Business Green

JULY 4, 2022

Banking giant takes a stab at caclulating biodiversity impacts of its financing activities for first time, as it looks to meet requirements of new French nature reporting law. From there, it calculated its own headline biodiversity footprint.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2021

COP26 has a vital role to play in driving the international collaboration we need to tackle climate change. In this defining year, many businesses have already made new commitments to go further and faster to cut emissions or end deforestation. Nature's cost of doing business needs to be quantified.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2023

Selecting the right sustainability certification for your business can be a tedious process requiring thorough research and understanding which program will best suit your needs and budget. General business sustainability certifications. These standards are constantly revised to reflect changing global priorities and regulations.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

As understanding of the climate crisis increases and the harm to ourselves, the environment, business, industry, and the economy that will follow, so a desire to not only reduce carbon but to be seen reducing carbon increases. Other offsetting projects enhance biodiversity, improve soil quality, food production or rainwater absorption.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

The “solar-powered digital nose” in situ. The first live demonstration of the group’s Silvanet system of solar-powered gas sensors was recently conducted successfully in a forest near Berlin, says the firm. . By adding additional sensors, the network can also be used to monitor tree health and growth.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The groups said the summit disregarded “the urgent need to address the gross power imbalances that corporations hold over food systems.”. Agriculture’s role in fuelling the climate and biodiversity crisis has become increasingly apparent in recent years. Corporate Capture.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

BASF’s wine tasting is just one example of many such pandemic-style lobbying efforts by the European agriculture industry since the EU has attempted to pass sweeping new policies to combat climate change through measures included in its “Green Deal,” first presented in December 2019. Meet the Industry Trade Groups.

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Grist

MAY 25, 2021

Degraded peatlands will be re-wetted and replanted in the Pennines and west Wales, while rock chips that absorb CO2 as they break down in soil will be tested on farms in Devon, Hertfordshire and mid-Wales. These crops would be burned for energy, with the CO2 emissions trapped and stored underground. The £30 million ($42.5

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Adjusting to current or expected effects of climate change, such as building defences to protect against rising sea-levels, to reduce risk or benefit from opportunities where possible. The Sixth Assessment Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Biodiversity. Climate finance.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 5, 2023

The world’s mangroves alone sequester more than 31 million tons of carbon in their soils and biomass each year. These ecosystems really are a great ocean-climate link, and part of our strategy is to unlock this blue carbon potential for climate mitigation,” said Lindsey Smart, Climate and Ocean Scientist at TNC.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 28, 2023

In the news this week, $7T for fossil fuel subsidies, the summer brings more tropical storms, and Equinor opens the world’s largest floating wind farm… to power oil drilling. for Northvolt to build energy storage, $100M for direct lithium extraction, and $60M for heat batteries. Thanks for reading!

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 16, 2023

With droughts affecting the UK for much of last summer, the project, from Westcountry Rivers Trust and South West Water, will not only contribute to better hydrated wetlands, woodlands and fields, but can help farms manage water demand through dry weather, as well as boost aquatic biodiversity.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

The planetary conditions that have enabled society to grow and become what it is today are changing, shifting to uncertain terrain with potentially catastrophic results. Climate change – Recent evidence suggests that atmospheric CO2 has already transgressed the planetary boundary and is approaching several Earth system thresholds.

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Greentown Labs

MAY 26, 2021

Bayer’s commitment to inclusive growth means it is providing more people in all regions of the world with access to health care and food security, and developing solutions to environmental protection with a focus on decarbonization, climate adaptation, and biodiversity preservation. Learn more about them here. ###. billion euros.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 22, 2020

Planet’s tools and technologies are powering a new generation of sustainable development and climate solutions. On an ever-more crowded planet, responding to the linked challenges of sustainable development, the loss of nature and climate change is simply no longer an option. Consider agriculture. Planet and the SDGs.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2023

Twenty-year research project comprising 30 million records unearths 'powerful and concerning' human impact on native plants A new publication from the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) has revealed a catastrophic decline in native plants caused by climate change and intensive agricultural practices.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

More than 210 million hectares of degraded land worldwide is now being targeted for restoration or reforestation under the Bonn Challenge, a major global initiative which claims nature-based climate solutions are playing a crucial yet undervalued role in boosting biodiversity, capturing CO2, and driving economic benefits.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The head of England's nature agency is to tell an audience of farmers and food businesses in a speech today that rolling back nature protection efforts risks an "existential threat" to national food security. It's sometimes said that you can't go green if you're in the red," Juniper will say.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 5, 2021

