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The Environment Act and the role of 'biodiversity net-gain'

Business Green

The biodiversity net-gain requirement is among the most important conservation policy initiatives of the last two decades, argues Environment Bank chairman and founder Professor David Hill CBE. His words apply equally to rebuilding biodiversity as they do to addressing climate change. It can't come soon enough.

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Steps some of the most sustainable countries are taking to protect our oceans

The Environmental Blog

Prince Albert II of Monaco is passionate about marine biodiversity and the need to protect it. In 2007, he served as the international patron of the UN’s ‘Year of the Dolphin’ programme, and is also the head of his own foundation aimed at safeguarding biodiversity and managing water resources.

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Even a small rise in temperatures could decimate North American forests

Grist

From 2007 to 2017, land-based ecosystems like the vast boreal forests of Canada and the Amazon rainforest removed roughly a third of anthropogenic carbon emissions from the atmosphere.

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PlanetScope and Planet Basemaps Utilized for Carbon Credits Monitoring in Indonesian Tropical Forest

Planet Pulse

Starting in 2007, Permian Global has worked to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, protect habitats, and support sustainable local economies through large-scale tropical forest protection and restoration projects. Tropical forests, an important part of NCS, are some of the most biodiverse regions on Earth and must be protected.

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Ignoring nature was never going to work  

Business Green

We have no hope of solving one without solving the other, and by plenty of measures (such as the work on ‘Planetary Boundaries' by Johan Rockström and others at the Stockholm Resilience Institute), we have gone even further beyond the ‘safe operating space for humanity' on biodiversity loss, than on climate change.

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Pesticide Giant Criticised for ‘Greenwashing’ Partnership with French Influencer

DeSmogBlog

France is the second largest market in the EU for pesticides, which have been found to harm biodiversity , soil health and human health. Biodiversity is in sharp decline across the world, and numbers of birds and pollinators are plummeting in Europe.

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Regen / Notes

Fairsnape

If you have enjoyed my blog posts here (and they go back to 2007) please do pop over and read or subscribe there. Regular readers and subscribers to my Fairsnape blog here will be aware that I have shifted platforms to a substack called Regen/Notes that provides a better blogging experience as a email based newsletter.