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Climate Crisis, Global Warming, Carbon Neutral, Zero Waste: Meaningful Buzzwords or Passing Fads?

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Terms such as climate change, climate crisis, carbon neutral, negative emissions, etc. Environmental Sustainability – In a truly sustainable environment, an ecosystem would maintain populations, biodiversity, and overall corporate and production functionality over an extended period of time.

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'The Big Rewild': Innocent Drinks launches national urban biodiversity initiative

Business Green

Firm launches Big Rewild campaign with 'takeover' of Trafalgar Square, as company debuts new 'carbon neutral' orange juice. The brand said it would offset all the emissions that go into producing each bottle of carbon neutral orange juice by funding rainforest protection and preservation projects. "For

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COP15 in Montreal: What does the landmark biodiversity conference mean for business?

Business Green

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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Costa Rica Sustainability: How Costa Rica Became a Sustainability Pioneer in Latin America

Green Business Bureau

Improve societal well-being, health, educational access and support a green culture. One key goal is for Costa Rica to be recognised as a leader in establishing a carbon-neutral future. Deliver appropriate biodiversity, ecosystems, basin, and marine-coastal management to favor local communities. Promote ecotourism.

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How To Buy Carbon Offsets: 6 Certified and Vetted Options

Green Business Bureau

The voluntary carbon offset market is rocketing, with the Ecosystem Marketplace reporting an annual market value of ~$1 billion in 2021, which was an all-time high. This can make things difficult for business leaders like you, looking to reduce their carbon footprint through purchasing offsets. The rules of carbon offsetting.

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Apple unveils 'first of its kind' $200m forestry restoration fund to harness 'best tools' for soaking up emissions

Business Green

Apple has launched a "first-of-its-kind" $200m forestry fund aimed at removing "at least" one million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide each year, promising to scale and support projects that sequester CO2, improve biodiversity and adhere to "strict environmental and social standards".

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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

GreenBiz

Instead, communities hosting wood pellet facilities are not only further burdened by pollution and other local dangers, they are also entangled in yet another climate damaging trend — the destruction of biodiverse hardwood forests and the rise of monoculture tree plantations to produce energy that appears to pose climate threats similar to coal. .