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. See Table.).

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2020

It is an important moment for policy makers and nowhere more so than in our approach to the environment. As a country we have opted for the freedom to act and to decide our own environment policies in future. On environmental policy, we can do better or differently, and I want to open a discussion in this space today.

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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. In terms of next steps, countries must now embed these commitments in domestic policy and unlock the role of the private sector.

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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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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. Here are BusinessGreen's key takeaways from the landmark strategy: 1. We have the chance to strengthen environmental protection and enhancement.

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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

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. Dr Doug Parr, policy director at Greenpeace UK, said: "If this is a roadmap, it's a roadmap to the cliff edge.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In February 2021, German agribusiness giant BASF hosted a virtual wine tasting, a seemingly cozy affair swirling glasses of Portugal’s finest in front of a webcam debating the future of EU agricultural policies. The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals.

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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

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. 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.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 14, 2022

But when the document appeared on Monday, these hopes were dashed. However, the government’s response has largely ignored this scientific advice by failing to propose the specific policies needed to make sustainable diets easy and affordable. Two years in the making, there were high hopes this would be a comprehensive plan of action.

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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

JANUARY 25, 2022

It’s a “green investment guidebook,” said Henry Eviston, spokesperson on sustainable finance at WWF European Policy Office. ” Henry Eviston, WWF European Policy Office. In other words, to call an investment “green,” it needs to be taxonomy compliant. And that is exactly what is happening for fossil gas.”.

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Bringing together a raft of existing commitments made over the past year and a sprinkling of new targets and policies, the roadmap provides a 350-plus page deep-dive into how the government aims to deliver a more sustainable future for the transport, heating, power, building, and industrial sectors. Technology costs will fall.

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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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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 offer an explicit policy for transgender healthcare coverage? Does your company offer paid caregiver leave?

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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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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. Drax is trying to take advantage of the policy landscape to see if the plant comes to fruition,” Hughes said.

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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The Bill, which comes 25 years after the last Environment Act, is a major piece of legislation which has the potential to put environmental considerations at the heart of Government policy and business decision-making. The decline of the natural environment has been well documented by bodies such as the Natural Capital Committee.

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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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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. We examined similar documents from Elanco, Zoetis, and Phibro, which are among the world’s biggest animal pharma companies.

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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. Economy-wide' policy packages.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 19, 2019

While this is borne our in the polls , a study published by the Public Policy Forum and McGill University found that Canadians are prepared to pay up to 13 cents more per litre for gas if it benefits climate action. They have succeeded in keeping significant pieces of federal climate legislation from becoming law.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Melissa Moore, Head of UK Policy at Oceana in Europe, said: “We need an immediate ban on trawling and dredging in all offshore Marine Protected Areas as well as the inshore zone. 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.

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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

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? There will be continuity.".

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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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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2021

Study upon study has documented how the combination of lower average incomes and women's role as primary caregivers means they typically bear the brunt of extreme weather events and are statistically more vulnerable to the food, energy, and water shortages that can be caused by a changing climate.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2021

Study upon study has documented how the combination of lower average incomes and women's role as primary caregivers means they typically bear the brunt of extreme weather events and are statistically more vulnerable to the food, energy, and water shortages that can be caused by a changing climate.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Demand for cobalt, lithium, natural graphite, and manganese - all key components in electric car batteries - is set to soar over the next decade, as policies to slash transport emissions by phasing out petrol and diesel vehicles drive an EV boom.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

Sustainability questions are being embedded into requests for proposal documents and onboarding materials. Her clients at PwC include corporations from the energy, transportation and retail sectors, government agencies and nonprofits with goals in biodiversity, circular economy, climate change, social inclusion and human rights.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 4, 2023

Elections matter (a lot), and so does policy. The biggest policy win on climate was the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in the U.S. On the global policy level, after an uninspiring climate meeting (COP27), the global convention on biodiversity produced an impressive target to protect 30% of the planet for nature.

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Business Green

AUGUST 14, 2020

Deutsche Bank strengthens fossil fuel lending policies. Under the new lending policy, the bank will not lend to firms that generate more than half their revenues from coal mining. Greenpeace document North Sea methane leaks. UAE launches green fines tree-planting programme.

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