Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The OEP aims to be fully operational in the New Year, when it expects Parliament formally enable the OEP's powers and functions in law. The OEP will also offer independent advice and oversight on the law and other environmental matters.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Progress on schemes to improve the UK's air, water, and biodiversity have been "painfully slow" in the nine years since the Conservative-led government first pledged to improve the natural environment "within a generation".

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Bill was originally introduced in draft format at the end of 2018, before being presented to parliament in October 2019, but its publication was delayed until after the General Election. Soil and biodiversity. He continued: “We need this government to commit to legally enforceable targets for fine particulate matter (PM2.5)

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The influential think tank estimates more than two thirds of recent tropical deforestation has taken place in breach of local laws and regulations. With escalating climate and biodiversity crises, now is the time for governments to double down on efforts to tackle illegal logging.".

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The UK Government awarded it subsidies under the Contract for Difference (CfD) scheme in April 2014, and it was to start running by September 2018. It is led jointly by Biofuelwatch, Stand.earth, Dogwood Alliance, NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) and the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC).?. ?.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

It raises the alarm over a "deeply concerning decline in biodiversity" in England, with available evidence pointing to a 17 per cent reduction in the abundance of priority species from 2013 to 2017 "among other adverse trends".

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Instead, communities hosting wood pellet facilities are not only further burdened by pollution and other local dangers, they are also entangled in yet another climate damaging trend — the destruction of biodiverse hardwood forests and the rise of monoculture tree plantations to produce energy that appears to pose climate threats similar to coal. .

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Business Green

JULY 31, 2021

Sometimes described as the 'lungs of the planet', the Amazon is one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth and is also a major store of carbon, which is released into the atmosphere when the rainforest is burned, further exacerbating climate change. Meat and dairy account for around 14.5

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2022

Environmental laws and government strategy and policy have 'not yet proved successful' in slowing down, halting or reversing biodiversity decline, new regulatory body warns. Turning this round will certainly not be easy," she said.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In 2018, the year before Bolsonaro became Brazil’s president, a total of 7,536 square kilometers of the rainforest was cleared. Compared to when Bolsonaro took office, the state of the forest has been on a downward spiral following weakened environmental laws. The Amazon is the largest rainforest on Earth.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 22, 2023

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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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an "enterprise à mission," a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. If we protect biodiversity, we are basically protecting the diversity of DNA," Soubeiran mused. Cecilia Keating. Mon, 07/20/2020 - 00:30.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In 2018 the World Bank and others agreed significant funding to help governments boost the resilience of communities, including things like the Green Climate Fund, intended to provide support for lower income countries. Soon afterwards, a knowledge sharing effort began under the auspices of the UN Global Adaptation Network.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In 2018 the World Bank and others agreed significant funding to help governments boost the resilience of communities, including things like the Green Climate Fund, intended to provide support for lower income countries. Soon afterwards, a knowledge sharing effort began under the auspices of the UN Global Adaptation Network.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

However, Environment Secretary Thérèse Coffey, who announced the new goals today at the critical COP15 UN biodiversity summit currently taking place in Montreal, insisted the targets were "ambitious" and would be "challenging to achieve". "We Weakening these targets is an embarrassment and a betrayal.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2022

The government has proposed 13 legally-binding targets for England covering water quality, air pollution, biodiversity, and waste - here they are in full. Reduce nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment pollution from agriculture to the water environment by at least 40 per cent by 2037, against a 2018 baseline. Waste and resource efficiency.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

So said Michael Gove in 2018 when, as Secretary of State for the Environment, he set out the government's vision for food, farming and the environment in a post-Brexit Britain. The UK is in the bottom 10 per cent of countries globally for biodiversity. Farmers must be supported to take centre stage and to champion nature's recovery.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2023

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, meanwhile, heralded the plan as "a blueprint for how we will deliver our commitment to leave our environment in a better state than we found it", a target set out by the 2018 25 Year Enviornment Plan created by Theresa May's government. Here, BusinessGreen rounds up all the main reaction to the new plan.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

The decree has come into immediate effect, although the Italian parliament will have 60 days after the initial publication of the measures to introduce amendments to the law. New Zealand steps up plans to create 11,000 biodiversity jobs. The so-called 'eco-bonus' is set to apply from July 1 this year until December 31, 2021.

