Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The Government has claimed that it is “on track to reach its target to protect 30% of UK land and sea for nature 2030”, but the department responsible cannot provide any evidence to back-up these assertions, as new findings reveal, which were published on 10 October by environmental groups. Image credit: Marc Barrot , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 13, 2022

The Government has broken its promise to reform farming post-Brexit. In its National Food Strategy published today (13 June), the Government’s commitment to provide a third of its farming budget for Landscape Recovery has been abandoned. The Government has watered down Environmental Land Management schemes.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The UK government will invest £25 million in projects that use nature to protect communities from flooding, Environment Minister Rebecca Pow announced on 22 September. That is why we are driving investment to harness the power of nature. The project was supported by £275,000 of Government funding. billion flood programme.

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Business Green

MAY 30, 2022

A tree planting project in Liverpool and a plan to restore peatlands at the Great Fen in Cambridgeshire are among 50 initiatives sharing in government grants announced today with an eye on unlocking further private investment into nature restoration and climate action across England.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 27, 2024

Through investment in some of Plymouth’s natural spaces, the project will support nature recovery, bringing benefits for biodiversity and improved recreational spaces for residents. Ocean City Nature by Plymouth City Council was also highly commended for demonstrating doughnut economics in action.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Scores of financial firms, banks, and institutional investors representing more than $24tr in assets worldwide have today called on world leaders to adopt an ambitious global nature treaty that establishes clear guidelines for the financial sector to ensure biodiversity loss is reversed.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2021

New tools aim to make it easier for developers to deliver overall improvements in biodiversity to compensate for their direct impacts on nature. Natural England this morning launched three new tools designed to help developers accurately measure biodiversity net gain and ensure new developments are "nature positive".

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GreenBiz

APRIL 22, 2021

Nature-based solutions to climate change are having a moment, and Apple is riding the trend with a $200 million fund dedicated to related investments. . What started as a $10 million investment became the $100 million Right Now Climate Fund. How is that money being spent?

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

While the news that a date for the UN COP 15 biodiversity summit has been confirmed for December is welcome, the slow progress of the pre-meeting in Nairobi with 196 nations is less so. The UN has collectively proposed that countries commit 30 per cent of natural areas to prevent biodiversity loss.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Investing in the ground beneath our feet could have wide-ranging benefits for the environment, animal and human health – as well as moving closer to Net Zero, according to new research. Governments, however, need to quickly implement ‘regenerative agriculture’ policies to incentivise farmers to take up the challenge, the researchers argue.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

UN declares virtual talks have set the stage for the adoption of an ambitious post-2020 global biodiversity framework next year. However, China's Minister of Ecology and Environment of China and COP-15 President, Huang Runqiu, stressed that the world faced "unprecedented challenges" as it seeks to reverse soaring levels of biodiversity loss.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2022

MSCI is set to launch tools to help investors identify companies at risk of contributing to biodiversity loss and deforestation, the financial index giant announced yesterday. For crucial action to be taken, capital markets participants need to have access to timely and robust data to make more informed investment decisions," she said.

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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 11, 2024

Biodiversity Loss Climate change is accelerating biodiversity loss at an unprecedented rate. The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) reports that one million species are at risk of extinction due to habitat loss, climate change, and other human activities.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2021

New report warns biodiversity degradation is set to have significant economic and financial implications. Biodiversity loss poses risks of similar, and perhaps greater magnitude to many countries, while it is also clear that climate and biodiversity are interlinked and often self-reinforcing issues.

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Business Green

JUNE 1, 2022

Funds announced as governments and environmental community meet for two-day environmental summit in Stockholm. International Environment Minister Lord Zac Goldsmith said scaling finance for nature protection was an economic imperative that would require governments and private actors to pool resources. There is no silver bullet.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

New online tool seeks to help companies and investors mitigate biodiversity-related risks and prepare for the reforms that follow the new Global Biodiversity Framework. WWF unveiled plans for the new tool, dubbed the Biodiversity Risk Filter (BRF), at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2020

The brewing industry is among the nine critical sectors identified in a report published today by UNEP and the Natural Capital Finance Alliance that highlights need for banks, investors and insurers to set firm targets to reduce biodiversity loss.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

Potential of mangoves and seagrass to capture CO2 and support biodiversity to be explored as six marine and coastal projects secure backing from UK Research and Innovation. Research projects aiming to boost biodiversity, capture greenhouse gas emissions and protect coastal environments are among those receiving a share of £9.2m

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2021

CBI chief says it is 'not acceptable' for businesses to sit on the sidelines amid 'seismic' challenges from climate change, biodiversity loss and Covid-19. From climate change to digitisation, resilience-building to fighting protectionist instincts, the challenges we face are seismic," he said.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

World leaders announce new biodiversity commitments as they declare upcoming nature summit a global priority. In addition, a new accelerator for action on biodiversity was announced by the Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development of Colombia on behalf of the President of Colombia.

