Business Green

MARCH 14, 2023

Defra seeking applications for funding from projects that can enhance tree planting stocks, boost woodland resilience, and create new forestry markets The government has this week announced it is seeking applications for funding from two innovation funds designed to boost the sustainability and resilience of the forestry sector.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Start-ups and innovators aiming to deploy technologies that can enhance farmers’ resilience to water, climate, and biodiversity impacts invited to apply for funding. Innovators, companies, and start-ups have been invited by the multinational drinks brand to apply for seed funding to develop their technologies before 7 October.

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2020

It is now clearer than ever before that the health of humanity is inextricably bound to the health of our planet," the letter reads. "It It is now clearer than ever before that the health of humanity is inextricably bound to the health of our planet," the letter reads. If nature is protected, we are protected.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

Trees, woodlands and forests play a vital role removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and nurturing biodiversity. “However, our treescapes need to become more resilient to pressures such as changing climate, disease, and competing demands for land in order to reverse decades of decline in biodiversity and environmental quality.”

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Every effort must be expended on reducing risks and unknowns, whether from changes in weather, crop disease, and livestock health, or fluctuating commodity and market prices, not to mention consumer tastes and regulatory requirements. By necessity, modern farming has become a global, well-oiled machine. The outlook is certainly worrying.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

Indeed, for many of the world’s largest companies, sustainability is seen as key to minimizing risk, increasing resilience, enhancing competitiveness and unlocking new opportunities. It’s a tall order, to be sure, but the future demands nothing less. These are among the glimmers of hope we see during these turbulent times. Pull Quote.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

Climate change isn’t a 'side of desk' activity, yet corporate efforts to bolster resilience are failing to keep pace with worsening climate impacts - BusinessGreen Intelligence's latest trend report explores how firms should respond to escalating climate risks "The wolf is at the door," warns Greenpeace UK's head of politics, Rebecca Newsom.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

As part of the initiative, launched late last week, the CEOs of McCain Foods, McDonald's, Waitrose & Partners, Olam, and PepsiCo have produced a joint action plan detailing how to boost adoption of regenerative farming practices globally, in a bid to reduce the food system's significant impacts on climate and biodiversity.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2020

As resilience takes more prominence post-coronavirus, restoring nature will be of utmost importance, argues CISL's Dr Gemma Cranston. This year biodiversity was expected to move into the spotlight - with a 'new deal for nature' being laid out at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity conference in China.

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Business Green

APRIL 15, 2020

Think tank urges world leaders to build a low-carbon, circular economy in the wake of the health crisis. Like Covid-19, climate change, biodiversity loss, and financial collapse do not observe national or even physical borders," it warned. This is also the moment for independent central banks to enhance transparency," it added.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 7, 2021

Over-reliance on nitrogen fertilizers is leading to the collapse of soil biodiversity. The collapse of soil biodiversity is happening at microscopic scale. This could result in a more distributed, localised food-production system that is more stable and resilient than the one it replaces, stated the study.

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Business Green

MARCH 13, 2022

Nature-based actions within and beyond corporate supply chains can be taken today to boost resilience to shocks like floods, droughts and other extreme weather, explains Urs Dieterich, from the Landscape Resilience Fund. Climate adaptation, or efforts to build climate change resilience, has now been thrust into the spotlight.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2022

Encouraging Certified Sustainable Palm Oil can help the industry tackle the world's climate and biodiversity crises and improve the livelihoods of millions of oil palm farmers, writes RSPO's Nicholas Hurt. It put the health of millions at risk and cost Indonesia $16.1bn—twice the cost of reconstruction following the 2004 tsunami.

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2020

Claims of 'newt counting' slowing down development are a misnomer - biodiversity net gain approaches can improve design, writes AECOM's Robert Spencer. The long-awaited Environment Bill which is due be part of UK legislation by Christmas, is expected to incorporate mandatory biodiversity net gain with the support of nature recovery networks.

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

Shifts that account for growers' livelihoods, the environment, biodiversity, animal welfare and more. For example: How can a business support growers to transition to better soil health and regenerative practices that sequester carbon, while gaining carbon accounting benefits from insetting?

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health Oliver Camp Mon, 10/26/2020 – 01:30 On the recent World Food Day, the clarion call was clearer than ever: We must fix our food systems to improve human health, drive economic growth and save the planet from environmental collapse.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2020

For the last three months, we have focused on handling an increased demand for our products, ensuring we can provide Ecover to the people that need it, while protecting the health and wellbeing of our colleagues and communities," said Tom Domen, Ecover head of innovation.

