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. Boyd is calling on states to reform or leave these treaties.

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Business Green

MAY 26, 2021

Cornerstone of government's post-Brexit green governance legislation on course to become law in the autumn – but concerns remain. As we build back greener from the pandemic, it is vital that we address the twin challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss and protect and improve the environment for future generations," she said.

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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

JULY 20, 2020

And we will not be able to hide behind EU law when there are difficult decisions to make or indeed blame the EU when things don't work. It was a formidable piece of work which listed every piece of legislation we already had including laws like the Protection of Seals Act 1970. Instead we must learn to temper our own approach.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Europe’s leading farming lobby group Copa-Cogeca has used the war in Ukraine as a pretext to push back behind the scenes against flagship EU laws to protect nature, DeSmog can reveal. A total of 18 states are said to back a call for a reassessment of pesticide laws. We need to look at the interests behind that.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Business leaders and environmental campaigners hail the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework as a major - if flawed - breakthrough for nature protection efforts. BusinessGreen rounds up the initial reaction to the historic new accord.

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Business Green

MAY 13, 2022

The legal principles that have underpinned environmental law and protection for decades are now substantially weaker," said Kierra Box from Friends of the Earth.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The offshore blocks where Equinor and others want to drill also overlap with an area rich in biodiversity that serves as the feeding grounds and migration corridors for a long list of marine animals, including dolphins, penguins, turtles, and birds. The company’s stock immediately jumped by nearly 9 percent after the law was changed.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2022

New report comes as Greenpeace reveals continued lobbying by soya suppliers against EU's landmark rainforest protection law. 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.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

” The document from the Climate Crisis Advisory Group (CCAG)[1] sets out seven recommendations that it believes global leaders at COP26 must consider to make carbon pricing more effective. Professor Lavanya Rajamani, Oxford University – specialist in the field of international environmental and climate change law.

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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. Given the competing land-use claims from animal agriculture, biofuels, housing, nature protection and rewilding, that document will be awaited with bated breath.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 14, 2022

But when the document appeared on Monday, these hopes were dashed. Schools, hospitals, prisons and defence could be required by law to deliver sustainable meals, and support UK farmers who farm to higher welfare and environmental standards. Two years in the making, there were high hopes this would be a comprehensive plan of action.

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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. The goal must be for us to exceed the current targets for air quality, biodiversity, water and resource efficiency and to do it more rapidly.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

And if traders are going for zero illegal deforestation instead of zero gross deforestation (including legal and illegal), then the roadmap isn't more than just reiterating national laws. Grasslands, shrublands, peatlands and other carbon and biodiversity-rich ecosystems are also being plowed up too.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2022

Think how much impact we could have if every one of those documents accounted for climate impacts and set obligations to deliver net zero targets. You might be surprised by the results that climate clauses can deliver.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

However, Environment Secretary Thérèse Coffey, who announced the new goals today at the critical COP15 UN biodiversity summit currently taking place in Montreal, insisted the targets were "ambitious" and would be "challenging to achieve". "We Weakening these targets is an embarrassment and a betrayal.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals. The documents leaked in the Corporate Europe Observatory investigation were “part of lobbying work that is done in all stakeholder groups. Political Connections.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 19, 2022

biodiversity (protecting health of local wildlife and water bodies), lower strain on aging utility infrastructure (reducing the risk of damage and repair), local revenue (sourcing materials from local businesses), and new green jobs ( there’s a growing need for developers, builders, policymakers and agents knowledgeable about sustainability).

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

We found that degradation in water quality progressed to potentially lethal levels for aquatic life — documenting thousands of instances in which chronic and acute water quality thresholds were exceeded between 1985 and 2015,” the researchers wrote. The paper suggests that all of this might have happened in violation of federal law.

