Business Green

JUNE 29, 2020

The brewing industry is among the nine critical sectors identified in a report published today by UNEP and the Natural Capital Finance Alliance that highlights need for banks, investors and insurers to set firm targets to reduce biodiversity loss. We urgently need all sectors of the economy to create better outcomes for people and nature.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2020

A trial is underway in forests in Surrey and Northumberland to assess the potential for Internet of Things (IoT) technology to monitor tree growth and the impacts of environmental change on the UK’s forests. It will monitor tree growth and the impacts of environmental change on the UK’s forests. It is the first of its kind in the UK.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 31, 2023

ISO 14001 certification to run an effective environmental management system ISO 14001 certification is designed to help businesses run an effective environmental management system (EMS), to reduce an entity’s impact on our natural world via operating more sustainably.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Companies wishing to join or remain members of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) will all have to set out detailed science-aligned strategies for achieving net zero emissions and boosting nature recovery within the next two years, under new, strengthened membership rules unveiled by the CEO-led organisation yesterday.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 20, 2022

This report demonstrated that ESG investments make good business sense. Customers and employees are also demanding business with a purpose. As such, we’re seeing an ideological shift in the business realm where responsibility goes beyond the profit line. That is, ESG can be used interchangeably with the term sustainability.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In February 2021, German agribusiness giant BASF hosted a virtual wine tasting, a seemingly cozy affair swirling glasses of Portugal’s finest in front of a webcam debating the future of EU agricultural policies. The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2021

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. All businesses depend on nature and the resources it provides. Nowhere is this clearer than in our food systems.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 13, 2021

During the second day of Explore 2021, our customers shared how they are enabling global transparency and supporting critical sustainability research. Planet’s daily imaging data enables powerful agricultural insights through the integration of machine learning capabilities. General John E.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 4, 2021

Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet C.J. Both S&P Global Ratings and Bloomberg rank biodiversity among the top ESG themes for 2021, the latter naming Fidelity International and AXA Investment Managers as examples of firms that have made it a priority. Subscribe here.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

The high seas cover some 42 per cent of the Earth's surface, are a major carbon sink, and home to vast amounts of biodiversity. It also creates new guardrails around exploitation of internatioanl waters, by establishing a more formal and transparent process for permitting of commercial activity in the high seas.

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GreenBiz

MAY 29, 2020

If your sustainability team has regular debates about how to label or describe its various initiatives, it’s not alone. So how does this idea apply to the world of sustainability? Absolute sustainability is about making sure that society operates within planetary boundaries while satisfying human needs," Bande said.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

UKRI offers funding to four major scientific projects across UK exploring net zero cities, agricultural resilience, and biodiversity loss. Currently, the UK is one of the world's most nature-depleted countries, with 40 per cent of monitored species having declined in abundance in recent decades," he said. "We

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Coal-fired power plants in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (image credit: Asian Development Bank , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 It is estimated that today’s policy ambitions and targets would likely lead to global warming of around 2.7C license ). by the end of the century – a temperature that will result in the planet facing climate disaster.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 28, 2022

With biodiversity loss in freefall, central banks and financial regulators must address the sectors most harmful to both nature and the climate, argues Maud Abdelli. Reporting and disclosures on climate and nature loss will be an important mainstay in the sustainability landscape, but increased transparency simply isn´t enough.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The series is supported by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, and is part of their POWER project. . South, where companies find ample forests, lax business regulations, and ports along the Atlantic coast. South to burn them overseas in its power plants.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Policymakers met with fossil fuel and biomass producers nine times as often as with their renewable energy counterparts, DeSmog can reveal, raising fresh concerns over the depth of the government’s commitments to reaching net zero emissions by 2050. Our record on renewable energy speaks for itself,” they said. “In

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2023

A 2021 survey of corporate occupiers of buildings commissioned by JLL revealed that 83 per cent believe that climate risk is financial risk, 79 per cent anticipate that carbon emissions reduction will be part of their corporate sustainability strategy by 2025, and 42 per cent felt their employees would demand green and healthy spaces to work in.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Investment will monitor, report, and verify collective climate actions in support of the Global Methane Pledge. The effort also illustrates how philanthropy is stepping up to fill the funding gap in emissions monitoring — a critical and unmet need for tracking climate action.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 5, 2024

Now looking forward, interest rates are expected to come down, rules around policy incentives and regulation are emerging, and international competition has become a driving force for climate tech. 🚗 Vertical: Transportation and Energy investment declined, but remained on top. 2 spot behind Energy Storage, which rose from no.2

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

Guterres said the treaty was crucial for addressing the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. "It Jessica Battle, senior global ocean governance and policy expert, said the treaty marked a turning point in governments' approach to the oceans that could result in significant economic benefits.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The scale of agri-food giants’ influence and greenwash efforts surrounding the first-ever UN Food Systems Summit , held yesterday in New York City, has raised concern among sustainable farming experts. The groups said the summit disregarded “the urgent need to address the gross power imbalances that corporations hold over food systems.”.

