AGreenLiving

MARCH 4, 2021

Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet C.J. Both S&P Global Ratings and Bloomberg rank biodiversity among the top ESG themes for 2021, the latter naming Fidelity International and AXA Investment Managers as examples of firms that have made it a priority. Subscribe here.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2022

A new £6m Network for Nature programme was today launched by National Highways and The Wildlife Trusts in a bid to enhance natural habitats across England in places where historic road building has had a negative impact on biodiversity.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 2, 2020

UN summit confronts Global biodiversity crisis. Global leaders gathered virtually this week to discuss the environmental crisis that is devastating the world's ecosystems, at the inaugural UN Summit on Biodiversity, a event designed as a primer for the delayed, crucial COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Kunming, China, next year.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 27, 2024

This has resulted in the release of greenhouse gases as well as the loss of biodiversity and natural buffer zones protecting properties and infrastructure from flooding. She says: “Saltmarshes can play an important role in addressing the climate and biodiversity crises.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 7, 2020

STW has announced that it will invest more than £6bn between 2020 and 2025 on new and existing assets like pipes, treatment works and reservoirs. These plans also include ambitions to improve biodiversity throughout the region, including planting more than 1.3

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Kraft Heinz also updated its commitments with new targets pegged to 2025. Here are some of the latest commitments, along with perspective on progress so far: Procure most electricity from renewable sources by 2025 and decrease energy usage by 15 percent. Make 100 percent recyclable, reusable or compostable packaging by 2025.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The remaining money will be used to support the company’s goal of planting 20 million trees per year over the next decade in areas where it sources its ingredients and in completing the company’s transition to 100 percent renewable electricity by 2025. It’s at 90 percent currently.). billion to support those intentions.) .

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Eco-Business

MARCH 19, 2024

Cebu is projected to generate the most solid waste among all provinces in the country by 2025. As the summer season begins, how can the province overcome its mounting trash problem, driven by overtourism in the post-pandemic era?

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 3, 2020

New benchmark shows that biodiversity is in fashion Liesl Truscott Thu, 12/03/2020 – 01:00 This week, in advance of World Soil Day — Dec. 5 — the Textile Exchange Corporate Fiber and Materials Benchmark (CFMB) Program is launching a new tool to help the fashion and textile industry take urgent action on biodiversity.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In certain markets and sectors, the impact of low carbon projects on local wildlife, biodiversity and communities is triggering a rise in ‘green on green’ conflicts, causing clashes between renewable projects and the local environment. Progress across different sectors is varied.

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The City Fix

MAY 1, 2024

By early 2025, countries are due to unveil new national climate commitments under the Paris Agreement, known as nationally determined contributions (NDCs). These commitments form the foundation of international climate action, establishing emissions-reduction targets and other measures that countries promise.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The 10 Point Plan provides a clear vision for action, and I welcome the strong response to the plan from the international community with this significant increase in international public finance to protect our planet's biodiversity hotspots.".

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2024

The site will also create a significant biodiversity net gain. Construction of Medebridge commenced in April 2024, with energisation expected in autumn 2025. Once complete, Medebridge Solar Farm will comprise 104,000 solar panels across 175 acres of low-grade agricultural land, the equivalent of around 70 football pitches.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

This is an important milestone for the aspiration of setting up the EU’s largest geothermal district heating system , consisting of seven sub-plants, that will start supplying heat by 2025 and will eventually provide 20% of the district heating needs of Aarhus. The facility on Sumatravej is expected to be completed in early 2027.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

Dave Webb, a biodiversity specialist at the Environment Agency and chair of the London Rivers Restoration Group, said: “Restoring and rewilding London’s rivers is a no-regret action that we can take now to reduce the impact of extreme events and the long-term effect of the climate change.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The world's top diplomat used a speech today at the UN headquarters in New York City to deliver a characteristically stark warning of the impending climate and biodiversity crises facing the world, noting global warming risks "hurtling past" the 1.5C threshold without urgent action this decade. Your core product is our core problem.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 21, 2020

To mitigate the resulting plastic pollution , the Chinese government is set to enact a plastic ban, phasing out the production and use of several single-use plastic items by 2025, thanks to a detailed policy directive and timeline from the country’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). Excerpt from:Â .

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2020

Thames Water manages 12 Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) which are legally protected wildlife areas, and with 47 of the UK’s 224 chalk streams in its region, the company says it has committed to protecting these rare and biodiverse sites.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The event is co-chaired by Angelika Brandt of Germany, a Southern Ocean / Antarctica biodiversity expert, and Elva Escobar Briones of Mexico, a deep sea biodiversity expert. Interim objectives for 2025. Image credit: The Ocean Agency.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Among other impacts, deforestation drives systemic risks like climate change and biodiversity loss that affect not just companies in agricultural supply chains, but companies throughout portfolios. Deforestation touches on a lot of the environmental and social issues investors are concerned about. Pull Quote.

