Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Intended to fill the policy vacuum emerging from the UK’s departure from the EU on 31 January, the Environment Bill has been eagerly anticipated, and seemingly gives government the power to set legally binding targets on all aspects of the environment in future. Soil and biodiversity. Envirotec reports.

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Business Green

JANUARY 10, 2022

Developers would need to ensure new buildings improve local biodiversity, or invest in nature-projects to offset impacts elsewhere. The 10 per cent threshold is set to become a mandatory target for all new developments under the government's proposals, which were launched for consultation today.

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

With G7 and COP26 fast approaching, Environmental Audit Committee chair Philip Dunne argues the government must adopt a solutions-driven approach to environmental policy. Now is the time for effective government policy interventions to deliver these commitments to protect our environment.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

UKRI offers funding to four major scientific projects across UK exploring net zero cities, agricultural resilience, and biodiversity loss. We rely on the biodiversity of the planet's ecosystem to provide oxygen, pollination of plants, food and much more, making this a crucial time to act.".

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 14, 2023

By Wendy Furgusson, Associate, Environment and Health, Ramboll With Natural England’s recent changes to planning policy causing a reduction in the number of new homes built from 240,000 a year in 2018-19 to a projected 111,000 by 2025, awareness of nutrient pollution as a problem is becoming more widespread.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. In a May 2020 paper in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy, a team of economists led by Cameron Hepburn led a survey to assess the most climate-friendly recovery policies.

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

But it will require a shift towards eco-friendly practices and policies in various sectors. Promoting sustainable agriculture The agricultural sector is a contributor to a rise in greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation, and water pollution. Techniques, such as organic farming and biodiversity can make all the difference.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 22, 2023

Stephen Kennedy is head of digital and innovation at MWH Treatment, a firm offering end-to-end treatment projects for water and wastewater. There is a lot of information around policies, ambitions, targets and goals, but it is the legislation that actually defines what must be achieved, and by when.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

Pensions firm's new Global Environmental Solutions fund to invest in companies tackling climate change, biodiversity loss, food insecurity and pollution Scottish Widows has launched four new funds which aim to direct a total of £1.4bn of investment into sustainable assets.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The planned targets were intended to drive progress in areas such as river quality by encouraging stronger government policy and providing certainty for business. The new version will have to show clearly how the government’s policies will deliver on its targets. The UK annual average level of particle pollution for 2021 was 12.9?g/m

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Business Green

MAY 13, 2022

Leading green groups have responded angrily to the publication of the government's new Environmental Principles Policy Statement , warning that it could lay the groundwork for a significant weakening of the UK's environmental policy and regulatory regime.

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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. See Table.).

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Front And Centered

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Washington state must cut greenhouse gas emissions from energy use in half within the next ten years if we have any chance in meeting long term state requirements to nearly eliminate pollution that causes climate change by 2050. Cap and Trade: A False Promise.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 5, 2022

Have you read: Global leaders vow to strengthen energy security and accelerate clean energy transitions Decarbonisation more cost effective than polluting alternatives in Central America IRENA’s Francesco La Camera spotlights next steps for climate action after COP26. Climate change policy. Opportunities for emission reduction.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Through the lens of environmental stewardship and innovation, this journey will dissect the layers of organic materials that form the backbone of biomass energy, venturing beyond the surface to examine the environmental, economic, and social narratives that intertwine with the fabric of this energy form.

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Business Green

JUNE 12, 2024

The awards were more competitive than ever with record numbers of entries and remarkable innovation on display in every category. The judges were also impressed by the firm's clear client engagement policy and ambitious internal efforts to cut its own emissions. Here are all the winners and highly commended finalists from the night.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

A new peer-to-peer platform is helping municipalities and water utilities find reliable innovative solutions to their infrastructure resilience challenges, according to the firm behind it, Isle Utilities. Biodiversity is also at risk along with public health and the psychological wellbeing of those affected by extreme weather events.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Spearheaded by the US and United Arab Emirates (UAE), Aim4C will be showcasing $13 billion-worth of joint projects (or “innovation sprints”) which feature many high-tech “climate-smart” solutions that are favoured by industry, and include some dubious technologies unproven at scale.

