Business Green

APRIL 8, 2020

European policymakers seek views on renewed Sustainable Finance Strategy set for launch later this year. But it said building a more sustainable finance system was not only critical to achieving climate targets, but would also help better protect Europe against future pandemics and economic shocks.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Building and Retrofitting a Sustainable Home. Whether you’re building from scratch or adding onto an existing home, there are a variety of green building materials and products on the market today to create your sustainable home vision. Sustainable Interior Design. Eco-Friendly, Ethically-Sourced Building Materials.

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Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Sustainability Recycling 148

Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2021

Leaded petrol is no longer officially being sold or used anywhere in the world, in a move hailed by the UN as "a huge milestone for global health and out environment" and an exemplar of successful multilateral efforts to phase out harmful fossil fuels.

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Health Fossil fuels Africa Pollution 95

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Since then, leading industry associations and agrochemical companies have used their lobbying might to push back against core European measures aiming to lead the transition to a more sustainable way of farming. Europe’s Green Deal. ” — Natacha Cingotti, senior health and chemicals policy officer at HEAL.

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

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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Sustainability Biodiversity Meat alternatives Agriculture 97

GreenBiz

MARCH 12, 2021

A huge chunk of COVID-related government spending has necessarily focused on welfare payments and the health response, but the report concludes that even when the focus is narrowed to look only at measures designed to deliver a longer-term economic recovery, only 18 percent of spending has "positive green characteristics.".

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

They helped remove the UK’s 1970’s reputation of being the ‘dirty man of Europe’ by cleaning up our waterways. Increase support for nature friendly farming to secure a sustainable future for British farming and nature. To secure a sustainable future for British food and farming, we need more nature. billion each year.

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Law Biodiversity Climate change Soil 223

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The Baltic Sea had the highest levels of microplastics in Europe, double the amount in the Mediterranean?. • The impact of the climate crisis on Europe’s seas was also measured. Microfibres are the type of microplastic that are most frequently eaten by marine species(2) and therefore of concern for ocean biodiversity.

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Microplastics Plastics Europe Climate change 130

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The key outcomes are expected to include: improvements in soil health and its carbon sequestration potential; enhanced biodiversity; reduction in synthetic fertiliser use; enhanced water quality; and improved farmer livelihoods. The ambition is for the barley grown to be used to brew beautiful tasting Guinness.

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Agriculture Soil Carbon Biodiversity 147

Planet Pulse

MAY 4, 2021

Through this partnership, organizations and stakeholders representing every step of the food value chain will come together to decarbonize the European food system, while maximizing other benefits such as soil health and farmer resilience. The world’s soils are the second largest carbon sink, second only to oceans.

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Energy Monitor Carbon-neutral Agriculture Soil 111

Business Green

MAY 17, 2022

Partnership with rewilding charity ARK Nature aims to ensure biodiversity is protected through clean energy transition. When it comes to tackling the climate crisis and biodiversity loss, there's a real need for speed. And we know we have to deliver that impact as soon as we possibly can.".

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 19, 2020

The the 15th annual Green Economics Conference is titled " Survival Solutions for the Crises: Climate, Economy and Biodiversity Loss " will take place on the zoom platform. Topics include the green economic recovery, no more business as usual, global reset, build back better, a just transition, diversity, holism, sustainability, and SDGs.

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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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Resilience Climate change Cooling Smart Cities 423

Smart Energy International

APRIL 18, 2024

In particular the three dimensions of the energy ‘trilemma’ – a concept conceived by the World Energy Council (WEC) to reflect progress in the energy transitions and encompassing energy security, equity and sustainability – are evolving to reflect the new ambitions in managing energy for people and planet and the new threat of poly-crises.

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Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Energy Energy 59

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 22, 2023

These included “showing the general public that French agriculture is sustainable and respectful of the environment” and that “it takes into account the expectations of society and younger generations”. France is the second largest market in the EU for pesticides, which have been found to harm biodiversity , soil health and human health.

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Agriculture Health Europe Biodiversity 85

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The latest development in this years-long fight came on Monday, when the European Commission’s scientific expert group, the Platform on Sustainable Finance (PSF), pushed back against including gas and nuclear in the EU taxonomy, an official guide on sustainable investments. The Push for Gas and Nuclear.

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Investment Sustainability Fossil fuels Carbon-neutral 90

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Documents obtained by DeSmog show Copa-Cogeca, a powerful trade body for Europe’s farmers, demanded revisions to the EU’s sustainable farming plan at a private meeting with the European Commission in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Sustained Pressure.

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Agriculture Europe Biodiversity Law 92

Business Green

JULY 1, 2020

To coincide with new sustainability strategy agri-business giant Syngenta releases poll showing growing concern worldwide about impact of climate change on crop yields and farmers. Indeed, 63 per cent said climate change would have a greater impact on their business than coronavirus over the next five years, according to the poll.

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Climate change Biodiversity Biotechnology Agriculture 91

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021. These 20 C-suite executives have steered their companies forward through much disruption, providing inspiration for the possibilities of advancing sustainability, social responsibility and circular business models — sometimes all at once. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15.

