Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

Climate change and global warming are issues that define our times. What does this boy care about climate change? How much is to be invested for climate change? Environments and weather systems the world over are being altered, threatened and destroyed. There are millions of people like him in this world.

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Business Green

APRIL 26, 2021

Survey commissioned by Cut Carbon Not Forests highlights public concern over environmental impact of biomass power in the run up to COP26 Climate Summit. We are in the midst of a biodiversity crisis, with scientists predicting that one million species face extinction, many within decades," said Elly Pepper from CCNF.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

These are likely to have major consequences – both positively and negatively – over the coming decade, says the group. They are also home to much of the world’s biodiversity, and regulate key aspects of the carbon cycle. Around the world, 1.6

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Veteran sustainable food and farming experts welcomed the strategy as one that just might have a genuine shot at transforming the agriculture sector and result in better public health, contribute to ending the vertiginous decline of biodiversity, and lower greenhouse gas pollution. Reforms Will Jeopardise Food Production’.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Latest figures from UN add to growing library of evidence that global financial system needs a major revamp if biodiversity and climate goals are to be met. The COP15 Biodiversity Summit, kicking off next Wednesday in Montreal, is set to be no different. UN environment summits are increasingly about money.

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Business Green

JANUARY 10, 2023

The Inevitable Policy Response (IPR) has launched FPS + Nature – a new nature and climate scenario to help investors understand how nature and climate policies could shape future markets. The global decline of nature and biodiversity could pose material threats to the global economy that cost as much as $3tr every year from 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Like many corporations, the global COVID-19 pandemic and lack of usual in-person events meant they had to get creative about how to shape the political debate and find new allies to support their agendas. The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2022

The truth is that the climate crisis is about the economy and the environment, which is to say it is about everything. Our political leaders bear a genuinely world historic responsibility to try and drive the development of a net zero emission economy in less than three decades and end the obliteration of nature.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

MPs are urging the government to use the upcoming Budget to usher in a major transformation of the tax system to align the UK's spending plans with its net zero and biodiversity commitments, warning time is running short to deliver on its promise of a green economic recovery from the coronavirus crisis.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2023

The company may be headquartered thousands of miles away in California, but it has been involved in the broader campaign to save the "blue heart of Europe" - the river and biodiversity rich Balkans - being led by a network of local NGOs for more than half a decade. But the picture is much more complicated.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda that calls for governments and industry to work together to find new solutions to climate change–driven food insecurity. Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

There are many urgent takeaways from the Climate Change Committee's stark UK climate preparedness assessment - here are the top five. Damaging climate impacts are inevitable, varied and here today. Net zero is unachievable without climate adaptation. Here are some of the top takeaways.

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Business Green

JANUARY 10, 2022

Perhaps inevitably, therefore, public awareness of the phrase 'net zero' has also grown, spurred on by political figures and businesses touting their commitment to climate action. Net zero isn't some sort of political device or concept, it is derived from natural science.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

It provides a steer on the solutions and services that policymakers have - nominally at least - pledged to support as part of their response to the climate crisis, and it provides a helpful summary of the various ways climate change will impact the ecosystems, infrastructure, and workers all businesses rely on.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Ahead of tomorrow's Net Zero Festival, Toby Hill explores how carbon offset standards are evolving in a bid to assure clients and campaigners that promised carbon savings can be delivered. To find out more about the role of carbon offsets in the net zero transition, sign up now for a free pass to tomorrow's Net Zero Festival.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2021

All the reaction from green groups, businesses, political figures to Rishi Sunak's hugely important pandemic-recovery, pre-COP26 Budget announcement. Chris Stark, chief executive of the Climate Change Committee, said: Not much to say about this Budget - a comment in itself. — Chris Stark (@ChiefExecCCC) March 3, 2021.

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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. Accelerating climate change will keep the federal research and development spigot open.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

“A lot of new fossil infrastructure is being installed, and environmental and climate experts are very worried that this could go far beyond the infrastructure needed for the short term, and create new fossil lock-ins,” said Nina Katzemich of LobbyControl, a transparency campaign group based in Berlin and Cologne. Political Decision’.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Some of the criticism was interesting and arguably justified - it is true the film had little to say about the world outside America and by extension matters of climate justice; for me, the decision to abort the attempt to save the world felt implausibly nihilistic. As McKay put it: "No allegory is a perfect fit. billion and 3.6

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In this report, the sustainability of a given company is measured under 3 key areas: Risk of biodiversity loss. Climate change and carbon reduction reporting. For instance, suddenly sustainability is about climate change, ending poverty, and achieving gender equality. Economic Sustainability.

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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

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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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

BusinessGreen rounds up the best of the reaction from the low carbon economy to the government's flagship roadmap for achieving net zero emissions by 2050. Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) acting director Sepi Golzari-Munro said: "This strategy is an economic and political plan as well as a climate one.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

It is a challenge highlighted by the London Assembly's Economy Committee in a new report due for release shortly, marking the first time it's members have examined the potential impacts of climate change and the net zero transition on the city's workforce. Cooper tells BusinessGreen.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

In the southern Polish city of Katowice last December, news coverage of the UN’s COP 24 meeting on climate change suddenly and dramatically surged, mostly thanks to a three-minute speech given by a Swedish teen activist with Asperger’s syndrome and the amplifying power of social media. Wide-ranging, radical change.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2021

If you truly look at the externalities of most companies out there, there are significant negative externalities. How do you deal with issues of tax, or corruption or money in politics, or human rights standards in your value chain? And then it gets to the tougher calls that I think many people have been avoiding.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

But there is another form of climate-related 'tipping point' that is rather more positive in nature. The tipping points that mark the point at which clean tech deployment rates become exponential are in many ways the last best hope against averting runaway climate change. It requires tipping points - self accelerating change.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2020

In this digital, mobile and social media age, we are constantly bombarded with new environmental, economic, social, geo-political and technical terminology that creates confusion, misguided actions and misinterpretation. The emergence of environmental buzzwords started out with global warming, then became climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2022

British biomass giant Drax is lobbying the Californian government to play host to its first ever “carbon negative” power plant outside of the UK, despite concerns about the sustainability of the energy source. BECCS is a controversial technology that captures carbon dioxide from burning organic matter and buries it underground.

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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. The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Today the world's leading climate scientists delivered the clearest picture yet of the scale of the climate crisis that is already unfolding, as well as the likely impacts of further temperature rises over the course of century. Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree We need immediate action on energy.

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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

MARCH 17, 2021

The department is responsible for 422 national parks, 129 national monuments and 567 wildlife refuges, stewarding biodiversity conservation projects and protecting more than 1,000 endangered species. "It Currently, the country’s 154 national forests absorb about 10 percent of the nation’s total carbon emissions each year, and a U.S.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2021

With this in mind, this article presents the 20 best climate change and sustainability documentaries. These documentaries exhibit how video storytelling can be used to promote sustainability and climate action. Summarized below are 20 of the best climate change and sustainability documentaries.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

A constant stream of negative news risks giving rise to hopelessness and nihilism, it is argued , which benefits nobody and undermines efforts to tackle the very real problems the world still faces. And yet these leaders risk missing a looming threat that could have an even more immediate impact on their prosperity and security.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Schools give us a glimpse into what carbon neutrality looks like. Home to the Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, UMass Amherst works with regional researchers and graduate science students to develop tools needed to help fish, wildlife, and ecosystems adapt to the impacts of climate change.

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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. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

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