Business Green

JUNE 26, 2020

Organisations should also be looking for innovative and creative ways to help make their business more biodiverse. The car park now has a special drainage system which will reduce the risk of flooding, and the garden will increase biodiversity in an area that was formally concrete.

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The Environmental Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The meaning of regenerative farming is that farmers can increase the health of the land where they sow the seeds. Increase biodiversity and find methods to reduce costs. Farmers who work on irrigation efficiency can reduce fossil consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Many businesses and governments put profits and short-term gains over the long-term health of our planet. Here are some key steps that can be taken towards achieving this: Transitioning to renewable energy sources One of the key pillars of a sustainable economy is transforming fossil fuels into renewable energy sources.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Deep-sea mining is an emerging, extractive industry that could threaten the health of the ocean in as little as two years. The potential impacts on biodiversity and globally important carbon sinks have led more than 600 scientists and policy experts from 44 countries to call for a halt to the industry.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 7, 2023

For example, the application of digestate to agricultural soils can improve water retention and water cycling, boost soil organic carbon and biodiversity, and reduce soil erosion. Not all of these benefits can be easily quantified.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

In addition, the policy position calls for planning reform to be aligned with strategies for net zero and adaptation, levelling up, biodiversity and health and wellbeing. Climate change and green growth must be the key drivers across these policy areas.

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Business Green

APRIL 5, 2022

The research follows a a stark OECD report in February which underscored how plastic pollution has impacted almost every corner of the planet's oceans and land, with knock-on impacts on food systems, water resources, human health, and biodiversity given only a fraction of plastics produced each year are recycled or reused.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The rights to life, health, food and water, cultural rights and the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment are being violated and will continue to be violated, and the rule of law will continue to be undermined, unless the ISDS system is eliminated,” Boyd reports. Boyd is calling on states to reform or leave these treaties.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2022

That’s the message delivered on Tuesday by public health experts from the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health, a high-profile panel of scientific experts. There’s not a whole lot being done about it,” said Rachael Kupka, executive director of the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution and one of the report’s coauthors.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Russia eyes fossil fuel growth as it unveils 2030 climate goal. The paper published in the journal Science reveals that while reducing fossil fuel use is essential for the world to stand a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C I believe natural gas to be an eco-friendly energy source" said Novak.

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Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2021

Our food system is driving climate change, biodiversity loss and poor health - government leadership is needed to change course, argues Pukka Herbs' co-founder Sebastian Pole. It's no secret that our current food system is driving climate change, biodiversity loss and poor health. Reward sustainable farming.

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Major new reports warn governments are failing to seize the huge benefits that would flow from major green stimulus plans and fossil fuel subsidy reform. In contrast, setting fossil fuel prices that reflect their true cost would cut global carbon emissions by over a third, according to the IMF.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2022

Action to restore and enhance nature, green space, and biodiversity in urban areas should be a 'foremost priority', World Economic Forum warns. By recognising cities as living systems, we can support conditions for the health of people, planet and economy in urban areas.". Nature can be the backbone of urban development," she said. "By

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2022

It details some of the major upgrades needed to combat the climate crisis and meet environmental targets, to develop new economic landscapes post-Covid, enhance the wellbeing and health of citizens and to overcome energy and water conservation challenges.

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Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We are proud to see that our data is empowering governments as they evaluate national climate risks; it’s providing the agricultural sector critical with insights into crop health; it’s revealing species dynamics in biodiverse ecosystems; and it’s informing the public on the global energy transition.

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The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

Whether you’re a backyard chicken keeper setting up your first few poultry nesting boxes or a seasoned farmer, keeping up to date with modern practices is crucial to ensure the health and productivity of your poultry. This reduces the risk of antibiotic resistance, a significant public health risk targeted by the World Health Organization.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

Net-zero" became a key commitment during 2020 — goals that aim to eliminate, at least on paper, a company’s greenhouse gas emissions, water extractions, fossil-fuel use or deforestation activities by a given date. Given this, it was not surprising to see an uptick in corporate ambition on sustainability issues.

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Front And Centered

DECEMBER 4, 2020

To achieve this goal – let alone achieve it in a way that protects communities from the impacts of climate change and fossil fuel pollution and the pitfalls of an unjust transition – requires much more than a change in the price of oil, gas, or coal, it requires a Just Transition of our entire economy.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 1, 2021

C, in line with the Paris Agreement: no investment in new fossil fuel projects, and an end to petrol and diesel cars by 2035. Converting land to biofuel production can have a disastrous impact on both the climate and biodiversity. But the vision it presents governments is fantastic in another sense of the word, too.

