AGreenLiving

JULY 10, 2020

20 must-read books about food systems Danielle Nierenberg Fri, 07/10/2020 – 00:50 With record high unemployment , a reeling global economy and concerns of food shortages , the world as we know it is changing. Focusing on the concept of dude foods, the book follows the evolution of food marketing for men. ” by Ashanté M. .

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2022

Lawyer and activist Farhana Yamin considers XR’s cultural, political, and business impact three years after it drove London to a standstill in 2019. The global political order had already been fraying at the edges thanks to creeping authoritarianism, populism, inequality, and post-Covid economic headwinds.

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2021

Some leading Brexiteers have long argued the UK's break from the EU provides an opportunity to re-write the nation's rule book and rid the nation of bureaucracy and red tape they blamed for hampering the UK's economic progress as a member of the bloc.

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

As Oxford professor Dieter Helm points out in his latest book – Legacy: How to Build the Sustainable Economy – we need to mend our ways in order to meet the needs of future generations. Techniques, such as organic farming and biodiversity can make all the difference.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. This is a companion piece to the the 25 books in The Green Market Oracle's well informed readers list. These books are organized in the following six categories: 1. Climate impacts 2. Sustainability and business 3.

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Grist

APRIL 29, 2022

Tropical primary forests, for example, are critically important both in terms of maintaining biodiversity and removing and storing carbon from the atmosphere. Soy expansion was no longer permitted to clear forests, but also there was better enforcement of the rules that were on the books.”.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The new Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework should drive a step change nature protection natural world - here's why the world's new biodiversity targets matter for businesses. The 10-year plan, with its four broad goals and 23 targets, has a hugely ambitious aim: to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030.

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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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GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

In looking across the broad array of business, environmental, social, technological and political topics that cross my screen and engage me in daily conversation, there is a temptation to allocate a growing share of mind for pessimism. Innovation marches forward.

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Andrew Winston

MAY 14, 2018

How can our economic and political systems enhance well-being for all and reduce inequality? The program, dubbed AI for Earth , is finding and funding innovators who are making progress in four critical areas — climate change, water, agriculture, and biodiversity. We may need some serious help answering these kinds of questions.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

In between all that, and various other advisory roles besides, the 68-year-old also managed to write five books on climate and energy. The new regime will shift towards an economic rewards system that actually encourages carbon sequestration in woodlands and soils, as well as biodiversity uplift." So that's my aspiration."

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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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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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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 28, 2021

According to Tomas Otterström, KPMG’s partner and head of responsible investment and sustainability services in Finland and Sweden, climate change, biodiversity and diversity/inclusion issues appear to be this year’s top proxy issues globally. racial equity, political spending and policy influence activity influence also will factor highly.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The Environmental Defense Fund, the American Forest Foundation, American Forests, and TNC are also members of the Forest-Climate Working Group, a political advocacy organization, alongside scores of wood product companies, including Enviva and Drax, biomass energy behemoths whose carbon-intensive operations have polluted U.S.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2022

There is better news for environmental campaigners in a section on regulation, where the government quietly rejects proposals for a 'one-in-two-out' rule that would seek to slash the number of rules on the statute book and potentially pose a threat to environmental regulations. " The government.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2021

Boris Johnson to tell Climate Leaders Summit the question of how to reach net zero emissions is 'not so much technical as political'. The UK has shown that it's possible to slash emissions while growing the economy, which makes question of reaching net zero not so much technical as political," he will say. "If

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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. One memorable headline read, “ Morgan Stanley Doubles Down on ESG Despite the Politics.” Subscribe to get all of Andrew’s articles in your in-box.

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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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AGreenLiving

JULY 19, 2021

Yosie Mon, 07/19/2021 – 02:00 In looking across the broad array of business, environmental, social, technological and political topics that cross my screen and engage me in daily conversation, there is a temptation to allocate a growing share of mind for pessimism.

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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. She is a chicken farmer, a zoo doctor, a firefighter, a polar marine biologist, a park ranger and a political candidate. One in five is Black. Barbie is Rosa Parks, David Bowie and Susan B.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Greenpeace UK's head of politics Rebecca Newsom argued it would "sour the UK's diplomatic relationships in the run-up to the crucial Glasgow climate conference next year". And Shaun Spiers, executive director of Green Alliance, bluntly lamented a decision that "stinks".

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

One of its leading proponents is Steven Pinker, whose 2018 book Enlightenment Now was once described by Bill Gates as "my new favourite book or all time". Such projects also support ecosystem services, biodiversity, access to freshwater, climate resilience, improved livelihoods, healthy diets, and food security.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 28, 2021

According to Tomas Otterström, KPMG’s partner and head of responsible investment and sustainability services in Finland and Sweden, climate change, biodiversity and diversity/inclusion issues appear to be this year’s top proxy issues globally. racial equity, political spending and policy influence activity influence also will factor highly.

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Business Green

AUGUST 23, 2022

Left unchecked, rising inequality and poverty will lead to worsening social and geopolitical tensions, creating vastly more dysfunctional societies and volatile economies that make it far more difficult to tackle existential threats such as the climate and biodiversity crises. This is easily affordable, and it will create millions of jobs.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Does he want his premiership to be remembered as pioneering and bold - or left out of the history books because he was no match for the task at hand?". Chris Venables, head of politics at Green Alliance, said: "While this report should set off alarm bells around the world, the worry is that politicians will yet again hit the snooze button.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 28, 2024

In an interview with Rachel Donald of the podcast Planet: Critical , science historian Naomi Oreskes spoke about her new book, The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market , cowritten with Erik M. They have tended to argue for distributed political power and distributed energy.

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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. She is a chicken farmer, a zoo doctor, a firefighter, a polar marine biologist, a park ranger and a political candidate. One in five is Black. Barbie is Rosa Parks, David Bowie and Susan B.

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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. Hence, the stories and lessons presented in this documentary are relevant to everyone.

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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

DECEMBER 28, 2022

“Biodiversity loss can have significant direct human health impacts if ecosystem services are no longer adequate to meet social needs. Indirectly, changes in ecosystem services affect livelihoods, income, and local migration and, on occasion, may even cause or exacerbate political conflict.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2022

Whereas cutting fossil fuels has proven politically difficult, trees are a rare climate fix that’s popular — and some scientists may hesitate to pour water on it. It’s a solution supported by a broad spectrum of people, including former President Donald Trump, who signed the U.S. up for a global effort to plant 1 trillion trees.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

As the Treasury-commissioned Dasgupta review into the economics of biodiversity showed, economic prosperity also requires a healthy natural environment, however. Balancing the books is now seen as a Treasury fixation that will become secondary to the aim of going for growth.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

Under the Bill, each piece of legislation would need to be preserved, replaced or amended by the end of 2023, or be wiped from the statute book automatically under a 'sunset' clause. The threat the Retained EU Law Bill poses cannot be overstated," said ClientEarth lawyer Angus Eames. "If

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Braverman’s Head of Communications David Scullion is deputy political editor of The Critic magazine, which regularly publishes articles attacking climate action by Craig Mackinlay , a Conservative backbencher who runs the NZSG with Baker. He has previously held ministerial positions at the justice and health departments.

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