The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

Apart from industry-led changes, external factors such as consumer demand for ethically sourced products and government regulations promoting sustainable farming practices also push the sector toward being more eco-friendly. Techniques like rainwater harvesting and water recycling systems have been introduced.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Highlands Rewilding's plan is to turn the two estates into biodiverse carbon sinks through "ethically profitable land management", with the close involvement of the local communities, with hopes of then expanding the model to further lands across the region. "And So that's my aspiration."

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 9, 2021

Is the golf industry doing enough to combat climate change? Aubrey McCormick Fri, 04/09/2021 – 02:00 Sports leagues are seeing the impacts and the surge of climate-responsible athletes using their platforms to promote positive environmental and social impact — it’s something for the history books. Wassana Close Authorship.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The RSPB's Mark Varney sets out why the outcome of the upcoming biodiversity talks in Montreal matters for anyone with a stake in the UK food system. Next month, COP15 on biodiversity will take place in Montreal, seeking to implement the protocols of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. But why does biodiversity matter?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Partner Insight: Vodafone's Nicki Lyons shares key insights from the recent Vodafone Business UK Customer Sustainability Summit on how businesses can harness technology to reach their decarbonisation goals Climate change has the potential to seriously disrupt our lives. Plus, today's ethics-conscious consumers won't accept inaction.

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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. Drivers of Change. Stay tuned for Conversation II.

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Business Green

JUNE 17, 2021

Marija Rompani, director of ethics and sustainability at the John Lewis Partnership, stressed that peat bogs were critical carbon stores that would help tackle the climate crisis. "If Restoring peatland is vital to tackling climate change and boosting biodiversity.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Climate change, biodiversity loss, waste and pollution are unquestionably among the biggest challenges we will face in our lifetime and tackling them will require a different kind of thinking," said Marija Rompani, director of ethics and sustainability at the John Lewis Partnership."By

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Health CLIMATE IMPACTS Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe by Mario Alejandro Ariza, 2020 A deeply reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist examines the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City -- a watery harbinger for coastal cities worldwide.

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Business Green

JULY 16, 2021

The group, which is being led by Rathbone Greenbank Investments, has called on Ministers to be "bold and ambitious" in their response to the landmark review published yesterday, which warned the UK's current food system is threatening public health, nature, and the climate and is in need of major reform.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The adoption of shorter, more transparent palm oil supply chains and working exclusively with suppliers that meet specific environmental, social and ethical standards has made it easier for the company to keep track of its palm oil supply chain, which the company said is no longer contributing to the destruction of tropical forests as a result.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The company, which specialises in using waste bread to brew a range of beers, has teamed up with a number of leading sustainable food brands to launch the Rise Up campaign and step up calls for the government to incorporate the food system in its climate plans.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

APRIL 29, 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. Drivers of Change. Stay tuned for Conversation II.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In this report, the sustainability of a given company is measured under 3 key areas: Risk of biodiversity loss. Climate change and carbon reduction reporting. For instance, suddenly sustainability is about climate change, ending poverty, and achieving gender equality. Compliance governance: 49.1

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The World Economic Forum cited extreme weather, climate change and natural disasters as the top risks facing the world in 2020, while CEOs cited trade wars, over regulation, and uncertain growth. In terms of impact, the top three were climate action failure, weapons of mass destruction and a loss of biodiversity.

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Business Green

JANUARY 3, 2022

Post-COP26 the world risks taking its foot off the pedal of climate action in 2021, but businesses must not let that happen, writes Pinwheel's Rob Cheesewright. Businesses have often been blamed for sluggish progress on climate change - yet at COP26 it was the progress that governments made that felt frustratingly slow.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2022

To reach its conclusions, the non-profit assessed how companies across a range of industries - including the food and agriculture, oil and gas, automotive, and power sectors - fared against 18 different indicators related to respecting human rights, promoting and providing decent work, and ethical conduct in areas such as lobbying and taxation.

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Business Green

APRIL 3, 2022

72 per cent of us are concerned or fearful about climate change, according to the Edelman Trust Barometer, which surveys people all over the world. And in Europe, according to Pew Research Center, climate change is seen as an even bigger threat than coronavirus.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Which is exactly what our economy needs to help mitigate global issues such as climate change, and protect basic human rights. In addition, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Risk Report 2022, the top risks facing our economy are climate action failure , extreme weather , and biodiversity loss.

