Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Three are based on what we take from the system: biodiversity loss fresh water land use. Azote for Stockholm Resilience Centre based on analysis in Richardson et al 2023, CC BY-ND. And nearly all of us use fossil fuels, plastics, chemicals and products from intensive agriculture. billion humans – nearly all of them poor.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

George Monbiot's latest book, Regenesis , is the latest in a string of studies to warn how essentially extractive agricultural practices are damaging soils and biodiversity to such an extent that food security is being threatened. Cultivating more resilient crops. The outlook is certainly worrying.

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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". 4/4 pic.twitter.com/lhQGTURjCh.

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Resilience Climate change Health Fossil fuels 80

GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

Indeed, for many of the world’s largest companies, sustainability is seen as key to minimizing risk, increasing resilience, enhancing competitiveness and unlocking new opportunities. At last, sustainability has emerged from the shadows to be considered part and parcel of corporate success.

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Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Energy Monitor Resilience 544

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Failure to manage this will undermine the resilience of the system and could lead to sustained high energy prices into the future.

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Energy Energy Electric vehicle Government 284

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. Nature-based solutions offer wider benefits than traditional engineered ‘grey' solutions - such as improving resilience, increasing citizens' health and wellbeing and moving cities to net zero.

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Biodiversity Resilience Fossil fuels Health 74

Grist

JULY 26, 2023

Basically, a laser focus on fossil fuels can’t be the only thing that matters. In 2016, the city shifted its approach to urban design to prioritize creating and connecting more green spaces to tackle heat, air quality, and biodiversity. Still, every heat wave today is also a matter of life and death for some.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

The 12 organisations which make up the Partners for Inclusive Green Economy have identified 10 core principles they argue should inform national and international recovery efforts, with a strong focus on tackling climate change, biodiversity loss, sustainable development, and inequalities.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 7, 2022

Climate resilience, zero carbon, and the built environment. Climate Resilience. We must scale equitable solutions that can bolster resilience and enable a healthy, thriving planet for all. Reduce deforestation and restore biodiversity in our oceans and terrestrial ecosystems. Scale alternative proteins and crops.

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Stormwater Resilience Smart Cities Startups 98

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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Biodiversity Climate change Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 72

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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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 91

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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Pollution Fossil fuels Climate change Carbon 105

Business Green

AUGUST 10, 2022

The strategy outlines the actions and timelines required to deliver the company's four key priorities: providing a low-emission railway, a reliable railway service that is resilient to climate change, improved biodiversity of plants and wildlife and minimal waste, and sustainable use of materials.

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Biodiversity Solar Power Transportation Fossil fuels 69

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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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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Investment Biodiversity Fossil fuels Pollution 49

Business Green

JULY 1, 2020

From the beginning, our collective message to the world has been that we are on the verge of a Planetary Emergency due to the convergence of the climate crisis with extreme biodiversity loss. Recent research on the ecology of diseases suggests that climate change, biodiversity loss and deforestation are key drivers behind pandemics.

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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.

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Soil Health Agriculture Biodiversity 93

Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 10, 2022

Food & Agriculture: I’m excited to fund solutions that build a more climate-resilient food system and help farmers transition to regenerative practices that restore land, promote biodiversity, sequester carbon, and improve economic livelihoods. Biodiverse crops: Just four crops provide 60% of the world’s calories.

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Agriculture Soil Biodiversity Climate change 52

Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

That is the conclusion of a new study today, which underscores the scale of the threat to many countries' renewable energy and climate strategies posed by the ongoing destruction of nature and biodiversity worldwide.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

More than 100 of the UK's top businesses have urged the Prime Minister to take action to accelerate the clean energy transition, arguing a faster shift away from fossil fuels can help tackle the current energy crisis whilst helping the UK reach its longer-term climate and nature goals.

Energy 68

Energy Energy Fossil fuels Policy 68

Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

It also pledged to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of its finished products by half by 2030 compared to 2016 levels, and confirmed it intends to achieve 'carbon neutrality' across its sites by 2025 through building energy efficiency upgrades and replacing fossil fuel energy systems with renewables.

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Sustainability Ocean acidification Carbon-neutral Packaging 85

Business Green

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Britain's cities need "urgent" transformation over the next decade and beyond if the country is to meet its 2050 net zero targets and create cleaner, safer, and climate resilient spaces for citizens. Two new studies sets out proposals for how to future-proof UK cities and deliver net zero targets.

