DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

A review of press accounts, financial disclosures, and the companies’ websites shows this support aided these firms’ KFC-linked operations in up to 13 countries in Asia, Africa, and Europe. In South Africa, the IFC helped one KFC supplier bolster its operations across the region. The EBRD sold its stake in the company in 2019.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2022

Given the fundamental importance of the ocean to all life on Earth, it is striking that there has not yet been a serious scientific assessment at scale of marine chemical pollution and its impact on biodiversity and marine ecosystems, and the overall health of the ocean. A coordinated approach.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

They are also home to much of the world’s biodiversity, and regulate key aspects of the carbon cycle. In short, forests are vital in global and national efforts to combat climate change and biodiversity loss, and eradicate hunger and poverty. Around the world, 1.6

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2021

Update from NGO’s Global Forest Watch scheme highlights that deforestation of tropical forests crucial for biodiversity and storing carbon continue to rise. million hectares - an area roughly the size of the Netherlands - were humid tropical primary forests that are critical stores of carbon and hubs for biodiversity.

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Grist

JULY 23, 2020

Governments could also start new programs of surveillance, monitoring particular “hotspots” like West Africa and Southeast Asia, where new diseases are most likely to emerge. Worldwide, government spending on COVID-19 recovery has already topped $9 trillion. Salvation is cheap,” Bernstein said. For comparison, the U.S.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Outside of India, the GFI already has regional offices in Brazil, Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Israel, and Europe (London and Brussels). During his first year, Varun was the sole employee in India and was mostly focused on engaging with the government and scientists. There are now eight employees in Mumbai. .

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2022

BusinessGreen speaks to delegates at COP15 about how the dash for cash to protect biodiversity will impact investors and business. Finance and Biodiversity Day at the COP15 Biodiversity Summit got off to an explosive start yesterday morning, after developing nations walked out of talks on finance in the wee hours of the morning.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

Echoing the UK government's recent Dasgupta Review on the economic value of biodiversity, The Economic Case for Nature concludes that a failure to protect nature would risk a huge hit to economies worldwide, with countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia particularly exposed to host of escalating climate and nature-related risks.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2021

The Prime Minister is scheduled to address the opening session of the Climate Leaders Summit, which is being hosted by the Biden administration to coincide with Earth Day and step up pressure on governments around the world to strengthen their national climate action plans ahead of the crucial COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow this autumn.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

Announcing the new tie-up yesterday, the partners said they aimed to channel more than $2bn of private sector investment towards 20 new forestry projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America that would be developed in collaboration with local communities. The voluntary carbon market has long been the subject of intense debate.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

European Commission unveils sweeping biodiversity strategy, plus all the top green business news from around the world this week. Today, the central government sent a right signal to prioritise employment and poverty alleviation, and not to support further energy sector expansion.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

Much of the sustainability literature focuses on the Global North and on issues salient to policy makers in developed countries, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and ozone depletion. The special focus will be Sustainability Lessons in the Global South: Priorities, Opportunities, and Risks.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda that calls for governments and industry to work together to find new solutions to climate change–driven food insecurity. It also states that it will hold regular meetings with the Australian government before the summit.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

Announcing the new tie-up yesterday, the partners said they aimed to channel more than £2bn of private sector investment towards 20 new forestry projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America that would be developed in collaboration with local communities. The voluntary carbon market has long been the subject of intense debate.

