Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

“The £25 million will also help harness the power of nature and support the Environment Agency’s FCERM Strategy, which provides a longer-term vision of how we will create climate-resilient places and better protect and prepare homes and businesses from flooding and coastal change.” Natural flood management is a win-win-win.”

Resilience 147

Resilience Government Biodiversity Investment 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

Biodiversity 97

Biodiversity Carbon Climate change Sustainability 97

Planet Pulse

MAY 25, 2023

In line with our mission, we are thrilled to partner with ERM , a global sustainability consultancy, to expand imagery use cases, applications, and reporting capabilities. This is especially critical as carbon offset markets grow and companies start to assess their impact on biodiversity.

Biodiversity 97

Biodiversity Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 97

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.

Biodiversity 40

Biodiversity Resilience Global warming Climate change 40

GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

What’s a sustainable (and just) business model? Concerns over environmental risks such as biodiversity loss and extreme weather remain top of mind for leaders in the new Global Risks Report published in late January by the World Economic Forum. Risk & Resilience. How US government procurement can lead the clean economy.

Logistics 383

Logistics Resilience Biodiversity Sustainability 383

Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

A new start-up accelerator programme has been launched that claims to be the first to be focused on supporting forestry teams looking to develop high-quality reforestation projects that can help expand natural carbon sinks and bolster climate resilience. And more investors than ever are looking for opportunities in carbon capture.

Carbon 95

Carbon Biodiversity Climate change Resilience 95

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2023

The EA report includes details of a number of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SuDS) being rolled out across the country. million m3 of water storage and increased flood resilience to 15,000 homes, said a statement. EA chief executive Sir James Bevan set out his vision for Natural Flood Management (NFM) on 9 December. What is it?

Business Energy Monitoring 246

Business Energy Monitoring Biodiversity Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 246

Planet Pulse

JANUARY 12, 2023

Planet plans to leverage Salo’s technologies to further develop our Planetary Variables offerings and help customers globally quantify and verify carbon stocks, monitor forest change, and mitigate climate risks. Salo Sciences’ global data on forest carbon stocks reveals tree-level insights.

Energy Monitor 140

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Carbon 140

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.

Biodiversity 130

Biodiversity Climate change Investment Agriculture 130

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.

Biodiversity 88

Biodiversity Climate change Pollution Agriculture 88

Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

UKRI offers funding to four major scientific projects across UK exploring net zero cities, agricultural resilience, and biodiversity loss. We rely on the biodiversity of the planet's ecosystem to provide oxygen, pollination of plants, food and much more, making this a crucial time to act.".

Biodiversity 36

Biodiversity Resilience Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 36

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.

Biodiversity 246

Biodiversity Climate change Soil Resilience 246

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The destruction of rainforests to make way for palm oil plantations is a major contributor to climate change and nature loss, due to the crucial role of richly biodiverse tropical forests in sequestering carbon dioxide, absorbing rainfall and releasing water into rivers. Pull Quote. Food & Agriculture. Deforestation. BusinessGreen.

Energy Monitor 469

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Resilience 469

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).

Real Estate 148

Real Estate Sustainability Carbon-negative Health 148

Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

It’s important for business owners and global citizens to understand the source of this change to be empowered to anticipate and adapt to these changes and potentially help reverse them through intentional, sustainable action. . The Holocene. The Anthropocene.

Resilience 78

Resilience Building Energy Monitoring Ocean acidification Business Energy Monitoring 78

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.

Biodiversity 96

Biodiversity Climate change Government Fossil fuels 96

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MARCH 15, 2024

The guidelines aim to transform China’s approach to ESG by introducing sustainability disclosure rules for large listed companies. The Regulated Entities shall build up internal governance system, identify and assess risks and opportunities, evaluate the climate resilience, and disclose relevant information. By Hui Xu , Paul A.

Sustainability 59

Sustainability Waste Waste Government 59

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.

Government 94

Government Carbon Agriculture Biodiversity 94

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.

Biodiversity 97

Biodiversity Carbon-negative Policy Investment 97

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.

Climate change 264

Climate change Carbon-negative Biodiversity Carbon 264

Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 13, 2021

During the second day of Explore 2021, our customers shared how they are enabling global transparency and supporting critical sustainability research. Our science track demonstrated the robust research applications for Planet’s datasets, highlighting key findings in climate change and carbon farming initiatives. General John E.

