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. That’s changing.

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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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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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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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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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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

When it comes to ocean health, the work of convincing farmers to ditch their synthetic fertilizers can't happen fast enough. In terms of biodiversity loss and excess nitrogen, we're well into the high-risk zone. "To some of them, it sounds a little like a joke. They look at you and say, 'So my plants are going to taste like fish?'

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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

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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Farming also relies on synthetic fertilisers that are both fossil-fuel-based and emit greenhouse gases, and drives deforestation. In recent years, the biggest agricultural polluters and food corporations have embraced this term, which refers to a wide range of farming techniques that improve the environment.

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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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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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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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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

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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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. Their goal was to find out more about the impact mountaintop removal mining has had on those water pollution levels. Mountaintop Mining. The new research highlights how, even as the U.S.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. Clean Air Act, and even exceeds regulation standards in controlling air pollution at its facilities. . “We

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 5, 2021

Supermarket chain Morrisons is set to be snapped up by a group of US investors that includes a subsidiary of fossil fuel giant Koch Industries, known for funding numerous climate science denial groups across the country. Morrisons, previously reported to belong to the industry body, refused to confirm whether it was still a member.

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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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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 9, 2021

” “Limiting other greenhouse gases and air pollutants, especially methane, could have benefits both for health and the climate,” Zhai added. ” One central finding of the new analysis is that the Paris accord’s goal of limiting global temperature rise to no more than 1.5°C

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 5, 2021

5 opportunities of a circular economy David McGinty Fri, 03/05/2021 – 00:12 More than 100 billion tons of resources enter the economy every year — everything from metals, minerals and fossil fuels to organic materials from plants and animals. This pollution also threatens biodiversity. Take the textiles industry.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

European Commission unveils sweeping biodiversity strategy, plus all the top green business news from around the world this week. University of California fossil fuel-free after ditching $1bn of investments. The conditions will also apply to some of Canada's most polluting industries, including airlines and oil.

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Business Green

JUNE 5, 2020

In a statement to mark World Environment Day, the Prime Minister said that while countries were rightly focused on combatting the pandemic, it was critical not to lose sight of the need to protect the planet "from the devastating threat of climate change and biodiversity loss". Stop doing this, because it's killing us," she said.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

A new briefing paper from Imperial College London attempts a deep dive on the pollution produced by the particles sloughed off from vehicle tyres. And it calls for as much investment into tyre wear research as there is for reducing fuel emissions – and for understanding their interactions.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Not only does reclaimed lumber give that rustic, farmhouse look and possess some unique history within its grain, but it also helps preserve our carbon-sequestering forests and rejects monoculture tree farms that do not support biodiversity or ecological health. Arqlite , a member of the U.S. Sustainable Interior Design. in one hour.

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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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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

Because our economies are still coupled with the burning of fossil fuels, this markedly reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Every $1 million invested in renewable energy or energy efficiency created nearly three times as many jobs compared to the same investment in fossil fuels.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2021

While industrialised countries have fulfilled roughly 60 per cent of the investment goals set out in the IEA and IMF's plan, emerging and developing nations have mobilised just 20 per cent of their recommended spending levels, having invested their more limited fiscal leeway on emergency health and economic measures.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Talking Trash critically analysed voluntary commitments from the ten biggest plastic polluters (Coca-Cola, Colgate-Palmolive, Danone, Mars Incorporated, Mondel?z Plastic is now pouring into the natural world at a rate of one garbage truck a minute, creating a crisis for wildlife, the climate and public health. Case study: Coca-Cola.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

We call for climate justice,” Nemo Andy Guiquita, a Waorani Indigenous leader and Coordinator of Women and Health for CONFENIAE, said. Biodiversity hotspots such as the Yasuní National Park have not been spared either. It has caused so much damage to our territories, it is killing people. “We are here, again.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

"The recovery plan turns the immense challenge we face into an opportunity, not only by supporting the recovery but also by investing in our future: the European Green Deal and digitalisation will boost jobs and growth, the resilience of our societies and the health of our environment.".

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2022

Much policy and media focus are targeted on the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy and energy efficiency in order to reduce GHG emissions, but if the emphasis remains on energy alone it won't be enough to tackle the climate crisis. Tansy Robertson-Fall is senior editor at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The new Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework should drive a step change nature protection natural world - here's why the world's new biodiversity targets matter for businesses. The 10-year plan, with its four broad goals and 23 targets, has a hugely ambitious aim: to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2020

Every business is inevitably dependent upon - and has impacts on - ecosystems, biodiversity, and the land. And the economic losses and climate impacts that are resulting from deforestation, soil erosion, and pollution continue to rack up. What are your dependencies and impacts on ecosystems and biodiversity?

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