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'Five times the size of London each year': BNP Paribas tots up the biodiversity footprint of its investments

Business Green

Banking giant takes a stab at caclulating biodiversity impacts of its financing activities for first time, as it looks to meet requirements of new French nature reporting law. From there, it calculated its own headline biodiversity footprint.

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Still in the dark about targets? Observers respond to the UK government’s Environment Bill

Envirotec Magazine

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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'Leaving our climate laggard status behind': Northern Ireland's net zero climate target to pass into law

Business Green

The passage of the Bill into law will mean that all the devolved nations of the UK now have their own dedicated climate legislation in place, alongside the overarching target set through the UK-wide Climate Change Act. Friends of the Earth can finally welcome a climate law for Northern Ireland," the group said.

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What is Climate Smart Ag?

Defend Our Future

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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Sowing Doubt: How Big Ag is Delaying Sustainable Farming in Europe

DeSmogBlog

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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'This is a crucial 12 months': CCC demands stronger UK net zero efforts in 2022

Business Green

The intervention from the CCC came as the government faced criticism over a key pillar of its post-Brexit farming subsidy scheme unveiled today, which is set to see around 1,000 farmers incentivised to improve soil health from next year. With the chances of limiting average temperature rise to 1.5C

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A government program hopes to find critical minerals right beneath our feet

Grist

The initiative was quietly humming along to the tune of about $11 million per year in funding until 2022, when Earth MRI received an additional influx of $320 million , spread out over five years, through the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. But the benefits of extracting those minerals, Riofrancos said, “should not be presumed.”