Biodiversity, Global warming and Sustainability

Treat climate change and biodiversity loss as one, says European science advisory group

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

The recent IPCC Report confirms that global warming is picking up pace. Meanwhile the hidden crisis of biodiversity loss continues with the loss of forests to land clearance, exacerbated by the recent fires. Biodiversity loss and dangerous Climate Change potentiate each other in their disastrous consequences.

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Treat climate change and biodiversity loss as one, says European science advisory group

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

The recent IPCC Report confirms that global warming is picking up pace. Meanwhile the hidden crisis of biodiversity loss continues with the loss of forests to land clearance, exacerbated by the recent fires. Biodiversity loss and dangerous Climate Change potentiate each other in their disastrous consequences.

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Humanity’s greatest threat: Cascading impacts of climate, biodiversity, food and water crises

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Conducted international sustainability research network Future Earth, the survey identifies five global risks — failure of climate change mitigation and adaptation; extreme weather events; major biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse; food crises; and water crises — as the most severe in terms of impact.

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IPCC: ‘Limiting global warming will require major transitions in the energy sector’

Smart Energy International

APRIL 5, 2022

The report examines the sources of global emissions, explains developments in emissions reduction and mitigation efforts and assesses the impact of national climate pledges. One of the report’s key findings is that limiting global warming will require major transitions in the energy sector. C is beyond reach.

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AXA launches bid to boost French forest climate resilience and biodiversity

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Investment and insurance giant teams up with green groups to study climate and biodiversity impacts on 600 hectares of AXA-owned forest in France. The initiative follows AXA's pledge last year to invest €1.5bn globally into sustainable forest management projects.

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Danish firm trials turning offshore wind turbine foundations into safe havens for corals

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 4, 2022

The project aims to determine the viability of the initiative and to evaluate the potential positive biodiversity impact of scaling up the initiative. Climate change is becoming the biggest driver of biodiversity loss, and a substantial expansion of offshore wind is central to tackling these interlinked crises.

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Growing Hope – Supporting Biodiversity and Enhancing Human Well-Being

Ideas 4 Sustainability

MARCH 30, 2020

Originally posted on SCIENCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY : A myriad of factors drive habitat loss from the local to the global level: global warming, land-use change, pollution, agricultural intensification and land abandonment all contribute to the current decline in biodiversity.

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Crayons of the Seas: A Visual Exploration of Marine Biodiversity with Satellite Imagery

Planet Pulse

JUNE 25, 2023

What do crayons, satellites, and marine biodiversity have in common? The team hoped that this feature would spark curiosity in learning more about marine biodiversity. The team plans to continue sending proceeds from the sales of Crayons of the Seas for sustained support to Kiribati.

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UPM inks €750m sustainability-linked loan to help drive climate action

Business Green

MARCH 17, 2020

Forestry giant secures revolving credit facility with BNP Paribas to help drive sustainable forest management initiatives. Finnish forestry business UPM has become one of the first businesses in the world to link repayments on a €750m loan to its performance against long-term biodiversity and climate targets.

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REPORT: Wildlife loss is increasing rapidly. Changing our food production systems can alleviate this loss

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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Which Generation is the Greenest Homeowner?

Green Living Guy

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

In the last 5 years, there has been a 71% increase in searches for sustainable goods, as many consumers now value biodiversity and sustainability when making purchases. This trend towards sustainable living is also evident in the way we run our homes. Our desire to live green lifestyles has skyrocketed in the past decade.

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Plant Lights and Environmental Conservation

The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

In our world that never stops evolving, the call for sustainable strategies becomes paramount to safeguard our natural world for those who come after us. Gaining traction as an environmentally conscious alternative, these lights promise a brighter, more sustainable tomorrow. Here’s where plant lights can revolutionize things.

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How Reusing Items Can Help The Environment

The Environmental Blog

JULY 14, 2020

The environment is an important factor in sustaining flora and fauna. It’s the source of the food, water, air, and other relevant conditions that sustain life on earth. These affect natural habitats, produces acid rain and destroys the ozone layer because of global warming. Promotes Sustainable Lifestyle.

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Environmental Consequences of Vehicle Emissions

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. The development of efficient public transportation systems and sustainable urban planning is equally important.

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UN report: People have wrecked 40% of all the land on Earth

Grist

APRIL 27, 2022

If these trends continue, experts expect growing disruptions to human health, food supplies, migration, and biodiversity loss driven by climate change, in what the authors calls a “confluence of unprecedented crises.”. Thiaw said humanity must abandon this approach and adopt a more sustainable mindset of management. degrees Celsius.

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'Responsible commodities': British supermarkets team up for sustainable soy financing push

Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2022

Tesco, Sainsbury's, and Waitrose have jointly committed $11m to a new 'responsible commodities' programme, which will offer financial incentives for farmers who commit to embracing more sustainable approaches to soy cultivation.

