DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Uniper, RWE and other big German utilities argue that pivoting to LNG is Germany’s only viable substitute for Russian pipeline gas, which accounted for more than half the country’s imports before President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine triggered a frantic search for alternatives. It’s fossil fuel madness.”. Credit: Phoebe Cooke.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

More recently, though, marine algae has been hailed by scientists and others for its environmental benefits - particularly the C02 sequestration potential of seaweed aquaculture - spurring a boom in North American kelp farming. Seaweed's potential as a solution to this crisis is two-fold, scientists and environmentalists say.

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GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

On the plus side, the demands upon nature can be reduced for water resources, energy, crop and meat production, forests and soils, and critical materials. There will be critical skill shortages in key professions, fewer consumers will drive future growth and social interactions and culture will be experienced very differently.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

We need such reminders to get us through these challenging times. On the supply side, General Motors and Volkswagen planned major EV rollouts. It also launched a Corporate Fiber and Materials Benchmark to help the fashion and textile industry take action on biodiversity. There’s more.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Elliot Coad, founder of Ecologi, says: "They conduct an additional auditing and verification process to ensure no financial transaction ends up in the pocket of auditors and the monitoring keeps getting more rigorous. "On This article originally appeared at Investment Week. We want to take responsibility for our emissions now.

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GreenBiz

JULY 27, 2020

As with many companies heavily dependent on nature for product ingredients, Estée Lauder Companies is developing biodiversity action plans and becoming far more attuned to its role in deforestation, afforestation and reforestation. It was always very hard to get at that discussion.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 10, 2020

And because you can produce a gram of cricket protein using a tiny fraction of the land, water and other resources it takes to produce a gram of animal protein, it represents a vast ecological improvement compared to eating meat from cows, chickens, lambs and pigs. Some 80 percent of the world’s nations eat insects in some form.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Looking down on Earth from above for the first time, astronauts see that only a fine blue line of atmosphere shelters our planet from the hostile vacuum of space — and often, they suddenly get an overwhelming responsibility to protect it. Others argue that it was a coincidence. NASA / Joel Kowsky.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

If a crisis is the ultimate test of leadership, last year provided ample narratives about leaders stepping up. Often working from home themselves, they empathized with employees and other stakeholders, some refusing to issue layoffs. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030.

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GreenBiz

JULY 27, 2020

As with many companies heavily dependent on nature for product ingredients, Estée Lauder Companies is developing biodiversity action plans and becoming far more attuned to it role in deforestation, afforestation and reforestions. It was always very hard to get at that discussion.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Record numbers of delegates from business and finance attended the COP15 Biodiversity Summit, but these actors are not part of official negotiations – so why do they make the trip? But as the dust settles on this month's COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Montreal, observers have noted how the CBD might be on the brink of a new era.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

I live in coastal Sonoma County, California, where Douglas firs grow faster than most other native trees, eventually shading oaks from sun and often killing them. This array of species and surfaces reduces fire intensity and promotes biodiversity. Others staunchly oppose tree cutting, or fear being vilified by those who do.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The scientists counseled instead, to mitigate the climate crisis, the U.S. They give credence to the false narrative that expanding wood markets is essential to solving the climate crisis,” said Danna Smith, executive director of Dogwood Alliance, a conservation nonprofit in Asheville, North Carolina. Matt Reynolds. said Smith.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 26, 2022

In this Green Business Bureau article, we wanted to help you support a sustainable food supply model on a global level, starting at a smaller scale with your organization’s cafeteria. Our food supply chain uses an excessive amount of land leading to biodiversity loss.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

That paragraph, in article 2, paragraph 2.a., Every policy, law, regulation, study, analysis, proposal or action that has the climate crisis in mind is built on the basis of those two figures: 1.5 Nordhaus published an article in the American Economic Review entitled Can We Control Carbon Dioxide? marked a before and after.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 19, 2021

On the plus side, the demands upon nature can be reduced for water resources, energy, crop and meat production, forests and soils, and critical materials. There will be critical skill shortages in key professions, fewer consumers will drive future growth and social interactions and culture will be experienced very differently.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 27, 2020

As with many companies heavily dependent on nature for product ingredients, Estée Lauder Companies is developing biodiversity action plans and becoming far more attuned to its role in deforestation, afforestation and reforestation. It was always very hard to get at that discussion.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 28, 2020

We need such reminders to get us through these challenging times. On the supply side, General Motors and Volkswagen planned major EV rollouts. It also launched a Corporate Fiber and Materials Benchmark to help the fashion and textile industry take action on biodiversity.

