GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

I am thinking especially of global poverty, hunger, health and education — SDGs 1 through 4 — where the latest figures from the World Bank and other centers of analysis paint a bleak picture of years lost and lives threatened. But the analysis does not stop there. Virtuous cycles can turn vicious.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 1, 2022

World Health Day – April 7th. The World Health Organization estimates that over 13 million deaths are due to avoidable environmental causes which includes the climate crisis. There are several ways you can support World Health Day such as: Share your favorite healthy meal recipes or bring healthy snacks to share with coworkers.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

The second instalment of the government-commissioned National Food Strategy has warned the UK must significantly reduce its consumption of meat if it wants to curb the impacts the food system is having on human and planetary health. The food system is a logistical miracle, full of amazing, inventive people," said Dimbleby. "I

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

From ditching GDP as a measure of economic wealth to enhancing environmental education: BusinessGreen has rounded up all the recommendations of the Dasgupta Review of the Economics of Biodiversity. Policy makers, business leaders, financial sectors, and communities all have a part to play in this sweeping vision.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 30, 2021

To better support the health of these communities, Berckes’ organization employs local teenagers to plant and care for trees. In recent years, Trees Forever has endeavored to put equity at the center of their work through training and education, although Berckes admits that a lot more work must be done.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

While environmental issues such as climate change, biodiversity loss, water scarcity and water pollution dominate the list of issues that experts say are the most urgent — these are all considered more urgent than they were in 2019 — the perceived urgency of social issues is also on the rise.

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The Environmental Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Many climate activists are working day and night to educate people regarding climate change and what effects it can have on human life. The meaning of regenerative farming is that farmers can increase the health of the land where they sow the seeds. Increase biodiversity and find methods to reduce costs.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2019

An ever-expanding population and declining planetary health could lead to gigantic air domes combatting the leading cause of death, air pollution, and the total destabilisation of global weather patterns. The report considers what shape the world will be in by 2050. With the global population expected to increase by 2 billion people, from 7.7

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Fairsnape

JUNE 3, 2020

The patterns, known as ‘leaves’ (as tree leaves), represent the growth and health of the city, they are system thinking based and fractal, each complementing and supporting the other patterns, never limiting or over shadowing other patterns and allowed to emerge organically.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 30, 2021

There is also a growing understanding that these advances haven’t been spread equitably — that vast swaths of the global economy lack adequate food, healthcare, housing, work, education and other basic human needs.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2021

As much as $8.1tr global investment in protecting, conserving and restoring the natural world is required over the next 30 years in order to tackle the interlinked climate, biodiversity and land degradation crises, with annual finance needing to triple by 2030, according to the UN-led study.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 12, 2020

The half of the global population without access to essential health services. And amidst the current health and socio-economic crises brought on by COVID-19, additional polling found that the pandemic had exacerbated the sense of social injustice. Nearly half of the global workforce in the informal sector, totaling 1.6

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Andrew Winston

APRIL 22, 2024

That awful list translates into serious impacts on humans, including threats to food and water security, health risks and the spread of disease, loss of biodiversity (that is, the web of life we rely on), infrastructure breakdown, and what the U.S. military calls “threat multipliers” that affect national security. degrees Celsius (2.7

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Grist

MAY 7, 2024

I couldn’t believe that I’d gotten that far in my biology education and no one had ever mentioned to me that parasites are incredibly biodiverse, ubiquitous, everywhere.” And in that way they signal about the health of the ecosystem.” “Somewhere along the way, I like to say, they got under my skin.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 14, 2023

By Wendy Furgusson, Associate, Environment and Health, Ramboll With Natural England’s recent changes to planning policy causing a reduction in the number of new homes built from 240,000 a year in 2018-19 to a projected 111,000 by 2025, awareness of nutrient pollution as a problem is becoming more widespread.

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Business Green

JUNE 27, 2022

But equally it is true the various reforms and projects the UK desperately needs - energy market reform , building upgrades, EV infrastructure, farming subsidy reforms, the repair of creaking educational, health, and physical infrastructure - would take at least 10 years to complete. The sad truth is they should be, but aren't.

