Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

Announcing the new tie-up yesterday, the partners said they aimed to channel more than £2bn of private sector investment towards 20 new forestry projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America that would be developed in collaboration with local communities. The voluntary carbon market has long been the subject of intense debate.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 9, 2021

has agreed to voluntarily lower their carbon emissions, report progress and implementation efforts to show transparency. New golf course developments in Asia, the Middle East and Africa are incorporating sustainability into the design and implementation phases of their projects. Nearly every country in the world, including the U.S.,

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Climate change Real Estate Agriculture Sustainability 545

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. Ravenscroft said animal agriculture is the biggest driver of deforestation.

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Biodiversity Agriculture Sustainability Europe 87

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

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Key impacts include loss of natural coastal and flooding protection, disappearance of natural carbon storage sinks, and steep rises in prices of key commodities. The study also estimates economic costs arising from the loss of specific ecosystem services.

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Grist

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Amazon rainforest was once one of the world’s most powerful carbon sinks, largely a result of its uniquely dense tree cover. The Amazon was even a net carbon emitter for the first time in 2021. All that could be lost if temperatures continue to increase, potentially turning once-lush tropical forests into a savannah-like plain.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2022

Wetland International calls for protection of crucial ecosystems ahead of the delayed COP15 Biodiversity Summit. On average 200 new species are discovered in freshwater wetlands each year and these precious habitats store almost a third of global soil carbon.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

And how can the UK scale up efforts and market measures to support the restoration and protection of forests, peatland, mangroves and biodiversity? The discussion - which touches on the challenges, opportunities, investment and policies associated with nature-based solutions - is available to watch again in full above.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

Those are the stark findings of two separate report published today, which - less than 100 days ahead of the crucial COP26 UN climate summit in Glasgow - together provide a stark assessment of the potentially carbon intensive nature of the global economic recovery. Only around 10.6 per cent this year and by 2.5 per cent in 2022.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The first has to do with the carbon budget — the amount of carbon that can be emitted before the planet warms more than 1.5 The paper uses a carbon budget of 580 billion metric tons, an amount that is estimated to give only a 50 percent chance of stabilizing the global climate at 1.5 degrees C above preindustrial temperatures.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2021

The government said the funding would help cut millions of tonnes of carbon emissions and improve the lives of over 600,000 people in tropical forest communities across Africa, Asia and Latin America. In addition to protecting 2.1 So the UK is absolutely committed to tackling global deforestation.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

They are also home to much of the world’s biodiversity, and regulate key aspects of the carbon cycle. In short, forests are vital in global and national efforts to combat climate change and biodiversity loss, and eradicate hunger and poverty. Around the world, 1.6

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Clearance and burning of forests and carbon-rich peat soils in order to free-up land for palm oil plantations is among the biggest drivers of deforestation in the tropics, destroying precarious wildlife habitats, removing natural carbon storage, and accelerating biodiversity loss and climate change.

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Business Green

JANUARY 25, 2021

Reforestation can capture CO2, boost biodiversity, and is a key component of many firms' net zero strategies, but handled incorrectly it can also have disastrous environmental impacts, scientists warn. The market for carbon offsets has tripled over the past three years, and estimates suggest it could grow to $200bn by 2050.

Biodiversity 69

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Clearance and burning of forests and carbon-rich peat soils in order to free-up land for palm oil plantations is among the biggest drivers of deforestation in the tropics, destroying precarious wildlife habitats, removing natural carbon storage, and accelerating biodiversity loss and climate change.

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Biodiversity Soil Asia Carbon 98

Business Green

MAY 20, 2021

Dubbed the Climate Solutions Partnership, the initiative will see the bank and the two global NGOs pursue three workstreams that will explore how to better support start-up firms developing carbon-cutting technologies, projects that protect and restore biodiversity, and initiatives to help transition energy growth to renewables in Asia.

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Innovation Climate change Carbon Fossil fuels 97

GreenBiz

JUNE 8, 2021

Seafood stand-ins not only promise a low carbon footprint, they seek to serve people with dietary restrictions. Nestlé cites the sustainability benefits of reducing overfishing and protecting ocean biodiversity as motivators of these projects. Kelp-based "shrimp" is kosher and won't trigger a life-threatening shellfish allergy.

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Seafood Startups Meat alternatives Innovation 540

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'.

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Fossil fuels Biodiversity Investment Climate change 91

Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

Echoing the UK government's recent Dasgupta Review on the economic value of biodiversity, The Economic Case for Nature concludes that a failure to protect nature would risk a huge hit to economies worldwide, with countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia particularly exposed to host of escalating climate and nature-related risks.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Amazon said it is "scaling fast" in India, and these first investments will play a "critical role" in reducing its carbon emissions in the country. In the Asia-Pacific region, the company now has a total of 57 renewable energy projects. In Europe, Amazon now has 117 renewable energy projects.

