Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Farming needs to urgently scale and pace the adoption of nature-based solutions for addressing climate change and biodiversity loss or face an uncertain future, warns the Nature Friendly Farming Network, an independent organisation that aims to unite farmers across the UK. The effects of climate change and biodiversity loss.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2023

Selecting the right sustainability certification for your business can be a tedious process requiring thorough research and understanding which program will best suit your needs and budget. OVERVIEW OF SUSTAINABILITY CERTIFICATIONS. General business sustainability certifications. Green building certifications.

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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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Green Market Oracle

MAY 31, 2020

Unlocking Human Potential for Biodiversity is an opportunity to reflect on how can we better understand the human potential to preserve biodiversity, get closer to nature and guide our future actions. Unlocking Human Potential for Biodiversity is the first phase of a vast project designed to find and implement solutions for the future.

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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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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.

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Business Green

APRIL 15, 2020

A broader focus of sustainable finance is needed to support sustainable business models covering both environmental and social elements, argues Constance Chalchat from BNP Paribas CIB. Sustainable finance has mainly been associated with green finance. So what has changed for sustainable finance?

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Andrew Winston

APRIL 22, 2024

The battle to get companies to take sustainability seriously is essentially over. I’ve spent two decades arguing that sustainability is good for companies. I’d love to stop making the “business case” — ideally because sustainability, like previous business movements around safety and quality, no longer has to justify its existence.

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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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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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Fairsnape

JUNE 3, 2020

What if … we applied all the good thinking on regenerative sustainability, regenerative economics and regenerative environments to a city as a means of emerging from the Covid 19 lockdown? Education and re-training for all was key in moving RESTORD rapidly out from the Covid19 shutdown. Welcome to RESTORD 2030.

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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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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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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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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021. These 20 C-suite executives have steered their companies forward through much disruption, providing inspiration for the possibilities of advancing sustainability, social responsibility and circular business models — sometimes all at once. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 28, 2020

Shame may be able to move in a more sustainable direction, it may even be able to help us change the paradigm. Change is difficult but is it precisely what we need if we are to succeed in addressing the climate crisis, ecological degradation and biodiversity loss.

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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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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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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

As the quest for sustainable energy intensifies, biomass emerges as a pivotal player in the arena of renewable resources. As we seek alternatives to fossil fuels, biomass holds significant potential due to its sustainability. Biomass energy harnesses organic matter, including wood, agricultural crops, and waste by-products, as fuel.

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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The Dasgupta Review of the Economics of Biodiversity published this week hammered home a point that has long been clear: the transition towards a more nature-positive and climate-responsible economy requires a major overhaul of core business assumptions and an embrace of new metrics for gauging economic success.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Corporate sustainability leadership during a pandemic Tove Malmqvist Mon, 11/02/2020 – 01:00 As we continue to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic and its devastating social and economic effects, companies are continuing their efforts to become more sustainable — and some are being recognized for their efforts.

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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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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Harder but not impossible: COVID-19 and the Sustainable Development Goals Alan AtKisson Mon, 02/22/2021 – 01:00 In 2015, the world, acting through the United Nations, set in place a system of 17 very ambitious goals to guide humanity’s development toward sustainability through 2030. Now it is 2021. Consider finance.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2023

At GreenBiz 23 in Scottsdale a few weeks ago, Mary Jane Melendez, chief sustainability and social impact officer at General Mills, joined me for a conversation about this topic. She shared valuable insights about integrating biodiversity conservation into the company's sustainability work. Here are some of her key learnings.

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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.

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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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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2022

M&S, Volkswagen, Harrods, Superdrug and Sky among firms that have vowed to encourage staff to embrace more sustainable diets this January. It's a fun way to unite their teams in a shared experience while demonstrating their commitment to reducing their impact on the planet and improving the health and wellbeing of their employees.".

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 26, 2022

Costa Rica sustainability from the beginning. In this Green Business Bureau article, we present a case study to showcase Costa Rica sustainability. This kick-started a green transition, which was ultimately driven by the country’s citizens; that is, sustainability and sustainable development are rooted in the country’s DNA.

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Business Green

JANUARY 28, 2022

Alternative milk brand steps up efforts to encourage farmers to boost supplies of sustainable oats. So the plant-based milk darling, Oatly, is stepping in to become and create a support system for farms growing other crops and simultaneously creating a local oat supply chain for its production while helping farms become more sustainable. "We

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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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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Based out of Huntingburg, IN, with multiple showrooms around the country, furniture manufacturer OFS sets the bar high for sustainable production, protecting the environment and setting an example for other companies. Replanting and maintenance of the forest led to the current 7,100 acres held and monitored by OFS and the Menke family.

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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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AGreenLiving

APRIL 16, 2021

Related: A sustainable meal plan filled with recipes for Earth Day Technology allows attendees to view the event from home with their personalized avatar touring the space, like a video game. If you want to represent a nonprofit or sustainably minded business, you can register as an exhibitor.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

European Commission unveils sweeping biodiversity strategy, plus all the top green business news from around the world this week. Glad to see your commitment in paving the way towards a sustainable future, strengthened through the adoption of a quantitative BAU target and increased sectoral coverage of the #NDC.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2020

Opposition stresses that climate action should be at heart of recovery plans, as over 400 civil society groups urge governments to reinvigorate pursuit of Sustainable Development Goals. above pre-industrial levels.

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