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Gallup: One in three people globally are unhappy with environmental protection efforts

Business Green

Poll findings released by Gallup on Earth Day show that countries' environmental records have little bearing on citizens' satisfaction rates. Of the eight countries least satisfied with national efforts to protect the environment, six were in Europe - Ukraine, Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania, Bulgaria, and Greece.

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Which countries in Asia Pacific are doing most to protect the environment in 2021?

Eco-Business

This Earth Day, Eco-Business asks which countries are pushing hardest to protect natural ecosystems in the world's most populous region.

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Earth Day: Prime Minister urges world leaders not to 'throw away chance to preserve our planet'

Business Green

The Prime Minister is scheduled to address the opening session of the Climate Leaders Summit, which is being hosted by the Biden administration to coincide with Earth Day and step up pressure on governments around the world to strengthen their national climate action plans ahead of the crucial COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow this autumn.

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Re-skilling to export the UK's Green Industrial Revolution

Business Green

Since its inception in 1970, Earth Day has become a powerful tool for raising awareness of the grave ecological threats to our planet. Now is the time for all UK businesses to look to international markets and take British ingenuity to every corner of the planet, writes International Trade Minister Graham Stuart MP.

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Global Briefing: Artist Olafur Eliasson debuts global solar power campaign

Business Green

The new emissions targets announced this week by the US, EU, Canada, the UK, and Japan may have grabbed the headlines, but there was also a significant move from one of Asia's fastest growing emerging economies, as the Philippines government announced it was revising up its 2030 emissions target. Philippines strengthens 2030 emissions target.

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The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

Vartan Badalian’s mother has a favorite story to prove that being born on Earth Day imbued him with an innate concern for the environment. One day while sitting in the car, she attempted to toss a piece of gum into a nearby trash can and missed. Vartan Badalian, 28. LinkedIn | Twitter. Elsa Wenzel. Briana Buckles, 29.

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The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

AGreenLiving

—Deonna Anderson Vartan Badalian, 28 EV100 Program Manager for North America, The Climate Group; New York City LinkedIn | Twitter Vartan Badalian’s mother has a favorite story to prove that being born on Earth Day imbued him with an innate concern for the environment. Our consumers are not only asking for it, but expecting it.”