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Revolutionizing environmental monitoring with photonics

Envirotec Magazine

With applications ranging from drone surveys to in-situ soil and water analysis, photonics is enabling more sustainable practices and transforming the way we monitor and protect our environment. Photonics in Environmental Monitoring Photonics is utilized in environmental monitoring in various ways.

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Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet

GreenBiz

Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet. Both S&P Global Ratings and Bloomberg rank biodiversity among the top ESG themes for 2021, the latter naming Fidelity International and AXA Investment Managers as examples of firms that have made it a priority. . Thu, 03/04/2021 - 02:11. Subscribe here.

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Monitoring for flood management

Envirotec Magazine

NFM seeks to create efficiency and sustainability in the way the environment is managed by recognising that when land and water are managed together at the catchment scale it is possible to generate whole catchment improvements with multiple benefits. Monitoring NFM. Monitoring data should be used to inform the design of NFMs.

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Planet Accelerates Deployment of Forest Carbon Monitoring System

Planet Pulse

Salo is a climate technology company that builds cutting-edge forest monitoring systems to measure Earth’s constantly changing ecosystems using artificial intelligence and multi-sensor Earth observation data. Salo Sciences’ global data on forest carbon stocks reveals tree-level insights.

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Kwasi Kwarteng says biomass wood imports are “not sustainable”

Envirotec Magazine

Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng told a private meeting of MPs this week that Drax’s imports of US-made wood pellets to be burnt for energy are “not sustainable” He added that it “doesn’t make sense” and told MPs the government had not fully investigated the sustainability of burning wood pellets, a type of biomass.

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Comment: England’s local planning authorities risk failure on new biodiversity rules through inadequate land survey tools

Envirotec Magazine

They must also abide by new reporting guidelines, which insist that active projects should be monitored and reported to DEFRA, by LPAs, for 30 years after initial approval, as well as create Local Nature Recovery Strategies (LNRS) to identify nature restoration opportunities in their designated areas.

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Episode 221: Mapping biodiversity, repair and the circular economy

GreenBiz

Episode 221: Mapping biodiversity, repair and the circular economy. AB InBev VP: Our quest for "agile" sustainable development continues. Esri and the science of corporate biodiversity (20:45). Our sixth report examining the evolving role of corporate sustainability leaders. Heather Clancy. Fri, 05/22/2020 - 01:21.