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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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

showed that the Amazon temporarily to act as a carbon sink during the 2015 drought. The study also examined the roles of biodiversity and local communities in shaping Amazonian forest resilience. For example, Amazonian trees store massive amounts of carbon which, if released, could accelerate global warming.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 11, 2021

As first part of landmark COP15 UN biodiversity summit kicks off, string of reports makes case for more drastic action to protect biodiversity. The 2015 Paris Climate Agreement marked the starting blocks to net zero emissions," the letter states.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Nature — by which I mean the land, biodiversity, water and ocean we all depend on — is reaching a point of no return. Since 2015, companies have been able to use science to ensure their efforts to tackle climate change are sufficiently ambitious. Biodiversity. Natural Capital. Corporate Strategy. Water Conservation.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Today a 600-page Review on the Economics of Biodiversity aims to similarly influence opinion on how best to turn the tide on the ongoing destruction of the natural world, which it warns threatens the wellbeing and livelihoods of humanity unless transformative action is urgently taken to address market and governmental failures.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In 2015, we really started focusing on a cross-commodity approach (that year we worked with [Archer Daniels Midland] to adopt a cross-commodity deforestation commitment, which was a first for the grain traders). Eventually, we adopted a No Deforestation, No Peatland, No Exploitation (NDPE) framework. Pull Quote.

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Green Market Oracle

JUNE 5, 2020

Some additional highlights include Global Landscape Forum Bonn Digital Conference (see details below) and Unlocking Human Potential for Biodiversity Online Event. The host country for this year's World Environment Day is Columbia Events featuring experts on biodiversity issues from across the globe.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Through 2019, it managed a 1 percent reduction against a 2015 baseline. The company had hoped to reduce consumption by 15 percent by this year, against a 2015 baseline, but it actually increased water use by 1 percent per metric ton of product produced. . What is the company’s policy for protecting biodiversity?

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Environmental Audit Committee report also describes government biodiversity efforts to date as 'lacking' and argues ‘bold and ambitious action’ is required. While this issue is bigger than any one person's habits, if we all take action to tackle unsustainable consumption, we can make a lasting impact to halt biodiversity loss.".

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2020

Finnish forestry business UPM has become one of the first businesses in the world to link repayments on a €750m loan to its performance against long-term biodiversity and climate targets. UPM has developed a range of indicators and methods to monitor a net positive impact on biodiversity, he added.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

In 2015, the world, acting through the United Nations, set in place a system of 17 very ambitious goals to guide humanity’s development toward sustainability through 2030. Harder but not impossible: COVID-19 and the Sustainable Development Goals. Alan AtKisson. Mon, 02/22/2021 - 01:00. Now it is 2021. Virtuous cycles can turn vicious.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

degrees C cap on average warming that governments pledged to aim for when they signed the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement to avoid dangerous climate change. Global average temperatures are now about 1.2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. This is getting uncomfortably close to the 1.5 As with COVID-19, perhaps so with climate?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Restoring and creating habitat improves biodiversity, reduces carbon emissions and flood risk, and provides climate resilience, something that's key for the coming years. Everyone talks about a climate change emergency, but there's also a biodiversity emergency. Biodiversity net gain and carbon removal.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2023

Nature-based removals, such as using forests and soils, remain vital to address challenges in biodiversity and climate adaptation, but may be risky if used as the only way to remove carbon. Countries should also explore engineered carbon removal methods. To meet the challenge of net-zero, we need both.”.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 30, 2021

Amidst all this, the sustainability agenda has continued to gain steam, including recognition by heads of state, corporate chieftains, religious leaders and others of the urgency of addressing the climate crisis, the biodiversity crisis, the hunger crisis and the healthcare crisis, among others.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Architects of Paris Agreement urge world leaders to deliver equally ambitious treaty for nature at upcoming COP15 Biodiversity Summit. The science has been very clear: human activities are driving accelerating biodiversity loss which in turn is undermining our ability to limit global warming to 1.5C," he said.

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Fairsnape

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Much has changed since the idea for FutureRestorative was conceived back in 2015. A regenerative self recognises all is connected and nested, understands carbon ecology, how nature works and the interplay and importance of biodiversity. This book marks an important milestone in doing that. Photo by Erik Karits on Unsplash.

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GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

People are understanding how much more the relationships between biodiversity, climate, inequality — may I add racial tension to that? Paul Polman, former CEO of Unilever, speaking during the World Economic Forum panel on ending poverty through gender parity at Davos on January, 24 2015. Sponsored Article. Source: Paul Kagame.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2023

Rudd, who led the UK delegation during the historic 2015 Paris climate talks, is now a director at sustainability platform Pinwheel, an online platform which connects companies with sustainability projects in need of investment.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

They are also home to much of the world’s biodiversity, and regulate key aspects of the carbon cycle. In short, forests are vital in global and national efforts to combat climate change and biodiversity loss, and eradicate hunger and poverty. Between 2001-2015, 27% of forest disturbance was attributed to commodity-driven deforestation.

