Business Green

JULY 19, 2021

Covid-19 recovery packages unveiled by nations around the world are failing to deliver the levels of sustainable investment needed to cap global temperature increases at safe levels, IEA warns.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 12, 2020

Allotments are also great news for biodiversity, beating city parks, gardens and nature reserves to provide the highest insect diversity of any urban habitat, according to research from the University of Bristol. Demand for allotments has surged over the past two decades, and all the more so in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 8, 2021

The industry’s environmental problems — waste, greenhouse gases, biodiversity loss — are real. This intrinsically social process, the authors conclude, "demands cooperation that is in shorter supply than are brilliant scientific insights.". Fri, 01/08/2021 - 01:30. But so are the solutions.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

A host of global fashion brands and consumer goods retailers, including H&M, Ben & Jerry's and Stella McCartney, have today collectively committed to purchasing 550,000 tonnes of low carbon alternative fibres for textiles and packaging, in a move aimed at curbing supply chain deforestation. Every year, more than 3.2

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

A new global policy and reporting framework is urgently required to help mobilise the billions of dollars of investment in nature-related projects needed to deliver on global climate and biodiversity goals. But there is a continuing lack of clarity over how best to manage and expand the still nascent nature-based finance sector.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 14, 2020

The state of our environment today is due to the broadening issues arising from loss of biodiversity, inappropriate means of disposing of waste , overpopulation, the depletion of natural resources, and increased deforestation. Reusing items can save help the environment in the following ways: Reduces the Demand For Raw Materials.

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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. It remains to be seen what will be included in the government's recovery package.

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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. It remains to be seen what will be included in the government's recovery package.

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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.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2021

Global demand for biomass is likely to exceed environmentally sustainable supplies in the coming years as the drive to decarbonise takes hold across different industries - a situation which risks undermining climate mitigation efforts and causing major damage to biodiversity and the natural world.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Make 100 percent recyclable, reusable or compostable packaging by 2025. What is the company’s policy for protecting biodiversity? We’re very focused on minimizing our adverse effects on the Earth’s natural resources and biodiversity. Kraft Heinz also updated its commitments with new targets pegged to 2025.

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Business Green

APRIL 15, 2020

The Club of Rome has urged G20 leaders and other heads of state to work together to implement green recovery packages and fiscal stimulus plans during and after the coronavirus pandemic. Like Covid-19, climate change, biodiversity loss, and financial collapse do not observe national or even physical borders," it warned.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Every industry needs to do their part if vital climate and biodiversity goals are to be achieved. More than three billion trees are razed annually - many from the world's most carbon and biodiversity-rich ecosystems - by the fashion industry to make everyday items, such as clothing and takeout containers.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Partnerships with key stakeholders like the RSPB are key to delivering on this essential and demanding commitment.” The organisation’s evolving, comprehensive package of investments along the Thames supports greater river use for trade and travel, environmental improvements and enhanced access for sport and recreation.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The Government should work quickly to publish its package of targets, using this extra time to ensure they are as strong as possible. Green groups have demanded that the Government use the targets delay to bring forward a stronger package of targets, capable of restoring the natural environment. Nature cannot wait.”.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

But the alliance of NGOs, academic institutions, and think tanks, argued that "even these leaders are preoccupied with one-off low-carbon projects and are shying away from the urgent structural changes needed to protect and restore nature at scale - including eliminating harmful subsidies and embedding biodiversity in economic plans".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

The certification from consultancy the Carbon Trust means Accolade Wines Europe is close to achieving its goal of achieve net zero emissions across its UK-packaged portfolio by the end of 2020. The company behind bestselling wine brands Kumala, Hardys, and Echo Falls has announced that its core range has now been certified carbon neutral.

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Business Green

APRIL 9, 2021

Morrison's chief executive David Potts said customer demand had prompted the supermarket to move to ban plastic bags from its checkouts. "We The removal of so-called 'bags for life' will start in Scotland this month and extend to England and Wales over the course of the next year, it said, estimating that it currently sells 1.9

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Business Green

MARCH 14, 2022

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has recommended the government introduce legislative definitions for terms such as 'recyclable' and 'carbon neutral', in a bid to cut down on misleading green claims on consumer products' marketing material and packaging.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Advocates of vertical farming argue it can slash land use impacts while also reducing water use and fertiliser demand, providing a route to drastically cut agriculture's climate impact. However, critics question the energy in-puts required to produce crops indoors and the scalability of the nascent industry.

