Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2022

Given the fundamental importance of the ocean to all life on Earth, it is striking that there has not yet been a serious scientific assessment at scale of marine chemical pollution and its impact on biodiversity and marine ecosystems, and the overall health of the ocean. A coordinated approach.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 18, 2024

Environmental sustainability has broadened to a holistic concern for planetary health, embracing circular economy principles, the interconnectedness of water, food, and energy systems and the better alignment of decarbonisation efforts with the planet’s ecological limits.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 22, 2020

Related: Orcas threatened by highly contagious respiratory virus, CeMV “We must urgently recognize the links between the destruction of nature and human health, or we will soon see the next pandemic,” said Marco Lambertini, director general of WWF International. “We

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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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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. With this Global North-financed fast-food expansion comes a host of environmental, social, and health concerns in regions often unprepared to field them.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Rishi Sunak is facing mounting pressure to attend the critical COP15 Biodiversity Summit which is set to kick off next Wednesday in Montreal, with campaigners calling on the Prime Minister demonstrate his support for an ambitious outcome from the high-profile UN meeting.

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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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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. cropland and help the U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2021

The World Health Organisation (WHO) admits that increasing human pressure on the natural environment may drive disease emergence. But we know that together these two areas of land hold a large proportion of the world's biodiversity of plant and animal species. Deforestation and forest degradation drive zoonotic diseases.

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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. EU Commission unveils strategy to 'fix broken relationship with nature'.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

When it comes to ocean health, the work of convincing farmers to ditch their synthetic fertilizers can't happen fast enough. In terms of biodiversity loss and excess nitrogen, we're well into the high-risk zone. Asia dominates the market with 97.4 We're bringing them in as formal employees and providing health insurance.".

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Low Impact

JUNE 30, 2021

Malaria was another huge challenge – then still rife in Asia, Africa and Southern Europe. Rosehips were collected for their vitamin C content, as the Ministry of Health was concerned about children getting enough of this, due to the lack of citrus imports; and conkers for the glucose and acetone that can be prepared from them.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

The plan calls for sourcing wood from areas that encompass eight National Forests, and activists in California have raised concerns that the production of this “renewable” power could endanger vital biodiversity in the forests, home to California’s endangered gray wolves. Credit: California Department of Fish and Wildlife ( CC BY 2.0

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The spokesperson added that food production must increase by 70 percent to keep pace with population growth, and complained that the common narrative on livestock was dictated by “simplistic negative conclusions of livestock’s role within rising global temperatures, nature decline and decreasing human health”.

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Grist

APRIL 17, 2024

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. In Europe and Western Asia, drinks have been made out of chicory, chickpeas , dandelion root, figs, grains, lupin beans , and soybeans. per pound in 2022.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 21, 2020

Trees make the world a better place for humans by providing shade, sequestering CO2 , intercepting airborne particles, aiding respiratory health and adding great beauty to this planet we call home. Founded in 2014, One Tree Planted works on reforestation projects in North America, South America, Asia, Africa and Australia.

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Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

The governments want to increase their GDP, improve health and sanitation, provide education and jobs, increase investment, improve infrastructure, provide electricity to people; besides the economy and jobs, most of these things are not even an issue in developed countries anymore. Maybe the question is how we define development.

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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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AGreenLiving

APRIL 9, 2021

New golf course developments in Asia, the Middle East and Africa are incorporating sustainability into the design and implementation phases of their projects. These things are absolutely vital to the health and wellbeing of future generations, so we all need to do our best to make things better.” Particularly, Laguna L?ng

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

Today has seen some of the starkest warnings yet on how the failure to grasp the severity of the impacts that climate change and biodiversity loss will have for human could trigger conflict, disease, and mass migration - how should businesses respond? The report draws on a raft of landmark reports published in recent years.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Health CLIMATE IMPACTS Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe by Mario Alejandro Ariza, 2020 A deeply reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist examines the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City -- a watery harbinger for coastal cities worldwide. Climate impacts 2.

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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. YD: Why did the GFI expand to India?

