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. Air pollution, tall buildings, building materials, lack of green spaces and wind all contribute to trapping heat from the sun, traffic and industry and result in the creation of Urban Heat Islands (UHI). 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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals. Others that have been active in pushing for the EU to continue to allow the use of certain controversial chemicals, include CropLife Europe and The Glyphosate Renewal Group.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The event also included the MPA’s Restoration & Biodiversity Awards, presented by BBC Radio 4’s Farming Today presenter, Sybil Ruscoe. We are very much part of the solution to the UK’s biodiversity challenges and are ready to play an even bigger role working with key stakeholders to protect and enhance UK biodiversity.”.

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Business Green

JULY 11, 2022

Projects developed under the collaboration will be steered jointly by representatives from both Imperial and Hitachi, including professor Mary Ryan from Imperial's Faculty of Engineering, and Kazuyuki Sugimura, the chief technology officer of Hitachi Europe.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2022

In a communique published at the close of a three-day Energy and Environment Ministerial meeting in Berlin this week, the world's largest economies set out their priorities for tackling the intersecting climate, biodiversity, and pollution crises, and responding to the disruption to energy markets wrought by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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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

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

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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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2021

EU carbon prices have yet again sent records tumbling, reaching an all-time high of over €80 per tonne of CO2 this week, as the cost of polluting continues to get ever more expensive. COP15: UN biodiversity summit meetings delayed over Omicron fears. China tables five-year green industry plan.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The Accelerator program will give public and private sector leaders the information they need to take action and reduce methane pollution, starting right away.”. Bloomberg, UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Climate Ambition and Solutions and Founder of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies.

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Rinexii

JUNE 18, 2021

It’s such that when I researched laundry sheets, I struggled to discern whether “polyvinyl alcohol” which was farther identified as “a biodegradable monomer/polymer” was an innovative solution or waffle-stomping to avoid saying it’s plastic. Even now, I’m not 100% certain.

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The Commission estimates the plan could help upgrade 35 million buildings across Europe and create up to 160,000 additional green jobs in the construction sector by 2030. With Europe the world's second biggest producer of chemicals - accounting for 16.9 Yet the EU Commission's Strategy goes further than current UK plans.

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Clean Energy Trust

OCTOBER 6, 2021

dates back to 6000 BC , with evidence of its use in ancient Egypt, Europe, India and the Near East. But plowing also disrupts and destroys the rich biodiversity below the surface where there’s a thriving ecosystem of fungi, worms, and more microbes than stars in the sky. We need to deploy existing technologies and innovate new ones.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This story is part of a DeSmog series on the influence wielded by the gas lobby in Europe and was developed with the support of Journalismfund.eu. Although hydrogen does not emit any polluting gases when combusted, the vast majority of current global production is in the form of ‘grey’ hydrogen – which is produced using natural gas.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

JBS, the world’s most polluting meat company, will be out in “full force” in Dubai , according to the files. At no point does the industry acknowledge the serious and public health and environmental harms of livestock, which are also the leading cause of biodiversity loss worldwide. Just seven percent are based in Africa.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

"The Taxonomy comes at a time where there is a lot of concern about potential greenwashing," explained TEG member Felicity Spors, head of international affairs at the EU's climate innovation initiative Climate-KIK. The Taxonomy is designed to give confidence and assurance to investors.".

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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. Air pollution, tall buildings, building materials, lack of green spaces and wind all contribute to trapping heat from the sun, traffic and industry and result in the creation of Urban Heat Islands (UHI).

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Pressure is mounting on the fashion industry to tackle its outsized environmental footprint, but can a wave of green innovation across the sector really trigger a shift towards sustainable business models? Fashion has become a consumable product rather than a durable one," acknowledges Erik Bang, innovation lead at the H&M Foundation.

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Elemental Excelerator

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Most notably, these include increased biodiversity, food security, job creation, and adaptation. And we’re hopeful that new technological innovations will continue developing to facilitate the right standards on a large level. It doesn’t seem justified.

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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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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

and United Arab Emirates governments, the AIM for Climate (Aim4C) coalition pledged to accelerate innovation in agriculture and food systems to support climate action. Analysis by DeSmog found that more than two thirds of some 300 partners are located in the United States or Europe. African farmers face critical challenges.

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Green Roof Technology

MAY 27, 2021

Additionally the Green Roof components and the plants are exposed to more extreme environmental impact like higher wind speeds, reflecting surfaces, higher temperatures, air pollution, artificial light at night, lower bio-diversity and more. Unfortunately most of them are forgetting about the champions; the Plants! by Jörg Breuning.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

But its central appeal is for the government to be more consistent and reliable, so as to encourage businesses and investors to deliver the clean technologies of the future and reduce the country's reliance on volatile, polluting and expensive fossil fuels. Mission Zero'- The Net Zero Review has been published.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The Environmental Defense Fund, the American Forest Foundation, American Forests, and TNC are also members of the Forest-Climate Working Group, a political advocacy organization, alongside scores of wood product companies, including Enviva and Drax, biomass energy behemoths whose carbon-intensive operations have polluted U.S.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

This array of species and surfaces reduces fire intensity and promotes biodiversity. These critics argue that thinning is a ploy to increase commercial logging and that severe wildfires are critical for forest health and biodiversity. Wildfires now account for nearly half of the fine-particle pollution in the West.

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In addition, more than £1m has been made available to 16 projects that aim to increase and diversify domestic tree production under the Tree Production Innovation Fund, according to the government.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Eco friendly retail packaging solutions and innovation. Polluting packaging agents build up to foul habitats and ecological systems, creating unstable environments which threaten human well-being and security. Loss in biodiversity may limit discovery of potential treatments for many diseases and health problems.”

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2023

"After all that this administration has done to advance climate action and environmental justice, it is heartbreaking to see a decision that we know will poison Arctic communities and lock in decades of climate pollution we simply cannot afford."

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

We’ve started to go down the hill for the last ten years of statistics – but there will be a time when the line will have to go straight,” Feller told DeSmog on the sidelines of the Animal Agtech Innovation Summit in Amsterdam in October. The Federation of Veterinarians of Europe did not respond to a request for comment.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

With the aging transportation infrastructure and renewed emphasis on infrastructure renovation by transportation agencies, innovations are urgently needed to develop materials, designs, and practices to ensure the sustainability of transportation infrastructure. Sustainability is increasingly a key priority in engineering practices.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2023

For example, the 2030 Strategic Framework for International Climate and Nature Action demonstrates a world-leading cross-government approach to halving global emissions, building resilience to climate impacts and halting biodiversity loss. Net Zero is about more than just energy security and will reach all parts of the economy.

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2022

But as the country reflects on the wildfires and travel chaos caused by yesterday's stifling heat, the candidates are facing growing calls from colleagues and green groups alike to explain precisely how they envisage the ambitious decarbonisation and biodiversity targets being met.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 28, 2021

Having employees working from home will lower your real estate and operational costs, increase worker productivity, and improve employee satisfaction while reducing pollution from commuting to work. decline in GDP per capita due to climate change and is set to lose $83 billion by 2050 from biodiversity loss. But it was too late.

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