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. It's clear that promises are simply not enough.

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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. Meanwhile, the Treasury's long-awaited review of the costs of delivering the UK's 2050 net zero goal is not expected incorporate cost considerations for adaptation and resilience.

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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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GreenBiz

MAY 18, 2020

We also want to develop agriculture initiatives for carbon storage and reforestation and biodiversity that help support our carbon initiatives. That was definitely a key piece of some of the conversations we had as well." Among Nestlé’s interests, Villareal said, was scaling up renewable energy use in its operations. "We

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 28, 2021

The 2021 World Economic Forum’s Global Risk Report identifies extreme weather, climate action failure, biodiversity loss, and infectious diseases as top risks in terms of both likelihood and impact. decline in GDP per capita due to climate change and is set to lose $83 billion by 2050 from biodiversity loss. For instance, the U.S.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

Yet efforts to adapt to the changing climate and improve resilience are not keeping pace with the growing threats, according to the CCC. The government is not taking climate resilience seriously enough. Drier summers, wetter winters, higher seas: this is a crisis in urgent need of both national leadership and local planning.

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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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Business Green

AUGUST 31, 2020

They show starkly where it is failing: prioritising efficiency over resilience in healthcare, not accounting for the enormous cost of carbon emissions, and allowing persistent inequalities to develop within societies. We believe the current crisis should support and accelerate many trends and themes integral to sustainability.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The soil becomes richer and healthier, runoff that pollutes water is reduced, biodiversity and habitat for the birds, bees and other wildlife increases, farm animals live better, and the food produced is more nutritious. Early research also indicates farmers using these techniques can reap long-term financial gains. .

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Backers say the coalition aims to unlock new technologies that can help reduce the sector’s major contribution to climate change and make harvests more resilient. Africa has workable alternatives right here at home, for resilient agriculture that works with nature.”. Aim4C’s participants skew heavily towards the Global North.

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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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Grist

MAY 14, 2024

For over 60 years, the laboratory has studied whether nuclear technologies can be used to breed new and more resilient varieties of crops, and the seeds from the space capsule were its newest venture. Experiments like these carry risks, Mohanta pointed out. Read Next The best coffee for the planet might not be coffee at all L.V.

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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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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2022

The new Fund aims to help countries achieve more holistic policymaking by creating further evidence of the links between biodiversity, climate and health, and will support decision makers and relevant actors to take measures to prevent future pandemics, UNEP said. Florida approves plan for climate resilience office.

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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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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This effort will allow financial institutions and market participants to use a shared set of definitions, enhancing the availability of taxonomy-aligned financing and supporting sustainable development in CGT-affiliated markets.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

A pledge by more than 100 countries - including Brazil - to end deforestation by 2030, a critical first step towards carbon sink and biodiversity preservation. Biodiversity and nature-based solutions. What is less clear is who owns the responsibility for the development of these definitions and frameworks.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2022

These natural assets are also fundamental tools in making places more resilient to the shocks of climate change and in locking away carbon. 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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

is definitely an important one," he told BusinessGreen on the side-lines of COP27. "If Hopefully a good one - but it could also be problematic if it's not a good definition.". "This issue on the non-authorised units and 6.4 Another major area of contention relates to transparency around article 6.2,

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The IPCC report is genuinely terrifying and Russia's attack on Ukraine has revealed the complacency contained in suggestions worst case climate scenarios can be definitively ruled out - the only good news is that the world knows what needs to be done and has the tools to do it.

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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. For individuals: A community garden can provide other yields as well as food, such as fuel, crafting materials, and natural medicine. Community farms.

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Business Green

JULY 12, 2022

If the government is serious about tackling climate change and biodiversity loss, it should make it compulsory for UK financial institutions and companies to only invest in forest-risk commodities, such as soy, beef, and palm oil, that meet a clear sustainability threshold, an independent taskforce of experts has warned.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 5, 2024

But with the recent pullback in the overall venture market, we've expanded our scope to understand the dynamics and resilience in climate tech. Please see the bottom of this post for full methodology and climate vertical definitions. Our definition of climate tech comes with two filters: 1) climate impact and 2) climate vertical.

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AGreenLiving

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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

As with the last summit, the risk continues to be that greenwashing leaves governments with “a vision that tinkers around the edges,”rather than a transformative one that creates food systems that are resilient and restore ecosystems,” as Shefali Sharma, director of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), warned at COP27.

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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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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2020

Environmental Sustainability – In a truly sustainable environment, an ecosystem would maintain populations, biodiversity, and overall corporate and production functionality over an extended period of time. Does zero waste really mean zero waste? Does it consider the waste that’s produced in the production of materials upstream?

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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. Finally, it calls on businesses to get going as soon as possible.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Endorsed by governments over the weekend, the report's 'summary for policymakers' cover text is a critical resource for business leaders and investors looking to bolster near-term resilience and boost long-term profitability amidst an ever-worsening climate crisis. Delivering on the Paris Agreement's goal of 1.5C

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 6, 2021

Intact tropical forests, in particular, play an outsized role in carbon uptake, to say nothing of their wealth of biodiversity (a single hectare of tropical forest can contain as many plant species as all the native species of western Europe). But how long can tropical forests remain one of Earth’s greatest carbon sinks?

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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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The Environmental Blog

JULY 18, 2019

There is also a recognition that present-day delay in action would put the responsibility on the future generations, who will face greater vulnerability and exposure due to reduction in the climate-resilient pathways that we still have a chance to avail (IPCC “climate change report”, 33). 3. Application of Ethics.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

In reality, however, the answer to the question is somewhat hazy, as there is very little in the way of an agreed definition for what counts as an ESG investment. If fully adopted, the impact of the recommended taxonomy criteria could be significant. The Taxonomy provides the finance sector with a list of green investment opportunities.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2023

But it's still the wild west, and these developments haven't resulted in a shared standard or even a definition that everyone agrees upon. Crops including corn, wheat and soy have been engineered for resilience to droughts, pests and weeds.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

And it’s definitely not wise to assume that we’re going to be able to continue to get such an essential resource as food from other parts of the world in the face of climate change, population growth and conflict. The former is sustainable, community-oriented and frankly, sane; the latter isn’t any of those things.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Combining insights from psychology, sociology, social movements, mindfulness, and the environmental humanities, Ray explains why and how we need to let go of eco-guilt, resist burnout, and cultivate resilience while advocating for climate justice. Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change, edited by Melissa R.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2021

It's actually about humans putting our effort into the restoration of degraded lands, the restoration of oceans, the restoration of forest, because they need it, and we've pushed way beyond, in many cases, the capacity of nature to be resilient on its own. The time to stop doing damage has really passed. So at this point: net positive.

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