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Resilience Transportation Climate change Fossil fuels 71

Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2020

It marks the latest move from a major fossil fuel firm into the burgeoning carbon offsets market, as carbon intensive companies increasingly seek to invest in natural solutions such as forest, peatland, and mangrove restoration so as to offset emissions on their pathway towards net zero targets.

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Carbon Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 72

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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Investment Packaging Carbon-neutral Europe 99

Business Green

JULY 15, 2022

How do you plan to make our homes and infrastructure more resilient to levels of heat that will become ever more frequent and intense? How do you plan to make the UK more resilient to the drought, wildfire, and flood risks that will also increase in the coming years? What is your strategy for the upcoming COP15 Biodiversity Summit?

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Carbon-negative Resilience Government Carbon 79

Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2020

Too many major power companies are still blocking rather than embracing the transition away from fossil fuels, writes Forum for the Future's Will Dawson. Yet the World Benchmarking Alliance's latest look at the fifty most influential power companies shows that most of the sector is planning to increase use of fossil fuels.

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Energy Energy Fossil fuels Asia 70

Business Green

MAY 14, 2020

The two greatest environmental challenges of our age are climate change and biodiversity loss. These ‘nature-based solutions' are cost-effective, and they deliver wider benefits, such as enhanced resilience to climate change. The stakes are high. Peatland is the UK's largest existing terrestrial store of carbon.

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Agriculture Carbon Climate change Biodiversity 69

Business Green

JANUARY 25, 2021

It argues that using resources for longer and replacing finite resources like fossil fuels with regenerative resources like renewable energy could signifiantly reduce the volume of materials used to create products and services. per cent to 17 per cent, nearly doubling the 'circularity' of the world economy.

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Waste Waste Fossil fuels Agriculture 101

Grist

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Preserving biodiverse forests and soggy peatlands has the added benefit of keeping some of the world’s biggest carbon sinks intact. That conference, known as COP27, will provide key insights into how wealthy countries will support developing countries in their efforts to adapt to a warming world and transition away from fossil fuels. “We

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Climate change Global warming Fossil fuels Biodiversity 135

Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2021

A clean-steel manufacturing plant opened in Sweden while steelmaking giant ArcelorMittal announced plans to cut its carbon intensity by a quarter, backed by $10bn investment to support its transition away from fossil fuels. Nature and biodiversity met the bottom line. Signs of engagement abound.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Fossil fuels get named and shamed. For the first time in 25 years of UN climate talks, coal and fossil fuel subsidies have been singled out in an official document. Here, we've picked out 10 key takeaways for business leaders from the Glasgow Climate Pact and COP26 Summit: 1. Some progress on adaptation finance.

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Fossil fuels Business Energy Monitoring Methane Building Energy Monitoring 67

Business Green

JUNE 14, 2020

The government must adopt a test to ensure any recovery package helps to build economic resilience and meet our commitments to end the UK's contribution to climate change by 2050," she added. Finally, the signatories write, the government should work with the international community to rapidly reverse the decline of biodiversity and nature.

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Government Climate change Packaging Resilience 68

Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

But group of petrostates resist calls to phase down fossil fuels and accelerate decarbonisation efforts. The so-called High Ambition Coalition of nations argued the draft text should include a commitment to phase down all fossil fuels and clearer commitments to accelerate the roll out of renewables.

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Soil Fossil fuels COP Climate change 46

Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Dubbed the Green Vessel Classification system, the scheme is set to include a new Greenhouse Gas Emissions Fee for ships using the canal, in a bid to accelerate the shift away from fossil fuels towards greener forms of shipping, according to Maritime Executive. COP15: UN biodiversity summit meetings delayed over Omicron fears.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Agriculture’s role in fuelling the climate and biodiversity crisis has become increasingly apparent in recent years. JBS , the world’s second-largest food company, also shared its plan to support regenerative agriculture practices, which are said to improve soil health and biodiversity.

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Building Energy Monitoring Soil Agriculture Carbon-negative 97

Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2020

With the rug having been swept from underneath the global economy by the coronavirus crisis, huge numbers of companies, investors, and auditors have been forced to confront the resiliency of their business and supply chains, particularly in relation to non-financial threats. Many will not have liked what they discovered.

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Climate change Biodiversity Ocean acidification Soil 101

EDF + Business

MARCH 8, 2024

Companies across sectors recognize BVCM can help differentiate their brand, enhance resilience across operations and supply chains, support nature and biodiversity, and scale the availability of nascent solutions like technological carbon dioxide removal.

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