AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 3, 2020

New benchmark shows that biodiversity is in fashion Liesl Truscott Thu, 12/03/2020 – 01:00 This week, in advance of World Soil Day — Dec. 5 — the Textile Exchange Corporate Fiber and Materials Benchmark (CFMB) Program is launching a new tool to help the fashion and textile industry take urgent action on biodiversity.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The global business group today published its new Nature Benchmark , just days ahead of the report being presented at the COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Montreal which kicks off on Wednesday. The urgent first step for companies is to carry out a deep assessment on nature.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The initiative includes plans to leverage over $4bn billion of new public sector investment in agricultural innovation, including the development of climate resilient crops and regenerative solutions to improve soil health, and support for making these techniques and resources affordable and accessible to hundreds of millions of farmers.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

Conservationists have urged the government to make nature restoration a key pillar of its forthcoming economic recovery package, claiming it could create thousands of jobs across the country while tackling biodiversity loss and the climate crisis. It remains to be seen what will be included in the government's recovery package.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

Conservationists have urged the government to make nature restoration a key pillar of its forthcoming economic recovery package, claiming it could create thousands of jobs across the country while tackling biodiversity loss and the climate crisis. It remains to be seen what will be included in the government's recovery package.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

For more information, read our full investigation into the meat industry’s messaging on climate change. Animal agriculture isn’t a serious driver of climate change’ Meat industry leaders are increasingly marketing meat as sustainable, arguing that meat production in countries such as the U.S.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Mohamed Adow, director of think tank Power Shift Africa said the achievement came after three decades of appeals for help from climate impacted nations. "To To quote the Three Lions England football song, after 30 years of hurt, climate action is finally coming home on African soil here in Egypt," he said. "At

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2022

Climate change is an existential threat to the potato industry. In all regions, we are seeing escalating climate variability: cool springs, blazing heat domes, early frosts, unseasonable rain, and more. They know climate change is threatening that dream but are also nervous about new expectations.

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Andrew Winston

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

This was a frankly scary report from the UN about how humanity is destroying biodiversity. I attempted to lay out some options for how companies should think about this ongoing emergency that runs hand-in-hand with climate change. Understand your biodiversity footprint. Hope comes through action…].

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Andrew Winston

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

This was a frankly scary report from the UN about how humanity is destroying biodiversity. I attempted to lay out some options for how companies should think about this ongoing emergency that runs hand-in-hand with climate change. Understand your biodiversity footprint. [Another piece I didn't post from some months back.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. And yet, opportunities exist through climate-friendly recovery packages to not only stimulate economies, but also reduce emissions while promoting social and environmental co-benefits.

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Sustainability Consulting

APRIL 7, 2021

32% come from land use changes including deforestation and soil degradation (these activities released 5.7 Packaging accounts for 5.4% Production of paper and pulp for food packaging generates an average of 59.9 This “rewilded” land fosters biodiversity while improving crop yields. of food system emissions. ?

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 14, 2020

The state of our environment today is due to the broadening issues arising from loss of biodiversity, inappropriate means of disposing of waste , overpopulation, the depletion of natural resources, and increased deforestation. Moreover, poor methods of managing waste lead to an increase in soil and water contamination and air pollution.

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Grist

MAY 14, 2024

The “ cosmic crops ” project is the United Nations’ first foray into space breeding, part of a global effort to address rising risks of food insecurity stemming from shifting land use patterns, population growth, and climate change-driven extreme weather. billion in agricultural losses in 2022 alone. Russia, and Europe.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2021

Global demand for biomass is likely to exceed environmentally sustainable supplies in the coming years as the drive to decarbonise takes hold across different industries - a situation which risks undermining climate mitigation efforts and causing major damage to biodiversity and the natural world.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

But the result, critics say, has been a proliferation of intensive farming practices that damage soils, nature, and the climate by ironing out as much unpredictability as possible from the natural world through pesticides, hulking machinery, and crop homogeneity. The outlook is certainly worrying.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Latest figures from UN add to growing library of evidence that global financial system needs a major revamp if biodiversity and climate goals are to be met. The COP15 Biodiversity Summit, kicking off next Wednesday in Montreal, is set to be no different. UN environment summits are increasingly about money.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Some commentators in the sustainability sphere report a dawning realisation that climate change can no longer be simply “solved”, in the sense of it being possible to slow it down to a degree that will allow our civilization to continue in a more or less recognisable form. Drought in Kenya.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Some commentators in the sustainability sphere report a dawning realisation that climate change can no longer be simply “solved”, in the sense of it being possible to slow it down to a degree that will allow our civilization to continue in a more or less recognisable form. Drought in Kenya.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

European Commission unveils sweeping biodiversity strategy, plus all the top green business news from around the world this week. Making nature healthy again is key to our physical and mental wellbeing and is an ally in the fight against climate change and disease outbreaks," she said.

