GreenBiz

JUNE 6, 2020

Our shared natural assets — soil, water, and a stable climate — will only increase in value as the world demands more food. Biodiversity. Pull Quote. Building capacity and providing patient capital at the farmer level is a big challenge; at NatureVest, it is referred to as the last-mile problem. Corporate Strategy. Food & Agriculture.

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Agriculture Investment Soil Ethics 356

Business Green

JUNE 14, 2021

In response to popular demand, deadline for all entries for the UK's most prestigious sustainable business awards has been extended by one week. The deadline for entries for the BusinessGreen Leaders Awards 2021 has been extended by one week to 5pm on Friday 18th June, in response to popular demand.

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Packaging Biodiversity Demand Health 83

Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 10, 2022

If I had to chalk it up to concrete moments of inspiration, I would say there are three books that really shaped my path toward working in climate change. Reading this book was kind of like the moment in The Matrix when Neo is given the choice of the red and blue pill. What inspired you to work fighting climate change?

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Inaugural UK sovereign green bond attracts huge investor demand, with second retail savings bond set to launch in October. The Treasury said the green gilt was both the largest inaugural green issuance by any sovereign, while also attracting the largest ever order book for a sovereign green transaction.

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Andrew Winston

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

This was a frankly scary report from the UN about how humanity is destroying biodiversity. Rather than fully tackle the nature of biodiversity, I’ll just refer to a good explainer here and say this: we humans are part of a web of life and everything that goes into the economy comes from that web and other natural resources.

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Biodiversity Climate change Agriculture Soil 60

Andrew Winston

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

This was a frankly scary report from the UN about how humanity is destroying biodiversity. Rather than fully tackle the nature of biodiversity, I’ll just refer to a good explainer here and say this: we humans are part of a web of life and everything that goes into the economy comes from that web and other natural resources.

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Biodiversity Climate change Agriculture Soil 60

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Environmentalists have long warned that demand for the pellets is endangering irreplaceable primary forests in areas including parts of Estonia, British Columbia in Canada and the southeastern United States. . They have sent MEPs a version marked with their corrections. non-profit tracking biomass, who authored the comments, told DeSmog.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

It raises the alarm over a "deeply concerning decline in biodiversity" in England, with available evidence pointing to a 17 per cent reduction in the abundance of priority species from 2013 to 2017 "among other adverse trends".

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 12, 2019

Over the decades agriculture and demand for building materials and fuelwood slowly claimed more and more trees. Biodiversity declines, crops fail. His work is very diverse, and includes editing books, public speaking, magazine articles, and book reviews. By the turn of the millennium just 2.3% of the country was forested.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Ethics 40

Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Climate change, biodiversity loss, and ecological disruption are global threats to humanity. The approach focuses on topsoil regeneration to increase biodiversity, improve water recycling, and support carbon capture by biosequestration. These choices demand self-reflection regarding our fossil fuel use and what we eat.

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Climate change Sustainability Fossil fuels Law 147

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Economist sits down with BusinessGreen to discuss the response to his landmark review into the economics of biodiversity. Human population is a factor sitting out there in all the equations we write down about the demands we make on nature, and everybody accepts that," he explains.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The coalition demanded that TNC stop “promoting false climate solutions” that “center the financial interests of large lumber, pulp/paper, biomass/wood-pellet and other corporations.”. If we’re stewards of the Earth,” he once told a reporter , referring to the Book of Genesis, “we’re supposed to be doing something about this.”.

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Varuna

OCTOBER 18, 2019

The water utility industry has an opportunity to improve its infrastructure to meet the demands of climate change and customer needs. With the two distinct challenges facing water utilities (climate change and shifting customer demands), a need to adopt an innovative approach to addressing these issues is warranted.

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Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 60

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

George Monbiot's latest book, Regenesis , is the latest in a string of studies to warn how essentially extractive agricultural practices are damaging soils and biodiversity to such an extent that food security is being threatened. The outlook is certainly worrying.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

As the demand for the resource overwhelms the supply, each additional unit consumed directly harms those who can no longer reap the benefits. We have access to myriad documentaries and books aimed at increasing awareness. To me, this really shows a demand from consumers for these products. Demand drives supply.

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Low Impact

JUNE 30, 2021

It has also provided, as Barbara Griggs writes in her excellent book ‘Green Pharmacy, a history of herbal medicine’, a flimsy legal roof under which (the profession of herbal medicine) has sheltered and flourished to this day in Britain. Cadburys helped with improving drying facilities for freshly harvested herbs, as this was a major issue.

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Medicine Health Africa Law 90

Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Having left her UNFCCC role in 2016, Figueres has remained steadfastly committed to the climate cause, co-founding the Global Optimism Group, co-writing a book, and co-hosting a hugely popular podcast, Outrage and Optimism, in addition to sitting on the boards of various businesses and organisations. They know their employees want it.

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Climate change Fossil fuels Biodiversity Government 62

Business Green

JULY 20, 2022

But while there are undoubtedly major question marks over the government's continued reliance on technology to drive decarbonisation, rather than on demand-side measures, the DfT deserves credit for delivering a plan backed by a clear timetable for decarbonisation, particularly amid such turmoil in Westminster.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2023

Calls for the government to match its ambitious goals with stronger regulations to crack down on pollution and greater investment in nature recovery are only set to mount as the Chancellor preps his first Budget and the government proceeds with its controversial plans to strip out EU law from the UK's statute book.

