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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Biodiversity Climate change Policy Government 33

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

The biggest risks to food security stem from climate change and the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services,” said the letter, which was sent to all Members of the European Parliament. “We We urge policy makers to continue the legislative procedure.” It is also the leading cause of biodiversity loss in the world.

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Law Agriculture Biodiversity Climate change 91

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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Carbon Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Climate change 75

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In the spring of 2020, the European Union announced an ambitious plan to overhaul farming practices in fields and valleys across the continent. Since 2020, the world’s four largest pesticide companies have spent over 20 million euros on lobbying both EU officials and the public. See Table.).

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Europe Sustainability Agriculture Biodiversity 97

Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Domestic Climate Policy Gets Real. to a carbon free economy by 2050, experts at Bloomberg and Princeton estimate that the US will have to build enough solar and wind farms to fill an area roughly five times the size of South Dakota. In the near-term, the conflict is exerting negative impacts on climate emissions.

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Carbon-negative COP Climate change Biodiversity 98

Econaur

APRIL 22, 2020

By the end of 2020, global CO 2 emissions need to have dropped by 7.6% Earth day 2020 is not just the 50 th anniversary of Earth Day, but also the anniversary of the signing of the Paris Agreement to take climate action. Earth Day in 2020. Earth Day 2020 calls for 24 hours of actions, big and small, for people and the planet.

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Earth Day Biodiversity Climate change Pollution 92

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 11, 2021

The question of Drax’s influence on national climate policy has come under renewed scrutiny after it emerged for a second time in two months that a senior PR executive advised on government climate strategy with an apparent conflict of interest. However, it produces 15 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent a year.

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Building Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative Energy Monitor Policy 98

Business Green

JANUARY 10, 2023

The Inevitable Policy Response (IPR) has launched FPS + Nature – a new nature and climate scenario to help investors understand how nature and climate policies could shape future markets. 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.

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Biodiversity Policy Carbon-negative Demand 36

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In February 2021, German agribusiness giant BASF hosted a virtual wine tasting, a seemingly cozy affair swirling glasses of Portugal’s finest in front of a webcam debating the future of EU agricultural policies. million on lobbying in 2019 and 2020, according to the latest available data on their lobbying spending from official EU data.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Sustainability 98

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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Biodiversity Government Investment Carbon-negative 36

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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Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Carbon Fossil fuels 84

Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2020

All National Grid's net zero pathways rely on significant BECCS capacity to generate 'negative emissions', claims think tank Ember. As the biomass crops store carbon from the atmosphere, by using them as a fuel feedstock while stopping the CO2 from entering the atmosphere, BECCS is designed to produce 'negative emissions'.

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Carbon-negative Technology Biodiversity Carbon 43

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Advocates of this approach reckon it would help catalyse investments in clean technologies and ensure investors are more cognisant of the complex and escalating risks associated with high carbon assets. An alternative approach could include setting minimum mandatory climate standards for ESG products, requiring banks to adopt 1.5C

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Fossil fuels Biodiversity Policy Carbon-negative 64

Business Green

MARCH 14, 2022

The case for action is clear and many businesses, investors and policy makers are asking big questions in search of the best solutions, such as: Should we be growing insects to feed animals instead of importing soy linked to deforestation? There is noticeable improvement in biodiversity, soil health and rebalancing of ecosystems.

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Biodiversity Agriculture Carbon-negative Health 53

Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2022

Thanks to growing interest in environmental social and governance (ESG) funds, investors are rapidly moving into the sector, keen to improve the green credentials of their portfolios while also capitalising on the burgeoning financial opportunities provided by sustainable timber and carbon offsetting schemes.

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Carbon Carbon-negative Biodiversity Investment 56

Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

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. According to a KPMG 2020 Survey of Sustainability Report , 80% of top companies now report on sustainability. Climate change and carbon reduction reporting.

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Sustainability Organic Ethics Investment 148

Business Green

MAY 16, 2021

Environmental economist Dr Matthew Agarwala, who leads the wealth economy project at the University of Cambridge's Bennett Institute for Public Policy, says natural capital is just one of several core assets that companies should be paying close attention to alongside human, physical, and social capital.