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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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Business Green

MAY 27, 2021

As much as $8.1tr global investment in protecting, conserving and restoring the natural world is required over the next 30 years in order to tackle the interlinked climate, biodiversity and land degradation crises, with annual finance needing to triple by 2030, according to the UN-led study.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Biomass energy harnesses organic matter, including wood, agricultural crops, and waste by-products, as fuel. As we seek alternatives to fossil fuels, biomass holds significant potential due to its sustainability. Circulates money within the local economy and can decrease overall energy costs compared to traditional fossil fuels.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2021

Global demand for biomass is likely to exceed environmentally sustainable supplies in the coming years as the drive to decarbonise takes hold across different industries - a situation which risks undermining climate mitigation efforts and causing major damage to biodiversity and the natural world.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

After decades of sowing doubt about climate change and its causes, the fossil fuel industry is now shifting to a new strategy: presenting itself as the source of solutions. Another shows that spending the same amount of money on clean energy to replace fossil fuels is more effective at reducing emissions, air pollution and other costs.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

However, last week’s Food Systems Summit illustrated the rift between agribusiness giants and smaller food producers about how to transform the food system to achieve these cuts and address hunger, malnutrition and biodiversity loss. This data typically isn’t owned by farmers.

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Fairsnape

JULY 9, 2020

When we think of carbon reduction (and we have to make some 10% reduction per annum to meet Paris Agreement) we think of using less fossil fuel, taking less plane based holidays, driving less, using less heating and offsetting through tree planting. We rarely think about improving the carbon capture of peatlands. This has to change.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2021

Exclusive: Researchers have sought to calculate the external environmental, social and health costs of from fossil fuels, renewables, road transport and aviation. It's yet even more sobering evidence that the UK needs to move away from fossil fuels and ambitiously pursue rapid decarbonisation," he added.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2023

degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels not only requires reducing fossil fuel emissions but removing around 500 gigatons of atmospheric CO₂ by 2100. Convention on Biodiversity, and they don’t talk to each other,” he said. One is trying to save biodiversity, and the other is trying to save the climate.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The report released today stresses the links between multiple "self-inflicted" environmental challenges - the climate crisis, biodiversity loss, and pollution - and the world's societal development challenges, which have left 1.3 Climate disruption, biodiversity loss and pollution threaten our viability as a species.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2022

Given the fundamental importance of the ocean to all life on Earth, it is striking that there has not yet been a serious scientific assessment at scale of marine chemical pollution and its impact on biodiversity and marine ecosystems, and the overall health of the ocean. A coordinated approach.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Yet growth in global emissions has also slowed, and the authors of today's report maintain that mobilising the finance, scaling up the technologies, and incentivising behaviour changes needed to drive a "substantial reduction in overall fossil fuel use" remains eminently feasible and - crucially - affordable. goal alive.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 16, 2023

Even if we completely eliminated fossil fuel emissions today, global food system emissions would cause us to exceed our 1.5 Urgent action is needed to shift food and agriculture from a driver of climate change and biodiversity loss to a solution, with positive outcomes for producers, companies and consumers. The good news?

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Veteran sustainable food and farming experts welcomed the strategy as one that just might have a genuine shot at transforming the agriculture sector and result in better public health, contribute to ending the vertiginous decline of biodiversity, and lower greenhouse gas pollution.

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The are beneficial in so many ways, including biodiversity, community cohesion, local food, carbon storage and human well-being. It is important that they provide benefits to both biodiversity and human wellbeing. NbS must support or enhance biodiversity. Let’s looks at why community orchards fit the bill.

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Grist

JULY 26, 2023

Basically, a laser focus on fossil fuels can’t be the only thing that matters. Not only does that protect the health of people inside, it lessens the need for costly and energy-intensive air conditioners. was one of the first cities to sue fossil fuel companies for damages from climate impacts like heat waves and flooding.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

But in the intervening decades, the region’s rivers were dammed or channeled and the fossil fuel era dawned across Appalachia. For one thing, central Appalachia is stunningly high in biodiversity. Mountaintop Mining. The new research highlights how, even as the U.S.

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