Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Conducted international sustainability research network Future Earth, the survey identifies five global risks — failure of climate change mitigation and adaptation; extreme weather events; major biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse; food crises; and water crises — as the most severe in terms of impact.

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Terra Infirma

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Last week, the Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group (CoSM) considered the topic of business and biodiversity. The post Some Thoughts on Business & Biodiversity appeared first on Terra Infirma.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

These new tools — under development or in the early phases of testing — are helping put numbers to the abstract concept of regenerative agriculture and helping measure metrics such as biodiversity, carbon sequestration and other soil health considerations. . Measuring soil carbon levels with a handheld probe.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Oceans already act as climate regulators and according to the UN generate 50% of the oxygen we need, absorb 25% of all carbon dioxide emissions and capture 90% of additional heat generated from those emissions. These criteria include biodiversity impact, pollution impact, carbon impact, readiness level, costs, trade-offs and scalability.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2023

As the world increasingly turns toward natural climate solutions like reforestation and grassland restoration to sequester carbon, it may be overlooking a crucial ally: animals. The researchers argue that these essential species disperse seeds, facilitating the growth of carbon-sequestering trees and plants.

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Business Green

JULY 11, 2022

The boss of the Environment Agency, Sir James Bevan, is to deliver a speech later today warning how the biodiversity crisis poses an existential threat to the human race if left unaddressed. The biodiversity crisis is a crisis because it won't just kill the plants and animals it is killing," he is to say. "It It will kill us too.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

A group researchers – from University of South Australia (UniSA) – seems to have found that grey mangroves ( Avicennia marina ) can tolerate high lead, zinc, arsenic, cadmium and copper in contaminated sediment – without sustaining adverse health impacts themselves.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 24, 2021

And they provide vital life-support services for all of us – including purifying drinking water, and storing carbon. This will have direct benefits for health and wellbeing as well as improving the resilience of the sites.”. million boost for Wales’ biodiversity: Projects invited to pitch first appeared on Envirotec.

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Business Green

JUNE 26, 2020

In order to achieve this, there are a number of pressing environmental issues that we face, with governments, business and citizens focusing their efforts to reduce our carbon footprint and become more sustainable as a nation. Organisations should also be looking for innovative and creative ways to help make their business more biodiverse.

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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

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Farming needs to urgently scale and pace the adoption of nature-based solutions for addressing climate change and biodiversity loss or face an uncertain future, warns the Nature Friendly Farming Network, an independent organisation that aims to unite farmers across the UK. The effects of climate change and biodiversity loss.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 5, 2023

Making Waves with Blue Carbon Trace your finger across a globe, around the edges of islands and continents, and soon enough, you’ll brush against some of the world’s most important ecosystems – the marshes, mangroves, and seagrasses that constitute the world’s “coastal blue carbon” stocks.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 28, 2021

trillion in nature is required over the next three decades to successfully tackle the climate, biodiversity, and land degradation crises, according to the WEF’s “State of Finance for Nature” report released on 27 May. Biodiversity loss is already costing the global economy 10 percent of its output each year.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2021

CBI chief says it is 'not acceptable' for businesses to sit on the sidelines amid 'seismic' challenges from climate change, biodiversity loss and Covid-19. From climate change to digitisation, resilience-building to fighting protectionist instincts, the challenges we face are seismic," he said.

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CleanTech Group

AUGUST 13, 2019

The aim is to use farming practices that increase soil health through increased biodiversity, water retention, topsoil protection, and other farming process improvements. One key measure of healthy soil is carbon content. Therefore, a working carbon market for agricultural sequestration of carbon is a powerful […].

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

World leaders announce new biodiversity commitments as they declare upcoming nature summit a global priority. Leaders said an ambitioius new global accord was urgently required "in the face of an escalating nature crisis that is threatening health, food security, and livelihoods, while undermining climate action and sustainable development".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Industry Voice: Atkins' Kate Vincent shares her knowledge on carbon removal - one of the most discussed environmental topics of recent times. Carbon removal is one of the most discussed environmental issues of our times and high on the agenda of engineering, design and project management multinational Atkins.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

The French cosmetics giant unveiled its new environmental commitments today, alongside a plan to provide €50m to charities that support vulnerable women, who it said had been disproportionately affected by the global health and economic crisis. It is essential not to step back from the sustainable transformation that the world needs.