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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2021

Defra confirms wave of amendments designed to strengthen biodiversity targets, curb water pollution, and safeguard independence of Office of Environment Protection. The government has today announced a wave of amendments to its long-awaited Environment Bill, including a new landmark target to "halt the decline in species abundance by 2030".

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

The proposal includes transforming a site in Ealing into a "flourishing and immersive wetland", which according to the Fund could provide "a biodiverse ecosystem for plants and animals". For Londoners, these projects offer a vital way to discover and reconnect with nature."

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Since the IRA passed, 265 clean energy and manufacturing projects worth $100B+ have been announced. 🏦 The Loans Program Office kept busy. Proterra, the dominant electric bus maker, was just one high profile example. 👻 Spooky season for clean energy stocks. 💪 Climate joined the labor movement.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 14, 2023

From revealing the changing wheat fields of Ukraine to generating new AI-enhanced models to monitor natural disaster risk, Planet, our customers, and our partners are pushing into new arenas, embracing both the space renaissance and the data revolution. space – an ode to the power of the force.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

BusinessGreen's all-you-need-to-know guide to the raft of policies and spending commitments contained in the government's flagship roadmap for achieving net zero emissions by 2050. Here BusinessGreen has rounded up all the policies, commitments, and investment pledges set out in the document. The power sector.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The analysis, published late last week, reveals net inflows into ESG ETFs in 2020 powered past the the $31bn of inflows recorded in 2019, reaching a level 10 times bigger than the $9bn seen in 2018. Yet as clean-energy flows take a larger share of the pie, they increase the volatility of overall ESG investing.".

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2022

Consequently, conservationists have often found themselves opposing renewables projects that they support in principle, but fear could have unacceptable biodiversity impacts in practice. Climate change and biodiversity loss can be tackled simultaneously," said Kristian Ruby, secretary general of Eurelectric.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2022

International biodiversity talks that are underway in Montreal yielded their first signs of progress yesterday, as diplomats delivered the latest update to the draft negotiating text that observers hope will culminate in an ambitious new Treaty to reverse nature loss globally. RT to urge leaders to take action NOW. ProtectNature #NatureCOP ?(1/3)

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Here are some of the latest commitments, along with perspective on progress so far: Procure most electricity from renewable sources by 2025 and decrease energy usage by 15 percent. Decrease water usage by 20 percent at high-risk sites and 15 percent overall by 2025 (per metric ton of product made).

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Business Green

DECEMBER 26, 2022

At the COP15 Biodiversity Summit which ended last week, much focus was on the depletion of natural capital, the world's stock of natural assets. Corporate measures could also go some way to reversing the loss of biodiversity and address about 60 per cent of chemical and plastic pollution. Yet fatalism would be misplaced.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 4, 2020

That is the headline conclusion of a damning new report from green campaign group Unchecked UK, which draws on a series of case studies to argue that environmental deregulation has "directly undermined the achievement of government policy goals". It also gives numerous examples of the damaging side-effects of the push to deregulate planning.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2021

Responding to the criticism, Johnson said: "If you attack my arrival by plane, I respectfully point out that the UK is actually in the lead in developing sustainable aviation fuel. ScottishPower said the project was the first of its kind in the UK and is set to provide enough green power for up to 15,000 homes. "I

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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2022

Solar Energy UK raps PM candidates Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss for suggesting large solar farms pose risk to UK food security. This directly helps sustain UK crop production," Solar UK said.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 3, 2023

As energy demands increase for heavier and longer-distance transport, the energy efficiency equation for fossil based-fuels becomes harder to displace. So far, electrification and hydrogen-based options have struggled to achieve sufficient energy densities. Engines are optimized for fossil fuels.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2022

Could growing water stress prompt more companies to embrace water pricing policies? The price of water - essential for human life, nature, communities and businesses - is often subsidised , reflecting a commonly held belief that everyone should have abundant access to clean water. times more than the purchase cost.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Danone, founded more than a century ago and famously declared an asset of national importance by the French government in 2005, has long prided itself on being a purpose-led business. If you really want to do sustainability well in a company, you need to know your business well," Soubeiran said.

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