Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

A UK-qualified barrister, environmental policy expert, and former journalist and theatre critic, Shine brings huge experience to the role gained during a varied career that has spanned four continents and many sectors including business, law, policy, media, and the arts. Courtice said Shine would be "an outstanding director" of CISL.

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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

MARCH 14, 2022

The case for action is clear and many businesses, investors and policy makers are asking big questions in search of the best solutions, such as: Should we be growing insects to feed animals instead of importing soy linked to deforestation? There is noticeable improvement in biodiversity, soil health and rebalancing of ecosystems.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 3, 2023

Salmon is fed on other fish — small, oily, and nutritious pelagic species — which are harvested by the tonne off the West African coastline and pulverized into fishmeal and fish oil for export to Europe and Asia. In 2023, DeSmog will be looking more into the aquaculture industry, its impacts, and where it seeks to influence policy.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Specifically, the new Carbon Mapper Accelerator will: Immediately expand airborne mapping of methane super-emitters across the Americas, Europe, and Africa — providing timely, open-source data that can inform climate policy and action in advance of the 2023 deployment of the satellite constellation.

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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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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2023

He stressed that policies were urgently needed to help farm businesses manage high input costs while maintaining the UK's food security, calling on the government to boost access to low-carbon alternative fertilisers and reward farmers for restoring trees and hedges that can absorb carbon and hold water which could help reduce drought impacts.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 21, 2020

To mitigate the resulting plastic pollution , the Chinese government is set to enact a plastic ban, phasing out the production and use of several single-use plastic items by 2025, thanks to a detailed policy directive and timeline from the country’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). and North America at 0.9%.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

These companies are stepping up their game because the exposure they are facing is stepping up,” says Jennifer Jacquet, Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Miami. “It Just seven percent are based in Africa. rise in temperature that risks tipping the world into irreversible climate breakdown.

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 6, 2021

Intact tropical forests, in particular, play an outsized role in carbon uptake, to say nothing of their wealth of biodiversity (a single hectare of tropical forest can contain as many plant species as all the native species of western Europe). But why in the Amazon and not in Africa? Source: Hubau et al.,

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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. For example, while Brazilian meat giant JBS reported emissions of 7.14

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2022

In recent years, leading green groups have branded the 21st century drive to ramp up the use of biofuels in transport - set in motion by late 2000s-era EU and US renewable fuels targets - as a " fiasco ", a " scandal " and " Europe's dumbest climate policy ". Regulatory and industry momentum. The remaining 1.2

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

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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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

New Zealand is beginning to ease restrictions; the UK reports an overall declining trend in infection; fast-tracked clinical trials of a vaccine are well under way; and in some parts of Europe, people are beginning to step out, blinking into the light as some shops and schools gradually re-open. Lockdown has been a testing time for all of us.

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Business Green

JULY 30, 2021

The crucial COP15 UN biodiversity summit in Kunming, China, which had been set to take place in October is now facing yet another delay, with Covid-19 concerns now likely to now push back the critical nature talks into early 2022, according to reports. South Africa calls for global climate adaptation target.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

“When the voice of African farmers and communities is not brought to the negotiating table, we end up with flawed initiatives like Aim4C,” said Anne Maina, from the Biodiversity and Biosafety Association of Kenya. “A Africa has workable alternatives right here at home, for resilient agriculture that works with nature.”. subsidiary.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

  In other news the EU parliament passed a law to restore 20% of the EU’s land and sea by 2030, England requires all new buildings to improve biodiversity, and the US Congress finds something they can agree on with nuclear policy, while the SEC may be set to announce watered down rules on reporting. 

