Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Bill establishes a new “independent watchdog”, the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP), to fulfil this role, and it will seemingly hold the government to account on long-term, legally-binding targets in relation to biodiversity, air quality, water and waste management as well as its commitment to reach net zero emissions by 2050.

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Defend Our Future

MARCH 20, 2024

Food insecurity According to a study from the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health , one in four young adults in 2020 faced food insecurity, with Gen Z adults being twice as likely. The good news is, farmers across the country are already working to implement sustainable practices! However, our work doesn’t stop there.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2022

It’s fundamental to safeguarding biodiversity, ensuring that our unique aquatic wildlife is protected. However, while the condition of rivers and lochs in Scotland is generally classified as good by SEPA, many environmental challenges remain such as pollution and water scarcity as a result of more frequent, prolonged spells of dry weather.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2022

It details some of the major upgrades needed to combat the climate crisis and meet environmental targets, to develop new economic landscapes post-Covid, enhance the wellbeing and health of citizens and to overcome energy and water conservation challenges. The figures have been weighted and are representative of all UK adults. [2]

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Grist

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

The report, Frontiers 2022, comes ahead of the UN Environment Assembly meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, at the end of February. It also highlights as emerging crises the growing destruction from wildfires and the hidden cost of noise pollution, which leads to 12,000 premature deaths each year in the European Union alone.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Environmental reporting platform CDP has announced it is to start collecting data about companies' use of plastics, in a bid to provide greater visibility over how corporates are contributing to the global plastic pollution crisis.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

However, the Government has now failed to deliver against one of the most important legal requirements of that Act – to set binding legal targets to improve environmental health. Proposed targets on species abundance, consulted on in Spring 2022, are so weak that by 2042 England could have less wildlife than it does today.

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Grist

APRIL 27, 2022

If these trends continue, experts expect growing disruptions to human health, food supplies, migration, and biodiversity loss driven by climate change, in what the authors calls a “confluence of unprecedented crises.”. People have altered 70 percent of Earth’s lands from their natural state and degraded up to 40 percent.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The Irish Sea is under significant and increasing pressure from climate change and activities like fishing, aquaculture, development, shipping, aggregates, military activity, recreation and pollution. Read the Irish Sea Network’s Vision Statement and 2022 Review at: www.irishseanetwork.org.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The phrases laid out below will also be in the back pockets of lobbyists, who doubled in number year on year in 2022 as an analysis by DeSmog revealed , and are expected to show up in force in 2023. All these methods work to improve the soil, reduce air and water pollution, cut emissions, and boost biodiversity.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Veteran sustainable food and farming experts welcomed the strategy as one that just might have a genuine shot at transforming the agriculture sector and result in better public health, contribute to ending the vertiginous decline of biodiversity, and lower greenhouse gas pollution.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The government has today unveiled its hotly-anticipated suite of legally-binding environmental targets for England, confirming a sweeping package of goals to reverse species loss, increase tree cover, reduce waste, and tackle air and water pollution over the next two decades. The target to increase tree and woodland cover to 16.5

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The rights to life, health, food and water, cultural rights and the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment are being violated and will continue to be violated, and the rule of law will continue to be undermined, unless the ISDS system is eliminated,” Boyd reports. In 2022 , the U.N.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

The charity confirmed it is joining as co-claimant in the legal case against the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), which alleges that the government's Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan 2022 is insufficiently robust. We're out of options.

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Business Green

JUNE 28, 2021

Following the trial and an extensive research and development (R&D) programme, Foundation Earth is aiming to develop an "optimum and fully automated system" that could be rolled out across Europe by 2022. I support the launch of an independent organisation that will issue front-of-pack environmental scores on food products," he added. "We

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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. Improve the England-level GB Red List Index of species extinction risk by 2042, compared to 2022 levels. Increase tree canopy and woodland cover from 14.5 per cent to 17.5

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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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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

With this Global North-financed fast-food expansion comes a host of environmental, social, and health concerns in regions often unprepared to field them. The EBRD exited the company, along with all companies in Russia and Belarus in December 2022. It also means undermining the health of developing countries. as clients.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2023

The company may be headquartered thousands of miles away in California, but it has been involved in the broader campaign to save the "blue heart of Europe" - the river and biodiversity rich Balkans - being led by a network of local NGOs for more than half a decade. A fix for England's contaminated waterways?

