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”. But the law is too lenient.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Farming needs to urgently scale and pace the adoption of nature-based solutions for addressing climate change and biodiversity loss or face an uncertain future, warns the Nature Friendly Farming Network, an independent organisation that aims to unite farmers across the UK. The effects of climate change and biodiversity loss.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The government is facing yet more legal action over its environmental strategy, after a coalition of green and health groups today formally submitted a complaint to the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) alleging Defra has acted unlawfully by missing the legal deadline to set new targets through the Environment Act.

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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. The Environment Bill will has finally been passed into law, thereby becoming the Environment Act. It can't come soon enough.

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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 19, 2021

The British government began passing laws to protect bats back in 1980s, starting with the Wildlife and Countryside Act of 1981. These laws protect bats and their roosts. These laws made it illegal to intentionally or unintentionally disturb bats where they roost. Why are there so many laws protecting bats and their habitat?

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Business Green

JUNE 6, 2021

Business regulation and tax policy could be subject to a 'future generations law' to assesses its impact on young people if a new 'Youth Manifesto' is enacted. Manifesto by young people signals demand for climate action from business.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Landmark legislation passes into law, but concerns remain over how new Environmental Land Management System will be enacted. From next year the government will launch a seven year transition period to phase in the new ELM scheme, which will see payments calculated based on the extent to which landowners deliver approved public goods.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The first, the Nature Restoration Law, includes plans to restore 20 percent of degraded ecosystems in the EU. The findings come at a crucial time for nature-friendly laws in Europe, which scientists say are critical to securing the bloc’s food supply and tackling both climate breakdown and biodiversity collapse.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Bill establishes a new “independent watchdog”, the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP), to fulfil this role, and it will seemingly hold the government to account on long-term, legally-binding targets in relation to biodiversity, air quality, water and waste management as well as its commitment to reach net zero emissions by 2050.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 2, 2020

UN summit confronts Global biodiversity crisis. Global leaders gathered virtually this week to discuss the environmental crisis that is devastating the world's ecosystems, at the inaugural UN Summit on Biodiversity, a event designed as a primer for the delayed, crucial COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Kunming, China, next year.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Rosie Hails, Nature & Science Director at the National Trust: “When the government committed to the 30×30 goal they underlined the urgency, saying that ‘we cannot afford dither and delay because biodiversity loss is happening today and it is happening at a frightening rate’.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

If it finds there has been a serious failure to comply with environmental law, then further action is possible. However, the Government has now failed to deliver against one of the most important legal requirements of that Act – to set binding legal targets to improve environmental health. million hectares.

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Andrew Winston

APRIL 22, 2024

That awful list translates into serious impacts on humans, including threats to food and water security, health risks and the spread of disease, loss of biodiversity (that is, the web of life we rely on), infrastructure breakdown, and what the U.S. military calls “threat multipliers” that affect national security. degrees Celsius (2.7

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 19, 2020

The the 15th annual Green Economics Conference is titled " Survival Solutions for the Crises: Climate, Economy and Biodiversity Loss " will take place on the zoom platform. We explore fact, truth reality, democracy and the current dilemmas of technology vs freedom and surveillance vs health which are affecting everyone on the planet.

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Defend Our Future

MARCH 20, 2024

Food insecurity According to a study from the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health , one in four young adults in 2020 faced food insecurity, with Gen Z adults being twice as likely. Congress is currently re-authorizing the Farm Bill – a once-every-five-year law that sets the path for the U.S.’s

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2020

million currently 'undiscovered' viruses exist in mammals and birds, of which up to 850,000 could have the ability to infect people, but that the risk of these diseases making the jump to humans could be "significantly lowered" by halting biodiversity loss. It estimates that another 1.7

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Fairsnape

JUNE 3, 2020

The patterns, known as ‘leaves’ (as tree leaves), represent the growth and health of the city, they are system thinking based and fractal, each complementing and supporting the other patterns, never limiting or over shadowing other patterns and allowed to emerge organically.

