Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

UK aid from the Biodiverse Landscapes Fund earmarked for six projects in fragile ecosystems around the world. Our Biodiverse Landscapes Fund will invest in six of the most environmentally critical landscapes, spanning 18 countries across the globe, to help to combat climate change and protect rare and endangered species.".

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

He said it was exciting to see the strong focus on forests at this week’s UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) underway in Egypt, with Australia joining world leaders in committing to halting forest loss and land degradation by 2030.

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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." . An unintended impact of urbanization in South Africa is shifting relationships with food.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Start-ups and innovators aiming to deploy technologies that can enhance farmers’ resilience to water, climate, and biodiversity impacts invited to apply for funding. Innovators, companies, and start-ups have been invited by the multinational drinks brand to apply for seed funding to develop their technologies before 7 October.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In the Seychelles archipelago in East Africa, flooding and erosion caused by rising sea levels pose an imminent threat to the country’s many low-lying islands. At the same time its mangrove forests, which serve as a vital buffer against these.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 3, 2020

New benchmark shows that biodiversity is in fashion Liesl Truscott Thu, 12/03/2020 – 01:00 This week, in advance of World Soil Day — Dec. 5 — the Textile Exchange Corporate Fiber and Materials Benchmark (CFMB) Program is launching a new tool to help the fashion and textile industry take urgent action on biodiversity.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

From our favorites like bees and butterflies, to the lesser appreciated organisms such as wasps and mosquitoes, insects are facing threats such as climate change, and a myriad of other ills such as habitat loss and pesticide use. More than 89,000 insect species were assessed in the study. .

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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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Business Green

JULY 1, 2020

To coincide with new sustainability strategy agri-business giant Syngenta releases poll showing growing concern worldwide about impact of climate change on crop yields and farmers. Indeed, 63 per cent said climate change would have a greater impact on their business than coronavirus over the next five years, according to the poll.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Their goal is to make rangelands a prominent part of policy discussions around everything from confronting climate change to reducing poverty, managing threats to biodiversity and freshwater, and developing sustainable food systems.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 16, 2023

Urgent action is needed to shift food and agriculture from a driver of climate change and biodiversity loss to a solution, with positive outcomes for producers, companies and consumers. Other companies and industry allies can join us with strong, methane-specific targets and reporting as part of climate strategies.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 9, 2021

Is the golf industry doing enough to combat climate change? Aubrey McCormick Fri, 04/09/2021 – 02:00 Sports leagues are seeing the impacts and the surge of climate-responsible athletes using their platforms to promote positive environmental and social impact — it’s something for the history books. Particularly, Laguna L?ng

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

Sweeping new strategy aims to place climate action at heart of UK foreign and security policy. The government is to "establish tackling climate change and preserving biodiversity as the UK's number one international priority in the decade ahead". The UK was the first advanced economy to set a net zero target for 2050.

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The City Fix

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

“Climate change is affecting cities all around the world, and Freetown is no exception.” That’s what Eugenia Kargbo, Freetown’s Chief Heat Officer, told UrbanShift during the City Academy hosted in Kigali last year. Through her role—the first of its kind in.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Climate change and the loss of nature are two intersecting crises that face the global economy. This nine-month climate-biodiversity season kicks off with the opening of Biodiversity COP15 from 11th October, moves to the COP26 climate summit later in the month and completes with the second part of COP15 in May 2022.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Nature-based solutions can play an essential role in tackling climate change, but at the same time, the climate crisis is having a severe impact on the natural world. "In Naylor added: "Biodiversity and water stewardship are explicit components of our commitment to taking action on climate. The company's 2.5

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

Despite the reductions in air travel and the global economic slowdown caused by the pandemic, climate change sadly has not slowed down this past year. degrees C cap on average warming that governments pledged to aim for when they signed the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement to avoid dangerous climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Without significant international fiscal policy revisions such as this, we will categorically lose our fight against climate change, where climate-related disasters become our only certainty.”. Professor Lavanya Rajamani, Oxford University – specialist in the field of international environmental and climate change law.

