Impact Alpha

MAY 2, 2024

In the state of Michoacan in western Mexico, indigenous communities have secured Forest Stewardship Council certification for their sustainably managed biodiverse temperate forests. The post How Big Tech can restore forests – and credibility in voluntary carbon markets appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Carbon Biodiversity Sustainability Investment 59

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 28, 2021

New study appears to find that a tripling of current investments into nature-based solutions is needed by 2030 to tackle the climate crisis, otherwise there will be a $4 trillion financing gap. Today, just one tenth of 1% of global GDP is invested in nature-based solutions, says WEF. A total investment of $8.1

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Biodiversity Climate change Investment Agriculture 130

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2022

Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng told a private meeting of MPs this week that Drax’s imports of US-made wood pellets to be burnt for energy are “not sustainable” He added that it “doesn’t make sense” and told MPs the government had not fully investigated the sustainability of burning wood pellets, a type of biomass.

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Home Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 287

Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

Potential of mangoves and seagrass to capture CO2 and support biodiversity to be explored as six marine and coastal projects secure backing from UK Research and Innovation. Research projects aiming to boost biodiversity, capture greenhouse gas emissions and protect coastal environments are among those receiving a share of £9.2m

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GreenBiz

MARCH 18, 2021

Latin American e-commerce giant invests in Brazilian ecosystem restoration. From an established forest carbon marketplace? "We Heather Clancy. Thu, 03/18/2021 - 01:00. The tech sector’s fascination with tree restoration as a climate solution apparently isn’t unique to U.S. companies. . Why not just buy offsets from somewhere else?

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Energy Monitor Investment Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 452

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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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Why nature is the next frontier for sustainable business. Businesses are increasingly seeing that climate action is not only the right thing to do but it brings material benefits such as increased investment, improved reputation and overall competitive advantage. Biodiversity. Erin Billman. Thu, 09/24/2020 - 01:15. Pull Quote.

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The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

Today’s poultry farming has begun to shift from traditional, potentially damaging practices to more sustainable ones. This paradigm shift is primarily driven by a desire to cater to the increasing global demand for poultry products while ensuring environmental sustainability.

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Building Energy Monitoring Sustainability Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor 195

Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Scores of financial firms, banks, and institutional investors representing more than $24tr in assets worldwide have today called on world leaders to adopt an ambitious global nature treaty that establishes clear guidelines for the financial sector to ensure biodiversity loss is reversed.

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Planet Pulse

MAY 17, 2021

Can carbon farming provide a sustainable way to make agriculture truly green? At the same time, there is growing pressure on agriculture to adopt more sustainable farming practices. Examples of carbon farming methods include minimal or no plowing of fields, rotating crops, and planting cover crops.

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Carbon Agriculture Sustainability Carbon-neutral 107

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

While the news that a date for the UN COP 15 biodiversity summit has been confirmed for December is welcome, the slow progress of the pre-meeting in Nairobi with 196 nations is less so. The UN has collectively proposed that countries commit 30 per cent of natural areas to prevent biodiversity loss.

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Biodiversity COP Government Investment 68

Planet Pulse

JANUARY 23, 2024

Authors: Seamus Lombardo and Amy Rosenthal As a Public Benefit Corporation, we think a lot about sustainability and the solutions our customers, partners, and the world need. Planet data and imagery can aid in all stages of sustainability reporting. Figure 1: Planet data can help with all stages of sustainability reporting.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 19, 2022

What Is Sustainable Real Estate? Sustainable real estate includes commercial and residential real estate property that is designed, built and operated in a way that minimizes environmental impact. The Benefits of Sustainable Real Estate. solar photovoltaic, wind, microhydropower and hybrid systems).

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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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Biodiversity Carbon-negative Policy Investment 97

Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

ESG and Sustainability. Investment firms across the globe are changing their priorities. The terms ESG and sustainability are often used interchangeably, yet it is incorrect to do so. In this article, you’ll learn how ESG and corporate sustainability are similar, but also how they can be distinguished.

