Business Green

JUNE 17, 2021

Marija Rompani, director of ethics and sustainability at the John Lewis Partnership, stressed that peat bogs were critical carbon stores that would help tackle the climate crisis. "If The move was applauded by Olly Watts, senior policy officer at the RSPB.

Soil 87

Soil Ethics Carbon Biodiversity 87

Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

It will kick off the campaign on Friday with an "ethical antidote" to Black Friday in the form of a Chocolate Stout brewed with surplus fresh bread and cocoa powder from Divine Chocolate. The government last week published a wide-ranging new 10 Point Plan designed to accelerate the UK's transition to net zero emissions.

Waste 68

Waste Waste Ethics Policy 68

Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2021

This is a critical year for climate policy," said said Marija Rompani, director of Sustainability & Ethics at the John Lewis Partnership. As such the firm has joined the UN's Race to Zero, a partnering campaign of the Business Ambition for 1.5C

Climate change 49

Climate change Retail Ethics Biodiversity 49

Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In addition, ESG and corporate sustainability have each developed their own sets of terms, for example, ESG investing, ESG policy, sustainability program, and green business. In this report, the sustainability of a given company is measured under 3 key areas: Risk of biodiversity loss. ESG Policy. Compliance governance: 49.1

Sustainability 148

Sustainability Organic Ethics Investment 148

Business Green

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Company announces raft of new targets and policies designed to reduce the impact of John Lewis and Waitrose on nature. Marija Rompani, director of ethics and sustainability at John Lewis Partnership, said it was critical to take immediate action to heal the UK's depleted nature reserves.

Ethics 53

Ethics Fossil fuels Fashion Biodiversity 53

Business Green

MARCH 1, 2023

Leading UK firms have signed up to a new Nature Positive Business Pledge, but reversing nature loss remains a daunting challenge After centuries of despoiling the environment and forcing nature into retreat, could the private sector play an integral role in reversing the decline in global biodiversity?

Biodiversity 40

Biodiversity Government Carbon-negative Investment 40

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In addition, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Risk Report 2022, the top risks facing our economy are climate action failure , extreme weather , and biodiversity loss. Does the business have fair workplace diversity and inclusion policies ? Hence, consumers are asking questions about ethics more than ever.

Organic 78

Organic Ethics Government Sustainability 78

Business Green

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Bloomberg Intelligence ETF analyst Athanasios Psarofagis predicted the market for climate-focused ETFs would expand even further through 2021 as more ambitious climate policies came into force in a host of major economies.

Business Energy Monitoring 64

Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Ethics Energy Monitor 64

Green Business Bureau

JUNE 20, 2022

This means leaving natural ecosystems unharmed, supporting biodiversity, maintaining natural environments and resources, and restoring natural climatic cycles. This includes transparent and full financial reports, plus ethical and legal management. That is, there are three pillars that denote corporate sustainability. ESG meaning.

Sustainability 148

Sustainability Organic Business Energy Monitoring Ethics 148

Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In addition to on-site renewables and recycled cladding, the site features a Drive-Thru lane made from recycled tyres, kerb stones made from recycled plastic bottles, and a biodiversity garden and nature trail. The restaurant chain also plans to introduce a scorecard for assessing the ethics and sustainability of suppliers.

Recycled materials 82

Recycled materials Recycling Recycling South America 82

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In February 2021, German agribusiness giant BASF hosted a virtual wine tasting, a seemingly cozy affair swirling glasses of Portugal’s finest in front of a webcam debating the future of EU agricultural policies. The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals.

Building Energy Monitoring 98

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 98

E8 Cleantech Angels

APRIL 30, 2020

Mimi’s experiments share the goal of producing the most nutrient-dense, healthy food and wine, while recovering the natural systems of nutrient cycling, improving biodiversity and species retention, and maximizing the function and output of a diverse ecosystem. Maren Costa joined Amazon in 2002 as a designer for the retail website.

Carbon-neutral 98

Carbon-neutral Agriculture Climate change Retail 98

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Economist sits down with BusinessGreen to discuss the response to his landmark review into the economics of biodiversity. The same decade saw the launch of China's one-child policy which has been criticised by campaign groups as a violation of sexual and reprodutive rights.

Biodiversity 36

Biodiversity Government Health Africa 36

E8 Cleantech Angels

APRIL 29, 2020

Mimi’s experiments share the goal of producing the most nutrient-dense, healthy food and wine, while recovering the natural systems of nutrient cycling, improving biodiversity and species retention, and maximizing the function and output of a diverse ecosystem. Maren Costa joined Amazon in 2002 as a designer for the retail website.

Carbon-neutral 52

Carbon-neutral Agriculture Climate change Retail 52

Business Green

JUNE 14, 2022

The precise nature of this new support remains unclear, beyond a promise to review planning permission processes for new projects, but the need to create a more supportive policy environment for innovative low carbon farming practices has been recognised.

Government 36

Government Agriculture Carbon-negative Policy 36

Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2023

We understand that a lot of our clients now include sustainability and net zero carbon objectives as a top priority, despite economic headwinds and shifting policy. As well as setting an example in this crucial area, we're equally committed to helping our clients achieve their decarbonisation goals.

Building Energy Monitoring 60

Building Energy Monitoring Real Estate Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 60

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.

Sustainability 64

Sustainability Biodiversity Policy Global warming 64

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).

Real Estate 148

Real Estate Sustainability Carbon-negative Health 148

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

When you first walk into the exhibition, what is really striking is the very large, virtual tree," says Sophie Dembinski, head of policy and UK country manager at internet search engine Ecosia, one of the Barbican's partners for the exhibition. But ultimately she does not view such relationships with polluters as sustainable.

