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COP16: $2.5trn investor group urges governments to step up on biodiversity
23 October 2024Investors representing $2.5 trillion assets under management have urged governments to take more ambitious action on biodiversity at COP16, including introducing mandatory nature disclosures.
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COP16 breakthroughs on financing 'unlikely', warns BloombergNEF
23 October 2024COP16 is unlikely to "deliver breakthroughs" on financing the Global Biodiversity Framework, BloombergNEF has warned, over concerns about mobilisation and accounting.
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Closing the biodiversity finance gap for nature-based solutions at COP16
22 October 2024The Global Biodiversity Framework aims to mobilise $200 billion per year for biodiversity, and it is vital that nature-based solutions are considered in the discussions, writes Katie Leach
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COP16 kicks off with calls for 'significant investment'
21 October 2024COP16 has kicked off in Colombia, with urgent demands for private capital to be committed to nature protection and restoration by the end of the conference.
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Only 29 countries deliver national biodiversity plans ahead of COP16 deadline
16 October 2024Just 29 out of almost 200 countries have submitted their National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs), ahead of the COP16 deadline, organisers have revealed.
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Article 6.4: Is operation underway?
15 October 2024Final details for Article 6.4 have been agreed ahead of COP29, but uncertainty remains over whether the mechanism is now operational. Genevieve Redgrave reports
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Colombia and Brazil give hope for 'next generation of JETPs' ahead of COP29
04 October 2024Momentum is growing behind the "next generation" of Just Energy Transition Partnerships (JETPs) ahead of COP29, with Colombia and Brazil 'country platforms' seeking to learn from the mistakes of earlier initiatives, according to E3G.
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UK-France biodiversity credit taskforce to launch market principles at COP16
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Need to 'find new money' at COP16, say organisers
27 September 2024COP16 will need to find "new money" from the private sector, organisers of the biodiversity conference have told media, as it looks to create a financial mobilisation mechanism.
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Second Trump presidency and trade wars threaten to slow transition to a crawl, Generation says
19 September 2024Twin threats of a second term for Donald Trump and global trade wars risk "slow[ing] the energy transition down to a crawl" as global trade verges on collapse, according to Generation Investment Management.