Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Future pandemics will emerge more often, spread more rapidly, do more damage to the world economy and kill more people than COVID-19 unless there is a transformative change in the global approach to dealing with infectious diseases, warns a new report on biodiversity and pandemics by 22 leading experts from around the world.

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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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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

9 key takeaways from the 600-page Dasgupta Review on the Economics of Biodiversity. How climate change can be addressed through executive compensation. Learning from a young Indigenous activist and educator (30:15). Week in Review. Stories discussed this week (5:00). The Wild West of plastic credits and offsets.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

I am thinking especially of global poverty, hunger, health and education — SDGs 1 through 4 — where the latest figures from the World Bank and other centers of analysis paint a bleak picture of years lost and lives threatened. There are no silver linings in a global pandemic. But the analysis does not stop there. Consider finance.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Through conversations with national climate change experts in 24 markets and across 6 economic sectors, the report highlights those that are leading the charge in their progress towards net zero, and those where it is taking place more slowly.

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Planet Pulse

JUNE 25, 2023

What do crayons, satellites, and marine biodiversity have in common? The creatives behind this project wanted to develop an educational experience for kids because “ crayons are among the first art supplies children pick up.” The team hoped that this feature would spark curiosity in learning more about marine biodiversity.

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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. This programme is also part of our global strategy to fight global warming and preserve biodiversity.".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Royal Botanic Gardens unveils five-year plan to expand its research, communications and partnerships into biodiversity loss and nature-based solutions. The ambition laid out in this new Science strategy is up to the scale of the challenges that the Malagasy people and nature are facing due to biodiversity loss and climate change," she said.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 18, 2022

Numerous integrated research programs focused on boreal forests of Canada have joined forces to use advanced satellite data available from Planet to document how past, present, and future changes are altering the ability of the boreal forest to sustain biodiversity and the people that call this ecosystem home. Map by Leanne Abraham.

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Business Green

APRIL 27, 2022

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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

As the focus of the COP26 Climate Summit today turns to 'science, innovation, and gender', the UK has announced plans to spend £165m on projects around the world that aim to tackle gender inequality while at the same time addressing climate change. The event will also feature 'Little Amal', a 3.5

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The Environmental Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The biggest problem that the world is facing these days is climate change. Many climate activists are working day and night to educate people regarding climate change and what effects it can have on human life. Increase biodiversity and find methods to reduce costs. Not everything is a lost cause.

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 31, 2020

Unlocking Human Potential for Biodiversity is an opportunity to reflect on how can we better understand the human potential to preserve biodiversity, get closer to nature and guide our future actions. Unlocking Human Potential for Biodiversity is the first phase of a vast project designed to find and implement solutions for the future.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2023

The approach must be a core part of the UK’s defence against flooding and climate change, he said. NFM is viewed as a key way to address the challenges of the biodiversity and climate crisis, by improving resilience to flooding, enhancing biodiversity, storing carbon and helping regulate the local climate.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 4, 2021

Every major economy has an industrial zone like the Port of Rotterdam, a place where smokestacks, pipes, and tanks tell one story of climate change. Having presented the global risks from Arctic climate change to audiences at the World Economic Forum at Davos each year, Gail is worried. It is a complicated place.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

An Indigenous educator, inventor, author and environmental activist, Boyer has, at age 20, already accomplished more than most adults to increase diversity, accessibility and affordability in the STEAM education space — science, technology, engineering, art and math. . On that note, meet Danielle Boyer, who promises to be no exception.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

From ditching GDP as a measure of economic wealth to enhancing environmental education: BusinessGreen has rounded up all the recommendations of the Dasgupta Review of the Economics of Biodiversity. Policy makers, business leaders, financial sectors, and communities all have a part to play in this sweeping vision.

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Grist

MAY 7, 2024

I couldn’t believe that I’d gotten that far in my biology education and no one had ever mentioned to me that parasites are incredibly biodiverse, ubiquitous, everywhere.” Many of these alarming parasites, like ticks or the parasitic fungus that causes Valley Fever, are expected to increase due to climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2024

The site will also create a significant biodiversity net gain. All degree programmes are kite-marked against the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the University is rated top in the UK and Europe and second in the world in the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings global performance table (2023).