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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2020

Report from ShareAction finds that none of the world's 75 largest asset managers have a dedicated biodiversity policy, while many are still underplaying climate risks. Moreover, only 11 per cent of asset managers have policies requiring portfolio companies to mitigate harmful impacts on biodiversity.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In addition, 40% of survey respondents said current government policies are ineffective in accelerating renewable deployment, and these inhibiting government policies and regulations were cited as the number-one barrier to scale, with 77% of respondents identifying this challenge. Confluence across sectors is key.

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2022

A six-fold increase in funding flows from richer nations to poorer nations to support nature protection is needed to help slow the rate of biodiversity loss, charities have warned.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

UK government to provide £30m for new fund launched to mark 'Biodiversity Day' at COP27 Climate Summit. Coffey has today called for renewed global action to protect and enhance nature, as the government announced additional funding for a series of nature-focused initiatives. UK Environment Secretary Thérèse?Coffey

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2020

Would that the same could be said of global biodiversity - or the living natural world to give it its more evocative name and rid it of the emotional distancing that accompanies the dry scientific terminology. Efforts to tackle biodiversity loss enjoy no such luck. The yields are seen to be higher if the field is soaked in pesticide.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Conversation charity has called on UK government to enact legally binding targets for biodiversity, warning that the UK’s current performance on protecting loss of wildlife is even worse than government’s already-poor self-assessment. We cannot be in this same position in 2030 with our natural world vanishing due to inaction.".

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The research looked to explore this and identified biodiversity loss, sea-level rise, and extreme weather events as the most crucial topics to tackle in terms of overall impact, urgency, and geographical reach. These criteria include biodiversity impact, pollution impact, carbon impact, readiness level, costs, trade-offs and scalability.

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Business Green

MAY 26, 2022

The UK government has promised to push its fellow G7 nations to accelerate the shift towards green energy, reduce dependency on fossil fuels, and ramp up efforts to tackle biodiversity loss, as climate and energy minister of the world's leading economies meet for a summit in Berlin this week.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

UK government should introduce secondary legislation and guidance that can provide further clarity about how the biodiversity offset market will work and be policed, non-profit argue. Multiple government roles in the market could result in perverse outcomes and conflicts of interest.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

UK government announces 45 countries have signed up to new coalition designed to accelerate efforts to expand nature based solutions to the climate crisis ?. We need to put people, nature and climate at the core of our food systems.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

On 1 November green groups submitted a letter of complaint to Defra after the Government failed to meet a legal deadline on setting new environmental targets. The planned targets were intended to drive progress in areas such as river quality by encouraging stronger government policy and providing certainty for business.

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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2022

Early in the campaign both Truss and Sunak signed a pledge orchestrated by the Conservative Environment Network, which saw them commit to supporting the UK's net zero goals and delivering on wider environmental and biodiversity goals.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2022

New toolkit aims to help deliver investment ready nature projects that can mobilise private finance in support of nature restoration. What does investment in nature mean in practice? How can investors generate returns from investing in nature restoration and how can they be assured projects deliver promised environmental gains?

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The world is set to miss all its targets to safeguard biodiversity and halt the destruction of ecosystems that are critical to slowing climate change, according to an alarming UN report published today by the Convention of Biological Diversity.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

MPs in Public Accounts Committee have urged government to “move on from aspirational words” and start “taking the hard decisions” to advance its environmental agenda.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The biodiversity net-gain requirement is among the most important conservation policy initiatives of the last two decades, argues Environment Bank chairman and founder Professor David Hill CBE. His words apply equally to rebuilding biodiversity as they do to addressing climate change. It can't come soon enough.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Following a consultation last year, the government yesterday confirmed plans to bring in the new Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) requirements in a phased approach between now and the end of 2025, starting with local planning authorities this year before extending to major infrastructure projects.

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