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

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

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

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

JULY 7, 2022

Previously, this has meant externalising environmental harm, ignoring issues such as greenhouse gas emissions, waste, deforestation, water pollution and soil degradation. 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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Their goal was to find out more about the impact mountaintop removal mining has had on those water pollution levels. The paper suggests that all of this might have happened in violation of federal law. The new research highlights how, even as the U.S. Potentially Lethal Levels’. The diamond darter.

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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. It also puts pressure on developers and builders to stay on top of the continually evolving laws, regulations and certification requirements surrounding green building.

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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.

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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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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 New York State Pollution Prevention Institute (NYSP21). The paper reported green roofs cover less than 0.1% followed by Boston and Seattle).

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 4, 2023

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. After all, the three main financial documents we all work from today — balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement — took centuries to evolve.

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Business Green

AUGUST 14, 2020

Greenpeace document North Sea methane leaks. Activists on board the Greenpeace ship Esperanza have this week documented a large methane leak located in the British exclusive economic zone in the North Sea. New research highlights huge cost of global air pollution crisis. UAE launches green fines tree-planting programme.

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