GreenBiz

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Experts have long warned about the potential outbreak of a major pandemic, yet governments around the world were woefully unprepared for its catastrophic consequences. Let’s not make the same mistake with global warming. But we need to accelerate our efforts to cope with global population growth and rapid urbanization. .

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2020

Kaitiaki Consulting is behind the Billion Trees Scotland re-forestation campaign announced earlier this year after the success of a similar mass planting scheme under Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s government in New Zealand. It then finds and develops habitats to plant trees and enhance biodiversity as part of a sustainable cycle.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

It has been compared to the hugely influential Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change 15 years ago, which famously framed global warming as the greatest and most wide-ranging market failure ever seen. Sir David Attenborough said: "The survival of the natural world depends on maintaining its complexity, its biodiversity.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Global wildlife populations fell 69% between 1970 and 2018, according to the World Wide Fund For Nature (formerly World Wildlife Fund) in its Living Planet Report. Africa recorded significant wildlife and biodiversity loss at 66%; Asia-Pacific noted a 55% loss. Links between food systems, forests and biodiversity.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Architects of Paris Agreement urge world leaders to deliver equally ambitious treaty for nature at upcoming COP15 Biodiversity Summit. There is no pathway to limiting global warming to 1.5C without action on protecting and restoring nature," the statement reads.

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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. million km2) is now used to produce crops.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

The government is to "establish tackling climate change and preserving biodiversity as the UK's number one international priority in the decade ahead". In 2021 and beyond, Her Majesty's Government will make tackling climate change and biodiversity loss its number one international priority," Johnson wrote in the foreword to the report.

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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 23, 2023

Additionally, in the US, transportation is responsible for the most greenhouse gas emissions, with CO2 accounting for about 97% of the overall global warming impact from transportation-related emissions. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution is responsible for around 7 million premature deaths each year.

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The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 20, 2022

The rising acidity of the ocean is not only harming biodiversity and marine ecosystems, but is impacting human industries that rely on the ocean’s resources. Read more about how to reduce your carbon footprint in our article, “ Is It Possible to Prevent Global Warming? ”. For example, buy clothes made from recycled materials.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2022

World leaders are missing the opportunity to achieve deep cuts in emissions by adopting circular economy strategies that reduce demand for resources, it warns, and it identifies a roadmap that it says could help them meet the target of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. But we can only do it by joining forces.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

of global warming. As a result, they have enjoyed important victories: for example lobbying successfully to exclude agriculture from the 2021 Global Methane Pledge. The evidence against big agriculture’s role in driving the climate crisis is growing. Science tells us that we cannot afford to do otherwise.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2022

In a major speech later, Emma Howard-Boyd, who is also interim chair of the Green Finance Institute, will warn that severe climate impacts must be more thoroughly considered in the planning and delivery of infrastructure in order to bolster the nation's resilience to global warming.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Latest figures from UN add to growing library of evidence that global financial system needs a major revamp if biodiversity and climate goals are to be met. The COP15 Biodiversity Summit, kicking off next Wednesday in Montreal, is set to be no different. UN environment summits are increasingly about money.

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Grist

APRIL 4, 2022

Nations have moved too slowly to curb climate change, and now must take swift and aggressive steps if they hope to avoid the worst impacts of global warming, the world’s top scientists warned on Monday. With immediate action, limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees or even 2 degrees Celsius.”. degree C rise. degrees C (2.3

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2022

BusinessGreen rounds up the top takeaways from the government's long-awaited Jet Zero Strategy to decarbonise domestic flight by 2040. The government certainly hopes so, having this week set out its vision to transform all domestic flight and airports into a net zero emissions aviation industry within two short decades.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

In October, the CSB, a group of business leaders appointed to advise Defra on how businesses can achieve the government's 25 Year Environment Plan, launched the 'Get Nature Positive Campaign' to rally business efforts to protect biodiversity.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This scoop made a mockery of the “energy sovereignty” argument used by the UK government to justify 130 new North Sea oil and gas drilling licences, which fly in the face of unequivocal scientific advice ruling out all new fossil fuel extraction. the proximity of fossil fuel-linked energy interests to government.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2020

The emergence of environmental buzzwords started out with global warming, then became climate change. Global warming to climate change; climate change covers a broader term and now special interest groups can use it for any situation, as we have recently seen with the fires in Western Canada and now Australia.