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

While environmental issues such as climate change, biodiversity loss, water scarcity and water pollution dominate the list of issues that experts say are the most urgent — these are all considered more urgent than they were in 2019 — the perceived urgency of social issues is also on the rise.

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Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

Climate change and global warming are issues that define our times. What does this boy care about climate change? How much is to be invested for climate change? Environments and weather systems the world over are being altered, threatened and destroyed. There are millions of people like him in this world.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

According to the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency, climate change and poaching are putting approximately 70 animal species in the country at risk of extinction. What the selected case studies will tell us is that designing for climate change comes in many different forms.” + Cosmos Architecture Images via Cosmos Architecture.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The Earth's biodiversity is dying as the ecological web of life is breaking down. We have already witnessed significant decreases in the number of birds and insects including pollinators like bees and the future for these and many other species is bleak unless we rapidly change course. We are facing the end of civilization.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Trees have a crucial role to play in meeting UK and global net zero targets, but a skills crisis is impeding the industry's ability to deliver the modern sustainable forestry vital to combatting climate change. This has to change. Currently, there is a stunning lack of awareness of career opportunities in the forestry industry.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2021

As much as $8.1tr global investment in protecting, conserving and restoring the natural world is required over the next 30 years in order to tackle the interlinked climate, biodiversity and land degradation crises, with annual finance needing to triple by 2030, according to the UN-led study.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 30, 2021

There is also a growing understanding that these advances haven’t been spread equitably — that vast swaths of the global economy lack adequate food, healthcare, housing, work, education and other basic human needs.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 22, 2021

Since our first contract with NASA in 2019, scientists have leveraged Planet imagery for a variety of research projects focused on climate change, biodiversity loss, and complex sustainability problems. This expands access on the existing contract that currently supports NASA and NASA funded researchers.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

AXA Climate debuts light-hearted video series designed to engage staff with climate change, biodiversity, and how to help 'eco-anxious' colleagues AXA Climate has unveiled what it describes as a "quirky content series", titled Climate Brief , which aims to better engage staff from a wide range of businesses with sustainability issues.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

By switching to these regenerative practices, Danone hoped farms would restore the soil, foster biodiversity, protect water systems, reduce greenhouse gases and sequester more carbon. But doing so in a significant way to combat climate change will take much more than three years, and probably closer to a generation.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2019

C due to climate action and fostering biodiversity being at the top of the agenda. · ‘Post Anthropocene’, in this future, human society and planetary health exist in a harmonious relationship. The global mean temperature rise remains below 1.5°C

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Business Green

APRIL 12, 2021

Dr Lorraine Whitmarsh is director of CAST (Climate change and Social Transformations) at the University of Bath. 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.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Get involved this Energy Efficiency Day by evaluating your energy use habits and making improvements through investing in energy-saving appliances and technology, reducing idleness throughout your operations and educating staff on the importance of energy efficiency. Support biodiversity by including native plants in your landscaping.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 7, 2020

Planet is enabling researchers across the world to study global change in near real time by providing high temporal resolution satellite imagery that is not available through conventional sensors, according to Dr. Joe Mascaro, director of Planet’s Education and Research Program. “We

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GreenBiz

JULY 2, 2020

One is looking at Mexico, and the tension between climate change mitigation and justice for communities. Is it an education challenge to develop those skills? . Energy & Climate. Biodiversity. The structure [of financing and ownership] creates undesirable outcomes. I've gone in different directions. I see two gaps.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

The United Nations' founding charter begins with "we the peoples," and yet "we the peoples" are not included - yet - in any of our major decisions, despite being the foundation of the ideal, and the place that creates the real demand for change. So that's why we think that education is the foremost weapon we can use to change the community.".

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E8 Cleantech Angels

APRIL 30, 2020

Mimi Casteel of Oregon's Hope Well Wine uses regenerative practices to combat climate change. Soil is our largest potential tool in our fight against climate change," she has said, and she also sees wine culture as a powerful way to engage and educate. Mimi Casteel grew up on her family’s vineyard, Bethel Heights.

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The City Fix

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Cities have always been dynamic hubs of culture, education, economic growth and opportunity, and most importantly, centers of social interaction attracting residents and visitors alike. It is no surprise then, that Asia and the Pacific have become increasingly more urban.

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