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Business Green

JANUARY 25, 2021

Reforestation can capture CO2, boost biodiversity, and is a key component of many firms' net zero strategies, but handled incorrectly it can also have disastrous environmental impacts, scientists warn. Tree planting is now a very big deal. Corporate efforts to combat the issue have also largely failed.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

“Many of the things that might limit the viability of that as a mitigation technology are not necessarily included in the model, including competition with food, competition with ecosystems, the need to meet biodiversity goals, issues with land rights with respect to indigenous land titles,” Matthews told Grist.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 21, 2020

To mitigate the resulting plastic pollution , the Chinese government is set to enact a plastic ban, phasing out the production and use of several single-use plastic items by 2025, thanks to a detailed policy directive and timeline from the country’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). and North America at 0.9%.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

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.". At the same time, it is also well-recognised that forest conservation delivers significant biodiversity and ecosystem services co-benefits.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

Today has seen some of the starkest warnings yet on how the failure to grasp the severity of the impacts that climate change and biodiversity loss will have for human could trigger conflict, disease, and mass migration - how should businesses respond? The report draws on a raft of landmark reports published in recent years.

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2024

Strong income reductions are projected for the majority of regions, including North America and Europe, with South Asia and Africa being most strongly affected," said PIK scientist and co-author of the study, Maximilian Kotz. Such outcomes would trigger huge geo-political risks that could impact the entire global economy.

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Business Green

APRIL 2, 2020

In truth, since the full scale of Covid-19's impact on Europe, East Asia and North America started becoming clear, the decision to postpone this year's United Nations climate change summit into next year has only been a matter of time. The request for an early decision on postponement came from the UK government. So what happens now?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Last week, the Egyptian government said 90 world leaders had so far confirmed their attendance at COP27. Truss has also yet to confirm whether she plans to follow through on a promise she made over the summer to lead a delegation to the pivotal UN Biodiversity Summit in Canada in December. The government supports this amendment.".

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 3, 2023

Salmon is fed on other fish — small, oily, and nutritious pelagic species — which are harvested by the tonne off the West African coastline and pulverized into fishmeal and fish oil for export to Europe and Asia. Drax already receives over £800 million a year from the UK government to burn these pellets sourced from around the EU and the U.S.,

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

If the world warms more than 4C by 2100, the number of days with climatically stressful conditions for outdoor workers will increase by up to 250 workdays per year by century's end in some parts of South Asia, tropical sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Central and South America. That's the future our children have to contemplate.

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Low Impact

JUNE 30, 2021

Malaria was another huge challenge – then still rife in Asia, Africa and Southern Europe. In the last 6 months of 1916 in East Africa, 51,000 British troops were hospitalised due to malaria, and in the 1915-17 in the Balkans, nearly half of the troops were unfit for service for the same reason.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

Others are making waves in the business world from other perches, including government, consultancies, startups and environmental justice advocacy groups. He also worked with Nestlé while at McCann Enterprise to develop a low-technology platform for communicating nutrition and health information to low-literate consumers in equatorial Africa.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Today’s climate change headlines often seem at odds with each other. One day, it’s catastrophic wildfires wreaking havoc around the world; the next, it’s an optimistic piece on the rapid scale-up of solar and wind power. Taken together, such stories.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The International Energy Agency (IEA) forecasts that if governments continue with current policies, global demand will reach 121 million b/d by 2040. To accelerate electric car use, governments need to send the right economic signals. Yet when it comes to oil demand, there is little sign of this happening (3). million b/d in 1986.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Last year we saw devastating floods across Asia and Europe. Where people's ability to feed their families becomes precarious and extreme weather and diseases wipe out livelihoods, people may be forced from their homes, and civil unrest may ferment, events that can undermine fragile government, and reverberate around the globe.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa. It is the first book in a series on Climate Risk Management, Policy and Governance. Falling sea levels allowed our passage across the Bering Sea.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Mohamed Adow, director of think tank Power Shift Africa said the achievement came after three decades of appeals for help from climate impacted nations. "To The agreement was hailed by activists and developing countries as a major breakthrough. The phasedown of all fossil fuels is not in this text. was weak, and it remains on life support.".

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 11, 2019

government agencies issued the U.S. Incredible heat blanketed four continents this summer, with records falling across Europe and Asia. A “ B Corp ” certification requires answering an intensive set of questions on environmental, social, and governance issues. It wasn’t just the IPCC that told a stark story. Thirteen U.S.

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