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Business Green

JUNE 20, 2022

On the other hand, there is a large margin of potential savings, if warming is limited within the Paris Agreement - which raises hope.". If emissions are cut in line with the Paris Agreement, and global warming is constrained to 1.5-2C, 2C, just 26 days - less than one month - would be lost.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2021

global warming scenario - the more ambitious goal in the Paris Agreement - palm oil prices could rise by 29 per cent and the cost of undeveloped plantation land could rise by 52 per cent, presenting significant challenges for Indonesia's palm oil industry. The research warns that under a 1.5C

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It is estimated that today’s policy ambitions and targets would likely lead to global warming of around 2.7C Dr Arunabha Ghosh, The Council on Energy, Environment and Water – expert in public policy and climate change advisor to governments, industry, civil society and international organisations around the world.

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2024

But what is less clear is how this global warming will translate into increased weather extremes and how these extremes will then impact hugely complex human infrastructure, agricultural systems, and the economies they underpin. Such outcomes would trigger huge geo-political risks that could impact the entire global economy.

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Business Green

JUNE 6, 2022

The UK must rally the international community behind the to drive to protect nature at the upcoming UN Biodiversity Summit, argues Henry Smith MP. Our once green and pleasant land is increasingly devoid of biodiversity. Nature's decline is not a problem that has been forgotten about by this Conservative government.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2021

The Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (GRSB) has today announced the launch of new global sustainability goals, designed to curb emissions across the sector and respond to growing calls for the industry to reduce its outsized environmental footprint.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 9, 2021

” 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 ” “Global warming of 1.5°C “Unfortunately, we are not yet on track to limit global warming to 1.5°C,

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Based on the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to 1.5C by the end of the century, the proposed legislation also aims to address the biodiversity crisis, by placing a stronger legal requirement for the government to protect and restore forests, soils, and ecosystems so as to deliver a natural means of absorbing CO2.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2020

European Commission reportedly weighing up options for stronger disclosure rules governing climate, biodiversity loss and pandemic risks.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2022

“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. Still, Kupka said that world governments must do much more to alleviate the burden of pollution on global communities, especially those in the developing world.

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Fairsnape

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In 2019 the built environment sector woke to climate warming design flaws with a large number of architects, engineers and contractors committing to address the Climate and Biodiversity Emergency. The Government is currently consulting on ‘ The Future Homes Standard ‘ – an update to the building regulations for new homes.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The UK government is urging world leaders to scale-up action to protect, conserve, and restore global forests while delivering sustainable development and promoting an inclusive transformation in rural land use, ahead of the launch of a new international forest initiative at COP27 in November. "At

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5 I am optimistic that the world is "waking up" Corporations, governments and individuals are enduring the conversation and mobilizing around solutions aimed at producing enough nutritious food for our growing population in a sustainable manner. In 2019, 690 million people or 8.9

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

But a public auction for offshore blocks off the coast of Buenos Aires, held in 2019, is viewed by the government and the handful of oil companies as a potential turning point. The government licensed a total of 18 blocks, but three held by Equinor are viewed by industry analysts as particularly attractive. Credit: Radio La Revuelta.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The update also calls on industry players to step up efforts to avoid negative environmental and biodiversity impacts, contribute to responsible ocean governance, and enable more sustainable decision making through transparency and accountability.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Governments approve landmark report that warns window for action is fast closing to avoid catastrophic climate change, but affordable technologies exist across every sector to slash emissions this decade. It's now or never, if we want to limit global warming to 1.5°C," °C," he said. This is not fiction or exaggeration.".

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

This transition is one driving force behind the serious and rapid reductions in biodiversity, resulting in impacts on water flows and on the biogeochemical cycling of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus, and other important elements. If this permafrost thaws, it will release CO2 and methane which can even further accelerate global warming.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

So yeah, there's a little cheat that we did: we took away the hyper-object of global warming, which is so vast and timeless and slow-moving, and we put in a very concrete event, a comet. This risk increases steeply with rises in global temperature. As McKay put it: "No allegory is a perfect fit.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Today, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Carbon Mapper, and partners announced the Carbon Mapper Accelerator program, to accelerate the deployment of emerging remote sensing technologies needed to effectively pinpoint, quantify, and diagnose sources of high-emission methane and carbon dioxide (CO2) globally. within reach.”

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