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. See Table.).

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

European law-makers are due to vote on a revised renewable energy directive next week, part of the EU’s Green New Deal to slash carbon emissions by 55 percent by 2030. They have sent MEPs a version marked with their corrections. non-profit tracking biomass, who authored the comments, told DeSmog. “The

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

The biggest risks to food security stem from climate change and the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services,” said the letter, which was sent to all Members of the European Parliament. “We We urge policy makers to continue the legislative procedure.” It is also the leading cause of biodiversity loss in the world.

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Econaur

APRIL 22, 2020

Outraged by oil spills, smog and polluted rivers, 20 million people took to the streets, protesting what they recognized as an environmental crisis. The risks faced by ignoring the threats of environmental destruction must be understood and addressed with protections and policies. ” Background on Earth Day. Earth Day in 2020.

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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

MARCH 10, 2021

The analysis, which looked at more than 3,500 fiscal policies across the world's 50 largest economies, finds that just 2.5 For instance, roughly 16 per cent of recovery spending could bring positive air pollution impacts, but 16.4 per cent is likely to increase net air pollution.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Whether it’s a new build or a retrofit (also referred to as greenhabbing , or green rehabbing an older building to be more eco-friendly), the real estate industry is moving towards sustainability because a low-carbon building is proven to have lower operating costs, improved resale value and higher occupancy rates.

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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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Elemental Excelerator

AUGUST 8, 2022

As corporate pledges to achieve net zero pile up, carbon offsets — paying someone else to reduce GHG emissions to compensate for your own — are attracting both increased interest and scrutiny. There’s still much to learn about which carbon offset solutions and frameworks will truly be effective and economically viable at scale.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The reason it’s considered a solution is that plants suck up carbon from the air while they grow. When we turn them into fuels and burn them, no new carbon is added to the atmosphere —the whole cycle is considered “carbon neutral.” But critics say biofuels’ carbon-neutrality is a mirage. The case for negative emissions.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2021

The authors calculated the huge additional costs lumped onto society by the transport and electricity sectors' contribution to climate change, air pollution, land degradation, noise, and biodiversity damage, as well as health and social costs, with the estimated total bill coming to £264bn. Co-author of today's study Benjamin K.

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2023

Leading UK firms have signed up to a new Nature Positive Business Pledge, but reversing nature loss remains a daunting challenge After centuries of despoiling the environment and forcing nature into retreat, could the private sector play an integral role in reversing the decline in global biodiversity?

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Business Green

APRIL 29, 2021

The campaign has also tightened the language it uses when defining residual emissions, sources, and credits in its criteria document in an attempt to provide more specificity about what types of carbon sink projects can legitimately be included in net zero strategies. because they were never intended to".

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2022

Do you regret the failures of the past decade to deliver policies that would have kept the UK on track to meet its emissions targets? What would be your message to the businesses currently planning to ramp up investment in job-creating and cost competitive low carbon projects to help deliver on the UK's net zero targets?

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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

The main drivers of change are the demand for food, water, and natural resources, in the face of severe biodiversity loss and changes in ecosystem services. Now, the planetary boundaries framework has generated enormous interest in science, policy, and practice. The increased acidity reduces the number of available carbonate ions.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Direct Air Capture (DAC) of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from the atmosphere is one set of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) strategies that may play a role in mitigating climate change, particularly in the mid to latter part of the 21 st century. C report provided four scenarios (P1-P4 in Figure 1) with increasing roles for negative emissions.

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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.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

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. These companies are stepping up their game because the exposure they are facing is stepping up,” says Jennifer Jacquet, Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Miami.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2023

A large donation to the Labour Party from wood-burning giant Drax has raised concerns among campaigners over the sway of big carbon emitters over Parliament. Opposition leader Keir Starmer has yet to articulate his party’s position on burning wood for electricity – or to clarify whether Labour accepts donations from polluting companies.

