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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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

These new tools — under development or in the early phases of testing — are helping put numbers to the abstract concept of regenerative agriculture and helping measure metrics such as biodiversity, carbon sequestration and other soil health considerations. . Mapping soil health with satellite data and remote sensors.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

As more corporate sustainability teams cultivate projects to restore biodiversity and degraded landscapes or to nurture soil carbon sequestration and other nature-based climate solutions, interest in drone technologies that can weed out the best opportunities is flourishing. Information Technology. Heather Clancy. Food & Agriculture.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 5, 2021

Protect human health and biodiversity. This pollution also threatens biodiversity. Working towards a circular economy helps protect human health and biodiversity in many ways, including by making better use of natural resources (protecting water and land), and by mitigating the climate crisis. Boost economies.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Now, in an independent study for the Scottish Government, a team of experts, led by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) and NatureScot, has predicted other non-native species that could arrive, establish and have negative impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems, economies or human health over the next 10 years.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2020

The government has been accused of neglecting soil health in England and thereby potentially heightening the risks of flood, food insecurity, and biodiversity loss, after a freedom of information request revealed it spends just a fraction of its environmental monitoring budget on enhancing and protecting soils.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Commentators seemed unanimous that the new requirements were a step in the right direction, if a little unambitious, with a government impact assessment acknowledging that 10% Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) may not go beyond “no net loss”. Green roof systems and bio-active concrete were also mentioned as supportive of biodiversity improvements.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Yet in response to a Freedom of Information request to see any assessments, evidence or policy papers detailing progress towards the 30×30 target, Defra could provide nothing. It’s therefore deeply worrying that three years later the Government is unable to provide robust evidence about progress towards the 30×30 goal.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

When we talk about the blue economy, we're talking about sectors that are sustainable and that maintain the health of the ocean that support our economies and communities, both human and wild," said Helvarg. Aquaculture, sustainable fisheries and marine biodiversity conservation: helping U.S. Coastal Health. Oceans & Fisheries.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 3, 2020

New benchmark shows that biodiversity is in fashion Liesl Truscott Thu, 12/03/2020 – 01:00 This week, in advance of World Soil Day — Dec. 5 — the Textile Exchange Corporate Fiber and Materials Benchmark (CFMB) Program is launching a new tool to help the fashion and textile industry take urgent action on biodiversity.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

True-cost accounting aims to make visible the full costs of food by identifying, measuring and valuing the positive and negative environmental, social and health-related externalities of food and agricultural systems. Some of [these wallets] transact in money and some transact in health," he explains. But the costs are there.

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GreenBiz

MAY 3, 2021

Leading companies, including tech firms Microsoft and Akamai, are expanding their focus into new realms — ones that explore the intersection of sustainability and human health, or that allow employees to take action to reduce their own impact at home and in the communities where they live.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

Boris Johnson and Xi Jinping agree to continued co-operation in face of coronavirus crisis and hint at plans for climate and biodiversity summits. They are good opportunities for the two sides to promote international cooperation in health and epidemic prevention".

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 22, 2021

Academics and experts at The University of Manchester are calling for large-scale behavioural change in a bid to improve the UK’s air quality (“the biggest environmental health issue facing the UK”), in a new publication, On Air Quality. This is why we welcome this timely publication.”. Says Professor Coe.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Collecting data on seagrass health (image courtesy of Seawilding). Volunteers were able to upload their discoveries onto the BSAC website where the information was then analysed, collated and shared by Seawilding with national databases making it accessible to scientists and policy makers.

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Planet Pulse

AUGUST 2, 2021

How a Multi-Stakeholder Project, MOCUPP, is Advancing Costa Rica Towards Sustainable Practices to Protect the Country’s Biodiversity. Costa Rica is one of the most biodiverse places in the world, containing nearly 6 percent of the world’s biodiversity. Biodiversity also plays an essential role in the well-being of the planet.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

The public can get involved in citizen science projects to monitor the health of their rivers in order to gather evidence on the issues and opportunities for water quality improvements. For more information on London Rivers Week 2023 events visit: [link] Flood plains in London are currently home to 1.42

