DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

Last week’s BBC headline is the kind that’s guaranteed to strike fear into the heart of food corporations, which are increasingly under pressure to cut pollution, just like the fossil fuel industry. That means: reasonable, strong and very short term targets for cutting pollution. of global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Documents seen by DeSmog and the Guardian show that the meat industry is poised to “tell its story and tell it well” in the lead up and during the Dubai conference, which comes on the heels of the world’s hottest ever year. percent contribution to global human-induced emissions is a higher share than aviation.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

De-risking and scaling of environmentally-sensitive industrialisation projects is an urgent priority, and one that is said to line up with the EU Green Deal, Marine Directive and Biodiversity Strategy for 2030. The floating deck will be supported by five ECOncrete bio-enhancing moorings.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The “Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2020” report , released on 5 October, documents the loss of approximately 14 per cent of the world’s coral since 2009. This progressive transition from coral to algae-dominated reef communities reduces the complex habitat that is essential to support high levels of biodiversity.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The Irish Sea is under significant and increasing pressure from climate change and activities like fishing, aquaculture, development, shipping, aggregates, military activity, recreation and pollution. The Irish Sea will also be affected by global warming. The Irish Sea is about to get much busier.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 14, 2024

The latter has the potential to rejuvenate oxygen-deprived ‘dead zones’ in our oceans, thereby fostering biodiversity and ecological balance. Globally, there are over 400 documented dead zones, spanning from the U.S. Instead, they represent a worldwide environmental concern. Gulf Coast to the Baltic Sea.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2022

In a communique published at the close of a three-day Energy and Environment Ministerial meeting in Berlin this week, the world's largest economies set out their priorities for tackling the intersecting climate, biodiversity, and pollution crises, and responding to the disruption to energy markets wrought by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

The document also acknowledges that there is little chance of further economic growth.”. The environment has also suffered, in the form of pollution, deforestation, biodiversity reduction, and now, climate change. The report also “confirms that… greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions must peak in at most four years.

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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

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 23, 2022

Putin’s invasion of Ukraine showed the real dangers of relying on brutal polluting petrostates for energy, and climate impacts became tragically ever more present across the world. At the same time, it was a year in which the case for climate action could not have been clearer. Plenty for DeSmog to get stuck into, in summary.

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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

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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

They are conducted in private, documents are often confidential, and both awards and negotiated settlements may never be publicly revealed. Boyd is calling on states to reform or leave these treaties. Despite their impacts, ISDS cases are cloaked in secrecy. Even the existence of a claim can be concealed.

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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

MAY 13, 2022

The statement confirms the government's support for five internationally recognised legal principles that tend to inform environmental policymaking: the prevention principle; the 'polluter pays' principle; the precautionary principle'; the integration principle;, and the 'rectification at source' principle, all of which underpinned UK environmental (..)

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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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Business Green

APRIL 29, 2021

The campaign has also tightened the language it uses when defining residual emissions, sources, and credits in its criteria document in an attempt to provide more specificity about what types of carbon sink projects can legitimately be included in net zero strategies. because they were never intended to".

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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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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

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. And lets look at international examples of good practice.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

Our contention is that the market failure that enables the climate and biodiversity crisis is characterised by a failure of information and a failure of networks, as much as the well documented failure to put a price on pollution.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 2, 2020

11:15 am Monitoring Ecosystems and Protecting Biodiversity from Space. Today, humanity has transformed 75% of the land surface of the Earth, while huge fishing fleets, global shipping, pollution and ocean warming combine to decimate ocean habitats. The UN now estimates that more than a million species are at risk of extinction.

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2021

The transition to a circular model will be essential to halt the twin trends of biodiversity loss and climate change. The Aldersgate Group's recent report 'Closing the Loop' sets out how critical circular economy measures will be critical to delivering the UK's net zero and biodiversity goals, levelling up agenda, and economic recovery.

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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 The Coca-Cola Company is the biggest plastic polluter in the world, with a plastic footprint of 2.9 The failure of voluntary commitments. Case study: Coca-Cola.

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Business Green

JULY 12, 2021

Proposals will be scrutinised by governments ahead of COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Kunming this autumn, where the final text is expected to be negotiated. The draft agreement highlights the importance of increasing financial flows that can protect biodiversity.

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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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Business Green

JULY 12, 2021

Proposals will be scrutinised by governments ahead of COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Kunming this autumn, where the final text is expected to be negotiated. The draft agreement highlights the importance of increasing financial flows that can protect biodiversity.

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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

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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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Here BusinessGreen has rounded up all the policies, commitments, and investment pledges set out in the document. make polluters pay the most through fair carbon pricing. Guiding Principles. The four principles are: work with the grain of consumer choice. protect vulnerable citizens with targeted government support. Oil and gas.

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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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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. paints containing VOCs), less resource-intensive maintenance requirements and the creation of spaces that promote wellness for both humans and the surrounding environment.

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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. Do not close your eyes, look,” the document states.

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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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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

The document, entitled Natural Climate Solutions for Corporates , also emphasises that natural climate solutions should be seen as an interim solution for companies to compensate hard-to-abate emissions, not as a permanent fixture in climate plans.

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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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