Business Green

MARCH 7, 2022

They found that resilience dropped during the major droughts of 2005 and 2010, as part of an ongoing decline from the early 2000s to the most recent data in 2016.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

European Commission unveils sweeping biodiversity strategy, plus all the top green business news from around the world this week. EU Commission unveils strategy to 'fix broken relationship with nature'.

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Unsustainable

JANUARY 11, 2020

The situation at hand spells doom for local marine biodiversity. Loss of biodiversity is not the only worry. Fishermen on the north-eastern side of the island have experienced massive declines in catch and are forced to confront harsher fishing grounds as a result of a residential reclamation project completed in 2005.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Danone, founded more than a century ago and famously declared an asset of national importance by the French government in 2005, has long prided itself on being a purpose-led business. If we protect biodiversity, we are basically protecting the diversity of DNA," Soubeiran mused.

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Business Green

JULY 30, 2020

In numbers, the firm has reduced its absolute operational carbon emissions by 78 per cent since 2005, speeding past its 2020 target of 60 per cent, while achieving carbon neutrality at several dozen sites and reducing its water consumption by more than half. But one of the biggest learnings we've had is that everybody has a role to play.".

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The UN has warned that climate-fueled disasters are now a weekly phenomenon and this will continue to augur unprecedented biodiversity loss as the climate continues to warm. As compared to a 2005 baseline Canada must reduce emissions 40 percent by 2030, 80 percent by 2050 and zero out in the second half of the century.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 18, 2021

For example, in 2005, the “Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and enhancement of carbon stocks” (REDD+) system was created as a social and biodiversity safeguard to make sure carbon removal efforts didn’t harm biodiversity and that its benefits were given to local communities.

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Carbon Biodiversity Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 28

Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2021

Since the system’s launch in 2005, the EU has gradually placed limits on the types of projects from which credits are accepted and on the amount of offsets used for compliance in its carbon market. Brave new green world – Consequences of a carbon economy for the conservation of Australian biodiversity. A SUMMARY OF BEST PRACTICES.

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Carbon Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Climate change 73

Green Business Bureau

JUNE 20, 2022

ESG gained traction following the publication of the 2005 report Who Cares Wins. This means leaving natural ecosystems unharmed, supporting biodiversity, maintaining natural environments and resources, and restoring natural climatic cycles. This report demonstrated that ESG investments make good business sense.

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Sustainability Organic Business Energy Monitoring Ethics 148

AGreenLiving

JUNE 19, 2020

The program collects information about soil health, biodiversity and ecosystem function, which is related to water cycle, mineral cycle, energy flow and community dynamics. So much of what we wear, if we think about it, is really just repurposed oil.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In this report, the sustainability of a given company is measured under 3 key areas: Risk of biodiversity loss. The resulting 2005 study, titled Who Cares Wins , marked the first use of the term ESG. According to a KPMG 2020 Survey of Sustainability Report , 80% of top companies now report on sustainability.

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Sustainability Organic Ethics Investment 148

Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2020

Work with key suppliers and other stakeholders in at-risk areas to implement targets related to maintaining biodiversity or managing land, and ensure you're aligned on approaches to animal welfare. Knowing how much a supply chain is concentrated in higher-risk regions can enable a company to better focus its efforts.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Meanwhile, in 2005, the multinational organization now known as C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, or C40 for short, was founded when representatives from 18 mega-cities cooperatively forged an agreement to address widespread pollution and climate change. By 2000, an additional 14 countries reached their critical milestones.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

Some debris from felling must be left on the forest floor to maintain soil condition and biodiversity. Smith et al, Methods for Calculating Forest Ecosystem and Harvested Carbon with Standard Estimates for Forest Types of the United States, USDA, 2005, [link]. million tonnes, without counting anything burnt domestically.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 18, 2019

Although, there is enough scientific evidence for the need of a collaborated effort, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (2005) has argued that individuals do not have a moral obligation to limit their green-house gas (GHG) emissions. This dramatic shift can lead to nonlinear loss in biodiversity and human-kind.

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Ethics Climate change Politics Global warming 247

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

“We need to invest more in renewable energy, not lock in infrastructure or exploit other countries for our own ‘energy security’,” said Stefanie Eilers, a campaigner in Wilhelmshaven from the Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union, an environmental group with more than 500,000 members. It’s fossil fuel madness.”. Credit: DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

For one thing, central Appalachia is stunningly high in biodiversity. Between 1979 and 2005, the 70 Appalachian counties that relied most on mining had recorded, on average, more than 2,000 excess deaths each year. Viewed one way, those deaths were the cost of progress, the price of prosperity that coal could bring.

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Energy Monitor Fossil fuels Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 96

Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

Danone, which was founded more than a century ago and was famously declared an asset of national importance by the French government in 2005, has long prided itself on being a purpose-led business. If we protect biodiversity, we are basically protecting the diversity of DNA," Soubeiran muses. It responds. Big time.".

Biodiversity 96

Biodiversity Agriculture Business Energy Monitoring Carbon 96

GreenBiz

AUGUST 27, 2020

More biodiversity is in the earth beneath our feet than in all above ground ecosystems combined. Problematically, agronomists have a dearth of information on the biomes that makes up our soil. Over 10,000 species and 100 billion actual specimens of bacteria are in a single handful of soil.

