DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Responding to DeSmog’s findings, Natacha Cingotti, senior health and chemicals policy officer at Brussels-based policy and advocacy group, Health and Environmental Alliance (HEAL), said: “[W]hen working on chemicals- and pesticides-related policies, the imbalance of stakeholders in favour of industry interests is striking.”.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In fact, in Europe and the United States, more people die of heat waves than from all other natural disasters combined. In Sweco’s most recent Urban Insight report, "Building resilience: being young and getting old in a hotter Europe," more solutions for how we can create sustainable, livable cities are proposed: . Pull Quote.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

A new peer-to-peer platform is helping municipalities and water utilities find reliable innovative solutions to their infrastructure resilience challenges, according to the firm behind it, Isle Utilities. Biodiversity is also at risk along with public health and the psychological wellbeing of those affected by extreme weather events.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2020

A survey of 600 farmers carried out by the pollster on behalf of Swiss biotechnology giant Syngenta in February found 72 per cent were worried about the impact of climate change on their crop yields, animal health, and ability to do business.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Nobody wants the food they consume to have destroyed forests, habitats, and wildlife on its way to their plate, and yet the system that underpins our global food supplies today continues to be one of the biggest drivers of biodiversity loss and climate change worldwide. These three levers are in part interdependent," it adds.

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Business Green

JUNE 28, 2021

The project, which is being led by a new non-profit called Foundation Earth and funded through the EU Commission's food innovation arm EIT Food, aims to explore how clearly-communicated "eco-scores" on products can drive more sustainable purchasing habits and accelerate environmentally-friendly innovation among food producers.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2022

New report from Tony Blair Institute explores how cities could source 30 per cent of their own fresh produce by 2030 using a range of innovative new technologies. There are already some encouraging examples in Europe - Brussels has set a goal to grow 30 per cent of fruit and vegetables locally?by by 2035 and?

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Business Green

MARCH 14, 2022

Incremental improvements to production efficiency will not be enough to turn the tide on biodiversity loss. Many of the risks related to fats and oils, such as human rights abuses, biodiversity loss, carbon emissions and poor working conditions, are recurring features of agricultural commodity supply chains.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

A sweeping €1.85tr stimulus strategy to rebuild Europe's economy from the wreckage of the coronavirus crisis has been unveiled by the European Commission today, promising a green infrastructure spending blitz to help put the continent on a path towards net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. This is Europe's moment," she said.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

According to environmental experts and campaigners, the meat industry downplays the climate impact of animal agriculture and exaggerates the potential of different innovations to reduce it, depicting meat as indispensable to feeding the world’s population while denying the need to cut consumption globally to reach climate targets.

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Business Green

APRIL 5, 2022

The critical window for action to transform the plastics system across Europe in order to meet both circular economy and climate goals is narrowing, with a major ramp up in innovation, policy ambition, investment, and corporate cooperation urgently needed over the next five years.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Moreover, the report urges producers to drive growth in the sector by working harder to understand the needs of mainstream consumers, innovating to improve taste, texture, and price, rigorously testing new products, and gearing brand messaging towards the average consumer. Cows are the new coal," he said. "If

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Clean Energy Trust

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Simply put, regenerative ag is a set of practices that focuses on optimizing soil health. dates back to 6000 BC , with evidence of its use in ancient Egypt, Europe, India and the Near East. Unlike most farming families, the Horas seek out innovative approaches, all in the name of optimizing yield and improving sustainability.

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Business Green

APRIL 3, 2023

In related news today, WWF has launched a digital information hub in a bid to encourage sustainable practices among businesses in central and Eastern Europe, by providing actionable insights on the leading practices relevant for selected industries. That is how I would like to imagine the future of business in our region and beyond."

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Planet Pulse

MAY 9, 2024

Canopy cover patterns across Europe reflect the complex geography of the region and are shaped — as all forests are — by interactions between climate, topography, people, and evolutionary history. Our team will continue to innovate at the intersection of earth observations and forest carbon science to address the needs of our users.

