Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

This will bring additional benefits by discouraging the burning of whole trees, as recommended in the EU Biodiversity strategy. Buildings: the current EU definition[1] of nearly zero energy buildings (NZEB) has led to different definitions by Member States across the EU. Yet, to contribute to limiting global warming to 1.5

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Planet Pulse

AUGUST 2, 2021

How a Multi-Stakeholder Project, MOCUPP, is Advancing Costa Rica Towards Sustainable Practices to Protect the Country’s Biodiversity. Costa Rica is one of the most biodiverse places in the world, containing nearly 6 percent of the world’s biodiversity. Biodiversity also plays an essential role in the well-being of the planet.

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Agriculture Energy Monitor Biodiversity Building Energy Monitoring 108

Planet Pulse

JULY 22, 2021

Since our first contract with NASA in 2019, scientists have leveraged Planet imagery for a variety of research projects focused on climate change, biodiversity loss, and complex sustainability problems. Earlier this month, Planet entered into a definitive merger agreement with dMY Technology Group, Inc.

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Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Biodiversity Climate change 144

Envirotec Magazine

JULY 14, 2021

Oxygen levels in the world’s temperate freshwater lakes are declining rapidly – faster than in the oceans – a trend driven largely by climate change that threatens freshwater biodiversity and drinking water quality. at the surface and 18.6% in deep waters since 1980. Lead author Stephen F. .

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

We believe we can't wait for consensus definitions to start making progress. The guidance outlines best practices for conserving and regenerating healthy land, freshwater, oceans and biodiversity. Without agreed-upon definitions, it makes it even harder for companies to prove they are making good on their commitments.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2022

Other transgressed boundaries are: climate change, biodiversity loss, biogeochemical cycles, land use and, in 2022, chemical pollution. Water is one of the nine regulators of the state of the Earth system that are included in the framework, and is the sixth boundary that scientists have assessed as being transgressed.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

In late June, prospective miners, DeepGreen, finally admitted in a regulatory filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, that “impacts on biodiversity and the ocean ecosystem cannot, and may never be, completely and definitively known” and that “it is unknown whether the impact of nodule collection on global biodiversity will be less significant (..)

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GreenBiz

JUNE 4, 2021

These emissions, together with the biodiversity damages caused by fertilizer runoff, have spurred a race to commercialize low-impact alternatives. Learn more: Food Navigator spoke with the startup that’s " expanding the definition of what a food crop is.". emissions. . Food & Agriculture. Featured Column.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Their goal is to make rangelands a prominent part of policy discussions around everything from confronting climate change to reducing poverty, managing threats to biodiversity and freshwater, and developing sustainable food systems. A key reason they have been underappreciated is the lack of definitive data capturing their size and value.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 19, 2020

The program collects information about soil health, biodiversity and ecosystem function, which is related to water cycle, mineral cycle, energy flow and community dynamics. This fall, Timberland plans to introduce a collection of boots using regenerative leather sourced from Thousand Hills Lifetime Grazed ranches.

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Investment Agriculture Fashion Soil 508

Business Green

JULY 30, 2021

These have been followed by biodiversity targets, science-based targets for emissions reductions, net zero emissions targets, and targets for regenerative production systems or circular product lifecycles. In the past decade, hundreds of companies have set ambitious no-deforestation targets.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 8, 2024

Yousefi says French definitions are much more restrictive than those in Brazil, but they wanted to make the case “very clean cut.” “We We wanted to be absolutely sure that the areas that we picked would for sure fall under the French law’s definition of illegal deforestation,” Yousefi says.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Since the MGT Teesside plant was awarded its CfD, the Government has agreed that this type of power plant does not meet the official definition of low-carbon electricity. Since then, they have agreed that this kind of biomass power station no longer meets their definition of low-carbon electricity for the purpose of new subsidy awards.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

The Prime Minister is being urged by his own father to establish a target to reverse the decline of species and habitats into law, as part of a major campaign launched this morning geared at tackling escalating rates of biodiversity loss in the UK.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2022

At COP26 in Glasgow, the crucial role forests play in stabilising our climate, protecting biodiversity and providing economic opportunity came into sharper focus than ever before," he said. This diagnostic tool is a big step forward," said Robin Chazdon, Professor of Tropical Forest Restoration at the University of the Sunshine Coast.

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The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

Through a combination of waste management, biodiversity conservation strategies, sustainable water practices, and energy use efficiency, modern poultry farms are reinventing the definition of sustainable agriculture. Sustainability is the cornerstone of today’s agricultural landscape.

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Building Energy Monitoring Sustainability Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor 195

Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Politicians and negotiators assembled at the COP15 Biodiversity Summit have a gruelling 48 hours ahead of them, as they look to secure universal agreement on the terms of a global pact to reverse nature decline globally by the end of the decade. That's really big - but the goals and targets need to add up to this mission.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 1, 2021

Converting land to biofuel production can have a disastrous impact on both the climate and biodiversity. But when an energy company burns millions of tonnes of wood sourced from clearcutting trees in highly biodiverse forests in a power station, all their energy is classified as “modern bioenergy” and therefore by definition “zero carbon”.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2022

Consequently, conservationists have often found themselves opposing renewables projects that they support in principle, but fear could have unacceptable biodiversity impacts in practice. Climate change and biodiversity loss can be tackled simultaneously," said Kristian Ruby, secretary general of Eurelectric. Credit: Eurelectric.

