GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The top 2020 trends in sustainability, according to GreenBiz readers. Mon, 12/28/2020 - 01:30. From an unprecedented pandemic to a global economic downturn to the intensifying impacts of climate change, we can’t say we’ll miss 2020. READ THE FULL STORY: 8 electric truck and van companies to watch in 2020. . Holly Secon.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Latest figures from UN add to growing library of evidence that global financial system needs a major revamp if biodiversity and climate goals are to be met. The COP15 Biodiversity Summit, kicking off next Wednesday in Montreal, is set to be no different. UN environment summits are increasingly about money.

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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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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2021

Advocates of BECCS argue that by sourcing sustainable biomass feedstocks for power plants and then capturing the resulting emissions, the technology can deliver both reliable renewable power and negative emissions.

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Fairsnape

MARCH 11, 2021

The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review , continues to get a lot of climate press coverage, but not that I have noticed within the built environment sector. The UK is to set up green finance hubs in Leeds and London , as part of efforts to encourage lenders and insurers to invest in renewable energy and sustainable industry.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2021

Offsets offer a carbon polluter (like the operator of a steel plant) an additional option to comply with government rules that limit carbon pollution. Carbon offsets have been enabled under international law in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and were first used internationally in 2001. WHAT ARE OFFSETS? HOW ARE OFFSETS USED?

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Both enter 2022 on an upward, even hockey-stick growth trajectory, in large part the result of events and commitments that have taken place since the pandemic began in early 2020. Volvo and Mercedes , for example, both embraced low-carbon steel in building vehicles. Nature and biodiversity met the bottom line.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2022

Land and property values for forestry and afforestation have skyrocketed over the past couple of years - could this unlock much needed investment in nature restoration? 2020 was an extraordinary 12 months in the forestry sector, but 2021 has more than matched it," says Edward Daniels, head of forestry at John Clegg & Co.

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Business Green

JANUARY 10, 2023

The global decline of nature and biodiversity could pose material threats to the global economy that cost as much as $3tr every year from 2030. Biodiversity loss is fast emerging as a disaster that needs to be addressed now," said Mark Fulton, project director at IPR. Some fear such projections could prove to be an underestimate.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The reason it’s considered a solution is that plants suck up carbon from the air while they grow. When we turn them into fuels and burn them, no new carbon is added to the atmosphere —the whole cycle is considered “carbon neutral.” But critics say biofuels’ carbon-neutrality is a mirage. The case for negative emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

million on lobbying in 2019 and 2020, according to the latest available data on their lobbying spending from official EU data. The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals. These investments, however, would be impacted should the EU’s pesticides reduction target be adopted.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 4, 2021

C when places reminiscent of Mordor continuously pump carbon into the atmosphere. In 2020, the Arctic as a whole had its warmest year on record since data collection began in 1979. Good-faith efforts to reuse carbon, heat and steam are underway with a target to reduce the Port’s emissions to 50% of 1990 levels by 2025.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

A series of reports over the last few days has attempted to answer this complex question, and in doing so highlighted the divide that continues to separate approaches promoted by campaigners and those advocated by banking and investment industry insiders.

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Business Green

MARCH 14, 2022

Incremental improvements to production efficiency will not be enough to turn the tide on biodiversity loss. Many of the risks related to fats and oils, such as human rights abuses, biodiversity loss, carbon emissions and poor working conditions, are recurring features of agricultural commodity supply chains.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Investment firms across the globe are changing their priorities. In addition, ESG and corporate sustainability have each developed their own sets of terms, for example, ESG investing, ESG policy, sustainability program, and green business. Climate change and carbon reduction reporting. ESG Investing.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

In 2011, the IFC lent poultry company Ust-Kamenogorsk Poultry (UKPF) invested $2 million in refurbishing housing for chickens, among other projects. In 2016, the EBRD made a $20 million equity investment in the company’s parent, Aitas, to finance the construction of a new facility to raise and process poultry.

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Business Green

MAY 17, 2022

There is real money to be made from investing in companies with the greatest potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, argues World Fund’s Tim Schumacher. Instead, software and marketplace investments and micromobility have received the majority of climate tech funding as seemingly "safe bets" for investors.