Carbon-negative 36

Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Fashion Upcycling 36

AGreenLiving

JULY 27, 2020

As with many companies heavily dependent on nature for product ingredients, Estée Lauder Companies is developing biodiversity action plans and becoming far more attuned to it role in deforestation, afforestation and reforestions. It was always very hard to get at that discussion.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

If a crisis is the ultimate test of leadership, last year provided ample narratives about leaders stepping up. Often working from home themselves, they empathized with employees and other stakeholders, some refusing to issue layoffs. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

The essential, interconnected web of life on Earth is getting smaller and increasingly frayed," is how one leading IPBES scientist, Professor Josef Settele, put it in 2019. Such projects also support ecosystem services, biodiversity, access to freshwater, climate resilience, improved livelihoods, healthy diets, and food security.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2022

We explain our current waste crisis in detail, before defining an effective business waste management strategy to reduce packaging waste. Use the links below to navigate this guide: The need for sustainable packaging: Giving perspective to our waste crisis. The need for sustainable packaging: Giving perspective to our waste crisis.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

This is hardly a new problem, but it’s yet another obstacle to getting people to care about climate change: Obscure words in articles about rising sea levels and supercharged weather could discourage people from wanting to learn more about a planetary crisis. Forget “dumbing down.”

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Business Green

APRIL 2, 2020

With governments focussed on safeguarding the health of their citizens and their economies through the Covid-19 crisis, bandwidth for international engagement and national policymaking on climate change was very clearly in short supply. But by the time we get to summer 2021, the delay will look like a pretty short one.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 23, 2020

Dave Darby talks with Julia Steinberger, professor of ecological economics at the University of Leeds and a member of the IPCC, about her work and the links between biodiversity loss and economic growth. I read some of your articles – especially liked the timeline one, which took us back to the climate in the Miocene.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

In other words, stop financing the emitting stuff, as it has been criticized for in the past. On the other side of the U.S., Andrew Cuomo finalized a ban on hydrofluorocarbons, a superpollutant found in refrigerators, air conditioners and other cooling equipment. IKEA, Unilever, others bring 1.5 New York Gov.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

In other words, stop financing the emitting stuff, as it has been criticised for in the past. On the other side of the US, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo finalised a ban on hydrofluorocarbons, a superpollutant found in refrigerators, air conditioners and other cooling equipment. IKEA, Unilever, others bring 1.5C

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

By not including women at equal levels — in companies, in government, in NGOs and elsewhere — the climate movement is itself experiencing a crisis, they argue. "As An acknowledgment of the burden they will carry if we do not get this right and do not take action now." . In other words, one of the "S" factors in ESG. . "As

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

The list of their accomplishments is long and growing longer by the day, and they're just getting started. Others are making waves in the business world from other perches, including government, consultancies, startups and environmental justice advocacy groups. Learning, thinking and teaching; that gets me moving," she says. .

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The soil becomes richer and healthier, runoff that pollutes water is reduced, biodiversity and habitat for the birds, bees and other wildlife increases, farm animals live better, and the food produced is more nutritious. Early research also indicates farmers using these techniques can reap long-term financial gains. .

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Andrew Winston

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Climate change will get worse. We will also see a degradation of natural systems and declines in biodiversity. But, on the bright side, I’m confident that awareness of our challenges will continue to rise rapidly. election, of course, will get extra attention. With this election, the stakes are as high as they get.

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