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GreenBiz

JULY 12, 2020

We've seen how the events of the world can change that definition for a company very, very quickly, which I think is one of the very important messages here of why GRI and SASB need to work together.".

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

Boris Johnson and Xi Jinping agree to continued co-operation in face of coronavirus crisis and hint at plans for climate and biodiversity summits. An unnamed Whitehall source told the FT last week that "nothing is definite yet but from my vantage point I would bet on [COP26] being cancelled pretty soon".

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2021

In the EU, there was a decline in absolute terms over the period of 13 per cent, owing to revised definitions of sustainable investment that have become embedded into legislation as part of the European Sustainable Finance Action Plan, according to the report.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 7, 2022

These themes are not definitive — when we invest, we look for transformative teams and technologies, areas ripe for innovation, and where we can make the most impact. Reduce deforestation and restore biodiversity in our oceans and terrestrial ecosystems. Climate Resilience. We aim to: Ensure 24/7 renewable power generation and storage.

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Grist

APRIL 29, 2022

That’s definitely alarming, especially given all the commitments and attention towards forests.”. Tropical primary forests, for example, are critically important both in terms of maintaining biodiversity and removing and storing carbon from the atmosphere. While boreal forests — those found throughout the U.S.

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Fossil fuels Biodiversity Policy Politics 95

Business Green

JULY 7, 2021

Ahead of COP26 in November, where mobilising green finance will rightly be one of the four key themes, the UK government has announced a number of exciting initiatives to mobilise capital towards tackling climate change and biodiversity loss whilst delivering a green economic recovery to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Policy Government Carbon Biodiversity 76

Fairsnape

JUNE 3, 2020

It embraced regenerative principles and definitions, mandated regenerative design, construction, facility operation and technologies and successfully scale jumped into an exemplary regenerative city. It embraced, and adapted, regenerative programmes such as the Living Building Challenge, Well Build Standard and Building with Nature. .

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Health Biodiversity Education Law 103

Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Planet recently entered into a definitive merger agreement with dMY Technology Group, Inc. By integrating this information into a variety of scientific studies focused on climate change, biodiversity loss, and changing ecosystems, researchers can better understand complex sustainability challenges and gain insights on potential solutions.

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Climate change Biodiversity Government Sustainability 88

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

She is also chair of the charitable Stop Ecocide Foundation and convener of the Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide chaired by Philippe Sands KC and Dior Fall Sow. It’s no coincidence that those indigenous cultures have time and again, proved to be the best guardians of the richest biodiversity on the planet.

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Law Government Politics Organic 91

Business Green

APRIL 8, 2020

The consultation seeks to make a clear link between the current Covid-19 crisis and biodiversity loss, climate change, and human activity, arguing that all of these factors make devastating pandemics and resulting threats to public health and the economy far more likely.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

“We believe we can’t wait for consensus definitions to start making progress. The guidance outlines best practices for conserving and regenerating healthy land, freshwater, oceans and biodiversity. Without agreed-upon definitions, it makes it even harder for companies to prove they are making good on their commitments.

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Agriculture Climate change Soil Biodiversity 28

Business Green

MARCH 15, 2022

So, fast forward a few years from now, could the same trend be repeated for nature-related risks such as biodiversity loss and habitat destruction? But the complexity of measuring the disparate risks from various forms of nature and biodiversity damage has proved to be hugely challenging.

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Biodiversity Government Climate change Innovation 44

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The draft, first published in July 2021, includes proposals to extend forest protections by introducing more stringent definitions of the types of timber or wood products that can count as fuels. If forest biomass was excluded [from receiving subsidies], that would be a big win for European forests.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In addition to generating renewable power, the solar farm has been designed to enable agricultural activity such as livestock grazing to continue at the same site, while Lightsource BP is also investing around £560,000 to implement a biodiversity plan for the site.

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Construction Fossil fuels Solar Power Agriculture 101

Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Inconsistencies in the definition of deforestation: The roadmap uses different meanings of eliminating deforestation throughout. The roadmap's definitions also bring up a geography question. Grasslands, shrublands, peatlands and other carbon and biodiversity-rich ecosystems are also being plowed up too.

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South America Agriculture Sustainability COP 69

Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2023

The company may be headquartered thousands of miles away in California, but it has been involved in the broader campaign to save the "blue heart of Europe" - the river and biodiversity rich Balkans - being led by a network of local NGOs for more than half a decade. There's scope for it," she said.

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Europe Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Hydropower 68

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

There is definitely increasing urgency around this issue," Waxman says. I think the headline would be: Don’t work alone," Yoann Regent, biodiversity and animal welfare specialist with Kering, told me in an interview. Palm oil plantation at the edge of a rainforest. Many promises, limited followthrough. Here’s what we’re up against.

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Policy Organic Sustainability Agriculture 545

Business Green

OCTOBER 11, 2022

It is wrong to suggest an 'attack on nature' is underway, spokespeople have insisted, the government remains fully committed to its overarching targets to achieve net zero by 2050 and reverse the decline in biodiversity by 2030. Any reforms will happen within that overarching framework. But are such reassurances credible?

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