Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

A new book deals with the psychological, cultural and practical changes many believe will be necessary to avoid climate catastrophe – or, if it’s too late to avoid it, to advance strategies of adaptation. A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read.

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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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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Statement by Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the UN High-Level summit on biodiversity. We are on the brink of a world in which the orangutan and the black rhino can be found not in the jungles of Borneo or the savannahs of Africa, but confined to the pages of a history book. And that's not all the UK has been doing.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has promised he is committed to protecting the environment, telling MPs in his first appearance at Prime Ministers Questions last week that his government planned to deliver on the Environment Act signed into law last year and put in place "more protection for the natural environment than we've ever had".

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2021

Among the measures set out in the Capital Shift report is a call for ministers to introduce a compulsory nature-related financial disclosure regime in the UK for companies that would see firms assess their exposure to biodiversity-related issues, such as deforestation and habitat loss, just as it has done with climate-related financial risks.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Even the Treasury is looking at rewriting its Green Book to better account for environmental considerations. It is in this context that this week's highly contentious but hugely wide-ranging Dasgupta Review of the Economics of Biodiversity might just become the breakthrough moment that is so desperately needed.

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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. In 1512, under the rule of Henry VIII, an Act was passed that became known as the Herbalists’ Charter.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

The taxonomy rule book, which has long been in development as a core pillar of the EU's aim to build a net zero economy by 2050, is designed as a labelling system for investment which the Commission hopes can divert hundreds of billions of euros towards the green economy.

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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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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The program was launched to beautify the city landscape, ease vehicle traffic, improve pedestrian traffic, facilitate the water-bearing capacity of the ground, and increase biodiversity. Head to the Green Business Bureau website for more information and to book a free personal demo call. followed by Boston and Seattle).

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 7, 2024

Scientists tell us that we’ve pushed the planet beyond its ability to support us in critical areas such as availability of water, biodiversity, and, of course, carbon emissions. But these new rules also demand discussion of impacts on water, biodiversity, human rights, and more. But the EU is just one player.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2022

Suddenly, many of the hardest-won climate battles of recent years - from enshrining net zero targets in law, to halting Cumbrian coal mines and shelving Cambo oil fields - are all now under threat from government Ministers intent on bolstering the UK's domestic fossil fuel supplies.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

After a dispiriting stint in corporate law, she turned to full-time environmentalism, joining Dogwood Alliance in 1997 and becoming its executive director at the age of 30. “I 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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Business Green

JANUARY 29, 2023

Just this week, the Delegated Legislation Committee - an obscure grouping of MPs brought together to debate and agree secondary legislation relating, in this instance, to six environmental targets, ranging from air pollution to marine quality, from waste to biodiversity.

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2021

The perfume, launched in 2019, is part of an effort from the Brazilian beauty giant to sustainability source ingredients for its beauty products from the Amazon that underscore the benefits of keeping the rainforest intact as a hotbed of biodiversity, while also communicating to end consumers about nature's benefits and limits. "We

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Resolutions to global challenges such as climate change, poverty, inequality, biodiversity loss, habitat destruction, resource depletion, racism, and exploitation need the backing of our economic system. Does your company have an open-book management process that allows employees to access all financial and operational data?

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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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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. Raised in Pittsburgh and one of the youngest multinational leaders, Narasimhan is fond of sharing books that inspire him on Twitter. Patti Poppe, CEO, PG&E; San Francisco. LinkedIn | Company profile.

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2021

The new Carbon Budget is expected to then be enshrined in law by the end of June 2021. Government analysis finds that costs of action on climate change are outweighed by the significant benefits - reducing polluting emissions, as well as bringing fuel savings, improvements to air quality and enhancing biodiversity," Number 10 said.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Key review measures have been stripped from most of the EU green laws transferred onto UK statute books, study suggests. With so much attention on the unfolding coronavirus crisis and its myriad impacts, Brexit has taken more of a back seat in the political theatre in recent months.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2021

This documentary was created in reaction to the Trump administration’s slashing of the laws protecting these public lands. Climate change, biodiversity loss, and ecological disruption are global threats to humanity. The Reluctant Radical questions the law and what society deems as right and wrong.

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Low Impact

MAY 17, 2020

They prohibited me from even mentioning the conflict between GDP growth and biodiversity conservation. Everybody agrees that there’s a basic trade-off between GDP growth and environmental protection, starting with biodiversity loss. I looked into this for years, published several papers and a book. How did you get into it?

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. Raised in Pittsburgh and one of the youngest multinational leaders, Narasimhan is fond of sharing books that inspire him on Twitter.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

The analysis outlines how the new Bill would impact 3,700 domestic laws retained from the UK's time in the EU, of which 1,800 relate to the environment including rules covering everything from drinking water and air quality to habitat protection and chemicals safety.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 1, 2021

Areas of interest: Personalized medicine, Bioinformatics, Public health policy, Environmental sustainability, Sanitation, Water, Ecology, Biodiversity, and Science education and communication. Leisure activities: Biking, Board Games, Traveling, Hiking, Brewing(coffee and beers), and Books (science and philosophy). Danielle Jezienicki.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Previously an avowed free marketeer, having written the controversial “Britannia Unchained” book with Liz Truss and others, colleagues say he “underwent a conversion at BEIS, becoming convinced of the need for intervention and the potential for clean energy”, according to the Guardian.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Over the past year, many professional services organizations that previously had little to say publicly about their climate change strategy — from law firms to management consultants to ad agencies — found themselves under closer scrutiny not just for their own footprint but for supporting some of the biggest climate deniers around.

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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. . Meg Wilcox.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 4, 2023

On the global policy level, after an uninspiring climate meeting (COP27), the global convention on biodiversity produced an impressive target to protect 30% of the planet for nature. Join the Net Positive movement (and find links for where to buy the book all over the world).

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 11, 2019

Brown also signed aggressive new laws committing to carbon-free electricity statewide by 2045 and requiring solar on all new homes. Andrew's book, The Big Pivot, was named a Best Business Book of the Year by Strategy+Business Magazine! So even if U.S. This post first appeared at Harvard Business Review online ).

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Andrew Winston

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The big stories of 2023 included the “anti-ESG” movement’s silencing effect on many companies; the explosion of clean tech; new reporting laws that are pressuring companies to measure and do more; and most oddly, the annual global climate meeting held in the United Arab Emirates, a petro-state. So, what will 2024 look like?

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 6, 2020

Trump is trying to brand himself as the "law and order" president. Trump and Republican's support for the fossil fuel industry further undermine the health of Americans and biodiversity. Trump tried to stop books about him from being published, just as he his trying to conceal his taxes and his grades.

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