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Business Green

JUNE 22, 2022

Beer giant's partnership with the Paper Bottle Company and Avantium leads to Europe-wide trial of new Fibre Bottle. Earlier this year, Avantium's CEO Tom Van Aken told BusinessGreen that the company's innovative materials could deliver market-wide benefits. "I

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

The 18 works in the exhibition encompassed visual art, sculpture, film, and sound, taking visitors on a journey through forests, soils, seas, cities, and innovations. It may be rare to see technological and business innovations rubbing shoulders alongside art in galleries, but they feel far from incongruous.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 5, 2024

Northvolt raised $1.6bn over two rounds this year to scale battery manufacturing in Europe. This could be due to the relative maturity of renewables and  sentiment that decarbonizing energy was past the innovation stage.   Declining graduation rates are a symptom of investment health.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The spokesperson added that food production must increase by 70 percent to keep pace with population growth, and complained that the common narrative on livestock was dictated by “simplistic negative conclusions of livestock’s role within rising global temperatures, nature decline and decreasing human health”.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

New Zealand is beginning to ease restrictions; the UK reports an overall declining trend in infection; fast-tracked clinical trials of a vaccine are well under way; and in some parts of Europe, people are beginning to step out, blinking into the light as some shops and schools gradually re-open. Lockdown has been a testing time for all of us.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In fact, in Europe and the United States, more people die of heat waves than from all other natural disasters combined. The dangers of anthropogenic climate change have been known for decades and with the vast amount of existing data, tools and guidelines, taking action should be seemingly straightforward.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe. The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. Company profile.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

"We own three per cent of the mitigation problem, but we own 100 per cent of the adaption problem," he said at the event to wrap the near £19m UK Climate Resilience Programme (UKCR) - a four-year scientific research programme led jointly by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the Met Office with NERC. What innovation is already happening?

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Many of these arguments have been around for decades,” said Cóilín Nunan, a policy and scientific adviser to Alliance to Save Our Antibiotics, a coalition of health, sustainable farming, and civil society organisations. drug makers Elanco Animal Health Inc., Phibro Animal Health Corp., and Zoetis Inc. and Zoetis Inc.,

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

This array of species and surfaces reduces fire intensity and promotes biodiversity. Since then, Pepperwood has provided a model of how combining science with local Indigenous research , knowledge, and practices can restore forest health and resiliency while mitigating the growing frequency and severity of fires.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

On top of that, she will also take control of the UK's net zero and biodiversity agendas as Europe struggles with an energy crisis largely spurred by the Russia's invasion of Ukraine and countries around the world gear up for the crucial COP27 and COP15 UN summits this autumn.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Health CLIMATE IMPACTS Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe by Mario Alejandro Ariza, 2020 A deeply reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist examines the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City -- a watery harbinger for coastal cities worldwide. Climate impacts 2.

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

To help scale research in this field, Horizon Europe , the EU’s key funding program for research and innovation, now supports a number of novel projects that can reveal insights into exploring, quantifying, and validating efficient carbon farming practices. .

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The insatiable demand for consumer wood products has been the primary cause of deforestation there, but the growing new demand is for wood pellets that are burned in overseas biomass plants to produce electricity, primarily in Europe. They both have health problems they attribute to pollution from the mill. forestry sector.”

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2023

The “Follow the Food” documentaries, which featured a total of 28 episodes over three series, showcase “solutions” to climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, and food security in the farming sector. The company is also a member of the influential pesticide trade group CropLife Europe, which has lobbied against green farming reforms in the EU.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Eco friendly retail packaging solutions and innovation. For instance, according to studies from the National Institute of Health (NIH) , certain plastics found in consumer packaging can lead to cancers, diabetes, neurological disorders, hormonal imbalances, and other various ill-health effects caused by inhalation or direct contact.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2023

Albania declares Vjosa River a National Park - with help from Patagonia The Vjosa River in Albania, one of the last wild rivers in Europe was this week officially declared a National Park by the Albanian Government, becoming the first Wild River National Park in Europe.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

🏃‍♀️ And the race is on: After a decade of corporates and governments tripping over one another to pledge allegiance to net zero, the race is on for who will be the first and biggest mover to start decarbonizing—such as the first green methanol-powered container ship in Europe. in Europe).

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Loss of biodiversity. Maybe however the best argument is not climate-change, animal suffering, health or low costs. The commotion surrounding genetically enhanced organisms has led to a virtual ban of the use for food consumption by humans in Europe. Sustainability. Introduction Climate Change. Deforestation. Water scarcity.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe. The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. billion years of evolution.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 28, 2021

Uber is an example of disruptive technology, which is defined as an innovation creating a new market/value network that outcompetes existing operations. The pandemic has shown us how unprepared we are, exposing nature as the puppet master dictating the wellbeing of society and the health of our economy. Europe is expected to emit 388.8

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2022

In addition, climate and environmental threats loom large over WEF's long-term risk outlook, with climate action failure, extreme weather, biodiversity loss, natural resource crises, and human environmental damage making up the entire list of the top five risks facing the global economy over the next decade.

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