Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Healthier communities – Sustainable buildings create healthier communities due to less intrusive and pollutive building methods, lower use of toxic materials (e.g. WELL Certified buildings nourish physical and mental health, and enhance the mood and performance of its occupants. parks, bridges, trails, etc.),

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 2, 2020

On Thursday, October 15th, from 9am-4:30pm PST, Planet is convening a group of experts in sustainable development, climate science, finance, philanthropy, conservation, NGOs, public health, along with senior corporate leaders and indigenous leaders, to explore the answers. .

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 14, 2022

But when the document appeared on Monday, these hopes were dashed. Food is responsible for over a third of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions, and industrialised agriculture is the leading cause of wildlife decline, antibiotic resistance and pollution. The strategy falls short on a number of fronts. The first: climate.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

There have been growing calls for more robust policing and governance mechanisms in the rapidly-growing voluntary carbon market sector, amid concerns that a corporate rush towards carbon credits will fail to deliver promised benefits to the climate, biodiversity and communities living near offset projects.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Veteran sustainable food and farming experts welcomed the strategy as one that just might have a genuine shot at transforming the agriculture sector and result in better public health, contribute to ending the vertiginous decline of biodiversity, and lower greenhouse gas pollution. Big Ag’s Delay Tactics.

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Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2021

But the success or failure of the Bill in creating a durable long term policy framework for the environment will be just as important for the health of the green economy as the steady stream of lengthy strategy documents on decarbonisation. Third, in setting targets, consult with the environmental business sector.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2023

Moreover, the document includes England and Wales' first ever target to expand hedgerow protection, promising to create or restore 30,000 miles of hedgerows a year by 2037. As the Prime Minister stresses in his foreword to the report, delivering on this target requires the reversal of a centuries-old trend of nature destruction.

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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. The target to increase tree and woodland cover to 16.5

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The rights to life, health, food and water, cultural rights and the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment are being violated and will continue to be violated, and the rule of law will continue to be undermined, unless the ISDS system is eliminated,” Boyd reports. “The Despite their impacts, ISDS cases are cloaked in secrecy.

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Business Green

MAY 13, 2022

This will leave our environment at the mercy of business and economic concerns rather than the needs of people, health and nature.". The government has fiddled with these proposals since last year, but they still rely on the same flimsy legal obligations and are undermined by a further downgrading of the precautionary principle.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

A new briefing paper from Imperial College London attempts a deep dive on the pollution produced by the particles sloughed off from vehicle tyres. Even if all our vehicles eventually become powered by electricity instead of fossil fuels, we will still have harmful pollution from vehicles because of tyre wear. “We

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

To its credit, what Defra has delivered this week is one of the most comprehensive and holistic environmental policy documents from any UK government to date. Taking steps to foresee and prevent damage is common sense, as is ensuring that polluters pay," she said. Here are BusinessGreen's key takeaways from the landmark strategy: 1.

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Business Green

APRIL 16, 2020

Leaked documents reveal the EU is likely to delay some parts of its Green Deal work programme, but 2030 climate targets remains a top priority. However, the documents also confirm that some components of the Green Deal strategy are set to be delayed until 2021. A new programme will be published in the coming weeks.".

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Responding to DeSmog’s findings, Natacha Cingotti, senior health and chemicals policy officer at Brussels-based policy and advocacy group, Health and Environmental Alliance (HEAL), said: “[W]hen working on chemicals- and pesticides-related policies, the imbalance of stakeholders in favour of industry interests is striking.”.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Talking Trash critically analysed voluntary commitments from the ten biggest plastic polluters (Coca-Cola, Colgate-Palmolive, Danone, Mars Incorporated, Mondel?z Plastic is now pouring into the natural world at a rate of one garbage truck a minute, creating a crisis for wildlife, the climate and public health. Case study: Coca-Cola.

