Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Royal Botanic Gardens unveils five-year plan to expand its research, communications and partnerships into biodiversity loss and nature-based solutions. The ambition laid out in this new Science strategy is up to the scale of the challenges that the Malagasy people and nature are facing due to biodiversity loss and climate change," she said.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 22, 2021

Plants have been chosen for their resilience to extremes of weather. “The Garden of Resilience”, by award-winning designer Leon Davis, also incorporates ideas to encourage the visitor to take time out and contemplate their own personal resilience following the turmoil of coronavirus, according to the utility. .

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 7, 2021

Woodlands across the south of England were once highly biodiverse and dynamic, largely thanks to temperate conditions and reliable rainfall that typically supports varied insect life. This biodiversity, in turn, provides food for many larger species.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2023

This disparity in the focus enjoyed by climate mitigation and climate resilience is replicated within many corporate climate plans. Experts have long warned businesses will have to move past their climate resilience blindspot if they are to cope with ever-escalating climate risks. Here are some of the key takeaways.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

George Monbiot's latest book, Regenesis , is the latest in a string of studies to warn how essentially extractive agricultural practices are damaging soils and biodiversity to such an extent that food security is being threatened. The outlook is certainly worrying.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

The conversation was hosted by the San Francisco-based Museum of Craft and Design , which recently housed an exhibition titled “Survival Architecture and the Art of Resilience,” in which visionary architects and artists were asked to create artistically interpretative solutions and prototypes for survival shelter in a warming world. (My

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) confirmed this morning that it will spend £120m on schemes that build resilience, prevent pollution, protect biodiversity, boost renewable energy, and better manage waste in Bangladesh, while also supporting women's leadership and access to finance, education, and skills.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2019

C due to climate action and fostering biodiversity being at the top of the agenda. · ‘Post Anthropocene’, in this future, human society and planetary health exist in a harmonious relationship. We must act now in our shared quest for a safe, resilient and resource-efficient world for all.”. You can download a copy of the report here.

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Business Green

APRIL 15, 2020

Like Covid-19, climate change, biodiversity loss, and financial collapse do not observe national or even physical borders," it warned. International cooperation is therefore essential to resolve future existential threats and ensure that economic recovery and the transfer of capital fosters greater resilience to future shocks.".

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GreenBiz

MARCH 30, 2021

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. McPherson said that urban forests are unique because they connect global atmospheric benefits with ecosystem benefits and resilience and mitigation benefits.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

I am witnessing the increase in education ignite behavior changes in some communities: less meat; less waste; more conscious decisions. . Sustainability leaders of all ages must educate themselves on the systemic food production and consumption challenges and subsequently educate others. The more troops the merrier.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

The main drivers of change are the demand for food, water, and natural resources, in the face of severe biodiversity loss and changes in ecosystem services. Source: Stockholm Resilience Centre PBs represent a conceptual framework of the effect of ongoing unlimited human activities on the limited capacity of the earth.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2022

The report argues that a range of high and low-tech solutions are already available that could support cities in growing a significant proportion of their own fruits and vegetables, with more tech innovations in the pipeline, but few places are utilising them as part of their resilience planning.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2023

She shared valuable insights about integrating biodiversity conservation into the company's sustainability work. Melendez shared that the company has already been observing the continued decline of ecosystems and more severe impacts of extreme weather events in key sourcing regions, putting the resilience of supply chains at risk.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

Much of the sustainability literature focuses on the Global North and on issues salient to policy makers in developed countries, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and ozone depletion. The special focus will be Sustainability Lessons in the Global South: Priorities, Opportunities, and Risks.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Brompton said sustainability would be "at the heart" of its new facility, noting that it aimed to deliver biodiversity net gain across the site in order to challenge the traditional perception of manufacturing sites. aligned emissions reduction goals.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 14, 2023

Astronaut, artist, and educator Dr. Sian Proctor took to the stage for an awe-inspiring talk about her journey and experience of traveling to space and being bathed in earthlight. And we heard a myriad of inspirational customer and partner stories that have made me believe that Planet’s data is helping build that resilient global future.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Collaboration is critical Reducing supply chain emissions requires partnering with farmers and other supply chain partners to deliver incentives, technical support, and education to transition to more climate-smart production practices. Collaboration will be key to driving down emissions and creating a climate stable future.

