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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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Proposals to block solar farms, revive fracking, and roll back planning rules are further fuelling the impression the government really is engaged in an 'attack on nature'. Healthy soils and clean water underpin sustainable food production, keeping food on our plates and providing for our next generations. Far from it.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

But the result, critics say, has been a proliferation of intensive farming practices that damage soils, nature, and the climate by ironing out as much unpredictability as possible from the natural world through pesticides, hulking machinery, and crop homogeneity. In truth, neither perception paints an entirely realistic picture.

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2020

It's why within our sector we're committed to working with farmers, customers, industry leadership groups and government to create a sustainable future for years to come.". McCain is one of a number of leading food brands to step up investment in enhancing the climate resilience of their supply chains.

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Business Green

JUNE 15, 2022

As part of the plan, farmers are provided with training and support as they adopt regenerative farming methods that reduce pesticide use, carbon emissions, and soil erosion, while simultaneously improving organic soil matter and biodiversity.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2023

Last year we welcomed the news that the UK Government would ban the sale of bagged peat compost in England by the end of 2024," said Allis Watt, peat policy officer at The Wildlife Trusts. A spokesperson for Defra said the government remained committed to banning the use of peat-containing products.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

More than 20 projects across England aimed at restoring nature, reducing flood risk, cutting carbon, and boosting biodiversity win support through Landscape Recovery Scheme fund. This is such good news A major boost for biodiversity, carbon storage, drought mitigation, reduced flooding, improved water quality… & jobs.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2023

GFI said greater understanding of nature risk was critical to the economy, as three-quarters of UK FTSE All-Share firms are currently "highly dependant" on natural capital and resources - including water and soil with sectors such as agriculture, forestry, utilities and mining - that are at risk of economic disruption from nature degradation.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2023

Efforts to prevent global warming from worsening, known in the jargon as climate mitigation, have long dominated governments' response to the climate crisis. This disparity in the focus enjoyed by climate mitigation and climate resilience is replicated within many corporate climate plans. Here are some of the key takeaways.

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

Government confirms £30m of new investment in a range of projects designed to enhance natural carbon sinks. Alongside the NetZeroPlus project the government and the UK Research and Innovation agency today announced new funding for projects exploring how to use peat, rock chips, and charcoal to expand natural carbon sinks.

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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. Reward sustainable farming.

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Business Green

APRIL 27, 2022

Charity coalition's 2030 strategy aims to ramp up expansion of nature recovery areas to boost carbon storage, climate resilience, and connect more people with nature. The announcement comes ahead of the long-delayed COP15 UN Biodiversity Summit, which is due to take place in China later this year.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

As part of the initiative, launched late last week, the CEOs of McCain Foods, McDonald's, Waitrose & Partners, Olam, and PepsiCo have produced a joint action plan detailing how to boost adoption of regenerative farming practices globally, in a bid to reduce the food system's significant impacts on climate and biodiversity.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

Climate change isn’t a 'side of desk' activity, yet corporate efforts to bolster resilience are failing to keep pace with worsening climate impacts - BusinessGreen Intelligence's latest trend report explores how firms should respond to escalating climate risks "The wolf is at the door," warns Greenpeace UK's head of politics, Rebecca Newsom.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

in new funding for a wave of projects that aim to trial the most effective ways of capturing CO2 and bolstering climate resilience using nature-based solutions. The funding is provided from the government's £12.5m The funding is provided from the government's £12.5m

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

This situation will become much more widespread without decisive action from all governments. Governments will negotiate how to pay for this loss and damage. And business and wealthier governments will also discuss how to cut emissions faster - what's known as mitigation. This is known as loss and damage.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The government has today set out its much-anticipated roadmap for delivering "the biggest change in agricultural policy in half a century", as it seeks to gradually replace the EU's farming subsidy framework over the next seven years with a system that rewards farmers for enhancing the environment and protecting the climate.

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Business Green

JUNE 6, 2021

Sustainable agricultural practices offer net zero and biodiversity benefits, the frozen chips giant claims. Our global sustainability report is an annual progress report for McCain to keep track of the commitments and goals we have set," said Charlie Angelakos, vice-president of global government and external affairs for McCain.