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Sustainability Organic Ethics Investment 148

Business Green

MARCH 5, 2020

Water company announces wave of multi-million pound investments to cut emissions, restore habitats, and tackle drought risks. The five year investment plan was unveiled yesterday, just hours ahead of trade body Water UK launching its own net zero emission strategy for the industry as a whole.

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Investment Sustainability Biodiversity Pollution 96

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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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

French cosmetics giant says it is 'essential not to not step back from the sustainable transformation that the world needs' as it delivers plans to invest in ecosystem repair and circular economy projects. It is essential not to step back from the sustainable transformation that the world needs.

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Biodiversity Sustainability Plastics Investment 94

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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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The investment group has partnered with Conservation International to deliver the scheme. A new partnership will see $1bn invested in reforestation across locations in Latin America, the region's largest investment bank BTG Pactual announced today. We look forward to working with TIG.".

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Investment Biodiversity Sustainability Carbon 77

Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2022

New toolkit aims to help deliver investment ready nature projects that can mobilise private finance in support of nature restoration. What does investment in nature mean in practice? How can investors generate returns from investing in nature restoration and how can they be assured projects deliver promised environmental gains?

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Investment Biodiversity Soil Carbon 69

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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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 17, 2023

These initiatives aim to reduce environmental footprints, enhance sustainability, and foster environmental consciousness among students and staff. They hold the potential to transform campuses into living laboratories for sustainable solutions, thus contributing to global sustainability goals.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

As more corporate sustainability teams cultivate projects to restore biodiversity and degraded landscapes or to nurture soil carbon sequestration and other nature-based climate solutions, interest in drone technologies that can weed out the best opportunities is flourishing. "The Heather Clancy. Thu, 02/25/2021 - 00:05.

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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

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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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Investment and insurance giant teams up with green groups to study climate and biodiversity impacts on 600 hectares of AXA-owned forest in France. The initiative follows AXA's pledge last year to invest €1.5bn globally into sustainable forest management projects.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

A group of 45 governments will today promise to take urgent action and mobilise increased investment to protect nature and shift to more sustainable ways of farming at the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow. We need to put people, nature and climate at the core of our food systems.

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Government Carbon Agriculture Biodiversity 94

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The European Union’s scientific and political communities are locked in a battle over whether gas and nuclear can be considered green investments. In July 2020, the European Union established the EU Taxonomy Regulation , “a classification system establishing a list of environmentally sustainable economic activities.”

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Investment Sustainability Fossil fuels Carbon-neutral 91

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

New 20-year partnership with WWF aims to help roof window specialist offset 100 years of carbon emissions through global reforestation and afforestation projects. million tonnes of carbon dioxide - by investing in forest and biodiversity projects developed for Velux by WWF. Embracing a commitment aligned with a 1.5C

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Fairsnape

JULY 29, 2019

Are commitments and actions towards Climate and Biodiversity becoming procurement criteria for consultants, designers, contractors and building product manufacturers, and criteria for selecting which contracts to bid? Interesting the Creative Climate declaration contains the pledge to.

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Biodiversity Fossil fuels Climate change Carbon 60

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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Carbon Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 98

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The ‘living wall’ at the University of Plymouth’s Sustainability Hub. The study, conducted at the University of Plymouth, centred around the Sustainability Hub – a pre-1970s building on the university campus – and compared how effectively two sections of its walls retained heat.

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Soil Biodiversity Carbon Sustainability 147

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.

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Carbon Carbon-neutral Biodiversity Packaging 52

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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Climate change Carbon-negative Biodiversity Carbon 264

Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2020

Banking giant aims to raise $1bn for its first fund, which will be followed by a carbon credit fund of up to $2bn. HSBC has announced the birth of an innovative new green approach to asset management, outlining plans to partner with climate change consultancy Pollination Group to create a new investment fund focused on "natural capital".

Investment 71

Investment Biodiversity Resilience Soil 71

Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2021

Mark Wishnie from BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group and Landscape Capital. The potential of nature-based solutions - actions that protect, restore and sustainably manage natural ecosystems - to help combat the climate crisis is now widely recognised. Institutional investors also have an important role to play.

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Investment Carbon-negative Biodiversity Carbon-neutral 88