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Drax accused of using wood from carbon-rich forest in Canada to supply UK power plant

Business Green

After analysing satellite images, tracing logging licenses, filming drone footage and following a truck from a mill, a team of journalists from the BBC's Panorama programme have today accused Drax of driving the logging of natural forests to produce its feedstock for electricity generation in the UK.

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Community solar, urban trees and the digitization of employee engagement

GreenBiz

The company also featured resources, such as creative cooking videos meant to reduce food waste while encouraging healthy meal alternatives, Hadden said. . For example, the group in Ireland recently prioritized the distribution of wildflower seeds to cultivate awareness of biodiversity.

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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

GreenBiz

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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The IEA’s New Net Zero ‘Roadmap’ is Dangerously Reliant on Destructive Bioenergy

DeSmogBlog

Converting land to biofuel production can have a disastrous impact on both the climate and biodiversity. The IEA’s claim that 45 percent of all future bioenergy could come from “organic waste” also doesn’t seem to be based on any of the studies quoted. But there’s an even more worrying side to the IEA’s approach to biomass.

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More than 500 fashion retailers back supply chain deforestation pledge

Business Green

The harvesting of trees to make fabrics has more than doubled over the past 30 years and is expected to grow by another 50-60 per cent within the next decade alone, according to Canopy, with more than 200 million trees currently being logged every year to produce materials such as viscose and rayon.

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'Eco-Towers': Vodafone dials up plans for UK rollout of self-powered mobile masts

Business Green

The news follows Vodafone's announcement earlier this week that it has launched a range of refurbished mobile phones through its VOXI network brand, in a bid to help extend the life of devices, reduce electronic waste, and allow customers to save hundreds of pounds.

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SDG15: How can businesses best protect life on land?

Business Green

Every business is inevitably dependent upon - and has impacts on - ecosystems, biodiversity, and the land. What are your dependencies and impacts on ecosystems and biodiversity? The first thing to do is to frame the problem, Macpherson advises. Think about why your business should care about nature," he says.

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