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

GreenBiz

We need companies to make commitments that are specific to how they are addressing their supply chains," says Jessye Waxman, shareholder advocate with Green Century Capital Management, which has so far engaged dozens of businesses encouraging them to improve their "no deforestation" policies and practices. percent. . (The

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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.

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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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'They are not inevitable': How can businesses trigger clean tech tipping points in the 2020s?

Business Green

And I think the same argument would hold for other goals like reversing the decline of biodiversity and trying to become so-called 'nature positive' by 2030. We're seeing these interesting coalitions forming between civil society actors, policy, and finance," he says. It requires tipping points - self accelerating change.

Policy 36
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Is the golf industry doing enough to combat climate change?

AGreenLiving

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.”