Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Companies are chasing profits from product innovations such as plant-based meat but failing to invest in supply chain resilience, study finds. It found food companies are responding to growing consumer demand for healthy and sustainable products primarily through product innovation, such as alternative meat made from plant proteins.

Resilience 91

Resilience Retail Climate change Innovation 91

Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

The growing global consensus on the need to build a green recovery from the economic wreckage of the coronavirus crisis has been yet further underlined by a set of green policy demands released today to mark World Environment Day by host of influential institutions, including the OECD and the UN Development Programme (UNDP).

Demand 89

Demand Packaging Resilience Biodiversity 89

Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The biodiversity net-gain requirement is among the most important conservation policy initiatives of the last two decades, argues Environment Bank chairman and founder Professor David Hill CBE. His words apply equally to rebuilding biodiversity as they do to addressing climate change.

Biodiversity 54

Biodiversity Law Medicine Logistics 54

Smart Energy International

APRIL 18, 2024

The annual review, now in its 15th edition, points to profound changes in global energy systems having been triggered by the demand-driven energy shock in response to the war in Ukraine and the need to evolve energy leadership to accelerate the global energy transitions in all regions. We manage what we measure.

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Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Energy Energy 59

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This infrastructure can take years to develop, involves billions of pounds of investment but will also help create jobs and economic benefits. Look beyond the focus on security of gas supply to security demand As households switch to low carbon heating and we look to electrify parts of industry, UK demand for fossil gas is set to fall.

Energy 284

Energy Energy Electric vehicle Government 284

Business Green

MAY 15, 2020

In a resolution that secured strong backing from MEPs on Friday with 505 votes in favour and 119 against, the European Parliament demanded the EU revise its post-2020 budget in the wake of Covid-19, and said economic recovery plans must have a strong social and environmental focus.

Packaging 101

Packaging Demand Carbon-neutral Europe 101

AGreenLiving

MARCH 4, 2021

Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet C.J. Last summer, the investment arm of northern Europe’s largest financial services group dropped Brazilian meat giant JBS from its portfolio. Clouse Thu, 03/04/2021 – 02:11 Reprinted from GreenFin Weekly, a free weekly newsletter. Subscribe here.

Biodiversity 36

Biodiversity Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 36

Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Following a consultation last year, the government yesterday confirmed plans to bring in the new Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) requirements in a phased approach between now and the end of 2025, starting with local planning authorities this year before extending to major infrastructure projects.

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Biodiversity Government Policy Resilience 36

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.

Biodiversity 67

Biodiversity Soil Africa Resilience 67

Business Green

JANUARY 25, 2021

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to announce a new international coalition focused on helping vulnerable nations adapt and build resilience to escalating climate impacts at a landmark global summit today. I'll be making the need for a resilient recovery a priority of the UK's G7 presidency this year.

Resilience 61

Resilience Politics Government Investment 61

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

George Monbiot's latest book, Regenesis , is the latest in a string of studies to warn how essentially extractive agricultural practices are damaging soils and biodiversity to such an extent that food security is being threatened. The outlook is certainly worrying.

Resilience 68

Resilience Agriculture Soil Organic 68

Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Natural Environment Investment Readiness Fund (NEIRF) promises £100,000 grants for woodland, peatland and habitat restoration projects that can then harness further private investment. The NEIRF will serve as an essential bridge, as well as providing an example of how to build an investment pipeline for nature.".

Investment 101

Investment Government Biodiversity Agriculture 101

Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Canopy's Nicole Rycroft and Vedra Partners' James Hughes set out the case for investing in sustainable materials New rules preventing companies from buying commodities linked with deforestation and forest degradation will soon to come into force in the European Union.

Investment 40

Investment Biodiversity Fashion Packaging 40

Business Green

MAY 7, 2020

Your government has the opportunity to show global leadership, forging a path out of this crisis by putting a resilient economy, healthy communities, and a thriving natural world at the heart of the relief and recovery effort.".

Resilience 86

Resilience Climate change Government Health 86

Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

The proposed stimulus package calls for a "renovation wave" of buildings and infrastructure in support of the Green Deal, as well as investments in circular economy efforts, renewable energy projects, clean hydrogen infrastructure, green transport networks, and an enhanced Just Transition Fund for workers.

Investment 99

Investment Packaging Carbon-neutral Europe 99

Business Green

JANUARY 25, 2021

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to announce a new international coalition focused on helping vulnerable nations adapt and build resilience to escalating climate impacts at a landmark global summit today. Such actions could include early warning systems for storms and investments in flood drainage and in drought-resistant crops, it said.

Resilience 49

Resilience Government Investment Biodiversity 49

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.

Resilience 36

Resilience Climate change Government Agriculture 36

Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 15, 2022

In total the wetlands programme will see the water company invest over £50million between now and the end of the decade in the work, with the first three wetlands near Charsfield, Cotton (both in Suffolk), and Stagsden (Bedfordshire) planned to get underway early in 2023. Footage of a water vole was also recorded using trail cams.

