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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North America Biodiversity Agriculture South America 130

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

The certification from consultancy the Carbon Trust means Accolade Wines Europe is close to achieving its goal of achieve net zero emissions across its UK-packaged portfolio by the end of 2020. The company behind bestselling wine brands Kumala, Hardys, and Echo Falls has announced that its core range has now been certified carbon neutral.

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Carbon-neutral Carbon Europe Africa 63

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.

Fossil fuels 101

Fossil fuels Electricity Carbon Biodiversity 101

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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Biodiversity Methane Government Investment 58

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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Climate change Biodiversity Biotechnology Agriculture 91

GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Speaking of giving credit where credit is due, nominations are open for the seventh annual Women in Sustainability Leadership Awards, to be conferred by the Women in Sustainability Alumnae Group at a virtual ceremony May 19. Celine Herweijer, Partner, Global Innovation and Sustainability Leader, PwC. LinkedIn | Twitter.

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Sustainability Plastics Organic Retail 546

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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Organic Government Sustainability Demand 148

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.

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Investment Carbon-neutral Biodiversity Agriculture 36

Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2021

Many of these new vehicles will be fossil fuelled, especially in developing countries, including millions of poor quality used vehicles exported from the US, Europe, and Japan to lower income countries, which are expected to further exacerbate air pollution and the climate crisis.

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Health Fossil fuels Africa Pollution 94

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

A US-led sustainable farming initiative, which aims to raise billions of dollars to tackle climate change, has been criticized for favouring big business and promoting uncertain techno-fixes ahead of U.N. A focus on ag-tech is often hinged on profits for multinational corporations and not sustainable.

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Agriculture Africa Methane Climate change 86

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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Construction Fossil fuels Agriculture Solar Power 101

Envirotec Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

Dryad is now working on ten proof-of-concept deployments with forest owners in the US, Europe, Australia, Indonesia and Africa. A commercial business with sustainability and tech for good at its core, Dryad was set up in 2020 with a mission to digitize the forest and help protect and regrow the world’s largest carbon sinks.

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Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring 130

Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

European Commission unveils sweeping biodiversity strategy, plus all the top green business news from around the world this week. Glad to see your commitment in paving the way towards a sustainable future, strengthened through the adoption of a quantitative BAU target and increased sectoral coverage of the #NDC.

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Fossil fuels Biodiversity Investment Climate change 91

Business Green

MARCH 14, 2022

Incremental improvements to production efficiency will not be enough to turn the tide on biodiversity loss. Many of the risks related to fats and oils, such as human rights abuses, biodiversity loss, carbon emissions and poor working conditions, are recurring features of agricultural commodity supply chains.

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Biodiversity Agriculture Carbon-negative Health 51

Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Oliver Griffith explains how a Wildlife Works Carbon forest conservation project is helping to both protect the environment while also sustaining local livelihoods in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Moreover, the people that depend on it are getting access to health, education, food security, and sustainable livelihoods.

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Sustainability Education Government Building Energy Monitoring 54

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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Law Government Climate change Africa 101

Business Green

APRIL 3, 2022

Across the world, people are voting with their feet for sustainable choices. And in Europe, according to Pew Research Center, climate change is seen as an even bigger threat than coronavirus. At Google, we've seen searches for online sustainable goods increase by five times in the last five years.

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Fashion Recycling Recycling Carbon-neutral 36

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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Methane Climate change Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 105

AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Outside of India, the GFI already has regional offices in Brazil, Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Israel, and Europe (London and Brussels). This work is particularly important in the context of Asia and Africa that account for 80% of the world’s population. In India, we have great indigenous crops that are inherently more sustainable.

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Demand Asia Africa Agriculture 52

Business Green

APRIL 28, 2021

In the words of Ban Ki-moon, former Secretary General of the United Nations, "Climate change is the single greatest threat to a sustainable future but, addressing the climate challenge presents an opportunity to promote prosperity, security and a brighter future for all.". We manage around 2.3

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Climate change Sea level rise Sustainability Logging 36

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Rodgers defends meat-eating as sustainable and has spoken against measures to curb its consumption in rich countries. Positive Livestock Content’ The documents also include a messaging summary with key talking points, which present meat as “sustainable nutrition” and suggest that meat production can be beneficial to the environment.

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Agriculture Methane Climate change Government 141

Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2023

The government is advancing plans to reform farming subsidies to provide farmers with incentives to adopt more sustainable farming practices. The simulations also indicated that by 2030 rising fertiliser costs could result in a huge increase in agricultural land, equivalent to an area the size of much of Western Europe.

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Agriculture Africa Health Carbon 39

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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Agriculture Climate change Methane Soil 88

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

In Europe, Amazon now has 117 renewable energy projects. 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. The company now has a total of 202 projects across North America.

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South America North America Asia Investment 36

GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

We are proud to introduce our fifth annual cohort of twentysomethings who are sustainability leaders within — and without — their companies, nonprofits and communities. Grateful appreciation to the World Business Council for Sustainable Business and the Yale Center for Business and the Environment for helping us spread the word.

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Sustainability Carbon-neutral Waste Waste 109

Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Policymakers, activists, investors, founders, and corporate sustainability teams alike descended upon NYC, where we were on the ground geeking out at climate “ Burning Man ” to workshop and network on this burning planet. for onshore wind in Africa relative to 3.3% in Europe). The government is in full support.

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COP Fossil fuels Climate change Sustainability 65

Business Green

MARCH 6, 2022

Calls continue to mount for a global treaty to protect oceans ahead of a major UN marine biodiversity conference this week, amid further evidence of the plight of marine life and ocean environments caused by industrial fishing practices worldwide. per cent globally in the 70 years between 1930 and 2010 due to ocean warming. million people.

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Climate change Africa Biodiversity Demand 28

Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

SDG17's vision of a sustainable future driven by cross-border partnerships has been under siege for the past four years, but is a change coming in the way governments and businesses tackle global challenges? It's interesting to discuss SDG17 at the moment," reflects Hans Daems, group public affairs officer at Hitachi Europe.

Building Energy Monitoring 77

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Sustainability 77

Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Sustainability and business 3. Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa. This book aims to provide an overview of the relevant discourses, but also—and above all—a stimulus for fresh thinking, with new suggestions for the defence and further development of the concept of sustainable development.

Climate change 95

Climate change Ethics Sustainability Health 95

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.

Aviation 68

Aviation Fossil fuels Waste Waste 68

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. The Federation of Veterinarians of Europe did not respond to a request for comment.

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Building Energy Monitoring Medicine Health Agriculture 101

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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Lithium Batteries Hydrogen Investment 72

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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Ethics Biodiversity Carbon Agriculture 36

Low Impact

JUNE 30, 2021

Unfortunately, by 1914 there were only 8 herbs farms left in the UK due in part to competition from eastern Europe. Malaria was another huge challenge – then still rife in Asia, Africa and Southern Europe. Issues such as correct ID, sustainable collection, and drying methods were addressed.

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Medicine Health Africa Law 90

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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Resilience Climate change Government Carbon 56

EDF + Business

MARCH 1, 2021

He/Him/His) Energy & Sustainability Consultant, Cumming Corporation Los Angeles, CA, USA Shorenstein Realty Services (‘15). As an Assistant Project Manager, Trevor Anderson supports his Energy and Sustainability team and their clients on a variety of sustainability consulting services. Praneet Singh Arshi. (He/Him/His)

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Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 52

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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Cool roof Fossil fuels Cooling Biodiversity 52