Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

“Forests are crucial for the health and economies of our planet, but they must be better planned, managed and monitored to ensure sustainable benefits for people as well as nature,” he said. He said careful planning of future forest projects could boost the biodiversity of species, carbon sinks, economic development and people’s livelihoods.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Start-ups and innovators aiming to deploy technologies that can enhance farmers’ resilience to water, climate, and biodiversity impacts invited to apply for funding. Innovators, companies, and start-ups have been invited by the multinational drinks brand to apply for seed funding to develop their technologies before 7 October.

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Ideas 4 Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2022

Originally posted on SCIENCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY : Across the globe, human-induced pressures are in large part causing losses in biodiversity. Protected areas (PAs) are key conservation tools, but in the face of biodiversity loss their ecological effectiveness is increasingly contested.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Africa recorded significant wildlife and biodiversity loss at 66%; Asia-Pacific noted a 55% loss. Links between food systems, forests and biodiversity. The way we produce our food is a big reason for this as well as overall biodiversity loss. Making a strong sustainability shift.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In the Seychelles archipelago in East Africa, flooding and erosion caused by rising sea levels pose an imminent threat to the country’s many low-lying islands. At the same time its mangrove forests, which serve as a vital buffer against these.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

When you talk about biodiversity and conservation, there is no value," said prominent Brazilian chef Alex Atala, who runs the world-renowned restaurant D.O.M. When you taste biodiversity, there’s a new meaning and new value." . An unintended impact of urbanization in South Africa is shifting relationships with food.

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GreenBiz

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? The same can be said for consumers.

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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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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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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2019

Use of the system in Tanzania, East Africa has already resulted in the arrest of poachers. RESOLVE’s Biodiversity and Wildlife team have developed an innovative end-to-end anti-poaching system; TrailGuard AI. Intel played a critical role in development, providing engineering expertise and other in-kind support.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 18, 2024

In particular the three dimensions of the energy ‘trilemma’ – a concept conceived by the World Energy Council (WEC) to reflect progress in the energy transitions and encompassing energy security, equity and sustainability – are evolving to reflect the new ambitions in managing energy for people and planet and the new threat of poly-crises.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

Sixteenth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability will take place on January 29-31, 2020 at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile & University of Chile, Santiago, Chile. The special focus will be Sustainability Lessons in the Global South: Priorities, Opportunities, and Risks.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

A review of press accounts, financial disclosures, and the companies’ websites shows this support aided these firms’ KFC-linked operations in up to 13 countries in Asia, Africa, and Europe. In South Africa, the IFC helped one KFC supplier bolster its operations across the region. The EBRD sold its stake in the company in 2019.

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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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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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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 8, 2020

They are developing an IoT-enabled network of urban rooftop farms, empowering smart cities to accelerate food security, climate resilience and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) through geospatial data and analytics. Geo Gecko – Geo Gecko is an Ugandan company that remotely monitors how Africa changes to enhance decision-making.

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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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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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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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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

While the rate of annual deforestation slowed to about 25 million acres between 2015 and 2020, the trendlines in several regions — especially countries in Africa and South America — aren’t moving in the right direction. percent. . So far, 60 percent of the beef it sources is "deforestation-free," according to Aramark.

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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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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In particular, our exchange explored how food systems can be made healthier and more sustainable as we look to a future in which we’ll need to find a way to produce enough food to nourish as many as 10 billion people while staying within planetary boundaries. Jennifer Ballen, head of global market operations, Indigo Ag. Learn, share, act.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The VCM Global Dialogue group, which aims to represent the interests of the stakeholders on the supply-side of voluntary carbon markets, yesterday set out guidance for how the emerging sector can best support sustainable development and climate action in developing counties.

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The City Fix

MARCH 24, 2023

About two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities by 2050. 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 12, 2020

Corporate investment in carbon offsets is helping to fund a project in West Africa that is delivering on multiple Sustainable Development Goals through its protection of precious forest habitats and its services for local communities. The Upper Guinean Forest of West Africa is one of only three forested biodiversity hotspots in Africa.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2021

Update from NGO’s Global Forest Watch scheme highlights that deforestation of tropical forests crucial for biodiversity and storing carbon continue to rise. million hectares - an area roughly the size of the Netherlands - were humid tropical primary forests that are critical stores of carbon and hubs for biodiversity.

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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

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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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

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

A new report has compiled more than 50 examples of financial projects aimed at generating more than $1bn in capital for sustainable land-use projects. The report urges businesses to "stop reinventing the wheel" and instead replicate the proven success stories it brings together from across a range of sectors and regions.

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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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Planet Pulse

APRIL 14, 2023

We also heard from a man who has dedicated his life and career to supporting the sustainable stewardship of our special life-filled planet. John Ahlrichis, Founder of Rock Geospatial LLC (right) and Menghestab Haile, Regional Director of Southern Africa from the United Nations World Food Programme (right).

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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.

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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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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

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The launch of the UN biodiversity talks in Montreal this week has prompted yet another report that attempts to put a financial value on the services nature provides to the global economy. A new report has pinned the overall value of nature markets at a huge $10tr - but will it cut through with decision makers at COP15?

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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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