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Sustainability Consulting

APRIL 7, 2021

Packaging accounts for 5.4% Production of paper and pulp for food packaging generates an average of 59.9 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.

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Business Green

JUNE 28, 2021

A new environmental scoring system for food and drinks packaging is set to launch across select retailers and products this autumn, as part of a government-backed drive to help consumers make more environmentally friendly choices.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

However, the demands on the system are changing, and its speed has slowed. The Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP) consenting process has served the UK well for more than a decade," they said. The number and complexity of cases coming into the system is increasing.

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Low Impact

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Small-scale growers, selling via farmer-focussed supply chains, are better able to deliver public goods due better calibrated supply and demand and to customer understanding of issues such as seasonality, waste and packaging avoidance and trade-offs between crop damage and agrochemical use.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In particular, the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) and the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI) have released much-anticipated guidance on supply- and demand-side integrity in the voluntary carbon market.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2022

But Canopy said the rapid spike in demand for forest-derived fabrics posed a threat to rare and ancient forests, of which only 20 per cent now remain intact globally. Initiatives such as this showcase our dedication to conserving forests for our planet's climate and biodiversity," she said.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 8, 2021

The nonprofit has named the threatened collapse of fisheries and unmet demand for seafood alternatives as important factors. By 2030, it expects demand for seafood to be 30 percent higher than 2010 levels. Nestlé cites the sustainability benefits of reducing overfishing and protecting ocean biodiversity as motivators of these projects.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The government has today unveiled its hotly-anticipated suite of legally-binding environmental targets for England, confirming a sweeping package of goals to reverse species loss, increase tree cover, reduce waste, and tackle air and water pollution over the next two decades. Weakening these targets is an embarrassment and a betrayal.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2021

The CGF has published a report detailing its strategy for tackling deforestation related to the production of four key agricultural commodities: palm oil, soy, beef, and pulp and fibre-based packaging.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 26, 2022

At the COP15 Biodiversity Summit which ended last week, much focus was on the depletion of natural capital, the world's stock of natural assets. Corporate measures could also go some way to reversing the loss of biodiversity and address about 60 per cent of chemical and plastic pollution.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The EPP is vociferously opposing two major pieces of legislation from the EU’s Green Deal, a historic package by the bloc to reduce its emissions in line with global climate targets. It includes key reforms that are currently making their passage through Europe’s lawmaking bodies. The meetings were held during key negotiating moments.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2020

Added to its crowdfunding push, Heal intends to seek support from companies and charitable foundations and intends to explore its eligibility for the Nature for Climate Fund, the £640m package unveiled in the government's recent Budget to support tree planting, afforestation, and peatland restoration programmes in England.

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Andrew Winston

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

This was a frankly scary report from the UN about how humanity is destroying biodiversity. Rather than fully tackle the nature of biodiversity, I’ll just refer to a good explainer here and say this: we humans are part of a web of life and everything that goes into the economy comes from that web and other natural resources.

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Andrew Winston

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

This was a frankly scary report from the UN about how humanity is destroying biodiversity. Rather than fully tackle the nature of biodiversity, I’ll just refer to a good explainer here and say this: we humans are part of a web of life and everything that goes into the economy comes from that web and other natural resources.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

And yet, opportunities exist through climate-friendly recovery packages to not only stimulate economies, but also reduce emissions while promoting social and environmental co-benefits. They point to the EU’s $1 trillion, 10-year Green New Deal as an example of a climate-friendly, politically right-sized recovery package. Hepburn et al.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Recent decades have seen deforestation become a major global driver of climate change and biodiversity loss, particularly in tropical regions. World Bank statistics suggest 1.3 million square kilometres of forest were lost between 1990 and 2016, an area bigger than South Africa.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The group has pledged support of collective, systemic efforts to "remove deforestation, forest degradation and conversion from the key commodity supply chains of palm oil, soy and paper, and paper, pulp and fiber-based packaging." . Map your sourcing. You can’t do anything if you don’t know where to do it.".

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