Fairsnape

JULY 9, 2020

There were a number of Key Actions discussed, but the most important, in my opinion, was that of Education in respect of peat free compost, but perhaps more importantly awareness on peatlands negative and positive contribution to the carbon emergency we face. We rarely think about improving the carbon capture of peatlands.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2021

Global demand for biomass is likely to exceed environmentally sustainable supplies in the coming years as the drive to decarbonise takes hold across different industries - a situation which risks undermining climate mitigation efforts and causing major damage to biodiversity and the natural world.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 3, 2020

New benchmark shows that biodiversity is in fashion Liesl Truscott Thu, 12/03/2020 – 01:00 This week, in advance of World Soil Day — Dec. 5 — the Textile Exchange Corporate Fiber and Materials Benchmark (CFMB) Program is launching a new tool to help the fashion and textile industry take urgent action on biodiversity.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2022

Wetland International calls for protection of crucial ecosystems ahead of the delayed COP15 Biodiversity Summit. On average 200 new species are discovered in freshwater wetlands each year and these precious habitats store almost a third of global soil carbon. Yet these crucial ecosystems continue to be undervalued and overlooked.

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

Government confirms £30m of new investment in a range of projects designed to enhance natural carbon sinks. Alongside the NetZeroPlus project the government and the UK Research and Innovation agency today announced new funding for projects exploring how to use peat, rock chips, and charcoal to expand natural carbon sinks.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2021

For the vast majority of countries, recovery spending has been relatively low and not particularly green, according to the report, with any benefits from the greener elements contained in stimulus packages often undermined by concurrent fossil fuel and consumer focused spending programmes. per cent is likely to increase net air pollution.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

🔑 Climate tech startups hit key milestones - including but not limited to - Fervo’s FOAK enhanced geothermal project operational in Nevada, Brimstone’s third-party approval of its carbon-negative cement, and Heirloom’s first commercial DAC plant. 

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Business Green

AUGUST 15, 2022

In addition the investor has a number of afforestation sites in the UK, which it said it hopes will make the UK more self-sufficient in timber resources in the future as well as contributing to biodiversity. Once established, these sites will represent a package of unconstrained and high yielding afforestation schemes, it claimed.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Due to the environmental harms associated with the use of these agrochemicals, the EU has made limiting their use a key plank among the measures included in its “Green Deal” — a historic package by the bloc to reduce its emissions in line with global climate targets.

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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

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

by the end of the century, the proposed legislation also aims to address the biodiversity crisis, by placing a stronger legal requirement for the government to protect and restore forests, soils, and ecosystems so as to deliver a natural means of absorbing CO2. Based on the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to 1.5C

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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

AUGUST 30, 2022

Yet while many have started to rapidly address their direct emissions, it's become clear that many targets will be missed unless more is done to tackle indirect supply chains emissions - where commonly 80 per cent of a firm's carbon footprint resides. All these impacts will affect large firms first. However, some common themes apply.

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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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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 4, 2021

C when places reminiscent of Mordor continuously pump carbon into the atmosphere. Good-faith efforts to reuse carbon, heat and steam are underway with a target to reduce the Port’s emissions to 50% of 1990 levels by 2025. Those that can create artificial sinks with technological carbon capture, utilization, and storage.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Ahead of the Prime Minister's promised new green recovery package, a new report from the business advocacy group outlines a raft of near-term policy interventions that could put the UK on track to reaching net zero emissions. The gap between the government's net zero rhetoric and its policy agenda remains.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Advocates of this approach reckon it would help catalyse investments in clean technologies and ensure investors are more cognisant of the complex and escalating risks associated with high carbon assets. An alternative approach could include setting minimum mandatory climate standards for ESG products, requiring banks to adopt 1.5C

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2020

Just days after the tech giant unveiled a sweeping new plan to become 'carbon negative' coffee giant Starbucks has followed suit, today unveiling a plan to become 'resource positive'. The preliminary targets could see Starbucks' halve water withdrawal, waste-to-landfill, and carbon emissions within the next decade, Johnson said.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 11, 2023

The SCDP will seek to provide a location dataset for global supply chains such as palm oil, soy, cotton, rubber, mills, factories and wood-based packaging applications to increase resilience to climate change. The growing need for soy fields in food production is having a negative impact on biodiversity.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

In the $500 billion-per-year cosmetics space, small-scale packaging leads to large-scale single-use plastic waste. Carbon renewal technology, or CRT, breaks down waste plastic feedstocks to the molecular level before using them as building blocks to produce a wide range of materials and packaging. Close Authorship. Media Source.

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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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AGreenLiving

MARCH 12, 2021

.” For the vast majority of countries, recovery spending has been relatively low and not particularly green, according to the report, with any benefits from the greener elements contained in stimulus packages often undermined by concurrent fossil fuel and consumer-focused spending program. billion focused on renewables and $18.5

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2022

These various initiatives are set to be complemented by new incentives to encourage the sector to make use of surplus heat and CO2 from industrial processes, as well as on-going efforts to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy technologies in order to cut on-farm energy costs and carbon emissions. There are 9.2

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2023

McDonald’s is at the forefront of a campaign against new laws to reduce packaging waste in the EU, in what has been described by some insiders as the largest-scale lobbying effort they have ever witnessed in the European Parliament. The call follows mounting pressure from industry over the past year.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

Suppliers tend to be large, vertically integrated operations, often complete with facilities for manufacturing chicken feed and processing and packaging chicken meat. But fulfilling a rising global hunger for chicken — raised on factory farms — will inevitably come with a steep cost for biodiversity and for people, he says.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Moreover, more than half of respondents to the Savanta ComRes survey claimed to be aware that the current food system had negative impacts on climate change, air, water and soil pollution, and that it can drive destructive land-use changes such as deforestation.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

It is critical we get the financiers and businesses to really become a key element of [resource mobilisation for nature], partly because a lot of our nature-based solutions will achieve biodiversity, as well as reduce emissions," she said.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Here, BusinessGreen sums up some of its key findings and recommendations for how all actors can work together to deliver a greener, more equitable, lower carbon future. limit but could be bent back down by the end of the century through the use of negative emissions projects, the report contends. The science.

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

The trailed £3bn energy efficiency package was hugely welcome, even if questions remain over precisely how it will be administered and what will happen when the single year Budget is exhausted. But then once again the accompanying policy measures singularly failed to match the rhetoric.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 28, 2020

In the $500 billion-per-year cosmetics space, small-scale packaging leads to large-scale single-use plastic waste. Carbon renewal technology, or CRT, breaks down waste plastic feedstocks to the molecular level before using them as building blocks to produce a wide range of materials and packaging.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Plastic pollution increasingly contributes to the climate and biodiversity crisis, so the cost of inaction increases basically year by year due to negative health, social and also economic impacts," he added. Many of the big global brands and others have committed to making their packaging recyclable or reusable or compostable by 2025.

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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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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Climate change, biodiversity loss, and ecological disruption are global threats to humanity. The approach focuses on topsoil regeneration to increase biodiversity, improve water recycling, and support carbon capture by biosequestration. Communicate how non-desire for sustainability negatively impacts your business and society.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings Group (APRIL), part of the multi-billion-dollar Indonesian natural resources conglomerate RGE Group, harvests millions of tonnes of wood pulp and fibre in Indonesia to produce myriad paper, packaging, viscose and paperboard products.

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