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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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Low Impact

JUNE 30, 2021

The documentation of the use of herbs in Britain in the two World Wars reminds us that we still have our own medicinal resources here in the UK. In 1933 in Germany, where folk culture/culture was revered, a law was passed granting naturopaths and herbalists status equal to doctors.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2022

Suddenly, many of the hardest-won climate battles of recent years - from enshrining net zero targets in law, to halting Cumbrian coal mines and shelving Cambo oil fields - are all now under threat from government Ministers intent on bolstering the UK's domestic fossil fuel supplies.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The program was launched to beautify the city landscape, ease vehicle traffic, improve pedestrian traffic, facilitate the water-bearing capacity of the ground, and increase biodiversity. The paper reported green roofs cover less than 0.1% followed by Boston and Seattle).

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The hike is just one example of the links – uncovered by an October DeSmog investigation – between large farming unions and six influential MEPs who oppose nature-friendly laws, all of whom, like Dorfmann, are members of the conservative European People’s Party, or EPP. It’s part of their [Copa-Cogeca’s] strategy to deny pluralism.”

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

For starters, in both the Net Zero Strategy and the Net Zero Review - the accompanying document published by the Treasury setting out how the net zero transition could be funded - Chancellor Rishi Sunak is notably absent. To some extent, these fears appear to have been justified. Technology costs will fall.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2022

While advocates promote it as a “carbon negative” climate solution, experts and campaigners have argued that BECCS is technically unproven, and that the practice poses risks for biodiversity, land and food security. In a submission on Thursday to California’s Draft 2022 Scoping Plan – the state’s climate strategy – Drax argued the U.S.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

After a dispiriting stint in corporate law, she turned to full-time environmentalism, joining Dogwood Alliance in 1997 and becoming its executive director at the age of 30. “I One of his projects in South Carolina has been the documentation of how logging of wetland forests has led to an increase in flooding.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Canada is also home to the tar sands , some of the most carbon intensive forms of energy on Earth they and a deadly threat to biodiversity. They have succeeded in keeping significant pieces of federal climate legislation from becoming law.

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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. Develop a plan document that outlines the terms and conditions of the plan. Select a plan provider.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2021

To continue to license this destructive activity, when we know the damage it causes and that it is illegal under various environmental laws, beggars belief. 3] ‘Protecting the global ocean for biodiversity, food and climate’ [link]. A simple license condition should prohibit fishing in MPAs.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Every policy, law, regulation, study, analysis, proposal or action that has the climate crisis in mind is built on the basis of those two figures: 1.5 The outcome document took into account “the scientific view that global temperature increase should remain below 2°C.” That paragraph, in article 2, paragraph 2.a.,

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The first is to avoid a governance gap and ensure that environmental law continues to be properly applied and enforced in a post-Brexit world. The decline of the natural environment has been well documented by bodies such as the Natural Capital Committee. Legally binding green targets have strong backing from business.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Johnson hailed the deal - which the government claims is worth £668bn of trade, in 2019 terms - as a victory for the UK, which allows it to "take back control" over laws, borders, money, and fishing waters, while von der Leyen said the agreement meant EU rules and standards "will be respected".

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

The third in a trilogy of reports published over the last eight months by the IPCC as part of its sixth assessment review, the document offers policymakers around the world a peer-reviewed roadmap for the policies, investments, and technologies scientists believe are required to avoid climate catastrophe. The science.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

We examined similar documents from Elanco, Zoetis, and Phibro, which are among the world’s biggest animal pharma companies. If that were to be applied – and it is the law, so it should be applied – then that would mean changes to animal husbandry practices in the EU. All three U.S.-based Elanco has echoed this sentiment.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2020

The UK will also still be bound by EU law and fall under the jurisdiction of the EU Court of Justice, albeit now without any say on those laws are developed and enforced, with British MEPs and judges having left Brussels and Luxembourg respectively this week. How will they be enforced and governed?

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2022

A powerful US biomass lobby group is pushing for a raft of changes that would weaken European renewable energy rules geared to better protect biodiversity and tackle climate change, DeSmog can reveal. USIPA, whose members include Drax and top pellet producers Granuul and Enviva, sent the document to select MEPs in early March.

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