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Responding to DeSmog’s findings, Natacha Cingotti, senior health and chemicals policy officer at Brussels-based policy and advocacy group, Health and Environmental Alliance (HEAL), said: “[W]hen working on chemicals- and pesticides-related policies, the imbalance of stakeholders in favour of industry interests is striking.”.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

ESG investment growth is expected to continue into 2022 and beyond. This includes measures that work to reduce an entity’s carbon footprint , effectively manage waste , prevent pollution and conserve resources. Hence the role of ESG is pivotal in the future of our businesses.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

But take a walk through the Barbican's recent summer 2022 exhibition, and it is possible to see how both businesses and artists could learn much from each other - and indeed, how the future of the planet may even depend on these two worlds collaborating more closely. It is a view that dovetails with Ecosia's business model.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

Plans by biomass giant Drax to manufacture wood pellets sourced from Californian forests will endanger natural habitats and increase toxic air pollution for rural communities, campaigners warn. They are also concerned that the facilities could harm local communities, some of which face high health burdens. Indicator Maps.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The spokesperson added that food production must increase by 70 percent to keep pace with population growth, and complained that the common narrative on livestock was dictated by “simplistic negative conclusions of livestock’s role within rising global temperatures, nature decline and decreasing human health”.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2022

Hundreds of countries around the world have agreed to draw up an international treaty to tackle the devastating impacts of plastic pollution, in an "historic" UN-led decision today that could lead to legally-binding international commitments and targets to slash plastic waste levels and engineer a more circular economy. The work starts now!

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

This array of species and surfaces reduces fire intensity and promotes biodiversity. Since then, Pepperwood has provided a model of how combining science with local Indigenous research , knowledge, and practices can restore forest health and resiliency while mitigating the growing frequency and severity of fires.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

In March 2021, the JRC issued a report of its findings, and stated that it didn’t find any evidence that nuclear energy “does more harm to human health or to the environment” than other energy technologies included in the taxonomy. " — FORATOM (@FORATOM_nuclear) January 4, 2022.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Many of these arguments have been around for decades,” said Cóilín Nunan, a policy and scientific adviser to Alliance to Save Our Antibiotics, a coalition of health, sustainable farming, and civil society organisations. drug makers Elanco Animal Health Inc., Phibro Animal Health Corp., and Zoetis Inc. and Zoetis Inc.,

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The Environmental Defense Fund, the American Forest Foundation, American Forests, and TNC are also members of the Forest-Climate Working Group, a political advocacy organization, alongside scores of wood product companies, including Enviva and Drax, biomass energy behemoths whose carbon-intensive operations have polluted U.S.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 26, 2022

Improve societal well-being, health, educational access and support a green culture. The Costa Rican government launched its first National Adaptation Plan (NAP) in 2022. Deliver appropriate biodiversity, ecosystems, basin, and marine-coastal management to favor local communities. Promote ecotourism. Foster organic farming.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

On top of that, she will also take control of the UK's net zero and biodiversity agendas as Europe struggles with an energy crisis largely spurred by the Russia's invasion of Ukraine and countries around the world gear up for the crucial COP27 and COP15 UN summits this autumn. — Caroline Lucas (@CarolineLucas) September 5, 2022.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

“The implication is that the benefits of government policies and other actions that reduce global warming pollution are greater than has been assumed.”. One of Biden’s first executive actions called for publishing a new social cost of carbon by January 2022 along with recommendations for improving the way it is calculated.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. The ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution. billion years of evolution. No wonder he keeps an ammonite fossil in his bag.

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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. Examples of ESG-related risks include: Environmental : Climate change, greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), deforestation, biodiversity, waster, waste, and pollution.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

government’s embrace of “climate-smart” agriculture at COP27 will serve primarily to add a green veneer to plans to double down on polluting business as usual. Industrial agriculture is carbon intensive – and polluting. departments or agencies according to 2022 data from OpenSecrets , a Washington D.C.-

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 6, 2024

Sardone serves as the coordinator of the Identity and Democracy group on the European Parliament’s Environment, Public Health, and Food Safety Committee. In 2022, he posted on social media platform X that nitrogen policies are “leftist madness”. She began her political career in 2016 with Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

The compronmise agreement sees the Greens back Labour's proposals for a 'Safeguard Mechanism', which promises to regulate emissions from Australia's 215 biggest polluting coal and gas facilities without outright banning new fossil fuel projects.

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