Business Green

JUNE 16, 2020

BP's potentially landmark write down of $17.5bn of oil assets yesterday in response to its downwards recalibration of future oil demand is just the latest evidence that the net zero transition is poised to accelerate. Efforts to tackle biodiversity loss enjoy no such luck.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2021

Grant from Global Environmental Facility will support programme of work designed to reduce fashion sector’s contribution to biodiversity loss. The Fashion Pact has announced the launch of a series of initiatives geared at curbing the sector's impact on biodiversity loss after securing a $2m grant from the Global Environmental Facility.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

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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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Nature-based infrastructure solutions can influence 79% of all targets across the Sustainable Development Goals, highlighting the critical role nature can play in advancing sustainable development, climate action and biodiversity conservation, according to a new report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), UNOPS, and the University of Oxford.

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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2020

Report from ShareAction finds that none of the world's 75 largest asset managers have a dedicated biodiversity policy, while many are still underplaying climate risks. Moreover, only 11 per cent of asset managers have policies requiring portfolio companies to mitigate harmful impacts on biodiversity.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2024

The University of Manchester has signed a landmark new deal that will see up to 65% of its electricity demand supplied through a brand-new renewables project. The site will also create a significant biodiversity net gain. Construction of Medebridge commenced in April 2024, with energisation expected in autumn 2025.

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Europe Carbon Sustainability Biodiversity 147

Planet Pulse

JANUARY 23, 2024

We are expanding this portfolio with a white paper guide to help navigate new sustainability reporting demands around nature-related impacts and dependencies – Accelerating Biodiversity and Ecosystem Reporting , written in collaboration with Microsoft, the Natural Capital Project, and the Gund Institute at the University of Vermont.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 23, 2023

By Leanna Tang and Andrew Howell, CFA High-integrity carbon credits can play an important part in enhancing climate action, but their role in corporate sustainability strategies has come under scrutiny over the last year. When a buyer removes a credit from the market by retiring it, they can take credit for the emissions impact it represents.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Coal-fired power plant chimneys: In fast-growing economies, rapidly increasing energy demand is triggering investment in both low carbon and fossil fuel generation, leaving certain countries, including India and China, unlikely to reach net zero until much later.

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Fossil fuels Aviation Climate change Biodiversity 147

Business Green

APRIL 12, 2022

Alphabet, Meta, Shopify and McKinsey launch Frontier Fund to bring down costs of carbon removal technologies that scientists acknowledge will be critical to meeting climate goals.

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Technology Carbon Carbon-negative Demand 98

GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

These new expectations go beyond the goal-setting and reporting process – it also is now expected that companies will have multifaceted sustainability goals and programs that encompass carbon but also water, waste and biodiversity and also are creating new tools and services to enable others to build on their work. . taylor flores.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 4, 2020

In the quest for carbon offsets, (almost) anything goes. Recycled plastic: There’s market demand, but where’s the supply? What Joe Biden could do to cultivate carbon removal innovation (16:35) . Biodiversity in fashion (37:35) . Carbon Removal. Carbon Policy. Heather Clancy. Fri, 12/04/2020 - 02:00.

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Fashion Biodiversity Policy Recycling 278

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Demand for voluntary carbon offsets holds strong. How to add considerations for equity and biodiversity into renewables procurement? Stories discussed this week (4:20). SEC rule change stifles key risk signal, disenfranchises retail investors. Why Kroger and Publix are bringing the farm to the grocery store.

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Retail Fashion Biodiversity Innovation 458

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Much of the required action involves the delivery of new and expanded infrastructure to generate, deliver and make use of renewable energy and other low-carbon energy sources. UKERC research has identified significant carbon savings up to 20 MtCO2e – most of which could be delivered in the next 15 years.

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Energy Energy Electric vehicle Government 284

Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 9, 2023

Narrative for deep-sea mining is misleading” Supporters of deep-sea mining maintain that increased rare minerals demand in ‘green technologies’ such as wind, solar and batteries cannot be met from terrestrial sources. Questions also remain on carbon cycles and genetic resources.

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Biodiversity Recycling Recycling Technology 261

Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Following a consultation last year, the government yesterday confirmed plans to bring in the new Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) requirements in a phased approach between now and the end of 2025, starting with local planning authorities this year before extending to major infrastructure projects.

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Fairsnape

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The airline industry is in the news again with Ryanair being told by the advertising watchdog to stop adverts that claim it to be the greenest airline in Europe, The airline industry has become a focus of both carbon ‘anger and angst’, along with a reawakening of the carbon offsetting debate.

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Carbon Biodiversity Global warming Health 78

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Commentators seemed unanimous that the new requirements were a step in the right direction, if a little unambitious, with a government impact assessment acknowledging that 10% Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) may not go beyond “no net loss”. A fate well-documented in the recent history of the global carbon credits market.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

The growing global consensus on the need to build a green recovery from the economic wreckage of the coronavirus crisis has been yet further underlined by a set of green policy demands released today to mark World Environment Day by host of influential institutions, including the OECD and the UN Development Programme (UNDP).

