Grist

MAY 18, 2022

World leaders aren’t doing enough to address pollution at its source, leaving nearly 9 million people each year to die from its effects. 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. named for their diameter of just 2.5

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Range of targets on deforestation, habitats, oceans, plastic pollution adopted a decade ago have all been missed or are heading in wrong direction, UN report warns. A decade ago, countries adopted a series of 20 biodiversity objectives after discussions in Aichi, Japan, marking the start of the UN's decade of biodiversity.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2021

Grant from Global Environmental Facility will support programme of work designed to reduce fashion sector’s contribution to biodiversity loss. The Fashion Pact has announced the launch of a series of initiatives geared at curbing the sector's impact on biodiversity loss after securing a $2m grant from the Global Environmental Facility.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Policymakers met with fossil fuel and biomass producers nine times as often as with their renewable energy counterparts, DeSmog can reveal, raising fresh concerns over the depth of the government’s commitments to reaching net zero emissions by 2050. We are in the midst of a dual climate and biodiversity crisis,” Pepper echoed.

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

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. Solar, geothermal and wind power, all offer a cleaner alternative to traditional fossil fuels.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 13, 2022

The National Food Strategy also fails to address the threats to food security posed by biodiversity loss and climate change, despite these being identified as “the biggest medium to long term risk to the UK’s domestic production” in the UK Food Security Report 2021. Have we learned nothing?”.

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Business Green

APRIL 5, 2022

If a transformative path is followed that embeds a host of circular economy actions that can tackle the climate and physical pollution that results from plastics, then greenhouse gas emissions from the sector could be cut by a third by 2030 and waste levels can be reduced by 46 per cent by 2030, the report calculates.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Three are based on what we take from the system: biodiversity loss fresh water land use. And nearly all of us use fossil fuels, plastics, chemicals and products from intensive agriculture. Ocean-acidification is still, just, in the green, and so is aerosol pollution and dust. billion humans – nearly all of them poor.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Electric vehicle uptake will not be enough There needs to be a renewed push for public, active and shared transport that prioritises affordability and accessibility, along with a carefully designed scrappage scheme to get the most polluting vehicles off the road.

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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. Africa's governments must give no more excuses for the fossil fuel industry.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

As DeSmog has reported , Jones Day’s clients have included major energy companies such as Chevron and Southern Company, as well as private equity firms with fossil fuel holdings, like Goldman Sachs and Carlyle Group. Boyd is calling on states to reform or leave these treaties. The country is trying to appeal the ruling.

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Front And Centered

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Washington state must cut greenhouse gas emissions from energy use in half within the next ten years if we have any chance in meeting long term state requirements to nearly eliminate pollution that causes climate change by 2050. Cap and Trade: A False Promise.

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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. That’s changing.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

Last week’s BBC headline is the kind that’s guaranteed to strike fear into the heart of food corporations, which are increasingly under pressure to cut pollution, just like the fossil fuel industry. That means: reasonable, strong and very short term targets for cutting pollution. of global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Jess Worth, co-director at Culture Unstained, a campaign group aiming to end fossil fuel sponsorship of culture, said: “Scientists, young people and even their own advisors were already walking away from the Science Museum over oil sponsorship. The museum also has “ corporate partnerships ” with Equinor and BP.

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Terra Infirma

OCTOBER 30, 2023

One of the allegations flung at the Net Zero concept, and Carbon Neutral before it, is that the offsetting element acts like a get out of jail free card, letting polluters carry on emitting with their conscience clear. While that may sound superficially convincing, does it stack up in practice?

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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

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Wastewater from overburdened urban septic systems and air pollution from burning fossil fuels contribute to nitrogen pollution, but often runoff of the synthetic fertilizers used in industrialized agriculture is the primary culprit. In terms of biodiversity loss and excess nitrogen, we're well into the high-risk zone.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The Streets of the Future insight outlines a range of opportunities for communities, including: Smart technology helping people to use less energy and reduce reliance on fossil fuels. Giving new life to old buildings by re-using and re-purposing existing structures and materials and transforming them for new uses.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Climate targets were under threat from all sides with climate science deniers, politicians and media platforms exploiting the war in Ukraine and ensuing energy crisis to demand an increase in fossil fuel extraction. At the same time, it was a year in which the case for climate action could not have been clearer.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 12, 2021

For the vast majority of countries, recovery spending has been relatively low and not particularly green, according to the report, with any benefits from the greener elements contained in stimulus packages often undermined by concurrent fossil fuel and consumer-focused spending program. percent is likely to increase net air pollution.

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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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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. Moreover, nature-based infrastructure investment is on average 50 per cent more cost-effective than man-made alternatives, while delivering 28 per cent more added value, according to the report.

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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

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.

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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

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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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

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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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 13, 2020

We protect the biodiversity of this land, and value its water, plants, animals, rivers, waterfalls and mountains. Now western science shows that it is not just fossil fuel emissions that lead to climate change, but also the forest destruction that comes with extraction. Enough is enough.

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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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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

The explosive growth of capitalism over the past 200 years has been largely powered by fossil fuel companies and their extraction of humanity’s common resources—air, forests, land, and, most importantly, coal, oil and gas. The document also acknowledges that there is little chance of further economic growth.”.

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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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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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