EDF + Business

JANUARY 16, 2023

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. Danone’s size as a major global dairy company provides a significant opportunity for impact. The good news?

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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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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

While fiscal and regulatory policies to incentivise carbon dioxide emissions reductions have succeeded in slowing the rate of CO2 growth over the past decade, emissions reductions from the advanced economies overall have fallen far short of what had been promised. An alternative approach to carbon pricing.

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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

Sweeping new strategy aims to place climate action at heart of UK foreign and security policy. The government is to "establish tackling climate change and preserving biodiversity as the UK's number one international priority in the decade ahead". Urgent action is needed to limit global warming to 1.5°C

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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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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 degree C rise in temperature. degrees or even 2 degrees Celsius.”.

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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

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Polluting UK power plant Drax – a former coal power station which now burns wood to generate electricity – was found to be at the heart of these lobbying efforts to dilute EU biodiversity rules that could limit its supply of wood. Picked up throughout the mainstream media, the story landed a “fatal blow” to the legitimacy of Mackinay et al.’s

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Grist

OCTOBER 17, 2019

As many as five billion people will face hunger and a lack of clean water by 2050 as the warming climate disrupts pollination, freshwater, and coastal habitats, according to new research published last week in Science. It’s an unprecedented degree of detail for a global biodiversity model.

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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

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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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. Last year, the government published a review of our security and foreign policy.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The researchers set out to estimate how much of the world’s fossil fuel reserves must remain in the ground in order to limit global warming to 1.5 This means that global oil and gas production must decline 3 percent on average every year until 2050. “I degrees Celsius (2.7

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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.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 22, 2019

During the unfolding environmental emergency, when the effects of global warming and biodiversity loss are beginning to be felt acutely across the globe, our common future depends on researchers across disciplines working together to address the issue. This need is as important at Concordia University as it is elsewhere.

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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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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 12, 2021

” Methane is one of the most potent greenhouse gases contributing to global warming and a leading cause of climate change worldwide. within reach.”

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 18, 2019

It has been highlighted that any increase in the present-level global warming (1°C > pre-industrial periods) will likely be trailed by adverse consequences to food and water ecosystems, human security and peace, and economic well-being. This dramatic shift can lead to nonlinear loss in biodiversity and human-kind.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 4, 2020

Forest dynamics being disrupted like this spells trouble for ecosystem equilibrium and biodiversity. ” Conservationists subsequently admonish that continuing with business as usual will only worsen the conditions that increase tree mortality rates and the accompanying biodiversity crisis. Science Via NPR and PNNL.

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Business Green

APRIL 3, 2023

With all the right pieces in place - tech prices plummeting, consumers snapping up money-saving electric cars, solar panels, and home appliances, and policy and regulation sending solid market signals - money is flowing. Our markets are shifting - and fast - towards a clean energy economy.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The primary goal of regenerative agriculture is to enhance and retain the biodiversity in soil that has been continuously stripped for generations. Regenerative agriculture rebuilds soil organic matter and restores degraded soil biodiversity, which controls carbon sequestration and improves water efficiency.

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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

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Professor Dame Parveen Kumar, ambassador for the Alliance, said it was vital that food and diets are considered as part of both the health and climate policy agendas. COVID-19, painful though it is, could pale into insignificance compared to the turbulence created by climate change and the collapse in biodiversity," he said.

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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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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

The main drivers of change are the demand for food, water, and natural resources, in the face of severe biodiversity loss and changes in ecosystem services. Now, the planetary boundaries framework has generated enormous interest in science, policy, and practice. Johan Rockström is a Professor in Environmental Science.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 25, 2019

The news was shared in a policy brief put forth by Monica de Bolle, a Peterson Institute for International Economics senior fellow in Washington, D.C. The mortality of the rainforest’s trees would release billions of tons of carbon, intensifying greenhouse gas emissions and global warming.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

That is the stark consensus of the world's leading climate scientists in a landmark UN report today, which offers the clearest picture yet of both the scale of global warming already being experienced and the likely impacts of further temperature rises that are set to play out over the coming decades.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Business as usual is not working The report is unequivocal that human-caused climate change is affecting weather and climate extremes in every region across the globe, and is set to get worse without a major acceleration in policy action and drastically increased investment in climate solutions. of warming. of warming.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

In the letter Versey stressed that the company wanted to see firms step up action on biodiversity and human rights, as well as climate change. "We Our letter sets out clear expectations as to how they should do this, and what those plans must address across climate impact, biodiversity and human rights.".

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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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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Four scenarios to limit global warming to 1.5°C. Pacala’s team included approaches that in their judgment would not adversely affect food availability nor biodiversity but could utilize current or near-term technology and cost less than or equal to $100/tCO 2. Global warming of 1.5 Source: IPCC 1.5°C References.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 28, 2021

Padraic Fogarty, Campaigns Officer at the Irish Wildlife Trust, told DeSmog: “It’s been really disappointing to see how RTÉ are ignoring the climate and biodiversity crisis. Activists are constantly told that ‘we need to bring people with us’ but this is impossible so long as media refuse to engage with the issue.”.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The UK government must focus on strengthening the detail and delivery of its flagship Net Zero Strategy during a "crucial" year ahead for climate action, with major work particularly needed to fill in policy gaps and uncertainties surrounding taxation, trade, adaptation and agriculture.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Anger is building over the failure to secure much-needed commitments towards phasing out unabated fossil fuels and tackling near-term emissions as part of the final agreement brokered at COP27 over the weekend, with critics warning the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C are hanging by the thinnest of threads.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Instead of enjoying carefree childhood hobbies , they are protesting, litigating, organizing, and public speaking about the importance of policy-based climate solutions. These feelings worsen if parents “fail to understand why and how their worries about the climate and biodiversity crisis can affect them daily, constantly.”

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