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Business Green

MAY 17, 2020

The story of businesses delivering strong growth and profits while helping to tackle climate change, biodiversity collapse, and poverty has a long way to run, argues Liontrust's Peter Michaelis. Within the past couple of months, country after country has gone from business as usual to full lockdown.

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Grist

MAY 25, 2021

Scientists at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have concluded there is no way of keeping the global temperature rise to the internationally agreed target of 1.5 The coordination hub for the new trials will consider the social, ethical, and legal issues related to removing carbon. Large-scale tree planting.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

In our previous Green Business Bureau article, titled Carbon Offsets Vs Carbon Credits: Addressing The Issues (The 5 Rules of Carbon Offsetting) , we discuss the rules that ensure offsets deliver the GHG emission reductions promised, and do so ethically. Carbon offset example: The Climate Trut’s Anaerobic Digester.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Economist sits down with BusinessGreen to discuss the response to his landmark review into the economics of biodiversity. But Dasgupta contended the fundamental economics of biodiversity set out in his review mean policymakers should engage with the controversial topic.

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GreenTech Gazette

AUGUST 21, 2020

It seems as though companies of all shapes and sizes are tripping over themselves trying to show conscientious consumers that they have a strong ethical focus and their sights set on sustainability. One Tree Planted have already planted over 15 million trees in just 6 years and are working hard to restore biodiversity to our arboreal life.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

BASF’s wine tasting is just one example of many such pandemic-style lobbying efforts by the European agriculture industry since the EU has attempted to pass sweeping new policies to combat climate change through measures included in its “Green Deal,” first presented in December 2019.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The battle against climate change is vital. To give some concrete examples of what I mean, let’s talk about three major transformations that our food system needs to undertake to become more sustainable, and where we are not seeing the right pace of change. We don’t need small tweaks and improvements: We need a revolution. .

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These maps enable researchers to identify and protect regions that may be at risk due to climate change. Managing Ethical Supply Chains – Planet’s technology has been used to shine a light on illegal supply sourcing. Coral Reef mosaic of Nukuni, Fiji. 2018, Planet Labs, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 26, 2020

Anyone who follows climate change, environmental degradation, or biodiversity loss, knows how stressful it can be. We are depleting, and poisoning the earth, while endangering entire ecosystems and altering the global climate system. The third and fourth stages relate to exploring new possibilities and practical actions.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 26, 2020

Anyone who follows climate change, environmental degradation, and biodiversity loss, knows how stressful it can be. Re-casting climate change as the work of mourning means that we can share our losses and encounter them as opportunities for productive and important work," she says.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Greater community resilience – Sustainable buildings also support community resilience to withstand the impacts of climate change. Another major trend is the use of ethically-sourced, green building materials.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The adoption of shorter, more transparent palm oil supply chains and working exclusively with suppliers that meet specific environmental, social and ethical standards has made it easier for the company to keep track of its palm oil supply chain, which the company said is no longer contributing to the destruction of tropical forests as a result.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The program was launched to beautify the city landscape, ease vehicle traffic, improve pedestrian traffic, facilitate the water-bearing capacity of the ground, and increase biodiversity. The bank financially supports a range of climate change mitigating solutions, from building efficiency to grid-scale energy storage and clean transportation.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The Dasgupta Review of the Economics of Biodiversity published this week hammered home a point that has long been clear: the transition towards a more nature-positive and climate-responsible economy requires a major overhaul of core business assumptions and an embrace of new metrics for gauging economic success.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Tree-planting gained President Trump’s support in late January as a tool to fight climate change. The concept of nature-based solutions broadly refers to working with and enhancing nature to address major challenges, from climate change to biodiversity loss and poverty alleviation.

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 20, 2019

Of course, we all know that deforestation isn’t just about cutting down trees, it is also about damaging a whole ecosystem as “the majority of the world’s biodiversity (the huge array of insects, birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, plants and trees) lives in, and depends on, forests” iv 2. Enjoyed this article?

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Boasting 20 million users worldwide and growing, including two million in the UK, the entirety of the search engine's profits from advertising are channelled towards climate action, of which 80 per cent is earmarked for reforestation projects, making it one of the largest dedicated reforestation organisations in the world.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

But there is another form of climate-related 'tipping point' that is rather more positive in nature. The tipping points that mark the point at which clean tech deployment rates become exponential are in many ways the last best hope against averting runaway climate change. It requires tipping points - self accelerating change.

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