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2022

Since early 2020 the number of net zero commitments made by publicly listed firms has risen sharply. The Taskforce on Nature Related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) is also consulting on a framework for incorporating biodiversity issues and resource-use into financial accounts. Take climate. However, some common themes apply.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2021

Carmen Thissen, associate at Business for Nature , a global coalition of business and conservation organisations set up to provide a coherent voice for corporate biodiversity action, sees natural capital accounting as a key tool in businesses' arsenal. There is also supplemental guidance on finance, biodiversity and food systems.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2022

Better design and reuse of buildings are crucial to cutting their carbon impact, writes Ellen MacArthur Foundation's Tansy Robertson-Fall. The built environment currently operates under a take-make-waste linear model that - for more than a century - has, and continues, to put significant pressure on the climate and biodiversity.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Reports reveal that 87% of business leaders expect an increase in sustainability investments for their organizations over the next two years. ESG investment growth is expected to continue into 2022 and beyond. As such, socially responsible investing has piqued the interest of these stakeholder groups, and this trend continues to grow.

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2022

Demand for biofuels has seen significant tracts of land, much of it the Global South, repurposed for energy crop production, a trend that campaigners have blamed for driving deforestation and biodiversity destruction while exacerbating food insecurity. Regulators and investors have taken note. Regulatory and industry momentum.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Ahead of tomorrow's Net Zero Festival, Toby Hill explores how carbon offset standards are evolving in a bid to assure clients and campaigners that promised carbon savings can be delivered. To find out more about the role of carbon offsets in the net zero transition, sign up now for a free pass to tomorrow's Net Zero Festival.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The new Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework should drive a step change nature protection natural world - here's why the world's new biodiversity targets matter for businesses. The 10-year plan, with its four broad goals and 23 targets, has a hugely ambitious aim: to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The most important biodiversity conference in a generation is kicking off this week, with negotiating teams from around the world convening on Montreal, Canada to hammer out the terms of a new global pact for nature. As such the expectations for the COP15 Biodiversity Summit are high, fuelled by the extra-long lead up to the talks.

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Business Green

JANUARY 10, 2022

What started with a few leading governments and countries built up momentum throughout 2020, as scores of countries, cities, regions, and companies signed up to the net zeor mission. Carbon removals and storage, either technologically or through nature-based solutions, should be sought and used cautiously, according to the paper.

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2020

Just days after the tech giant unveiled a sweeping new plan to become 'carbon negative' coffee giant Starbucks has followed suit, today unveiling a plan to become 'resource positive'. The preliminary targets could see Starbucks' halve water withdrawal, waste-to-landfill, and carbon emissions within the next decade, Johnson said.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Many celebrated with their CSOs on meeting ambitious corporate targets for 2020, while setting audacious new goals for 2025, 2030 and 2050. Elsa Wenzel.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Leveraging the ocean's carbon removal potential. Wed, 11/11/2020 - 00:30. Achieving this not only will require reducing existing emissions, but also removing carbon dioxide already in the air. Achieving this not only will require reducing existing emissions, but also removing carbon dioxide already in the air.

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Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

The governments want to increase their GDP, improve health and sanitation, provide education and jobs, increase investment, improve infrastructure, provide electricity to people; besides the economy and jobs, most of these things are not even an issue in developed countries anymore. How much is to be invested for climate change?

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 28, 2020

2020 was the year that… Joel Makower Mon, 12/28/2020 – 02:11 It was a very long year. To recall some of the key developments, as I have done each December for more than a decade, I’ve plumbed the nearly 1,300 stories, columns and analyses we’ve published on GreenBiz.com since the dawn of 2020 — a.k.a. Remember 2019?

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2021

One immediate way progressive food company leaders are doing this is by applying true cost accounting to their operations: assessing and measuring the negative impacts and positive benefits of their business practices and taking stock of their dependence on ecological and human resources.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Joshua Tosteson, COO of climate conservation marketing company Everland, offers a defense of REDD+ carbon offsets. 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.".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

billion people live in areas that are "highly vulnerable" to climate change, key ecosystems are losing their ability to store carbon, many low lying areas are facing a future of inundation, and millions of people face drastically increased risk of deadly heatwaves, floods, and droughts. As the report makes clear, between 3.3 billion and 3.6

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Key amendments are needed to deliver a world leading environmental regime and an investible proposition for business, argues Nick Molho of the Aldersgate Group. For example, healthy soils and peatland play a vital part in reducing risks from flooding and absorbing carbon. Nick Molho is executive director of the Aldersgate Group.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The top 2020 trends in sustainability, according to GreenBiz readers Holly Secon Mon, 12/28/2020 – 01:30 At GreenBiz, we’ve been reporting on the world of sustainable business for over two decades, but this year has been unlike any other. READ THE FULL STORY: 8 electric truck and van companies to watch in 2020.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Aviation does not rule out the use of first generation biofuels from crops , which are proven to cause very serious environmental and social impacts such as biodiversity loss, rising food prices and water scarcity. This would result in facilities that are likely to turn into “stranded assets” with a large loss of investment.

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