The City Fix

MARCH 24, 2023

While cities are hubs of innovation and opportunity, the increasing pace of urbanization also exacerbates inequality, stresses infrastructure, and fuels climate change, air pollution and other environmental problems. About two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities by 2050.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

As part of the exhibition, Art Works for Change commissioned Terreform ONE (for Open Network Ecology) to create Cricket Shelter Farm , an innovative living space that addresses both sustainable food systems and modular compact architecture. Cricket Shelter Farm is just one of Terreform ONE’s innovative solutions. Innovation.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 3, 2020

New benchmark shows that biodiversity is in fashion Liesl Truscott Thu, 12/03/2020 – 01:00 This week, in advance of World Soil Day — Dec. 5 — the Textile Exchange Corporate Fiber and Materials Benchmark (CFMB) Program is launching a new tool to help the fashion and textile industry take urgent action on biodiversity.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

Unfortunately, as the economic effects of COVID-19 cause government debts to rise sharply, there is now much less public money available for activities like climate protection or ecosystem restoration — this should sharpen our appetite for innovation. How then to make the shift to a net-zero, nature-positive economy within the decade?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Former barrister, journalist, and sustainable development consultant to take over the reins at influential green business institute from departing director Dame Polly Courtice. CISL will play a pivotal role in this decade of action to inspire transformative leadership and innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals.".

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Tackling these multiple challenges and threats requires coordinated action from the public sector, private sector, NGOs, civil society, innovators and actors throughout the food value chain. What concerns you about the current global food system when it comes to environmental sustainability and human health?

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 16, 2023

We cannot choose between food security and environmental sustainability – they are one and the same. Urgent action is needed to shift food and agriculture from a driver of climate change and biodiversity loss to a solution, with positive outcomes for producers, companies and consumers. The good news?

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Microsoft has unveiled a fresh wave of expanded efforts to harness better data and AI to boost climate resilience and adaptation efforts in Africa, in a bid to address what the tech giant described as a "significant lack" of reliable climate data in the Global South.

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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. This includes not just reducing carbon emissions but also promoting job creation, social inclusion, and sustainable economic growth.

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Nick Robins is professor in practice for sustainable finance at LSE’s Grantham Research Institute, and Dr Ma Jun is special advisor to the governor of the People’s Bank of China. The same process is now starting for biodiversity. Climate change and the loss of nature are two intersecting crises that face the global economy.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The question of how to finance nature goals has dominated the UN biodiversity talks, which are expected to culminate in a new strategic plan, or post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, for how countries can work together to stop the alarming decline of nature around the world. the letter states.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Using an innovative methodology developed by the WWF, the Global Trade Analysis Project, and the Natural Capital Project, the study compares the costs associated with the decline in natural assets across 140 countries. The study also estimates economic costs arising from the loss of specific ecosystem services.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Sir David King, Chair of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group, said: “Carbon pricing schemes have had a positive and significant impact on emissions reductions so far, particularly when it comes to transitioning away from the use of coal and oil, as well as in some areas on clean energy innovation. “A

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

” “Using a systemic approach, businesses address these issues through innovation and collaboration, while generating opportunities for responsible growth and demonstrating to their customers and shareholders commitment to sustainable change.

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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% It aligns U.S.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

According to environmental experts and campaigners, the meat industry downplays the climate impact of animal agriculture and exaggerates the potential of different innovations to reduce it, depicting meat as indispensable to feeding the world’s population while denying the need to cut consumption globally to reach climate targets.

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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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Fairsnape

OCTOBER 7, 2020

This is the shocking picture set out by an independent intergovernmental body, the Inter-governmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ( IPBES ). It could also be a more locally diverse future that emphasises being in place and where innovation is based on indigenous and local knowledge.

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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.

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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. 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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Business Green

AUGUST 14, 2020

As part of the exhibition, Art Works for Change commissioned Terreform ONE (for Open Network Ecology) to create Cricket Shelter Farm , an innovative living space that addresses both sustainable food systems and modular compact architecture. Cricket Shelter Farm is just one of Terreform ONE's innovative solutions.

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Andrew Winston

MAY 14, 2018

As part of my new column in MIT Sloan Management Review, I've been diving into the world of new technologies and how they enhance or interact with the sustainability agenda. In 2014, IBM launched a 10-year, $100 million project to use its Watson cognitive computing system to help Africa solve business and social challenges.

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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.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Lockdown has also forced massive operational change and innovation across business, from remote working and the adoption of online business models, to the rapid reconfiguration of manufacturing and retail to meet social distancing requirements and urgent societal needs. And some have used this purpose for social good. Support supply chains.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 25, 2021

Unfortunately, as the economic effects of COVID-19 cause government debts to rise sharply, there is now much less public money available for activities like climate protection or ecosystem restoration — this should sharpen our appetite for innovation. How then to make the shift to a net-zero, nature-positive economy within the decade?

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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? So, what’s next?

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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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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 10, 2020

As part of the exhibition, Art Works for Change commissioned Terreform ONE (for Open Network Ecology) to create Cricket Shelter Farm , an innovative living space that addresses both sustainable food systems and modular compact architecture. In a world with more than a billion undernourished souls, not to mention as many as 1.6

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

It will devastate nature and biodiversity. By uniting around specific issues, we can spur innovation, scale up solutions and bring down costs. We all need to invest in the innovation which will help us accelerate the transition to clean energy. Sea levels will rise by anywhere between 1 to 3 feet by the end of this century.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

"As one of America's largest electric and gas utilities, we and many of our stakeholders share the view that we can take a leadership role in tackling the greenhouse gas emissions associated with our business and value chain," said Duke Energy chief sustainability officer, Katherine Neebe.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Tackling these multiple challenges and threats requires coordinated action from the public sector, private sector, NGOs, civil society, innovators and actors throughout the food value chain. This is not because food is more expensive in Africa than it is in the United States. Au contraire, it is the reverse.

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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.  Energy & industry.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2023

Industry Voice: Dow's sustainability director Jihane Ball argues the case for a flexible and ambitious UN treaty to tackle plastic pollution worldwide I've worked across many roles over the last 17 years with the materials science company Dow. No matter what the role, sustainability has been at the core.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

We can expect to hear a lot about how the Agricultural Innovation Mission for Climate , or Aim4C, will be harnessing new technology – from big data to precision fertilizer – to slow ballooning emissions from agribusiness, and fight worsening global hunger. When climate talks in Egypt turn to the future of food on Saturday, the U.S.

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