Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2023

The EA report includes details of a number of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SuDS) being rolled out across the country. ” In early December governments from around the world were assembling for COP 15 to agree on how to halt and reverse nature loss. Across 60 pilot projects the programme created an equivalent of 1.6

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

Public concern over the decline in nature has seen a "dramatic rise" around the world over the past five years, triggering rapidly growing consumer demand for more sustainable products, particularly in high income countries, according to research commissioned by WWF. Meanwhile, Briton's have also contributed 11.5

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 16, 2020

We are facing a biodiversity crises and the actions we take this year will determine the fate of life on Earth. Biodiversity loss has a cascade of impacts which is why it is tied to the Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGs ). Biodiversity was a salient theme at the G7 Summit in August.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Increasingly climate-minded consumers are also seeking more sustainable food options, and the spotlight is on meat and dairy because of livestock’s outsized methane footprint.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Accelerate and integrate the efficacy of climate/biodiversity actions to achieve greater impact and effect. We need to think of protected areas as serving both the biodiversity they help to protect and the carbon sequestration ability of the ocean – MPAs protect and retain carbon.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Environmental Audit Committee report also describes government biodiversity efforts to date as 'lacking' and argues ‘bold and ambitious action’ is required. Our committee's findings are clear: we must bring consumption to a sustainable level or the wildlife, animals and nature we hold dear are threatened," he said.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

Guterres said the treaty was crucial for addressing the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. "It Governments and civil society must now ensure that the agreement is adopted and rapidly enters into force and is effectively implemented to safeguard high seas biodiversity."

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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. A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read.

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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. A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 6, 2022

World leaders, CEOs, climate advocates, scientists and sustainable development specialists from around the world converged on New York City last week, for the annual, concurrent rituals of the United Nations General Assembly and ClimateWeek. Here are my four key takeaways: U.S. Domestic Climate Policy Gets Real. degrees Celsius.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

All these methods work to improve the soil, reduce air and water pollution, cut emissions, and boost biodiversity. Several Aim4C “innovation sprints” are based on regenerative agriculture, including one on “sustainable beef”. Nature-based solutions” is one of the only phrases linked to agriculture to be mentioned in the COP cover text.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The VCM Global Dialogue group, which aims to represent the interests of the stakeholders on the supply-side of voluntary carbon markets, yesterday set out guidance for how the emerging sector can best support sustainable development and climate action in developing counties.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Nick Robins is professor in practice for sustainable finance at LSE’s Grantham Research Institute, and Dr Ma Jun is special advisor to the governor of the People’s Bank of China. The same process is now starting for biodiversity. Climate change and the loss of nature are two intersecting crises that face the global economy.

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2020

He would have been joining us to reflect on our longstanding partnership and on Ghana's approach to combatting illegal logging, and promoting trade and sustainable forest land use. Or we can choose to make environmental sustainability and resilience the lens through which we map out our recovery. I send my condolences to his family.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2022

In a communique published at the close of a three-day Energy and Environment Ministerial meeting in Berlin this week, the world's largest economies set out their priorities for tackling the intersecting climate, biodiversity, and pollution crises, and responding to the disruption to energy markets wrought by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

"To ensure positive global futures, we need to achieve more sustainable patterns of production and land use, and reform economic and financial systems to incentivize nature-based decision making.".

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

It is no surprise then that the World Economic Forum Global Risks Report 2021 identifies climate action failure, extreme weather and biodiversity loss, alongside infectious diseases, as the top global risks for the next decade in terms of impact and likelihood. As with COVID-19, perhaps so with climate? Pull Quote.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

With World Economic Forum's annual get-together delayed, key discussions over climate and sustainability discussions may also have to wait, warn S30 co-chairs Steve Varley from EY and Freuds' CEO Dr Arlo Brady. encouraging nations, firms and investors to confront the planet's biodiversity crisis and the tightening of energy supplies.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Whatever the outcome of the ongoing negotiations at COP15 Biodiversity Summit, there are high hopes it will mark a turning point in the understanding of the critical role nature plays in regulating the climate and sustaining the global economy. I wish everyone well because it's hard," she says.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Business leaders and environmental campaigners hail the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework as a major - if flawed - breakthrough for nature protection efforts. Andy Howard, Global Head of Sustainable Investment at Schroders, said: "The outcome of CBD COP15 should make financial regulators sit up and listen.

