GreenBiz

JUNE 12, 2020

Episode 224: Biodiversity, climate tech and voices of clean energy equity. Funding climate tech and entrepreneurs of color should go hand in hand. Funding biodiversity (31:14). Ideas for building a supply chain resilient to both short-term disruptions such as the pandemic and long-term risks such as climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Dr Mike Morecroft, Climate Change expert at Natural England, has been looking at how we evaluate and measure success of climate change adaptation and mitigation in terrestrial ecosystems, and is the lead author on a recent review into the issue, published in the journal Science on 13 December.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 7, 2021

Woodlands across the south of England were once highly biodiverse and dynamic, largely thanks to temperate conditions and reliable rainfall that typically supports varied insect life. This biodiversity, in turn, provides food for many larger species. The project is funded by the government’s Green Recovery Challenge Fund.

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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. “The

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GreenBiz

MAY 22, 2020

Episode 221: Mapping biodiversity, repair and the circular economy. L et's get together: Intel's 2030 commitments include "shared" climate and social goals. Esri and the science of corporate biodiversity (20:45). Heather Clancy. Fri, 05/22/2020 - 01:21. Week in Review. Commentary on this week's news highlights begins at 4:35.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Our COVID-19 response can make our cities more resilient to heat waves. Now, with climate change, come scorching hot temperatures during the summer months which bring additional challenges to healthcare systems that already operate under great pressure due to the pandemic. Roland Hunziker. Tue, 10/06/2020 - 01:00.

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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.” billion flood programme.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Nature-based urban resilience infrastructure in Milan, Italy. A new peer-to-peer platform is helping municipalities and water utilities find reliable innovative solutions to their infrastructure resilience challenges, according to the firm behind it, Isle Utilities. Technology pilots.

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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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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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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 24, 2021

The funding Welsh Government has provided to the protected site network is a vital step in protecting and restoring these areas, and helping us to strengthen resilient ecological networks. And it means we, and all living things in Wales, can build better resilience against climate change. The post £9.8

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Planet Pulse

MAY 25, 2023

This is especially critical as carbon offset markets grow and companies start to assess their impact on biodiversity. Designing strategies to measure biodiversity and water is extremely complex, particularly when you compare it to measuring greenhouse gases.

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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.

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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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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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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2022

Treasury must be 'the year of climate adaptation', warning that 'worryingly few' infrastructure investors consider impacts of climate change. It warned that climate change considerations needed to be built into all long-term infrastructure plans. We must adapt to the present storm as well as those in the offing.

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The City Fix

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

“Climate change is affecting cities all around the world, and Freetown is no exception.” That’s what Eugenia Kargbo, Freetown’s Chief Heat Officer, told UrbanShift during the City Academy hosted in Kigali last year. Through her role—the first of its kind in.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

As governments prepare to weigh proposals for mandatory corporate nature disclosure rules at the COP15 Biodiversity Summit next week, the latest data from environmental disclosure platform CDP has highlighted the shortfalls of the currently purely voluntary approach.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Now, in a new international report released on Monday, they argue the clock is also ticking on efforts to adapt to the devastating consequences of climate change. Meanwhile, climate change is amplifying human conflicts and causing widespread damage to people’s physical and mental health. David McNew / Getty Images.

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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.".

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Its authors hope that by understanding the most important stressors on the rainforest environment, they can develop a pathway for keeping the Amazon forest resilient. The study also examined the roles of biodiversity and local communities in shaping Amazonian forest resilience.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

million from UK Research and Innovation in its Future of UK Treescapes Programme to develop new tools and approaches which will help trees and woodlands adapt to climate change and enable the UK to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions. The project is one of six to receive a share of £10.5

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Nature-based infrastructure solutions can influence 79% of all targets across the Sustainable Development Goals, highlighting the critical role nature can play in advancing sustainable development, climate action and biodiversity conservation, according to a new report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), UNOPS, and the University of Oxford.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

A scientific paper published in the peer review Journal, Aquatic Conservation says that measures to address climate change and reach the Paris Agreement will not succeed unless the ocean is taken into account. We need to simultaneously address climate change impacts and reduce all cumulative direct and indirect stressors.

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Business Green

JANUARY 12, 2023

Great Britain's trees and woodlands contribute more than £400m a year to the economy through their contribution to flood resilience, new research has calculated. New report from Forest Research examines how trees, woodlands, and forests reduce and slow down rapid run-off that causes flooding.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 23, 2021

Research appears to show that marine ecosystems can start working again, providing important functions for humans, after being wiped out – and to do so long before they return to peak biodiversity.

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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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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The Renewables Grid Initiative (RGI) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) launched the Global Initiative for Nature, Grids, and Renewables (GINGR) at COP28, aiming to empower governments, industries and the financial sector to achieve energy, climate and biodiversity targets.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Rewilding in cities could deliver a raft of environmental benefits, including enhanced climate change resilience through increased protection from flooding and heatwaves, reduced air pollution, biodiversity gains, and reduced environmental management costs. They were also installed with solar panels to generate power.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

This article will cover the Holocene—the era of conditions that enabled society to grow and thrive, the theory of the Anthropocene, planetary boundaries, tipping points, and resilience thinking while urging readers to consider their impact and how to secure the future they want. The Anthropocene: Pushing Society Past Its Limits.

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Business Green

JUNE 15, 2021

Government's failure to prioritise climate resilience risks undermining UK's ability to meet net zero and biodiversity goals, CCC warns. I think it's really important to reinforce the point that net zero doesn't solve this problem - the climate will go on changing, at least until 2050," she explained.

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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.

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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. 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?

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Business Green

MAY 30, 2022

by reducing flood risk and improving water management and climate resilience, with a view to also attracting further investment from beneficiaries such as water companies and developers.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Seagrass meadows produce large volumes of sediment that can build coral reef island shorelines, increasing the resilience of low-lying reef island nations to future sea level rise, according to new research. Seagrass meadows are biodiversity hotspots, slow climate change by storing carbon, and protect land from coastal erosion.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2022

Elly Pepper, Senior Advocate for NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) and Cut Carbon Not Forests, says: “Kwasi Kwarteng’s view is part of a growing consensus that burning trees for electricity has been tried and failed on the tests of climate, nature, and affordability. It makes climate change worse, not better.

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