G7 summit promised a funding boost for global climate action, while providing evidence the coalition for tackling the climate crisis is under ever more intense pressure from the White House

  • Politics
  • 27 August 2019
SDG10: Is tackling inequality the overlooked key to sustainable development?
SDG10: Is tackling inequality the overlooked key to sustainable development?

The UN's tenth sustainable development goal sets corporates a major challenge to disrupt systemic inequality the world over

  • Management
  • 22 August 2019
'The ticket to entry is bold action': UN chief Guterres lays down the ground rules for September summit
'The ticket to entry is bold action': UN chief Guterres lays down the ground rules for September summit

"Don't come to the summit with beautiful speeches - come with concrete plans," the UN Secretary-General told world leaders

  • Policy
  • 02 August 2019
Net Zero: Battalion of corporate giants pledge to deliver 1.5C climate targets
Net Zero: Battalion of corporate giants pledge to deliver 1.5C climate targets

As UN Secretary General calls on governments to deliver carbon neutral plans, 27 of the world's largest companies will today announce net zero emissions goals

  • Management
  • 23 July 2019
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