Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In remote regions of the world or those where political conflicts reduce access to protected areas, researchers and conservationists need solutions for monitoring activity that threatens wildlife and ecosystems. . We have to protect nature’s pristine areas,” explains Manuel Engelbauer, FZS’s South American program officer. Trust in data.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2021

As part of the recently-adopted Environment Act, the government is seeking to make it illegal for larger UK companies to use, buy or import certain forest-risk commodities that have not been produced in line with relevant local laws around the world. °C," she said.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 14, 2023

In spite of a political will to prevent renewable developments from leading figures and inconsistent policy directions, the sector is picking up huge momentum and we expect this to deliver huge strides in 2023. Mark Rowcroft. We need to develop projects that address decarbonisation and restoration targets together.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 17, 2021

The department is responsible for 422 national parks, 129 national monuments and 567 wildlife refuges, stewarding biodiversity conservation projects and protecting more than 1,000 endangered species. "It Policy & Politics. Doubling offshore wind by 2030. Social Justice. Environmental Responsibility. Equity & Inclusion.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Business leaders and environmental campaigners hail the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework as a major - if flawed - breakthrough for nature protection efforts. Brazil's new political leadership may help to converge these agendas, showing its possible to grow and overcome inequalities having nature as an ally.".

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 26, 2022

It was not until the early 1990s that political leaders realized the need for change, to significantly improve the environmental and social systems that the country’s economy relied on. Investment policies were introduced to reverse the current unmaintainable situation. Investing in sustainability-related research and development.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 19, 2024

Back in 2021, nuclear raked in $2.9bn of funding (largely driven by Commonwealth Fusion Systems’s $1.8bn round), making up 30% of energy investment.   Policy Two topics were front of mind: Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) and political risk from elections. That might depend… …who wins the US election.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The Assembly is a network of social, environmental, and political groups that have banded together to oppose offshore oil drilling along Argentina’s Atlantic coast. There is no way that the oil industry can guarantee a low ‘risk’ or impact on biodiversity and, consequently, on the population,” he said. The move was highly unpopular.

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Grist

MAY 22, 2021

Seed the North will collect seeds, combine them in biodiverse seedpods, and drop them using drone technology over thousands of acres. But, as with so many things, the success of innovative ideas comes down to political will. But the program wrapped up amidst political controversy over auditing five years later.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Its chair, Marie Donnelly, last night expressed concern at the “problematic” sectoral targets, which she described as “not consistent” with the objectives of Ireland’s climate laws. After the painful financial crash of 2008/9, the political atmosphere in Ireland ahead of the lifting of quotas was febrile. Climate Budget Fight.

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2020

So starting this autumn, we'll be investing a further £4m in a two-year pilot to bring green prescribing to four urban and rural areas that have been hit the hardest by coronavirus and then we want to scale that project up. When I asked what the purpose of the document was, the answer came back that 'it's just a requirement of EU law'.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2022

If we tarmac over green space, if we allow a planning free-for-all in our towns and cities, if we don't invest in nature - then we put economies, livelihoods and wellbeing in danger. We have legislated through the Environment Act and will continue to improve our regulations and wildlife laws in line with our ambitious vision.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

The case is being led by the Good Law Project, with seafood business Richard Haward's Oysters and surfer and activist Hugo Tagholm also acting as co-claimants. These sewage spills are threatening human health, biodiverse marine life and the fishing industry," she added. We're out of options. Our seas deserve better.".

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2023

The company may be headquartered thousands of miles away in California, but it has been involved in the broader campaign to save the "blue heart of Europe" - the river and biodiversity rich Balkans - being led by a network of local NGOs for more than half a decade. Where and how do they find projects? How do they find partners?

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2021

The government confirmed it now expects the bill to resume its report stage in the Second Session of the year before passing into law in the autumn. Environment Minister Rebecca Pow stressed the delay did not "diminish [the government's] ambition for our environment in any way". "We

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Munich Re tightens fossil fuel investment and insurance rules. Global reinsurance giant Munich Re has this week announced it is to tighten its fossil fuel investment and insurance policies from April 2023, unveiling a new commitment to stop providing cover for new oil and gas fields.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2022

That's par for the course — an exciting advancement here, political or economic pushback there. With good reason: The climate and biodiversity crises, combined with the social and economic equity crises, are providing momentum and incentives for staying the course. Overall, it was more positives than negatives.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

In the recent high profile report by esteemed economist Professor Partha Dasgupta that was commissioned by the government - The Dasgupta Review on the Economics of Biodiversity - the key finding was clear: we must properly reflect the value of nature in our measures of economic success in order to counter the global decline in biodiversity.