Use of resources has tripled (automatic PDF download) since 1970 and could double again by 2050 if business continues as usual. A growing number of businesses, governments and civil society organizations are coming together to drive the change through the Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy (PACE). We would need 1.5

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

If concerns about the impact of Brexit or climate change on our food supply weren't incentive enough for a rethink of how we produce, import and consume food, the reality of the situation we have found ourselves in recently almost certainly is. It has also led to significant declines in biodiversity and soil health.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. and globally by 2040. Patrick Collison, CEO and co-founder, Stripe; San Francisco.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Business interest in plant-based food is growing, but many consumers are still in the dark over the environmental sustainability of their eating habits. There can be little doubt diets are steadily changing in the UK. Meanwhile, businesses are themselves grappling how to drive sustainable behaviour change.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

When well managed the land helps regulate water and air quality, sequester and store carbon, and minimise flood and soil erosion risks. Soil erosion, wildfires, floods, monocultures, and pollution can all pose a serious threat to life and the viability of the economies and communities that are dependent on the land. Cristiana Pa?ca

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 28, 2022

Comparatively, poor waste management contributes to air pollution, exacerbates climate change, contaminates ecological habitats, and is harmful to wildlife and human health. For instance, thinking about climate change, solid waste-related emissions are anticipated to increase to 2.38 Types of Waste In Your Business.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Creating better businesses with B Corp Certification and beyond B Corp Certification presents a set of guiding principles that support organizations to minimize their impact on the environment and society. Hence, certified B Corps often experience bottom-line benefits helping the business thrive. What is B Corp?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Key amendments are needed to deliver a world leading environmental regime and an investible proposition for business, argues Nick Molho of the Aldersgate Group. The Bill, which is of critical importance to the environment, society, and business, has two key functions. Legally binding green targets have strong backing from business.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 26, 2022

In this Green Business Bureau article, we wanted to help you support a sustainable food supply model on a global level, starting at a smaller scale with your organization’s cafeteria. Our food supply chain uses an excessive amount of land leading to biodiversity loss. Our food supply chain demands an extravagant amount of energy.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2020

In a new report published on Monday the committee delivered a sharp warning that the current "siloed" approach to climate change, where efforts are split between different departments and bodies with minimal overall coordination, will "fail to deliver the intended outcome and could even contribute to further degradation of the natural environment".

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 12, 2019

Deforestation is a major cause of climate change, and it also has serious effects on local conditions. Deforestation affects rainfall, potentially triggering a vicious circle of dryer conditions, soil erosion and desertification. Biodiversity declines, crops fail.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021 Elsa Wenzel Mon, 01/11/2021 – 02:15 The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Introduction Climate Change. Loss of biodiversity. Soil degradation. According to Livestock’s Long Shadow , a United Nations report, world meat consumption has the highest negative impact on the climate. Food is basically a combination of energy, water and nutrients. Sustainability. Deforestation.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Biodiversity in many of our rivers is a lot better than it was. But our ability to protect our waters depends on us having the powers and resources to do that, and that hasn't always been the case. We need to remember though that the polluters are not just big water companies or careless businesses - they are us, the public, too.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

VERGE Energy Conference (VERGE 20) will take place on October 26-30, 2020. This online event can be attended from anywhere, The central theme at VERGE 20 will focus on how energy systems can be decarbonized, decentralized, digitized and democratized. Climate change is the most significant global threat we face today.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Comprising 130,000 hectares on the Kampala Peninsula, alongside another 20,000 hectares on nearby Padang Island to the north, RER was set up a decade ago to restore and protect an area of unique, biodiverse, peatland-rich rainforest that is twice the size of nearby Singapore which lies just over 100 miles eastward.

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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2024

Pilots flew through alpine valleys, where ribs of electric green growth emerged from a blanket of snow. With conditions rapidly changing as the planet warms, wildlife managers nationwide are facing similar biodiversity crises. Compounding that, climate change is altering the tundra ecosystem the animals rely upon.

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Politics Climate change Energy Monitor Government 144

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 21, 2020

I’ve come to Stone House Farm from Brooklyn to learn more about how regenerative agriculture — the nature-based approach to farming generating all kinds of buzz around its climate mitigation potential — actually works. The marketplace is one of a number of new platforms born in anticipation of huge corporate demand for soil carbon credits.

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