Business Green

APRIL 3, 2022

And in Europe, according to Pew Research Center, climate change is seen as an even bigger threat than coronavirus. Matt Brittin is president of Google for the Europe, Middle East and Africa regions. Across the world, people are voting with their feet for sustainable choices.

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Rinexii

JUNE 18, 2021

Plan A , a leading carbon emission and ESG management software company, launched a Europe-wide movement against greenwashing. Moving the needle in terms of carbon emissions, biodiversity, and natural preservation in general is what motivates us to start each day and pack it with change-inducing action. What Plan A is doing to help.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Producers claim their animal feed comes from responsible sources and their livestock use land unsuitable for other uses, all the while supporting biodiversity and capturing carbon from the atmosphere through holistic or other types of “regenerative” grazing. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service.

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Agriculture Climate change Methane Soil 89

Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

African-Americans are 75 per cent more likely than others to live near hazardous waste facilities, according to research released by the NAACP and Clean Air Task Force in 2017. Meanwhile, recycling is broken as the US lacks cohesive policies and infrastructure to support it. "We

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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2020

It reminds me of Forum for the Future's 2017 Wise Minds report on the future of the UK energy utilities, in which ex-SSE CEO Ian Marchant said: "The large utilities must decide whether to block or embrace the disruptive forces they are facing.". The report makes for sobering reading. limit to global heating. Collaborate with communities.

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Energy Energy Fossil fuels Asia 69

Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Take a look at the " nine planetary boundaries ", the limits that scientists say humans must respect to keep the planet habitable, and you'll see we're already beyond the safe operating space for four of them: climate change; land-system change; biodiversity; and biogeochemical flows of phosphorus and nitrogen.

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Pollution Agriculture Startups Biodiversity 45

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 21, 2023

The researchers say this demonstrates that the wasp is effective at dispersing itself widely, which may be one reason for its success in human-modified environments, both in its native range in Europe and as an invasive species in Asia and elsewhere.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 6, 2024

A wave of farmers protests in Europe earlier this year were jumped on by populist politicians, resulting in the watering down of measures including a law to restore nature – ignoring that many of the farmers’ concerns were unrelated to green rules. This legislation has already been significantly weakened.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

The plan calls for sourcing wood from areas that encompass eight National Forests, and activists in California have raised concerns that the production of this “renewable” power could endanger vital biodiversity in the forests, home to California’s endangered gray wolves. Credit: California Department of Fish and Wildlife ( CC BY 2.0

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Logging Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Health 126

Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

This array of species and surfaces reduces fire intensity and promotes biodiversity. The approach proved itself when the 2017 Tubbs Fire burned 95 percent of the preserve and the 2019 Kincade Fire scorched 60 percent. Although the forest was thriving before the fires in 2017 and 2019, we see few signs of regeneration.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2020

According to a survey from the Department of Education in 2017, 67 per cent of hard-to-fill vacancies are being caused in part by a lack of skills or qualifications. The UK is one of the most centralised economies in Europe. First, the UK has a skills shortage problem. There's also an important role for regulators here.

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Education Policy Carbon Demand 51

Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

  In other news the EU parliament passed a law to restore 20% of the EU’s land and sea by 2030, England requires all new buildings to improve biodiversity, and the US Congress finds something they can agree on with nuclear policy, while the SEC may be set to announce watered down rules on reporting. 

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Energy Monitor Investment Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 111

Green Business Bureau

JUNE 2, 2022

Climate change, biodiversity, customer relations, supply chains, board management practices, data, and security…these all fall under the ESG heading. For instance, according to a recent survey by the CFA Institute , ESG-linked loans to companies in Europe have more than quadrupled – from €27 billion in 2017 to €102 billion in 2019.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe. The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. Company profile.

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Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 518

Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The insatiable demand for consumer wood products has been the primary cause of deforestation there, but the growing new demand is for wood pellets that are burned in overseas biomass plants to produce electricity, primarily in Europe. It is extractive, polluting, climate-disruptive, and destructive of biodiversity,” Smith told me.

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Logging Carbon-neutral Climate change Biodiversity 98

Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The world's forests are vanishing at a breakneck speed, fuelling climate change and decimating biodiversity. Indonesia, for example, which at one point accounted for two-thirds of forest replacement by palm oil, saw three consecutive years of reductions in primary forest loss from 2017 to 2019. This marked a 2.8

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The Federation of Veterinarians of Europe did not respond to a request for comment. The EU’s ambitious Farm to Fork Strategy – a package of commitments designed to make farming in Europe more sustainable – aims to cut farm antibiotic use by 50 percent from 2018 levels by 2030.

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Building Energy Monitoring Medicine Health Agriculture 105

Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

Climate change risk assessments were subsequently published in 2012 and 2017 with the third in January 2022 setting out 61 risks to infrastructure, human health, nature, and vital systems such as food, transport system and opportunities.

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Resilience Climate change Government Agriculture 36

Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

How biorefineries transform ‘waste’ into all the building blocks of chemical industry The best example I found on transformation in the chemical industry is Chemport Europe. Those of you who are still not convinced and fear biodiversity issues, I have something even better on offer. I am assuming the U.S.