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Grist

JULY 26, 2023

One reader, Katrina Amaral, shared a response that struck at this balance: As part of the resources for dealing with extreme heat, I would love to see examples of heat-adaptation and climate-change mitigation ordinances or laws that have passed at municipal / state / federal levels.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals. Mancozeb is used to protect plants against a range of dangerous fungal diseases, but was banned by the EU earlier this year over concerns about its impacts on human health and biodiversity. Political Connections.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

Prior to the Platform on Sustainable Finance’s report, in July 2018, the European Commission established a Technical Expert Group (TEG) to develop the taxonomy’s screening criteria. meetings per week with gas and nuclear players between January 2018 and July 7, 2020. The Push for Gas and Nuclear.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

per cent of 2018 GDP. Coad says the firm's business client base now ranges from micro enterprises to agencies to law firms, and the number of larger clients continues growing. Commenting on the challenge ahead, the European Commission said: "This flow of investment will need to be sustained over time. Beyond personal.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The agreement includes a number of environmental clauses, with Chapter 22 of the FTA published yesterday reaffirming the UK and Australia's commitment to protecting biodiversity and achieving the climate goals contained in the Paris Agreement.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

At the farm level, the figures show the greatest reductions were driven by training cocoa farmers in techniques like pruning, planting shade trees, efficient use of fertilizers, and composting crop residues, which together help restore biodiversity and offset carbon costs.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2022

Suddenly, many of the hardest-won climate battles of recent years - from enshrining net zero targets in law, to halting Cumbrian coal mines and shelving Cambo oil fields - are all now under threat from government Ministers intent on bolstering the UK's domestic fossil fuel supplies.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

Yet in the rapidly-growing world of ESG - a market which reached more than $30tr in 2018 - it is far from uncommon to find investment practices that would appear to belie the 'environmental' label. It promises a boon for the green economy, for which investment is urgently needed to deliver the net zero economy of the future.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

billion tons of CO 2 in 2018. A few options for increasing the ocean’s capacity to store carbon also may provide co-benefits, such as increasing biodiversity and reducing acidification. Convention on the Law of the Sea and the London Convention and Protocol, predate the concept of ocean carbon dioxide removal.

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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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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Ecolab says it helped its customers save enough water in 2018 equivalent to the needs of 600 million people. Yet about six months in as president and COO at Starbucks, she was terrified in 2018 to hear that two Black men had been arrested needlessly at one of its Philadelphia stores. I felt like it happened under my watch.".

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 18, 2019

To elaborate, in the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals , he articulates Categorical Imperative as “ So act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a universal law of nature ” (Gregor and Korsgaard,31). This dramatic shift can lead to nonlinear loss in biodiversity and human-kind. Summary For Policymakers.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an ‘entreprise à mission', a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. If we protect biodiversity, we are basically protecting the diversity of DNA," Soubeiran muses.

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Biodiversity Agriculture Business Energy Monitoring Carbon 96

AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Instead, communities hosting wood pellet facilities are not only further burdened by pollution and other local dangers, they are also entangled in yet another climate damaging trend — the destruction of biodiverse hardwood forests and the rise of monoculture tree plantations to produce energy that appears to pose climate threats similar to coal.

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Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 36

Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

After a dispiriting stint in corporate law, she turned to full-time environmentalism, joining Dogwood Alliance in 1997 and becoming its executive director at the age of 30. “I The Pee Dee River flows near town, and in 2018, when Hurricane Florence hit, the river leapt its banks, and Johnny B. TNC doesn’t want to hear this.”.

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Logging Carbon-neutral Climate change Biodiversity 97

Business Green

JULY 5, 2021

The perfume, launched in 2019, is part of an effort from the Brazilian beauty giant to sustainability source ingredients for its beauty products from the Amazon that underscore the benefits of keeping the rainforest intact as a hotbed of biodiversity, while also communicating to end consumers about nature's benefits and limits. "We

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

The production of genetically-modified foods can be controversial, but it can also offer benefits for increasing yields and easing pressure on land, water and biodiversity. In the summer of 2018, the European court of justice ruled that genome edited plants would also be classified as being genetically modified.

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Biotechnology Patents Agriculture Biodiversity 92

AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2020

Danone’s Eric Soubeiran: ‘The food system is broken’ Cecilia Keating Mon, 07/20/2020 – 00:30 Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an “enterprise à mission,” a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. “You showed evidence that finance can change the world.

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