Planet Pulse

JUNE 21, 2021

The EU Green Deal , Europe’s ambitious sustainability strategy, outlines a path forward to becoming the first climate neutral continent by 2050. In tandem, Europe has also launched a new 2030 Biodiversity Strategy which requires Member States to commit to important targets to restore biodiversity. The panel included: .

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 16, 2020

We are facing a biodiversity crises and the actions we take this year will determine the fate of life on Earth. Biodiversity loss has a cascade of impacts which is why it is tied to the Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGs ). Biodiversity was a salient theme at the G7 Summit in August.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2022

C of heating by 2050, unless vital action is taken to rapidly reduce the ecological impacts of housing. Researchers estimate that by 2050 12% of the carbon budget for 1.5°C As well as potentially conflicting with England’s carbon budget, housing expansion also may well conflict with England’s national biodiversity targets.

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Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2021

China and UN confirm plans to split key negotiations for potential global treaty for biodiversity into two parts, with virtual talks set for October followed by in-person meeting next year. We need to tackle the biodiversity crisis head on, and this delay will not mean taking our foot off the pedal," he said. "As

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2021

Coffee requires huge amount of resources to cultivate and is typically farmed in tropical and subtropical areas that are home to the world's greatest stores of forest carbon sinks and biodiversity. Meanwhile, global coffee production is expected to double by 2050 to meet soaring global demand.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2021

Green campaigners have urged the government to set a legally-binding target to halve resource consumption by 2050, arguing that by doing so it would set a global example as it gears up to host the pivotal COP26 Climate Summit this autumn. Green Alliance argues UK needs a 'new vision for resource use' in report published this morning.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 2, 2020

UN summit confronts Global biodiversity crisis. Global leaders gathered virtually this week to discuss the environmental crisis that is devastating the world's ecosystems, at the inaugural UN Summit on Biodiversity, a event designed as a primer for the delayed, crucial COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Kunming, China, next year.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

restated its commitment to achieving “biodiversity net gain” from the project – something HS2 Ltd has so far failed to adopt. HS2 Ltd, the public company responsible for building HS2, has never subscribed to biodiversity net gain, instead opting for the less beneficial goal of “no net loss”.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Achieving climate goals will likely require tripling annual renewable capacity by 2030 and then scaling dramatically up to 2050. For this to happen, the world must wake up and attendees must come to COP28 ready to join forces to help remove these barriers or risk meaningful progress slipping through our fingers.

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2021

It said the fund would "emphasise investment" in companies with lower-carbon footprint, those transitioning their emissions to a Paris Agreement-aligned strategy, and those providing climate and environmental solutions, including on issues such as waste, pollution, water use, and biodiversity.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

Dave Webb, a biodiversity specialist at the Environment Agency and chair of the London Rivers Restoration Group, said: “Restoring and rewilding London’s rivers is a no-regret action that we can take now to reduce the impact of extreme events and the long-term effect of the climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2023

National climate strategies set out how countries plan to reduce emissions, for example by phasing out fossil-fuel use, to get to net-zero in 2050. Nature-based removals, such as using forests and soils, remain vital to address challenges in biodiversity and climate adaptation, but may be risky if used as the only way to remove carbon.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2023

Previously, the CCC recommended an "ambitious" climate pathway for Northern Ireland that would see it achieve an 83 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 against 1990 levels, with carbon removal efforts then required across Britain for the UK as a whole to achieve its net zero by 2050 target.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

When you talk about biodiversity and conservation, there is no value," said prominent Brazilian chef Alex Atala, who runs the world-renowned restaurant D.O.M. When you taste biodiversity, there’s a new meaning and new value." . trillion in annual benefits by 2050. in São Paulo. We want people to enjoy it.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

degrees Celsius by 2050. suggests that adding 2.5 billion acres of forest to the world could limit global warming to 1.5 But some researchers aren't so sure.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

Trees, woodlands and forests play a vital role removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and nurturing biodiversity. “Expanding the UK’s trees, woodlands and forests will play an important role in realising the government’s ambition to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050,” says a government press release.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Britain’s cities need urgent transformation in the next decade and beyond if the country is to meet its 2050 net zero targets and create cleaner, safer spaces for citizens, according to a study from E.ON and the UK Green Building Council.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2021

As much as $8.1tr global investment in protecting, conserving and restoring the natural world is required over the next 30 years in order to tackle the interlinked climate, biodiversity and land degradation crises, with annual finance needing to triple by 2030, according to the UN-led study.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 13, 2022