Fashion 68

Fashion Soil Innovation Sustainability 68

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The concept of nature-based solutions broadly refers to working with and enhancing nature to address major challenges, from climate change to biodiversity loss and poverty alleviation. At the moment, there is a lot of excitement about planting trees to absorb greenhouse gas emissions.

Sea level rise 195

Sea level rise Climate change Biodiversity Ethics 195

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

It drives most of the food and beverage industry climate impacts, threatens biodiversity and water, as well as habitat for people and animals. Deforestation is a critical environmental challenge associated with the food system. Conscious consumers give me hope. People voting with their dollars.

Health 535

Health Sustainability Agriculture Organic 535

Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

And I think the same argument would hold for other goals like reversing the decline of biodiversity and trying to become so-called 'nature positive' by 2030. We're seeing these interesting coalitions forming between civil society actors, policy, and finance," he says. We don't have to wait on government and policy.

Policy 36

Policy Carbon-negative Climate change Technology 36

Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2023

Becoming certified allows companies to stand out from competitors who may not be doing the same level of social good in their operations and policies. It provides consumers with the assurance that their purchases have been ethically sourced and are benefiting the producers, workers and communities involved in their production.

Business Energy Monitoring 148

Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 148

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The program was launched to beautify the city landscape, ease vehicle traffic, improve pedestrian traffic, facilitate the water-bearing capacity of the ground, and increase biodiversity. The paper reported green roofs cover less than 0.1% And it’s with this that we view New York as an ideal place to operate as a green business.

Sustainability 78

Sustainability Electric vehicle Innovation Stormwater 78

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

government’s long history of aggressively backing industrial agriculture; close ties between industry and senior officials, and its opposition to the European Union’s Farm To Fork policy for nature-friendlier farming, have left experts questioning its commitment to even modest reform. Fears Trade Impacts of Environmental Policies.

Agriculture 98

Agriculture Biodiversity Policy Ethics 98

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Cargill, which has been evolving its deforestation policy for decades, reported in June that it was on track to “eliminate deforestation in all commercial palm oil concessions in its third-party supply chain by the end of 2020.” ” (The next edition of the Forest 500 is due in late January; here’s last year’s coverage.)

Policy 28

Policy Organic Sustainability Agriculture 28

Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Conclusively tracking the history of misinformation from the 18th century through today's anti-immigration policies, The Next Great Migration makes the case for a future in which migration is not a source of fear, but of hope. It is the first book in a series on Climate Risk Management, Policy and Governance.

Climate change 95

Climate change Ethics Sustainability Health 95

Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

If you have an environmentally-minded investor or pension holder you are likely already aware that it stands for 'Environmental, Social and Governance', and that it is supposed to signal that your money is being put towards assets that are environmentally and ethically sound.

Carbon-neutral 59

Carbon-neutral Waste Waste Sustainability 59

AGreenLiving

APRIL 9, 2021

Said Pettersen at the 2020 Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational, “As a mother of a young child, it is incredible how concerned you become over the future of the planet, its biodiversity, air quality and climate. We need more sustainability commitments from golf equipment manufacturers.

Climate change 36

Climate change Real Estate Agriculture Sustainability 36

Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

This array of species and surfaces reduces fire intensity and promotes biodiversity. Forest Service was founded in 1905 with fire suppression as a key policy. These critics argue that thinning is a ploy to increase commercial logging and that severe wildfires are critical for forest health and biodiversity.

Resilience 98

Resilience Biodiversity Soil Logging 98

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Resolutions to global challenges such as climate change, poverty, inequality, biodiversity loss, habitat destruction, resource depletion, racism, and exploitation need the backing of our economic system. Does your company offer an explicit policy for transgender healthcare coverage? Does your company offer paid caregiver leave?

Business Energy Monitoring 78

Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 78

Green Business Bureau

JUNE 2, 2022

Climate change, biodiversity, customer relations, supply chains, board management practices, data, and security…these all fall under the ESG heading. Examples of ESG-related risks include: Environmental : Climate change, greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), deforestation, biodiversity, waster, waste, and pollution.

Organic 148

Organic Government Sustainability Demand 148

Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

The production of genetically-modified foods can be controversial, but it can also offer benefits for increasing yields and easing pressure on land, water and biodiversity. This is turn can invoke the idea that scientific progress interferes with nature, producing results which are unpredictable and ethically wrong.

Biotechnology 92

Biotechnology Patents Agriculture Biodiversity 92

Business Green

JULY 5, 2021

The perfume, launched in 2019, is part of an effort from the Brazilian beauty giant to sustainability source ingredients for its beauty products from the Amazon that underscore the benefits of keeping the rainforest intact as a hotbed of biodiversity, while also communicating to end consumers about nature's benefits and limits. "We

Biodiversity 58

Biodiversity Sustainability Investment Retail 58

Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2021

The area I'm most keenly focused on is how climate change is going to affect finance and what that means for organisations such as CFA UK (Chartered Financial Analysts' Society of the UK) whose role it is to educate finance professionals so that they are technically and ethically competent to work for their clients.

Investment 45

Investment Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Climate change 45

Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2021

To address these massive carbon footprints, the Nesta-led Creative Industries Policy & Evidence Centre (PEC) recently launched a call for research exploring how the creative industries could contribute to the net zero transition. The Arts Council is much more circumspect.

Building Energy Monitoring 69

Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Fossil fuels Business Energy Monitoring 69

AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

It drives most of the food and beverage industry climate impacts, threatens biodiversity and water, as well as habitat for people and animals. Deforestation is a critical environmental challenge associated with the food system. Conscious consumers give me hope. People voting with their dollars.

Health 28

Health Organic Sustainability Agriculture 28