Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The ground-breaking compendium of articles detail, more than any publication before, the value that shellfish habitat bring to society, how to deal with oyster diseases as well as financing solutions required to restore native oysters to seas throughout Europe.

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Europe Biodiversity Sustainability Policy 130

The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

Today’s poultry farming has begun to shift from traditional, potentially damaging practices to more sustainable ones. This paradigm shift is primarily driven by a desire to cater to the increasing global demand for poultry products while ensuring environmental sustainability. Promotion of sustainable agriculture.

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Building Energy Monitoring Sustainability Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor 195

Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 9, 2022

The long-term use of fertilizers in industrialised agriculture and the resulting build-up of nitrogen and phosphorus in the environment are contributing to widespread biodiversity loss and ecosystem disruption across Europe. The need to make food production more sustainable is recognized by the newly adopted Farm to Fork strategy.

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Agriculture Soil Europe Biodiversity 244

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The second, known as the Sustainable Use Regulation, or SUR, would see pesticide use halved by 2030. The findings come at a crucial time for nature-friendly laws in Europe, which scientists say are critical to securing the bloc’s food supply and tackling both climate breakdown and biodiversity collapse.

Europe 128

Europe Law Agriculture Biodiversity 128

Planet Pulse

JUNE 21, 2021

The EU Green Deal , Europe’s ambitious sustainability strategy, outlines a path forward to becoming the first climate neutral continent by 2050. In tandem, Europe has also launched a new 2030 Biodiversity Strategy which requires Member States to commit to important targets to restore biodiversity.

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Biodiversity Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring 75

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2024

The site will also create a significant biodiversity net gain. The journey has been marked by unprecedented challenges in the energy and renewables sector, first with the 2022 energy crisis, and later complicated by geopolitical events in Eastern Europe.

Europe 147

Europe Carbon Sustainability Biodiversity 147

GreenBiz

JANUARY 28, 2021

This analysis of ESG and sustainable finance issues originally appeared in GreenFin Weekly, our free email newsletter. A lot of the information that investors want is not included in company financial filings or sustainability reports, which in the U.S. companies would be wise to take note of ESG developments in Europe.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 17, 2023

These initiatives aim to reduce environmental footprints, enhance sustainability, and foster environmental consciousness among students and staff. They hold the potential to transform campuses into living laboratories for sustainable solutions, thus contributing to global sustainability goals.

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Education Sustainability Waste Waste 79

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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Europe Resilience Carbon-neutral Sustainability 100

DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2023

The fast food chain, alongside a number packaging producers and trade associations, wrote to European policymakers at the end of April, demanding a pause to the legislation, which would champion reusable packaging in Europe. But policies encouraging reuse, she says, will require “systemic change”.

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Packaging Law Europe Waste 97

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

Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Former barrister, journalist, and sustainable development consultant to take over the reins at influential green business institute from departing director Dame Polly Courtice. CISL will play a pivotal role in this decade of action to inspire transformative leadership and innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals.".

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Sustainability Policy Law Europe 93

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.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Sustainability 98

AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Africa recorded significant wildlife and biodiversity loss at 66%; Asia-Pacific noted a 55% loss. Links between food systems, forests and biodiversity. The way we produce our food is a big reason for this as well as overall biodiversity loss. Making a strong sustainability shift.

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Biodiversity Agriculture Sustainability Europe 87

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

So far, the farmers have won key concessions, with the EU decision on Tuesday to drop its plans to cut pesticide use, hot on the heels of the same move by France on Friday, despite numbers of birds and pollinators plummeting in Europe. Yet the reality on the ground in Brussels last week was more mixed.

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Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Europe Biodiversity 119

Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Named the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI), a pilot for the scheme will begin in the autumn, with farmers able to express their interest in participating and helping shape the project from March, according to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).

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Sustainability Agriculture Carbon-neutral Government 89

Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

For the good of future generations, we must retain existing laws and improve protections for nature, writes Joan Edwards, director of policy for The Wildlife Trusts. They helped remove the UK’s 1970’s reputation of being the ‘dirty man of Europe’ by cleaning up our waterways. Image credit: Colin , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 billion each year.

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Law Biodiversity Climate change Soil 222

Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Former barrister, journalist, and sustainable development consultant to take over the reins at influential green business institute from departing director Dame Polly Courtice. CISL will play a pivotal role in this decade of action to inspire transformative leadership and innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals.".

