The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

Whether you’re a backyard chicken keeper setting up your first few poultry nesting boxes or a seasoned farmer, keeping up to date with modern practices is crucial to ensure the health and productivity of your poultry. This reduces the risk of antibiotic resistance, a significant public health risk targeted by the World Health Organization.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 1, 2021

Converting land to biofuel production can have a disastrous impact on both the climate and biodiversity. This is an ongoing public health disaster, with studies showing the practice kills more people than malaria, TB and HIV/AIDS combined through indoor air pollution.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Agriculture’s role in fuelling the climate and biodiversity crisis has become increasingly apparent in recent years. JBS , the world’s second-largest food company, also shared its plan to support regenerative agriculture practices, which are said to improve soil health and biodiversity.

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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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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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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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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

CLIMATE CHANGE AND COVID-19 A warming world threatens to unleash a host of diseases and other threats to human health. Carbon Brief explored how climate change and biodiversity disturbance, including habitat loss and human-animal conflict, could influence the risk of diseases being transmitted from animals to humans.

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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. Public health, as well as food and power supplies, are also at risk from increased disruption as temperatures rise, the report warned. The pandemic is a new context for that," Stark argued.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The current definition of corporate sustainability in the Oxford English Dictionary is: “The property of being environmentally sustainable; the degree to which a process or enterprise is able to be maintained or continued while avoiding the long-term depletion of natural resources.” – Oxford , How sustainable is sustainability?

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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.

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Fairsnape

MARCH 3, 2022

I used to think that the top global environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem col­lapse, and climate change. Its about experimenting with regenerative / circular/ biodiversity positive/ waste materials within the postgraduate studio of Building Beyond Borders. Definitely will work as a conversation starter in class!

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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. These include suggestions such as those of the 2019 EAT-Lancet Commission into food, planet and health, which prescribed wealthy countries make deep cuts to meat and dairy consumption.

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Fairsnape

MARCH 30, 2022

I used to think that the top global environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem col­lapse, and climate change. Its about experimenting with regenerative / circular/ biodiversity positive/ waste materials within the postgraduate studio of Building Beyond Borders. Definitely will work as a conversation starter in class!

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

There have been growing calls for more robust policing and governance mechanisms in the rapidly-growing voluntary carbon market sector, amid concerns that a corporate rush towards carbon credits will fail to deliver promised benefits to the climate, biodiversity and communities living near offset projects.

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Business Green

APRIL 3, 2023

Yet even these firms still have more work to do if their transition plans are to be considered fully TPT-compliant, it warned, noting in particular common gaps in areas such as financial planning or the definition of financial metrics and targets. That is how I would like to imagine the future of business in our region and beyond."

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2022

And better, more plentiful green space boosts people's health and wellbeing and lessens the burden on our already stretched NHS.". However, Jayawardena is understood to have asked officials to look at extending the definition of BMV to cover middling to low grade land with a 3b classification.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

And in order to encourage the approach beyond its supply chain, Danone recently founded the One Planet Business for Biodiversity (OP2B) initiative, a cross-sector effort to improve the private sector's approach to biodiversity. And by definition, a commodity has no value or very limited value.

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Low Impact

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Community growing areas can improve local biodiversity and protect local wildlife. The more biodiverse an ecosystem, the more resilient it will be. Usually larger sites than the above, with a definite focus on growing food for the community, these farms may have large areas for fruit and vegetables, and sometimes even arable crops.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 20, 2022

Hence, there’s a need to adopt a more clear-cut definition, and ESG seems to have met that need. This means leaving natural ecosystems unharmed, supporting biodiversity, maintaining natural environments and resources, and restoring natural climatic cycles. So what does sustainability mean, and how does it differ from ESG?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Focused mostly on England, due to devolved responsibilities across Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, it sets out clear roles for local and national governments, private investment, the farming industry, and the circular economy in helping to restore nature, bolster natural resources, and enhance biodiversity.

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AGreenLiving

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.”

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

There are growing fears that many corporate sustainability strategies' understandable focus on emissions reduction could start to come at the expense of workers, communities, and biodiversity - a scenario that could help fuel a backlash against decarbonisation efforts.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

Every five years the Climate Change Committee (CCC) conducts a root-and-branch review of the UK's preparedness for escalating climate impacts, such as heatwaves, floods, storms, droughts, coastal erosion, and their threats to public health, food security, power supplies, homes, offices, and infrastructure.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

It’s definitely not over, just talk to the folks at Coal River and they will tell you that’s not the case,” said Matt Hepler, an environmental scientist with the environmental group Appalachian Voices , referring to the Coal River Mountain area in southern West Virginia, where coal production has remained relatively high in recent years.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Providing these households with clean cookstoves can both eliminate carbon emissions and catalyse progress towards a raft of other development goals , including improved health, nutrition, education, and gender equality. Both Verra and Gold Standard questioned the definition of additionality used by Compensate in its study.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

As his model is better for our health and for nature, as well as for our communities and for providing fulfilling work, I think we need to have a good look at what he’s saying. Not for this one, no – but this current, unsustainable, undemocratic, community- and mental-health-destroying economy is not good for us.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2022

On top of storing carbon, the trees planted through the programme protect soil, boost local biodiversity, and provide new income opportunities to farmers from timber and fruits, according to the company. Even if you put a dollar value to it, the dollar value on water and on biodiversity would be much bigger than carbon.".

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 5, 2024

Please see the bottom of this post for full methodology and climate vertical definitions.   Declining graduation rates are a symptom of investment health. Our definition of climate tech comes with two filters: 1) climate impact and 2) climate vertical. State-owned enterprise funding) Non-dilutive funding (e.g.

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AGreenLiving

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.”

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Environmental journalist George Monbiot even had a hand in one of the works: an immersive experience designed to highlight the huge importance of soils in supporting ecosystems, and the threat modern farming techniques and deforestation pose to their health.

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AGreenLiving

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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Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

The governments want to increase their GDP, improve health and sanitation, provide education and jobs, increase investment, improve infrastructure, provide electricity to people; besides the economy and jobs, most of these things are not even an issue in developed countries anymore. It sounds like utopia, doesn’t it?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2021

He's a visionary, and I think he's definitely shining a light on where corporations are going to go. The fact is that corporations actually have the deepest wallets, and therefore they can be the most powerful agents of change. The time to stop doing damage has really passed. There are very few, but change starts somewhere.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

According to a growing body of scientific research, incorporating trees into farmland benefits everything from soil health to crop production to the climate. There is no clear definition. There’s an academic, philosophical definition, but there’s not a practical definition, nothing that says, ‘It includes this many species.’

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

And in order to encourage the approach beyond its supply chain, Danone recently founded the One Planet Business for Biodiversity (OP2B) initiative, a cross-sector effort to improve the private sector's approach to biodiversity. And by definition, a commodity has no value or very limited value.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

of warming is just about still feasible, and keeping temperature increases below 2C is definitely achievable if rapid action is taken. But the solutions are there On the other hand, the report stresses there is still time to deliver a low-carbon, sustainable economy where climate-resilient development becomes the norm.

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