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Demand Packaging Resilience Biodiversity 88

Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

A new paper from an independent group of climate experts emphasises “the critical importance of a comprehensive financial and regulatory ecosystem incentivising emissions reduction and removal, supported by a properly functioning carbon price.” An alternative approach to carbon pricing.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

A host of global fashion brands and consumer goods retailers, including H&M, Ben & Jerry's and Stella McCartney, have today collectively committed to purchasing 550,000 tonnes of low carbon alternative fibres for textiles and packaging, in a move aimed at curbing supply chain deforestation. Every year, more than 3.2

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Carbon Fashion Packaging Retail 72

Business Green

JUNE 9, 2023

BusinessGreen rounds up the most widely read stories on the site this week Study: Solar farms can be 'wildlife havens' New report by Solar Energy UK reveals how well managed solar farms have potential to boost ecology and tackle biodiversity loss in the UK.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

To advocates, scaling up the markets where companies go to offset their greenhouse gas emissions will unlock billions of dollars to plant forests, restore ecosystems, and spur a global roll-out of machines to scrub carbon dioxide (CO2) from the sky. ” – Derik Broekhoff. The markets today are very flawed. They’re not transparent.

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Carbon Climate change Government Demand 98

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Aviation biofuels could account for up to five per cent of global jet fuel demand before the end of the decade, up from less than 0.1 SAFs are seen as one of few low-carbon technologies with the potential to help decarbonise the aviation sector in the near-term. per cent today, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF).

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

US beauty conglomerate announces it is on track to sell perfumes made using recycled carbon within months after receiving first delivery of recycled carbon from partner LanzaTech. Use of carbon captured ethanol can help significantly reduce the fragrance industry's impact on environment and the climate, the companies said.

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Carbon Recycling Recycling Sustainability 72

AGreenLiving

APRIL 22, 2021

Improving Biodiversity and Communities With Net-Zero Goals Date/Time: May 20, 2021 (1-2PM ET / 10-11AM PT) Join GreenBiz and SilviaTerra co-founder and CEO Zack Parisa for a discussion about the correlation between climate change, biodiversity, and community. Every year, more and more organizations pledge to go net-zero.

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Biodiversity Climate change Organic Carbon 28

Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 3, 2023

As energy demands increase for heavier and longer-distance transport, the energy efficiency equation for fossil based-fuels becomes harder to displace. These industries now have a mandate to slash emissions even as fuel demands increase , and existing decarbonization solutions for lighter transportation aren’t up to snuff.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

However, it is crucial that as we move from internal combustion engines to electric vehicles, we do not not risk disturbing our planet’s largest carbon sinks by giving the destructive deep-sea mining industry the green light and opening up a new frontier of industrial extraction, writes campaign organisation the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition.

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Business Green

MAY 15, 2020

In a resolution that secured strong backing from MEPs on Friday with 505 votes in favour and 119 against, the European Parliament demanded the EU revise its post-2020 budget in the wake of Covid-19, and said economic recovery plans must have a strong social and environmental focus.

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Packaging Demand Carbon-neutral Europe 101

Business Green

MAY 27, 2022

In a communique published at the close of a three-day Energy and Environment Ministerial meeting in Berlin this week, the world's largest economies set out their priorities for tackling the intersecting climate, biodiversity, and pollution crises, and responding to the disruption to energy markets wrought by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 15, 2021

The low-carbon building’s curved rooflines are topped with green roofs that help blend the headquarters into the landscape and promote biodiversity. The building also taps into passive solar principles with its east-west orientation to minimize unwanted solar gains, thereby reducing energy demands.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

PV Plus: Amplifying the Sustainability and Biodiversity Benefits of Solar Date/Time: March 4, 2021 (1-2PM ET / 10-11AM PT) Demand for solar energy continues to accelerate. How can solar energy align the climate crisis and the biodiversity crisis?

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 15, 2022

With East Anglia the fastest growing region in the UK, the wetlands initiative is a major step forward to improving resilience through the power of nature without the need for carbon-hungry infrastructure and additional chemical usage. Footage of a water vole was also recorded using trail cams.

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Building Energy Monitoring Biodiversity Energy Monitor Recycling 234

Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Analysis from Thrust Carbon urges aviation sector to make up front investments that rapidly scale the carbon offsetting market to the scale needed to cover its emissions. With the sector raking in $25.9bn of post-tax profits in 2019, the price of carbon neutrality is therefore "more than affordable" for the sector, it concludes.

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Carbon-neutral Aviation Carbon Biodiversity 66

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 31, 2023

The use of so-called “negative emissions technologies” to enhance carbon sequestration and storage in the ocean is increasingly being discussed. This process, also known as alkalinization, harnesses chemical processes to alter the geochemistry of seawater and thereby increase the uptake of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Company behind Hardy's and Echo Falls says its core range has been certified as carbon neutral. The company behind bestselling wine brands Kumala, Hardys, and Echo Falls has announced that its core range has now been certified carbon neutral.

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Carbon-neutral Carbon Europe Africa 63

AGreenLiving

JUNE 12, 2020

Episode 224: Biodiversity, climate tech and voices of clean energy equity Heather Clancy Fri, 06/12/2020 – 02:15 Week in Review Stories discussed this week. All of these events also will be available on demand. See original here: Episode 224: Biodiversity, climate tech and voices of clean energy equity.

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