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Biodiversity Carbon-negative Government Sustainability 51

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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Biodiversity Carbon-negative Government Agriculture 40

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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Construction Waste Waste Biodiversity 40

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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Carbon Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Fossil fuels 79

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

This includes measures that work to reduce an entity’s carbon footprint , effectively manage waste , prevent pollution and conserve resources. In addition, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Risk Report 2022, the top risks facing our economy are climate action failure , extreme weather , and biodiversity loss.

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Organic Government Ethics Sustainability 78

Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2022

In recent years, leading green groups have branded the 21st century drive to ramp up the use of biofuels in transport - set in motion by late 2000s-era EU and US renewable fuels targets - as a " fiasco ", a " scandal " and " Europe's dumbest climate policy ". Regulatory and industry momentum.

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Aviation Fossil fuels Waste Waste 68

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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Biodiversity COP Carbon-negative Government 40

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. You can't negotiate with the science," he tells BusinessGreen. Net zero isn't some sort of political device or concept, it is derived from natural science.

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Carbon-negative Politics Climate change Government 56

Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

As chair of the Committee, Leonie Cooper explains time is now tight to build up the policy framework, skills, and infrastructure needed to transition a global city of more than eight million inhabitants to net zero emissions. "I Far more focus is therefore needed at City Hall on enhancing green skills and education provision, argues Cooper.

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Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Education Carbon 60

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

While both Yum and McDonald’s regularly attempt to influence agricultural and trade policy in the United States to ensure a more favorable operating environment for their franchisees around the world, a review of lobbying disclosures in the United States found no evidence that either Yum!

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Africa Agriculture Health Investment 100

Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

22, 2020 — Greentown Labs announced today that it has selected the inaugural location for its new Houston incubator, alongside Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner and the Greater Houston Partnership (the Partnership). Somerville, Mass., and Houston, Texas, Sept. Projected to open in Spring 2021, the incubator will provide more than 40,000 sq.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Due to human activity - largely the burning of fossil fuels - concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere are higher than at any time in the last two million years, with concentrations continuing to increase in 2020 despite the temporary dip in annual global emissions that resulted from the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the report.

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Sea level rise Ocean acidification Climate change Global warming 82

Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

Even more worrying is a fact David Wallace-Wells points out in his best-selling book Uninhabitable Earth : more than half of the carbon emitted in the atmosphere today was emitted in the past 30 years. Civil Society Declaration 2020. To make a dent on the projected 60 per cent fossil fuels by 2050, the nuclear industry must step up.

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Carbon-neutral Climate change Nuclear Power Carbon-negative 95

AGreenLiving

MARCH 8, 2021

Fourteen months ago, the World Economic Forum’s 2020 Global Risks Report neglected to include a pandemic among its major warnings for the year ahead. The crisis has exposed not only the lack of foresight but the lack of effectiveness in mainstream business risk management policies. That’s a very different question.”

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Resilience Climate change Carbon-negative Blockchain 28

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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Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Fashion Upcycling 36

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2022

British biomass giant Drax is lobbying the Californian government to play host to its first ever “carbon negative” power plant outside of the UK, despite concerns about the sustainability of the energy source. BECCS is a controversial technology that captures carbon dioxide from burning organic matter and buries it underground.

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Carbon-negative Carbon Biodiversity Waste 92

Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

Take the Indian Government’s Budget for 2020; they proposed 103 trillion INR (23.7 In 2018, the policy think tank of the Indian government, NITI Aayog, announced a massive ‘holistic development’ plan for the islands. It is 2020, yet our definition of economic development is as old as the Industrial Revolution.

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Climate change Government Education Investment 52

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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Global warming Climate change Resilience South America 101

Energy Innovation

AUGUST 6, 2021

One such critical tipping point is the potential transformation of the world’s largest tropical forests from carbon sinks into net sources of carbon emissions. Currently, carbon emissions that result from deforestation and forest degradation (often referred to as land-use change) are offset, in part, by new reforestation and regrowth.

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Africa Carbon Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral 72

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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Biodiversity Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Carbon 100

Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

Growing evidence of the myriad benefits well-maintained soils can deliver by combating climate change, alleviating flooding, boosting crop yields, and supporting biodiversity, has been highlighted in a new Royal Society report today, which argues the UK now stands at a "critical moment" for the future of the country's soil health.

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Soil Policy Health Agriculture 66