GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

As the Northeast Organizer for Clean Water for North Carolina , she’d met with residents of a small, majority Black town called Ahoskie, 40 miles from her home. However, like Ahoskie, Joyner’s community wasn’t quick to organize against the plant. . “I Enviva had built its first North Carolina plant there two years before. .

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Related: Indigenous Amazon communities use tech to protect the forest While speaking at an Impact Conference organized by media group Reuters on Monday, several activists called out Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s policies that have been unfavorable to Indigenous communities. ” Via Reuters Lead image via Pexels.

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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. A total of 18 states are said to back a call for a reassessment of pesticide laws. We need to look at the interests behind that.

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Econaur

APRIL 22, 2020

It was the planet’s largest civic event at the time and compelled governments to take concrete actions, including passing environmental laws and establishing environmental agencies. Nature is in crisis, threatened by biodiversity and habitat loss, global heating and toxic pollution. Failure to act is failing humanity.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 19, 2024

The founder of the organization, Mark Mallett, has called carbon dioxide the “gas of life ,” among other baseless and unscientific claims. Martin Olszynski, an environmental law expert and professor at the University of Calgary, echoed Luo.

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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. (As As in natural canopy spacing).

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

But a growing number of marine biologists, ocean conservationists, government regulators and environmentally-conscious companies are sounding the alarm about a variety of environmental, food security, financial, and biodiversity concerns associated with seabed mining. Still, Nauru hopes to forge ahead with seabed mining.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The offshore blocks where Equinor and others want to drill also overlap with an area rich in biodiversity that serves as the feeding grounds and migration corridors for a long list of marine animals, including dolphins, penguins, turtles, and birds. The company’s stock immediately jumped by nearly 9 percent after the law was changed.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

On Tuesday, Indigenous leaders and the regional pan-Amazon Indigenous organization protested outside Ecuador’s Annual Conference for Oil and Energy (ENAEP). The government has advanced its explorations into Indigenous territories and the Amazon rainforest, areas protected by law. In response to the Amazon oil spill on Jan.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Within the Green Deal, the EU’s “Farm to Fork” strategy includes a 50 percent reduction in pesticide use and a 20 percent reduction in fertilizer use, and a 25 percent increase in organic farming. The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals. Corporate Lobbying and Lawsuits.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2023

The organic movement forged a path for a federally recognised standard for food - Should regenerative follow its course? But regenerative has an older, more established, type-A sister that could be a path to legitimacy: organic. In the 1980s, organic was the new buzzword for farmers, grocers and consumers.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 22, 2021

It said the 12 industry and expert figures on the Commission, which is to be chaired by University of Cambridge international law professor Lorand Bartels, would have a formal role to inform MPs and the public about how new free trade deals are consistent with UK green laws.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Instead of enjoying carefree childhood hobbies , they are protesting, litigating, organizing, and public speaking about the importance of policy-based climate solutions. These feelings worsen if parents “fail to understand why and how their worries about the climate and biodiversity crisis can affect them daily, constantly.”

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 14, 2022

For instance, they don’t require that public sector meals should reflect a climate-friendly diet, i.e. more low-carbon vegetables and pulses and only small amounts of organic or free range meat and dairy products. which it claims will allow the UK to meet its net zero and biodiversity targets, and help farmers adapt to a changing climate.

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Green Roof Technology

MAY 27, 2021

As long as humans have cultivated plants they have learned that natural parameters in biology, physics and chemistry are given and everything has to collaborate within these nature’s laws. Although we are able to Gen-manipulate plants for better yield, more pest resistant, and for more stress resistance, but the nature’s laws won’t change.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The paper suggests that all of this might have happened in violation of federal law. These findings demand regulatory action under federal environmental laws including the Endangered Species Act and Clean Water Act, because these activities are concentrated in an area with high numbers of imperiled species,” the study states.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The program was launched to beautify the city landscape, ease vehicle traffic, improve pedestrian traffic, facilitate the water-bearing capacity of the ground, and increase biodiversity. Funding for New York-based organizations can cover a significant subsidy of the total service costs. followed by Boston and Seattle).

