The Guardian: Energy

JANUARY 11, 2024

The climate crisis we know well; the second, less appreciated threat to humanity is biodiversity loss. We need solutions to this conundrum quickly, otherwise there will be lost opportunities, expensive mistakes and even more extinctions. Humanity faces two existential crises.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 23, 2022

Designing the energy transition right can tackle not only climate change but mitigate biodiversity loss and address global inequalities.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

APRIL 15, 2021

After 33 years of working in an old drafty building in Oxfordshire, international nonprofit CABI has upgraded to a new low-energy home that combines beautiful design with employee wellness and environmental sustainability.

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Biodiversity Energy Energy Sustainability 277

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

Meanwhile the hidden crisis of biodiversity loss continues with the loss of forests to land clearance, exacerbated by the recent fires. The group highlights priorities that should inform both the UN Glasgow Climate Summit and the Biodiversity Summit in China this autumn. Michael Norton, EASAC’s Environment Programme Director.

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altenergymag

JUNE 22, 2022

Leading renewable energy consultancy and service provider, Natural Power, has been supporting the trade association, Solar Energy UK, in creating the recently launched ‘Natural Capital Best Practice Guidance' on how to increase biodiversity at all stages of a solar farm's lifecycle.

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Renew Economy

JANUARY 31, 2024

The post “Massive boost” or biodiversity disaster? Tasmania's Liberal government wants the federal environment minister to "get on and approve" the contentious 900MW project, despite an ongoing legal challenge to its state environmental approvals.

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Science Daily: Renewable Energy

MARCH 8, 2024

A new study of Joshua trees, kit foxes and solar energy developments highlights the need to consider climate-induced range shifts for species as we expand clean energy.

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Solar Power World

MAY 4, 2023

By Christina Hebb, SWPPP and vegetation senior manager, McCarthy Building Companies The reduction of harmful greenhouse gas emissions is an important aspect of our clean energy future. In fact, climate change and biodiversity loss are two of the most critical, intertwined crises our planet is facing. So is fostering healthy ecosystems.

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Grist

OCTOBER 5, 2023

These sites, often deemed empty space at best and wastelands at worst, have been targeted for everything from prisons, Walmarts, and industrial parks to lavender farms, wildlife preserves, and, most recently, clean energy projects. In some cases these marshy areas formed as a result of the changes to the landscape.

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Global Renewable News

MARCH 21, 2024

Renowned renewable energy expert Chris Caldwell delivered a captivating keynote address at the recent Climate and Biodiversity Summit, Trinity College Dublin highlighting the transformative potentia.

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Business Green

MAY 26, 2022

Environment and energy ministers from world’s leading seven economies meet in Berlin this week to amid pressure to ramp up climate and nature commitments. Hopes have been pinned on the summit delivering an international treaty committing countries to halting and reversing the catastrophic, ongoing decline in nature and biodiversity worldwide.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In its annual Review of Energy Policy 2023, published on 14 December, the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) urges the next government to take urgent action on the policies needed to deliver the energy transition. These include council led insulation programmes and the development of heat networks.

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GreenBiz

MAY 6, 2022

Danish energy firm is aiming to achieve a net positive impact on biodiversity across all of its new projects from 2030.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2020

Would that the same could be said of global biodiversity - or the living natural world to give it its more evocative name and rid it of the emotional distancing that accompanies the dry scientific terminology. Efforts to tackle biodiversity loss enjoy no such luck. The yields are seen to be higher if the field is soaked in pesticide.

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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2021

Colombia to host hybrid Biodiversity PreCOP. The Kunming Summit has been postponed repeatedly in response to the coronavirus crisis, further fuelling fears that governments are not doing enough to enhance biodiversity protection, despite the world missing nearly all the targets it set at the Aichi Summit over a decade ago.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 24, 2021

Wales’ protected natural sites and vital wildlife habitats are getting a nearly £10 million boost, the Minister for Environment, Energy and Rural Affairs, Lesley Griffiths has said today. million boost for Wales’ biodiversity: Projects invited to pitch first appeared on Envirotec. A puffin on Skomer Island. The post £9.8

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

BusinessGreen rounds up the most widely read stories on the site this week Barclays pledges to stop directly financing new oil and gas projects Bank's revised Climate Change Statement promises to halt financing for energy firms' upstream oil and gas expansion projects or related infrastructure. -

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 4, 2022

An attempt to support coral reefs by growing corals on offshore wind turbine foundations is underway with Danish green energy firm Ørsted. The project aims to determine the viability of the initiative and to evaluate the potential positive biodiversity impact of scaling up the initiative. Working with coral experts.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Danish renewables giant Ørsted has agreed a five year global partnership with conservation charity WWF to explore and establish means of ensuring offshore wind developments help to benefit marine biodiversity. However, if done right, it can support and enhance ocean biodiversity and create a net-positive biodiversity impact," he said.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2021

CBI chief says it is 'not acceptable' for businesses to sit on the sidelines amid 'seismic' challenges from climate change, biodiversity loss and Covid-19. From climate change to digitisation, resilience-building to fighting protectionist instincts, the challenges we face are seismic," he said.