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Sustainability Consulting

APRIL 7, 2021

gigatons of CO2e emissions globally in 2015). ? Emissions from the food retail sector tripled between 1990 and 2015 from increased demand for refrigeration to prevent food spoiling. This “rewilded” land fosters biodiversity while improving crop yields. 71% of food system emissions come from the use of land for agriculture. ?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

But the former Foreign Office CEO, who took over at the helm of the EA in 2015, warned against "false choices" in any moves to reshape the UK's approach to regulation post-Brexit, as he called for adequate resources and funding for the EA to carry out its work.

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Planet Pulse

JANUARY 12, 2023

In addition to forest carbon mapping, Salo brings technologies and expertise in mapping patterns of forest structure, wildfire risk, and biodiversity change around the world. Enabling efficient and transparent voluntary carbon market projects , including with verification and platform partners.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Meeting an interim target will see it reduce its CO2 by 75 per cent by 2030 from 2015 levels. Chief Investment Officer Tilly Franklin said: "Climate change, ecological destruction, and biodiversity loss present an urgent existential threat, with severe risks to humankind and all other life on Earth.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Talks to deliver a new global pact for nature protection may have got off to a sluggish start at the COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Montreal, but observers remain optimistic the meeting could yet usher in a new era in how the private sector appraises nature. I think there's a parallel here with climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2022

The throwaway global economy is fuelling the climate crisis with more than half a trillion tonnes of virgin materials consumed since the 2015 Paris Agreement, according to a report from impact organisation Circle Economy launched on 19 January. But we can only do it by joining forces.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Whatever the outcome of the ongoing negotiations at COP15 Biodiversity Summit, there are high hopes it will mark a turning point in the understanding of the critical role nature plays in regulating the climate and sustaining the global economy. I wish everyone well because it's hard," she says.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2022

Encouraging Certified Sustainable Palm Oil can help the industry tackle the world's climate and biodiversity crises and improve the livelihoods of millions of oil palm farmers, writes RSPO's Nicholas Hurt. The September 2015 Indonesian forest fires, for example, destroyed 2.6 As we can see, palm oil per se is not the problem.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

A living roof helps reduce stormwater runoff, purifies air, creates biodiversity, among other benefits. Therefore, thorough analysis of the space and understanding the project’s parameters are necessary in the designing process in order to create the intended impact. Credit: Ginkgo Sustainability. References: [1] Fromm, E. Greenwich, CT. [2]

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2023

Companies serious about building a healthy, liveable planet should be making targeted investments in nature-based climate solutions, argues Pinwheel's Amber Rudd As the new Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change in May 2015, I led the UK delegation at the historic 2015 UN climate talks in Paris.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

The main drivers of change are the demand for food, water, and natural resources, in the face of severe biodiversity loss and changes in ecosystem services. Biosphere (biodiversity) integrity: infinite human activities affecting eco-systems risk disintegration of natural biodiversity. 2009; Steffen, W.,

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Business Green

JUNE 6, 2022

The UK must rally the international community behind the to drive to protect nature at the upcoming UN Biodiversity Summit, argues Henry Smith MP. Our once green and pleasant land is increasingly devoid of biodiversity. The 2015 Paris climate change agreement set a headline target to limit global warming to 1.5

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Grist

APRIL 29, 2022

Tropical primary forests, for example, are critically important both in terms of maintaining biodiversity and removing and storing carbon from the atmosphere. Some of that credit goes to the government, which enacted new forest conservation measures following massive forest and peatland fires in 2015 that burned over 600,000 hectares of land.

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Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2022

English rivers suffering increased chemical pollution which is damaging biodiversity, conservation groups warn. UK rivers are suffering increased chemical pollution from pesticide use, which is causing significant damage to their ecosystems and aquatic wildlife, green groups have warned today.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Nature and biodiversity met the bottom line. With just over half of the $80tr global economy reliant on nature's services, the role of biodiversity became a bottom-line issue. Moreover, the biodiversity and climate crises are inextricably linked , meaning that solving one can help solve the other. Signs of engagement abound.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. Biodiversity. In 2015, developed countries committed to coming up with $100 billion per year by 2020 to tackle climate change in developing countries. The hope is that limiting global warming to 1. Black carbon. Mitigation.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Prior to that, Shine worked for over two decades as an independent environmental lawyer and sustainable development consultant for NGOs, governments, and businesses, leading influential projects on biodiversity, climate change, oceans and coastal development, international trade, and conflict prevention and reconciliation.

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