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The Environment Act and the role of 'biodiversity net-gain'

Business Green

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. It can't come soon enough.

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Mutable mandate? Sizing up the new BNG requirements

Envirotec Magazine

Commentators seemed unanimous that the new requirements were a step in the right direction, if a little unambitious, with a government impact assessment acknowledging that 10% Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) may not go beyond “no net loss”. Green roof systems and bio-active concrete were also mentioned as supportive of biodiversity improvements.

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Episode 247: Biden wish lists, supporting 'intersectional environmentalists'

GreenBiz

Recycled plastic: There’s market demand, but where’s the supply? Biodiversity in fashion (37:35) . New technologies are solving logistics logjams and making it simpler to sort more materials. Heather Clancy. Fri, 12/04/2020 - 02:00. Week in Review. Stories discussed this week (7:35). Inclusive environmentalism (47:37) .

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Danone's Eric Soubeiran: 'The food system is broken'

GreenBiz

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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COP15: Green groups 'appalled' by slow progress as crunch UN biodiversity talks close in Nairobi

Business Green

After more than two years of Covid-induced delays, the crucial COP15 UN biodiversity summit is now pencilled in for December in Montreal, Canada, leaving just six months for negotiators to lay the groundwork for 195 countries to sign off on what should prove to be an historic global treaty to protect and enhance nature.

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The risky business of climate risk: 'Stop predicting the future'

GreenBiz

The process of handling disrupted supply chains, shifts in demands and business models and modes of communication; governance and decision-making changes during leadership under lockdown. As for disclosure, investors expect more of it and at a more robust level, but they are also demanding goal-setting, with metrics and accountability.

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Danone's Eric Soubeiran on regenerative farming and fixing the 'broken' food system

Business Green

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 muses.