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What Jeremy Leggett did next: The British solar pioneer turning his hand to 'ethically profitable' rewilding

Business Green

Highlands Rewilding's plan is to turn the two estates into biodiverse carbon sinks through "ethically profitable land management", with the close involvement of the local communities, with hopes of then expanding the model to further lands across the region. "And So that's my aspiration."

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Is the golf industry doing enough to combat climate change?

GreenBiz

New golf course developments in Asia, the Middle East and Africa are incorporating sustainability into the design and implementation phases of their projects. Particularly, Laguna L?ng 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.".

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Low carbon diamonds? De Beers pledges to reach carbon neutrality across operations by 2030

Business Green

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.

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Fighting deforestation should be a top priority for 2021, and here’s how it can be

GreenBiz

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. . Map your sourcing. You can’t do anything if you don’t know where to do it.".

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'The narrative really has to change': Professor Dasgupta on why family planning should be on the environmental agenda

Business Green

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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Why Google products are getting an eco-focused upgrade

Business Green

The tool can analyse how different fibres relate to environmental factors such as air pollution, biodiversity, climate and greenhouse gases; as well as how their farming impacts the communities around them - and crucially, suggest easy-to-implement alternative actions, like sourcing fibres from certified providers.

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These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health

GreenBiz

This is not because food is more expensive in Africa than it is in the United States. It drives most of the food and beverage industry climate impacts, threatens biodiversity and water, as well as habitat for people and animals. Au contraire, it is the reverse. Conscious consumers give me hope. People voting with their dollars.

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