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2023

Leading UK firms have signed up to a new Nature Positive Business Pledge, but reversing nature loss remains a daunting challenge After centuries of despoiling the environment and forcing nature into retreat, could the private sector play an integral role in reversing the decline in global biodiversity?

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

Just today, a group of MPs and campaigners set out demands for a major green recovery drive in the UK , while a report by financial analyst McKinsey estimated that mobilising €75-150bn of capital towards low carbon projects could yield €180bn-350bn in benefits and cut carbon emissions by up to 30 per cent by 2030. "The

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2020

Our voracious demand for crops, timber and other resources has led and still leads to the degradation and destruction of entire landscapes, causing disruptions to natural ecosystems and loss of biodiversity. It is time to pause and reflect on how to be the best stewards for a healthy and resilient planet. How we interact.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2020

In recent years, the UK has seen a surge of interest in rewilding, an approach to land conservation that advocates maintain can unlock a raft of ecosystem services, such as improved biodiversity, flood resilience, and soil health.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Britain's cities need "urgent" transformation over the next decade and beyond if the country is to meet its 2050 net zero targets and create cleaner, safer, and climate resilient spaces for citizens. Two new studies sets out proposals for how to future-proof UK cities and deliver net zero targets.

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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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Sustainability Consulting

APRIL 7, 2021

Emissions from the food retail sector tripled between 1990 and 2015 from increased demand for refrigeration to prevent food spoiling. This “rewilded” land fosters biodiversity while improving crop yields. Some land is farmed while other land is set aside to native plants, crops and animals and pollinators.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Economist sits down with BusinessGreen to discuss the response to his landmark review into the economics of biodiversity. Human population is a factor sitting out there in all the equations we write down about the demands we make on nature, and everybody accepts that," he explains.

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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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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Only by bringing producers to the center of the quest for solutions will we be able to contribute to a world without commodities-driven conversion, balancing environmental outcomes with resilient and prosperous rural communities," said Tony Siantonas, director of the Scaling Positive Agriculture initiative for WBCSD, in a statement. .

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Developed countries must do “much more, much faster” in their efforts to tackle the climate crisis, over 200 health journals have said in a statement warning of the unequal health impacts of rising global temperatures. The IPCC report shows that every fraction of a degree hotter endangers our health and future.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

Tony Juniper reflects on the outcome of the COP15 Biodiversity Summit and what is now needed to deliver on the agreement signed by governments in Montreal. nJanuary is a time for new beginnings and new resolutions to drive self-improvement, and that applies to nations just as much as individuals.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2022

Seafood is big business and demand is going up. Covering 71 per cent of our planet's surface, oceans are both vital to sustaining human and natural life on Earth and a key part of tackling the dual crisis of climate change and biodiversity loss. But the health of our oceans, and the industries reliant on them, are under serious threat.

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Business Green

MAY 17, 2020

The story of businesses delivering strong growth and profits while helping to tackle climate change, biodiversity collapse, and poverty has a long way to run, argues Liontrust's Peter Michaelis. Second is health. Within the past couple of months, country after country has gone from business as usual to full lockdown.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

In the UK, supermarket shelves have been stripped bare, foodbanks have faced unprecedented demand and producers are now calling for a 'land army' to prevent fields of crops from going to waste. It has also led to significant declines in biodiversity and soil health. Food production is breaching planetary boundaries.

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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. If we protect biodiversity, we are basically protecting the diversity of DNA," Soubeiran mused.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Climate disavowal was already happening in pre-pandemic life, but the additional stressors associated with our country’s present situation — joblessness, food insecurity, political conflict, pandemic health concerns, social isolation — make it even harder to think about environmental responsibilities.

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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. And better, more plentiful green space boosts people's health and wellbeing and lessens the burden on our already stretched NHS.".

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 20, 2022

Customers and employees are also demanding business with a purpose. This means leaving natural ecosystems unharmed, supporting biodiversity, maintaining natural environments and resources, and restoring natural climatic cycles. Social issues incorporate employee wellbeing, labor relations, and workplace health and safety.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

They also all stressed that they wanted to do more to tackle biodiversity loss and water pollution, and a number of candidates floated new policy proposals. Badenoch is yet to provide an example of policies that could "bankrupt" the UK in pursuit of net zero.

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