{"id":52635,"date":"2024-11-08T10:38:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T10:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=52635"},"modified":"2024-11-08T10:38:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T10:38:11","slug":"government-and-business-leaders-come-together-to-accelerate-global-climate-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/government-and-business-leaders-come-together-to-accelerate-global-climate-action\/52635\/","title":{"rendered":"Government and business leaders come together to accelerate global climate action"},"content":{"rendered":"
Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, Development Minister Anneliese Dodds and Environment Secretary Steve Reed chaired the discussions on global climate action.<\/p>\n
The three roundtables focused on financing the transition to renewable energy, accelerating investment in projects improving climate resilience, and the global treaty to end plastic pollution<\/a>.<\/p>\n The meetings took place ahead of COP29<\/a>, where the UK will play a lead in securing a new and expanded finance goal that unlocks more funding from the private sector and financial institutions.<\/p>\n This will help scale up global climate action in developing countries\u00a0and mitigate the impacts of climate change.<\/p>\n Changing climate patterns have led to some of the most severe droughts on record in Brazil’s Amazon region, and increasingly severe floods and storms in Bangladesh are leaving low-lying regions at constant risk from rising sea levels.<\/p>\nAccelerating global climate action ahead of COP29<\/h3>\n