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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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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.

Agriculture 91

Agriculture Climate change Methane Soil 91

Grist

AUGUST 4, 2021

The nation’s existing forests absorb 9 percent of its carbon emissions by turning carbon dioxide and water into wood via photosynthesis. When trees die, that process is reversed, and the carbon dioxide stored in the wood is slowly released into the atmosphere. They’re also very good at trapping carbon dioxide.

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Carbon Climate change Cooling Soil 143

Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2020

My last physical, and absolutely brilliant visit to New Zealand, was in 2016 when I was Minister for Asia and the Pacific in our Foreign and Commonwealth Office. As members of the High Ambition Coalition, the Cartagena Dialogue, and the Carbon Neutrality Coalition. (English translation: Greeting, greetings, greetings to you all).

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2024

Strong income reductions are projected for the majority of regions, including North America and Europe, with South Asia and Africa being most strongly affected," said PIK scientist and co-author of the study, Maximilian Kotz. Such outcomes would trigger huge geo-political risks that could impact the entire global economy.

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Climate change Global warming North America Agriculture 101

Planet Pulse

APRIL 22, 2020

According to the best available science, we now have less than a decade to undertake civilization-scale, concerted action if we are to avoid ‘locking in’ the worst effects of climate change, and the risks from the collapse of biodiversity and the loss of nature are no less existential. This is inherently unsustainable. Planet and the SDGs.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Orbitas also expects demand for palm oil to exceed supply in the near future, putting pressure on the industry to intensify production and likely increase its impact on the environment, unless the industry adopts low-carbon techniques.

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Law Climate change Demand Asia 89

Renewable Energy World

JUNE 29, 2021

Clearly the green finance revolution has taken the world by storm, with investment in low-carbon energy remaining robust throughout the pandemic. After renewable energy, transport, followed by green buildings, waste, water, biodiversity conservation, and adaptation, comprise other areas for proceeds.

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Investment Pollution Government Energy 121

Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Take a look at the " nine planetary boundaries ", the limits that scientists say humans must respect to keep the planet habitable, and you'll see we're already beyond the safe operating space for four of them: climate change; land-system change; biodiversity; and biogeochemical flows of phosphorus and nitrogen. million metric tons from 2.2

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Pollution Agriculture Startups Biodiversity 45

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. Several of these arguments reference the idea that grazing livestock can help maintain healthy soils which can store carbon. Scoones explains that this can lead to unhelpful discussions.

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Agriculture Methane Climate change Government 143

Grist

APRIL 17, 2024

For some 200 years, humans have been burning fossil fuels, spewing planet-warming carbon dioxide into the air. And as coffee growers venture into new regions, they’ll tear down more trees, threatening biodiversity and transforming even more forests from carbon sinks into carbon sources. per pound in 2022.

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Startups Agriculture Climate change Upcycling 55

Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The moves come ahead of a number of changes to the scheme next year, which will see the UK leave the market as part of the Brexit process and new reforms proposed to incorporate shipping emissions into the scheme and further tighten the supply of carbon allowances.

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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2020

And, whilst others at the top of the benchmark are largely European, in Asia, a beam of light can be found in CLP Holdings, the largest external investor in the renewables sector in Mainland China and India. When the company began divesting from oil and gas, many investor eyebrows were raised.

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Energy Energy Fossil fuels Asia 69

Energy Innovation

AUGUST 6, 2021

One such critical tipping point is the potential transformation of the world’s largest tropical forests from carbon sinks into net sources of carbon emissions. Currently, carbon emissions that result from deforestation and forest degradation (often referred to as land-use change) are offset, in part, by new reforestation and regrowth.

Africa 72

Africa Carbon Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral 72

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. A sixth company has benefited from IFC advisory services but has not received financing.

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Africa Agriculture Health Investment 90

Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

Millions of hectares of "critical habitat" in the Cerrado, the Atlantic Forest, the Gran Chaco, and Chiquitania in South America and North America's Great Plains have been razed for soy fields, the conservation organisation said, describing soy farming as "one of the leading causes of biodiversity loss and climate change."

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South America Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 84

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

The wood pellets Drax produces are treated as “carbon neutral” under international accounting rules, based on an assumption that new-growth trees will capture the carbon lost by wood burnt for electricity. and Canada to meet a rising demand for biomass-fuelled energy in Europe and Asia.

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