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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. Integrates biomass production into existing farming practices, creating synergies like using agricultural waste for energy production.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Greater community resilience – Sustainable buildings also support community resilience to withstand the impacts of climate change. Just like green building standards and regulations should evolve and improve over time, the sustainability training and education for developers, builders, agents and buyers must mature as well.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The new Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework should drive a step change nature protection natural world - here's why the world's new biodiversity targets matter for businesses. The 10-year plan, with its four broad goals and 23 targets, has a hugely ambitious aim: to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030.

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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. But Dasgupta contended the fundamental economics of biodiversity set out in his review mean policymakers should engage with the controversial topic. Where is colonialism there?".

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2022

The Department for Education today published its new Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy, but can it address growing concerns over the looming green skills gap?

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Business Green

MAY 17, 2020

The story of businesses delivering strong growth and profits while helping to tackle climate change, biodiversity collapse, and poverty has a long way to run, argues Liontrust's Peter Michaelis. Within the past couple of months, country after country has gone from business as usual to full lockdown. First, the air we breathe.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

My perspective began to shift in August 2020 when I attended a class led by Clint McKay, the Indigenous education coordinator at Pepperwood Preserve , a research station in eastern Sonoma County on the traditional homeland of the Wappo people. This array of species and surfaces reduces fire intensity and promotes biodiversity.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 29, 2021

A 2020 report co-authored by Amundi and the IFC pointed out that investment flows since the start of the COVID-19 crisis have proven more resilient towards green investments when compared to their traditional counterparts. As always, education will be vital.

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AGreenLiving

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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Green Roof Technology

MAY 27, 2021

An Air-to-Water ratio in such a range is important for the resilience of plants, for nutrient exchange capacity, pH buffering capability, and beneficial (aerobe) microbes. Peaks in one or the other direction (adverse Air-to-Water ratio) can be tolerated by the plants if this is temporary and very limited in time. Learn From Common Sense.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 26, 2022

Improve societal well-being, health, educational access and support a green culture. Building resiliency. The NAP outlines a roadmap to strengthen the country’s resilience to climate change over the next five years. Strengthen the resilience of human and natural systems through adequate land and marine planning.

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Business Green

AUGUST 14, 2020

The conversation was hosted by the San Francisco-based Museum of Craft and Design , which recently housed an exhibition titled "Survival Architecture and the Art of Resilience," in which visionary architects and artists were asked to create artistically interpretative solutions and prototypes for survival shelter in a warming world. (My

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Varuna

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Water utilities, therefore, need to prepare themselves to cope with fluctuations in annual and seasonal flow regimes, groundwater-surface water cycles and raw water availability, which can have a resultant effect on water quality and biodiversity. How can these firms engage their customers more in order to understand their needs?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

There are growing fears that many corporate sustainability strategies' understandable focus on emissions reduction could start to come at the expense of workers, communities, and biodiversity - a scenario that could help fuel a backlash against decarbonisation efforts. Finally, it calls on businesses to get going as soon as possible.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Acknowledging Indigenous people's critical role in tackling the climate and biodiversity crises may have become the norm in climate circles, but these communities still aren’t being paid for it. They're not the same as the systems in the Occidental world, and often they're ignored because they're different, but we have them.

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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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Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

The governments want to increase their GDP, improve health and sanitation, provide education and jobs, increase investment, improve infrastructure, provide electricity to people; besides the economy and jobs, most of these things are not even an issue in developed countries anymore. It sounds like utopia, doesn’t it?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

It takes a lot of education.". Take a look at the " nine planetary boundaries ", the limits that scientists say humans must respect to keep the planet habitable, and you'll see we're already beyond the safe operating space for four of them: climate change; land-system change; biodiversity; and biogeochemical flows of phosphorus and nitrogen.

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GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

For the future, there are emerging innovations and resilience lifelines that can transcend the limits of politics and short-term thinking to create better choices over a span of the next several decades. The present moment presents an extraordinary opportunity for public engagement around a different agenda for the future. Here are four: 1.

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