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Government Biodiversity Policy Health 36

Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 23, 2019

But fourth, and perhaps most importantly, the world faces enormous, thorny challenges that business is feeling: climate change, growing inequality (and awareness that these CEOs make hundreds of times more than their employees), water and resource scarcity, soil degradation and loss of biodiversity, and more. More on J&J in a second.).

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Fossil fuels Climate change Policy Carbon 60

Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 23, 2019

But fourth, and perhaps most importantly, the world faces enormous, thorny challenges that business is feeling: climate change, growing inequality (and awareness that these CEOs make hundreds of times more than their employees), water and resource scarcity, soil degradation and loss of biodiversity, and more. More on J&J in a second.).

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Fossil fuels Climate change Policy Carbon 60

Grist

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Her recent book Back To Earth pairs fun astronaut trivia (you can take a “shower” by “gently squeezing hot water out of the straw of a drink bag directly onto your body and watching it coat you like a second skin”) with facts about pressing environmental issues — climate change, microplastics, and the insect apocalypse. NASA / Joel Kowsky.

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Earth Day Home Energy Monitoring Ozone Energy Monitor 94

GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Still, the company is stepping out as an innovator in sustainable finance — it was the first buyer into a new reef credits system in Australia , and Herweijer’s innovation lens and ongoing research into risks associated with nature and biodiversity loss no doubt helped land her new job. .

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Sustainability Plastics Organic Retail 546

Grist

APRIL 17, 2024

As climate change threatens coffee production, it is likely to drive up the price of the real deal, which could fuel demand for affordable alternatives. 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.

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Startups Agriculture Climate change Upcycling 56

AGreenLiving

JUNE 6, 2020

Our shared natural assets — soil, water, and a stable climate — will only increase in value as the world demands more food. Pull Quote Building capacity and providing patient capital at the farmer level is a big challenge; at NatureVest, it is referred to as the last-mile problem.

Agriculture 28

Agriculture Investment Soil Ethics 28

Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Lab-Grown Meat, Fake Meat & 3D Printed Pizzas Book Summary - There are currently several technologies in development that have the potential to provide the sustainable food of the future. This is a summary of the book ‘Kweekvlees, Fake Vlees & Pizza’s uit de Printer’ from Sebastiaan van de Water. Loss of biodiversity.

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Solar Energy Monitor Organic Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 78

Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

Even more worrying is a fact David Wallace-Wells points out in his best-selling book Uninhabitable Earth : more than half of the carbon emitted in the atmosphere today was emitted in the past 30 years. Two years later we hit a monthly average of 411 parts per million (ppm), with a peak of 414ppm in May 2019. Civil Society Declaration 2020.

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Carbon-neutral Climate change Nuclear Power Carbon-negative 95

AGreenLiving

JULY 19, 2021

Roman Krznaric’s book ” The Good Ancestor ” is an important antidote to redirect our thinking away from apathy and fear. On the plus side, the demands upon nature can be reduced for water resources, energy, crop and meat production, forests and soils, and critical materials.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 9, 2021

Aubrey McCormick Fri, 04/09/2021 – 02:00 Sports leagues are seeing the impacts and the surge of climate-responsible athletes using their platforms to promote positive environmental and social impact — it’s something for the history books. Nearly every country in the world, including the U.S., In the U.S. In the U.S. The time is now.

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Climate change Real Estate Agriculture Sustainability 36

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Working at the intersection between climate, systems theory and the psyche, Bednarek says her move from trauma therapy into climate psychology over the past decade was a deeply personal response to the sense of grief she felt as a mother in a time of global danger and biodiversity loss.

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Climate change Fossil fuels Pollution Ethics 87

Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 28, 2023

You double-book and spend just as much time picking what to prioritize as you do once you’re actually there. 🌳 NatureMetrics , an Egham, United Kingdom-based DNA-based biodiversity monitoring platform, raised $13M. Where we’ll be at NY Climate Week New York Climate Week is so, well, New York. Danish crowns ($3.9B

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Just two weeks ago, the Prime Minister told the UN General Assembly that the world could not afford to "dither and delay" on tackling biodiversity loss, yet yesterday marked 200 days since the government's landmark Environment Bill was last seen in parliament. The gap between the government's net zero rhetoric and its policy agenda remains.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. Ridesharing demand crashed with COVID-19, and Lyft became part of the frontline delivery and medical access infrastructure. And its LyftUp effort seeks to meet transportation needs in underserved urban communities.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2022

Further assisted by the inspirational work of Sir David Attenborough's BBC television series laying bare the threats of biodiversity loss and climate change to the planet, as well as the righteous anger of a Swedish school girl called Greta Thunberg, public awareness and concern surged, piling pressure on politicians to act.

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Politics Climate change Fossil fuels Government 36

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Boosting the ECO scheme could well end up being cost neutral on Treasury with insulation cutting gas demand and so the overall price tag of the bailout. As the Treasury-commissioned Dasgupta review into the economics of biodiversity showed, economic prosperity also requires a healthy natural environment, however.

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Government Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 36

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2022

“Biodiversity loss can have significant direct human health impacts if ecosystem services are no longer adequate to meet social needs. Loss in biodiversity may limit discovery of potential treatments for many diseases and health problems.” ” – Biodiversity and Health , WHO.

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Packaging Retail Innovation Sustainability 78

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Certification is shown to attract and engage top talent, increase credibility and build trust, slash costs, meet the demands of a consumer majority, and protect a company’s mission in the long term. Does your company have an open-book management process that allows employees to access all financial and operational data?

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