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2024

Major new analysis from the Potsdam Institute warns climate impacts through to 2050 could do significantly more economic damage than previously expected How bad could it get? One of the biggest uncertainties surrounding climate change is precisely how severe climate impacts could prove to be.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 14, 2023

Planet co-founder and CEO Will Marshall joined Andrew Steer , President and CEO of the Bezos Earth Fund and previous President and CEO of the World Resource Institute, for a fireside chat on the importance of addressing climate change and using satellite data to enable a global sustainability transformation.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Overall, twenty-six biodiversity projects will enhance, restore and create more than 1,700 acres (690 hectares) of woodlands, grasslands, peatlands and wetlands across every region of England. These birds are summer visitors to the UK and winter in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2023

Protecting existing populations and restoring others to their natural habitats often improves the natural capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide within ecosystems, according to a study published today in the journal Nature Climate Change. Wildebeest are particularly effective allies in the climate fight. “One

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2021

The government said the funding would help cut millions of tonnes of carbon emissions and improve the lives of over 600,000 people in tropical forest communities across Africa, Asia and Latin America. We are clear that there is no pathway to tackling climate change that does not involve the recovery of nature.".

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Our science track demonstrated the robust research applications for Planet’s datasets, highlighting key findings in climate change and carbon farming initiatives. Catherine Nakalembe to discuss how satellite data can provide critical insights for food production and management in Africa.

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The City Fix

MARCH 24, 2023

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. About two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities by 2050.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 18, 2024

In Latin America and the Caribbean, the energy future is complex, balancing security, equity and sustainability amidst climate and political shifts. Similarly, Africa is confronting a critical phase in its energy development, characterised by rising demand, security challenges and a transition towards cleaner energy.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Related: California fires killed nearly 20 percent of the world’s Sequoias The researchers say these findings prove it is not too late to correct the mistakes that have led to climate change. Apart from mitigating deforestation’s side effects, it also helps restore and retain the forest’s original biodiversity.

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Grist

OCTOBER 17, 2019

As many as five billion people will face hunger and a lack of clean water by 2050 as the warming climate disrupts pollination, freshwater, and coastal habitats, according to new research published last week in Science. People living in South Asia and Africa will bear the worst of it. biodiversity report released this spring.

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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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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The launch of the UN biodiversity talks in Montreal this week has prompted yet another report that attempts to put a financial value on the services nature provides to the global economy. A new report has pinned the overall value of nature markets at a huge $10tr - but will it cut through with decision makers at COP15?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Dubbed the Shared Wood Company, the new venture aims to develop "sustainable agricultural and forestry practices" across Africa, Latin America and Europe that either suck carbon from the air or prevent carbon being emitted. Our planet is overheating," he said. "We

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Grist

AUGUST 28, 2023

Around the world, leaves play a critical central role in staving off the worst impacts of climate change. Still, the Amazon covers a land area roughly twice the size of India , and is among the most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth, with over 3 million species of flora and fauna.

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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. Building greater awareness is essential.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 6, 2022

First and foremost, there will be a much stronger focus on climate adaptation , rather than solely on mitigation. Today, 90% of climate finance is focused on mitigation – stopping the sources of climate change at their origin, rather than adapting to their effects. They are nearly-perfect mirror images.).

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Chris Brown, sustainable sourcing director at Asda, said he welcomed the government's moves to combat supply chain deforestation, but that the current plans "will not do enough to protect the fragile ecosystems that will reduce the risk of catastrophic climate change". "We World Bank statistics suggest 1.3

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2021

Thandile Chinyavanhu, Greenpeace climate and energy campaigner in South Africa, hailed the achievement as a "testament to the world's ability to achieve a common goal - together". Africa's governments must give no more excuses for the fossil fuel industry.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

At the 1992 Rio Summit on climate change, the principle of Common But Differentiated Responsibilities (CBDR) was established. In turn this undermines the traction of the climate activists mantra "global problem, global solution" and makes those pronouncing it seem blinkered at best and naive at worst.

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