Building Energy Monitoring 78

Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 78

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Melissa Moore, Head of UK Policy at Oceana in Europe, said: “We need an immediate ban on trawling and dredging in all offshore Marine Protected Areas as well as the inshore zone. 3] ‘Protecting the global ocean for biodiversity, food and climate’ [link]. 2]’Trawl fishing ban off Sussex coast aims to restore seaweed forests’ [link]. [3]

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2021

Mondi has been working with the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) since 2017, exploring the outlook of climate change and impact on Europe's forests and wood supply. We actively work towards safeguarding biodiversity by protecting water resources as well as forestry in our operations and beyond.

Climate change 36

Climate change Sea level rise Sustainability Logging 36

Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Handbook of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation, edited by Wei-Yin Chen, Toshio Suzuki, Maximilian Lackner, 2017 There is a mounting consensus that human behavior is changing the global climate and its consequence could be catastrophic. Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change, edited by Melissa R.

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Climate change Ethics Sustainability Health 95

AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Outside of India, the GFI already has regional offices in Brazil, Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Israel, and Europe (London and Brussels). Varun Deshpande became the managing director for GFI India in December 2017 which also made him the first GFI India employee.

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Demand Asia Africa Agriculture 52

The Verge: Energy

JANUARY 3, 2024

Nearly every nation on Earth has agreed to a joint goal of protecting 30 percent of Earth’s land and waters by 2030 under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework adopted last year. Nearly all of the offshore wind development took place off the coasts of northern Europe and China.

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Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Asia Africa 144

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe. The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined.

Sustainability 28

Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 28

Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2022

In addition, climate and environmental threats loom large over WEF's long-term risk outlook, with climate action failure, extreme weather, biodiversity loss, natural resource crises, and human environmental damage making up the entire list of the top five risks facing the global economy over the next decade.

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Climate change Europe Health South America 82

Low Impact

MAY 17, 2020

Fish and Wildlife Service from 1999-2017, and as a visiting professor of natural resource economics in Virginia Tech’s National Capitol Region. I established CASSE in 2003, and worked part-time as its president for many years, then quit the federal government in 2017 to run CASSE full-time. He served in the U.S.

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Biodiversity Patents Policy Government 95

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Reforms include measures to halve pesticide use across the bloc – proposals that have alarmed an industry worth €12 billion in Europe alone each year. Scientists say the raft of green measures, aimed at tackling spiralling climate breakdown and biodiversity collapse, are crucial for the future of Europe’s food supply.

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Building Energy Monitoring Agriculture Law Business Energy Monitoring 138

Business Green

MAY 26, 2020

Even before Covid-19, 2020 was already a big year for the tech giant and its environment lead, who spoke to BusinessGreen from his home office in mid-April as coronavirus shutdowns snowballed across North America and Europe. So, with biodiversity and carbon completed, plans for water and waste are on their way next.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 1, 2021

Areas of interest: Personalized medicine, Bioinformatics, Public health policy, Environmental sustainability, Sanitation, Water, Ecology, Biodiversity, and Science education and communication. She/Her/Hers) Sustainability Strategist, Futerra London, UK, Europe J. Alexandra (Aly) Criscuolo. Alice Roche-Naude. Crew Group (‘19).

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Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 52

Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

It's interesting to discuss SDG17 at the moment," reflects Hans Daems, group public affairs officer at Hitachi Europe. Bilateral ODA (overseas development assistance) to least developed countries fell by three per cent in real terms from 2017, aid to Africa fell by four per cent, and humanitarian aid fell by eight per cent," the UN said.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Sustainability 77

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Going further back, a North Sea oil boss gave him a donation in 2017 to help with his general election campaign. Heaton-Harris, while Europe minister earlier this year, said in an official video that the world needed to “go further and faster if we are to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change”.

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Climate change Fossil fuels Government Policy 85

GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

She is at the center of the NGO’s working relationship with Walmart , among other retailers and consumer brands, helping it launch in 2017 an expansive strategy to reduce its chemical footprint for consumables by 10 percent by 2022. . She was executive producer of the 2017 documentary "Without a Net: The Digital Divide in America." .

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Sustainability Plastics Organic Retail 546

GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

She’s an advocate of " Absolute Sustainability, " a Quantis philosophy that challenges businesses to take planetary boundaries into account not just for carbon emissions but also for biodiversity, land use, freshwater consumption, the phosphorus cycle and the nitrogen cycle. . LinkedIn .

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Sustainability Carbon-neutral Waste Waste 109

Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

It was a period of economic prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge in the United States and Europe, particularly in major cities such as Berlin, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris and Sydney. The global renewable energy market was valued at $928 billion in 2017, and is expected to reach $1,512 billion by 2025.

Energy 78

Energy Energy Fossil fuels Investment 78

Andrew Winston

JANUARY 11, 2019

Incredible heat blanketed four continents this summer, with records falling across Europe and Asia. alone, it was $306 billion in 2017, shattering records. By the end of just the first half of 2018, businesses bought more clean energy than they did in 2017. Venezuela’s last glacier is disappearing. In the U.S.

Sustainability 60

Sustainability Sea level rise Climate change Plastics 60