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

Between March and July 2020, nuclear lobbies met with EU representatives twice as often as they did in 2018, according to the non-governmental organization Reclaim Finance. Like with natural gas, pro-nuclear companies and lobbies started to pressure the Commission to change its stance.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

In contrast, the vastly smaller voluntary carbon markets are — as the name suggests — purely voluntary: Companies go to them to buy carbon credits because they want to show they are helping to tackle the climate crisis, not because they are required to buy credits by law.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The ocean absorbs just under one-third of anthropogenic CO 2 emissions, which is contributing to a rise in ocean acidification and making it more difficult for organisms such as oysters and corals to build shells. Convention on the Law of the Sea and the London Convention and Protocol, predate the concept of ocean carbon dioxide removal.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Creating better businesses with B Corp Certification and beyond B Corp Certification presents a set of guiding principles that support organizations to minimize their impact on the environment and society. B Analytics aggregates data from B Corps and other impact-focused organizations to provide comparative analysis and best practices.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Using the principles of ESG, investment decisions are made based on an organization’s Environmental, Social and Governance performance, as explained: Environmental performance: Selected criteria are used to evaluate and manage a company’s environmental risks. Every company, as a legal entity, requires governance. ESG Benefits.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 26, 2022

Foster organic farming. Deliver appropriate biodiversity, ecosystems, basin, and marine-coastal management to favor local communities. The re-establishment of these forest ecosystems provides shelter, food and space for life to flourish, meaning Costa Rica flaunts incredible biodiversity. Promote ecotourism. million per year.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The hike is just one example of the links – uncovered by an October DeSmog investigation – between large farming unions and six influential MEPs who oppose nature-friendly laws, all of whom, like Dorfmann, are members of the conservative European People’s Party, or EPP. It’s part of their [Copa-Cogeca’s] strategy to deny pluralism.”

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The signatories of the 2020 “agreement of principles” included conservation nonprofits like the Environmental Defense Fund, the American Forest Foundation, American Forests, and the Nature Conservancy, or TNC, the largest and wealthiest nonprofit conservation organization in the U.S. communities and destroyed U.S.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

As the Northeast Organizer for Clean Water for North Carolina , she’d met with residents of a small, majority Black town called Ahoskie, 40 miles from her home. However, like Ahoskie, Joyner’s community wasn’t quick to organize against the plant. “I Enviva had built its first North Carolina plant there two years before.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2022

BECCS is a controversial technology that captures carbon dioxide from burning organic matter and buries it underground. While advocates promote it as a “carbon negative” climate solution, experts and campaigners have argued that BECCS is technically unproven, and that the practice poses risks for biodiversity, land and food security.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

The production of genetically-modified foods can be controversial, but it can also offer benefits for increasing yields and easing pressure on land, water and biodiversity. Such crops became known as genetically modified organisms (GMOs). That's why European law in this area is controversial. It's not clear.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

These technologies include the use of insects, ‘fake meat’ made from plants, lab-grown meat, vertical farming, genetic modification (GMO), micro-organisms (such as algae) and 3D printing of food in general. Loss of biodiversity. Sustainability. Introduction Climate Change. Deforestation. Water scarcity. Animal suffrage.

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Business Green

MAY 26, 2022

Traditionally, companies would put all the information they considered to be financially material in their financial reports, as is required by securities law. Climate change is an incredibly complex issue, so it's unrealistic to expect most organizations to have in-house climate expertise. Why climate reporting is different.

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GreenBiz

JULY 27, 2020

In the four years since Nancy Mahon assumed responsibility for CSR and sustainability strategy at The Estée Lauder Companies — she's currently senior vice president of corporate citizenship and sustainability — her team has launched a series of new initiatives that are a "first" among her organization's sector. OK, there's tax incentives.

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GreenBiz

JULY 27, 2020

In the six years since Nancy Mahon assumed responsibility for CSR and sustainability strategy at Estée Lauder Companies — she's currently senior vice president of corporate citizenship and sustainability — her team has launched a series of new initiatives that are a "first" among her organization's sector. OK, there's tax incentives.

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Grist

AUGUST 16, 2022

The resulting lack of biodiversity can make forests less resilient in the face of pest pressure and major climate events. You cannot grow a forest, or at least not a biodiverse and healthy forest, in the presence of these large deer numbers,” Blossey said. And there’s only so much venison one can cram inside a home chest freezer.

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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 As Interior Secretary, Haaland will oversee nearly 500 million acres of land — that’s one-fifth the land area of the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Every policy, law, regulation, study, analysis, proposal or action that has the climate crisis in mind is built on the basis of those two figures: 1.5 It remains in memory as one of the most disastrous summits ever organized. It was at COP21, where the Paris Agreement , the most important climate pact to date, was enshrined.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Excessive use of antibiotics on farms is a major driver of AMR in people, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). If that were to be applied – and it is the law, so it should be applied – then that would mean changes to animal husbandry practices in the EU. But we’re not seeing that in most countries.”

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The ocean absorbs just under one-third of anthropogenic CO 2 emissions, which is contributing to a rise in ocean acidification and making it more difficult for organisms such as oysters and corals to build shells. Convention on the Law of the Sea and the London Convention and Protocol, predate the concept of ocean carbon dioxide removal.

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