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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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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Defend Our Future

MARCH 20, 2024

Young people worked hard to advocate for climate solutions in 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which put billions of dollars toward climate smart agriculture practices among other climate incentives and programs. Congress is currently re-authorizing the Farm Bill – a once-every-five-year law that sets the path for the U.S.’s

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Plans to lift ban on fracking and curtain legacy EU environmental laws and regulations announced today risk backlash from some of the government's own MPs. But Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg argued revoking EU law was a necessity now the UK has left the trading bloc.

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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. Again, the research doesn’t account for the cost of inaction.

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2020

Environment Secretary George Eustice has insisted the government's promises build back greener and protect UK nature and biodiversity after Covid-19 "means what it says", as he announced further details of post-Brexit plans for oversight of environmental laws and local planning.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

It calls on the recently launched OEP to formally investigate Defra's failure to set new targets covering areas such as biodiversity loss, water pollution, waste and recycling, and air quality ahead of a statutory deadline of 31 October. The proposal for an independent review of why the deadline was missed was also dismissed.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 14, 2023

After the welcome decision at the end of 2022 to reintroduce them, which is a huge cause for optimism, developers are now looking to onshore wind as an opportunity to invest in cheap, clean energy safe in the knowledge that planning laws are not working against them. . We expect to see uplift in planned onshore wind development.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2021

But environmental campaigners have argued that by focusing initially only on soils rather than a raft of other environmental issues, the scheme is too narrow in scope to content fully with the scale of the interlinked biodiversity and climate crises. With the chances of limiting average temperature rise to 1.5C

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Protesters in Mar del Plata, Argentina, on January 4, 2022, oppose the government’s plans for offshore drilling. January 4, 2022. There is no way that the oil industry can guarantee a low ‘risk’ or impact on biodiversity and, consequently, on the population,” he said. Credit: Radio La Revuelta. Credit: Radio La Revuelta.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2022

That is the stark conclusion of a new report from the Wildlife and Countryside Link group of conservation NGOs, which accuses the government of delivering "no appreciable progress" against its 30x30 goal, despite its continuing to call on other nations to adopt similar targets ahead of the upcoming COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Montreal.

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2020

And we will not be able to hide behind EU law when there are difficult decisions to make or indeed blame the EU when things don't work. It was a formidable piece of work which listed every piece of legislation we already had including laws like the Protection of Seals Act 1970. Instead we must learn to temper our own approach.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 5, 2022

“Emissions reduction to address #climatechange would need to be on the scale seen in the pandemic year after year, but in contrast with the adverse impacts of the pandemic, the options can actually improve quality of life.” – #IPCC Working Group III Vice-Chair @DianaUrge pic.twitter.com/cffTlThqxG — IPCC (@IPCC_CH) April 4, 2022.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2021

That is despite the Glasgow Climate Pact including a push for parties to come forward with more ambitious nationally-determined contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement in 2022. COP15: UN biodiversity summit meetings delayed over Omicron fears. Greece climate law aims to ditch lignite coal by 2028.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Europe’s leading farming lobby group Copa-Cogeca has used the war in Ukraine as a pretext to push back behind the scenes against flagship EU laws to protect nature, DeSmog can reveal. A total of 18 states are said to back a call for a reassessment of pesticide laws. We need to look at the interests behind that. Privileged Access.

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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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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. Our seas deserve better.".

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2022

So, fast forward a few years from now, could the same trend be repeated for nature-related risks such as biodiversity loss and habitat destruction? But the complexity of measuring the disparate risks from various forms of nature and biodiversity damage has proved to be hugely challenging.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Defra's decision to delay passage of nature targets into law sparks fierce criticism from campaigners. The government has confirmed it will miss its own deadline for setting legally-binding nature targets, prompting fears that critical action to protect biodiversity will be watered down or delayed.

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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

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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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Meanwhile, the COP15 Biodiversity Summit that is scheduled to be hosted in Montreal in December could take place without heads of government in attendance, according to reports this week from Climate Home News. European Parliament approves charging cable standard rules.

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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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals. A ban on glyphosate from 2022 could ramp up the company’s profits if its weedkiller replaces glyphosate products. Currently, Sumitomo’s weedkiller is used in vineyards and orchards in over 15 European Member States.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2023

McDonald’s is at the forefront of a campaign against new laws to reduce packaging waste in the EU, in what has been described by some insiders as the largest-scale lobbying effort they have ever witnessed in the European Parliament. The European Parliament is expected to vote on the law in the next 12 months.

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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.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

The US Clean Investment Monitor published its annual report for 2023, which saw clean investment total $239bn, up 38% from 2022. Winners include manufacturing, up 133% from 2022, and emerging climate technologies that saw a whopping 10x jump to $4.3bn. 14% of total investment came from the feds, with $33.7B of dollars put to work.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

MPs are urging the government to use the upcoming Budget to usher in a major transformation of the tax system to align the UK's spending plans with its net zero and biodiversity commitments, warning time is running short to deliver on its promise of a green economic recovery from the coronavirus crisis. Budget test.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

" — FORATOM (@FORATOM_nuclear) January 4, 2022. link] pic.twitter.com/DoYcWIHqeF — IIGCC (@IIGCCnews) January 12, 2022. The briefing also states that the nuclear lobby Foratom is a JRC partner for “training and recruitment structures, technology platforms and joint events.”.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 7, 2024

Scientists tell us that we’ve pushed the planet beyond its ability to support us in critical areas such as availability of water, biodiversity, and, of course, carbon emissions. The country was on track to add 150 gigawatts of solar this year (versus adding 87 gigawatts in 2022), more than the total capacity in the U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The UK Government is about to issue over 1,000 fishing licenses for EU and UK fishing vessels for 2022, it was announced on 16 December, permitting them to bottom trawl in UK Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). 3] ‘Protecting the global ocean for biodiversity, food and climate’ [link]. It will also see the recovery?of

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Enshrining goal to plant 30,000 trees each year by 2025 in law could help catalyse wider action on woodland, petition argues. It will lead to an increase in biodiversity, reconnect people with nature and help deliver on our net zero target," she said.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

It paves the way for a new Taxonomy Regulation which, due to come into force from 2022, will set out the framework and environmental objectives for the Taxonomy, while also establishing new legal obligations for financial firms, large companies, the EU and its member states.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 26, 2022

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. The Costa Rican government has prioritized sustainability through the enactment of green policies and laws. million per year.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Experts believe destruction of the biodiversity-rich Amazon rainforest - which has been nicknamed the 'lungs of the Earth' due to its vast natural carbon stores - has been nearing a tipping point, and Lula's victory yesterday is therefore viewed as a critical win for global action on preventing deforestation and ramping up climate action.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The United States doesn’t have any federal laws that say electric utilities have to switch to carbon-free power. 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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2022

While advocates promote it as a “carbon negative” climate solution, experts and campaigners have argued that BECCS is technically unproven, and that the practice poses risks for biodiversity, land and food security. In a submission on Thursday to California’s Draft 2022 Scoping Plan – the state’s climate strategy – Drax argued the U.S.

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