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Fairsnape

JULY 9, 2020

There were a number of Key Actions discussed, but the most important, in my opinion, was that of Education in respect of peat free compost, but perhaps more importantly awareness on peatlands negative and positive contribution to the carbon emergency we face. We rarely think about improving the carbon capture of peatlands. This has to change.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

As part of the plans, the firm has also set a target to achieve a net biodiversity gain of at least 10 per cent associated with all its development activity, in addition to reducing site waste by a third, and increasing its recycling rate to 99 per cent by 2025.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

In our role as Custodians of the tidal Thames, ensuring the estuary’s continued and improving health is a key priority. The location of the sites is particularly important as they are close to urban areas, offering greater potential for increasing visitor numbers and education opportunities.

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Business Green

APRIL 12, 2021

Local food and rewilding' involving fundamental change in food systems and landscapes, towards local food production and more space for biodiversity - including people eating at least 40 per cent less red meat and dairy.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health Oliver Camp Mon, 10/26/2020 – 01:30 On the recent World Food Day, the clarion call was clearer than ever: We must fix our food systems to improve human health, drive economic growth and save the planet from environmental collapse. Learn, share, act.

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Business Green

APRIL 15, 2020

Think tank urges world leaders to build a low-carbon, circular economy in the wake of the health crisis. Like Covid-19, climate change, biodiversity loss, and financial collapse do not observe national or even physical borders," it warned.

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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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Business Green

APRIL 15, 2020

The impact the virus has is systemic, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - with their broad coverage of issues from inequality and education to climate action and biodiversity - provide a strong roadmap to refocus sustainable finance towards several SDGs, which has never been more important.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

This project was more opportunistic than the original one: it's part of an initiative by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment to improve water quality, and the connection was made by Understanding Ag, a consulting organization that advises farmers on regenerative management plans. What's the right recipe?

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The letter notes that the projects pose immense environmental risks and impacts to biodiversity in Uganda. If this happened, it would jeopardise the health and livelihoods of over 40 million people who rely upon the lake as their main source of freshwater.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Buildings account for almost 80 percent of London's carbon emissions and are also sources of other pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide, which have detrimental effects on health. The first-of-their-kind regulations are part of Khan's wider plans to tackle dangerously high levels of air pollution in the capital.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

With this Global North-financed fast-food expansion comes a host of environmental, social, and health concerns in regions often unprepared to field them. Both of these development banks’ investments cover a range of sectors, including manufacturing, education, agribusiness, energy, and tourism. as clients. MHP has denied wrongdoing.)

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

Dubbed Dirt, the new group aims to promote biodynamic farming by funding scientific research, education programmes, demonstration and conversion projects, as well as new and existing industry networks and associations.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2023

She shared valuable insights about integrating biodiversity conservation into the company's sustainability work. Prioritize what's material to your business As a food company, General Mills' success today and in the future is directly tied to the state of nature and particularly the health of ecosystems in its sourcing regions.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Economist sits down with BusinessGreen to discuss the response to his landmark review into the economics of biodiversity. Feminist scholars have argued that when the overriding goal of family planning has been to reduce population, the results have actually been detrimental to women's health.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. You lose the wildlife and biodiversity of what you previously had in a natural forest. Danielle Purifoy.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2021

The World Health Organisation (WHO) admits that increasing human pressure on the natural environment may drive disease emergence. But we know that together these two areas of land hold a large proportion of the world's biodiversity of plant and animal species. Deforestation and forest degradation drive zoonotic diseases.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2022

Rather than relying on unreliable traditional growing cycles, soil health or weather conditions to grow crops, urban centres should turn to a range of tech-based solutions such as vertical farms and precision greenhouses to bolster their food supplies, while supporting and expanding community gardens and urban food forests.".

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 16, 2021

The four-hour digital event will cover a range of hot topics including green jobs, climate literacy, civic skill training, environmental justice , biodiversity protection and sustainable agriculture. April 21 will launch the “Teach for the Planet: Global Education Summit” presented by Education International.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2023

GRI certification is valid for two years and can be renewed by completing Continuing Education Units (CEUs). As an independent, third-party organization, GBI serves as an educational resource and certification provider for green construction projects around the world. Green Globes Professional (GGP).

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

The cultivation of biomass can lead to alterations in land use, occasionally resulting in the depletion of valuable ecosystems, including forests and grasslands, which in turn jeopardizes biodiversity. Ensuring that combustion technologies adhere to stringent emission standards is crucial to minimizing such detrimental impacts.

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