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Sustainability Policy Law Europe 64

Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

New analysis from Association for Financial Markets in Europe and EY explores how more finance can be channelled towards nature-related projects. The reorientation of capital in support of nature is a critical and urgent priority," said Oliver Moullin, managing director for sustainable finance at AFME. "The

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Biodiversity Government Policy Europe 67

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The letter was written by prominent climate and biodiversity scientists from universities and organisations in top biomass sourcing countries – the U.S., Forests are home to more than 80% of terrestrial biodiversity, supporting plants, animals, fungi, and other species found nowhere else on Earth. That is a tragedy.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Reforms include measures to halve pesticide use across the bloc – proposals that have alarmed an industry worth €12 billion in Europe alone each year. Scientists say the raft of green measures, aimed at tackling spiralling climate breakdown and biodiversity collapse, are crucial for the future of Europe’s food supply.

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Building Energy Monitoring Agriculture Law Business Energy Monitoring 136

GreenBiz

MARCH 12, 2021

The analysis, which looked at more than 3,500 fiscal policies across the world's 50 largest economies, finds that just 2.5 percent of all COVID-induced spending to date had "positive green characteristics." Humanity is facing a pandemic, an economic crisis and an ecological breakdown — we cannot afford to lose on any front.

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Packaging Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Government 362

The City Fix

JUNE 2, 2020

On May 27, the European Union unveiled a €750 billion ($826 billion) recovery proposal as a centerpiece of its economic response to the coronavirus crisis, while also increasing its existing budget. EU officials have said that 25% of the stimulus package will be set. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Europe Sustainability Packaging Fossil fuels 83

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2022

A powerful US biomass lobby group is pushing for a raft of changes that would weaken European renewable energy rules geared to better protect biodiversity and tackle climate change, DeSmog can reveal. Europe is the leading consumer region of wood pellets globally. Biomass has also raised concerns over potential harm to biodiversity.

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Biodiversity Logging Carbon-neutral Europe 98

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 57

Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

This aims to promote a new farming model that rewards climate-friendly practices via the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and efficient carbon markets. Planet organized a panel during EU Green Week presenting concrete projects applying Earth Observation data to support the European Green Deal’s ambitions in terms of sustainable agriculture.

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Carbon Carbon-neutral Agriculture Sustainability 98

Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

  In other news the EU parliament passed a law to restore 20% of the EU’s land and sea by 2030, England requires all new buildings to improve biodiversity, and the US Congress finds something they can agree on with nuclear policy, while the SEC may be set to announce watered down rules on reporting. 

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Energy Monitor Investment Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 111

GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

When it comes to those shaping the corporate climate movement — either from within companies or as part of NGOs and policy organizations that recognize the critical role businesses must play in addressing the climate emergency — I’m grateful to say it’s becoming easier to find women with a seat at the decision-making table.

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Sustainability Plastics Organic Retail 546

Planet Pulse

MAY 23, 2024

This event showcased the Planet Insights Platform and the work we do with our customers and partners to address the global challenges of Digitalization and AI, Sustainability and Regulation; and Peace and Security. Europe is leading the way in innovation and investment in Earth observation,” said Will. And all for good reason.”

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 63

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 89

Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

In any case, why send wood pellets to Europe to substitute for coal, when North Americans burn more fossil fuels than Europeans do? Undeterred, De Decker responded by publishing an article on the sustainable benefits of harvesting coppice wood. ” “This is pure insanity. ” 2. .” Schismatic Science.

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Sustainability Fossil fuels Carbon-neutral Carbon 108

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Biomass power stations, such as Drax in northern England, burn wood pellets to generate electricity – which is treated in the EU and UK as a renewable energy source if the process meets certain sustainability criteria. non-profit tracking biomass, who authored the comments, told DeSmog.

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Law Europe Carbon-negative Biodiversity 80

Business Green

MARCH 14, 2023

With companies responsible for roughly a fifth of air travel, it is unsurprising that corporate travel policies are shaping up to be the latest battleground between companies and environmental activists. Reporting non-CO2 should become the standard so that aviation's full climate impact is made clear."

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Policy Aviation Transportation Demand 36

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

Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Their goal is to make rangelands a prominent part of policy discussions around everything from confronting climate change to reducing poverty, managing threats to biodiversity and freshwater, and developing sustainable food systems.

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North America Biodiversity Agriculture South America 130

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. Campaign groups say these food scarcity narratives are cynical — and familiar.

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Agriculture Europe Biodiversity Law 92

Business Green

APRIL 9, 2021

Stark warnings issued over record greenhouse gas emissions and escalating biodiversity threats. A triptych of sobering new reports have this week highlighted the scale of the climate and biodiversity crises engulfing the world. It's going to change allocation of capital. Saudi Arabia unveils plans for major solar investment drive.

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Biodiversity Methane Government Investment 58