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Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 524

AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Europe’s endemic trees are threatened by extinction, states a recent International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assessment on biodiversity. By improving knowledge of all these “overlooked” European species, the continent’s biodiversity can be better managed and protected. ” + IUCN Images via Noël Zia Lee. .

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Europe Biodiversity Logging Agriculture 28

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. The outer shell of the bottle, produced by the packaging manufacturer The Paper Bottle Company (Paboco), consists of sustainably-sourced wood fibre and is also bio-based.

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Packaging Sustainability Plastics Soil 36

The City Fix

MARCH 10, 2023

It’s how we get to school and work, how we visit our families, and how we access our food and health care. Transportation connects us to one another. It’s also how we ship goods and deliver services. As economies and.

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Transportation Health North America Fossil fuels 114

Business Green

APRIL 16, 2020

The leaked document suggests that work to update the bloc's Sustainable Finance Strategy, deliver a new 2030 Climate Target Plan, and introduce a new building renovation programme should continue with a view to delivery by the third quarter of the year.

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Business Green

AUGUST 22, 2021

Atkins' associate director and technical authority for biodiversity and natural capital Claire Wansbury highlights the many benefits of targeting environmental net gain. Developers across all sectors in the UK are being asked to provide 'biodiversity net gain' at an increasing pace, including us here at Atkins.

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Biodiversity Climate change Europe Health 48

Envirotec Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

Dryad is now working on ten proof-of-concept deployments with forest owners in the US, Europe, Australia, Indonesia and Africa. By adding additional sensors, the network can also be used to monitor tree health and growth. Sustainability, climate and nature protection play a central role in this. percent of the GDP of the USA.

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Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring 130

Business Green

JUNE 28, 2021

Traffic light labelling system aims to help shoppers make more sustainable choices and drive environmentally friendly food. Following the trial and an extensive research and development (R&D) programme, Foundation Earth is aiming to develop an "optimum and fully automated system" that could be rolled out across Europe by 2022.

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Climate change Retail Government Packaging 99

Business Green

JUNE 27, 2022

G7 leaders gathering in Germany this week would be forgiven for feeling overwhelmed as they discuss how to respond to war in Europe, soaring energy costs, worsening food insecurity, runaway inflation, the lingering effects of the covid pandemic, and Russia and China's charm offensive towards the 'Global South'. Too much, if we're honest.

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Biodiversity Education Europe Health 36

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Biodiversity is also at risk along with public health and the psychological wellbeing of those affected by extreme weather events. China is leading the way to sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) at city scale, with plans for ‘sponge cities’ where 80% of the country’s urban centres harvest and reuse 70% of rainwater.

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Resilience Greywater Climate change Technology 130

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

With its unparalleled purchasing power and exacting demands, fast food has long shaped agricultural systems in the United States, Europe, and China. A review of press accounts, financial disclosures, and the companies’ websites shows this support aided these firms’ KFC-linked operations in up to 13 countries in Asia, Africa, and Europe.

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Africa Agriculture Health Investment 88

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The results, provided by this week by the research firm Nielsen, come as the Soil Association - a leading charity supporting organic and sustainable food production - launches Organic September, a month long "celebration of organic farming, food, drink, beauty products and clothes".

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Organic Soil Biodiversity Agriculture 88

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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Biodiversity Agriculture Carbon-negative Health 54

Fairsnape

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The airline industry is in the news again with Ryanair being told by the advertising watchdog to stop adverts that claim it to be the greenest airline in Europe, The airline industry has become a focus of both carbon ‘anger and angst’, along with a reawakening of the carbon offsetting debate.

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Carbon Biodiversity Global warming Health 78

Business Green

APRIL 19, 2020

Green businesses can lead the recovery and also equip others to create a more sustainable future, argues Forum for the Future's Hannah Pathak. Human health is being prioritised over environmental health right now, but the two are not mutually exclusive, and are, in fact, intricately linked. This gives me hope.

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Health Biodiversity Fashion Sustainability 60

Clean Energy Trust

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Here’s why Clean Energy Trust is excited about our investment in Continuum Ag , an Iowa-based startup run by farmers, for farmers, to drive the adoption of regenerative agriculture practices that improve sustainability, increase profits, and sequester carbon in the soil. especially when it comes to sustainable farming. Makes sense.

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Soil Carbon Carbon-negative Agriculture 52

Business Green

MARCH 10, 2021

A huge chunk of Covid-related government spending has necessarily focused on welfare payments and the health response, but the report concludes that even when the focus is narrowed to look only at measures designed to deliver a longer-term economic recovery only 18 per cent of spending has "positive green characteristics".

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Packaging Carbon-negative Government Health 101

Business Green

JUNE 16, 2022

Consequently, conservationists have often found themselves opposing renewables projects that they support in principle, but fear could have unacceptable biodiversity impacts in practice. Climate change and biodiversity loss can be tackled simultaneously," said Kristian Ruby, secretary general of Eurelectric. Credit: Eurelectric.

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Biodiversity Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 36

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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