Meanwhile, overuse of fertilisers and sewage pollution pump millions of tonnes of phosphorus into lakes and rivers each year, damaging biodiversity and affecting water quality. Global food security remains threatened as many farmers struggle to afford sufficient phosphorus fertiliser for their crops.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 5, 2021

Use of resources has tripled (automatic PDF download) since 1970 and could double again by 2050 if business continues as usual. Protect human health and biodiversity. This pollution also threatens biodiversity. percent gets recycled and used again. We would need 1.5 Earths to sustainably support our current resource use.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Spinoff benefits could include improved biodiversity; flood and erosion mitigation; increased crop yields (important in terms of a growing global population); better animal health and welfare; a reduced need for artificial fertilisers and therefore less pollution; and enhanced nutritional value of food produced.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 7, 2020

Planting tiny urban forests can boost biodiversity and fight climate change Alex Thornton Fri, 08/07/2020 – 00:30 How much space do you think you need to grow a forest? They act as oases for biodiversity, supporting up to 20 times as many species as non-native, managed forests. Photo by Rap Dela Rea on Unsplash. Close Authorship.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Writing in the journal Building and Environment , the group said that, while the concept is relatively new, it seems to open other potential benefits, in relation to things like biodiversity. Living walls can offer improved air quality, noise reduction and elevated health and well-being.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 7, 2023

However, Beyond energy: monetising biomethane’s whole system benefits 1 shows that ‘in 2030, the whole system benefits of biomethane production in the EU27 + UK could range from €38-78 billion per year, rising to €133-283 billion by 2050.’ HRS DCS (Digestate Concentration System) for improved management and handling of digestate.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The report considers what shape the world will be in by 2050. billion, by 2050, ‘2050 Scenarios: Four Plausible Futures’ depict how we could live in 2050, based on the intersection between our planet’s health and societal conditions. With the global population expected to increase by 2 billion people, from 7.7

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Ideas 4 Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Originally posted on SCIENCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY : The impacts of human population growth, consumption and expansion of cities and rural dwellings affect biodiversity worldwide. However, often the biodiversity and rural impacts of local population growth have only been considered in the Global North.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 1, 2020

As part of its long-term strategy, Shell declared a net-zero emissions target by 2050 back in April. . Broadly focused on the fossil fuels company's digital transformation, the applications being built collaboratively by the two companies are aimed at measuring carbon emissions — both Shell's and those of its suppliers and customers.

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Eco-Business

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The conditions for membership include policies on biodiversity, human rights, and diversity to mark the 25th anniversary of WBCSD, whose 200 members include Shell, Dupont, DBS Bank, Petronas, Ayala, PepsiCo and Philip Morris.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Continuing current rates of environmental degredation will result in costs of at least £368bn a year, the WWF's Global Futures report calculates, leading to total losses of £8tr by 2050. The study also estimates economic costs arising from the loss of specific ecosystem services.

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Business Green

MAY 4, 2022

Danish energy firm is aiming to achieve a 'net positive' impact on biodiversity across all of its new projects from 2030. Coral reefs harbour the highest biodiversity of any ecosystem globally, in addition to supporting the livelihoods and sustenance of over 500 million people worldwide.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 7, 2020

billion over the next five years to meet its net-zero by 2050 aspirations. A deeper commitment to biodiversity, through a multicropping initiative and the use of more grain varieties (such as spelt and oats) in its recipes. Heather Clancy. Mon, 12/07/2020 - 02:00.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2023

A new global philanthropic initiative to help mobilise the estimated $3tr a year needed to deliver net zero emissions, reverse nature loss, and restore biodiversity by 2050 was launched this week at the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Davos Summit. gigatons of avoided CO2 emissions by 2050. warming pathway "hangs in the balance".

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2023

While 2050 may seem distant, without an immediate step-change in implementation the UK will miss its 2030 target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 68% and be off track for the mid-century goal of net zero. The review highlights the energy policy priorities for the next government – whether Conservative, Labour or a coalition.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

The government is to "establish tackling climate change and preserving biodiversity as the UK's number one international priority in the decade ahead". In 2021 and beyond, Her Majesty's Government will make tackling climate change and biodiversity loss its number one international priority," Johnson wrote in the foreword to the report.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

All members of the Net Zero Financial Services Providers Alliance must commit to aligning "all relevant products and services" to achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 at the latest.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The world's top diplomat used a speech today at the UN headquarters in New York City to deliver a characteristically stark warning of the impending climate and biodiversity crises facing the world, noting global warming risks "hurtling past" the 1.5C threshold without urgent action this decade. 2023 is a year of reckoning," said Guterres. "It

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