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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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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 23, 2023

These pollutants contribute significantly to environmental degradation and pose serious health risks to both humans and ecosystems. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution is responsible for around 7 million premature deaths each year. The impact on human health is equally concerning.

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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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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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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

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The UK's first carbon neutral potatoes will be sold in supermarkets across the UK from next week, Welsh food producer Puffin Produce announced yesterday. We have to act now - so we're on a mission to become carbon neutral and farm in a way that protects and regenerates our land, plants and wildlife. This isn't easy.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

One of the world’s biggest ecological experiments Tropical forests cover just 6% of the planet’s land surface but are home to around 80% of the world’s documented species (WWF), and act as major carbon sinks. Between 2004 and 2017, 43 million hectares of tropical forest were lost – an area roughly the size of Morocco (WWF).

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Business Green

APRIL 27, 2022

Firm launches Big Rewild campaign with 'takeover' of Trafalgar Square, as company debuts new 'carbon neutral' orange juice. Smoothie brand Innocent Drinks is launching a new carbon neutral orange juice as part of a new environmental stewardship programme, dubbed The Big Rewild, which aims to boost levels of urban biodiversity across the UK.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2023

As the world increasingly turns toward natural climate solutions like reforestation and grassland restoration to sequester carbon, it may be overlooking a crucial ally: animals. The researchers argue that these essential species disperse seeds, facilitating the growth of carbon-sequestering trees and plants.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Pointing to the need for an Earthscape approach to decision making, the paper identifies key ways in which the ocean both mitigates climate change by absorbing excess heat and carbon from the atmosphere and aggravates it, failure in ocean systems exacerbating extreme weather, shifting ocean currents and reducing its ability to absorb carbon.

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Business Green

APRIL 12, 2021

Recent headlines suggesting the UK government might slap a carbon tax on burgers and the great British banger have reignited controversy about what tackling the climate will mean for our food. They also stress that lower carbon and more local diets need to be affordable for all.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Forests are crucial for the health and economies of our planet, but they must be better planned, managed and monitored to ensure sustainable benefits for people as well as nature,” he said. He said careful planning of future forest projects could boost the biodiversity of species, carbon sinks, economic development and people’s livelihoods.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2020

The government has been accused of neglecting soil health in England and thereby potentially heightening the risks of flood, food insecurity, and biodiversity loss, after a freedom of information request revealed it spends just a fraction of its environmental monitoring budget on enhancing and protecting soils. With an estimated 2.2

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

More than 220 of the world’s top public health and medical journals have published a joint plea for the global population to reduce carbon emissions immediately. Humanity already faces irreversible public health threats, the editors wrote. Read the original: Climate change is the biggest public health issue.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The research identifies a method to harness Daphnia to provide a scalable low-cost, low-carbon way of removing pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and industrial chemicals from wastewater. This refines municipal wastewater effluent and safeguards the ecological health of our rivers.

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Clean Energy Trust

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Here’s why Clean Energy Trust is excited about our investment in Continuum Ag , an Iowa-based startup run by farmers, for farmers, to drive the adoption of regenerative agriculture practices that improve sustainability, increase profits, and sequester carbon in the soil. Meet Mitchell Hora. Mitchell is a farmer in Iowa. Makes sense.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2021

A new paper published in Nature Sustainability presents seaweed as a model solution for tackling climate change, biodiversity loss, joblessness, hunger and environmental damage. Our research consolidates seaweed farming as an underpinning of a sustainable future,” said lead author Professor Carlos Duarte. “Our

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 26, 2020

Scheme gives land managers the option to sell Woodland Carbon Units to the government at a guaranteed price protected against inflation. The Woodland Carbon Guarantee is a Forestry Commission administered £50 million scheme that aims to help accelerate woodland planting rates and permanently remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Writing in the journal Building and Environment , the group said that, while the concept is relatively new, it seems to open other potential benefits, in relation to things like biodiversity. million programme is exploring low carbon solutions through research and support for local enterprises.

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