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 2, 2021

S includes labor relations, diversity, inclusion, philanthropy, and charity work, supplier support, and health and safety provision. This is followed by Asia Pacific with 174. This includes relationships with suppliers, communities, consumers, and employees. Europe has the largest number of reporting provisions, with 245.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

In it, Pinker makes the case for reason, science and humanism, arguing these principles are leading to significant increases in human health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness throughout the world. All of these corporate efforts, on paper at least, promise to both conserve nature and capture millions of tonnes of CO2.

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Business Green

APRIL 2, 2020

In truth, since the full scale of Covid-19's impact on Europe, East Asia and North America started becoming clear, the decision to postpone this year's United Nations climate change summit into next year has only been a matter of time. So, all roads in climate change still lead to Glasgow… just not in November. So what happens now?

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Grist

JULY 23, 2020

“We have a lot of examples of these actions curtailing risk,” said Aaron Bernstein, one of the paper’s authors and the interim director of the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard University’s School of Public Health. “So So we know that it’s possible — but we haven’t really invested at all.”.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2022

In addition, climate and environmental threats loom large over WEF's long-term risk outlook, with climate action failure, extreme weather, biodiversity loss, natural resource crises, and human environmental damage making up the entire list of the top five risks facing the global economy over the next decade.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 6, 2020

The beginning of COVID-19 When the Chinese government first alerted the World Health Organization about the virus on December 31, 2019, a wet market in Wuhan was quickly identified as the likely source. Public health officials and partners are working hard to identify the source of COVID-19,” the CDC reported.

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Planet Pulse

JUNE 28, 2020

Peatlands are a type of wetland that are among the most valuable ecosystems on Earth; they help preserve global biodiversity, minimize flood risk and mitigate climate change. PlanetScope data allows observers to pinpoint the location of dams and other infrastructure used to drain peatlands in Southeast Asia. Source: FAO. Source: FAO.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Agricultural transformation to systems that work with nature, that support carbon sequestration, renew soils and biodiversity, will be essential to enabling viable, thriving food production. The impacts of climate change and health / nutrition crises are deeply unequal. The future of food is regenerative. Success will lie in synergies.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2022

Coal power project pipelines in Asia have been contracting in recent years as a result of intense competition from renewables and gas. New UN-backed Nature for Health fund launched. Implementation of preventive One Health action and policies at the local, national and regional level.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Comprising 130,000 hectares on the Kampala Peninsula, alongside another 20,000 hectares on nearby Padang Island to the north, RER was set up a decade ago to restore and protect an area of unique, biodiverse, peatland-rich rainforest that is twice the size of nearby Singapore which lies just over 100 miles eastward.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In the message, addressed to the advisory council of the Southern Gas Corridor initiative, which brings gas into Europe from Asia, he said the “cleanest fossil fuel” had “served us well” but would “not serve the interests or wellbeing of our children or our grandchildren”. As health minister, Argar supported the “Greener NHS Strategy”.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

The Rise of City Zero Emission Zones (Panel Discussion): Following cities in Europe and Asia, some U.S. How to Scale Regenerative Agriculture and Draw Down Carbon (Part 1) (Panel Discussion): Regenerative agriculture has the potential to draw down billions of tons of carbon dioxide while simultaneously restoring soil health.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Though I still fundamentally believe biomass is better than regular fossil fuels, biodiversity and human rights issues are serious challenges when it comes to the production of biomass. Indeed, the prospect of rising demand in Asia and Africa partly explains why the UAE’s Adnoc aims to increase production capacity to five million b/d by 2030.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

She’s an advocate of " Absolute Sustainability, " a Quantis philosophy that challenges businesses to take planetary boundaries into account not just for carbon emissions but also for biodiversity, land use, freshwater consumption, the phosphorus cycle and the nitrogen cycle. . Health, wellness and nutrition are Camp’s key interests. .

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 11, 2019

Incredible heat blanketed four continents this summer, with records falling across Europe and Asia. Typhoon Mangkhut ravaged the Philippines and parts of China, killing dozens of people. Venezuela’s last glacier is disappearing. The big question now is whether businesses will push back and go down a cleaner path on their own.

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