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Business Green

MAY 25, 2022

BloombergNEF report says investment in electrification and carbon capture and storage could slash emissions across the petrochemical industry. The report calculates that investments of $759bn through to 2050 could result in global demand for petrochemicals being met with almost no associated carbon emissions.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Focused mostly on England, due to devolved responsibilities across Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, it sets out clear roles for local and national governments, private investment, the farming industry, and the circular economy in helping to restore nature, bolster natural resources, and enhance biodiversity.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2022

Our political leaders bear a genuinely world historic responsibility to try and drive the development of a net zero emission economy in less than three decades and end the obliteration of nature. If you do not support the current target are you proposing to change the law to shift or scrap the net zero target?

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

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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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2023

Highly Commended: Anthesis & Microsoft - Stretch Wrap Alternative Project Highly Commended: Meryl Fabrics - 100% Recyclable Fabrics Green Building Project of the Year Grosvenor - Holbein Gardens The judges were impressed by Grosvenor's latest office redevelopment project, which promises to slash embodied carbon while delivering an all-electric (..)

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2021

This documentary was created in reaction to the Trump administration’s slashing of the laws protecting these public lands. Climate change, biodiversity loss, and ecological disruption are global threats to humanity. The Reluctant Radical questions the law and what society deems as right and wrong.

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2021

The perfume, launched in 2019, is part of an effort from the Brazilian beauty giant to sustainability source ingredients for its beauty products from the Amazon that underscore the benefits of keeping the rainforest intact as a hotbed of biodiversity, while also communicating to end consumers about nature's benefits and limits. "We

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

MPs are urging the government to use the upcoming Budget to usher in a major transformation of the tax system to align the UK's spending plans with its net zero and biodiversity commitments, warning time is running short to deliver on its promise of a green economic recovery from the coronavirus crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Like many corporations, the global COVID-19 pandemic and lack of usual in-person events meant they had to get creative about how to shape the political debate and find new allies to support their agendas. The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

However, Environment Secretary Thérèse Coffey, who announced the new goals today at the critical COP15 UN biodiversity summit currently taking place in Montreal, insisted the targets were "ambitious" and would be "challenging to achieve". "We Charles Watson, chairman at campaign group River Action, was similarly unimpressed. "We

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Grist

MARCH 12, 2021

District Court of Nevada in February, Bartell alleges that the BLM broke the law when it approved the mine’s plan to operate on federal lands based on a “one sided, deeply flawed, and incomplete” environmental impact statement that downplayed the project’s likely effects on groundwater, streams, and a threatened species of trout.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2023

Calls for the government to match its ambitious goals with stronger regulations to crack down on pollution and greater investment in nature recovery are only set to mount as the Chancellor preps his first Budget and the government proceeds with its controversial plans to strip out EU law from the UK's statute book.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

Strong political will is needed to make affordable, clean, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all a reality by 2030," said UNECE executive secretary Olga Algayerova. "As Overall, the group gave the government's draft climate law a score of 3.7 out of 10, calling on lawmakers to table amendments to strengthen the bill.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2021

Since then, a protest movement of millions catalysed by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg has significantly pushed climate up the political agenda. Less than 13 per cent of UK venture capital investment teams are women, and 48 per cent of investment teams have no women at all, according the British Business Bank.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The Environmental Defense Fund, the American Forest Foundation, American Forests, and TNC are also members of the Forest-Climate Working Group, a political advocacy organization, alongside scores of wood product companies, including Enviva and Drax, biomass energy behemoths whose carbon-intensive operations have polluted U.S.

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Low Impact

MAY 17, 2020

They prohibited me from even mentioning the conflict between GDP growth and biodiversity conservation. It drove me nuts – so I invested a lot into studying conventional economic growth theory, and the nascent field of ecological economics. New technology comes from heavy investment in research and development. Absolutely.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As CEO of the world's biggest asset manager, BlackRock, which looks after a whopping $8.67tr investments worldwide, Fink's words matter a great deal. That's such a big question," says Peter Uhlenbruch, head of investor standards at responsible investment charity ShareAction. The trailblazers. But why now?

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Instead, communities hosting wood pellet facilities are not only further burdened by pollution and other local dangers, they are also entangled in yet another climate damaging trend — the destruction of biodiverse hardwood forests and the rise of monoculture tree plantations to produce energy that appears to pose climate threats similar to coal. .

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2021

G7 countries should commit to phasing out coal power by 2030, and exports of coal five years before then, while both domestic and overseas fossil fuel subsidies should be ended and investment shifted towards nature and the green economy by 2025, Polman explained. per cent to 0.5 per cent of GDP this year.

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