Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

In April, daily emissions fell by as much as 17 percent , and total 2020 emissions may be 7-11 percent lower than 2019 (as projected by the Energy Policy Simulator , and a new opinion piece in Nature by Hanna et al., Figure 2 Mean survey results of recovery policy archetypes (2008-2020) aggregated using relativity-adjusted scores.

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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. Without sustainable finance we cannot achieve a sustainable future.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Make 100 percent recyclable, reusable or compostable packaging by 2025. The environmental and, of course, the social are hugely important to us but we really start from the perspective of how can we design policy and reporting to maximize our result. What is the company’s policy for protecting biodiversity?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Ahead of the Prime Minister's promised new green recovery package, a new report from the business advocacy group outlines a raft of near-term policy interventions that could put the UK on track to reaching net zero emissions. The gap between the government's net zero rhetoric and its policy agenda remains.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

MPs are urging the government to use the upcoming Budget to usher in a major transformation of the tax system to align the UK's spending plans with its net zero and biodiversity commitments, warning time is running short to deliver on its promise of a green economic recovery from the coronavirus crisis.

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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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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

We need companies to make commitments that are specific to how they are addressing their supply chains," says Jessye Waxman, shareholder advocate with Green Century Capital Management, which has so far engaged dozens of businesses encouraging them to improve their "no deforestation" policies and practices. Progress takes root.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The planned targets were intended to drive progress in areas such as river quality by encouraging stronger government policy and providing certainty for business. The new version will have to show clearly how the government’s policies will deliver on its targets. Nature cannot wait.”. million hectares.

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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

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. International cooperation is paramount to delivering effective post-pandemic policy solutions, it said.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

However, the demands on the system are changing, and its speed has slowed. Policy changes are more frequent in response to a changing world." "The Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP) consenting process has served the UK well for more than a decade," they said.

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The first analysis from the Green Economy Coalition, which was launched today , studied 32 countries and found that two-thirds have no or minimal green recovery policies in place. We need to prioritise green economic policies across the board and when it comes to low income countries they will need financial support to do that.

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2021

The government’s policy commitments on resource efficiency to date have lacked ambition, pace and scope, writes Kate Young from the Aldersgate Group. 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.

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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

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 We urgently need a global treaty on plastics for international policy and strong action from our supermarkets on a local level. million plastic bags a week. It starts with the bag.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

It feels fair to say there are a fair few concerns within the green economy about the prospects for ambitious climate and environmental policy under Prime Minister Liz Truss and her newly appointed Cabinet. The best policies for the consumer are those that support lasting energy security and a low carbon, low-cost energy system," it adds.

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Sustainability Consulting

APRIL 7, 2021

It will give governments, policy makers, and companies emissions data to be able to identify areas of the food system that produce the most emissions and develop ways to reduce them. Packaging accounts for 5.4% Production of paper and pulp for food packaging generates an average of 59.9 of food system emissions. ?

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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. Advocate for strong carbon credit policies and standards.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

The Net Zero Strategy (NZS) was released in autumn 2021, just ahead of the COP26 Climate Summit, and while it contained a raft of policies, targets, and plans designed to curb emissions commentators at the time highlighted how it failed to incorporate detailed modelling showing how much officials expected policies to reduce emissions.

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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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Biodiversity Climate change Agriculture Soil 60

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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Biodiversity Climate change Agriculture Soil 60

Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2023

Environment Secretary Therese Coffey said the policy programme will help the government "continue" its work on improving the natural environment through subsidy reforms, tree planting programmes, and better enforcement of the pollution rules covering water companies. The future of our natural environment demands this.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2021

Tony Danker, the CBI's director-general, argued now was the time for the UK to "seize the moment" in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis and ahead of the critical COP15 and COP26 UN summits on biodiversity and climate change, respectively. Our workforce demands better of us," he added.

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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

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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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

However, last week attention turned to precisely what the new treaty might entail, and the divisions that have long been evident throughout UN climate talks and present a major challenge to this week's COP15 Biodiversity Summit quickly reared their head.

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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

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

by the end of the century, the proposed legislation also aims to address the biodiversity crisis, by placing a stronger legal requirement for the government to protect and restore forests, soils, and ecosystems so as to deliver a natural means of absorbing CO2. "It Based on the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to 1.5C

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

All I can say is that if so, then that is how it is meant to sound and to be, because that is what the times demand. Johnson was most convincing, as is so often the case, when he departed from policy detail and provided a hymn to the UK's "world-leading" clean technologies and innovations.

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Business Green

JANUARY 12, 2022

Despite these ambitions, the UK's workforce is not yet ready for the demands of a net zero economy. Most recently, the Net Zero Strategy estimated that its package of policies would create less than a quarter of the government's pledged two million jobs by 2030 and offered no route map for filling them.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

But despite an interminable number of husting events and countless miles of column inches, the policy platform of the new administration remains remarkably opaque on a host of critical economic and environmental issues. What's in the energy support package, and who is going to pay for it?

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Business Green

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Speaking to members of a Citizen's Convention on Climate (CCC) on Monday, Macron said that a referendum would propose adding a specific clause addressing the need to tackle biodiversity, environment, and climate risks to Article 1 of the nation's constitution. The move comes as EV demand in Germany continues to soar.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2022

The precise nature of this new support remains unclear, beyond a promise to review planning permission processes for new projects, but the need to create a more supportive policy environment for innovative low carbon farming practices has been recognised.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

As the demand for the resource overwhelms the supply, each additional unit consumed directly harms those who can no longer reap the benefits. It drives most of the food and beverage industry climate impacts, threatens biodiversity and water, as well as habitat for people and animals. Demand drives supply. It makes a difference.

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