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2022

This is now affecting the health of the entire planet, making it significantly less resilient to shocks,” says lead author Lan Wang-Erlandsson from Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University. Other transgressed boundaries are: climate change, biodiversity loss, biogeochemical cycles, land use and, in 2022, chemical pollution.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Researchers at the University of Oxford and their collaborators have launched a new approach to tackling biodiversity loss “in a coordinated way.” The loss of biodiversity is increasingly recognised as a crisis, linked to climate change, which needs urgent action. OxPOCH’s Principal Investigator, Professor E.J.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The strategy sets out a number of measures that aim to protect human health and the environment from hazardous chemicals – by boosting innovation in the area of safe and sustainable chemicals, prohibiting the use of the most harmful ones “unless proven essential for society”, as the EC press release put it.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Accelerate and integrate the efficacy of climate/biodiversity actions to achieve greater impact and effect. We need to think of protected areas as serving both the biodiversity they help to protect and the carbon sequestration ability of the ocean – MPAs protect and retain carbon. Time is not on our side.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

From ditching GDP as a measure of economic wealth to enhancing environmental education: BusinessGreen has rounded up all the recommendations of the Dasgupta Review of the Economics of Biodiversity. Policy makers, business leaders, financial sectors, and communities all have a part to play in this sweeping vision.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Rivers are crucial parts of the global water cycle, contain important biodiversity, and are essential for human health. This important information should be used to prioritise the management and conservation of our rivers moving forward.”

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2019

An ever-expanding population and declining planetary health could lead to gigantic air domes combatting the leading cause of death, air pollution, and the total destabilisation of global weather patterns. The report is intended to inform decisions on the design and planning of our built environment. billion to 9.7 In ‘Humans Inc.’,

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

A group of researchers from the University of Wollongong (UOW), in New South Wales, will lead a symposium on the impact of climate change and other environmental challenges on Antarctica, and what can be done to preserve the continent’s biodiversity in response to these threats.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 30, 2021

To better support the health of these communities, Berckes’ organization employs local teenagers to plant and care for trees. They can, if done right, tremendously advance environmental justice — they provide human health benefits, biodiversity, bird and pollinator habitat, slope stability and the list goes on.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

I am thinking especially of global poverty, hunger, health and education — SDGs 1 through 4 — where the latest figures from the World Bank and other centers of analysis paint a bleak picture of years lost and lives threatened. But the analysis does not stop there. Virtuous cycles can turn vicious.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

Farmers learned to live with the health impacts of the toxic version, and today it remains the primary pasture grass across 37 million acres of farmland. Terra Fondriest via FERN Hamilton and Steele have decided to bet on biodiversity. It’s a longstanding problem, and it’s spreading. The southeastern U.S.,

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Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Coastal marshes and wetlands are key to supporting the health and productivity of the surrounding communities and their marine habitats. But as climate change and human activity put greater strain on these systems, officials are looking to new solutions to monitor and reduce the loss of aquatic biodiversity and wildlife.

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Business Green

AUGUST 22, 2021

Atkins' associate director and technical authority for biodiversity and natural capital Claire Wansbury highlights the many benefits of targeting environmental net gain. Developers across all sectors in the UK are being asked to provide 'biodiversity net gain' at an increasing pace, including us here at Atkins.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 19, 2020

The program collects information about soil health, biodiversity and ecosystem function, which is related to water cycle, mineral cycle, energy flow and community dynamics.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The key outcomes are expected to include: improvements in soil health and its carbon sequestration potential; enhanced biodiversity; reduction in synthetic fertiliser use; enhanced water quality; and improved farmer livelihoods. The ambition is for the barley grown to be used to brew beautiful tasting Guinness.

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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2021

Defra confirms wave of amendments designed to strengthen biodiversity targets, curb water pollution, and safeguard independence of Office of Environment Protection. However, writing on Twitter environmental campaigner Miles King voiced concerns that the new biodiversity target would not guarantee improvements to UK biodiversity.

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Grist

JULY 14, 2020

But conservation areas are often vulnerable to illegal logging, poaching, mining, and other activities that threaten biodiversity. Sound has long been used by soundscape ecologists to assess biodiversity and other metrics of ecosystem health. How can land managers detect these kinds of human impacts on protected ecosystems?

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 22, 2023

France is the second largest market in the EU for pesticides, which have been found to harm biodiversity , soil health and human health. A spokesperson from Bayer’s crop science division said: “Like all companies, Bayer may establish partnerships with influencers to promote information or events.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

That's despite this being the second pandemic in 10 years, the fourth respiratory illness in 18 years, and numerous warnings from the World Health Organization, he added at the February virtual event. Santona described the "siloing" of information within a corporation as the biggest impediment to risk management. The power of metaphor.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Urban trees vital in fight against climate change and connecting us with nature to boost health and wellbeing. These will help areas improve health and wellbeing, as well as playing a crucial role in the fight against climate change, supporting the UK’s journey to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

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