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Eco-Business

MARCH 19, 2024

Cebu is projected to generate the most solid waste among all provinces in the country by 2025. As the summer season begins, how can the province overcome its mounting trash problem, driven by overtourism in the post-pandemic era?

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Business Green

MARCH 14, 2023

The two funds are expected to award almost £4m to successful applicants working on projects to boost nature regeneration efforts, promote biodiversity, and support innovative approaches to tree production, tree health, and woodland resilience.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

AstraZeneca UK today launched a new £2m initiative in partnership with Forestry England, Borders Forest Trust, and One Tree Planted to plant more than one million trees in England and Scotland by 2025. By 2025, AstraZeneca aims to have planted 1.3 The pharmaceuticals company announced it has invested £1.9m

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 22, 2023

If the sector is to have a chance of delivering sustainable services in AMP8 – the period 2025-30 – and beyond, we are going to have to make it attractive to a more diverse range of people with broader skillsets. The UK has lost almost half its biodiversity since the 1970s. It is no secret that the industry has limited diversity.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2021

"We will continue to work with our farmers to both reduce carbon emissions and continue to increase the amount of biodiversity on farm. We will also be working together on more innovative initiatives like our herbal leys project, which should bring huge benefits in terms of soil health and biodiversity.".

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

Pensions firm's new Global Environmental Solutions fund to invest in companies tackling climate change, biodiversity loss, food insecurity and pollution Scottish Widows has launched four new funds which aim to direct a total of £1.4bn of investment into sustainable assets.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2021

Government unveils biodiversity funding boost as it also joins global efforts to protect Amazon rainforest in Peru. International environment minister Lord Zac Goldsmith Goldsmith said World Environment Day provided a "stark reminder of why we need to take urgent action to reverse global biodiversity loss".

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Business Green

JUNE 27, 2021

A corporate-led green consumer behaviour campaign that is aiming to encourage one billion people around the world to take everyday actions to enhance biodiversity and climate efforts has been launched today by a host of leading financial firms, including Mastercard, FNZ, and BBVA.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Hopes that the COP15 Biodiversity Summit would usher a new era of mandatory nature risk and dependency reporting at companies received a blow this morning, after the first official draft of the new global pact for nature stopped short of calling on countries to make nature-related disclosures a legal obligation.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MARCH 15, 2024

Regulated Entities that have significant impact on the ecosystems and biodiversity shall disclose the withdrawal of business activities within ecological protection redlines, [1] and protection and restoration measures and effects.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2020

The trial follows Defra’s 25-year Environment Plan, which outlined an ambition to increase woodland cover in England and the Government’s commitment to increase tree planting across the UK to 30,000 hectares per year by 2025.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2022

In a communique published at the close of a three-day Energy and Environment Ministerial meeting in Berlin this week, the world's largest economies set out their priorities for tackling the intersecting climate, biodiversity, and pollution crises, and responding to the disruption to energy markets wrought by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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Fairsnape

DECEMBER 10, 2019

So, we now plant more trees, as it’s the thing to do, virtue signalling, for hope, for biodiversity, for futures, for carbon, if our trees reach maturity. Climate and biodiversity emergencies have been declared, manifestos outline promises, and we will vote. There is hope, in the days before our wet and dark winter election.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The French bank has set a deadline of 2025 for its clients in Brazil to achieve zero deforestation and full traceability in their production and supply chains. Campaigners welcomed BNP's acknowledgement of the role of its agribusiness clients in fuelling deforestation. "BNP

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2020

We are very excited by the results that have been achieved in just two years at Long Reach STW for biodiversity management of this important site and the conservation of the rare shrill carder bee.”. From 2020 to 2025, Thames Water has committed to enhance biodiversity by 5% at 253 of its sites which have biodiversity interest.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

St Modwen Industrial & Logistics - a FTSE 250 firm - announced last week it would aim to slash its emissions to net zero over the next two decades, as it unveiled a clutch of new environmental targets, including a commitment to become 'operationally net zero' by 2025.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

By switching to these regenerative practices, Danone hoped farms would restore the soil, foster biodiversity, protect water systems, reduce greenhouse gases and sequester more carbon. The national average is 5 percent and 33 percent respectively. They also doubled the number of crop species to 32.

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