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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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

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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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Producers claim their animal feed comes from responsible sources and their livestock use land unsuitable for other uses, all the while supporting biodiversity and capturing carbon from the atmosphere through holistic or other types of “regenerative” grazing. cropland and help the U.S.

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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. EU Commission unveils strategy to 'fix broken relationship with nature'. Rwanda ramps up Paris Agreement pledge.

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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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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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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 21, 2020

Trees make the world a better place for humans by providing shade, sequestering CO2 , intercepting airborne particles, aiding respiratory health and adding great beauty to this planet we call home. Founded in 2014, One Tree Planted works on reforestation projects in North America, South America, Asia, Africa and Australia.

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The City Fix

MARCH 24, 2023

About two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities by 2050. While cities are hubs of innovation and opportunity, the increasing pace of urbanization also exacerbates inequality, stresses infrastructure, and fuels climate change, air pollution and other environmental problems.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 9, 2021

New golf course developments in Asia, the Middle East and Africa are incorporating sustainability into the design and implementation phases of their projects. These things are absolutely vital to the health and wellbeing of future generations, so we all need to do our best to make things better.” Particularly, Laguna L?ng

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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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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Health CLIMATE IMPACTS Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe by Mario Alejandro Ariza, 2020 A deeply reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist examines the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City -- a watery harbinger for coastal cities worldwide. Climate impacts 2.

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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). This work is particularly important in the context of Asia and Africa that account for 80% of the world’s population. YD: Why did the GFI expand to India?

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Grist

JULY 23, 2020

“We have a lot of examples of these actions curtailing risk,” said Aaron Bernstein, one of the paper’s authors and the interim director of the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard University’s School of Public Health. “So So we know that it’s possible — but we haven’t really invested at all.”.

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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. So, all roads in climate change still lead to Glasgow… just not in November. So what happens now?

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Though I still fundamentally believe biomass is better than regular fossil fuels, biodiversity and human rights issues are serious challenges when it comes to the production of biomass. Indeed, the prospect of rising demand in Asia and Africa partly explains why the UAE’s Adnoc aims to increase production capacity to five million b/d by 2030.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

She’s an advocate of " Absolute Sustainability, " a Quantis philosophy that challenges businesses to take planetary boundaries into account not just for carbon emissions but also for biodiversity, land use, freshwater consumption, the phosphorus cycle and the nitrogen cycle. . Health, wellness and nutrition are Camp’s key interests. .

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 11, 2019

Incredible heat blanketed four continents this summer, with records falling across Europe and Asia. Finally, Capetown, South Africa, is essentially out of water due in part to drought — the city nearly shut off all the taps this year, but has held off “Day Zero” through ongoing restrictions and aggressive citizen action.

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