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Scientists Condemn Last Minute Push to Overturn EU Nature Law

DeSmogBlog

At the eleventh hour, right-wing politicians have launched a bid to block the passing of the EU’s flagship nature protection law, which scientists have described as a “cornerstone of food security and human health”. Scientists have condemned the call, as well as six other amendments that could see the law delayed or weakened.

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Complaint launched after government misses legal deadline on environmental protections

Envirotec Magazine

If it finds there has been a serious failure to comply with environmental law, then further action is possible. The Government should work quickly to publish its package of targets, using this extra time to ensure they are as strong as possible. g/m 3 , against a recognised health standard of 10?g/m Nature cannot wait.”.

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Revealed: Meetings Blitz Between Big Ag and Anti-Green Lawmakers in Europe

DeSmogBlog

The EPP is vociferously opposing two major pieces of legislation from the EU’s Green Deal, a historic package by the bloc to reduce its emissions in line with global climate targets. The first, the Nature Restoration Law, includes plans to restore 20 percent of degraded ecosystems in the EU. Credit: Ian Nixon and Brigitte Wear.

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

Over the past year, many professional services organizations that previously had little to say publicly about their climate change strategy — from law firms to management consultants to ad agencies — found themselves under closer scrutiny not just for their own footprint but for supporting some of the biggest climate deniers around.

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'Legal and environmental folly': Is a backlash already brewing over the government's fracking and deregulation drive?

Business Green

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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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. Mattel seeks for all products and packaging to comprise recycled or recyclable materials by 2030, and in June it brought sugarcane-plastic toddler stacking rings to market. billion years of evolution.

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'Fundamental to the economy': Government publishes five-year Environmental Improvement Plan

Business Green

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