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'No-nonsense summit': UN chief announces Climate Ambition Summit for 2023

Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2022

UN Secretary General António Guterres has announced plans to hold a global Climate Ambition Summit next September in a bid to "accelerate the pace of change" ahead of the COP28 Climate Summit in Dubai next November, as he warned the totemic 1.5C global warming goal "is gasping for breath".

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Danone commits to cut dairy methane emissions in partnership with farmers and EDF

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 degree warming targets , unless they are slowed down. We cannot choose between food security and environmental sustainability – they are one and the same. The good news?

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Event - Sustainability and the Climate Crisis Conference Call for Abstracts

Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 22, 2019

This event is presented by Loyola Sustainability Research Centre and Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability. Dr. Matthews holds a Tier 1 Concordia University Research Chair in Climate Science and Sustainability and is Professor in the Department of Geography Planning and Environment.

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Land redevelopment and rewilding firm hires 20 environmental consultants

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2020

It then finds and develops habitats to plant trees and enhance biodiversity as part of a sustainable cycle. Wildlife biologist Eleanor Shield said: “Human activities have caused global warming, which is increasing to dangerous levels.

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Sustaining Mangroves for Better Livelihoods Along the Kenyan Coast

Unsustainable

APRIL 11, 2020

For the longest time, mangrove resources have been used primarily for wood harvesting, barely taking into account the important role they play in biodiversity and shoreline protection. Continued deforestation of mangrove areas disturbs habitats and damages biodiversity, a key effect of this being the decline in fishery yields.

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'Wake-up call': The green economy reacts to the Dasgupta Review on biodiversity

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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Can burning biomass be sustainable?

Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

When Kris de Decker published an article in 2020 on using surplus heat from domestic woodburning stoves to produce modest amounts of electricity, he received a torrent of objections on these lines: “How is cutting down trees sustainable?” ” “This is pure insanity. ” 2. .” Schismatic Science.

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First global atlas of rangelands launches, and reveals vulnerable state of a neglected ecosystem

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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These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In particular, our exchange explored how food systems can be made healthier and more sustainable as we look to a future in which we’ll need to find a way to produce enough food to nourish as many as 10 billion people while staying within planetary boundaries. Jennifer Ballen, head of global market operations, Indigo Ag.

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5 Ways We Can Stop Ocean Acidification

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. Buying sustainably made products – Before buying anything, it’s worthwhile to do some research into that company’s habits. Use natural fertilizers and pesticides.

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'Common language and purpose': SSI refreshes sustainability roadmap for maritime sector

Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Sixty milestones set out in newly-launched industry-backed report aim to offer a sustainability framework for companies and organisations working to deliver a greener shipping industry. The roadmap is a tool for the industry to rally around and against which we can hold ourselves accountable," said SSI executive director Andrew Stephens. "We

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Even a small rise in temperatures could decimate North American forests

Grist

AUGUST 11, 2022

Reich, who is the director of the Institute for Global Change Biology at the University of Michigan’s School for Environment and Sustainability, elaborated that boreal forests may be reaching a tipping point at which even modest global warming creates a feedback loop that not only reduces the ability of boreal forests to support healthy plant, microbial, (..)

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Comment: Technology will be crucial to the success of vertical farms

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2023

Vertical farming is increasingly being regarded as one of the solutions to the problems faced by global food production systems, and in the following article Antti Viitanen explains why measurement and control technology will be key to the success of this rapidly growing sector. These challenges are of course exacerbated by climate change.

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Harnessing the power of tech on the path to net zero

Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Partner Insight: Vodafone's Nicki Lyons shares key insights from the recent Vodafone Business UK Customer Sustainability Summit on how businesses can harness technology to reach their decarbonisation goals Climate change has the potential to seriously disrupt our lives. Alongside climate change, we are also facing a biodiversity crisis.

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Conservationists from six nations vow to save the Irish Sea

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2022

And while more than 15 million people live around the Irish Sea and many more visit for holidays, only a small percentage of them realise what wildlife lives there and just how important it is for biodiversity and the environment. The Irish Sea will also be affected by global warming.

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And the winner of Copernicus Masters Planet’s Challenge is… NetCarbon!

Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Their plan is to act on a large scale against global warming by providing simple and powerful tools to farmers that can monitor carbon sequestration on their farms. . This is an answer to two issues that are close to our hearts: tackling climate change and developing sustainable agriculture.

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Campaigners and businesses step up calls for 'Paris Agreement for nature'

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 COP15 is a momentous opportunity to transition the global economy to one that works with nature, rather than against it.

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Our COVID-19 response can make our cities more resilient to heat waves

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Let’s not make the same mistake with global warming. In Sweco’s most recent Urban Insight report, "Building resilience: being young and getting old in a hotter Europe," more solutions for how we can create sustainable, livable cities are proposed: . Pull Quote.

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'Adapt to survive': UNEP publishes six-step guide for delivering a sustainable business

Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The Dasgupta Review of the Economics of Biodiversity published this week hammered home a point that has long been clear: the transition towards a more nature-positive and climate-responsible economy requires a major overhaul of core business assumptions and an embrace of new metrics for gauging economic success.

