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

AUGUST 30, 2021

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) yesterday confirmed service stations in Algeria ceased selling leaded petrol last month - the final country in the world where Tetraethyllead had still been available - officially drawing an end to the use of the highly toxic and polluting petrol additive worldwide.

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2023

Investors have a responsibility to ensure future generations are left with a planet rich in biodiversity, argues ShareAction's Eve Gleeson The emeritus defender of our planet and its species, Sir David Attenborough, has returned to our screens in recent weeks to talk about the wonders of British wildlife.

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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.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

The government is to "establish tackling climate change and preserving biodiversity as the UK's number one international priority in the decade ahead". In 2021 and beyond, Her Majesty's Government will make tackling climate change and biodiversity loss its number one international priority," Johnson wrote in the foreword to the report.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

It is no surprise then that the World Economic Forum Global Risks Report 2021 identifies climate action failure, extreme weather and biodiversity loss, alongside infectious diseases, as the top global risks for the next decade in terms of impact and likelihood. As with COVID-19, perhaps so with climate?

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Grist

OCTOBER 17, 2019

People living in South Asia and Africa will bear the worst of it. It’s an unprecedented degree of detail for a global biodiversity model. Patricia Balvanera, a professor of biodiversity at TK who wasn’t involved in the study, said the new model “provides an extremely important tool to inform policy decisions and shape responses.”.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2022

BusinessGreen speaks to delegates at COP15 about how the dash for cash to protect biodiversity will impact investors and business. Finance and Biodiversity Day at the COP15 Biodiversity Summit got off to an explosive start yesterday morning, after developing nations walked out of talks on finance in the wee hours of the morning.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 5, 2021

Biodiversity loss Biodiversity refers to the variety of life found on Earth, including plants, animals and micro-organisms. In the Amazon, in Africa, in the Arctic ; it’s happening not at one place and not with one group of organisms, but with all biodiversity, everywhere on the planet.”

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The Accelerator program will give public and private sector leaders the information they need to take action and reduce methane pollution, starting right away.”. Bloomberg, UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Climate Ambition and Solutions and Founder of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

There have been growing calls for more robust policing and governance mechanisms in the rapidly-growing voluntary carbon market sector, amid concerns that a corporate rush towards carbon credits will fail to deliver promised benefits to the climate, biodiversity and communities living near offset projects.

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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. What is the global plastic pollution treaty and why is it important?

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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. The conditions will also apply to some of Canada's most polluting industries, including airlines and oil. EU Commission unveils strategy to 'fix broken relationship with nature'.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

WRAP launched its first voluntary agreement in 2005 and has since expanded its programme to address food and drink, plastic pollution, and fashion and textiles. Seven water action projects are underway that span the UK, Kenya, South Africa and Spain.

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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

JBS, the world’s most polluting meat company, will be out in “full force” in Dubai , according to the files. At no point does the industry acknowledge the serious and public health and environmental harms of livestock, which are also the leading cause of biodiversity loss worldwide. Just seven percent are based in Africa.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

MAY 29, 2018

The Coller FAIRR Protein Producer Index , which tracks 60 of the world’s largest food companies worth a combined $300 billion, assesses how these companies are managing critical sustainability risks ranging from pollution to the Paris Agreement, and food safety to worker safety. RCL Foods Ltd/South Africa. South Africa.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

MAY 29, 2018

The Coller FAIRR Protein Producer Index , which tracks 60 of the world’s largest food companies worth a combined $300 billion, assesses how these companies are managing critical sustainability risks ranging from pollution to the Paris Agreement, and food safety to worker safety. RCL Foods Ltd/South Africa. South Africa.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 11, 2020

For the longest time, mangrove resources have been used primarily for wood harvesting, barely taking into account the important role they play in biodiversity and shoreline protection. Continued deforestation of mangrove areas disturbs habitats and damages biodiversity, a key effect of this being the decline in fishery yields.

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Business Green

APRIL 3, 2022

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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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

This is not because food is more expensive in Africa than it is in the United States. square feet of land and the assuaging of animal species distinction, water pollution and habitat destruction. In contrast, Nigeria spends over half of its household income on food, followed by nine other countries that spend over 40 percent on food.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

George Monbiot's latest book, Regenesis , is the latest in a string of studies to warn how essentially extractive agricultural practices are damaging soils and biodiversity to such an extent that food security is being threatened. The outlook is certainly worrying.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

They point out that already some countries like Mexico, South Africa, and the U.S. are heading down a pathway that could exacerbate emissions by rolling back environmental and pollution regulations. Biodiversity conservation (with afforestation, reforestation, and better forest management if target forests are indeed biodiverse).

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The Clean Oceans Initiative is the largest common initiative dedicated to funding projects aimed at reducing plastic pollution at sea. The ideological gap is narrowest in the countries where citizens are most concerned about climate change: Brazil, South Africa and Mexico.". Italy embeds environmental protection in constitution.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

If the world warms more than 4C by 2100, the number of days with climatically stressful conditions for outdoor workers will increase by up to 250 workdays per year by century's end in some parts of South Asia, tropical sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Central and South America. That's the future our children have to contemplate.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

It will devastate nature and biodiversity. The UN Oceans Conference in Lisbon, the 15th Conference on Biological Diversity hosted by China, and of course COP26, offer an opportunity to bend the curve of greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss. Sea levels will rise by anywhere between 1 to 3 feet by the end of this century.

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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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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Coronavirus is yet to fully hit some parts of the world such as Africa and Latin America, whose health systems are at major risk of being quickly overwhelmed. We, as humanity, might be facing a once-in-a-generation opportunity to recreate our economy, so that it is low carbon, resilient to climate change and supportive of biodiversity.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

But today, nearly three billion people still use polluting and dangerous fuels to cook their food. Earlier this year, for example, Shell struck a deal which will see three million clean cookstoves distributed across East Africa. Offsetting offers a bridge between where we are now the world we want to reach."

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Grist

JANUARY 17, 2021

Scientists have said human activities are driving the sixth mass extinction of life on Earth, and agricultural production, mining, and pollution are threatening the healthy functioning of life-sustaining ecosystems crucial to human civilization. international climate finance to supporting nature and biodiversity over the next five years.

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The City Fix

JUNE 2, 2023

Over the past two decades, Rwanda – the land of a thousand hills – has made remarkable strides: poverty has significantly declined and quality of life has improved. The service, industrial and agricultural sectors have flourished. Even in the aftermath.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 25, 2021

It is no surprise then that the World Economic Forum Global Risks Report 2021 identifies climate action failure, extreme weather and biodiversity loss, alongside infectious diseases, as the top global risks for the next decade in terms of impact and likelihood. As with COVID-19, perhaps so with climate?

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

The UK Presidency and all governments should use this time to design resilient recovery and transition plans that consider climate, biodiversity, development and social justice in an integrated way. This crisis has shown that international cooperation and solidarity are essential to protect global well-being and peace.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

government’s embrace of “climate-smart” agriculture at COP27 will serve primarily to add a green veneer to plans to double down on polluting business as usual. Industrial agriculture is carbon intensive – and polluting. Africa has workable, sustainable alternatives right here at home.”.

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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. Examples of ESG-related risks include: Environmental : Climate change, greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), deforestation, biodiversity, waster, waste, and pollution.

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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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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2024

Remove: Eliminating waste and pollution The first step in creating a circular economy – cutting off waste at the source – is simple in theory, though often more difficult in practice. All while supporting wildlife and community projects in Africa. For brands, this means designing out any negative impacts from the start.

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