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The IPCC recently conducted a study into the combined effects of all the agreed targets of the countries taking part in the ongoing COP talks. Attempting to maintain business as usual (which is the only type of solution that will be debated at COP 26) will only make things worse. Whatever does come out of COP won’t be enough.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 6, 2022

COP15 must culminate in a pact that sets a clear direction of travel for business committed to building a sustainable economy, writes Capitals' Coalition's Mark Gough. Together, they will work to finalise a post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). Biodiversity underpins human health, wealth, happiness, and identity.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

UN approves UK and Italian request for high profile Summit to be postponed by a full year, as co-hosts announce new 'Friends of COP' advisory board. The co-hosts also yesterday announced that they have expanded the team of senior figures working on the Summit with the appointment of a new "Friends of COP" advisory board.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

A commercial business with sustainability and tech for good at its core, Dryad was set up in 2020 with a mission to digitize the forest and help protect and regrow the world’s largest carbon sinks. Sustainability, climate and nature protection play a central role in this. percent of the GDP of the USA.

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Business Green

JANUARY 3, 2022

A significant feature of COP was businesses joining with activists to demand faster progress. The most successful businesses will shift beyond thinking of sustainability simply as a way to avoid things deteriorating, towards action that aims to repair our planet. Not only that, but they're linked problems, with linked solutions.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Talks to deliver a new global pact for nature protection may have got off to a sluggish start at the COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Montreal, but observers remain optimistic the meeting could yet usher in a new era in how the private sector appraises nature. Business can help to create certainty," she told BusinessGreen.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

The high seas cover some 42 per cent of the Earth's surface, are a major carbon sink, and home to vast amounts of biodiversity. The first Conference of the Parties (COP) summit to bring together countries that have endorsed the high seas deal is unlikely to occur for at least four or five years.

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Putting the planet on a sustainable course will require significant changes to almost every sector of the global economy, including energy, transport, industry, agriculture, cities, finance, and land-use. We need just such a guidance system for the Earth itself, to safely navigate the sustainability transition.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

In the southern Polish city of Katowice last December, news coverage of the UN’s COP 24 meeting on climate change suddenly and dramatically surged, mostly thanks to a three-minute speech given by a Swedish teen activist with Asperger’s syndrome and the amplifying power of social media. Who’s this report for and is it already out of date?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

While there was a lot of media buzz recently about the activists that could not - or, understandably, would not - participate in this year's COP, the voices of the most important are missing at nearly all important decision fora. It's not just a COP issue, it's a power issue. And if we look to forests, there is so much biodiversity.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2022

BusinessGreen speaks to delegates at COP15 about how the dash for cash to protect biodiversity will impact investors and business. Finance and Biodiversity Day at the COP15 Biodiversity Summit got off to an explosive start yesterday morning, after developing nations walked out of talks on finance in the wee hours of the morning.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 7, 2024

Scientists tell us that we’ve pushed the planet beyond its ability to support us in critical areas such as availability of water, biodiversity, and, of course, carbon emissions. The good news is that even though we’re not moving fast enough, sustainability in business is mainstream — a must-do, not a nice-to-do. I see duality.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Biodiversity. Conference of the Parties (COP). COP is the decision-making body responsible for monitoring and reviewing implementation of the UNFCCC. Actions that protect, sustainably manage and restore the natural environment, such as reversing deforestation and accelerating the transition to sustainable agriculture.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 6, 2022

BusinessGreen breaks down the myriad ways negotiations kicking off in Montreal this week will impact businesses committed to building a more sustainable world. What makes this COP so special? As such the expectations for the COP15 Biodiversity Summit are high, fuelled by the extra-long lead up to the talks.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Record numbers of delegates from business and finance attended the COP15 Biodiversity Summit, but these actors are not part of official negotiations – so why do they make the trip? But as the dust settles on this month's COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Montreal, observers have noted how the CBD might be on the brink of a new era.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. Rodgers defends meat-eating as sustainable and has spoken against measures to curb its consumption in rich countries. The North American Meat Institute will host a side event at the US COP pavilion on December 11, the summit’s Agriculture Day, for example.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Eric Soubeiran, the company's vice president of nature and water cycle, explained that weaning the company off intensive farming is at the core of its new sustainability mission. If you really want to do sustainability well in a company, you need to know your business well," Soubeiran said.

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