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Planet, Microsoft, and Researchers Build New AI-focused Resource for Environmental Reporting

Planet Pulse

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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Government urged to create 'wild belt' nature recovery areas as part of planning reforms

Business Green

Charity the Wildlife Trusts warns government's current planning reform proposals risk undermining efforts to protect nature and biodiversity. Launching a white paper on the planning reforms for consultation in August, Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick said the changes would "cut red tape, but not standards".

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Inside Google's regenerative agriculture play

Business Green

Past topics range from agrobiodiversity and packaging to aquatic foods. Detailed information on five verifiable benefits of responsible farming - water, soil, equity, biodiversity and air - aims to enable consumers, retailers and food service operators to make value-based purchases. But that's much further into the future.

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Boris Johnson promises to 'build back greener', but can he deliver?

Business Green

The speech was inevitably overshadowed by the news Leicester has already been forced back into lockdown and undermined by the realisation the trailed £5bn package amounted to little more than a compendium of previously announced programmes that are an order of magnitude smaller than the template supposedly provided by FDR's New Deal.

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'Decarbonisation by stealth is not possible': Aldersgate Group steps up calls for fast-tracked net zero policies

Business Green

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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From National Parks to Zero Carbon Clusters: What will make it into the 10 point green recovery plan?

Business Green

In recent months Johnson has similarly signalled his support for an acceleration in offshore wind development, investment in new green hydrogen infrastructure, carbon capture technology clusters, electric vehicle charging networks, new nuclear technologies and expanded tree-planting programmes. carbon capture/storage. offshore wind.

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'He muffed it': Green economy reacts to Rishi Sunak's first Spending Review

Business Green

On emissions trading, the clock is ticking but still businesses wait in vain for clarity on a UK carbon pricing regime. This means a clear strategy to upgrade the UK's infrastructure and publishing the Energy White Paper.". But ambition must be matched by action on the ground. These two crises were virtually ignored. "As