Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2022

The UK government’s business as usual housing strategy could consume all of England’s cumulative carbon budget consistent with 1.5°C New research led by the University of Kent’s Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) models the future carbon emissions and impacts on nature generated by England’s current housing strategy.

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Carbon Biodiversity Politics Policy 147

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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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

As understanding of the climate crisis increases and the harm to ourselves, the environment, business, industry, and the economy that will follow, so a desire to not only reduce carbon but to be seen reducing carbon increases. In both cases, carbon offsetting removes CO 2 from the environment.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Soil acts as a carbon ‘sink’, locking in GHGs that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere. Upgrading UK soils, particularly farmland and degraded peatlands, could radically improve their ability to store carbon. The potential of soil to sequester carbon is huge and should be fully maximised.”.

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Soil Carbon Investment Energy Monitor 245

GreenBiz

APRIL 22, 2021

The tech titan has invested in protecting forests for some time , but last week it launched a new venture in collaboration with Conservation International that is dedicated to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, restoring biodiversity and addressing other climate crises while also producing a financial gain for the company. .

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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Rate of endemic species' extinction could be slashed by a quarter if action is taken now, but policy delays will make this outcome more difficult to achieve and twice as expensive, report warns. If we take ambitious action now, we can bend the curve of biodiversity loss by 2050," he said.

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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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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

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In its annual Review of Energy Policy 2023, published on 14 December, the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) urges the next government to take urgent action on the policies needed to deliver the energy transition. The review highlights the energy policy priorities for the next government – whether Conservative, Labour or a coalition.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2020

Would that the same could be said of global biodiversity - or the living natural world to give it its more evocative name and rid it of the emotional distancing that accompanies the dry scientific terminology. Efforts to tackle biodiversity loss enjoy no such luck. The yields are seen to be higher if the field is soaked in pesticide.

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Biodiversity Carbon-negative Soil Policy 81

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.”

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Carbon Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Climate change 130

Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2021

Colombia to host hybrid Biodiversity PreCOP. The Kunming Summit has been postponed repeatedly in response to the coronavirus crisis, further fuelling fears that governments are not doing enough to enhance biodiversity protection, despite the world missing nearly all the targets it set at the Aichi Summit over a decade ago.

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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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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Actionable Insights for a Decarbonizing World Carbon Credits 101 For Investors For investors in companies that purchase carbon credits, understanding credit integrity is important to gauging climate performance. Download Slide Deck Carbon credits represent both an opportunity and a risk for companies and their investors.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 4, 2020

In the quest for carbon offsets, (almost) anything goes. What Joe Biden could do to cultivate carbon removal innovation (16:35) . Nonprofit Carbon180 has plenty of ideas for how the Department of Energy and the Department of Agriculture can collaborate to cultivate new economic opportunities centered on carbon removal.

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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

JUNE 19, 2022

The government has been accused by the forestry industry of a "total policy failure" on tree planting, in the wake of fresh figures which show it is less than halfway to hitting an annual tree planting target it established more than two years ago. This is a total policy failure in both economic and environmental terms," Goodall said.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 5, 2022

Because more than one-third of all global emissions are related to the food system , the EU must transform agricultural policy for greater sustainability. Müller and Lucas shared their perspectives on Earth observation (EO) as an essential tool for greening agricultural policy. How Earth observation supports policy objectives.

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Agriculture Policy Europe Carbon-neutral 113

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.

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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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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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Biodiversity Climate change Soil Resilience 246

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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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

For example, Amazonian trees store massive amounts of carbon which, if released, could accelerate global warming. showed that the Amazon temporarily to act as a carbon sink during the 2015 drought. The study also examined the roles of biodiversity and local communities in shaping Amazonian forest resilience.

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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

JUNE 9, 2023

Questions also remain on carbon cycles and genetic resources. Only now is work starting on setting some physical indicators for environmental thresholds but key ones such as effects on biodiversity and ecosystem services are not even under review.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Biodiversity is in crisis. In large part we know how to halt and reverse the biodiversity crisis, we just need to get on and do it, and it is incumbent on our academic institutions to lead the way. When Spence designed the buildings there was no climate emergency or biodiversity crisis. The figures are deeply depressing.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

With negotiations continuing through the weekend, Saturday has been designated 'Nature and Land-Use Day' and a raft of announcements are expected on how governments and businesses can ramp up efforts to expand natural carbon sinks, encourage greener farming practices, and bolster climate resilience across the agricultural supply chains.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 7, 2023

The biomethane industry, policy makers and regulators need to work closely together to fully realise these benefits, prioritising organic waste and residue feedstocks, incentivizing sustainable agricultural production and valorising biomethane co-products (digestate and biogenic CO2).” Not all of these benefits can be easily quantified.

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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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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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Carbon Climate change Biodiversity Policy 90

Business Green

JULY 7, 2021

The Aldersgate Group's Josie Murdoch assesses the policy action needed from government to accelerate progress on green finance in the UK. Following this, the Aldersgate Group recommends a range of policies to properly green the UK's finance system. 2021 is shaping up to be a big year for green finance.

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Grist

JUNE 11, 2021

They will hash out their commitments under the Paris Agreement, raising their carbon-cutting ambitions or making announcements about climate-related investments. This year, 50 of the world’s leading climate and biodiversity researchers are issuing a word of caution to world leaders ahead of COP26: Climate action isn’t always a win for nature.

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

With G7 and COP26 fast approaching, Environmental Audit Committee chair Philip Dunne argues the government must adopt a solutions-driven approach to environmental policy. Now is the time for effective government policy interventions to deliver these commitments to protect our environment.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2024

10 worrying questions posed by the latest Hinkley Point C delays The fallout from the latest delays to the flagship Hinkley Point nuclear project are wide-ranging - and they present significant challenges for both the government and the opposition - by James Murray ( @james_bg ) Analysis: UK must increase green public investment by £26bn a year (..)

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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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