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State of the nation

Envirotec Magazine

The report evaluates the impact of the national Natural Flood Management Programme which received £15 million of government funding, including benefits to communities and to biodiversity alongside protecting homes and businesses from floods. Across 60 pilot projects the programme created an equivalent of 1.6 What is it?

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Planet Arrives at COP26 to Enable Systems Change, Take Climate Action, and Make the Invisible Visible

Planet Pulse

Since the signing of the Paris Climate Agreement six years ago, the nations of the world have slowly begun to bend the curve on emissions, due largely to spectacular advances in renewable energy. Our technologies are designed to monitor and classify changes everywhere on Earth, every day, in high resolution. All Rights Reserved.

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High Seas Treaty: UN member states seal historic deal to protect international waters

Business Green

But a loose patchwork of weakly enforced rules governing international waters have meant the majority of the planet's oceans are highly susceptible to exploitation whether through over-fishing, acidification and pollution, or emerging threats such as deep water mining. Ladies and gentlemen, the ship has reached the shore," she said.

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High Seas Treaty: What does it mean for business?

Business Green

The deal has been hailed as a major coup for multilateralism , and as a crucial milestone in countries' efforts to meeting the goal, agreed by governments last December , to ensure 30 per cent of the Earth's land and sea are granted protected status by 2030.

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Preparing for COP26

Envirotec Magazine

What are the big priorities for COP? Of course, that’s all assuming it goes ahead, and the UK government haven’t ruled out the possibility of a postponement until Spring 2022. But progress was still lacking on Resilience and Energy Transition. Where are the main challenges? Nature and finance.

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Danone's Eric Soubeiran: 'The food system is broken'

GreenBiz

The pioneering governance structure will see the food giant officially entrench environmental, social and societal objectives into its bylaws, alongside more typical profit goals. If we protect biodiversity, we are basically protecting the diversity of DNA," Soubeiran mused.

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COP27: Shorter deadlines are key to long-term incremental change

Business Green

COP27 put significant pressure on both organisations and governments to urgently act now. The new business strategy rewards farmers for minimising output emissions including in feed, fertiliser efficiency, biogas usage, biodiversity and renewable farming. Here's how I think we can do it: 1.