Business Green

JUNE 6, 2021

Manifesto by young people signals demand for climate action from business. The document calls for the new 'future generations law' to ensure that "any proposed new laws are assessed for how they might affect young people's lives in the future", alongside greater action on climate change and more specialist mental health support in schools.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The most important biodiversity conference in a generation is kicking off this week, with negotiating teams from around the world convening on Montreal, Canada to hammer out the terms of a new global pact for nature. 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

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Demand for cobalt, lithium, natural graphite, and manganese - all key components in electric car batteries - is set to soar over the next decade, as policies to slash transport emissions by phasing out petrol and diesel vehicles drive an EV boom.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Documents seen by DeSmog and the Guardian show that the meat industry is poised to “tell its story and tell it well” in the lead up and during the Dubai conference, which comes on the heels of the world’s hottest ever year. percent contribution to global human-induced emissions is a higher share than aviation.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Indeed the final wording of the document lists one of the actions as: “Rapidly phasing down unabated coal and limiting the permitting of new and unabated coal power generation.” Other celebrated gains included a data-driven conservation initiative, with commitments to “integrate biodiversity metrics into climate action”.

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Business Green

MAY 21, 2020

A draft document of an official plan set to be published on 27 May sheds light on what types of low-carbon investments the EU intends to prioritise through its heavily-trailed green recovery plan, as it looks to reboot the economy while moving the continent closer to its climate goals.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2022

World leaders are missing the opportunity to achieve deep cuts in emissions by adopting circular economy strategies that reduce demand for resources, it warns, and it identifies a roadmap that it says could help them meet the target of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. of materials cycled. But we can only do it by joining forces. ”

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2019

And though the government has increased attention to firefighting in recent weeks, it appears to be at the cost of other vital environmental enforcement: according to a document from the Brazilian environmental agency IBAMA citing official monitoring data, in the first month of the military firefighting response, there was a 63.7%

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 30, 2021

To avoid losses, the on-site mitigation program includes an industry-first implementation of an observer-led Shut Down on Demand (SDOD) system for priority species. The eight biodiversity monitors, who are predominately female, have been recruited from the surrounding communities. Additionally, the program provides local job creation.

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GreenBiz

JULY 12, 2020

Now, the two are in lockstep — baby steps for now — to help the customers of sustainability data "understand the similarities and differences in the information created from these standards," according to a joint briefing document. The time may be ripe for such a collaboration, for several reasons.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 2, 2022

Ideological shifts in business demand effective ESG reporting. Climate change, biodiversity, customer relations, supply chains, board management practices, data, and security…these all fall under the ESG heading. ESG reporting is the documentation side of ESG. ESG reporting meets stakeholder demand.

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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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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

The plan calls for sourcing wood from areas that encompass eight National Forests, and activists in California have raised concerns that the production of this “renewable” power could endanger vital biodiversity in the forests, home to California’s endangered gray wolves. Credit: California Department of Fish and Wildlife ( CC BY 2.0

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2019

And though the government has increased attention to firefighting in recent weeks, it appears to be at the cost of other vital environmental enforcement: according to a document from the Brazilian environmental agency IBAMA citing official monitoring data, in the first month of the military firefighting response, there was a 63.7%

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

DeSmog documented meetings held by six MEPs from the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP), the largest group in parliament. Around 20 percent of the MEPs’ meetings were with unregistered groups, and at least one in six meetings documented by DeSmog was not declared on the parliamentary website.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2022

While an exact tipping point remains difficult to identify, experts believe the Amazon could soon reach a crisis point that would trigger dieback and turn much of the forest into savannah, with major impacts on biodiversity, global carbon storage, and climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Veteran sustainable food and farming experts welcomed the strategy as one that just might have a genuine shot at transforming the agriculture sector and result in better public health, contribute to ending the vertiginous decline of biodiversity, and lower greenhouse gas pollution. Big Ag’s Delay Tactics. Innovation Can Save Nature’.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Climate targets were under threat from all sides with climate science deniers, politicians and media platforms exploiting the war in Ukraine and ensuing energy crisis to demand an increase in fossil fuel extraction. It was a tough year for the green transition. How the Bioenergy Industry Lobbies Against Woodland Protection. My personal take?

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Documents obtained by DeSmog show Copa-Cogeca, a powerful trade body for Europe’s farmers, demanded revisions to the EU’s sustainable farming plan at a private meeting with the European Commission in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Europe’s centre-right EPP party has used arguments which track industry demands.

