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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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

Much of the sustainability literature focuses on the Global North and on issues salient to policy makers in developed countries, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and ozone depletion. The special focus will be Sustainability Lessons in the Global South: Priorities, Opportunities, and Risks.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 8, 2021

Taxonomy is the branch of science responsible for classifying organisms. According to Queensland Museum CEO Jim Thompson, taxonomy is important if you want to understand the planet’s biodiversity. SCIMEX Via Huff Post and Ecology Asia Photography by Stephen J. The work of a taxonomist is very similar to a detective,” he said.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 22, 2020

This goes for the whole world, from pangolins in Asia to brown bears in the EU’s Carpathian Mountains. The organization also urges governments to halve their production and consumption footprints and to adopt a One Health approach that acknowledges the links between the health of humans, animals and the environment we share.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 8, 2021

Nestlé cites the sustainability benefits of reducing overfishing and protecting ocean biodiversity as motivators of these projects. Depending on who’s counting, about half of shrimp is farmed, which in Southeast Asia has been wiping out coast-protecting mangrove trees. New Wave Foods. Instead, she co-founded her own venture. .

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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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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. For example, while Brazilian meat giant JBS reported emissions of 7.14

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

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

He added: “Reducing emissions from livestock requires involving farmers, ranchers, and companies and organizations across animal agriculture. 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.

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Grist

AUGUST 4, 2021

The Hemlock Initiative also employs Dietschler and organizes the release of the adelgid-eating flies. Prior attempts to keep woolly adelgid at bay using predator beetles from East Asia had failed because they were difficult to breed and had a hard time surviving East Coast winters. If the U.S. The black beetle seemed hardier.

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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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AGreenLiving

APRIL 9, 2021

.” Currently, five golf organizations have joined: the United States Golf Association (USGA); Waste Management Phoenix Open; The International Golf Federation; World Minigolf Federation; and Sentosa Golf Club in Singapore. Golf is making strides both on social and environmental impact. Particularly, Laguna L?ng

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 21, 2020

Because trees do so much for us, planting more of them is an eco-strategy touted by many environmental organizations. Founded in 2014, One Tree Planted works on reforestation projects in North America, South America, Asia, Africa and Australia. But what’s it really like spending your workday growing, planting and caring for trees?

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

. ‘Manipulating Communities’ Some of the most egregious problems with carbon credits have involved reports of Indigenous communities being driven off their land for forest-related projects, or harm to food security and biodiversity caused by monoculture plantations.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The discussion is part of Investors Talk Deforestation, a series of interviews with influential investors and partner organizations who supported the development of the Ceres Investor Guide to Deforestation and Climate Change. What follows is a lightly edited interview. Shutterstock Rich Carey Close Authorship.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Using the principles of ESG, investment decisions are made based on an organization’s Environmental, Social and Governance performance, as explained: Environmental performance: Selected criteria are used to evaluate and manage a company’s environmental risks. This is followed by Asia Pacific with 174. ESG Benefits.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The staff’s 30-year master plan includes conserving water, promoting biodiversity and providing habitat for butterflies, birds and other wildlife. Themed gardens The botanic garden will be organized into smaller themed gardens. Landscape architects picked about 85% of the plants showcased because they grow easily in Houston.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 8, 2021

” Nestlé cites the sustainability benefits of reducing overfishing and protecting ocean biodiversity as motivators of these projects. Depending on who’s counting, about half of shrimp is farmed, which in Southeast Asia has been wiping out coast-protecting mangrove trees. Instead, she co-founded her own venture. What’s next?

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Seafood Startups Meat alternatives Innovation 36

Energy Innovation

AUGUST 6, 2021

Intact tropical forests, in particular, play an outsized role in carbon uptake, to say nothing of their wealth of biodiversity (a single hectare of tropical forest can contain as many plant species as all the native species of western Europe). But how long can tropical forests remain one of Earth’s greatest carbon sinks?

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Africa Carbon Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral 72

Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

These books are organized in the following six categories: 1. This revised edition is filled with proven strategies and tools for organizations to integrate sustainability into their business models. Forward thinking organizations are seeking to include sustainability into a comprehensive strategy that makes sense for the business.

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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). Expect an announcement of GFI’s first conference in India co-organized with the Humane Society International soon! YD: Why did the GFI expand to India?

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

It is nothing short of a crisis, and the blame can be placed on the changes in land and sea use, direct exploitation of organisms, pollution, invasive alien species, and climate change that is caused by human activity. 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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The Verge: Energy

JANUARY 3, 2024

Nearly every nation on Earth has agreed to a joint goal of protecting 30 percent of Earth’s land and waters by 2030 under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework adopted last year. “The question is which 30 percent should we protect?” The question is which 30 percent should we protect?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

A small metal platform at the top, 48 metres above the floor of a peatland rainforest reserve, provides a unique, 360-degree vantage point to witness one of the most biodiverse, carbon-rich habitats left on Earth. It is precisely because peatland is usually waterlogged that the organic matter is prevented from rotting, and the CO2 escaping.

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Planet Pulse

JUNE 28, 2020

Planet’s support team works with officials from The Ministry of Environment and Forestry of Indonesia as they plug Planet’s high-resolution imagery into their existing SEPAL workflows at FAO Headquarters during a workshop in January 2020, which was organized with funding from the World Bank’s FCPF. © FAO/Roberto Cenciarelli. Source: FAO.

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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. Out of the first 41 initial patients reported with the disease, 27 had been either inside or exposed to the market.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

Momentum is building as businesses and governments transform their organizations to be more efficient and resilient. By bringing the two events together, we will better serve both the REBA and VERGE Energy communities by offering both cross-sectoral content and deep conversations about how to uplevel organizations’ clean energy strategies.

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Grist

OCTOBER 20, 2019

In terms of CO2 emissions, we’re putting 30 to 35 billion tons of CO2 from burning fossil fuels into the atmosphere every year, while at the same time there’s this dramatic destruction of forests in the Amazon and in Southeast Asia. And, by the way, which biodiversity are we shortest of? That’s right. That is being decimated.

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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. . LinkedIn | Twitter. Hana Kajimura, 28. LinkedIn .

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