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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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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

The consultation comes ahead of the anticipated passage of the Environment Bill this autumn, which lays out a raft of measures to protect the environment, including the adoption of legally binding targets for enhancing biodiversity and expanding tree cover in the UK.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

From an unprecedented pandemic to a global economic downturn to the intensifying impacts of climate change, we can’t say we’ll miss 2020. In the $500 billion-per-year cosmetics space, small-scale packaging leads to large-scale single-use plastic waste. But there were many valuable lessons learned over the past 12 months. .

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GreenBiz

JUNE 16, 2020

billion based on exchange rates this week) over the next decade in efforts to tackle climate change and deliver on a new goal to ensure net zero emissions across its value chain by 2039. Marc Engel, chief supply chain officer at the company, said that empowering farmers would deliver a "step change" in regenerating nature. "If

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In the letter, the parliamentarians called on the UK's new government to accelerate the roll out of renewables, deliver a nationwide home insulation programme, and champion the protection of nature on the global stage ahead of the COP15 Biodiversity Summit, which is taking place in Montreal later this year.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Support biodiversity within your own community by including native plants in your landscaping. World Soil Day – December 5th. Plants nurture a diversity of soil microbes that in turn give nutrients and protect plants from disease. Soil fertility vitally depends on this symbiotic relationship.

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Elemental Excelerator

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

One caveat that I also mentioned in Part 1 : decarbonization of one’s supply chain is the most important step in reducing one’s carbon footprint and mitigating climate change. Most notably, these include increased biodiversity, food security, job creation, and adaptation. What to Do About Scope 3 Carbon Offsets.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

When well managed the land helps regulate water and air quality, sequester and store carbon, and minimise flood and soil erosion risks. Soil erosion, wildfires, floods, monocultures, and pollution can all pose a serious threat to life and the viability of the economies and communities that are dependent on the land. Cristiana Pa?ca

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

A similar proportion also said they believed all food products sold in the UK should be sustainable and not cause any nature loss, while two-thirds said eating sustainable food was key to tackling climate change and reversing the destruction of nature.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2023

This includes such topics as human rights, climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts, labor practices, anti-corruption measures, diversity initiatives, financial services industry stability commitments and more. These standards are constantly revised to reflect changing global priorities and regulations.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 28, 2022

By zero waste, we mean the conservation of all resources utilizing responsible production, consumption, reuse, and recovery of products, packaging, and materials. Comparatively, poor waste management contributes to air pollution, exacerbates climate change, contaminates ecological habitats, and is harmful to wildlife and human health.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2023

The retailer said the LEAF (Linking Environment and Farming) Marque environmental assurance system would help its growers to advance their sustainable farming practices in key areas such as soil and water management, reducing waste, enhancing wildlife and biodiversity, energy efficiency and carbon foot printing.

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

The deep peat soils of the biodiverse fens in Eastern England and the raised bogs found in upland areas hold eight times as much carbon as the equivalent area of tropical rainforest, it claims. Not only do our habitats capture carbon, but they provide many other benefits for biodiversity and the wellbeing of society," said Gregg.

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Business Green

JUNE 15, 2020

Unilever has announced it will invest €1bn over the next decade in efforts to tackle climate change and deliver on a new goal to ensure net zero emissions across its value chain by 2039. Marc Engel, chief supply chain officer at the company, said that empowering farmers would deliver a "step change" in regenerating nature. "If

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The Environmental Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Photo by Alena Koval on Pexels Though the impact of climate change may not affect us or our lifestyles right now, it’s still a reality that’s inching closer each day. Every creature on Earth faces a threat from this looming change, largely driven by human actions. And what’s biodiversity? But we can still help.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Industry Voice: Schneider Electric's Amy Haddon ponders whether the UN Climate Change Summit delivered on businesses' hopes. In November, I had the privilege to represent Schneider Electric at the UN's Conference of Parties (COP) on climate change in Glasgow. Biodiversity and nature-based solutions.

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