Planet Pulse

APRIL 5, 2023

Making Waves with Blue Carbon Trace your finger across a globe, around the edges of islands and continents, and soon enough, you’ll brush against some of the world’s most important ecosystems – the marshes, mangroves, and seagrasses that constitute the world’s “coastal blue carbon” stocks.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2023

The study found, once the bulk of emissions have been reduced, countries plan to ‘cancel out’ the left-over difficult to decarbonise emissions, such as those from agriculture, by using forests and soils to remove carbon from the atmosphere. These mean forests and soils could lose their stored carbon back to the atmosphere.

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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. We urge all companies to get involved and join us on this journey.

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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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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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Fairsnape

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

In putting forward the restorative approach, Martin Brown draws together all the buzz words and current strands of thinking into a robust framework, from the future of zero-carbon, Passivhaus, well-being and the circular economy, right through to building information modelling or BIM, social media and the fourth industrial revolution.

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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. by 2030, and committed to supporting actions such as mapping technology and carbon finance worth billions of dollars. Global average temperatures are now about 1.2

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2023

But she also warned that firms looking to deliver on their climate goals through cheap or low-integrity carbon offset credits should prepare for increasing pressure from stakeholders, noting that the going price for a carbon offset currently is just a slither of the ‘real' cost of carbon. Boards must get ahead of the risk."

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. The curbing of emissions to reduce the concentration of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane in the environment. Biodiversity. Black carbon. Carbon market (including carbon offsets).

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Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2022

Unveiling its updated environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategy yesterday, Carlsberg set out plans to achieve a of flurry of new green targets over the next two decades, including a target to achieve a zero carbon footprint across its business worldwide - including all of its breweries - by 2030.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 2, 2020

We will approach with renewed confidence our collaborations with government, industry and research partners around the world as together we work for a zero carbon future.". Meeting an interim target will see it reduce its CO2 by 75 per cent by 2030 from 2015 levels.

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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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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Volvo and Mercedes , for example, both embraced low-carbon steel in building vehicles. A clean-steel manufacturing plant opened in Sweden while steelmaking giant ArcelorMittal announced plans to cut its carbon intensity by a quarter, backed by $10bn investment to support its transition away from fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

European law-makers are due to vote on a revised renewable energy directive next week, part of the EU’s Green New Deal to slash carbon emissions by 55 percent by 2030. Rakos has also come under fire from Laurence Tubiana, a former French diplomat and an architect of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, over his claims.

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Sustainability Consulting

APRIL 7, 2021

Food generates about 2 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions (CO2e) per person annually. ? 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. Packaging accounts for 5.4%

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Grist

APRIL 29, 2022

million hectares — the carbon equivalent of India’s total annual fossil fuel emissions — of tropical rainforest. Tropical primary forests, for example, are critically important both in terms of maintaining biodiversity and removing and storing carbon from the atmosphere. Last year, the world lost an estimated 3.75

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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. Around the world, 1.6

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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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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Climate change, biodiversity loss and waste crises have come to represent a significant set of business risks. We only have between six and 11 years of global carbon budget left, if emissions remain at current rates, else we breach 1.5C Fundamentally, the promise made by a carbon credit is highly unlikely to be fulfilled.

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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 The second step is the reduction of GHG emissions.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Clearance and burning of forests and carbon-rich peat soils in order to free-up land for palm oil plantations is among the biggest drivers of deforestation in the tropics, destroying precarious wildlife habitats, removing natural carbon storage, and accelerating biodiversity loss and climate change.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Clearance and burning of forests and carbon-rich peat soils in order to free-up land for palm oil plantations is among the biggest drivers of deforestation in the tropics, destroying precarious wildlife habitats, removing natural carbon storage, and accelerating biodiversity loss and climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Writing on Twitter, Adani said the gallery would “explore how we can power the future through low carbon technologies” and be “a reminder of the power of the sun and the wind in our daily lives.”. It comes after board member, Chris Rapley, resigned over the museum’s “willingness to accept oil and gas company sponsorship”.

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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

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. We can't have that.". I wish everyone well because it's hard," she says.

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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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Business Green

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Far from delivering reported savings of £1.5bn, for example, the 2010-2015 Coalition Government's 'red-tape cutting' initiatives have increased regulatory burdens on business by at least £3.1bn, the report estimates.

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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. The loss of these ecosystem services, such as carbon storage, food provision, and air and water purification, costs more than 10 per cent of annual global GDP.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

One of the biggest stories of 2020 was the rise of the corporate tree-planting movement, with dozens of multinational businesses from virtually every industry pledging millions of dollars to one of nature’s most effective carbon sequestration solutions. . Map your sourcing. You can’t do anything if you don’t know where to do it.".

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Business Green

JANUARY 14, 2021

Report argues ambitious Ocean Recovery Strategy could create 100,000 clean energy jobs, protect and restore carbon sinks, and allow fish stocks to recover. Seagrass meadows, capable of capturing and storing vast quantities of carbon dioxide quicker than rainforests, have also suffered a 90 per cent decline, it adds.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2021

In a bleak warning issued this morning, The Climate Crisis Advisory Group - the independent expert group formed this summer to advise governments on the climate and biodiversity crises - warned emissions are climbing so high that greenhouse gases must be rapidly pulled out of the atmosphere to stabilise global temperatures.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2022

She called for coordinated action from world governments and international agencies to mitigate pollution while also addressing other threats such as climate change and biodiversity loss. The progress update builds on previous data compiled by the Lancet commission, which showed that pollution was responsible for 9 million deaths in 2015.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals. They added that “only by staying competitive, European producers will be able to invest in the low-carbon technologies and continue playing an important role in enhancing sustainable food systems in Europe.”.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

And then again in 2015. It may still make sense to use coking coal in blast furnaces in a world with net zero greenhouse gas emissions - provided, of course, they are fitted with robust carbon dioxide capture and storage technology, and any leakage is recaptured from the atmosphere. No, it's not that meteorologists can't count.

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Has there been any progress in reducing global carbon emissions since Paris in 2015? The graph at the top shows the trajectory of global carbon emissions (and this is without the land-use figures), so no. It’s our economic activity that’s causing climate change and biodiversity loss. The UK will miss by a mile.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

Tony Juniper reflects on the outcome of the COP15 Biodiversity Summit and what is now needed to deliver on the agreement signed by governments in Montreal. All play a role in absorbing carbon. nJanuary is a time for new beginnings and new resolutions to drive self-improvement, and that applies to nations just as much as individuals.

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