Soil 274

Soil Agriculture Health Meat alternatives 274

Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Natural Capital Committee again warns there has been virtually no zero progress against the government's own biodiversity, water, air, and soil quality goals. Ministers are also working on sweeping reforms to agricultural subsidies that are meant to incentivise farmers and landowners to enhance nature protection and ecosystem services.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2020

Danone, founded more than a century ago and famously declared an asset of national importance by the French government in 2005, has long prided itself on being a purpose-led business. “If we protect biodiversity, we are basically protecting the diversity of DNA,” Soubeiran mused.

Biodiversity 28

Biodiversity Agriculture Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability 28

Energy Innovation

AUGUST 6, 2021

Intact tropical forests, in particular, play an outsized role in carbon uptake, to say nothing of their wealth of biodiversity (a single hectare of tropical forest can contain as many plant species as all the native species of western Europe). But how long can tropical forests remain one of Earth’s greatest carbon sinks? percent loss.

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Africa Carbon Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral 72

Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The plastic pollution crisis is a deeply interconnected climate crisis, a biodiversity crisis and a public health crisis all combined. Production is expected to double again in the next 10 –15 years.

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Plastics Pollution Recycling Recycling 321

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The resulting 2005 study, titled Who Cares Wins , marked the first use of the term ESG. Land use and ecological sensitivity: This is reported by the number and area (in hectares) of sites owned, leased, or managed in or adjacent to protected areas and/or key biodiversity areas (KBA). Principles of People. ethnicity).

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2021

As such, he is set to directly call on the 40 heads of major economies who are slated to attend the virtual meeting to come to the Kunming Biodiversity Summit in October and the Glasgow Climate Summit in November "armed with ambitious targets and the plans required to reach them".

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

The President opened the two-day meeting by confirming heavily-trailed plans to reduce the US' emissions by between 50 and 52 per cent on 2005 levels by 2030 and called on other countries to step up their ambition ahead of the vital Glasgow Summit this autumn.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

A decade later, in 2005 and 2007, EU heads of government would confirm this path. Table from the 2005 article Article 2 of the UNFCCC: Historical Origins, Recent Interpretations, by Michael Oppenheimer and Annie Petsonk. ” This is the first time that the 2°C target has made the leap into the political sphere.

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COP Building Energy Monitoring Politics Global warming 95

Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

The President opened the two-day meeting by confirming heavily-trailed plans to reduce the US' emissions by between 50 and 52 per cent on 2005 levels by 2030 and called on other countries to step up their ambition ahead of the vital Glasgow Summit this autumn.

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Carbon-neutral Policy Biodiversity Politics 50

Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 28, 2021

The 2021 World Economic Forum’s Global Risk Report identifies extreme weather, climate action failure, biodiversity loss, and infectious diseases as top risks in terms of both likelihood and impact. decline in GDP per capita due to climate change and is set to lose $83 billion by 2050 from biodiversity loss. For instance, the U.S.

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Technology Climate change Biodiversity Sustainability 147

AGreenLiving

AUGUST 27, 2020

More biodiversity is in the earth beneath our feet than in all above ground ecosystems combined. Problematically, agronomists have a dearth of information on the biomes that makes up our soil. Over 10,000 species and 100 billion actual specimens of bacteria are in a single handful of soil.

Soil 28

Soil Agriculture Health Investment 28

Business Green

APRIL 9, 2021

Stark warnings issued over record greenhouse gas emissions and escalating biodiversity threats. A triptych of sobering new reports have this week highlighted the scale of the climate and biodiversity crises engulfing the world. South Africa announces strengthened 2030 emissions goal.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Put in place by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in 2005, it works by giving financial value to emission reductions from avoided deforestation. It addresses not just climate, but also biodiversity, livelihoods, the rights of indigenous peoples, and effective funding. The results are encouraging. Empathy helps.

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Sustainability Education Government Building Energy Monitoring 57

Business Green

DECEMBER 10, 2021

As part of the European Green Deal, the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 committed to planting at least three billion additional trees in the EU by 2030. It is one part of our efforts to fight climate change and stop biodiversity loss. Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Virginijus Sinkevi?

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In June 2022, Clarke delivered a speech during a House of Commons debate saying that a recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report was “really devastating”, noting the threats of sea level rise and biodiversity loss if global temperatures aren’t limited. Graham Stuart – Climate Minister.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

New Zealand, a nation of about 5 million people, in late January reported progress toward its goal to cut emissions by 30 percent over the next decade compared with 2005 levels — but recognized current measures won’t be enough to meet the Paris Agreement goals. million people find jobs since 2005.

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2022

It is estimated provisions in the legislation could help the US to cut its emissions by 40 per cent by 2030, from 2005 levels, although this would still be below the level of decarbonisation required to put America on a 1.5C warming pathway. It is also more effective, legitimate and sustainable.". goal set out in the Paris Agreement.

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Fossil fuels Demand Europe Government 36

Andrew Winston

JANUARY 4, 2023

on a path to cut emissions 40% by 2030 (from 2005 levels). On the global policy level, after an uninspiring climate meeting (COP27), the global convention on biodiversity produced an impressive target to protect 30% of the planet for nature. It puts the U.S. energy production.”.

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