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Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2020

Defra promises 'robust, evidence led process' to set in statute air, water, waste and biodiversity targets by the end of October 2022. And, the government said it would explore targets to restore and create wildlife-rich habitats in protected sites with a view to increasing species populations and improving marine biodiversity.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Veteran sustainable food and farming experts welcomed the strategy as one that just might have a genuine shot at transforming the agriculture sector and result in better public health, contribute to ending the vertiginous decline of biodiversity, and lower greenhouse gas pollution.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2022

Ministers must press ahead with bold biodiversity targets that can unlock much-needed public and private investment for efforts to enhance nature and tackle air, water and waste pollution, argues The Wildlife Trusts' Eliot Chapman-Jones. Six months ago this week, the first Environment Bill in England for almost 30 years passed into law.

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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. According to the Pesticides Action Network, over a third of Bayer’s sales derive from products that are highly hazardous to the environment, animal or human health.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Plans to lift ban on fracking and curtain legacy EU environmental laws and regulations announced today risk backlash from some of the government's own MPs. But Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg argued revoking EU law was a necessity now the UK has left the trading bloc.

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2020

Environment Secretary George Eustice has insisted the government's promises build back greener and protect UK nature and biodiversity after Covid-19 "means what it says", as he announced further details of post-Brexit plans for oversight of environmental laws and local planning.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The rights to life, health, food and water, cultural rights and the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment are being violated and will continue to be violated, and the rule of law will continue to be undermined, unless the ISDS system is eliminated,” Boyd reports. Despite their impacts, ISDS cases are cloaked in secrecy.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

It raises the alarm over a "deeply concerning decline in biodiversity" in England, with available evidence pointing to a 17 per cent reduction in the abundance of priority species from 2013 to 2017 "among other adverse trends".

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2023

Protecting our natural environment is fundamental to the health, economy and prosperity of our country," said Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Nature is vital for our survival, crucial to our food security, clean air, and clean water as well as health and well-being benefits," she added. "We

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2020

There is an increased awareness of the link between our own health, and that of the planet.    Studies across the spectrum, from health to financial risk, remind us that it is in our best interests to look after nature. We know that a connection with nature contributes to well-being, and improved mental health.

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Business Green

AUGUST 2, 2022

It found that just two out of 90 firms have a comprehensive biodiversity policy in place. But the biodiversity plans of the overwhelming majority of companies surveyed were found to be badly wanting, despite these companies being collectively responsible for 44 million hectares of tropical forest.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 19, 2022

biodiversity (protecting health of local wildlife and water bodies), lower strain on aging utility infrastructure (reducing the risk of damage and repair), local revenue (sourcing materials from local businesses), and new green jobs ( there’s a growing need for developers, builders, policymakers and agents knowledgeable about sustainability).

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

With a planned and targeted strategy we achieved that and beyond, and state of Punjab was poster boy of this widely hailed success story but it came at the harrowing cost of human lives and health. It came, and came at the harrowing cost of human lives and health, scarring families for generations. Way forward (conculsion).

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Business Green

AUGUST 14, 2020

Environment Minister Rebecca Pow said the coronavirus crisis had shone a light on the importance of the natural world and the "positive impact nature can have on our health and wellbeing".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Statement by Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the UN High-Level summit on biodiversity. Upset the delicate balance nature has achieved over tens of millions of years and the consequences could be catastrophic - for the economy, for the climate, for food security, for public health, for all the Sustainable Development Goals.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The letter notes that the projects pose immense environmental risks and impacts to biodiversity in Uganda. If this happened, it would jeopardise the health and livelihoods of over 40 million people who rely upon the lake as their main source of freshwater.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South. Danielle Purifoy.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Europe’s leading farming lobby group Copa-Cogeca has used the war in Ukraine as a pretext to push back behind the scenes against flagship EU laws to protect nature, DeSmog can reveal. It urges European decision makers to “protect our health and the environment, and to make our agriculture resilient”.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2022

Environmental laws and government strategy and policy have 'not yet proved successful' in slowing down, halting or reversing biodiversity decline, new regulatory body warns. Turning this round will certainly not be easy," she said.

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