Building Energy Monitoring 234

Building Energy Monitoring Biodiversity Energy Monitor Recycling 234

AGreenLiving

JUNE 12, 2020

Episode 224: Biodiversity, climate tech and voices of clean energy equity Heather Clancy Fri, 06/12/2020 – 02:15 Week in Review Stories discussed this week. All of these events also will be available on demand. See original here: Episode 224: Biodiversity, climate tech and voices of clean energy equity.

Biodiversity 36

Biodiversity Energy Energy Incubators 36

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.

Business Energy Monitoring 544

Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Energy Monitor Resilience 544

Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Competing demand for UK land from livestock farming, housebuilding, energy crops, tree cover, and nature protection is expected to intensify in the coming years as businesses and policymakers grapple with inter-related challenges such as climate change, nature loss, and food security.

Demand 40

Demand Agriculture Climate change Biodiversity 40

Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 7, 2022

Think of us as a nonprofit VC: First the investor part: We invest $300,000 (for growth strategy development) or $600,000 (for project deployment) to companies across six systems – water, food and agriculture, nature-based solutions, energy, mobility, and the circular economy. Climate resilience, zero carbon, and the built environment.

Stormwater 98

Stormwater Resilience Smart Cities Startups 98

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.

Agriculture 93

Agriculture Biodiversity Resilience Sustainability 93

Business Green

JUNE 3, 2021

Campaigners are calling on the government to invest £1bn a year in nature restoration, arguing that reversing the rapid degradation the UK's land and seas should be both an economic and climate priority for Ministers of all stripes as they seek to steer the country's recovery from the pandemic.

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Government Waste Waste Investment 52

GreenBiz

JULY 12, 2020

SASB has a new CEO — Guillot — who joined SASB five years ago after a decade on the investing side with Barclays and CalPERS, and who came to her CEO job with a strong working relationship with Mohin. Finance & Investing. "With those numbers, I don’t see how what SASB is saying can be true," he said. But that was so last year.

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Organic Sustainability North America Medicine 527

Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

There is, after all, no path to net zero that doesn't involve an expansion in nature, which is essential even before considering added benefits such as improved flood resilience, better soil and air quality, and of course reduced pandemic risks. How effective are they are drawing down CO2 and boosting nature's resilience?

Resilience 73

Resilience Soil Asia Biodiversity 73

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.

Resilience 69

Resilience Climate change Agriculture Investment 69

Business Green

MARCH 7, 2022

The Amazon rainforest is becoming less resilient and approaching a potential tipping point which could turn its vital ecosystem into arid savannah, a new report has warned. They found that resilience dropped during the major droughts of 2005 and 2010, as part of an ongoing decline from the early 2000s to the most recent data in 2016.

Resilience 101

Resilience South America Policy Retail 101

Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 5, 2024

We've been meticulously tracking climate tech investment, deal by deal, since the term ‘climate tech’ emerged. But with the recent pullback in the overall venture market, we've expanded our scope to understand the dynamics and resilience in climate tech.

Building Energy Monitoring 144

Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 144

Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2021

Starbucks, Walmart, McDonalds and Nescafe among more than 150 coffee retailers and producers to join collective pledge to invest in forestry protection and smallholder farm efficiency. gigatonnes by mid-century, unveiling a plan to ramp up investment in smallholder farms and tropical forest restoration.

Retail 101

Retail Sustainability Carbon Biodiversity 101

Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

Conservationists have urged the government to make nature restoration a key pillar of its forthcoming economic recovery package, claiming it could create thousands of jobs across the country while tackling biodiversity loss and the climate crisis.

Packaging 76

Packaging Biodiversity Government Climate change 76

Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Demand for sustainability professionals outstripped supply. And the demand for their services has become nearly insatiable. Circular economy professionals are also in growing demand as that field matures inside companies. Will the demand sustain in 2022? It's not just ESG. Likely yes. Time to polish your resumé 2.

Sustainability 91

Sustainability Aviation Biodiversity Carbon-negative 91

Business Green

APRIL 15, 2020

It asked world leaders to prioritise investments in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and clean transport; nature protection and reforestation programmes; and the development of safe and sustainable food systems and regenerative agriculture. This is also the moment for independent central banks to enhance transparency," it added.

Packaging 85

Packaging Resilience Health Carbon 85

Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

Conservationists have urged the government to make nature restoration a key pillar of its forthcoming economic recovery package, claiming it could create thousands of jobs across the country while tackling biodiversity loss and the climate crisis.

Packaging 73

Packaging Biodiversity Government Climate change 73

Renewable Energy World

JUNE 29, 2021

Since 2011, annual global energy transition investment (renewable energy, CCS, electrified transport, hydrogen, electrified heat, energy storage) has almost doubled, from $290b to $501b. Clearly the green finance revolution has taken the world by storm, with investment in low-carbon energy remaining robust throughout the pandemic.

Investment 121

Investment Pollution Government Energy 121

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?

Biodiversity 40

Biodiversity Government Carbon-negative Investment 40

Business Green

AUGUST 4, 2020

BP announces pivot to become 'integrated energy company' as it pledges to cut oil and gas production by 40 per cent and ramp up clean energy and technology investment after suffering record loss in the second quarter of 2020. By 2025, more than a fifth of capital would be invested in "transition" businesses by 2025, it added.

Fossil fuels 97

Fossil fuels Carbon Investment Demand 97