Business Green

MARCH 11, 2021

Basil Demeroutis, managing partner at real estate investor FORE Partnership, offers a whirlwind guide to the complex world of net zero carbon. There is a lot of excitement about creating net zero carbon buildings, and rightly so. Not many property professionals can tell you what net zero carbon actually means. Or all of them.

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Has there been any progress in reducing global carbon emissions since Paris in 2015? The graph at the top shows the trajectory of global carbon emissions (and this is without the land-use figures), so no. It’s our economic activity that’s causing climate change and biodiversity loss. The UK will miss by a mile.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 11, 2022

It is wrong to suggest an 'attack on nature' is underway, spokespeople have insisted, the government remains fully committed to its overarching targets to achieve net zero by 2050 and reverse the decline in biodiversity by 2030. Any reforms will happen within that overarching framework. But are such reassurances credible?

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

The nuances of all the various adjectives and descriptors that are used to describe climate action - from "science-based" to "net zero" to "carbon negative" - are enough to make heads spin, especially for those who spend their professional lives worrying about how to communicate these concepts. Offsetting versus insetting.

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Business Green

AUGUST 31, 2020

They show starkly where it is failing: prioritising efficiency over resilience in healthcare, not accounting for the enormous cost of carbon emissions, and allowing persistent inequalities to develop within societies. We believe the current crisis should support and accelerate many trends and themes integral to sustainability.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

But the solutions are there On the other hand, the report stresses there is still time to deliver a low-carbon, sustainable economy where climate-resilient development becomes the norm. of warming is just about still feasible, and keeping temperature increases below 2C is definitely achievable if rapid action is taken.

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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. There's scope for it," she said.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Efforts to rebuild degraded environments are vital for achieving global biodiversity targets. Many countries require businesses to conduct Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) to quantify and reduce their environmental damage, and other private-sector initiatives also encourage companies to measure and disclose their biodiversity impacts.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The current definition of corporate sustainability in the Oxford English Dictionary is: “The property of being environmentally sustainable; the degree to which a process or enterprise is able to be maintained or continued while avoiding the long-term depletion of natural resources.” – Oxford , How sustainable is sustainability?

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 6, 2021

One such critical tipping point is the potential transformation of the world’s largest tropical forests from carbon sinks into net sources of carbon emissions. Currently, carbon emissions that result from deforestation and forest degradation (often referred to as land-use change) are offset, in part, by new reforestation and regrowth.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

So we're definitely trying to throw open some of these issues by putting more focus on the changes that come ahead, so that they feel more political heat for that. We cannot expect nature to mop up all that carbon if it's too dry for the trees to grow. It is a task that becomes even more challenging as temperatures increase.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2020

Our future requires and depends on constant change and a new way of thinking, everything we do or design will have an impact, both positive and negative, and our goal is to enable the transition to continuous positive experiences across all sectors of society. Carbon Neutral vs. Zero Carbon – 1.5

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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. What we've seen during COVID is that the leaders that probably were more courageous in our definition - that showed more humanity, humility, compassion, empathy, that had a stronger purpose - they just did better.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The IPCC report is genuinely terrifying and Russia's attack on Ukraine has revealed the complacency contained in suggestions worst case climate scenarios can be definitively ruled out - the only good news is that the world knows what needs to be done and has the tools to do it. As the report makes clear, between 3.3 billion and 3.6

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Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

Besides being a hub for biodiversity, it is also home to forest-dwelling tribal communities who would be evicted from their homes and their way of life. A monarchical democracy, Bhutan’s government has pledged to protect, conserve and improve its pristine environment and safeguard the country’s biodiversity.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 9, 2023

ISO 14000 frameworks Environmental management system (EMS) An environmental management system aims to reduce the negative impacts a business has on the environment by integrating policy, procedures, and processes for measuring, analyzing, and reporting an organization’s impact on the natural world. LCA is covered under ISO 14040 and 14044.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

But the fact that the Dasgupta Review on the Economics of Biodiversity , published by HM Treasury earlier this month, explicitly calls for economic success to be measured differently is just one sign of rumblings in the tectonic plates of economic thinking. Questioning the negative repercussions of shareholder primacy is now commonplace.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Resolutions to global challenges such as climate change, poverty, inequality, biodiversity loss, habitat destruction, resource depletion, racism, and exploitation need the backing of our economic system. You can use this protocol alongside carbon footprint calculating software such as Green Business Bureau’s partner, Aclymate.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 28, 2021

Video conferencing and web collaboration software is changing how companies operate their business while lowering their carbon footprint. The 2021 World Economic Forum’s Global Risk Report identifies extreme weather, climate action failure, biodiversity loss, and infectious diseases as top risks in terms of both likelihood and impact.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Loss of biodiversity. According to Livestock’s Long Shadow , a United Nations report, world meat consumption has the highest negative impact on the climate. From a historical perspective however, warning about the negative effects of our food consumption are commonplace. Introduction Climate Change. Deforestation. Absolutely.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

It will specifically explore systemic solutions to the climate crisis focusing on clean energy, electrified, transportation, the circular economy, carbon removal and sustainable food systems. Protein is being sourced from an increasingly long list of plants, synthesized from carbon dioxide sucked from the air, and extracted from insects.

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