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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. based environmental organization.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Today a 600-page Review on the Economics of Biodiversity aims to similarly influence opinion on how best to turn the tide on the ongoing destruction of the natural world, which it warns threatens the wellbeing and livelihoods of humanity unless transformative action is urgently taken to address market and governmental failures.

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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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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

Conservationists have urged the government to make nature restoration a key pillar of its forthcoming economic recovery package, claiming it could create thousands of jobs across the country while tackling biodiversity loss and the climate crisis. It remains to be seen what will be included in the government's recovery package.

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Business Green

JUNE 15, 2021

Government's failure to prioritise climate resilience risks undermining UK's ability to meet net zero and biodiversity goals, CCC warns. Meanwhile, the Treasury's long-awaited review of the costs of delivering the UK's 2050 net zero goal is not expected incorporate cost considerations for adaptation and resilience.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

Conservationists have urged the government to make nature restoration a key pillar of its forthcoming economic recovery package, claiming it could create thousands of jobs across the country while tackling biodiversity loss and the climate crisis. It remains to be seen what will be included in the government's recovery package.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2021

Details of the England's first pilot agricultural subsidy scheme designed to reward farmers for carrying out works that benefit the environment and curb greenhouse gas emissions have been unveiled, as the government looks to test out several options before a planned nationwide rollout of its flagship reforms from 2024.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

To no one's surprise that was the conclusion of the CCC's latest assessment today , a 1,500-page review, which sets out the stark and inevitable impacts from climate change that the UK is already facing, and does not hold back in criticising the government for its failure to take these threats seriously in its policymaking and public messaging.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 12, 2022

We have no hope of solving one without solving the other, and by plenty of measures (such as the work on ‘Planetary Boundaries' by Johan Rockström and others at the Stockholm Resilience Institute), we have gone even further beyond the ‘safe operating space for humanity' on biodiversity loss, than on climate change.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

To quote the Three Lions England football song, after 30 years of hurt, climate action is finally coming home on African soil here in Egypt," he said. "At Mohamed Adow, director of think tank Power Shift Africa said the achievement came after three decades of appeals for help from climate impacted nations. "To

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2023

Leading UK firms have signed up to a new Nature Positive Business Pledge, but reversing nature loss remains a daunting challenge After centuries of despoiling the environment and forcing nature into retreat, could the private sector play an integral role in reversing the decline in global biodiversity?

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Business Green

AUGUST 14, 2020

Buckinghamshire, Cornwall, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, and Northumberland Councils have been selected to pilot studies to help map the most valuable sites in their areas for wildlife in a bid to aid nature restoration efforts, the government has announced today.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 5, 2023

The world’s mangroves alone sequester more than 31 million tons of carbon in their soils and biomass each year. In today’s current carbon market, verifiable data enables governments to receive global incentives to protect and restore their carbon sinks.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Global initiative celebrates milestone, but warns governments are undervaluing benefits of nature-based climate solutions for cutting CO2 and boosting economies. It will benefit people everywhere, including the world's poorest and most vulnerable by creating jobs, stable water supplies and more climate resilient crops," she said.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2020

Added to its crowdfunding push, Heal intends to seek support from companies and charitable foundations and intends to explore its eligibility for the Nature for Climate Fund, the £640m package unveiled in the government's recent Budget to support tree planting, afforestation, and peatland restoration programmes in England.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2020

It's illustrated again the importance of our relationship with nature and the importance of treating nature with respect, and that the loss of biodiversity and climate change are two sides of the same coin. It is climate change that is sadly driving the loss of much of our nature and much of our biodiversity.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In the wake of blazing heat, rising food insecurity and devastating floods, COP28 leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda for the conference, which will call for governments to work with industry to find new solutions. These big ag entities often link regenerative agriculture to carbon storage in the soil.

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Sustainability Consulting

APRIL 7, 2021

It will give governments, policy makers, and companies emissions data to be able to identify areas of the food system that produce the most emissions and develop ways to reduce them. 32% come from land use changes including deforestation and soil degradation (these activities released 5.7 gigatons of CO2e emissions globally in 2015).

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The government has today celebrated the passage into law of its Agriculture Bill, providing the legal framework for its post-Brexit plan to reform subsidies to ensure farmers and landowners only receive public money in return for delivering public goods.

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