Sustainability 98

Sustainability Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 98

The City Fix

JULY 26, 2023

Climate change is impacting cities and their residents in many profound ways, from poor air quality to flooding to biodiversity loss and extreme heat. Now, with the help of a new tool, select cities can access localized, integrated data to.

Resilience 52

Resilience Biodiversity Climate change Sea level rise 52

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.

Carbon-neutral 92

Carbon-neutral Carbon Soil Biodiversity 92

Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Amidst the implementation of new regulations and the pressing challenge of deep decarbonisation, businesses are positioned at the forefront of achieving an equitable transition to a low-carbon economy. Looking beyond carbon Businesses must plan for rapid and comprehensive transformation.

Sustainability 43

Sustainability Climate change Biodiversity Resilience 43

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.

Agriculture 423

Agriculture Biodiversity Organic Technology 423

Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Companies are chasing profits from product innovations such as plant-based meat but failing to invest in supply chain resilience, study finds. It found food companies are responding to growing consumer demand for healthy and sustainable products primarily through product innovation, such as alternative meat made from plant proteins.

Resilience 88

Resilience Retail Global warming Climate change 88

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

50 per cent of the emissions reductions needed rely on households and businesses adopting low-carbon solutions – as a result, local authorities must be enabled to facilitate that behavioural change through how we design our places and where we install new infrastructure. Key to achieving climate change action is behaviour change.

Climate change 241

Climate change Policy Resilience Transportation 241

Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Companies are chasing profits from product innovations such as plant-based meat but failing to invest in supply chain resilience, study finds. It found food companies are responding to growing consumer demand for healthy and sustainable products primarily through product innovation, such as alternative meat made from plant proteins.

Resilience 90

Resilience Retail Climate change Innovation 90

Business Green

JUNE 30, 2021

While policies and action plans are being put in place to help meet the UK government's net-zero carbon commitments, the existential challenge of the climate emergency already requires London to look beyond its ambitious 2030 net-zero target. Robert Spencer is UK and Ireland director of sustainability at AECOM.

Resilience 76

Resilience Climate change Policy Cooling 76

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.

Carbon 98

Carbon Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 98

Green Business Bureau

MARCH 9, 2021

75% of sustainability professionals polled by the Business for Social Responsibility believe that integrating sustainability objectives and practices into a business enhances its ability to address environmental degradation. The Benefits of Measuring Sustainability. What Does Sustainability Look Like as an Internal Process?

Sustainability 168

Sustainability Organic Carbon-negative Carbon 168

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. Failure to manage this will undermine the resilience of the system and could lead to sustained high energy prices into the future.

Energy 284

Energy Energy Electric vehicle Government 284

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Start-ups and innovators aiming to deploy technologies that can enhance farmers’ resilience to water, climate, and biodiversity impacts invited to apply for funding. Innovators, companies, and start-ups have been invited by the multinational drinks brand to apply for seed funding to develop their technologies before 7 October.

Biodiversity 67

Biodiversity Soil Africa Resilience 67

Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic, horrific as it's been, has been reasonably kind to the worlds of sustainable business and climate tech. There's enough progress to turn even the most hardbitten sustainability skeptic optimistic. Demand for sustainability professionals outstripped supply. Will the demand sustain in 2022? Likely yes.

Sustainability 91

Sustainability Aviation Biodiversity Carbon-negative 91

GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Fewer than six out of 400 companies surveyed in 2020 legal filings said there was a potential pandemic problem, Rodney Irwin, managing director of redefining value at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, said during GreenBiz 21. Consider compliance. Consider litigation. The power of metaphor.

Resilience 476

Resilience Climate change Carbon-negative Blockchain 476

Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Six years ago today, on September 25, 2015, the United Nations finalized the 2030 Agenda , ratifying the 17 Sustainable Develop Goals, or SDGs which outlined key objectives for a more equitable and sustainable future. Planet is also helping organizations measure, take action, and report on their sustainable development efforts.

Energy Monitor 115

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Sustainability Agriculture 115

Business Green

JULY 23, 2020

He would have been joining us to reflect on our longstanding partnership and on Ghana's approach to combatting illegal logging, and promoting trade and sustainable forest land use. We can stick with the status quo; bailing out high-carbon, environmentally damaging industries and locking in decades of emissions. That makes zero sense.

Resilience 48

Resilience Sustainability COP Climate change 48