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

On top of that, she will also take control of the UK's net zero and biodiversity agendas as Europe struggles with an energy crisis largely spurred by the Russia's invasion of Ukraine and countries around the world gear up for the crucial COP27 and COP15 UN summits this autumn.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Many of these arguments have been around for decades,” said Cóilín Nunan, a policy and scientific adviser to Alliance to Save Our Antibiotics, a coalition of health, sustainable farming, and civil society organisations. These groups represent pharmaceutical companies that manufacture animal antibiotics, including U.S. All three U.S.-based

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Last year we saw devastating floods across Asia and Europe. It is because climate is central to geopolitics, that the UK's Integrated Review established tackling climate change and biodiversity loss as the UK's top international priority. And it means asking all countries to turn their NDCs into policies and plans to deliver.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 2, 2022

Climate change, biodiversity, customer relations, supply chains, board management practices, data, and security…these all fall under the ESG heading. For instance, according to a recent survey by the CFA Institute , ESG-linked loans to companies in Europe have more than quadrupled – from €27 billion in 2017 to €102 billion in 2019.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa. Conclusively tracking the history of misinformation from the 18th century through today's anti-immigration policies, The Next Great Migration makes the case for a future in which migration is not a source of fear, but of hope.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2021

As such, he is set to directly call on the 40 heads of major economies who are slated to attend the virtual meeting to come to the Kunming Biodiversity Summit in October and the Glasgow Climate Summit in November "armed with ambitious targets and the plans required to reach them".

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

🏃‍♀️ And the race is on: After a decade of corporates and governments tripping over one another to pledge allegiance to net zero, the race is on for who will be the first and biggest mover to start decarbonizing—such as the first green methanol-powered container ship in Europe. in Europe).

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The City Fix

JANUARY 24, 2024

Last year shattered global heat records. The world witnessed the effects of rising temperatures in the form of devastating wildfires, severe flooding, extreme heatwaves and more. Poor countries and communities who have contributed the least to causing the climate crisis.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

I worked for the United Nations for several years as a law and policy adviser and have been involved in international negotiations. These interactions are based on months of prior discussions, policy papers and proposals prepared by groups of states, U.N. What is COP26? staff and other experts. F) by the end of the century.

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Business Green

APRIL 9, 2021

Stark warnings issued over record greenhouse gas emissions and escalating biodiversity threats. A triptych of sobering new reports have this week highlighted the scale of the climate and biodiversity crises engulfing the world. South Africa announces strengthened 2030 emissions goal. It's going to change allocation of capital.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 1, 2021

Areas of interest: Personalized medicine, Bioinformatics, Public health policy, Environmental sustainability, Sanitation, Water, Ecology, Biodiversity, and Science education and communication. He/Him) Energy Policy Manager, Maryland Energy Administration Baltimore, MD, USA New York Department of Education (‘17).

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

It's interesting to discuss SDG17 at the moment," reflects Hans Daems, group public affairs officer at Hitachi Europe. Bilateral ODA (overseas development assistance) to least developed countries fell by three per cent in real terms from 2017, aid to Africa fell by four per cent, and humanitarian aid fell by eight per cent," the UN said.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 10, 2021

As part of the European Green Deal, the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 committed to planting at least three billion additional trees in the EU by 2030. It is one part of our efforts to fight climate change and stop biodiversity loss. Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Virginijus Sinkevi? "It

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

When it comes to those shaping the corporate climate movement — either from within companies or as part of NGOs and policy organizations that recognize the critical role businesses must play in addressing the climate emergency — I’m grateful to say it’s becoming easier to find women with a seat at the decision-making table.

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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. . Africa counts more entrepreneurs than any other continent.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In either case, this wasn’t on our bingo card… In the news, the British government passed new reforms to speed up interconnection, Colombia launched a $1B biodiversity fund, the US released $6B in funding for climate resiliency, and the US and China made modest progress on methane reduction at APEC.  Or a red herring?

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 11, 2019

All of this suggests that business must dramatically change how it operates : companies will need to push well past their comfort zones from areas like politics and policy to engaging consumers to how they make investment decisions. Incredible heat blanketed four continents this summer, with records falling across Europe and Asia.

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