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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 21, 2023

Business as usual is not working The report is unequivocal that human-caused climate change is affecting weather and climate extremes in every region across the globe, and is set to get worse without a major acceleration in policy action and drastically increased investment in climate solutions. of warming. of warming.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

A new briefing paper from Imperial College London attempts a deep dive on the pollution produced by the particles sloughed off from vehicle tyres. Even if all our vehicles eventually become powered by electricity instead of fossil fuels, we will still have harmful pollution from vehicles because of tyre wear. “We

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2022

Better design and reuse of buildings are crucial to cutting their carbon impact, writes Ellen MacArthur Foundation's Tansy Robertson-Fall. Driven by design, these principles eliminate waste and pollution, circulate products and materials at their highest value, and regenerate nature.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Juniper will argue that the future of agriculture is heavily reliant on a healthy environment, and that it is possible for farmers to secure a good income from food production while also protecting and restoring nature and biodiversity, as the government's proposed farming subsidy reforms schemes aim to achieve.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

This includes measures that work to reduce an entity’s carbon footprint , effectively manage waste , prevent pollution and conserve resources. In addition, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Risk Report 2022, the top risks facing our economy are climate action failure , extreme weather , and biodiversity loss.

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Business Green

JANUARY 10, 2022

The world's most famous climate campaigner is far from alone in her scepticism towards the term - concerns that have been fuelled by the way so many major polluters have embraced the term while failing to accompany their net zero targets with credible decarbonisation plans. You can't negotiate with the science," he tells BusinessGreen.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

While both Yum and McDonald’s regularly attempt to influence agricultural and trade policy in the United States to ensure a more favorable operating environment for their franchisees around the world, a review of lobbying disclosures in the United States found no evidence that either Yum! The resolution process is ongoing.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

As chair of the Committee, Leonie Cooper explains time is now tight to build up the policy framework, skills, and infrastructure needed to transition a global city of more than eight million inhabitants to net zero emissions. "I Far more focus is therefore needed at City Hall on enhancing green skills and education provision, argues Cooper.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2020

By the percentage reduction in carbon emissions committed and the deadline set? I am delighted by the 'race to zero' among large and small companies setting bolder carbon targets. It mitigates its most material negative impacts, enjoys and perhaps amplifies its most material positives. And how are you judging that?

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

Even more worrying is a fact David Wallace-Wells points out in his best-selling book Uninhabitable Earth : more than half of the carbon emitted in the atmosphere today was emitted in the past 30 years. Two years later we hit a monthly average of 411 parts per million (ppm), with a peak of 414ppm in May 2019. What would change?

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The Drax power plant in North Yorkshire is the UK’s biggest single-point source of carbon dioxide emissions, and is fed by a constant supply of wood pellets shipped to the UK on enormous vessels, mostly form North America. Estonia, and Canada – and the UK–the world’s top importer of wood pellets for biomass energy.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 12, 2021

The analysis, which looked at more than 3,500 fiscal policies across the world’s 50 largest economies, finds that just 2.5 For instance, roughly 16 percent of recovery spending could bring positive air pollution impacts, but 16.4 percent is likely to increase net air pollution. billion focused on renewables and $18.5

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GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

If planned wisely, population decline could, in the words of British conservationist David Attenborough, provide an opportunity to "rewild" nature by relieving major stress points upon critical ecosystems and species that could enable a gradual regeneration of biodiversity. Innovation marches forward.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Limiting other greenhouse gases and air pollutants, especially methane, could have benefits both for health and the climate.". In parallel, it must be used to inform and instigate a strong policy response to close the remaining ambition gap to keep the Paris Agreement objectives alive.".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Meanwhile, the advance of low carbon alternatives to the hydrocarbon-driven economy has been far too slow to meet that challenge. And I think the same argument would hold for other goals like reversing the decline of biodiversity and trying to become so-called 'nature positive' by 2030.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

billion people live in areas that are "highly vulnerable" to climate change, key ecosystems are losing their ability to store carbon, many low lying areas are facing a future of inundation, and millions of people face drastically increased risk of deadly heatwaves, floods, and droughts. As the report makes clear, between 3.3 billion and 3.6

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