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Nature-based solutions key to combatting climate change and biodiversity loss, says Lords

Envirotec Magazine

For example the restoration of the UK’s degraded peatlands, which efficiently lock away carbon while hosting a unique array of biodiversity. Nature-based solutions should provide measurable benefits to biodiversity. Nature-based solutions should be designed and implemented in partnership with local communities and stakeholders.

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A clean ocean by 2030: UN panel charts “the most direct course”

Envirotec Magazine

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. Reduce and remove top-priority forms of pollution (e.g., To prevent recurrence, reduce sources or emission of pollutants (e.g.,

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The Greener Way To Get a Greenslip

The Environmental Blog

This massive biodiversity project is working to restore the Australian bushland to what it once was, with a carbon sequestration aspect designed to offset much of the air pollution in the area. First, they direct seed with an array of native seeds in an effort to regrow essential groundcover. Replanting The Aussie Bushland.

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Conservationists from six nations vow to save the Irish Sea

Envirotec Magazine

The Irish Sea is under significant and increasing pressure from climate change and activities like fishing, aquaculture, development, shipping, aggregates, military activity, recreation and pollution. The Irish Sea will also be affected by global warming. The Irish Sea is about to get much busier.

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Sowing Doubt: How Big Ag is Delaying Sustainable Farming in Europe

DeSmogBlog

Veteran sustainable food and farming experts welcomed the strategy as one that just might have a genuine shot at transforming the agriculture sector and result in better public health, contribute to ending the vertiginous decline of biodiversity, and lower greenhouse gas pollution. Innovation Can Save Nature’.

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Introducing the Planet Explore 2020 Sustainability Summit

Planet Pulse

The Sustainability Summit will be part of the Planet Explore 2020 conference, our largest event of the year, which will draw thousands of online participants from a broad array of fields, geographies and disciplines. 11:15 am Monitoring Ecosystems and Protecting Biodiversity from Space.

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Nature's moment

Business Green

A wide array of trends and technologies have combined to ensure that nature is finally being given due consideration. Essentially extractive industries remain powerfully entrenched, numerous biodiversity indicators are still in freefall, the post-pandemic recovery will undoubtedly trigger a new wave of nature-trashing consumerism.