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Solar Industry

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has taken final investment decision and commenced construction on a 500 MW energy storage system in Coalburn, Scotland. The facility is the first project to be developed from the partnership between CIP and Alcemi to deploy 4 GW of energy storage assets across the U.K.

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Business Green

JULY 4, 2022

Banking giant takes a stab at caclulating biodiversity impacts of its financing activities for first time, as it looks to meet requirements of new French nature reporting law. From there, it calculated its own headline biodiversity footprint.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2021

The UK will commit at least £3bn to climate change solutions that protect and restore nature over the next five years while also boosting support for green energy in developing countries, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to announce later today.

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GreenBiz

JULY 2, 2020

A truly clean energy system runs on a clean conscience. For Shalanda Baker, a professor of law and public policy at Northeastern University, thinking about a clean energy future means thinking about the daily, weekly and sometimes invisible ways that people in deprived communities can control their power supply. Alec Appelbaum.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2021

The UK will commit at least £3bn to climate change solutions that protect and restore nature over the next five years and launch a new push to support green energy projects in developing countries, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to announce later today.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 15, 2021

After 33 years of working in an old drafty building in Oxfordshire, international nonprofit CABI has upgraded to a new low-energy home that combines beautiful design with employee wellness and environmental sustainability. Green-roofed CABI HQ champions biodiversity and energy efficiency. View original post here:Â .

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The Renewables Grid Initiative (RGI) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) launched the Global Initiative for Nature, Grids, and Renewables (GINGR) at COP28, aiming to empower governments, industries and the financial sector to achieve energy, climate and biodiversity targets.

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

More than half of the winners cited energy saving as key to their plans for success and a third were named winners for their innovation in becoming more efficient. A new Energy Transition Scotland Award was also added to the categories this year. improvement on energy storage, leading to significant carbon savings.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The findings are published as the COP28 presidency pushes for global commitments to triple renewable energy by 2030, with the report outlining the real-world challenges that will need to be overcome to achieve these ambitions. C above pre-industrial levels. C above pre-industrial levels.

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NRDC onEarth

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

An NRDC report released today outlines key challenges in the permitting process and recommendations to ensure that the buildout of new clean energy infrastructure at the scale and pace required to meet U.S. climate goals minimizes impacts to biodiversity, lifts.

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Solar Industry

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Once complete, the installation will generate enough renewable energy annually to power the equivalent of 34,000 homes. Peacock will also be home to a range of agricultural and biodiversity activities, including: Planting vegetation under and around the solar panels, including native plant species beneficial to pollinators and other wildlife.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 12, 2020

Episode 224: Biodiversity, climate tech and voices of clean energy equity Heather Clancy Fri, 06/12/2020 – 02:15 Week in Review Stories discussed this week. See original here: Episode 224: Biodiversity, climate tech and voices of clean energy equity. Have a question or suggestion for a future segment?

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 13, 2019

The 8th International Conference on Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Management will take place on November 12-13, 2019 in Tokyo, Japan. Biodiversity helps regulate the nutrient cycle, water (e.g. Biodiversity is also of direct importance for human well-being and for cultural and values including recreation.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 18, 2024

The World Energy Council’s World Energy Trilemma 2024 report reveals changing ambitions and new challenges facing global energy systems. Energy security now encompasses the reliability of renewables, availability and accessibility or critical minerals, and resilience in the face of physical and cyber threats.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Red Eléctrica, Fundación Renovables and RGI (Renewables Grid Initiative) are joining forces on the Grids for Renewables project, aiming to address the energy transition in a holistic way, secure societal support for the construction of vital energy infrastructure and tap into demand-side management activities to optimise energy consumption.

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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. This exploration into the realm of biomass energy untangles the complexities and delves into its multifaceted nature, uncovering the potential of plant-based and waste-derived materials as alternative sources of power.

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