Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Health CLIMATE IMPACTS Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe by Mario Alejandro Ariza, 2020 A deeply reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist examines the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City -- a watery harbinger for coastal cities worldwide.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2023

However, we also know that before widespread monitoring began, the UK’s biodiversity had already been highly depleted by centuries of habitat loss, unsustainable farming practices, development, and persecution. As a result, due to human activity the UK now has less than half of its biodiversity remaining.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 18, 2022

Numerous integrated research programs focused on boreal forests of Canada have joined forces to use advanced satellite data available from Planet to document how past, present, and future changes are altering the ability of the boreal forest to sustain biodiversity and the people that call this ecosystem home. Map by Leanne Abraham.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

The study looked at a range of factors including Google search trends, Twitter mentions, and the popularity of green campaigns on the Avaaz website, which EIU said found evidence of significant shifts in behaviour with consumers increasingly demanding solutions to damaging nature and biodiversity loss.

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Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

Climate change and global warming are issues that define our times. What does this boy care about climate change? How much is to be invested for climate change? from 10% and, in 2016, the kingdom was on the UN’s list of ‘least developed countries’. 4400 crores* (5.6 1 = 1 Indian rupee.

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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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GreenBiz

MARCH 17, 2021

The department is responsible for 422 national parks, 129 national monuments and 567 wildlife refuges, stewarding biodiversity conservation projects and protecting more than 1,000 endangered species. "It Leases managed by the Interior hit a record 1 billion barrels in 2020 — a 23 percent increase from 2016 levels.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2020

To coincide with new sustainability strategy agri-business giant Syngenta releases poll showing growing concern worldwide about impact of climate change on crop yields and farmers. Indeed, 63 per cent said climate change would have a greater impact on their business than coronavirus over the next five years, according to the poll.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2022

Circular economy solutions can have a huge impact on climate change because 70% of greenhouse gas emissions are related to production and use of products – from the buildings we live in and the transport we use, to the food we eat and the clothes we wear. billion tonnes in 2016 but passed 100 billion in 2019 and is estimated at 101.4

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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

JANUARY 25, 2021

Despite the reductions in air travel and the global economic slowdown caused by the pandemic, climate change sadly has not slowed down this past year. 2020 was, along with 2016, the joint hottest year on record ever — closing out the warmest decade on record ever. As with COVID-19, perhaps so with climate?

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Aerial view of the Gertz ice shelf in November 2016 (image credit: NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Centre’s Photostream , CC BY-NC 2.0 Despite being several kilometres from the open sea, the biodiversity of the specimens they collected was extremely rich. Despite occupying nearly 1.6 degrees centigrade).

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2022

to support tree planting across the capital, in bid to boost vital canopy cover and sun shade for citizens, support urban wildlife and biodiversity, reduce flood risk, and help combat climate change by absorbing and storing carbon. The Mayor of London has pledged a further £3.1m

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Investors in foreign development projects have “weaponized” a system of secretive tribunals, delaying progress on climate change and other environmental crises and having “enormous impacts on human rights,” according to a new report by a United Nations expert. In 2016, TransCanada — since renamed TC Energy — sued the U.S.

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Econaur

APRIL 22, 2020

In his response to the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19, United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres noted that, “Had we been further advanced in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, we could better face this challenge.” ” Background on Earth Day.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2023

Giving to Amplify Earth Action (GAEA) initiative aims to leverage philanthropic capital to help drive the trillion dollar investments needed to tackle climate change and nature loss. The WEF pointed to existing examples of how philanthropic funding is delivering tranformative climate programmes.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

It relies on the extraction and eventual disposal of finite materials and — to satisfy an ever-growing demand for resources — encroachment into natural ecosystems, resulting in greenhouse gas emissions and staggering biodiversity loss.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 3, 2020

Unfettered capitalism imperils biodiversity and endangers the future of civilization. We need to see changes in corporate governance and more specifically the fiduciary obligation to deliver profit at all costs. Our metrics must reflect the costs and the risks associated with environmental degradation and climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

As of 2016, estimates of global emissions of plastic to the world’s lakes, rivers and oceans ranged from 9 to 23 million metric tons per year, with a similar amount emitted onto land yearly.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

This story originally appeared in Mongabay and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalistic collaboration to strengthen coverage of the climate story. In the latter part of 2016, Ethan Steinberg and two of his friends planned a driving tour across the United States to interview farmers.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2023

