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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Business Green

JULY 7, 2022

Previously, this has meant externalising environmental harm, ignoring issues such as greenhouse gas emissions, waste, deforestation, water pollution and soil degradation. Lawyers are required to act in the best interests of their client - reducing costs, minimising risk and avoiding liability.

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Green Roof Technology

MAY 27, 2021

Additionally the Green Roof components and the plants are exposed to more extreme environmental impact like higher wind speeds, reflecting surfaces, higher temperatures, air pollution, artificial light at night, lower bio-diversity and more. Engineered Growth Media or soil that meets parameters of FLL*. Vegetation.

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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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Government Biodiversity Policy Agriculture 41

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

A clutch of sobering reports published this week that set out the threat posed to the global economy by nature and biodiversity loss have further bolstered the case for nation states and businesses to funnel investment into nature-based solutions that can slow escalating climate impacts.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2021

Offsets offer a carbon polluter (like the operator of a steel plant) an additional option to comply with government rules that limit carbon pollution. How offsets are created and the extent to which they are used dictates their effectiveness at reducing pollution. WHAT ARE OFFSETS? A SUMMARY OF BEST PRACTICES.

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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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Biodiversity Policy Climate change Pollution 89

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals. The idea of ‘green fertilizers’ to market the company’s products as less polluting, however, is seen by some as corporate greenwashing.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Biodiversity. Those markets can be either regulated (reflecting laws requiring companies to secure credits in proportion to their emissions) or voluntary (where buyers choose to acquire credits generated by carbon-reducing activities). Short-lived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs). But they help reduce economy-wide total emissions.

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Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 41

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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Logging Carbon-neutral Climate change Biodiversity 93

Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The first is to avoid a governance gap and ensure that environmental law continues to be properly applied and enforced in a post-Brexit world. For example, healthy soils and peatland play a vital part in reducing risks from flooding and absorbing carbon. Legally binding green targets have strong backing from business.

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Business Energy Monitoring Investment Climate change Government 50

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. The ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution. Raised in Iowa, Ford became the only openly gay Fortune 500 CEO in 2018.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

We are still seeing too much pollution from sources we have known about for years: sewage, farming, industry and road-run off. The good news is that: • There are now far fewer serious pollution incidents damaging our waters than three decades ago. Biodiversity in many of our rivers is a lot better than it was.

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Pollution Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Climate change 31

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Resolutions to global challenges such as climate change, poverty, inequality, biodiversity loss, habitat destruction, resource depletion, racism, and exploitation need the backing of our economic system. Are, and how, are human rights and environmental laws enforced in your country? Assess your company’s supply chain risks.

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Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 78

Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2020

The UK will also still be bound by EU law and fall under the jurisdiction of the EU Court of Justice, albeit now without any say on those laws are developed and enforced, with British MEPs and judges having left Brussels and Luxembourg respectively this week. How will they be enforced and governed?

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Government Agriculture Policy Law 41

Grist

MARCH 17, 2023

The initiative was quietly humming along to the tune of about $11 million per year in funding until 2022, when Earth MRI received an additional influx of $320 million , spread out over five years, through the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. But the benefits of extracting those minerals, Riofrancos said, “should not be presumed.”

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Government Lithium Waste Waste 76

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. The ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution. Raised in Iowa, Ford became the only openly gay Fortune 500 CEO in 2018.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2022

A powerful US biomass lobby group is pushing for a raft of changes that would weaken European renewable energy rules geared to better protect biodiversity and tackle climate change, DeSmog can reveal. Biomass has also raised concerns over potential harm to biodiversity.

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Biodiversity Logging Carbon-neutral Europe 98

Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 13, 2020

Digging into the soil carbon connection. I’m excited by the increased awareness of the soil carbon connection, and the expanding efforts to incentivize using soil as a CO2 storehouse, from initiatives like Zero Foodprint and Restore California , California’s Healthy Soils Initiative , and Healthy Soils Hawai?i

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Agriculture Innovation Soil Waste 98

Low Impact

AUGUST 30, 2020

The economy does not have natural laws. It’s spewed out of stacks – and is responsible for huge amounts of mercury pollution too. If I look at the figures on biodiversity loss and climate change, it seems to be accelerating and unstoppable. Amazon is a horrible business that exposes workers to Coronavirus in its warehouses.

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Aviation Fossil fuels Government Agriculture 103

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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