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2020

With time running short to limit temperatures below 1.5C, the choice may be a stark one, yet as today once again proved, both the evidence and support in favour of choosing the former, greener path over the latter more polluting route continues to stack up.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2023

Next, a Verification Analyst obtains additional information from candidates via documentation and engaging directly. You’ll use this platform to access various resources and tools, assemble your project team, collect any required documentation, and submit payment and your application for certification. Submit required documentation.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Their goal was to find out more about the impact mountaintop removal mining has had on those water pollution levels. And it’s certainly not the diamond darter alone that’s feeling the brunt of this mountaintop removal-linked water pollution. For one thing, central Appalachia is stunningly high in biodiversity.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

Plans by biomass giant Drax to manufacture wood pellets sourced from Californian forests will endanger natural habitats and increase toxic air pollution for rural communities, campaigners warn. They are also concerned that the facilities could harm local communities, some of which face high health burdens. Indicator Maps.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2020

Every business is inevitably dependent upon - and has impacts on - ecosystems, biodiversity, and the land. As has been well documented, these impacts are reaching, and have arguably surpassed, crisis levels. What are your dependencies and impacts on ecosystems and biodiversity? Forest loss continues at an alarming rate.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Following in the footsteps of Hawaii and Key West , all over-the-counter sunscreens will need to be free of both oxybenzone and octinoxate to be deemed safe enough for use, because both chemicals contribute to coral reef bleaching and the compromised health of reef aquatic life. If approved, the bill will take effect in 2020.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2022

WWF's Water and Value Tool (WAVE) is a model that looks to calculate a business's operational risk related to water shortages by using a scenario model based on data from frameworks, databases and other research documents. not polluting. But it can also encourage investment in new technologies that can use water more efficiently.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

On December 18, 2020, the day when the public consultation came to a close, “the gas bloc” — Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Greece, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia — submitted an unofficial document expressing their concerns to the European Commission.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

This array of species and surfaces reduces fire intensity and promotes biodiversity. Since then, Pepperwood has provided a model of how combining science with local Indigenous research , knowledge, and practices can restore forest health and resiliency while mitigating the growing frequency and severity of fires.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The Environmental Defense Fund, the American Forest Foundation, American Forests, and TNC are also members of the Forest-Climate Working Group, a political advocacy organization, alongside scores of wood product companies, including Enviva and Drax, biomass energy behemoths whose carbon-intensive operations have polluted U.S.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 28, 2022

A zero waste program should avoid burning and eliminate discharges to land, water, or air that threaten the environment or human health. Comparatively, poor waste management contributes to air pollution, exacerbates climate change, contaminates ecological habitats, and is harmful to wildlife and human health.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Many of these arguments have been around for decades,” said Cóilín Nunan, a policy and scientific adviser to Alliance to Save Our Antibiotics, a coalition of health, sustainable farming, and civil society organisations. drug makers Elanco Animal Health Inc., Phibro Animal Health Corp., and Zoetis Inc. and Zoetis Inc.,

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 9, 2023

ISO 45001:2015 – An international standard for health and safety in the workplace. Phase three – Impact assessment : Identify the environmental and human health effects from the elementary flows determined during the inventory analysis. The business emits 5kg of air pollution, 1kg of water pollution, and 10kg of waste.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 2, 2022

Climate change, biodiversity, customer relations, supply chains, board management practices, data, and security…these all fall under the ESG heading. Examples of ESG-related risks include: Environmental : Climate change, greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), deforestation, biodiversity, waster, waste, and pollution.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Resolutions to global challenges such as climate change, poverty, inequality, biodiversity loss, habitat destruction, resource depletion, racism, and exploitation need the backing of our economic system. Does your company have a health and wellness program in place? And with this strong social conduct, AND1 thrived.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Health CLIMATE IMPACTS Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe by Mario Alejandro Ariza, 2020 A deeply reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist examines the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City -- a watery harbinger for coastal cities worldwide. Climate impacts 2.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

As befits a strategy that has been more than a year in the making, and by necessity has to take into account the holistic and complex nature of juggling capacity across myriad transport modes the document is a hefty 220 pages long. Economic and Health Benefits.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Unchecked carbon pollution is forcing the world's most vulnerable on a frog march to destruction - now. The world's biggest polluters are guilty of arson of our only home. The Treasury commissioned the Dasgupta review to look at the economics of biodiversity. Nearly half of humanity is living in the danger zone - now.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2020

Neither point is fully addressed in [the new] draft, leaving the long-term health of our oceans and fishing communities that depend on them hanging in the balance.". That runs the very real risk of long queues (and more air pollution) at UK ports as well as greater administrative costs for businesses.

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2020

Having staggered on zombie like since the financial crisis of 2008, adding environmental (climate, pollution and biodiversity), social (inequality) and political (Trump, Brexit et al) crises to its charge sheet, globalisation circa 1980-2020 has finally fallen flat on its face. So the day of reckoning has arrived.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2022

The document indicated the agency would "further clarify the strict control of coal power plant projects, and in principle not [permit] the construction of any new coal power plants designed exclusively for electricity generation". New UN-backed Nature for Health fund launched.

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