Furthermore, agriculture, forestry, and land use change are responsible for about 25% of the greenhouse gas emissions that are driving global warming, and agriculture uses about 70% of fresh water supplies. These challenges are of course exacerbated by climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Microfibres are the type of microplastic that are most frequently eaten by marine species(2) and therefore of concern for ocean biodiversity. The ocean plays a critically important role in climate regulation. 3] Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate , IPCC. [4] Int-Veen, I., Chiggiato, J.,

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Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2020

At the same time, climate change and biodiversity loss remain urgent, global threats. Our new priorities focus our efforts on the four areas where we believe we can have the biggest impact.". To support delivery of the new targets the company said it has created a Responsible Business Committee which will report to the Board.

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Fairsnape

OCTOBER 9, 2019

However since its publication in 2016, the world of sustainability has moved on, we now have recognition of a climate and biodiversity emergency, we are asking how, not why, we have IPCC, UN and UKCC reports, we have extinction rebellion, we have school-strik activists and record breaking protests demanding climate change action.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

APRIL 30, 2020

Mimi Casteel of Oregon's Hope Well Wine uses regenerative practices to combat climate change. Soil is our largest potential tool in our fight against climate change," she has said, and she also sees wine culture as a powerful way to engage and educate. Mimi Casteel grew up on her family’s vineyard, Bethel Heights.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2023

Writing exclusively for BusinessGreen , Rudd admitted the question of how to ramp up private sector finance for climate solutions to the level required to prevent runaway climate change was an area she was "increasingly concerned about." "The

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The recently-released United Nations Global Biodiversity Outlook opens with these words: "Humanity stands at a crossroads with regard to the legacy it leaves to future generations.". Here's why: The science is absolutely clear: we cannot stabilise the climate without eliminating deforestation completely. This is now settled science.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

For more information, read our full investigation into the meat industry’s messaging on climate change. Animal agriculture isn’t a serious driver of climate change’ Meat industry leaders are increasingly marketing meat as sustainable, arguing that meat production in countries such as the U.S.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2021

An approach to use them also exists under Article 6 of the 2016 Paris Agreement. World leaders attending the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference later this year are expected to discuss how to operationalize Article 6 going forward. Climate Policy 16 , 973–992 (2016). based solutions to climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

There are a lot of major oil companies that tend to fill headlines when talking about climate change – BP, Shell, Chevron – any of the ‘big six’ public oil companies. A Guardian investigation found that one in five ads served on search results around climate change were placed by oil firms.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Chris Brown, sustainable sourcing director at Asda, said he welcomed the government's moves to combat supply chain deforestation, but that the current plans "will not do enough to protect the fragile ecosystems that will reduce the risk of catastrophic climate change". "We World Bank statistics suggest 1.3

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2023

Ignoring the risks that biodiversity loss can create for operations and supply chains is risky business, writes Oxford Economics' Sarah Nelson Three years ago, the Covid-19 pandemic forced the world to pause. For business executives and government regulators, it sparked a step change in green business thinking.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

Today has seen some of the starkest warnings yet on how the failure to grasp the severity of the impacts that climate change and biodiversity loss will have for human could trigger conflict, disease, and mass migration - how should businesses respond? The report draws on a raft of landmark reports published in recent years.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

New data shows that sales of organic food in supermarkets have seen the biggest jump since December 2016, with year-on-year growth hitting more than six per cent. Organic farming is a whole system approach that nurtures the soil, biodiversity and our planet.

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Business Green

MAY 28, 2021

Prior to that, he was chair of the government's independent Green Finance Taskforce - which led to the establishment of the institute - and chair of the Green Finance Initiative, which was jointly launched in 2016 by the government and City of London Corporation to focus on growing the contribution of the financial sector to the G20 climate agenda.

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Green Market Oracle

APRIL 15, 2020

In the wake of the signing of the Paris Climate Agreement at the end of 2015 there was so much hope. The Earth Day signing ceremony for the Paris Climate Agreement was a proud moment in human history. This all changed with the election of Donald Trump in 2016. This includes governments in Brazil , Australia and Russia.

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 6, 2021

The research synopsis below comes from AGCI Program Director Emily Jack-Scott and a full list of AGCI’s quarterly research updates covering recent climate change research on clean energy pathways is available online at [link]. How is climate change affecting this capacity? Climate change is driving both phenomena.

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