GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In particular, our exchange explored how food systems can be made healthier and more sustainable as we look to a future in which we’ll need to find a way to produce enough food to nourish as many as 10 billion people while staying within planetary boundaries. Jennifer Ballen, head of global market operations, Indigo Ag.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2022

In a communique published at the close of a three-day Energy and Environment Ministerial meeting in Berlin this week, the world's largest economies set out their priorities for tackling the intersecting climate, biodiversity, and pollution crises, and responding to the disruption to energy markets wrought by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

With its unparalleled purchasing power and exacting demands, fast food has long shaped agricultural systems in the United States, Europe, and China. 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.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 11, 2020

For the longest time, mangrove resources have been used primarily for wood harvesting, barely taking into account the important role they play in biodiversity and shoreline protection. Continued deforestation of mangrove areas disturbs habitats and damages biodiversity, a key effect of this being the decline in fishery yields.

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2023

Investors have a responsibility to ensure future generations are left with a planet rich in biodiversity, argues ShareAction's Eve Gleeson The emeritus defender of our planet and its species, Sir David Attenborough, has returned to our screens in recent weeks to talk about the wonders of British wildlife.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 6, 2024

This ambition sets the stage for a detailed exploration of the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead, each aspect contributing to the blueprint of a sustainable energy future. The proximity to these markets is crucial as demand for green hydrogen – a cleaner energy alternative – grows globally.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

While the rate of annual deforestation slowed to about 25 million acres between 2015 and 2020, the trendlines in several regions — especially countries in Africa and South America — aren’t moving in the right direction. percent. . So far, 60 percent of the beef it sources is "deforestation-free," according to Aramark.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

Corporate investment in carbon offsets is helping to fund a project in West Africa that is delivering on multiple Sustainable Development Goals through its protection of precious forest habitats and its services for local communities. The Upper Guinean Forest of West Africa is one of only three forested biodiversity hotspots in Africa.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

We know that there is demand from shoppers for greener products, with 62 per cent of consumers saying they want to buy from sustainable brands, and the wine category is no different," said Caroline Thompson-Hill, managing director for Europe at Accolade Wines.

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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. Want to find out more about how the net zero transition will impact your business?

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 6, 2022

World leaders, CEOs, climate advocates, scientists and sustainable development specialists from around the world converged on New York City last week, for the annual, concurrent rituals of the United Nations General Assembly and ClimateWeek. According to the African Development Bank, Africa has received less than 5.5%

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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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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.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In addition to generating renewable power, the solar farm has been designed to enable agricultural activity such as livestock grazing to continue at the same site, while Lightsource BP is also investing around £560,000 to implement a biodiversity plan for the site.

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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.

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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". World Bank statistics suggest 1.3

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Professor Dr Johan Rockström, Potsdam University – specialises in environmental science with an emphasis on water resources and global sustainability. Dr Tero Mustonen, Snowchange Cooperative – specialises in Arctic biodiversity and impacts to Indigenous and local communities and nomadic societies of the Arctic. beyond CO?)

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Economist sits down with BusinessGreen to discuss the response to his landmark review into the economics of biodiversity. That was entirely against the review, which took family planning, in Africa, for example, to be an extremely important expenditure. The topic may be contentious, but it should not be ignored, Dasgupta argued.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

“There is substantial uncertainty as to whether these largely unproven technologies can be deployed as quickly, and at the scale required, and just how sustainable they are,” Price continued. Damon Matthews, a climate scientist at Concordia University stressed that this was a significant assumption that ignores questions about sustainability.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Rodgers defends meat-eating as sustainable and has spoken against measures to curb its consumption in rich countries. Typically, the talk is about demand side interventions, like you can get schools or, or individuals to give up meat,” she says. Just seven percent are based in Africa.

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Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2020

Government unveils proposals designed to help curb deforestation linked to demand for forest-related products from UK consumers. Recent decades have seen deforestation become a major global driver of climate change and biodiversity loss, particularly in tropical regions. World Bank statistics suggest 1.3

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The firm, which operates mines in Canada, Botswana, South Africa, and Namibia, has also committed to halving its water footprint and achieving a "net positive impact" on biodiversity by the end of the decade, in addition to disclosing the origin and impact of every diamond it discovers and sells in the same time frame. "We

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2022

As countries meet in New York this week to discuss marine environmental protection efforts, campaigners are demanding a fresh global treaty to tackle the problem. Squids are regarded as vital species for sustaining marine environments, as they are both predator and prey, which gives them a key role in food webs. million people.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Sustainable farming campaigners such as the U.K. Sustainable farming campaigners such as the U.K. Animal agriculture isn’t a serious driver of climate change’ Meat industry leaders are increasingly marketing meat as sustainable, arguing that meat production in countries such as the U.S.

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2022

Demand for biofuels has seen significant tracts of land, much of it the Global South, repurposed for energy crop production, a trend that campaigners have blamed for driving deforestation and biodiversity destruction while exacerbating food insecurity. Regulators and investors have taken note.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

By the end of 2021, the company said it had sourced enough renewable energy to cover 85 per cent of demand across its business. In addition to providing renewable power to Amazon's operations in the region, the company said this project would also provide economic benefits to the local economy and the region's biodiversity.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

George Monbiot's latest book, Regenesis , is the latest in a string of studies to warn how essentially extractive agricultural practices are damaging soils and biodiversity to such an extent that food security is being threatened. The outlook is certainly worrying. Riverford Organic Farms founder Guy Singh-Watson | Credit: Riverford.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 9, 2021

The golf industry, for one, is increasing its efforts to promote environmental sustainability and marketing to the general public its desire to embrace a more diverse demographic. Over the last few years, the golf industry has made strides towards being more “sustainable,” but is it enough? In the U.S.

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

With a historic G7 summit rolling into Cornwall in just a few weeks' time, the CBI was proud to convene the B7 summit, of global business leaders from across the G7 countries along with India, Australia, South Africa and South Korea earlier this month. That demands even closer partnership between government and business.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 2, 2022

Ideological shifts in business demand effective ESG reporting. Climate change, biodiversity, customer relations, supply chains, board management practices, data, and security…these all fall under the ESG heading. How ESG reporting differs from sustainability reporting. ESG reporting meets stakeholder demand.

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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. 1500 tons were collected in 1942.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

It is a testament and recognition of the decades-long commitment of Greenpeace activists to demand climate protection and stay below the 1.5C The ideological gap is narrowest in the countries where citizens are most concerned about climate change: Brazil, South Africa and Mexico.".

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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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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Earlier this year, for example, Shell struck a deal which will see three million clean cookstoves distributed across East Africa. To date, Verra has accredited more than 1,700 projects, ranging from the Shell cookstoves initiative to a conservation scheme that safeguards a swathe of richly biodiverse rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In particular, our exchange explored how food systems can be made healthier and more sustainable as we look to a future in which we’ll need to find a way to produce enough food to nourish as many as 10 billion people while staying within planetary boundaries. Au contraire, it is the reverse. Long-lived, profitable habits are hard to change.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Second, that inaction or delayed action on climate will create immense risks and costs,and populations across the world demand leaders to respond - and to respond now. Sustainable investments have now reached 4 trillion dollars. This is just the beginning - the tectonic shift towards sustainable investing is still accelerating.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

While the rate of annual deforestation slowed to about 25 million acres between 2015 and 2020, the trendlines in several regions — especially countries in Africa and South America — aren’t moving in the right direction. percent. So far, 60 percent of the beef it sources is “deforestation-free,” according to Aramark.

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