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Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2020

The government is committed to the removal of all net greenhouse gas emissions within 30 years from the whole of the UK and a 25-year environment plan to improve - note, not halt the decline - of the country's biodiversity. We are at grave risk of suggesting policy answers that are highly unappetising, repellent even, to this government.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 3, 2023

High profile international commitments like the Global Methane Pledge and the Global Methane Hub have raised the profile of methane as a powerful climate pollutant among policymakers and investors. Companies should also support farmers by investing in innovative solutions, particularly to tackle enteric methane. Solutions exist today.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

The biggest risks to food security stem from climate change and the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services,” said the letter, which was sent to all Members of the European Parliament. “We We urge policy makers to continue the legislative procedure.” It is also the leading cause of biodiversity loss in the world.

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Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2021

The Environment Bill must lead to a target-setting regime that spurs the growth of environmental markets and scales up critical net zero technology and innovation, argues EIC's Matthew Farrow. Sometimes, this is because the target is arbitrary, set to signify a political position or intent, but never sufficiently backed up by policy.

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2023

In addition, the plan incorporates a new roadmap for boosting household water efficiency and tackling leaks across the water industry, new plans to tackle air pollution hot spots, and a series of initiatives to bolster green innovation by improving access to finance and research and development for farmers and foresters.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The report released today stresses the links between multiple "self-inflicted" environmental challenges - the climate crisis, biodiversity loss, and pollution - and the world's societal development challenges, which have left 1.3 Climate disruption, biodiversity loss and pollution threaten our viability as a species.

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Business Green

JULY 11, 2022

There is greater urgency than ever before to tackle global pollution, of which CO2 is one of the biggest sources," said Ryan. This joint research centre will bring together world-leading scientists and innovators in decarbonisation and climate repair to develop new technology and solutions to the climate emergency.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2022

In a communique published at the close of a three-day Energy and Environment Ministerial meeting in Berlin this week, the world's largest economies set out their priorities for tackling the intersecting climate, biodiversity, and pollution crises, and responding to the disruption to energy markets wrought by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In February 2021, German agribusiness giant BASF hosted a virtual wine tasting, a seemingly cozy affair swirling glasses of Portugal’s finest in front of a webcam debating the future of EU agricultural policies. The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals.

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Business Green

APRIL 3, 2023

With all the right pieces in place - tech prices plummeting, consumers snapping up money-saving electric cars, solar panels, and home appliances, and policy and regulation sending solid market signals - money is flowing. Our markets are shifting - and fast - towards a clean energy economy. Sound familiar?

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

WRAP launched its first voluntary agreement in 2005 and has since expanded its programme to address food and drink, plastic pollution, and fashion and textiles. The voluntary model operates in tandem with policy development, “but can deliver impact faster, and with more flexibility, than regulation alone.”

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

I still remember a school lesson where the concept of polluting externalities and market failures were explained, before the class then quickly moved on to a curriculum which largely glossed over how almost everything we were being taught was basically broken by these unaccounted for external factors.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

For example, the amendment to include nationally significant infrastructure projects within biodiversity net-gain requirements could result in a significant increase in biodiversity creation across England. Previously, these infrastructure projects were exempt.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

To its credit, what Defra has delivered this week is one of the most comprehensive and holistic environmental policy documents from any UK government to date. Leaving the European Union has opened the door to new opportunity for reviewing historic EU rules and processes to ensure our regulations work for us," it states. "We

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The Accelerator program will give public and private sector leaders the information they need to take action and reduce methane pollution, starting right away.”. Bloomberg, UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Climate Ambition and Solutions and Founder of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies.

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Business Green

APRIL 5, 2022

The critical window for action to transform the plastics system across Europe in order to meet both circular economy and climate goals is narrowing, with a major ramp up in innovation, policy ambition, investment, and corporate cooperation urgently needed over the next five years.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The next few weeks are critical for nature policymaking, with next week's COP27 Climate Summit to be followed by the crucial COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Montreal next month where governments are expected to hash out a new global treaty for protecting nature.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Tackling these multiple challenges and threats requires coordinated action from the public sector, private sector, NGOs, civil society, innovators and actors throughout the food value chain. square feet of land and the assuaging of animal species distinction, water pollution and habitat destruction. Looking back with regret.

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Business Green

APRIL 12, 2022

At Alphabet, we know first-hand from our long-standing history of working to advance new climate solutions that signalling early demand can spur innovation and lower the price for everyone," she said.

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