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Integrated Review: Climate action installed as UK's 'number one international priority'

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 world has consumed half a trillion tonnes of virgin materials since the Paris Agreement

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. Gt of emissions and 5.28 Gt of materials. ? Gt of materials. ?

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'Climate smart': Global beef industry vows to curb carbon intensity by 30 per cent by 2030

Business Green

JUNE 29, 2021

We recognise the need for beef to be more environmentally sound, more socially responsible, and more economically viable,' says Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef.

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PlanetScope and Planet Basemaps Utilized for Carbon Credits Monitoring in Indonesian Tropical Forest

Planet Pulse

AUGUST 4, 2022

Fortunately, organizations around the world are using Planet data to help protect these forests, including mission-based company Permian Global. In the forests of Indonesia, Permian Global has worked in collaboration with the Katingan Mentaya Project in order to protect more than 157,000 hectares of tropical forest peatland.

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Paris Agreement poses major stranded asset risk to Indonesian palm oil, research warns

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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Corporate greenwashing is undermining UK preparation for climate shocks, EA chair warns

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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Daring Cities 2021: Going from Ambitious Climate Goals to Impactful, On-the-Ground Solutions

The City Fix

OCTOBER 18, 2021

It’s common knowledge that if global warming exceeds 1.5C, we face the prospect of everything from increasingly extreme weather. The need to set aggressive goals, backed by meaningful numbers, is an obvious starting point in the fight against climate change. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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‘Code Red for Humanity’: IPCC Report Warns Window for Climate Action Is Closing Fast

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 While benefits for air quality would come quickly, it could take 20-30 years to see global temperatures stabilize.”

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'Get Nature Positive': 95 businesses join forces in pledge to end nature loss

Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Nearly 100 leading UK companies have now pledged to halt and reverse nature decline by 2030, after signing up to the Council for Sustainable Business's (CSB) Get Nature Positive. The 95 firms signed up to the campaign have committed to halting and reversing nature decline by 2030 in line with limiting global warming to 1.5C.

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Treat climate change and biodiversity loss as one, says European science advisory group

Treat climate change and biodiversity loss as one, says European science advisory group

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Humanity’s greatest threat: Cascading impacts of climate, biodiversity, food and water crises

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IPCC: ‘Limiting global warming will require major transitions in the energy sector’

AXA launches bid to boost French forest climate resilience and biodiversity

Danish firm trials turning offshore wind turbine foundations into safe havens for corals

Growing Hope – Supporting Biodiversity and Enhancing Human Well-Being

Crayons of the Seas: A Visual Exploration of Marine Biodiversity with Satellite Imagery

UPM inks €750m sustainability-linked loan to help drive climate action

REPORT: Wildlife loss is increasing rapidly. Changing our food production systems can alleviate this loss

Which Generation is the Greenest Homeowner?

Plant Lights and Environmental Conservation

How Reusing Items Can Help The Environment

Environmental Consequences of Vehicle Emissions

UN report: People have wrecked 40% of all the land on Earth

'Responsible commodities': British supermarkets team up for sustainable soy financing push

'No-nonsense summit': UN chief announces Climate Ambition Summit for 2023

Danone commits to cut dairy methane emissions in partnership with farmers and EDF

Event - Sustainability and the Climate Crisis Conference Call for Abstracts

Land redevelopment and rewilding firm hires 20 environmental consultants

Sustaining Mangroves for Better Livelihoods Along the Kenyan Coast

'Wake-up call': The green economy reacts to the Dasgupta Review on biodiversity

Can burning biomass be sustainable?

First global atlas of rangelands launches, and reveals vulnerable state of a neglected ecosystem

These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health

5 Ways We Can Stop Ocean Acidification

'Common language and purpose': SSI refreshes sustainability roadmap for maritime sector

Even a small rise in temperatures could decimate North American forests

Comment: Technology will be crucial to the success of vertical farms

Harnessing the power of tech on the path to net zero

Conservationists from six nations vow to save the Irish Sea

And the winner of Copernicus Masters Planet’s Challenge is… NetCarbon!

Campaigners and businesses step up calls for 'Paris Agreement for nature'

Our COVID-19 response can make our cities more resilient to heat waves

'Adapt to survive': UNEP publishes six-step guide for delivering a sustainable business

Integrated Review: Climate action installed as UK's 'number one international priority'

The world has consumed half a trillion tonnes of virgin materials since the Paris Agreement

'Climate smart': Global beef industry vows to curb carbon intensity by 30 per cent by 2030

PlanetScope and Planet Basemaps Utilized for Carbon Credits Monitoring in Indonesian Tropical Forest

Paris Agreement poses major stranded asset risk to Indonesian palm oil, research warns

Corporate greenwashing is undermining UK preparation for climate shocks, EA chair warns

Daring Cities 2021: Going from Ambitious Climate Goals to Impactful, On-the-Ground Solutions

‘Code Red for Humanity’: IPCC Report Warns Window for Climate Action Is Closing Fast

'Get Nature Positive': 95 businesses join forces in pledge to end nature loss

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