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Business Green

APRIL 29, 2021

The campaign has also tightened the language it uses when defining residual emissions, sources, and credits in its criteria document in an attempt to provide more specificity about what types of carbon sink projects can legitimately be included in net zero strategies.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

” The document from the Climate Crisis Advisory Group (CCAG)[1] sets out seven recommendations that it believes global leaders at COP26 must consider to make carbon pricing more effective. The Group concludes that current carbon policies do not go far enough and urgent reforms are required to ensure their efficacy.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 31, 2023

To date, there are more than 300,000 ISO certifications across 171 countries, a figure that showcases business demand for sustainability guidance. This includes resource use, energy and water consumption, waste generation, carbon emissions , and effective local biodiversity conservation strategies.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 9, 2023

ISO 14000 is in high demand as corporate CEOs, business leaders, and green teams recognize the seriousness of sustainability for business viability, but struggle to take action. Audit A systematic, independent, and documented process to objectively infer the extent to which specified standards have been met. Document everything.

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2021

Our demands on nature far exceed its capacity to supply them and this poses significant risk to the health and wellbeing of economies and societies. The transition to a circular model will be essential to halt the twin trends of biodiversity loss and climate change.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

This bears the risk of displacing conversion to other regions if demand doesn't budge. Grasslands, shrublands, peatlands and other carbon and biodiversity-rich ecosystems are also being plowed up too. Any company with serious sustainability ambitions needs to also stop these practices, but the roadmap doesn't go there.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2022

COP15 Biodiversity Summit reportedly facing further delays. The COP15 Biodiversity Summit that was slated to take place in Kunming, China in May could be delayed for a fourth time, according to reports in the New Scientist. EPA restores California's ability to set more demanding tailpipe standards.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The coalition demanded that TNC stop “promoting false climate solutions” that “center the financial interests of large lumber, pulp/paper, biomass/wood-pellet and other corporations.”. One of his projects in South Carolina has been the documentation of how logging of wetland forests has led to an increase in flooding.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Here BusinessGreen has rounded up all the policies, commitments, and investment pledges set out in the document. So what exactly does the government have planned, and what level of change can be expected across the industrial, transport, power, building, and heating sectors if it pulls off its vision? Guiding Principles. Oil and gas.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 28, 2022

Tip #6 – Go completely paperless : Instead of using paper documents, communicate through email, instant messenger chat, via video meetings, and save everything safely in the cloud. It’s an important instrument to tackle the current tiple planetary crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2023

Next, a Verification Analyst obtains additional information from candidates via documentation and engaging directly. You’ll use this platform to access various resources and tools, assemble your project team, collect any required documentation, and submit payment and your application for certification. Submit required documentation.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2022

Fluctuating temperatures and extreme weather events are creating an ever-increasing cocktail of risk for companies, including volatile commodity and energy prices, stranded assets, increased political and litigation risks and distinct new demands. These factors influence how business is conducted and, consequently, how lawyers must practice.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

However, Environment Secretary Thérèse Coffey, who announced the new goals today at the critical COP15 UN biodiversity summit currently taking place in Montreal, insisted the targets were "ambitious" and would be "challenging to achieve". "We Weakening these targets is an embarrassment and a betrayal.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2023

Moreover, the document includes England and Wales' first ever target to expand hedgerow protection, promising to create or restore 30,000 miles of hedgerows a year by 2037. The goal must be for us to exceed the current targets for air quality, biodiversity, water and resource efficiency and to do it more rapidly.

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Business Green

APRIL 5, 2022

Yesterday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its report into climate change solutions, and its message was clear: a significant ramp up in investment and deployment is needed to deliver a "major energy system transformation" that can slash global demand for the fossil fuels poisoning the planet.

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 22, 2020

Nationalistic regimes fixation on deregulation undermines human health and destroys biodiversity. He has openly opposed immigrants and repeatedly expressed contempt for citizens demanding climate action. I understand the love of virtuous principles as expressed in historical documents (such as the Declaration of Independence).

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2022

The UK now has a Critical Minerals Strategy , a document which sets out a broad vision for securing a steady and secure supply of minerals and metals needed to build the technologies that form the bedrock of a net zero economy, from electric vehicles to wind turbines.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

The document, entitled Natural Climate Solutions for Corporates , also emphasises that natural climate solutions should be seen as an interim solution for companies to compensate hard-to-abate emissions, not as a permanent fixture in climate plans. Want to find out more about the net zero transition and the role of nature based solutions?

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